William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose (book club reads txt) 📕

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 vote of censure on Pitt, 312, 313;

  his attack on Lord Melville, 518, 519.

Whitworth, Lord, Ambassador at St. Petersburg, 99, 100, 115, 122, 369, 373;

  ambassador in Paris, 485, 505.

Whyte, Major-General, in the West Indies, 225, 241.

Wickham, William, envoy in Switzerland, 276, 377.

Wigan, strike of colliers at, 62.

Wigglesworth, Colonel, Commissary-General in Hayti, 245.

Wilberforce, William, opposes Flood's motion for reform, 12;

  his relations with Pitt, 299, 457, 458, 503;

  and "wicked" Williams, 318, 319;

  pained by Pitt's duel with Tierney, 335, 336;

  on the Catholic question, 417, 428;

  and the Slave Trade, 502, 503;

  and the impeachment of Melville, 520;

  on Lord Harrowby, 538;

  mentioned, 119, 238, 248, 276, 286, 420, 476, 566.

Wilkinson, James, of Sheffield, 186.

William V, Prince of Orange, 47, 74, 77 _n._, 107, 205, 216, 250, 383;

  his letter to the Governor of the Cape, 250-252.

Williams, "wicked," stirs up disaffection in the army, 318, 319.

Williamson, Major-General, Governor of Jamaica, 223;

  Governor of Hayti, 239;

  recalled, 239.

Willis, Dr. (jun.), 447, 448.

Wilson, Rev. Edward, 287.

Winchester, French prisoners at, 165;

  soldiers quartered at, 169.

Winchilsea, Lord, 412.

Windham, William, on reform, 11, 12, 24;

  on the war in la Vendée, 136, 137;

  on the erection of barracks, 170;

  Secretary at War, 192, 259-261, 271-273, 275, 341, 342, 379, 380, 436;

  opposes negotiations for peace, 322, 326;

  resigns, 440;

  opposed to peace (1801), 469, 470;

  on the Volunteers, 494;

  joins Fox and Grenville, 500, 502, 504, 510, 517, 557;

  opposes motion to bury Pitt in the Abbey, 559, 560;

  mentioned, 89, 188, 191, 498.

"World," the, 67.

Wurmser, General, 121, 142 _n._, 200, 243, 461.

Yarmouth, Lord, 142.

Yeu, expedition to, 263, 272, 273.

Yonge, Sir Charles, Secretary at War, 29, 128, 270.

York, Duke of, his marriage, 31;

  Commander-in-Chief in Flanders, 126, 127, 130, 133, 138-142, 147, 200,

    201, 204, 208, 210, 213-215, 267, 269;

  effort to shelve him foiled, 205, 206;

  recalled, 215, 273;

  Commander-in-Chief, 273, 285, 310, 362-363, 382, 448, 507.

York, delegate to the British Convention, 181.

Yorke, Charles, Under-Secretary at War, 489, 498, 499, 509, 521, 547.

Yorke, Henry (alias Redhead), of Sheffield, 186, 189.

Young, Arthur, 291, 292;

  Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, 293;

  superintends draining works at Holwood, 296;

  on the new taxes (1797), 329.

Young, Admiral, 311.

Yriarte, Don Domingo d', signs the peace of Basle, 236.

Zurich, battle of, 378.

Zuype Canal, the, 382.

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