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colony of, i. 300; Assembly of, memorial against the new taxation, i. 366; abrogation of the Charter Bill, i. 473; the boundary of, ii. 186, 200
Masserano, Prince, Lord Shelburne's conversation with, on the Manilla ransom, i. 287; and the Due de Choiseul, i. 290; and the Manilla ransom, i. 291; conversation with Lord Shelburne on the Manilla ransom, i. 324
Maynard, Serjeant, anecdote of, i. 335
"Measures, not Men," i. 232
Melcombe, Lord, anecdotes of Sir Robert Walpole, i. 28; and Sir Robert Walpole, i. 34; his Diary, i. 34, 39, 47, 52; and the Wycombe election, i. 97; his character, i. 99; his death, i. 100
Men and Things, Lord Shelburne on, ii. 336
Methuen, Treaty of 1703, i. 431
Middlemen in Irish farming, ii. 361
Middlesex Election, the petitions on the, i. 404, 405, 409, 410; Lord Shelburne's speech on the, i. 409
Middlesex, Lady, and the Prince of Wales, i. 237
Middlesex, Lord, i. 237
Mildmay, Mr., and Lord Bolingbroke's party, i. 23; made Lord Bolingbroke's secretary, i. 23
Militia Bill, ii. 42
Minden, the battle of, i. 82, 245
Minorca, surrender of, i. 62
Mint, commission on the state of the, ii. 228
Minto, Lord, and the Morning Chronicle libel case, ii. 415
Mirabeau, le Comte de, visits Lord Shelburne, ii. 308; anecdote of, ii. 309; letter to Lord Shelburne, ii. 373
Mississippi, the, i. 185; the navigation of the, ii. 1 86
Moira, Lord, ii. 426, 428
Molesworth, Miss, ii. 37
Molony, Mr., trial of, for being a Popish priest, ii. 41
Molyneux's Case of Ireland, i. 341
Monarchy, Lord Shelburne on, ii. 212
Money Bill, Short, i. 346, 350
Monopoly, Lord Shelburne on commercial, ii. 181
Montesquieu's Esprit des Lois, i. 16
Moore, Sir Henry, Lord Shelburne's letter on the Mutiny Act, i. 322
Morden, Baron. See Charles Yorke.
Morellet, Abbé, i. 428; extract from his English Parties in 1784, i. 332; his Manuel des Inquisiteurs, i. 429; his Préface de la Comédie des Philosophes, i. 429; consigned to the Bastille, i. 429; his Political Economy, i. 430; Lord Shelburne's first interview with, i. 430; his visit to Bowood, i. 430; ii. 457; Lord Shelburne procures him a pension, ii. 264; letter to Lord Shelburne, ii. 301; losses during the French Revolution, ii. 393
Morgann, Maurice, i. 315; on American taxation, ii. 12
Morin, Mr., i. 43
Morning Chronicle, the, libel on the House of Lords, ii. 415
"Mungo," Dyson's nickname of, i. 405
Murray, William. See Earl of Mansfield
Musgrave, Sir William, ii. 227
Mutiny Act extended to America, i. 225, 299; Mutiny Act in Ireland, i. 311 Mutiny Bill, Irish, ii. 93, 98
National Debt, Dr. Price's scheme for reducing, ii. 63 j the King's speech on the reduction of the, ii. 210; in 1798, ii. 412
Navigation, Acts of, i. 183, 186
Navigation Act, i. 265; ii. 19
Navy, the money grants to the, ii. 228
Necker, James, ii. 66, 113
Negro boy, Lady Shelburne's, i. 396
Nepean, H. Strachey's letter to, on the conclusion of the Treaty, ii. 207
Neufville, Jan de, ii. 78
Neuhof, Theodore, i. 362
Neutrals, the rights of, ii. 73
New Hampshire, i. 179, 184
New Jersey, i. 179
New York, Province, i. 179, 184; the Assembly of, and the Mutiny Act, i. 301
Newcastle, Duke of, i. 14, 16, 32, 36, 40, 43; Pitt and Fox's junction against, i. 54; and the vote of credit in 1762, i. 107; and William Pitt, i. 205
Newfoundland, rights of the French fishermen off, ii. 111
Newfoundland fisheries, ii. in, 173, 184, 197, 202, 218
Newnham, Lady, accident to, i. 393
Newton, Dr., Bishop of Bristol, i. 442
Nicholl, Mr., and Mr. Fox, i. 122; observations on Mr. Fox's letter concerning the Paymastership, i. 153
Nollekens' statue of William Pitt, ii. 311
Nonconformists, Burke's pamphlet on the, ii. 62
North America, government of the Colonies, i. 178, 186; taxation of the States of, i. 184
North American Colonies. See American Colonies