his friends, 57, 58;
his shyness, 59, 90;
attends debates in Parliament, 59, 60, 64;
introduced to Fox, 60;
his endowments as an orator, 60;
death of his father, 61;
called to the Bar, 67;
attitude to Reform, 70, 71;
story of his discussion with Gibbon, 72, 73;
defeated at Cambridge, 74;
enters Parliament as member for Appleby, 75;
его первая речь, 83–87;
speech on the public accounts, 87;
on the American War, 88, 89;
общественная жизнь, 89–95;
в клубе «Густрис» (Goostree’s), 91–93;
gives up gambling, 26, 92, 93;
charm of his conversation, 93, 94;
his gaiety, 94;
his uprightness, 94;
speech after the disaster at Yorktown, 101;
bold declaration of his future position, 102;
refuses a subordinate post, 105;
supports the Rockingham Ministry, 105;
речи о парламентской реформе, 106–110;
becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer, 111;
defends Shelburne against Fox, 112;
incurs a rebuke from the King, 114, 115;
endeavours to negotiate an alliance with Fox, 117;
великая речь по вотуму недоверия, 120–123;
defeat of the Government, 123;
он отказывается формировать министерство, 125–127;
resigns office, 128;
further proposals for Reform, 130, 131;
refuses overtures from the King, 134, 135;
speech on the treaties of peace, 136, 137;
поездка в Реймс, 137–139;
visits Paris, 139;
scheme for his marriage to Mlle. Necker, 140, 141;
opposition to the India Bill, 145, 146.
Accepts office as Prime Minister, 148;
difficulties of his position, 149, 154;
rupture with Temple, 152, 153;
relations with Shelburne, 155;
his first Cabinet, 156;
action with regard to the Clerkship of the Pells, 159;
defeated in the House, 160;
introduces his India Bill, 160;
on its rejection he refuses to resign, 163;
провал переговоров об объединении партий, 164–166;
his critical position, 165;
growing popularity, 167;
receives the freedom of the City, 167;
assaulted outside Brooks’s Club, 167, 168;
dissolution of Parliament, 169;
elected for Cambridge University, 171;
his ungenerous conduct towards Fox over the Westminster election, 173, 254, 271, 272;
причины его победы, 175–177;
his relations to the Crown, 175, 176;
his financial measures, 179 et seq.;
indebtedness to Adam Smith, 183, 184;
and to Shelburne, 184;
его бюджеты 1784 и 1785 годов, 186–188;
его предложения по амортизационному фонду, 188–195;
его отношения с Прайсом, 190–193;
accepts an amendment by Fox, 193;
его законопроект о реформе 1785 года, 197–203;
defeated, 202;
причины откладывания реформы, 203–206;
supports Stanhope’s Reform Bill, 206;
effect on him of his defeats, 207;
increased use of “influence,” 208, 209;
his care for the navy, 210, 377, 567;
proposals for fortifying Portsmouth and Plymouth, 211;
opposes repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, 214, 215;
вносит свой второй индийский законопроект, 218–220;
his Amending Act of 1786, 221, 222;
greatness of his India Bills, 223;
interview with Hastings, 227;
занимает нейтральную позицию по отношению к нему, 228–232;
his speech on the Benares affair, 232, 233;
защита своих действий, 234–240;
anecdote of Adam Smith and, 241;
отношение к ирландской парламентской реформе, 247–249;
его ирландские торговые резолюции, 248–266;
speech on introducing the Resolutions, 253;
кампания против них, 255–257;
appoints a Committee of Council for Commerce, 257;
his critical position, 260;
introduces modified Propositions, 260, 261,
which are passed at Westminster, but dropped by the Irish Government, 264;
his courage and magnanimity, 265, 266;
causes of failure, 266;
life at Wimbledon, 267–70, 279;
his shyness and lack of knowledge of men, 272, 274;
a historic romp, 272;
contrasted with Fox, 273, 295;
the real Pitt, 274;
his carelessness in correspondence, 275;
influenced by Dundas, 278, 279;
anecdotes of Dundas and, 279, 289;
his friendship with Addington, 284, 285;
visits to Brighthelmstone, 285;
his friendship with Steele and Rose, 285, 286;
buys Holwood Hill, 286, 287;
his financial difficulties, 287, 288;
death of his sister Harriet, 289, 290;
his connection with Cambridge University, 290, 291;
letter to Wilberforce on his temporary retirement, 291, 292;
his view of religion, 292;
strained relations with Wilberforce, 293;
their friendship revived, 294;
his relations with Bankes, 294;
his lack of geniality, 294.
внешняя политика (1784 г.), 301–305;
его первая дипломатическая нота, 302–304;
his Dutch policy, 305, 309–320, 354–60, 365–74, 377–81;
negotiations for a commercial treaty with France, 327–39, 347;
sends Eden to Paris, 330, 331, 333;
speech on the commercial treaty, 342, 343;
differences with Carmarthen, 357, 358, 360;
понимание с Пруссией, 373–375;
triumph of his diplomacy, 380, 381;
alliance with the United Provinces (1788), 383;
союз с Пруссией, 384–390;
drafts the King’s letters to the Prince of Wales, 399, 400;
proposals for settling the Prince’s affairs, 401, 402;
dispute with the East India Company, 403, 404;
result of a debauch, 404;
the Budget of 1788, 404, 405;
болезнь короля, 409–426;
negotiations with the Prince of Wales, 412;
interview with the King, 412, 413;
prepares to resume his practice at the Bar, 413, 425, 430;
аргументы о регентстве, 415–417;
защита его поведения по отношению к принцу, 417–420;
his letter to the Prince, 420, 421;
carries his Regency Resolutions, 422;
обвинения против него, 424–426;
interview with the King, 427;
confidence of the nation in him, 429, 430;
his share in the founding of Botany Bay, 435, 438–40;
his lack of Imperial imagination, 442, 443;
settles claims of American loyalists, 444, 445;
introduces the Canada Bill (1791), 449;
success of his Canadian policy, 452, 453;
urges Wilberforce to take up the cause of the slaves, 457, 458;
кампания против работорговли, 459–462, 465–472, 474–479;
his relations with Thurlow, 464–6, 472;
disagreement with Wilberforce, 475, 477;
limits of his power, 478;
политика в отношении России и Австрии (1787 г.), 488–490;
the situation in the Baltic (1788), 493–5, 497, 501, 502;
personally directs foreign policy, 497, 566, 589, 590, 618;
opposition to Hertzberg’s schemes, 508–10, 516, 517;
революция в Бельгии, 511–516, 533–535;
efforts to secure the status quo in Eastern Europe, 519, 520, 522, 523, 525–7, 530;
results of his policy, 535;
his attitude to the French Revolution, 537, 541–3, 548–53, 559;
запрещает экспорт муки во Францию, 543–545;
в сравнении с Борком, 559–561;
the Nootka Sound dispute, 565;
demands satisfaction, 566;
dealings with Miranda, 569;
denies Spanish claims, 569, 570;
subsidizes the Dutch, 572;
refuses arbitration, 574, 575;
on Elliot’s mission to Paris, 579, 580;
presses on naval preparations, 581;
ultimatum to Spain, 582;
Convention signed, 585;
results of his success usually underrated, 587, 588;
defied by Catharine II, 590, 592, 593, 598;
his Polish policy, 594–7, 599;
his desire for peace, 599, 600, 603–7;
ultimatum to Russia, 609, 610;
debates on his policy in Parliament, 610–13, 616;
disagreements in the Cabinet, 616, 618;
correspondence with Ewart, 616, 617;
resolves on compromise, 617, 618;
resignation of Leeds, 618;
his new proposals, 620, 621;
loss of prestige, 621;
failure of his Russian policy, 626, 631.
Place, Francis, 206.
Plymouth, Pitt’s proposals for strengthening the defences of, 203, 209, 211.
Pocket boroughs, 74, 75;
предложения Питта о лишении избирательных прав и компенсации, 198–203.
Poland, First Partition of, 299, 631;
Galicia to be ceded to, 387;
alliance with Russia, 485, 486;
treaty with Prussia, 505, 521, 522, 593, 594;
Hertzberg’s schemes regarding, 507, 508;
resentment against Prussia, 522, 594;
appeals to England, 522, 594;
offer of British alliance, 595, 596, 599;
proposed compact with the Sultan, 595, 596;
betrayed by Hertzberg, 597;
Second Partition of, 597;
value of her independence to England, 612;
Revolution in (1791), 620, 626, 627;
Prussian jealousy of, 628;
impending misfortunes of, 630, 631.
Poor relief, 15.
Porchester, Lord, attacks Pitt, 611.
Порт, граф де, его «Мемуары», 372.
Port Jackson, settlement at, 440.
Portland, Duke of, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 105;
Prime Minister, 111, 127, 128;
opposes Pitt’s Reform proposals, 132;
его переговоры об объединении с Питтом, 164–166;
mentioned, 173, 228, 257 n., 333, 428, 447.
Portsmouth, Pitt’s proposals for strengthening the defences of, 203, 209, 211.
Portugal, Methuen treaty with, 23;
English relations with, 337, 342.
Postal system, the abuse of franking, 186, 187.
Potemkin, Prince, 480, 481, 486, 491, 505, 524, 525, 527, 530, 590, 591, 622;
his death, 626.
Potocki family, the, in Poland, 486.
Poynings Act, demand for rejection of, 105.
Пратт, Чарльз. См. Кэмден, граф.
Pratt, John Jeffreys, afterwards Marquis Camden, 58, 90, 141, 285.
Press-gang, the, 567.
Претимен, д-р (впоследствии епископ Томлайн), его «Жизнь Питта» (Life of Pitt), с. 51 и след., 117, 152, 235, 284, 288, 411, 418, 584, 622.
Price, Dr. R., on national finance, quoted, 179, 180, 189;
обсуждается вопрос о материальной зависимости Питта от него, 190–193;
his sermon in the Old Jewry, 555.
Prussia, question of a British alliance, 312–14, 349, 352, 353, 364, 374, 375, 384;
proposes joint intervention with France at The Hague, 354, 363, 367;
invades Holland, 376, 488, 489;
capture of Amsterdam, 379;
политика на Ближнем Востоке, 385–387;
the Triple Alliance, 389;
threatens Denmark, 497, 499;
treaty with Poland, 505, 521, 522, 593, 594;
Hertzberg’s policy, 506–10, 513;
desires Belgian independence, 511, 514–16;
anger against England, 516;
treaty with Turkey, 521, 529;
entente with Austria, 523;
reception of British proposals for mediation, 525, 526;
result of the Congress of Reichenbach, 529, 530;
her Polish policy, 594–7, 600, 601;
duplicity of her policy, 601, 606, 607;
jealous of the revival of Poland, 628;
collapse of the British alliance, 629.
См. Фридрих Великий и Фридрих Вильгельм II.
Puisaye, de, his settlement in Canada, 446, 447.
Pulteney, Daniel, on Pitt’s first Ministry, 158;
on his treatment of Fox, 173;
on the Sinking Fund, 191;
on Pitt’s Reform proposals, 200, 201;
his estimate of Pitt as a statesman, 207;
on Pitt’s Irish Resolutions, 257 n., 259, 271.
Pulteney, William, letter to Pitt on the Hastings affair, 237, 238;
on the Westminster election scrutiny, 271;
suggests arbitration in international affairs, 340;
on the financial position (1788), 405;
scheme for a convict settlement, 438;
deprecates export of flour to France, 543;
opposes the Army Estimates (1790), 550;
on the Convention with Spain, 586.
Putney Heath, Pitt’s house on, 265 n., 269, 270.
Quakers, the, their efforts to abolish slavery, 455, 457, 458.
Quebec Act, the (1774), 447, 448, 450.
Queensberry, Duke of, joins the Prince of Wales’s party, 415, 424.
Quesnay, François, 322.
Radcliffe, William, his power loom, 3;
his description of prosperity in Lancashire quoted, 30.
Ramsay, Rev. James, 457, 458.
Ranelagh, description of, 18, 19;
decline of its popularity, 20.
Роудон, лорд. См. Моира, граф.
Rayneval, Comte de, French diplomatist, 325, 328–30, 334–6, 338.
Redern, Count, Prussian Minister in London, 608, 614.
Редесдейл, лорд. См. Митфорд, Джон.
Рейхенбахская конференция, 528–530;
Convention, 583 n., 589, 591, 592, 597, 614, 620.
Reis Effendi, Turkish Minister, 487.
Реформа. См. Парламент.
Reform Associations, County, 21, 27, 68, 71, 169.
Reform, Economic, movement for, 68, 110, 113.
Regency Bill (1765), 410;
(1789) introduced, 423;
withdrawn, 426.
Regency question, the, 410, 413;
дебаты в парламенте, 415–420;
Pitt’s Resolutions carried, 422;
unreality of the debates, 423, 424;
pamphlets on the subject, 424, 425.
визит Питта в Реймс, 137–139.
Renunciation Act, Irish (1783), 245, 246.
Revolution of 1688, 539;
compared with the French Revolution, 554, 555.
Richmond, Duke of, advocates reform, 71, 72, 109;
Master-General of the Ordnance, 111, 112, 114, 116, 157, 546 n.;
opposes Shelburne, 119;
his proposals for fortifying Portsmouth and Plymouth, 211, 212 n.;
Memorandum on alliance with Austria, 319;
on the Dutch crisis, 359;
on the Slave Trade, 461, 477;
on Russian policy, 611, 616.
Rigby, Richard, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, anecdote of, 24.
Robespierre, 322, 348.
Robinson, Morris (afterwards Lord Rokeby), 90.
Робинсон, «Пердита», 393.
Rockingham, Marquis of, official chief of the Whigs, 80;
refuses to unite with Shelburne, 101;
his terms for accepting office, 103;
becomes Prime Minister, 104;
protests against Pitt’s inclusion in the Cabinet, 105;
his death, 110.
Rodney, Lord, his victory over De Grasse, 106.
Rohilla War, the, 225, 232, 238.
Рокби, лорд. См. Робинсон, Моррис.
Rolle, Lord, 401, 568.
“Rolliad,” the, 263, 276, 280, 289, 401.
Romilly, Sir Samuel, quoted, 101, 107, 433.
Roode, Count de, his mission to London, 413, 514.
Rose, George, his friendship with Pitt, 139, 286;
Secretary to the Treasury, 157, 194, 259, 285, 286, 406, 407, 578 n., 579.
Rossbach, Battle of, 382.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, his “Contrat Social,” 2, 7, 26, 61, 322, 323, 537, 539, 540;
on British elections, 27;
story of the peasant and, 538, 539.
Royal Marriage Act (1772), 395.
Russell, Lord John, 466.
Russia, alliance with Austria, 299;
proposals for a British alliance, 315;
war with Turkey, 375, 487, 488, 490, 502, 505, 506, 590, 591;
joined by Austria, 384, 385, 491;
alliance with Poland, 485, 486;
failure of the harvest (1787), 486;
British policy towards her, 489, 605;
war with Sweden, 491, 493, 494, 502;
aided by Denmark, 501, 502;
financial corruption in, 505;
makes peace with Sweden, 532;
state of, in 1790, 591;
British ultimatum to, 609, 610;
successes against the Turks, 625;
peace with Turkey, 626;
alliance with Sweden, 628, 629.
См. Екатерина II.
Rutland, Duke of, his friendship with Pitt, 56–8, 74;
Lord Privy Seal, 156;
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 156, 207, 208, 246, 247, 249–52, 337;
letters of Pitt to, 168, 201, 209, 257, 260, 265, 318.
Ryder, Dudley (afterwards Earl of Harrowby), 267, 269, 270, 586.
Sackville, Viscount (Lord G. Germain), 79, 100;
letter of Pitt to, 155;
declines office, 156.
St. Albans Tavern, negotiations at the, 164, 165.
Сен-Доминго, восстания рабов в, 467–469;
St. John, Lord, 58, 90.
St. Kitts, ceded to Great Britain, 116, 121.
St. Lucia, ceded to France, 115, 121.
St. Pierre, ceded to France, 116.
St. Priest, Comte de, French agent in Egypt, 327, 355.
St. Vincent, ceded to Great Britain, 116.
Salisbury, Countess of, at Westminster Election, 172.
Salm, Rhinegrave of, 356, 376.
Sandwich, Earl of, 79, 101, 428.
Sawbridge, Alderman, his motions in favour of Reform, 109, 178, 197;
opposes abolition of the Slave Trade, 463.
Saxe, Maréchal de, 307.
Sayer, James, caricature by, 146.
Scheldt, opening of the, 298, 311, 316.
Schliessen, General, 512.
Schönborn, Danish envoy in London, 496.
Scott, Major, agent of Hastings in Parliament, 228, 235, 544.
Скотт, Джон. См. Элдон, лорд.
Schulenberg, Count, 609, 621 n.
Seditious writings, royal proclamation against (1792), 472.
Ségur, Comte de, French War Minister, 373 n., 379;
French Ambassador at St. Petersburg, 484, 485.
Selim III, Sultan of Turkey, 502, 506;
fails to secure a compact with Poland, 595, 596.
Selwyn, George, on Pitt and Fox, 26;
on Pitt’s early speeches, 87, 89;
о клубе «Густрис» (Goostree’s), 91;
prophecies the ruin of Lord North’s Ministry, 101.
Senegal, ceded to France, 116.
Senegambia, ceded to Great Britain, 121.
Sevastopol, construction of a dockyard and navy at, 304, 481.
Sharp, Granville, 455, 473, 478;
founds the Abolitionist Society, 456, 458;
conference with Pitt, 460.
Sheffield, Lord, 257.
Shelburne, Earl of (afterwards Marquis of Lansdowne), on Economic Reform, 69;
his character, 82, 83;
attack on the Government (1781), 83;
on the King’s skill in intrigue, 99;
proposes to Rockingham to unite their parties, 101;
position of his party, 103;
made intermediary between the King and Rockingham, 104;
Secretary of State, 105;
Prime Minister, 111;
attacked by Fox, 111, 112;
in favour of exchanging Gibraltar, 114;
difficulties of his Ministry, 115;
defeated in the Commons and resigns, 123;
advises the King to make Pitt Prime Minister, 125;
not included in Pitt’s Ministry, 155;
made Marquis of Lansdowne, 155 n.;
his influence on Pitt, 184;
supports Hastings, 228;
in favour of a commercial treaty with France, 325.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, supports Pitt’s reform proposals, 108;
resigns, 111;
denounces the peace, 120;
made Secretary to the Treasury, 129;
opposes Pitt’s proposal for a Sinking Fund, 192;
his speeches against Hastings, 225, 231, 240;
речь об ирландских резолюциях, 262–264;
espouses the cause of the Prince of Wales, 398, 401;
his conduct on the King’s illness, 408, 409, 417, 418;
assists in drawing up the Prince’s reply to Pitt’s letter, 421;
on the aims of the Prince of Wales, 428, 429;
opposes the Russian War, 613, 624.
Sheridan, Mrs., 421.
Shooting, licences for, 186.
Sierra Leone, settlement of liberated slaves in, 473.
Sinclair, Sir John, 191.
Амортизационный фонд, предложения Питта, 188–195.
Sistova, Congress of, 591, 592, 600, 606, 620, 625.
Slaughter, Colonel, 396.
Работорговля. См. главу XX;
English participation in, 9, 21;
the Abolitionist Society founded, 22, 458;
statistics, 456, 463, 474;
Privy Council inquiry, 459, 461, 462, 464, 465;
attitude of France and Spain, 460, 462;
disastrous results of liberating slaves in French colonies, 467, 468;
предложения в парламенте (1788 г.), 460–462;
(1789 г.), 462–464;
(1790), 465,
(1791), 466, 467,
(1792 г.), 469–471;
(1793), 472,
(1794), 474,
(1795–7), 475.
Smith, Major-General, M.P., 91, 403, 586.
Smith, Adam, his “Wealth of Nations,” 60, 182, 322, 323, 325;
his influence on Pitt exaggerated, 183, 184;
anecdote of Pitt and, 241;
advocates the Irish Union, 242.
Смит, Роберт («Боб»). См. Каррингтон, лорд.
Контрабанда, распространенность, 181–183.
South Africa, question of a convict settlement in, 435.
Spain, peace concluded with, 115, 116, 136;
Конфликт из-за Нутка-Саунд, см. главу XXV;
claims absolute sovereignty on the north-west coast of America, 565, 573;
her position in 1790, 568;
discontent in Spanish America against, 568, 569;
her claims denied by Great Britain, 569, 570, 572–5;
agrees to give satisfaction, 575;
British ultimatum, 582;
refuses French offer of help, 583;
outrage in the Gulf of Florida, 583;
treaty with Great Britain, 584, 585, 587, 588;
favours the Allies against Russia, 599, 600.
Sparry, Mrs., nurses Pitt at Cambridge, 51.
Spencer, Lord, 428.
Spielmann, Baron, Austrian envoy in Berlin, 528, 529.
Сквайры, привилегии и полномочия, 14–16.
Staël, Mme. de, on Wilberforce’s conversation, 92;