VI CONTENTS. 



EFFICIENCY OF SUCH A FORCE IN COMPARISON WITH REGULAR 



TROOPS NOTICES OF THE YOUNGER PITT LADY HESTER 



STANHOPE LORD LIVERPOOL LORD CASTLEREAGH FOX 



DESIGNS OF NAPOLEON ON THE SPANISH PENINSULA CONDI- 

 TION OF PORTUGAL SPECIAL MISSION TO PORTUGAL MY 



SHARE IN IT LORD ST VINCENT LORD ROSSLYN GENERAL 



SIMCOE THE BRITISH FLEET IN THE TAGUS PROJECT FOR 



THE SEIZURE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, AND THE REMOVAL OF 



THEM TO THE BRAZILS ANECDOTES OF LORD ST VINCENT 



DEATH OF FOX MINISTERIAL RUMOURS CONCLUSION OF THE 



MISSION, 309-375 



CHAPTER VII. 



politics of tjfjc Dajy. 



HOME POLITICS WHITBREAD's MOTION ON THE STATE OF THE 



NATION NEGRO EMANCIPATION AND THE LOCAL PRESS OF 



THE SUGAR COLONIES CONTINENTAL POLITICS IN 1807 



CORRESPONDENCE WITH LORD HOWICK CONTINUATION ON 



HIS BECOMING EARL GREY FOREIGN POLITICS AGAIN PER- 

 SONAL PROSPECTS CONSIDERATION OF THE BAR AS A PRO- 

 FESSION SELECTION OF THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT PRACTICE 



AND POLITICS CORRESPONDENCE ABOUT SPAIN, PORTUGAL, 



AND THE FIRST PENINSULAR WAR COURT POLITICS THE 



QUEEN AND THE PRINCE OF WALES RESUMPTION OF CORRE- 



376-429 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 l^ome anfc ^Foreign ^oltticg, 1809. 



THE PENINSULAR WAR SIR JOHN MOORE, HIS RETREAT AND 



DEATH VICTORY AT CORUNNA INQUIRY INTO THE CONDUCT 



OF THE DUKE OF YORK FRENCH AND AUSTRIAN WAR ON THE 



DANUBE FRANCE AND SPAIN HOME POLITICS ATTEMPT TO 



FORM A COALITION MINISTRY SPENCER PERCEVAL AND EARL 



GREY CANNING CRITICISMS ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR 



IN THE PENINSULA THE PRINCESS OF WALES AND CANNING 



CANNING, CASTLEREAGH, AND LORD WELLESLEY ESTIMATE 



OF SIR JOHN MOORE, ...... 430-488 



