plies, 64, 68, 471; its recommendation required to motions for grant of public money, 472.
Crown lands. See Revenues of the Crown. Cumberland, Duke of, conducts ministerial
negotiations for the King, 27, 28; pro- tests against resolutions for a regency bill, 154; his name omitted from the commission to open parliament, 156; marries Mrs. Horton, 219.
Curwen, Mr., his Act to restrain the sale of boroughs, 287.
Cust, Sir John, chosen speaker, 16; alter- cations with, 494.
Customs and excise officers disfranchised, 289; numbers of, ib.
DANBY, Earl, his case cited with reference
to ministerial responsibility, 96. Debates in parliament, publication of, prohi- bited, 413, 414; sanctioned by the Long Parliament, 414; early publications of debates, ib.; abuses of reporting, 416, 417; contest with the printers, 418; re- porting permitted, 427; late instance of complaints against persons taking notes, 428; reporting interrupted by the ex- clusion of strangers, ib.; progress of the system, 429; a breach of privilege, 431; galleries for reporters, ib.; freedom of comment on debates, 435; improved taste in debate, 490, 493; personalities of former times, 491.
Denman, Lord, his decision in Stockdale v. Hansard, 451.
Dering, Sir E., expelled for publishing his speeches, 414.
Derby, Earl of, the reform bill of his ministry, 378; bill lost, 380; ministry defeated on the house tax, 471. D'Este, Sir A., his claim to dukedom of Sussex, 226.
Devonshire, Duke of, disgraced for opposi-
tion to the treaty with France, 20; re- signs his lord-lieutenancy, ib.
Disraeli, Mr., brings in a reform bill, 378. Dissolutions of parliament. See Addresses to the Crown; Parliament.
Divisions, lists of, published, in the Com- mons, 432; in the Lords, 433; presence of strangers at, ib.
Dowdeswell, Mr., opposes the expulsion of Wilkes, 394, 400.
"Droit le Roi," burnt by order of the Lords, 391.
Droits of the Crown and Admiralty, the, vested in the crown till accession of Wil- liam IV., 196, 205.
Dundas, Mr., his amendment to Mr. Dun- ning's resolutions, 45.
Dunning, Mr., his resolutions against in- fluence of the crown, 44; denies the right to incapacitate Wilkes, 400. Dyson, Mr., his sobriquet, 419.
EAST RETFORD, disfranchisement bill of, 344. Ebrington, Lord, his motions in support of reform ministry, 353, 355.
Economic reform, Mr. Burke's, 44, 200, 216. Edinburgh, defective representation of, 295; bill to amend it, 298.
Edward II., revenues of his crown, 189. Edward VI., his sign manual affixed by a stamp, 182.
Effingham, Earl of, his motion condemning
the commons' opposition to Mr. Pitt, 66. Eldon, Lord, Geo. III.'s suspected adviser against the Grenville ministry, 92; dis- liked by the Regent, 101; condoles with George IV. on the Catholic emancipation, 114; scandalised when the crown sup- ports reform, 116; chancellor to the Ad- dington ministry, 165; his declaration as to Geo. III.'s competency to transact business, 168; obtains the royal assent to bills, ib.; his interview with the King, ib.; negotiates Pitt's return to office, 170; his conduct impugned, 171; motions to omit his name from Council of Regency, ib., 172; his opinion as to accession of infant king, 184; his position as states- man, 486.
Election petitions, trial of, prior to the Grenville Act, 301; under that Act, 303,
304; later election petition Acts, 306. Elections, expensive contests at, 277, 282, 294; vexatious contests, 291; Acts to amend election proceedings, 375; writs for, addressed to returning officers, ib. See also Reform of Parliament. Ellenborough, Lord, his admission to the
cabinet, when Lord Chief Justice, 86. Erskine, Lord, his motions against a dis- solution, 59, 62; his speech on the pledge required from the Grenville ministry, 94; his support of reform, 334, 336, 338; cha- racter of his oratory, 484.
Establishment Bill, brought in by Burke,
Exchequer chamber, court of, reverse de- cision in Howard v. Gosset, 455.
FAMILIES, great, state influence of, 7, 294; opposed by George III., 10, 35; influence
of, at the present day, 137. Fitzherbert, Mr., proscribed for opposition to court policy, 25.
Fitzherbert, Mrs., married the Prince of Wales, 225.
Flood, Mr., his reform bill, 333.
Four and a half per cent duties, the casual sources of revenue of the crown, 196, 205; charged with pensions, 214, 217; surrendered by William IV., 218. Fox, Mr. C. J., his remarks on George III.'s
system of government, 42, 43, 47, 51; coalesces with Lord North, 53; the coa- lition ministry, 55; brings in the India Bill, 57; dismissed, 60; opposition to Pitt, 62-70; proscribed from office by the King, 83; admitted to office, 86; dismissed, 90; his death alienates the Regent from the Whigs, 100; his conduct regarding the Regency Bill, 148, 151; comments thereon, 161; disapproved of the Royal Marriage Act, 222; the Westminster election, 291; cost of the scrutiny, 292; unfair treatment from Mr. Pitt, ib.; denounces parliamentary cor- ruption by loans, 320; supports the pro- ceedings against Wilkes, 406; remarks on unrestrained reporting, 428; carriage broken by mob, 425; position as orator, 482.
Fox, Mr. Henry, Sir R. Walpole's agent in bribery, 314.
France, treaty of peace with, proscription
of the Whigs for disapproval of, 20; members bribed to support, 315. Franchise, the, of England, 275, 293; of Scotland, 295; of Ireland, 299; under the Reform Act, 355-357; proposed al- terations in, 375; fancy franchises, 377, 379. See Reform in Parliament. "Friends of the People," society, statements by, as to composition of House of Com- mons, 276, 300.
Fuller, Mr. R., bribed by pension from the crown, 308.
GASCOYNE, General, his anti-reform motion, 352.
Gatton, number of voters in, prior to re- form; 276; price of, 305.
Gazetteer, the, complained against for pub- lishing debates, 418.
Gentleman's Magazine, the, one of the first to report parliamentary debates, 415. George I., his civil list, 195; powers he claimed over his grandchildren, 220; consents to Peerage Bill, 230. George II., his Regency Act, 140; his civil list, 195; the great seal affixed to two commissions during his illness, 155; his savings, 197.
George III., accession of, 8; education, 9; determination to govern, 8-15; secret counsellors, 11; his jealousy of the Whig families, 10, 16; his arbitrary conduct and violation of parliamentary privileges
during Lord Bute's ministry, 19, 20; during Mr. Grenville's ministry, 24; his differences with that ministry, 23, 26, 28; his active interference in the government, 26; pledge not to be influenced by Lord Bute, 27; consents to dismiss Mr. S. Mackenzie, 28; the conditions of the Rockingham ministry, 29; exerts his in- fluence against them, 31, 33; attempts, with Chatham, to destroy parties, 34; his influence during Chatham's ministry, 36, 37; tries to retain him in office, 37; his ascendency in Lord North's time, 38, 42, 50; irritation at opposition, 38, 41; exerts his will in favour of the Royal Marriage Bill, 39; takes notice of proceedings in parliament, ib.; proscribes officers in opposition, 40; his overtures to the Whigs, 42, 43; his personal inter- ference in parliament protested against, 43-47, 58; seeks to intimidate opposition peers, 46; defeat of his American policy, 48, 49; approval of Lord North's con- duct, ib.; results of the King's policy, 50; the Rockingham ministry, 51; mea- sures to repress his influence, 52-55, 289, 308, 311; he reasserts it with Lord Shelburne, 52; resists the "coalition," 54-60; negotiates with Pitt, 54, 55; use of his name against the India Bill, 57; supports Pitt against the commons, 68-70; his position during this con- test, 70-72; its effect upon his policy, 73; his relations with Pitt, 74; his gene- ral influence augmented, 75; prepared to use it against Pitt, 76; dismisses him, 78; opposition to the Catholic question, 78-81; illness from agitation on this subject, 82; his relations with Adding- ton, 82, 163; refuses to admit Fox to office, 83; Pitt reinstated, 84; admits Lord Grenville to office, 86; opposes changes in army administration, 87, and the Army and Navy Service Bill, ib.; unconstitutional use of his influence, 88; pledge he required of his ministers, 89; his anti-Catholic appeal on the dissolution (1807), 97; his influence prior to his last illness, 98; his character compared to that of the Prince Regent, 99; the King's illnesses, 139-180; the first illness, 139; his scheme for a re- gency, 140; modified by ministers, 141; speech, and addresses on this subject, 142; consents to the withdrawal of his mother's name from Regency Bill, 144; second ill- ness, 146; recovery, 158; anxious to pro- vide for a regency, 163; third illness, in the interval between the Pitt and Ad- dington ministries, 163, 164; recovery,
165; fourth illness, 166; questions aris- ing as to his competency to transact busi- ness, 167-172; gives assent to bills, 168; anecdote of his reading the bills, 169; Pitt's return to office, 170; their interview, ib.; his last illness, 172; the passing the Regency Bill, 173-178; his inability to sign commissions for proroga- tion, 173; difficulties as to issue of public money, 179; his civil list, 195; other sources of revenue, 197; purchases Buckingham House, ib.; domestic eco- nomy, 198; debts on civil list, 198- 203; Sir F. Norton's address, 200; pro- fusion in the household, 201; his message on public expenditure, 202; his pension list, 215; his annoyance at his brothers' marriages, 219; his attachment to Lady S. Lennox, 220; the Royal Marriage Act, 220, 221; claims guardianship of Prin- cess Charlotte, 227; profuse in creation of peers, 231-233; supports bribery at elections, and of members, 284, 286, 317; his opposition to reform, 76, 331; his answer to the city address on the pro- ceedings against Wilkes, 402; objects to political agitation by petitions, 440. George IV., ascendency of the Tory party
under, 107; the proceedings against his Queen, ib.; his aversion to Lord Grey and the Whigs, 111; his popularity, 112; his opposition to Catholic claims, 113; yields, and exerts his influence against his ministers, 114; authorised to affix his sign manual by a stamp, 180; his civil list and other revenues, 204. Germaine, Lord G., his statement respect-
ing Geo. III.'s personal influence, 42. Glasgow, defective representation of, 295. Gloucester, bribery at, 364.
Gloucester, Duke of, marries Lady Walde- grave, 219.
Gordon, Lord G., presents petitions to par- liament, 439.
Gosset, Sir W., sued by Howard for tres- pass, 454.
Government, executive, control of parlia- ment over, 457; strong and weak govern- ments since the Reform Act, 465. See also Ministers of the Crown. Gower, Earl of, his amendment to resolu- tions for a regency, 177. Grafton, Duke of, dismissed from lord-lieu- tenancy for opposing the court policy, 20; accepts office under Lord Chatham, 34; complains of the bad results of Cha- tham's ill-health, 36; consequent weak- ness of the ministry, 37; resigns, ib.; his ministry broken up by debates upon Wilkes, 400.
Grampound disfranchisement bills, 339, 340. Grattan, Mr., character of his oratory, 485. Great seal, the, use of, under authority of parliament, during Geo. III.'s illness, 155 -157, 178; questions arising thereupon, 159; affixed by Lord Hardwicke to two commissions during illness of George II.,
Grenville Act, trial of election petitions under, 303; made perpetual, 304. Grenville, Lord, in office with Pitt, 83; forms an administration on his death, 85; differs with the King on army ad- ministration, 87; the Army Service Bill, ib.; cabinet minute reserving liberty of action on the Catholic question, 89; pledge required by the King on that subject, ib.; dismissed, 90; his advice neglected by the Regent, 101; attempted reconcilia- tion, 102; failure of negotiations on the "Household Question," 105; his difficulty in issuing public money during George III.'s incapacity, 179.
Grenville, Mr. George, succeeds Lord Bute as premier, 22; does not defer to George III., 23; remonstrates against Lord Bute's influence, 24, 27; supports the King's arbitrary measures, 24; differences be- tween them, 26; his election petition act, 303; statement of amount of secret service money, 315; the bribery under his minis- try, 316; opposes Wilkes's expulsion, 394; motion for reduction of land tax, 471.
Grey, Earl, his advice neglected by the Re- gent, 101; out of court favour, 107; de- clines office on the "Household Ques- tion," 105; advocates reform, and leads the reform ministry, 117-120, 257, 334, 336, 349; loses the confidence of William IV., 120; accuses Lord Eldon of using George III.'s name without due autho- rity, 168, 171; regulation of the civil list by his ministry, 205; advises the crea- tion of new peers, 258, 261, 354; favoured a shorter duration of parliament, 368; character of his oratory, 486.
Grey, Mr. (1667), reports the debates, 414. Grosvenor, General, his hostile motion
against Mr. Pitt's ministry, 66. Grote, Mr., advocates vote by ballot, 373.
HALIFAX, Lord, obtains consent of Geo. III. to exclude his mother from the Regency, 144.
Hamilton, Duke of, a Scottish Peer, not allowed the rights of an English peer,
238. Hamilton, Lord A., advocates reform in Scotch representation, 297.
Hanover, House of, character of the first two kings of, favourable to constitutional government, 6.
Hanover, kingdom of, revenues attached to the crown till her Majesty's accession, 197, 207.
Hansard, Messrs., sued by Stockdale for libel, 450.
Harcourt, Lord, supports the influence of the crown over parliament, 32. Hardwicke, Lord, affixed great seal to commissions during illness of George II., 155.
Harrowby, Earl of, supports George IV. on the Catholic question, 95.
Hastings, Mr. Warren, impeachments not abated by dissolution established in his case, 464.
Hastings, sale of borough seat, 287. Hawkesbury, Lord, supposed adviser of Geo. III. against the Grenville ministry, 92; his declaration as to King's com- petency to transact business, 168. Heberden, Dr., his evidence regarding the King's illnesses, 171.
Henley, Mr., secedes from the Derby minis- try on question of reform, 380. Henry III., V., VI., and VII., revenues of their crowns, 189, 190.
Henry VIII., his sign-manual affixed by a stamp, 181; his crown revenues, 190. Herbert, Mr., his bill as to the expulsion of members, 401.
Heron, Sir R., bill for shortening duration of parliament, 368.
Hindon, bribery at, 283.
Hobhouse, Mr., committed for contempt, 435.
Holdernesse, Lord, retires from office in favour of Lord Bute, 16.
Holland, Lord, amendment for an address to Prince of Wales, 176. Horner, Mr. F., his speech against a re- gency bill, 175. Household, the.
See Royal Household. House tax, Lord Derby's ministry defeated on, 471.
Howard, Messrs., reprimanded for conduct- ing Stockdale's action, 452; committed, 453; sue the sergeant-at-arms, 454. Howick, Lord, denounces secret advice to crown, 92, 93. See Grey, Earl. Huskisson, Mr., his prophecy of reform in parliament, 345.
IMPEACHMENT of ministers by parliament, 463; rare in later times, ib.; not abated by a dissolution, 464.
India Bill, the, 1783, thrown out by influ- ence of the crown, 60.
Ireland, position of Church, causes alarm to William IV., 120; number of arch- bishops and bishops of, 234, representa- tive bishops of, ib.-civil list of, 197, 205; pensions on crown revenues of, 214, 216; consolidated with English pension list, 218.-parliament of, their proceed- ings on the regency, 162; address the Prince, ib.; office-holders disqualified in, 310.—the representative peers of, 233; restriction upon number of the Irish peer- age, ib.; absorption of, into peerage of United Kingdom, 241; Irish peers sit in the commons, 234.- - representation of, prior to Reform Bill, 298, 300; nomina- tion boroughs abolished at the Union, 299; Irish judges disqualified, 311.- Reform Act of, 358; amended (1850), ib. Irnham, Lord, his daughter married to Duke of Cumberland, 219.
JAMES I., amount of his crown revenues,
Jews, admission of, to parliament, 456. Johnson, Dr., the compiler of parliamentary reports, 415, 416, 428, 481, n.
Jones, Mr. Gale, committed for libel on the House, 435.
Judges, introduction of a judge into the cabinet, 86; disqualified from parliament, 311; except the Master of the Rolls, 312.
KENT, Duchess of, appointed Regent (1830), 187.
Kentish petitioners imprisoned by the com- mons, 437.
Kenyon, Lord, opinion on the coronation oath, 78.
King, Lord, moves to omit Lord Eldon's
name from the council of regency, 172. King, questions as to accession of an infant king, 183; as to the rights of a king's posthumous child, 186; rights of a king over the royal family, 219. See also Crown, the; George III.; Regency; &c. "King's Friends, the," the party so called, 11; their influence, 30; led by Adding- ton, 84, 86, 96; their activity on the Catholic question, 80; against the Army Service Bill, 88; the "nabobs rank themselves among, 280. Knighthood, the orders of, 269.
LADIES attending debates in the commons, 409; their exclusion, 429, n. Lambton, Mr., his motion for reform, 300, 340.
Lancaster, Duchy of, revenues of, attached to crown, 190, 197, 207; present amount, 207.
Land revenues of the crown. See Revenues
Land tax, the, allowed twice over to crown tenantry, 212; reduced by vote of the commons, 471; third reading of a land tax bill delayed, 62, 472.
Lansdowne, Marquess of, his amendment to resolutions for a regency, 177. Lauderdale, Earl of, condemns the king's conduct to the Grenville ministry, 95, 96; his rights as peer both of Great Britain and Scotland, 240.
Leicester, case of bribery from corporate funds, 343.
Lennox, Lady S., admired by George III.,
Life peerages, 243; to women, ib.; the Wensleydale peerage case, 246. Liverpool, Earl of, his ministry, 107; con- duct the proceedings against Queen Ca- roline, 109, 111.
Loans to government, members bribed by shares in, 318; cessation of the system, 321.
London, city of, address George III. con- demning the proceedings against Wilkes,
London Magazine, the, one of the first to report parliamentary debates, 415. Lords, House of, relations of, with the crown, 2-3; influence of the crown exerted over the lords, 46, 57, 119, 260; debates on the influence of the crown, 44-47; reject the India Bill, 58; con- demn the commons' opposition to Mr. Pitt, 66; proceedings on the reform bills, 118-120, 257, 352; proposed crea- tion of peers, 119, 259, 353; proceed- ings on the regency bills of George III., 142-180; position of the house of lords in the state, 228, 252; increase of its numbers, 229-234; enlargement
source of strength, 253; number of peers, from Henry VII. to George III., 229, 231; twelve peers created in one day by Queen Anne, 229; representative peers of Scotland and Ireland, 229, 233; sixteen peers created by William IV., 258; proposed restrictions upon the power of the crown, and the regent, in creation of peers, 230, 232; profuse creations by George III., 231; com- position of the house in 1860, 235, n.; its representative character, 237; rights of peers of Scotland, 238-240; ap- pellate jurisdiction of the lords, 242; bill to improve it, 249; life peerage question, 243; Lords spiritual, 249; past and present number, ib.; attempt to exclude them, 250; political posi-
tion of the house, 252, 263; influence of parties, 254; collisions between the two houses, 255; the danger increased, 256; creation of new peers equivalent to a dissolution, 262; position of the house since reform, 263; their independence, ib.; proceedings indicating their power, 264; scanty attendance in the house, 266, 267; smallness of the quorum, 266; deference to leaders, 267; influence of peers over the commons through nomination boroughs, 276; and through territorial influence, 294, 300; refusal of the lords to indem- nify the witnesses against Walpole, 314; proceedings against Wilkes, 389, 393; "Droit le Roi" burnt, 391; address to condemn the city address on the Middle- sex election proceedings, 402; debates on those proceedings, 398, 403; strangers and members excluded from debates, 410, 428; scene on one occasion, 410; reports of debates permitted, 427, 431; presence of strangers at divisions, 433; publicity given to committee proceed- ings, ib.; to parliamentary papers, 434; privilege to servants discontinued, 447; prisoners kneeling at the bar, 448; control of the lords over the executive government, 457; advise the crown on questions of peace and war, and of a dissolution, 458; rejection of a money bill, 474; sketch of parliamentary ora- tory, 480.
Lords spiritual. See Bishops. Lottery tickets (government), members bribed by, 319.
Ludgershall, price of seat, 282.
Lushington, Dr., a life peerage offered to,
245; disqualified from parliament, 311. Luttrell, Colonel, his sister married to the
Duke of Cumberland, 219; opposes Wilkes for Middlesex, 396; enforces the exclusion of strangers, 428.
Lyndhurst, Lord, his motion on the life peerage case, 246.
Lyttelton, Lord, his address respecting the regency, 143; his complaint against "Droit le Roi," 391.
Lyttleton, Mr., his motion on the dismissal of the Grenville ministry, 96.
MACCLESFIELD, Lord, decided in favour of rights of crown over grandchildren, 221. Mackenzie, Mr. S., dismissed from office, 28, 29.
Marvell, A., reported proceedings in the commons, 414.
Manchester, Duke of, strangers excluded on his motion relative to war with Spain, 411. Mansfield, Lord, exhorts George III. to
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