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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, 143; 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 pre-
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, 442;
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-
ty, 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,

358.

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, disfranchisement
bill of, 328.

Ebrington, Lord, his motions in sup-
port of reform 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,
187.

Edward VI., his sign-manual affixed
by a stamp, 181.
Effingham, Earl of, his motion con-
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, 119;
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
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.

to

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.

motion, 335.

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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