money sent by George III., ib.; by shares in a loan, 306; his sec- ond loan, 307; approved the Mid- dlesex election proceedings, 382; carriage broken by mob, 400; his personalities in debate, 461. Northampton borough, cost of elec- toral contest (1768), 272; case of bribery from corporate funds, 327. North Briton (No. 45), the publica- tion of, 365; riot at the burning of, 367.
Northumberland, Duke of, supported in bribery at elections by George III., 274.
Norton, Sir F. (the speaker), sup- ports Dunning's resolutions, 55; his speech to George III. touching the civil list, 197; altercations with, 463.
O'CONNELL, Mr., advocates univer- sal suffrage, &c., 327, 330; repri- manded for libelling the house, 410; his position as an orator, 457. Officers under the crown, disquali- fied from parliament, 278, 294- 299; number of, in parliament, 118, 296, 298.
Oldfield, Dr., his statistics of par- liamentary patronages, 288. Oliver, Mr. Alderman, proceeded
against by the commons for com- mitting their messenger, 398, 399. Onslow, Mr. G., orders the house to be cleared, 389; complains of pub- lication of debates, 390, 394; his sobriquet, 393.
Orators and oratory. See Parlia- mentary Oratory.
Oxford, seat for, sold by corpora- tion, 271.
PAINS and penalties, bill of, against
Queen Caroline, 114, 115. Palmerston, Viscount, his removal from office, 1851, 136; reform bill of his ministry, 360; his resolu- tions on the Lords' rejection of the paper duties bill, 448. Paper duties repeal bill (1860), re- jected by the Lords, 257, 447. Parke, Sir J. See Wensleydale,
Parliament, government by, estab- lished at the Revolution, 15; sub- servient to the crown, 16; consti- tutional position of, at the acces-
sion of George III., 27; violation of parliamentary privileges by the crown, 32, 36, 43, 49, 56, 72; the reform of parliament, 120, 248, 312; the dissolution of 1807, 102; of 1830, 830; of 1831, 121, 335; of 1834, 128; of 1841, 134; influ ence of families over parliament 139; meeting of parliament dur ing George III.'s illnesses, 147, 172; commissions for opening, 156, 157, 177; second opening af ter King's recovery (1789), 159; adjournments caused by King's inability to sign commission for prorogation, 147-172; parliament and the revenues of the crown and the civil list, 189-207; dura- tion of parliament, 348; motions for triennial parliaments, 349; time between summons and meet- ing of, shortened, 355; relations of parliament to crown, law, and people, 364-450; the unreported parliament, 387, n.; publication of debates, 390, 407; petitions, 410; publicity given to parliamentary papers, 408; relinquishment of parliamentary privileges, 420 privilege and the courts of law 422; publication of papers affect- ing character, 426; control of par liament over the executive gov- ernment, 427; sketch of parlia- mentary oratory, 450; group of parliamentary orators of the age of Chatham and Pitt, 451; of la- ter times, 455; character of mod- ern oratory, 459; personalities of former times, 460. See Commons, House of; Lords, House of. Pease, Mr., his case cited regarding Jewish disability, 429. Peel, Sir R., obtains consent of George IV. to Catholic emanci pation, 118; his first administra tion, 126; his absence abroad, 127; ministerial efforts, 128-130; advises a dissolution, 129; resig nation, 130: called to office, 132; declines on 66 the 'Bedchamber Question," ib.; his second ad- ministration, 134; his anti-reform declaration, 330; character of his oratory, 457.
Peerage, number of, 224; of the United Kingdom, 230 and n.; an- tiquity of, ib.; claims to, 231;
changes in its composition, ib the representative character, 232, fusion of peerages of the three kingdoms, 235; life peerages, 237; to women, ih.; peerages with re- mainders over, 238; authorities favoring life peerages, ib.; offer of a life peerage to Dr. Lushing- ton, 239; the Wensleydale peer- age, ib. See also Lords, House of; Ireland, peerage of; Scotland, peerage of. Peerage Bill (1720), rejected by the commons, 225. Peers, scanty attendance of, at the House, affecting their political weight, 257; social relations of, 259-262; their influence at county elections, 283; excluded from de- bates in the House of Commons, 388. See also Lords, House of. Pelham, Mr., bribery to members, a system under, 301.
Pembroke, Earl of, proscribed for opposition to court policy, 56. Penryn, the disfranchisement bill, 327; proposal to transfer the fran- chise to Manchester, 328. Pensions from the crown charged on civil list, 210-212; on crown reve- nues, 210; restrained by parlia- ment, ib., 212; consolidation of pension lists, 214; regulation of (1837), ib.; bribery by pensions, 294; holders of, disqualified from parliament, 295.
Perceval, Mr., forms an administra- tion, 96; denies secret advice to George III., 97; dissolution during his ministry, 102; his relations with the King, 103; his position at commencement of regency, 106; obnoxious to the Regent as adviser of Princess Caroline, 107; ministerial negotiations at his death, 109.
Petitions to parliament, commence- ment of the practice, 410; of po- litical petitions, 411; forbidden under Charles II., ib.; commence- ment of the modern system, 412; petitions rejected, ib.; objected to by George III., 414; progress of the system, ib.; the numbers pre- sented of late years, 416, n.; abuses of petitioning, 417; de- bates on presentation of, re- strained, ib.; for grant of public
money to be recommended by the crown, 443.
Pitt, Mr. See Chatham, Earl of. Pitt, Mr. William, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Shelburne, 63; refusals to take office, 64, 65; is premier, 69; opposed in the commons, 70-78; his attitude re- specting a dissolution, 72; final triumph, 78; reflections on this contest, 71-78; his relations with George III., 63, 82; furthers his views, 82; in opposition to the King on reform, 83; quits office on the Catholic question, 85; re- fusal to abandon that question, 87, 88; his mismanagement of it, 88; his pledge to the King not to revive it, 89; again in office, 90; with Addington, 91; evades the Catholic question, ib.; his opinion on the rights of Prince of Wales as Regent, 149-152; his letter to him respecting the re- gency, 151; moves resolutions for a bill, ib., 155; proposition as to use of the great seal, 152, 156; introduces the bill, 158; his con- duct in these proceedings consid ered, 161; confirms the King's confidence in him, 162; embar- rassment caused by the King's illness on his leaving office, 163, 165; brought forward budget af- ter resignation, 164; his doubts as to the King's sanity, on his return to office, 170; profuse in the creation of peers, 226, 227; his unfair conduct as to the West- minster scrutiny, 281; abolished some of the Irish nomination bor- oughs, 288; discontinued bribes to members, 304; by loans and lotteries, 307; advocates reform, 315, 316; his reform bill, 316; opposes reform, 319; his position as an orator, 451.
Pitt, Mr. Thomas, moves to delay the grant of supplies, 443. Placemen. See Officers under the Crown.
Pledges by members to constituents considered, 418. Plunket, Lord, his oratory, 457. Poole, corruption at, 271. Portland, Duke of (1696), enormous grant to, by William III., 189. Portland, Duke of, heads the "coa
lition," 64; assists George III. in opposing the Army Service Bill, 94.
Potwallers, electoral rights of, 266. Prince Regent. See Wales, Prince of.
Printers, contest of the Commons
with, 389, 394. See also Debates in Parliament.
Privileges and elections committee, trial of election petitions before, 291.
Privileges of parliament. See Par- liament; Crown, the.
Public money, difficulties in the is- sue of, caused by George III.'s incapacity, 178; motions for, to be recommended by the crown, 443.
Public Works Commission separated from Woods and Forests, 210.
QUALIFICATION Acts, 354; repealed, 355.
Queen's Bench, Court of, decide in favor of Stockdale, 424, 426; com- pel the sheriffs to pay over the damages, 426.
Queensberry, Duke of, his rights as a peer of Great Britain and of Scotland, 233.
RAWDON, Lord, moves address to the Prince to assume the regency, 152. Reform in parliament, arguments for, 312; advocated by Chatham, 313; Wilkes, ib.; the Duke of Richmond, ib.; the Gordon riots unfavorable to, 314; Pitt's mo- tions, 315; discouraging effect of the French Revolution, 319; Earl Grey's reform scheme, 320; Bur- dett's, 322, 323; Lord John Rus- sell's, 323-329; Mr. Lambton's, 324; Lord Blandford's, 326; later cases of corruption, 327; O'Con- nell's motion for universal suf- frage, 330; the dissolution of 1830, ib.; impulse given by French Revolution, 331; storm raised by Duke of Wellington's declara- tion, ib.; Brougham's motion, 332; Lord Grey's reform ministry, 333; the first reform bill, 334; minis- ters defeated by the commons, 121, 335; supported by the crown, ib.; the dissolution of 1831, ib.;
second reform bill, 122, 336; six- teen peers created by William IV., 250; bill thrown out by the Lords, 122, 250, 336; proposed creation of peers, 123, 251, 337; resignation of reform ministry, 123, 252, 338; supported by the commons and recalled to office, 123, 252, 338; the third bill passed, 124, 252, 338; the act considered, 338; Scotch and Irish acts, 340, 341; Irish franchise ex- tended, 341; political results of reform, 130, 341, 437; bribery and bribery acts since reform, 341- 347; triennial parliaments, 348; vote by ballot, 352; reform, later measures for, 355-362.
Regency Act (1751), 142; the Act of 1765, 144-146; Princess of Wales excluded by Lords, and included by Commons in the Act, 145; resolutions for Regency Bill (1788-9), 151-155; protest against, 155; proposed restrictions over the Regent's power to create peers, 227; resolutions accepted by Prince of Wales, 155; bill brought in, 158; progress interrupted by Geo. III.'s recovery, 158; com- ments on these proceedings, 159; comparison of them to the pro- ceedings at the Revolution, 160; the Regency Act of 1810, argu- ments against, 173-175, 178; res- olutions for a bill agreed to, 175- 177; laid before the Prince, 177; bill passed, ib.; Regency Act (1830), provides for accession of an infant king, 182; for case of a posthumous child, 184; the Regency Acts of Her Majesty 185.
Regent, question as to origin and in- tent of the word, 153 and n. Sea also Wales, Prince of. Reporters. See Debates in Parlia-
Representation in Parliament, de fects in, 264. See also Reform in Parliament.
Revenues of the crown, its ancient possessions, 186; forfeitures, ., grants and alienations, 187; in- crease of revenues by Henry VII. and VIII., 188; destruction of revenues at Commonwealth, ib. recovery and subsequent waste
188, 189: restraints on alienation of crown property, 189; constitu- tional result of improvidence of kings, 190; settlement of crown revenues by parliament, ib.; rev- enues prior to Revolution, ib.; the civil list from William III. to George III., 191-193; settlement of Civil List at accession of George III., 193; charges there- on, 194-199; means of crown in- fluence, 195; surplus revenues, 199; regulation of civil list, 200, 204; other crown revenues, 194, 200; loss of Hanover revenues, 204; Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, ib.; private property of crown, 205; provision for royal family, ib.; mismanagement of land revenues, 207; proposal for sale of crown lands, 208; appro- priation of proceeds, 209; pen- sions charged on lands and reve- nues, 211-214. Revenue commissioners, the, first office-holders disqualified from parliament, 295;- Officers' Dis- franchisement Bill carried by the Rockingham ministry, 62, 278. Revolution, The, parliamentary gov- ernment established at, 15; posi- tion of the crown since the Revo- lution, 16; revenues of the crown prior to, 190; commencement of permanent taxation at, 446. Revolutions in France, effects on the cause of reform, 319, 331. Rialton, Lady, case of, cited on the "Bedchamber Question," 133. Richard II., revenues of his crown, 187.
Richmond, Duke of, his motion re- specting the regency, 145; for re- duction of civil list, 197; state- ment as to the nominee members, 288; advocates parliamentary re- form, 313; his motion on the Mid- dlesex election proceedings, 381. Roache, Mr., opposes Mr. Wilkes for Middlesex, 375.
Rockingham, Marquess, dismissed from lord-lieutenancy for oppos- ing the crown, 32; made premier, 40; his ministerial conditions, 41; influence of the crown in parlia- ment exerted in opposition, 44, 45; dismissed from office, 46; statements respecting the influ-
ence of the crown, 55, 57; his second administration, 61; carries the contractors', the civil list, and the revenue officers' bills, 62, 199, 211, 278, 297, 309; and the rever- sal of the Middlesex election pro- ceedings, 383; denounces parlia- mentary corruption by loans, 306; his motion condemning the resolu- tion against Wilkes, 378; moves to delay the third reading of a land-tax bill, 443.
Rolls, Master of, sole judge not dis- qualified from parliament, 299. Roman Catholic emancipation. See Catholic Emancipation. Romilly, Sir S., his opinion on the pledge required from the Gren- ville ministry, 97; his justification of the purchase of seats, 275, 276. Ross, General, complains of court in- timidation, 72.
Rothschild, Baron, admission of, to parliament, 428.
Rous, Sir J., his hostile motion against Lord North's ministry,
Royal family, provision for, 205, 207; power of the crown over, 214–222; exempted from Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act, 216.
Royal household, the, a question be- tween the Whig leaders and the Regent, 110; profusion in George III.'s, 197; proposed reduction of William IV.'s household, 203. Royal Marriage Act (1772), 49, 217; its arbitrary principles, 218. Royal Sign-Manual Bill, authorizing George IV. to sign documents by a stamp, 179-181. Russell, Lord John, his first motions for reform, 323-329; his disfran- chisement bills, 324-328; advo- cates the enfranchisement of Leeds, Birmingham, and Man- chester, 329; moves the first re- form bill, 330; his later reform measures, 356, 360.
ST. ALBANS disfranchised, 343. Salomons, Mr., admission of, to Par- liament, 429.
Sandwich, Earl of, denounces Wilkes for the "Essay on Woman," 368 "Jemmy Twitcher," 369, n. Savile, Sir G., his motion condemn- ing the resolution against Wilkes,
377; his bills to secure the rights of electors, 382. Sawbridge, Mr., his motion for re- form, 317; for shortening duration of parliament, 349.
Say and Sele, Lord, his apology to Mr. Grenville for refusing a bribe,
Scot and lot, a franchise, 266. Scotland, defective representation of, prior to reform bill, 283, 288. hereditary crown revenues of, 194, 201; pensions charged upon, 210, 213; consolidation of Scotch and English civil lists, 214. peer- age of, the representative peers of, 224; Scottish peers created peers of England, 232; alleged disa- bility. 233; rights of representa- tive peers, ib., 234; probable ab- sorption of Scottish peerage into that of the United Kingdom, 235.
- Scottish judges disqualified, 298. Reform Act of, 339. Scott, Sir John, the ministerial ad- viser during the regency proceed- ings, 160.
Secret service money, issue of, re- strained, 199; statement of amount of, 302.
Selkirk, Earl of, supports the King on the Catholic question, 100. Septennial Act, efforts to repeal, 348; arguments against, 349; in favor,
Shaftesbury, bribery at, 273. Shaftesbury, Lord, publishes a de- bate as a pamphlet, 390. Sheil, Mr., character of his oratory, 458.
Shelburne, Earl of, dismissed from command for opposition to the crown, 36; his motion on the pub- lic expenditure, 55; on the in- timidation of peers, 56; his ad- ministration, 62; supports the roy- al influence, ib.
Sheridan, Mr., character of his ora- tory, 453.
Shrewsbury, Duke of, his precedent
cited as to the temporary concen- tration of offices in the Duke of Wellington, 127.
Sidmouth, Viscount, withdrew from
Pitt's administration, 91; takes office under Lord Grenville, 92; joins George III. in opposing the Army Service Bill, 94; resigns of-
Stockdale, Mr., his actions against
Hansard for libel, 424-428; com- mitted for contempt, 427. Strangers, exclusion of, from de- bates in parliament, 384; com- mencement of their attendance, 386; attendance of ladies, ib.; their exclusion, ib., n.; presence of strangers permitted, 406. Sudbury, seat for, offered for sale 270; disfranchised, 343. Sunderland, Lady, case of, cited on the "Bedchamber Question," 133. Supplies to the crown delayed, 73, 76, 413; refused, 440; granted, 441.
Surrey, Earl of, his motion on the dismissal of the "coalition," 73. Sussex, Duke of, votes against a Regency Bill, 175; his marriages, 221.
TAXATION and expenditure, control of the commons over, 191, 439, 444; temporary and permanent taxation, 446.
Taylor, Sir H., his circular letter, by command of William IV., to op position peers, 124.
Temple, Earl, proscribed for intima- cy with Wilkes, 36; agent in the exertion of the crown influence against India Bill, 66, 67; em- ployed to dismiss the coalition," 69; accepts and resigns office, ib.
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