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Rh  (the younger) on, ii. 248; George III.'s letters to, ii. 251, 252; resigns office, ii. 252; remarks about Pitt, ii. 252; recommends Dr. Shipley to the see of Canterbury, ii. 262; procures a pension for Morellet, ii. 264; retires to the country, ii. 264; speech on the Sinking Fund Act, ii. 264; goes abroad, ii. 266; Walpole's opinion of his character, ii. 266; and the East India Bill, ii. 270, 282; letter to Thomas Orde on the same, ii. 275; his views on the Government of India, ii. 282; conversation with Morellet, ii. 284; his support of the Pitt Ministry, ii. 285; letters to Baring, ii. 288, 294; is offered a Marquisate, ii. 289; his letters to Colonel Barré thereon, ii. 290, 293; his letter to William Pitt accepting the Marquisate, ii. 292; is created Marquess of Lansdowne, ii. 294; conversations with Lord Caermarthen and Pitt, ii. 294; the "Rolliad " thereon, ii. 298; his speech on the French Treaty, ii. 301; altercation with the Duke of Richmond, ii. 303; his plans for the relief and education of the poor, ii. 304; his hatred of the Scotch, ii. 308; his art collections, ii. 310; his friendship with Jeremy Bentham, ii. 315; his account of Lord Ashburton, ii. 3185 his letter to Lord Cornwallis on the death of Lady Lansdowne, ii. 334; on Canning, ii. 335; on men and things, ii. 336; England, ii. 336; on being bound for other men, ii. 337; on agents, tenants, lawyers, etc., ii. 339, 347; anecdote of Sir William Petty, ii. 340; on economy and the management of estates, ii. 341 5; on country banks, ii. 342; on credit, ii. 342; on servants, i. 344; on family accounts, ii. 346; on auditors, ii. 347; on the clergy and laity, ii. 347; on Christianity, ii. 348; on the management of property, ii. 349; on farmers, ii. 350; on farm labourers, ii. 351; on forms of government, ii. 353 on boroughs, ii. 357; on Ireland, ii. 360; the Clergy in Ireland, ii. 362; on the management of Irish property, ii. 364; letter to Morellet on the Indian Question, ii. 369; on English politics in 1788, ii. 371; letter to Jeremy Bentham, ii. 375; letter to Morellet, ii. 376; on the French Revolution, ii. 379; George III. sends for him, ii. 384; Gillray's caricature of, ii. 384; his reply to the overtures of the King, ii. 384; on the Proclamation against seditious writings, ii. 388; moves a resolution for sending a Minister to France, ii. 390; letter to Morellet, ii. 392; letter to President Washington, ii. 394; and Charles J. Fox, ii. 396; letter to Lady Ossory, ii. 397; his difference with Colonel Barre, ii. 399; letter to Jeremy Bentham, ii. 399; on the war with France, ii. 402, 404; and the Traitorous Correspondence Bill, ii. 407; relations with Charles Fox, ii. 407; on Bank Notes, ii. 412; on the Morning Chronicle libel case, ii. 415; caricatures of, ii.418; on Catholic Emancipation, ii. 420, 421; on the Legislative Union of England and Ireland, ii. 421; on neutral rights, ii. 424; on America, ii. 425; interview with Lord Moira on a new Ministry, ii. 426; letter to Lord Holland on the peace, ii. 429; letter to Morellet on his sons, etc., ii. 429; his last speech in Parliament, ii. 432; letter to Lord Holland on his son, Lord Henry Petty, ii. 432; letter to the same on political affairs, ii. 433; conversation with Sir Richard Phillips as to the author of Junius, ii. 434; his death and burial, ii. 435; paper on Sepulchral Monuments, ii. 480

Spain, war with, i. 102 ; the Ambassador to, i. 289 ; and the Falkland Islands, i. 286, 290, 405, 414, 418, 419; Lord Shelburne on the relations of Spain and England, i. 415; joins France against