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III. George I, George II, and Sir Robert Walpole
345. The characters of George I and George II
LORD CHESTERFIELD, Works, Vol. IV, App. pp. 1-7.
346. Attitude of George II toward England
LORD HERVEY, Memoirs, 1735, Vol. II, pp. 29-31; ed. 1848. 347. A letter concerning the South Sea Bubble, 1720
William Pultney to Daniel Pultney, in Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole, Vol. II, p. 194.
348. A letter from Walpole to Townshend concerning
secret-service money
Ibid. pp. 469-470.
349. Opposition to Walpole
Lord Bolingbroke to Sir William Wyndham, Ibid. Vol. III,
P. 555.
350. Resignation of Walpole
.
Walpole to the duke of Devonshire, Ibid. pp. 592-593.
351. Marquis of Hartington to duke of Devonshire
Ibid. p. 593.
352. Character of Walpole .
574
575.
576
LORD CHESTERFIELD, Works, Vol. IV, App. pp. 35-41.
353. Character of Walpole
POPE, in LORD CHESTERFIELD, Works, Vol. IV, App. p. 41.
IV. The Rebellion of the Young Pretender and the Wes-
leyan Movement
354. Letters of Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann
Letters of Horace Walpole, Vol. I, pp. 384 sqq.; Vol. II,
pp. 18-19.
580
PAGE
V. The Growth of Imperial Interests
357. The "Black Hole" of Calcutta
ORME, History of the Military Transactions of the British
Nation in Indostan from the year 1745, Vol. II, Sect. 1,
pp. 74-77.
358. Treaty between Meer Jaffier and the English
Ibid. pp. 161-162.
590
592
359. A French assertion of right to the country west of the
Alleghenies.
Royal Ministerial Minutes, trans. and pub. by E. B. O'Callaghan, Documents relating to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. X, pp. 242-243.
360. Instructions from the English government to the gov-
ernors of the American colonies.
mitted by the earl of Holderness
Ibid. Vol. VI, p. 794.
361. A French account of Braddock's defeat
Ibid. Vol. X, pp. 303-304.
362. A letter from Wolfe before Quebec
Annual Register, 1759, p. 246.
363. The capture of Quebec
593
Orders trans-
595
66-
601
CAPTAIN JOHN KNOX, Historical Journal, Vol. II, pp. 79.
364. Extracts from the journal of Captain Cook
Cook's Voyages of Discovery, pp. 151 sqq.; ed. 1904.
CHAPTER XVIII-THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION,
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION
I. George III and the New Ministry
365. Personal description of George III just before he
became king
Memoirs of Earl Waldegrave, 1758, pp. 8 sqq.; ed. 1821.
II. The Industrial Revolution
370. Observations of Arthur Young in 1768
A Six Weeks Tour through the Southern Counties, pp.
19-88. Dublin, 1768.
371. The canals in the north of England
ARTHUR YOUNG, A Month's Tour in Northamptonshire,
etc. in 1791, Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful
Arts, Vol. XVI, pp. 532-533.
610
612
613
372. Machine manufacture in the north of England
Letter from a correspondent in Gloucester, 1781, in Annals
of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts, Vol. XVI, p. 422.
373. Notice of the death of Richard Arkwright.
381. Speech of Lord Chatham on the troubles in America 623
JOHN ALMOND, Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Hon.
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Vol. I, pp. 494-503.
382. The declaratory act of March, 1766.
6 George III, c. 12; Statutes at Large, Vol. X, p. 152. 383. Speech of Townshend on the taxation of the Ameri- can colonies, 1767 .
HORACE WALPOLE, Memoirs of the Reign of George III, Vol. III, pp. 28-32; ed. by Sir Lewis le Marchant.
Works, Vol. II, pp. 105-118. Boston, 1881.
385. Journal of an American exile in England
Journal and Letters of Samuel Curwen, pp. 61-176; ed. by
G. A. Ward. Boston, 1864.
625
626
628
631
386. Letters of George III to Lord North during the Amer-
634
387. The king's acknowledgment of American independence 636
King's speech on opening parliament, December 5, 1782,
Annual Register, 1783, pp. 311-312.
388. Presentation of the first American minister to England 637
Letter of John Adams to John Jay from Westminster, June
2, 1785, in JOHN ADAMS, Works, Vol. VIII, pp. 255-258.
Boston, 1853.
V. Dissatisfaction with the Government
389-390. Discussions and resolutions in parliament
New Annual Register, 1780, pp. 148-153.
391. The Lord George Gordon riots
SIR N. W. WRAXALL, Historical Memoirs of My Own
Time, Vol. I, pp. 323-341; ed. 1815.
392. Buying of seats in parliament.
Memoirs of Sir Samuel Romilly, Vol. II, pp. 200-202. Lon-
don, 1840.
640
644
VI. The French Revolution and the Wars of Napoleon
395. Reflections on the Revolution in France. . . .
Works of Edmund Burke, Vol. III, pp. 240-332. Boston,
1881.
647
402-403. Contemporary opinions on the duke of Wellington 657 Parliamentary Debates, Vol. XXXI, pp. 971–993.
404. The news in England of the capture of Napoleon after
Waterloo
The London Times, July 25, 1815.
CHAPTER XIX - THE PERIOD OF REFORM
I. Contests between Conservatives and Radicals
405. An appeal to English laborers.
WILLIAM COBBETT, The Weekly Register, Nov. 2, 1816.
406-407. Letters concerning the riots of 1812 and 1819.
Colonel Lamy to Colonel Lord Rolle, and duke of Welling-
ton to Lord Sidmouth, in PELLEW, Life and Correspond-
ence of Lord Sidmouth, Vol. III, pp. 88-293.
660
663
665
410. Opinion of the Russian emperor on the English penal
code
669
Ibid. p. 120.
411. Report of a parliamentary committee favoring repeal
of death penalty for many crimes
670
413. The age and extent of the Roman Catholic Church LORD MACAULAY, Essay on Von Ranke's History of the Popes, Vol. VI, pp. 454-455. London, 1871.
414. The desirability of Roman Catholic emancipation
SYDNEY SMITH, Peter Plymley's Letters, Works, p. 452;
ed. 1844.
674
676