onel, 140.

Vistula, the, 123, 133.

Vitoria, battle, 109-112, 114, 136.

Vivian, Sir Richard H. (afterwards Lord), 164.

Volga, the, 310.

Volhynia, 122.

Volo, gulf of, 266, 392.

Volunteer consolidation bill, 30.

Vonitza, 266.

Wade, General, 434.

Wadsworth, American general, 130.

Wagram, battle, 63, 100.

Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 440.

Walcheren expedition, the, 62-67, 71, 72, 74, 99, 199.

Wales, 289, 291, 305, 434;
amalgamation of English and Welsh benches, 271.

Wales, Caroline, Princess of. See Caroline, queen of George IV.

Wales (George), Prince of. See George IV.

Walker, George T. (afterwards Sir G. T.), 106.

Wallachia, 57, 59, 213-215, 260, 263, 267, 395, 396.

Walmoden, Hanoverian general, 137.

Walpole, Sir Robert (afterwards Earl of Orford), 205-208.

Walpole, Lord (afterwards Earl of Orford), 134.

Ward, Henry, M.P., 345, 346.

Ward, John William (afterwards Viscount, later Earl of Dudley), 197, 431;
foreign secretary, 227, 231, 260;
resignation, 236, 263, 380.

Wardle, Colonel, M.P., 60, 61, 72.

Warsaw, 55, 381, 387, 388;
duchy of, 53, 66, 79, 124, 152, 153, 166.

Wartburg festival, 188.

Washington, 130, 146.

_Wasp_, the, American sloop, 132.

Waterford, 237, 242, 250.

Waterloo, battle, 44, 147, 160-166, 230, 415.

Waterloo Bridge. See London.

Watsons, the, father and son, 175, 192.

Watt, James, 435.

Wavre, 159-161, 164.

_Weekly Political Register_, the. See Cobbett.

Wellesley, Sir Arthur (afterwards Duke of Wellington), 61, 151, 152, 156,
167, 168, 174, 189, 195, 199, 201, 208, 209, 216-219, 226, 227-229,
259, 280, 282, 285, 286, 293, 302-304, 309, 319, 324, 334, 343, 347,
350, 361, 362, 371, 372, 392, 397, 431;
chief secretary for Ireland, 50;
bombardment of Copenhagen, 54;
Peninsular war, 60, 71, 76, 90-120, 200;
viscount, 71, 99;
Vimeiro, 91;
commander-in-chief in the Peninsula, 96, 97;
Talavera, 98, 99;
Bussaco, 101;
lines of Torres Vedras, 101, 102;
Fuentes d'Onoro, 103;
earl, 105;
sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, 105, 106;
Salamanca, 107;
marquis, 108;
Vitoria, 110, 111, 136;
the Pyrenees, 113;
siege of St. Sebastian, 113, 114;
Bayonne, 115-117;
Toulouse, 118, 119;
duke, 151;
Waterloo campaign, 156-165;
Waterloo, 160-165;
master-general of the ordnance, 178, 194;
first lord of the treasury, 230-232, 234, 236, 243-246, 248-252, 260-263,