GENERAL TO THE INDEX SPEECHES CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME. A. Address to King George II., on the marriage of Frederick, Prince of Wales PAGE 12 for the removal of Sir Robert Walpole Chatham Chatham -2 of Parliament, November 20th, 1777....... to recall the troops from Boston...... Chatham 71 77 to recognise the independence of America 1794, in reply to Lord Mornington ... Address to the King to recall the troops from Boston.... Chatham 71 89 Taxation of Burke 487 On moving thirteen resolutions in favour of conciliation with Burke Army, On reduction of . Burke 728 On quartering of, in America.. On address to the King for the recall of, from Boston.... On Mr. Pitt's motion for the increase of 3 Asaph, St., In support of a rule for a new trial of the indictment against the Dean of, for publishing a seditious libel Assessed Taxes, On Mr. Pitt's Bill for increasing the Baillie, Captain, On showing cause against a rule for an information against, Boston, On the Address to the King to recall the troops from.. Erskine 250 Chatham 71 Burke 633 43 Britain, Great, On the Marquis of Rockingham's motion to appoint a day to Chatham C. Civil List, On the motion for a Committee to inquire into the expenditure of On the exercise of the judicature of, in matters of Dockyards-On Mr. Pitt's motion for the fortification of the dockyards of E. Sheridan East India Company-On the Bill to restrain the East India Company from Bill, On Mr. Fox's.. Economical Reform, On motion to bring in a Bill for . F. 96 Burke 482 666 Burke 579 Falkland Islands, On motion for production of correspondence and papers, in consequence of the seizure of, by Spain.... Fleet, On a Bill for the speedier manning of the.. Forces, On the reduction of On the Address to the King, for the recall of, from Boston.. Chatham 71 On the motion of, on the Nabob of Arcot's debts.. Burke Habeas Corpus Act, On motion to bring in a Bill to repcal an Act for the 191 23 Hardy, Thomas-Defence of PAGE Erskine 394 Hastings, Warren, On motion for the Impeachment of, on the 4th charge Sheridan 106 On the motion for the Impeachment of, on the 7th charge .... Burke 482 India, On the Bill to restrain the East India Company from appointing super- Chatham 16 52 Mornington, Lord, Reply to, on Address to the King, on the opening of ... Sheridan 163 Nation, On motion of the Marquis of Rockingham, for appointing a day to North, Lord, On Duke of Richmond's motion to dismiss P. Chatham 43 Chatham 89 Pitt, William-On Mr. Coke's motion that the resolution of the House of the King. Sheridan 93 On the motion of, for the fortification of Portsmouth and On the motion of, for a Bill for raising and supporting an additional permanent military force. R. Burke 579 Reform in Public Economy, On motion to bring in a Bill for Rockingham, Marquis of, On his motion to appoint a day to take into con- PAGE 43 S. St. Asaph, Dean of, In support of a rule for a new trial of the indictment Erskine 298 Chatham 8 Supervisors, On the Bill to restrain the East India Company from appointing Burke 482 Troops-See" Army.” Ꭲ . W. .... Wales, Frederick, Prince of--Address of congratulation to George II. on the Chatham 36 .... Y. Yorke, Mr. (Secretary at War), On his motion relating to the Army Estimates Sheridan 224 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE EARL OF CHATHAM. WILLIAM PITT, first Earl of Chatham, was born on the 15th of November, 1708, in the parish of St. James, in the city of Westminster. He was the second son of Robert Pitt, Esq., of Boconnoc, near Lostwithiel, in the county of Cornwall; and of Harriet Villiers, sister of the Earl of Grandison, an Irish peer. His grandfather was Governor of Madras, and subsequently of Jamaica, and sat during four Parliaments for Old Sarum and Thirsk. This gentleman is more generally known as the possessor of the celebrated diamond called the Pitt diamond, which was purchased by the Regent Orleans for the King of France.* William Pitt was sent to Eton at an early age, and placed upon the foundation of that celebrated establishment. Among others whose names subsequently became distinguished, he there had for his contemporaries George, afterwards Lord Lyttelton; Henry Fox, afterwards Lord Holland; and Henry Fielding. After leaving Eton, Pitt went to Trinity College, Oxford, where he devoted the principal portion of his time to the study of history and the classical writers of antiquity. An early attack of the gout obliged him to quit the University without taking a degree. He then made a tour through France and Italy, for the benefit of his health. On his return to England, he obtained a commission in the Blues, and entered Parliament This diamond weighed 127 carats; and at the beginning of the last century was considered the largest in Europe. Mr. Pitt's grandfather purchased it for £20,400, and sold it for £135,000. The workmanship, however, of the stone was valued at £10,000. † Mr. Pitt, when a boy at Eton, was the pride and boast of the school. Dean Bland, the master, valued himself on having so bright a scholar, and showed him to his friends, and to everybody, as a prodigy. The following extract from the register of Trinity College, Oxford, is given by Mr. Thackeray, in his Hist. of the Earl of Chatham, p. 3, n. Ego Gulielmus Pitt Filius Robți Pitt armi: de Old Sarum in comitatu Wilts, natus Londini, in Par: Sancti Jacobi annorum circiter octodecim, admissus sum primi ordinis commensalis, sub tutamine Magri Stockwell, Janrii. decimo die anno Domini 1726." |