exert his influence over parliament, 32; precedent of his admission to the cabinet cited, 86; his opinion on the right of the commons to incapacitate Wilkes, 398, 404; accused by Wilkes of altering a record, 392.
Marchmont, Lord, his motion on the Mid- dlesex election proceedings, 400. Martin, Mr., his duel with Wilkes, 389. Mary (Queen of England), her sign-manual affixed by a stamp, 182.
Melbourne, Viscount, in office, 121; his sudden dismissal, ib.; reinstated, 126; in office at accession of her Majesty, 127; organises her household, ib.; kept in office by the "Bedchamber Question," 128; re- signs office, 131.
Melville, Lord, his impeachment, 464. Members of the House of Commons, num-
ber of nominee members, 299; bribed by pensions, 308; bribery under Charles II., 312; under William III., 313; George II., 314; George III., 314, 317; bribed by loans and lotteries, 318-321; by contracts, 321; wages to, provided for in Lord Blandford's reform bill, 342; abolition of qualifications, 373; cluded from debates in the Lords, 411; system of pledges to constituents considered, 444; certain privileges of, dis continued, 446. See Commons, House of. Middlesex Journal, the, complaint against, for misrepresenting debates, 418. Middlesex, sheriffs of, committed by the House in the Stockdale actions, 452. Military officers, deprived of command for opposition to the policy of Geo. III., 24, 40; practice condemned under the Rock- ingham ministry, 29.
Miller, proceeded against for publishing de- bates, 420; the city authorities inter- pose, 421.
Ministers, of the crown, responsibility of, 5, 89; regarded with jealousy by George III., 8; constitutional relations be- tween crown and ministers, 12-15, 89, 121, 128, 132, 464; influence of the crown exerted against its ministers, 31, 56, 76, 88, 114; the pledge exacted by George III. of his ministers, 89; sup- ported by the crown and the commons in reform, 115, 258, 352; influence of great families over ministries, 137; nume- rous applications to, for peerages, 236; votes of want of confidence, 49, 66, 69, 462; and of confidence, 118, 353, 462; ministers impeached by the commons, 463; the stability of recent ministries considered, 465; their financial arrange- ments dissented from, 470.
Minorities, proposed representation of, at elections, in reform bill (1854), 378. Moira, Earl, his mission to the Whig leaders, 104; the "Household Ques- tion," 105.
Morton, Mr., moves insertion of Princess of Wales's name into Regency Bill, 145. Murray, Lady A., married to the Duke of Sussex, 226.
Murray, Mr., refused to kneel at the bar of the commons, 448.
Mutiny bill, the passing of, postponed, 69.
"NABOBS," the, their bribery at elections, 279, 282; rank themselves among the "King's friends," 280.
Newcastle, Duke of, in office at accession of George III., 11; resigns, 18; dismissed from lord lieutenancy, 20.
Newenham, Mr., motion for address on debts of Prince of Wales, 210.
New Shoreham, bribery at, 282; disfran- chised, 283.
Nomination boroughs. See Boroughs. North, Lord, his relations, as premier, with Geo. III., 37; complete submission, 38, 40, 50; his overtures to Chatham, 41; to the Whigs, 42; his ministry over- thrown, 47, 48; his conduct approved by the King, 49; joins the "coalition min- istry," 53, 55; dismissed from office, 60; liberal in creation of peers, 231; in the bribery of members, 317; with money sent by George III., ib.; by shares in a loan, 319; his second loan, 321; approved the Middlesex election proceedings, 405; carriage broken by mob, 425; his per- sonalities in debate, 492. Northampton borough, cost of electoral con- test (1768), 282; case of bribery from corporate funds, 343.
North Briton (No. 45), the publication of, 386; riot at the burning of, 388. Northumberland, Duke of, supported in
bribery at elections by George III., 284. Norton, Sir F. (the speaker), supports Dun- ning's resolutions, 45; his speech to George III. touching the civil list, 200; altercations with, 494.
O'CONNELL, Mr., advocates universal suf- frage, &c., 343, 346; reprimanded for libelling the house, 436; his position as an orator, 488.
Officers under the crown, disqualified from parliament, 289, 307-312; number of, in parliament, 113, 309, 311.
Oldfield, Dr., his statistics of parliamentary patronages, 300.
Oliver, Mr. Alderman, proceeded against
by the commons for committing their messenger, 422, 424.
Onslow, Mr. G., orders the house to be cleared, 412; complains of publication of debates, 413, 418; his sobriquet, 417. Orators and oratory. See Parliamentary Oratory.
Oxford, seat for, sold by corporation, 281.
PAINS and penalties, bill of, against Queen Caroline, 109, 110.
Palmerston, Viscount, his removal from office, 1851, 133; reform bill of his ministry, 381; his resolutions on the Lords' rejection of the paper duties bill,
Paper duties repeal bill (1860), rejected by the Lords, 265, 477.
Parke, Sir. J. See Wensleydale, Baron. Parliament, government by, established at the Revolution, 1; subservient to the crown, 2; constitutional position of, at the accession of George III., 14; violation of parliamentary privileges by the crown, 20, 24, 31, 39, 46, 63; the reform of parlia- ment, 115, 256, 326; the dissolution of 1807, 97; of 1830, 347; of 1831, 117, 352; of 1834, 125; of 1841, 131; influence of families over parliament, 137; meeting of parliament during George III.'s ill- nesses, 146, 173; commissions for open- ing, 155, 156, 178; second opening after King's recovery (1789), 158; adjourn- ments caused by King's inability to sign commission for prorogation, 146—173; parliament and the revenues of the crown and the civil list, 192-211; du- ration of parliament, 367; motions for triennial parliaments, ib.; time between summons and meeting of, shortened, 375; relations of parliament to crown, law, and people, 385-480; the unre- ported parliament, 410, n.; publication of debates, 413, 433; petitions, 436; publicity given to parliamentary papers, 434; relinquishment of parliamentary privileges, 446; privilege and the courts of law, 448; publication of papers af- fecting character, 454; control of par- liament over the executive government, 457; sketch of parliamentary oratory, 480; group of parliamentary orators of the age of Chatham and Pitt, 481; of later times, 485; character of modern oratory, 490; personalities of former times, 491. See Commons, House of; Lords, House of.
Pease, Mr., his case cited regarding Jewish disability, 456.
Peel, Sir R., obtains consent of George IV. to Catholic emancipation, 114; his first administration, 122; his absence abroad, 123; ministerial efforts, 124-126; ad- vises a dissolution, 125; resignation, 126; called to office, 128; declines on the "Bed-chamber Question," 129; his second administration, 131; his anti-reform de- claration, 346; character of his oratory, 487.
Peerage, number of, 229; of the United Kingdom, 235 and n.; antiquity of, 236; claims to, ib.; changes in its composition, 237; the representative character, ib. 238; fusion of peerages of the three kingdoms, 241; life peerages, 243; to women, ib.; peerages with remainders over, 244; authorities favouring life peer- ages, ib.; offer of a life peerage to Dr. Lushington, 245; the Wensleydale peer- age, 246. See also Lords, House of; Ireland, peerage of; Scotland, peerage of. Peerage Bill (1720), rejected by the com- mons, 230.
Peers, scanty attendance of, at the House, affecting their political weight, 266; social relations of, 268-271; their influence at county elections, 294; excluded from debates in the House of Commons, 412. See also Lords, House of.
Pelham, Mr., bribery to members, a system under, 314.
Pembroke, Earl of, proscribed for opposition to court policy, 46.
Penryn, the disfranchisement bill, 343; proposal to transfer the franchise to Man- chester, 344.
Pensions from the crown charged on civil list, 214-216; on crown revenues, 214; restrained by parliament, ib. 215; con- solidation of pension lists, 218; regula- tion of (1837), ib.; bribery by pensions, 308; holders of, disqualified from par- liament, 307.
Perceval, Mr., forms an administration, 90; denies secret advice to George III., 91; dissolution during his ministry, 97; his relations with the King, 98; his position at commencement of regency, 100; ob- noxious to the Regent as adviser of Prin- cess Caroline, 101; ministerial negotia- tions at his death, 104.
Petitions to parliament, commencement of the practice, 436; of political petitions, ib.; forbidden under Charles II., 437; commencement of the modern system, ib.; petitions rejected, ib.; objected to by George III., 440; progress of the system, ib.; the numbers presented of late years, 441, n.; abuses of petitioning,
442; debates on presentation of, re- strained, 443; for grant of public money to be recommended by the crown, 472. Pitt, Mr. See Chatham, Earl of. Pitt, Mr. William, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer under Lord Shelburne, 53; re- fusals to take office, 54, 55; is premier, 60; opposed in the commons, 61-70; his attitude respecting a dissolution, 63; final triumph, 70; reflections on this contest, 70-73; his relations with George III., 54, 74; furthers his views, 74; in opposition to the King on reform, 76; quits office on the Catholic question, 78; refusal to abandon that question, 80, 81; his mismanagement of it, 81; his pledge to the King not to revive it, 82; again in office, 83; with Addington, 84; evades the Catholic question, 85; his opinion on the rights of Prince of Wales as Regent, 148-151; his letter to him respecting the regency, 150; moves resolutions for a bill, ib. 154; proposition as to use of the great seal, 151, 155; in- troduces the bill, 157; his conduct in these proceedings considered, 161; con- firms the King's confidence in him, 162; embarrassment caused by the King's ill- ness on his leaving office, 163, 165; brought forward budget after resignation, 164; his doubts as to the King's sanity, on his return to office, 170; profuse in the creation of peers, 232, 233; his unfair conduct as to the Westminster scrutiny, 292; abolished some of the Irish nomi- nation boroughs, 299; discontinued bribes to members, 317; by loans and lotte- ries, 321; advocates reform, 329, 331; his reform bill, 331; opposes reform, 334; his position as an orator, 481. Pitt, Mr. Thomas, moves to delay the grant of supplies, 472.
Placemen. See Officers under the Crown. Pledges by members to constituents con- sidered, 444.
Plunket, Lord, his oratory, 487. Poole, corruption at, 281.
Portland, Duke of (1696), enormous grant to, by William III., 191.
Portland, Duke of, heads the " coalition," 55; assists George III. in opposing the Army Service Bill, 88. Potwallers, electoral rights of, 275. Prince Regent. See Wales, Prince of. Printers, contest of the Commons with, 413, 418. See also Debates in Parliament. Privileges and elections committee, trial of election petitions before, 302. Privileges of parliament. Crown, the.
Public money, difficulties in the issue of, caused by George III.'s incapacity, 179; motions for to be recommended by the crown, 472.
Public Works Commission separated from Woods and Forests, 213.
QUALIFICATION Acts, 373; repealed, ib. Queen's Bench, Court of, decide in favour of Stockdale, 451, 453; compel the sheriffs to pay over the damages, 453. Queensberry, Duke of, his rights as a peer of Great Britain and of Scotland, 239.
RAWDON, Lord, moves address to the Prince to assume the regency, 151. Reform in parliament, arguments for, 326; advocated by Chatham, 327; Wilkes, ib.; the Duke of Richmond, 328; the Gor- don riots unfavourable to, 329; Pitt's motions, ib.; discouraging effect of the French Revolution, 334; Earl Grey's re- form scheme, 336; Burdett's, 337, 338; Lord John Russell's, 339-345; Mr. Lambton's, 340; Lord Blandford's, 342; later cases of corruption, 343; O'Connell's motion for universal suffrage, 346; the dissolution of 1830, 347; impulse given by French Revolution, ib.; storm raised by Duke of Wellington's declaration, ib.; Brougham's motion, 349; Lord Grey's reform ministry, ib.; the first reform bill, 350; ministers defeated by the commons, 117, 352; supported by the crown, ib.; the dissolution of 1831, ib.; second re- form bill, 118, 352; sixteen peers created by William IV., 258; bill thrown out by the Lords, 118, 258, 353; proposed crea- tion of peers, 119, 259, 354; resignation of reform ministry, 119, 260, 355; sup- ported by the commons and recalled to office, 119, 260, 355; the third bill passed, 120, 260, 355; the act considered, 355; Scotch and Irish acts, 357, 358; Irish franchise extended, 358; political results of reform, 126, 359, 465; bribery and bribery acts since reform, 359-366; triennial parliaments, 367; vote by ballot, 371; reform, later measures for, 375- 384.
Regency Act (1751), 140; the Act of 1765, 143-145; Princess of Wales excluded by Lords, and included by Commons in the Act, 144; resolutions for Regency Bill (1788-9), 150-154; protest against, 154; proposed restrictions over the Re- gent's power to create peers, 232; reso- lutions accepted by Prince of Wales, 154; bill brought in, 157; progress interrupted by Geo. III.'s recovery, 158;
comments on these proceedings, 159; comparison of them to the proceedings at the Revolution, 160; the Regency Act of 1810, arguments against, 174-176, 180; resolutions for a bill agreed to, 176 -178; laid before the Prince, 178; bill passed, ib.; Regency Act (1830), provides for accession of an infant king, 183; for case of a posthumous child, 186; the Regency Acts of Her Majesty, 187. Regent, question as to origin and intent of the word, 152 and n. See also Wales, Prince of.
Reporters. See Debates in Parliament. Representation in Parliament, defects in, 273. See also Reform in Parliament. Revenues of the crown, its ancient posses- sions, 188; forfeitures. ib.; grants and alienations, 189; increase of revenues by Henry VII. and VIII., 190; destruction of revenues at Commonwealth, ib.; re- covery and subsequent waste, 191, 192; restraints on alienation of crown pro- perty, 192; constitutional result of impro- vidence of kings, ib.; settlement of crown revenues by parliament, 193; revenues prior to Revolution, ib.; the civil list from William III. to George III., 194, 195; settlement of Civil List at accession of George III., 195; charges thereon, 197-203; means of crown influence, 198; surplus revenues, 203; regulation of civil list, 204, 206; other crown re- venues, 197, 205; loss of Hanover re- venues, 207; Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, ib.; private property of crown, 208; provision for royal family, ib.; mismanagement of land revenues, 211 proposal for sale of crown lands, 212; appropriation of proceeds, 213; pensions charged on lands and revenues, 214- 218.
Revenue commissioners, the, first office-
holders disqualified from parliament, 307; -Officers Disfranchisement Bill carried by the Rockingham ministry, 52, 290. Revolution, The, parliamentary government established at, 1; position of the crown since the Revolution, 2; revenues of the crown prior to, 193; commencement of permanent taxation at, 475.
Revolutions in France, effects on the cause
reform, 328; his motion on the Middle- sex election proceedings, 404. Roache, Mr., opposes Mr. Wilkes for Mid- dlesex, 397.
Rockingham, Marquess, dismissed from lord- lieutenancy for opposing the crown, 20; made premier, 29; his ministerial con- ditions, ib.; influence of the crown in parliament exerted in opposition, 32, 33; dismissed from office, 34; statements re- specting the influence of the crown, 45, 47; his second administration, 51; car- ries the contractors, the civil list, and the revenue officers bills, 52, 203, 215, 289, 310, 323; and the reversal of the Middle- sex election proceedings, 406; denounces parliamentary corruption by loans, 320; his motion condemning the resolution against Wilkes, 400; moves to delay the third reading of a land-tax bill, 472. Rolls, Master of, sole judge not disqualified from parliament, 312.
Roman Catholic emancipation. See Catholic Emancipation.
Romilly, Sir S., his opinion on the pledge required from the Grenville ministry, 91; his justification of the purchase of seats, 285, 286.
Ross, General, complains of court intimi- dation, 63.
Rothschild, Baron, admission of, to parlia- ment, 455.
Rous, Sir J., his hostile motion agains Lord North's ministry, 49.
Royal family, provision for, 208, 211; power of the crown over, 219-227; ex- empted from Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act, 220.
Royal household, the, a question between the Whig leaders and the Regent, 105; profusion in George III.'s, 201; pro- posed reduction of William IV.'s house- hold, 206.
Royal Marriage Act (1772), 39, 221; its arbitrary principles, 223.
Royal Sign-Manual Bill, authorising George
IV. to sign documents by a stamp, 180 -183.
Russell, Lord John, his first motions for
reform, 339-345; his disfranchisement bills, 340-344; advocates the enfran- chisement of Leeds, Birmingham, and Manchester, 345; moves the first reform bill, 350; his later reform measures, 376, 381.
ST. ALBANS disfranchised, 361. Salomons, Mr., admission of, to Parlia- ment, 456.
Sandwich, Earl of, denounces Wilkes for the "Essay on Woman," 389; " Jemmy Twitcher," 390, n.
Savile, Sir G., his motion condemning the resolution against Wilkes, 399; his bills to secure the rights of electors, 405. Sawbridge, Mr., his motion for reform, 332; for shortening duration of parliament, 368.
Say and Sele, Lord, his apology to Mr. Grenville for refusing a bribe, 316.
Scot and lot, a franchise, 275. Scotland, defective representation of, prior to reform bill, 295, 300.-hereditary crown revenues of, 197, 205; pensions charged upon, 214, 217; consolidation of Scotch and English civil lists, 218.- peerage of, the representative peers of, 229; Scottish peers created peers of England, 238; alleged disability, ib.; rights of representative peers, 239, 240; probable absorption of Scottish peerage into that of the United Kingdom, 241.
-Scottish judges disqualified, 311.- Reform Act of, 357. Scott, Sir John, the ministerial adviser during the regency proceedings, 160. Secret service money, issue of, restrained, 203; statement of amount of, 315. Selkirk, Earl of, supports the King on the Catholic question, 95.
Septennial Act, efforts to repeal, 367; ar- guments against, 369; in favour, 370. Shaftesbury, bribery at, 283.
Shaftesbury, Lord, publishes a debate as a pamphlet, 414.
Sheil, Mr., character of his oratory, 489. Shelburne, Earl of, dismissed from command
for opposition to the crown, 24; his mo- tion on the public expenditure, 45; on the intimidation of peers, 46; his ad- ministration, 52; supports the royal in- fluence, 53.
Sheridan, Mr., character of his oratory,
Shrewsbury, Duke of, his precedent cited
as to the temporary concentration of of- fices in the Duke of Wellington, 123. Sidmouth, Viscount, withdrew from Pitt's administration, 85; takes office under Lord Grenville, 86; joins George III. in opposing the Army Service Bill, 88; re- signs office, ib.; supports the King, ib. 95. See also Addington, Mr. Slave Trade, abolition of, advocated by petitions to parliament, 439. Smith, Mr. W., his anecdote as to bribery of members by Lord North, 317, n. Speaker of the House of Commons, elected during George III.'s incapacity, 152;
altercations with, 493; increased autho- rity of the chair, ib.
Spencer, Earl, election expenses of, 282. Stafford, Marquess of, his motion on the pledge exacted from the Grenville minis- try, 94.
Stamp Act (American), influence of the crown exerted against repeal of, 31. Steele, Sir R., opposes Peerage Bill, 230. Stockdale, Mr., his actions against Hansard for libel, 450-454; committed for con- tempt, 453.
Strangers, exclusion of, from debates in par- liament, 407; commencement of their attendance, 409; attendance of ladies, ib.; their exclusion, 429, n.; presence of strangers permitted, 431.
Sudbury, seat for, offered for sale, 280; disfranchised, 361.
Sunderland, Lady, case of, cited on the "Bedchamber Question," 130.
Supplies to the crown delayed, 64, 68, 472; refused, 469; granted, 470.
Surrey, Earl of, his motion on the dismissal of the "coalition," 65.
Sussex, Duke of, votes against a Regency Bill, 176; his marriages, 226.
TAXATION and expenditure, control of the commons over, 193, 468, 473; tempo- rary and permanent taxation, 475. Taylor, Sir H., his circular letter, by com- mand of William IV., to opposition peers, 119.
Temple, Earl, proscribed for intimacy with Wilkes, 24; agent in the exertion of the crown influence against India Bill, 57, 58; employed to dismiss the "coali- tion," 60; accepts and resigns office, 61. Tennyson, Mr., motions to shorten duration of parliament, 368.
Thompson, proceeded against for publishing debates, 418; interposition of the city authorities, 421.
Thurlow, Lord, negotiates for George III. with the Whigs, 43; his advice to the King on proposed retreat to Hanover, 55; co-operates in his opposition to the India Bill, 57, 58; is made Lord Chan- cellor, 61; supports the resolutions for a Regency, 152; affixes the greal seal to commissions under authority of parlia- ment, 155-157; announces the King's recovery, 158; resists the Cricklade Dis- franchisement Act, 283.
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