AMBASSADOR, a foreign, iii. 410;
  Wotton’s, Sir H., definition, ii. 170, n. 3. 
AMBITION, iii. 39.
Amelia.  See FIELDING. 
AMENDMENTS OF A SENTENCE, iv. 38. 
AMERICA; Beresford, Mrs., an American lady, iv. 283;
  Boston Port Bill, ii. 294, n. 1;
  Burgoyne’s surrender, iii. 355, n. 3;
  Carolina library, i. 309, n. 2;
  Chesapeak, iv. 140, n. 2. 
  City address to the King in 1781, iv. 139, n. 4;
  Clinton, Sir Henry, iv. 140, n. 2;
  Concord, iii. 314, n. 6;
  Congress, ii. 312, 409, 479;
  Constitutional Society, subscription raised by the, iii. 314, n. 6;
  Convict settlements, ii. 312, n. 3;
  Cornwallis’s capitulation, iii. 355, n. 3; iv. 140, n. 2;
  discovery of, i. 455, n. 3; ii. 479;
  dominion lost, iv. 260, n. 2;
  emigration to it an immersion in barbarism, v. 78: 
    See Emigration, and Scotland, emigration;
  English opposition to the American war, iv. 81;
  France, assistance from, iv. 21;
  Franklin’s letter to W. Strahan, iii. 364, n. 1: 
    See Dr. Franklin;
  Georgia, i. 90, n. 3, 127, n. 4; v. 299;
  Hume’s opinion of the war, iii. 46, n. 5; iv. 194, n. 1;
  independence, chimerical, i. 309, n. 2;
  influence on mankind, i. 309, n. 2;
  Irish Protestants well-wishers to the rebellion, iii. 408, n. 4;
  Johnson ‘avoids the rebellious land,’ iii. 435, n. 4;
    feelings towards the Americans, ii. 478-480; iii. 200-1; iv. 283;
      calls them a ‘race of convicts,’ ii. 312;
      ‘wild rant,’ ii. 315, n. 1; iii. 290;
        abuse, 315;
    parody of Burke on American taxation, iv. 318;
    Patriot, ii. 286;
    relicks of, in America, ii. 207;
    Taxation no Tyranny, ii. 312;
  Lee, Arthur, agent in England, iii. 68, n. 3;
  Lexington, iii. 314, n. 6;
  libels in 1784, i. 116, n. 1;
  life in the wilds, ii. 228;
  literature gaining ground, i. 309, n. 2;
  Loudoun, Lord, General in America, v. 372, n. 3;
  Mansfield, Lord, approves of burning their houses, iii. 429, n. 1;
  Markham’s, Archbishop, sermon, v. 36, n. 3;
  money sent to the English army, iv. 104;
  New England, iv. 358, n. 2; v. 317;
  North’s, Lord, conciliatory propositions, iii. 221;
  objects for observation, i. 367;
  peace, negotiations of, iv. 158, n. 4;
  preliminary treaty of, iv. 282, n. 1;
  Pennsylvania, ii. 207, n. 2;
  Philadelphia, i. 309, n. 2; iii. 364, n. 1; iv. 212, n. 1;
  planters, ii. 27;
  population, growth of, ii. 314;
  Rasselas, reprint of, ii. 207;
  Saratoga, iii. 355, n. 3;
  slavery, England guilty of, ii. 479;
  Susquehannah, v. 317;
  taxation by England, ii. 312; iii. 205-7, 221; iv. 259, n. 1;
  Virginia, ii. 27, n. 1; 479;
  war with America popular in Scotland, iv. 259, n. 1;
  war with the French in 1756-7, i. 308, n. 2; ii. 479; iii. 9, n. 1;