Vereker, Colonel, 395.

Victor Amadeus, King of Sardinia, 231.

Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia, 522, 523, 539.

Villeneuve, Admiral, 532, 533.

Villiers, George, 506, 507.

Vinegar Hill, fight at, 360, 361.

Volunteer Bill (1804), 497, 498.

Volunteers, the, 124, 188, 278, 279, 337, 363;
Pitt's encouragement of, 474, 477, 488-494.

Volunteers, the Ulster, 78.

Vorontzoff, Count, Russian Ambassador in London, 9, 99, 123, 315, 478,
487 _n._, 527, 529, 541, 543, 550, 563.

Walcheren, Isle of, 547.

Wales, George, Prince of (afterwards George IV), his first speech at
Westminster, 51;
and the Princess Caroline, 214;
and the King's illness, 448, 449, 497;
interviews with Pitt, 449;
Lord Mornington and, 460, 461;
his relations with the King, 507, 508;
and with the Princess, 508.

Wales, Princess of, her extravagant conduct, 508.

Walker, Thomas, his "Review of Political Events in Manchester," 11;
founds the Manchester Constitutional Society, 11, 12, 17;
prosecution of, 185.

Walpole, General, acts as Tierney's second, 335.

Walpole, Horace, and the French refugees, 64.

Walter, John, of "The Times," 67.

Ward, Robert Plumer, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 550;
Pitt's care for, 557.

Wardle, Colonel, 520.

Warren, Admiral Sir John, 262, 363, 532 _n._;
Ambassador at St. Petersburg, 508.

Washington, George, 291.

Watson, Dr., Bishop of Llandaff, his speech on the Union, 421.

Watt, convicted at Edinburgh, 192, 193.

Wattignies, battle of, 141, 200.

Weishaupt, Adam, 26.

Wellesley, Marquis (Earl of Mornington), 68, 313 _n._;
on Pitt's duel with Tierney, 336;
his friendship with Pitt, 459-464, 554, 556, 566.

Wellesley, Sir Arthur (afterwards Duke of Wellington), in Flanders,
209, 210;
battle of Assaye, 463, 505;
anecdote of Pitt told by, refuted, 524;
meeting with Nelson, 533;
Pitt's last words on, 556.

West Indies, _see_ Chaps. IX, X;
British designs on, 129, 137, 155, 156, 268, 275;
risings of negroes, 220, 237, 238;
slavery in, 238, 239;
incomes derived from, 370.

Westminster programme of 1780, 168, 171.

Westmorland, Earl of, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 35, 73, 78, 151 _n._,
152 _n._, 282, 389, 402;
Master of the Horse, 339;
Lord Privy Seal, 440, 446, 501.

Wheat, shortage of (1795-6), 288-291;
regulation of export and import of, 289.

Whitbread, Samuel, 18, 19, 23, 89, 291, 294;
moves a