from agitation on this subject, 83; his
relations with Addington, 82, 84; Pitt
reinstated, 84; the King's refusal to ad-
mit Fox to office, 85; the admission of
Lord Grenville and Mr. Fox to office, 87,
88; his opposition to changes in army
administration, 89; unconstitutional use
of his influence against the Army and
Navy Service Bill, 90; the pledge he re-
quired of his ministers, 92; his anti-
Catholic appeal on the dissolution (1807),
99; his influence prior to his last illness,
100; his character compared to that of
the Prince Regent, 101; the King's ill-
nesses, 141-182; the first illness, 141;
his scheme for a regency, 142; modified
by ministers, 143; speech and addresses,
on this subject, 144; consented to the
withdrawal of his mother's name from
Regency Bill, 146; his second illness,
148; recovery, 160; anxiety to provide
for a regency, 164; his third illness, in
the interval between the Pitt and Adding-
ton ministries, 165; recovery, 167; fourth
illness, 169; questions arising as to his
competency to transact business, 170-
174; gave his assent to bills, 170; anec-
dote as to his reading the bills, 171;
Pitt's interview with the King, 172; his
last illness, 175; the passing the Regency
Bill, 176-181; his civil list, 198; other
sources of his revenue, 199; the purchase
of Buckingham House, 200; his domestic
economy, ib.; debts on his civil list, 201;
profusion in his household, 204; his
message on the public expenditure, 205;
his pension list, 218; his annoyance
at his brothers' marriages, 222; his at-
tachment to Lady S. Lennox, 224; the
Royal Marriage Act, ib.; claimed the
guardianship of Princess Charlotte, 230;
profuse in creation of peers, 235; sup-
ported bribery at elections, and of mem-
bers, 289, 291, 322; his opposition to
reform, 77, 338; his answer to the city
address on the proceedings against Wilkes,
409; his objection to political agitation
by petitions, 448.

George IV., the ascendency of the Tory party
under, 109; the proceedings against his
Queen, ib.; his aversion to Lord Grey and
the Whigs, 113; his popularity, 114;
his opposition to Catholic claims 115;
yielded, but showed his dislike to his
ministers, 117; the Act to authorise him
to affix his sign manual by a stamp, 183;
his civil list and other revenues, 207.
Germaine, Lord G., his statement respect-
ing George III.'s personal influence, 42.
VOL. I.

Glasgow, the defective representation of,

301.

Gloucester, bribery at, 372.

Gloucester, Duke of, married Lady Walde-
grave, 222.

Gordon, Lord G., the petitions that he pre-
sented to parliament, 447.

Gosset, Sir W., sued by Howard for tres-
pass, 463.

Government, executive, control of parlia-
ment over, 465; strong and weak govern-
ments since the Reform Act, 474. See
also Ministers of the Crown.

Gower, Earl of, his amendment to resolu-
tions for a regency, 179; cleared the
house, 418.

Grafton, Duke of, dismissed from lord-lieu-
tenancy for opposing the court policy,
20; accepted office under Lord Chatham,
34; complained of the bad results of
Chatham's ill-health, 36; consequent
weakness of the ministry, 37; his resig-
nation, ib.; his ministry broken up by
debates upon Wilkes, 407.

Grampound, the disfranchisement bills of,

346.

Grattan, Mr., the character of his oratory,
495.

Great seal, the, use of, under authority of
parliament, during George III.'s illness,
153, 157, 176; questions arising thereupon,
161; affixed by Lord Hardwicke to two
commissions during illness of George II.,
157.

Grenville Act, trial of election petitions
under, 309; made perpetual, 310.
Grenville, Lord, the proposal that he should
take office with Pitt, 85; formed an admi-
nistration on his death, 87; differed with
the King on the army administration, 89;
the Army Service Bill, ib.; cabinet minute
reserving liberty of action on the Catholic
question, 92; pledge required by the King
on that subject, ib.; dismissed, ib.; his
advice neglected by the Regent, 103; at-
tempted reconciliation, 104; failure of
negotiations on the household ques-
tion," 107; his difficulty in issuing pub-
lic money during George III.'s incapacity,

182.

Grenville, Mr. George, succeeded Lord Bute
as premier, 22; did not defer to George
III., 23; remonstrated against Lord Bute's
influence, ib., 27; supported the King's
arbitrary measures, 24; differences be-
tween them, 26; his Election Petition
Act, 309; his statement of amount of
secret service money; 321; the bribery
under his ministry, 322; opposed Wilkes's

expulsion, 401; his motion for reduction
of land tax, 479.

Grey, Earl, his advice neglected by the Re-
gent, 103; declined office on the "house-
hold question," 107; advocated reform, and
led the reform ministry, 118, 263, 341, 345,
357; lost the confidence of William IV.,
122; accused Lord Eldon of using George
III.'s name without due authority, 170,
173; the regulation of the civil list by
his ministry, 208; advised the creation
of new peers, 263, 266; favoured a shorter
duration of parliament, 375; the character
of his oratory, 495.

Grey, Mr. (1667), an early reporter of the
debates, 422.

Grosvenor, General, his hostile motion
against Mr. Pitt's ministry, 67.
Grote, Mr., advocated vote by ballot, 380.

157.

Harrowby, Earl of, supported George IV.
on the Catholic question, 97.
Hastings, Mr. Warren, impeachments not
abated by dissolution established in his
case, 472.

Hastings, the sale of the seat for this bo-
rough, 293.

Hawkesbury, Lord, the supposed adviser of
George III. against the Grenville minis-
try, 95; his declaration as to the King's
competency to transact business, 170.
Heberden, Dr., his evidence regarding the
King's illnesses, 173, 174.
Henley, Mr., seceded from the Derby mi-
nistry on the question of reform, 387.
Henry III., V., VI., and VII., the revenues
of their crowns, 192, 193.

Henry VIII, his sign manual affixed by a
stamp, 184; his crown revenues, 193.
Herbert, Mr., his bill as to the expulsion of
members, 408.

Heron, Sir R., his bill for shortening the
duration of parliament, 376.
Hindon, bribery at, 288.

Hobhouse, Mr., committed for libelling the
house, 443.

Holdernesse, Lord, retired from office in
favour of Lord Bute, 17.

Holland, Lord, his amendment for an ad-
dress to the Prince of Wales, 178.
Horner, Mr. F., his speech against a regency
bill, 177.

Household, the. See Royal Household.
House tax, the, Lord Derby's ministry de-
feated on, 480.

Howard, Messrs., reprimanded for conduct-
ing Stockdale's action, 461; committed,
462; sued the sergeant-at-arms, 463.
Howick, Lord, denounced secret advice to
crown, 95, 96. See also Grey, Earl.
Huskisson, Mr., his prophecy as to reform
in parliament, 353.

IMPEACHMENT of ministers by parliament,

471; rare in later times, 472; not abated
by a dissolution, ib.

India Bill, the (1783), thrown out by influ-
ence of the crown, 60.

Ireland, the position of the Church in, caused
alarm to William IV., 123; number of
archbishops and bishops of, 239; repre-
sentative bishops of, ib. civil list of,
208; pensions on the crown revenues of,
218, 219; consolidated with English pen-
sion list, 221. the parliament of, their
proceedings on the regency, 164; address
the Prince, ib.; Irish office-holders dis-
qualified in parliament, 316.
-the re-
presentative peers of, 238; restriction upon
the number of the Irish peerage, ib.; its
absorption into the peerage of the United
Kingdom, 246; Irish peers sit in the
Commons, 238. representation of,
prior to the Reform Bill, 304, 306; no-
mination boroughs abolished at the Union,
304; Irish judges disqualified, 317.-

-

the Reform Act of, 365; amended (1850),
366.

Irnham, Lord, his daughter married to the
Duke of Cumberland, 223.

JAMES I., his crown revenues, 193.
Jews, the admission of, to parliament, 465.
Johnson, Dr., a compiler of parliamentary
reports, 422, 423, 435, 490, n.

Jones, Mr. Gale, committed for libel on the
House of Commons, 443.
Judges, the introduction of a judge into the
Grenville cabinet, 88; disqualified from
parliament, 317; except the Master of
the Rolls, ib.

KENT, Duchess of, appointed Regent (1830),

187.

Kentish petitioners imprisoned by the Com-
mons, 446.

Kenyon, Lord, his opinion on the coronation
oath, 80.

King, Lord, moved to omit Lord Eldon's

name from the council of regency, 174.
King, questions as to accession of an infant
king, 186; as to the rights of a king's
posthumous child. 188; rights of a king
over the royal family, 222. See also
Crown, the; George III.

"King's Friends, the," the party so called,

11; their influence, 30; led by Adding-
ton, 85, 88; their activity against the
Army Service Bill, 90; the "nabobs"
rank themselves among them, 284.
Knighthood, the orders of, 274.

LADIES, debates in the Commons attended
by, 416; their exclusion, 436, n.
Lambton, Mr., his motion for reform, 305,
347.

Lancaster, Duchy of, the revenues of, at-
tached to the crown, 193, 200, 210; pre-
sent amount, ib.

Land revenues of the crown. See Revenues
of the Crown.

Land tax, the, allowed twice over to crown
tenantry, 215; reduced by vote of the
Commons, 479; third reading of a land
tax bill delayed, 63, 481.

Lansdowne, Marquess of, his amendment
to resolutions for a regency, 180.
Lauderdale, Earl of, condemned the King's
conduct to the Grenville ministry, 98.
Leicester, case of bribery from corporate
funds of the borough of, 351.

Lennox, Lady S., admired by George III.,

224.

Life peerages, 247; to women, 248; the

Wensleydale peerage case, 250.
Liverpool, Earl of, his ministry, 109; con-
ducted the proceedings against Queen
Caroline, 111.

Loans to government, members bribed by
shares in, 323; cessation of the system,
327.

London, city of, address George III. con-
demning the proceedings against Wilkes,
408.

London Magazine, the, one of the first to
report parliamentary debates, 422.
Lords, House of, relations of, with the
crown, 2, 261; the influence of the crown
exerted over the Lords, 20, 46, 57, 121,
265; debates on the influence of the
crown, 45; rejection of the India Bill
by the Lords, 60; they condemn the
Commons' opposition to Mr. Pitt, 67;
their proceedings on the reform bills, 120,
262, 360; the proposed creation of peers,
121, 265, 362; position of the house
in the state, 232, 257; increase of its
numbers, 233-240; such enlargement
a source of strength, 257; twelve peers
created in one day by Queen Anne, 233;
the representative peers of Scotland and
Ireland, ib., 238; proposed restrictions
upon the power of the crown, and the
regent, in the creation of peers, 234, 236;
profuse creations by George III., 235;
composition of the house in 1860, 239;
its representative character, 242; the
rights of peers of Scotland, 243; the ap-
pellate jurisdiction of the Lords, 247;
bill to improve it, 254; the life peerage
question, 247; Lords spiritual, 254;
their past and present number, ib.; at-
tempts to exclude them, 255; the politi-
cal position of the house, 257; the in-
fluence of parties, 259; collisions between
the two houses, 260; the danger now in-
creased, 261; the creation of sixteen peers
by William IV., 262; creation of new
peers equivalent to a dissolution, 267;
position of the house since reform, 268;
their independence, 269; the scanty at-
tendance in the house, 271; smallness of
the quorum, 272; indifference to business,
ib.; deference to leaders, 273; influence
of peers over the Commons through nomi-
nation boroughs, 282; and through terri-
torial influence, 299, 306; refusal of the
Lords to indemnify the witnesses against
Walpole, 320; the proceedings against
Wilkes, 396, 400; the book "Droit le
Roi" burnt, 398; their address to con-
demn the city address on the Middlesex
election proceedings, 409; debates on
those proceedings, 405, 410; strangers
and members excluded from debates, 418,
437; scene on one occasion, 418; report
of debates permitted, 434, 438; presence
of strangers at divisions, 441; publicity
given to ccmmittee proceedings, ib.; to
parliamentary papers, 442; the privilege
to servants discontinued, 455; and of pri-
soners kneeling at the bar, 456; the control
of the Lords over the executive govern-

on

ment, 465; they advise the crown
questions of peace and war, and of a dis-
solution, 466; their rejection of a money
bill, 483; relative rights of the two
houses, 486; conduct of the house in de-
bate, 501. See also Parliament; Peerage;
Peers.

Lords spiritual. See Bishops.
Lottery tickets (government), members
bribed by, 325.

Ludgershall, price of seat, 287.

Lushington, Dr., a life peerage offered to,

250; disqualified from parliament, 317.
Luttrell, Colonel, his sister married to the
Duke of Cumberland, 223; opposed
Wilkes for Middlesex, 404; enforced the
exclusion of reporters, 436.
Lyndhurst, Lord, his motion on the life
peerage case, 251.

Lyttelton, Lord, his address respecting the
regency, 145; his complaint against the
book called "Droit le Roi," 398.
Lyttleton, Mr., his motion on the dismissal
of the Grenville ministry, 98.

MACCLESFIELD, Lord, his decision touching
the rights of the crown over grandchild-
ren, 224.

Mackenzie, Mr. S., dismissed from office,

29.

Marvell, A., reported proceedings in the
Commons, 421.

Manchester, Duke of, strangers excluded on
his motion relative to war with Spain,

418.

Mansfield, Lord, exhorted George III. to
exert his influence over parliament, 32;
the precedent of his admission to the
cabinet cited, 89; his opinion on the
right of the Commons to incapacitate
Wilkes, 405, 411; accused by Wilkes of
altering a record, 399.

Marchmont, Lord, his motion on the Mid-
dlesex election proceedings, 408.
Martin, Mr., his duel with Wilkes, 396.
Mary (Queen of England), her sign manual
affixed by a stamp, 184.

Melbourne, Viscount, in office, 123; his
sudden dismissal, ib.; reinstated, 129;
in office at the accession of her Majesty,
130; organised her household, ib.; kept
in office by the "bedchamber question,"
131; retired from office, 134.
Melville, Lord, his impeachment, 472.
Members of the House of Commons, num-
ber of nominee members prior to reform,
305; members bribed by pensions, 312;
bribery under Charles II., 318; under

William III., 319; George II., 320; and
George III., ib., 323; bribed by loans
and lotteries, ib.; by contracts, 327;
wages to, provided for in Lord Bland-
ford's reform bill, 350; the abolition of
property qualifications, 381; their ex-
clusion from the House of Lords, 418;
the system of pledges to constituents
considered, 452; certain privileges of,
discontinued, 455. See also Commons,
House of.

Middlesex Journal, the, complaint against,
for misrepresenting debates, 425.
Middlesex, sheriffs of, committed by the
House in the Stockdale actions, 461.
Military officers, deprived of command for
opposition to the policy of George III,
24, 40; this practice condemned under
the Rockingham ministry, 29.

Miller, proceeded against for publishing de-
bates, 427; interposition of the city au-
thorities, ib.

Ministers, of the crown, the responsibility
of, 5, 92; regarded with jealousy by
George III., 8; constitutional relations
between the crown and ministers, 12, 92,
123, 130, 134, 174; the influence of the
crown exerted against its ministers, 31,
56, 77, 90; appeals by ministers from
the House of Commons to the people, by
dissolutions of parliament, 73, n., 120,
127, 134, 262, 360, 470; the pledge ex-
acted by George III. of his ministers,
92; ministers supported by the crown
and the Commons in reform, 120, 263,
360; the influence of great families over
ministries, 139; numerous applications
to, for peerages, 241; votes of want of
confidence, 49, 66, 69, 470; and of con-
fidence, 120, 361, 471; ministers im-
peached by the Commons, 471; the sta-
bility of recent ministries considered, 474;
ministers defeated on financial measures,
479.

Minorities, proposed representation of, at
elections, in reform bill (1854), 385.
Moira, Earl, his mission to the Whig
leaders, 106; the "household question,"
107.

Morton, Mr., moved the insertion of the

Princess of Wales's name into the Re-
gency Bill, 147.

Murray, Lady A., married to the Duke of
Sussex, 229.

Murray, Mr., his refusal to kneel at the bar
of the Commons, 456.

Mutiny bill, the passing of, postponed, 70.

"NABOBS," the, their bribery at elections,

66

284, 287; rank themselves among the
'King's friends," 284.
Newcastle, Duke of, in office at accession of

George III., 11; his resignation, 18;
dismissed from his lord-lieutenancy, 20.
Newenham, Mr., his motion respecting the
debts of Prince of Wales, 213.
New Shoreham, voters for the borough of,
disfranchised for bribery, 288.
Nomination boroughs. See Boroughs.
North, Lord, his relations, as premier, with
George III., 37; his complete submission
to the King, 38, 42, 50; his overtures to
Chatham, 41; to the Whigs, 42; his
ministry overthrown, 48; his conduct in
office approved by the King, 49; joined
the "

coalition ministry," 54; dismissed
from office, 60; liberal in creation of
peers, 235; in the bribery of members,
323; with money sent by George III., ib.;
by shares in a loan, 325; his second loan,
327; approved the Middlesex election
proceedings, 407, 412; his carriage bro-
ken by mob, 432; his personalities in
debate, 502.

Northampton borough, cost of electoral

contest for (1768), 287; case of bribery
from corporate funds of, 350.
North Briton (No. 45), the publication of,
393; riot at the burning of, 399.
Northumberland, Duke of, supported in
bribery at elections by George III., 289.
Norton, Sir F. (the speaker), supported Dun-
ning's resolutions, 45; his speech to George
III. touching the civil list, 203; alterca-
tions with, when in the chair, 503.

O'CONNELL, Mr., advocated universal suf-
frage, &c., 353; reprimanded for libel-
ling the house, 444; his position as an
orator, 498.

Officers under the crown, disqualified from
parliament, 295, 314; number of, in par-
liament, 114, 317.

Oldfield, Dr., his statistics of parliamentary
patronages, 306.

Oliver, Mr. Alderman, proceeded against

by the Commons for committing their
messenger, 429, 431.

Onslow, Mr. G., ordered the house to be

cleared, to exclude the peers, 419; to
hinder the reporting the debates, 420;
complained of the publication of debates,
425; the sobriquet given him by the re-
porters, 425.

Orators and oratory. See Parliamentary
Oratory.

Oxford borough, the seat for, sold by the
corporation, 286.

PAINS and penalties, bill of, against Queen
Caroline, 111.

Palmerston, Viscount, his removal from
office, 1851, 135; the reform bill of his
ministry, 388; his resolutions on the
Lords' rejection of the Paper Duties Bill,
487.

Paper Duties Repeal Bill (1860), rejected
by the Lords, 270, 486.

Parke, Sir J. See Wensleydale, Baron.
Parliament, government by, established at
the Revolution, 1; constitutional posi-
tion of, at the accession of George III.,
2, 15; violation of parliamentary privi-
leges by the crown, 20, 24, 31, 39, 46,
121; the reform of parliament, 117, 262,
333; the dissolution of, of 1784, 73; of
1807, 99; of 1830, 354; of 1831, 120,
360; of 1834, 127; of 1841, 134; in-
fluence of families over parliament, 139;
the meeting of parliament during George
III.'s illnesses, 148, 175; commissions
for opening parliament during his illness,
157, 180; second opening after King's
recovery (1789), 160; adjournments
caused by King's inability to sign the
commission for prorogation, 148, 175; par-
liament and the revenues of the crown,
and the civil list, 195-221; the duration
of parliament, 374; motions for triennial
parliaments, 375; time between summons
and meeting of, shortened, 382; relations
of parliament to the crown, the law, and
the people, 392-489; the unreported
parliament, 417, n.; publication of the
debates and division lists, 420, 437, 439;
petitions to parliament, 444; the publi-
cation of parliamentary papers, 442; the
relinquishment of certain parliamentary
privileges, 455; privilege and the courts
of law, 456; the publication of papers
affecting character, 459; control of par-
liament over the executive government,
465; over supplies to the crown, 486;
sketch of parliamentary oratory, 489;
group of parliamentary orators of the age
of Chatham and Pitt, 490; of later times,
495; character of modern oratory, 499;
the personalities of former times, 501; in-
creased authority of the chair, 503.
also Commons, House of; Lords, House of.
Pease, Mr., his case cited regarding Jewish
disability, 465.

See

Peel, Sir R., obtained the consent of George
IV. to Catholic emancipation, 116; his
first administration, 125; his absence
abroad, ib.; his ministerial efforts, 127;
advised a dissolution, ib.; resignation,
129; declines to take office on the "bed-