244.
MINISTRIES, attempt at silence in the House of Commons, iii. 235;
concessions to the people, ii. 353; iii. 3;
list of ministries from 1770-1784, iv. 170, n. 1;
Lord North's ministry, its duration, iv. 170, n. 1;
(1771) contest with the City, iv. 140, n. 1;
(1773) much enfeebled, ii. 208;
want of power, v. 57;
(1774) feeble, iv. 69;
(1775) merit not rewarded, ii. 352;
neither stable nor grateful, ii. 348;
feeble and timid, ii. 355;
too little power, ii. 352;
(1776) 'timidity of our scoundrels,' iii. 1;
imbecility, iii. 46, ib., n. 5;
ministers asked to the Lord Mayor's feast for the first time for
seven years, iii. 460;
(1778) 'now there is no power,' iii. 356;
(1779) Johnson has no delight in talking of public affairs, iii.
408;
Horace Walpole's account, ib., n. 4;
(1780), afraid to repress persecution of Papists in Scotland, iii.
427, n. 1;
feebleness at the Gordon Riots, iii. 430;
(1781), Johnson against it, iv. 81, 100;
gives thanks for its dissolution, iv. 139;
bunch of imbecility, ib.;
successors could hardly do worse, iv. 140, n. 3;
timidity, iv. 200;
struggles between two sets of ministers in 1784, iv. 260,
n. 2.
MINORCA, ii. 176; iii. 246.
'_Mira cano_,' iii. 304.
MIRABEAU, 'dramatised his death,' v.
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