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 a 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,
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
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; ex- 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, 478.
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. See 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, ih.; 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 of reform, 334, 347.
Rialton, Lady, case of, cited on the "Bed- chamber Question," 130.
Richard II., revenues of his crown, 189. Richmond, Duke of, his motion respecting the regency, 143; for reduction of civil list, 200; statement as to the nominee members, 299; advocates parliamentary
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
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.
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