army grants, 191; bribery at elec- tions, and of members, commenced under, 267, 270, 299. Charlotte, Princess, question as to guardianship over, 222. Charlotte, Queen (of George III.), accepts the resolutions for a re- gency, 155, 177.
Chatham, Earl of, in office at acces- sion of George III., 24; retires and accepts peerage, 29; refuses to re- sume office, 35, 38; his demeanor as a courtier, 45; forms an admin- istration, ib.; endeavors to break up parties, 46; ill health, 47; re- tires, 48; statement as to the King's influence, 49; receives overtures from Lord North, 51; approves the Grenville Act, 292; advocates parliamentary reform, 313; favors triennial parliaments, 349; his opposition to the proceed- ings against Wilkes, 366, 376; by bill, 380; by resolution, 381; and by addresses to dissolve parlia- ment, 380, 381, 431; condemns the King's answer to the city address, 380; strangers excluded from his speeches, 380, 387; supports pop- ular addresses to the crown, 433; his opinion on the exclusive rights of the Commons over taxation, 444; position as an orator, 451, 460.
Chippenham election petition, Wal- pole displaced from office by vote upon, 291.
Civil list of the crown, 191; settle- ment of, on accession of George III., 193; charges and pensions thereon 194, 210-214; debts in- curred upon, 192, 199; charges re- moved from, 200, 201; Civil List Acts, 1782, 199; 1816, 201; regu- lation of the civil list, 201, 203; Commons committee on, 202; no debts upon, during the last three reigns, 203. See also Pensions from the Crown. Clerke, Sir P. J., his Contractors' Bill, 322.
Coalition Ministry, the formation of, 63; its policy, 64; overthrown,
68. Cockburn, Lord, his description of
Scotch elections, 285. Coke, Lady Mary, admired by the Duke of York, 216.
Coke, Lord, an authority for life peerages, 238.
Coke, Mr., moves a resolution hos- tile to the Pitt ministry, 74. Commission, for opening parliament during incapacity of George III., questions arising thereupon, 156, 159, 177; form of such commis- sion, 177; his inability to sign commissions for prorogation, 172; the commission for holding assizes, 157.
Commissions to inquire into bribery at elections, 345. Commons, House of, unconstitution- al influence of the crown over the, by undue influence and intimida- tion, 16, 32, 36, 42, 49, 72, 94; by influence at elections, 277; by places, pensions, and bribes, 293- 309; debates thereon, 54-57, 67, 68, 117; their contest with Pitt's first ministry, 70-78; resolutions against a dissolution, 70-72, 432; against the issue of money un- appropriated by parliament, 72; against the recent changes in the ministry, 73: resolutions to be laid before Geo. III., 74; resolu- tion against interference by the Lords, 75; comments on this con- test, 78-80; debates on the pledge required of the Grenville minis- try, 96-98; action of the Com- mons as regards a regency, 144- 185; doubts respecting the issue of new writs during George III.'s incapacity, 148; elect a speaker during King's incapacity, 154 vote authorizing use of great seal 156, 157, 177; address on King's recovery, 158; regulation of crown revenues and civil list, 191-203; relations between the two houses, 248; as to reform, 249; as to taxa- tion, 443; composition of the house since the revolution, 263; its de- pendence and corruption, ib.; de- fects in the representation, 264; ill-defined rights of election, 266; nomination boroughs, 265-267, 284, 288; influence of peers in the house, 267, 289; bribery at elections, 267; since reform, 341; at the general elections (1761), 269; (1768), 271; sale of boroughs, 270-277; gross cases of bribery, 272; bribery supported by Geo
III, 274, 276: government influ- ence over boroughs, 278; revenue officers disfranchised, ib.; majority of members nominated, 287; trial of election petitions, 289; by com- mittee of privileges, 290; at the bar of the house, ib.; the Gren- ville Act, 292; corruption of mem- bers, 294-309; by places and pen- sions, 294; measures to disqualify placemen and pensioners, 295; number of, in parliament, 297; judges disqualified, 298; bribes to members, 299-304; under Lord Bute, 301; the shop at the pay- office, ib.; apology for refusing a bribe, 303; bribes by loans and lotteries, 305-307; by contracts, 307; parliamentary corruption con- sidered, 309-312; proceedings in Commons regarding reform, 313- 355; efforts to repeal Septennial Act, 348; vote by ballot, 352; qualification Acts, 353; proceed- ings at elections, 355; later meas- ures of reform, ib.; relation of the Commons to Crown, law, and peo- ple, 364-450; contests on ques- tions of privilege, 364; proceed- ings against Wilkes, 365; deny him his privilege, ib.; expel him, 368; repel his accusation of Lord Mansfield, 370; expel him for libel on Lord Weymouth, 371; his reëlections declared void, 374; Luttrell seated by the house, 375; motions upon Middlesex election proceedings, 376, 382; address to the King condemning the city ad- dress, 379; the resolution against Wilkes expunged, 383; exclusion of strangers from debates, 384, 402; the exclusion of ladies, 403, n.; the lords excluded from the Commons, 387; contest with the printers, 389; prohibit the publi- cation of debates, 390; increased severity in 1771, 394; proceed against the city authorities for resisting the speaker's warrant, 397-400; erase the messenger's recognizance, 398; report of de- bates permitted, 402; reporters' galleries, 406; strangers' galleries, b.; publication of division lists, ib.; presence of strangers at di- visions, 407; publicity given to committee proceedings, 408; to
parliamentary papers, ib.; early practice regarding petitions, 410; house influenced by the piesen- tation of petitions, 412; debates on, restrained, 417; pledges by members, ib.; discontinuance of privileges, 420; to servants, ib.; of prisoners kneeling, 421; privi- lege and the courts of law, 421- 426; case of Sir F. Burdett, 422; Stockdale and Howard's actions, 424; commit Stockdale and his agents, 425; commit the sheriffs, ib.; right of Commons to publish papers affecting character, 426; increased power of the Commons, 428; conduct of, regarding Jew. ish disability, ib.; control of the Commons over the government, 429; over peace and war, and over dissolutions of parliament, 70, 430, 431; votes of want of confi dence, 59, 73, 77, 434; and of confidence, 122, 336, 434; im- peachments, 435; relations be- tween the Commons and minis- ters since the Reform Act, 130, 436; their control over national expenditure, 190, 439; liberality to the crown, 440; stopping the supplies, 442; supplies delayed, 72, 76, 443; restraints upon the. liberality of the house, 443; ex- clusive rights over taxation, 444; power of the lords to reject a money bill, 445-450; sketch of parliamentary oratory, 450; con- duct of the house in debate, 459; increased authority of the chair, 462. See also Lords, House of; Parliament; Petitions Commonwealth, destruction of crown revenues at, 188.
Contracts with Government a means of bribing members, 307; contract- ors disqualified from parliament, 308.
Conway, General, proscribed for votes in parliament, 36, 37; takes office under Lord Rockingham, 40; disclaims the influence of the "King's friends," 41; his motion on the American war, 58. Cornwall, Duchy of, revenues of inheritance of Prince of Wales, 204; present amount, ib. Cornwall, Mr. Speaker, death of during Geo. III.'s incapacity, 153.
County elections, territorial influ- ence over. 282; expenses of con- test at, 283.
Courts of law and parliamentary privilege, 421-428; decisions in Burdett's case, 423; in the Stock- dale cases, 424, 427.
Crawford, Mr. S., his motion as to duration of parliament, 350. Crewe, Mr., his Revenue Officers' Bill, 78.
Cricklade, bribery at, 273; disfran- chised, ib.
Crosby, Brass, Lord Mayor, pro- ceeded against for committing the messenger of the house, 397-400. Crown, the, constitutional position of, since the revolution, 15; para- mount authority of, 16; sources of its influence, 16-19; by gov- ernment boroughs, 277; by places, peerages, and pensions, 195, 294; by bribes, 299; by loans and lot- teries, 304; by contracts, 307; re- strictions upon its personal influ- ence over parliament, 19, 20, 131, 247, 437; measures for its dimi- nution, by disqualification of place- men, &c., 61, 278. 295, 298, 308; by the powers of the commons over the civil list expenditure, 189, 211; and over supplies, 439; con- stitutional relations between crown and ministers, 25, 95, 125, 131, 135, 436; influence of the crown over the government during Lord Bute's ministry, 31; Mr. Gren- ville's, 36; Lord Rockingham's, 40, 61; Lord North's, 49; Lord Shelburne's, 62; "the coalition," 64; Mr. Pitt's, 81, 84; Adding- ton's, 89; Lord Grenville's, 92; Mr. Perceval's, 103, 108; influ- ence of the crown during reigns of William IV. and her Majesty, 119-140; debates upon the uncon- stitutional influence of the crown over parliament, 44, 53-57, 67, 73, 117; violation of parliamentary privileges by the crown, 33, 36, 43, 49, 56, 72; bribery at elec- tions, and of members supported by the crown, 274, 276, 303; influ- ence of the crown exerted against its ministers, 43, 65, 83, 94, 118; the attitude of parties a proof of the paramount influence of the crown, 84, 108; its influence ex-
erted in favor of reform, 119, 123; wise exertion of influence of crown in the present reign, 138; its gen- eral influence increased, 139; par- liament kept in harmony by in- fluence of the crown, 248; the rogatives of the crown in abeyance, 141-185; the Regency Bills of George III., 142-177; of William IV., 182; of Queen Victoria, 185, powers of the crown exercised by parliament, 152, 155, 177, 178; the Royal Sign-Manual Bill, 179; questions as to accession of an in- fant king, 181; as to the rights of a posthumous child, 184; ancient revenues of the crown, 186; con- stitutional results of its improvi- dence, 189; parliamentary settle- ment of crown revenues, 190; the civil list, 191-203; private prop- erty of the crown, 205; provision for royal family, ib.; land revenues, 207; the pension list, 210; rights of crown over the Royal Family, 214; over grandchildren, 216, 222; over royal marriages, 216; Royal Marriage Act, ib.; question sub- mitted to the judges, 218; opinion of law officers on marriage of Duke of Sussex, 221; attempt to limit the rights of crown in crea- tion of peers, 225; numerous ap- plications for peerages, 230; the crown receives the advice of par- liament as to peace and war, con- cerning a dissolution, and the con- duct of ministers, 430-434; ap- peals to the people, if dissatisfied with the judgment of parliament, 431; addressed by the people on the subject of a dissolution, 432; improved relations between the crown and commons, 437, 440; the refusal of supplies, 72, 76, 412; its recommendation required to mo- tions for grant of public money, 443. Crown lands. See Revenues of the Crown.
Cumberland, Duke of, conducts min-
isterial negotiations for the King, 39, 40; protests against resolutions for a regency bill, 155; his name omitted from the commission to open parliament, 157; marries Mrs. Horton, 215. Curwen, Mr., his Act to restrain the sale of boroughs, 276.
Cust, Sir John, chosen speaker, 28; altercations with, 462. Customs and excise officers dis- franchised, 278; numbers of, 279.
DANBY, Earl, his case cited with ref- erence to ministerial responsibili- tỷ, 101. Debates in parliament, publication of, prohibited, 389, 390; sanctioned by the Long Parliament, 390; ear- ly publications of debates, 391; abuses of reporting, 392, 393; con- test with the printers, 394; report- ing permitted, 402; late instance of complaints against persons tak- ing notes, 403; reporting inter- rupted by the exclusion of stran- gers, ib.; progress of the system, 404; a breach of privilege, 405; galleries for reporters, 406; free- dom of comment on debates, 409; improved taste in debate, 459, 461; personalities of former times, 460.
Denman, Lord, his decision in Stock-
dale v. Hansard, 424. Dering, Sir E., expelled for publish- ing his speeches, 390. Derby, Earl of, the reform bill of his ministry, 358; bill lost, 360; min- istry defeated on the house tax, 442. D'Este, Sir A., his claim to dukedom of Sussex, 221.
Devonshire, Duke of, disgraced for opposition to the treaty with France, 32; resigns his lord-lieu- tenancy, ib.
Disraeli, Mr., brings in a reform bill,
Dissolutions of parliament. See Ad-
dresses to the Crown; Parliament. Divisions, lists of, published, in the Commons, 406; in the Lords, 408; presence of strangers at, ib. Dowdeswell, Mr., opposes the expul- sion of Wilkes, 372, 377. "Droit le Roi," burnt by order of the Lords, 369.
Droits of the Crown and Admiralty,
the, vested in the crown till acces- sion of William IV., 193, 201. Dundas, Mr., his amendment to Mr. Dunning's resolutions, 55. Dunning, Mr., his resolutions against influence of the crown, 55; denies the right to incapacitate Wilkes, 377.
Dyson, Mr., his sobriquet, 394.
EAST RETFORD, disfranchisemeal bill of, 328.
Ebrington, Lord, his motions in sup- port of reformi ministry, 336, 338. Economic reform, Mr. Burke's, 54, 197, 212.
Edinburgh, defective representation of, 284; bill to amend it, 286. Edward II., revenues of his crown,
Edward VI., his sign-manual affixed by a stamp, 181. Effingham, Earl of, his motion cou- demning the Commons's opposi tion to Mr. Pitt, 74. Eldon, Lord, Geo. III.'s suspected adviser against the Grenville min- istry, 98; disliked by the Regent, 107; condoles with George IV. on the Catholic emancipation, 118; scandalized when the crown sup- ports reform, 121; chancellor to the Addington ministry, 165; his declaration as to Geo. III.'s com- petency to transact business, 168; obtains the royal assent to bills, ib.; his interview with the King, ib.; negotiates Pitt's return to office, 169; his conduct impugned, 170; motions to omit his naine from Council of Regency, ib., 171; his opinion as to accession of in- fant king, 182; his position as statesman, 456.
Election petitions, trial of, prior to the Grenville Act, 288; under that Act, 291, 292; later election peti- tion Acts, 294. Elections, expensive contests at, 267, 272, 283; vexatious contests, 280; Acts to amend election proceed- ings, 355; writs for, addressed to returning officers, 356. See also Reform of Parliament. Ellenborough, Lord, his admission to the cabinet, when Lord Chief Jus- tice, 93.
Erskine, Lord, his motions against a dissolution, 68, 71; his speech on the pledge required from the Gren- ville ministry, 99; his support of reform, 319, 321, 323; character of his oratory, 454.
Establishment Bill, brought in by Burke, 198.
Exchequer chamber, court of, re-
verse decision in Howard v. Gos- GASCOYNE, General, his anti-reform set, 428.
FAMILIES, great, state influence of, 20, 283; opposed by George III., 23, 46; influence of, at the present day, 139.
Fitzherbert, Mr, proscribed for oppo- sition to court policy, 37. Fitzherbert, Mrs., married the Prince of Wales, 220.
Flood, Mr., his reform bill, 318. Four and a half per cent. duties, the casual sources of revenue of the crown, 193, 202; charged with pensions, 210, 213; surrendered by William IV., 214.
Fox, Mr. C. J., his remarks on
George III.'s system of govern- ment, 52, 53, 57, 61; coalesces with Lord North, 63; the coalition ministry, 64; brings in the India Bill, 66; dismissed, 68; opposition to Pitt, 70-78; proscribed from of- fice by the King, 90; admitted to office, 93; dismissed, 96; his death alienates the Regent from the Whigs, 106; his conduct regard- ing the Regency Bill, 149, 152; comments thereon, 161; disap- proved of the Royal Marriage Act, 218; the Westminster elec- tion, 280; cost of the scrutiny, 281; unfair treatment from Mr. Pitt, 282; denounces parliamen- tary corruption by loans, 306; supports the proceedings against Wilkes, 383; remarks on unre- strained reporting, 403; carriage broken by mob, 400; position as orator, 452.
Fox, Mr. Henry, Sir R. Walpole's agent in bribery, 301. France, treaty of peace with. pro- scription of the Whigs for disap- proval of, 32; members bribed to support, 302.
Franchise, the, of England, 266, 282;
of Scotland, 284; of Ireland, 288; under the Reform Act, 338-340; proposed alterations in, 355; fancy franchises, 357, 359. See Reform in Parliament.
'Friends of the People," society, statements by, as to composition of House of Commons, 266, 289. Fuller, Mr. R., bribed by pension from the crown, 295.
Gatton, number of voters in, prior to reform, 266; price of, 292. Gazetteer, the, complained against for publishing debates, 394. Gentleman's Magazine, the, one of the first to report parliamentary debates, 391.
George I., his civil list, 192; powers he claimed over his grandchildren, 216; consents to Peerage Bill, 225.
George II., his Regency Act, 142 his civil list, 192; the great seal affixed to two commissions during his illness, 156; his savings, 194. George III., accession of, 21; educa- tion, 22; determination to govern, 21-28; secret counsellors, 24; his jealousy of the Whig families, 23- 29; his arbitrary conduct and vio- lation of parliamentary privileges during Lord Bute's ministry, 32, 33; during Mr. Grenville's min- istry, 36; his differences with that ministry, 35, 38, 40; his active in- terference in the government, 38; pledge not to be influenced by Lord Bute, 39; consents to dis- miss Mr. S. Mackenzie, 40; the conditions of the Rockingham ministry, 40; exerts his influence against them, 43, 44; attempts, with Chatham, to destroy parties, 45; his influence during Chat- ham's ministry, 47, 48; tries to re- tain him in office, 48; his ascend- ency in Lord North's time, 49, 52, 60; irritation at opposition, 49, 52; exerts his will in favor of the Royal Marriage Bill, 49; takes notice of proceedings in parlia- ment, ib.; proscribes officers in op- position, 51; his overtures to the Whigs, 52, 53; his personal inter- ference in parliament protested against, 53-57, 67; seeks to intim- idate pposition peers, 56; defeat of his American policy, 58, 59; approval of Lord North's conduct, ib.; results of the King's policy, 60; the Rockingham ministry, 61; measures to repress his influence, 61-65, 278, 295, 298; he reasserts it with Lord Shelburne, 62; resists the "coalition," 63-68; negotiates with Pitt, 63, 64; use of his name
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