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DANBY Earl, his case cited with reference to ministerial responsibility, i. 115
Daviot Case, the, iii. 245
Deaths, Act for registration of, iii. 192
Debates in parliament, the publication of, prohibited, ii, 34; sanctioned by the Long parliament, 34; early publications of debates, 36; abuses of reporting, 37, 38; the contest with the printers, 40; opposed in twenty-three divisions, 41; reporting permitted, 49; late instance of complaints against persons taking notes, 51; reporting interrupted by the exclusion of strangers, i. 82, n., ii. 51; political results of reporting, 53; still a breach of privilege, 54; galleries for reporters, 55; freedom of comment on debates, 59; improved taste in debate, 127; personalities of former times, 125
Debt, imprisoment for, iii. 31; debtors' prisons, 32; exertions of the Thatched House Society, 33; insolvent debtors, 34; later measures of relief, 35
Delegates of political associations, the practice of, adopted, ii. 269, 328, 388, 400, 408; assembled at Edinburgh, 293; law against, in Ireland, 368
Democracy, associations promoted in 1792, ii, 279, 281; alarm excited by, 284; proclamation against,287; in Scotland, 292; in the Colonies, iii. 370; discouraged by good government, 419. See also Party.
Denman, Lord, his decision in Stockdale v. Hansard, ii, 78
Dering, Sir E., expelled for publishing his speeches, ii, 34
Derby, Earl of, the reform bill of his ministry, 1859, i. 453; the rejection of the bill, 456; his first ministry defeated on the house tax, ii. 102; his ministries, ii, 216, 221, 2,29, iii, 433; persuades the Lords to agree to Jewish relief, iii, 186; his reform bill, l867, 436; his resignation, 1869, iii, 1
Derbyshire insurrection, the, ii, 345
D'Este. Sir A., his claim to the dukedom of Sussex, i. 270
Devonshire, Duke of, disgraced for opposition to the treaty. with France, i. 23; resigned his lord-lieutenancy, ib.
Diplomatic relations with the Papal Court Bill, iii, 230, n.
Disraeli, Mr., his reform bill, 1859, i. 453; his reform resolutions, 1867, iii. 435; his reform bill in the same year, 436; how amended, and its ultimate form, 437; succeeds Lord Derby as premier, 440; his Scotch reform bill, ib.; and other supplementary measures of reform, 441; his resignation, 446
Dissenters, origin of dissent, iii. 65-77; the penal code of Elizabeth, 63, 65; dissent from James I. to Chas. II., 71-77; attempts at comprehension, 76, 79; Corporation and Test Acts, 75, 77; conduct of dissenters at the Revolution, 77; the Toleration Act, 78; dissenters in reigns of Anne and Geo. I. and II., 81; the Occasional Conformity Act, 82; annual Acts of Indemnity, ib.; their numbers at accession of Geo. III., 83, n.; impulse given by Wesley and Whitefield, 85; relaxation of penal code commenced, 88; general character of the penal code, 89; extortion practised on dissenters by the City of London under the Corporation Act, 90; debate on subscription to the Articles by dissenters, 91; and admission to universities, 92; subscription by dissenting schoolmasters abolished, 93, 94; offices in Ireland thrown open, ib.; first motions for repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, 100-105; motions for relief of Unitarians, 109; and of Quakers, 112; Lord Sidmouth's Dissenting Ministers' Bill, 134; relief from requirements of the Toleration Act, 136; the army thrown open, 143; bills for relief of dissenters in respect of births, marriages, and burials, 151, 152, 188-192; repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, ii. 192, iii. 157; dissenters admitted to the Commons on making an affirmation, 177; admitted to universities and endowed schools, 195, 200; the London University, 198; the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, 199; final repeal of penal code, 200; the church-rate question, 201; progress of dissent, 212, 222; numbers of different sects, etc., 222, 223; in Scotland, 255. n.; in Ireland, 268; relations of the Church and dissent, 226; and of dissent to political liberty, ib.
Dissolutions of Parliament. See Addresses to the Crown; Parliament
Divisions, instance of a stranger counted in a Commons' division, ii. 28; twenty-three divisions on one question, 41; the lists of, published by both houses, 57; presence of strangers at, ib.
Donoughmore, Lord, his motions for Catholic Relief, iii. 131, 136, 138
Douglas, Neil, trial of, for sedition, ii. 351
Dowdeswell, Mr., opposed the expulsion of Wilkes. ii. 11, 18
Downie, D., trial of, for high treason, ii. 304
Drakard, J , trial of. for libel, ii. 336
'Droit le Roi,' the book burnt by order of the Lords, ii. 7
Droits of the Crown and Admiralty, the, vested in the crown till accession of William IV , i. 235, 245
Dundas, Mr, his amendment to Mr. Dunning's resolutions. i. 52
Dundas, Mr., leader of the Tories in Seotland, ii. 172
Dundas, Mr. R., his influence in Scotland, ii. 181
Dungannon, convention of volunteers at, iii. 314
Dunning, Mr., his resolutions against the influence of the crown, i. 52; denied the right of the house to incapacitate Wilkes, ii. 18
Dyer, cudgelled by Lord Mohun for a libel, ii. 244
Dyson, Mr., soubriquet given him by the reporters, ii. 40
EARL MARSAHAL'S Office Act, the, iii. 154
East Retford, the disfranchisement bill of, i. 414
East India, the Company allowed a drawback on tea shipped to America, iii. 352; first parliamentary recognition and regulation of, 377; Mr. Fox's India Bill, 378; Mr. Pitt's, 381; the Bill of 1853, 382; India transferred to the crown, 383; subsequent administration, ib.
Eaton, D. I., trial of, for sedition, ii. 302
Ebrington, Lord, his motions in support of the reform ministry, i. 425, 426
Ecclesiastical Commission, the, iii. 217
Ecclesiastical Titles Act, the, 1851, iii. 232; its repeal, 1871, 451
Economic reform, Mr. Burke's, i. 52, 239, 258
Edinburgh, the defective representation of, i. 356; bill to amend it, 359
Edinburgh Review, influence of, ii. 181
Education, proposals for a national system in England, iii. 412; the Endowed Schools Act, 1869, 451; the Scotch Education Bill, 1869, ib.; the Elementary Education Act,1870, 452; in Ireland, 270, 413; address of the House of Lords on the subject, 415; the system continued, ib.
Edwards, the government spy, iii. 43
Edward II., the revenues of his crown, i. 226
Edward VI., his sign manual affixed by a stamp, i. 217
Effingham, Earl of, his mation condemning the Commons' opposition to Mr. Pitt, i. 79
Eldon, Lord, the suspected adviser of George III. against the Grenville ministry, 1807, i. 111; at first disliked by the Regent. 121; condoled with George IV. on the Catholic emancipation, 137; scandalised when the crown supported reform, 140; chancellor to the Addington ministry, 198; his declaration as to George III.'s competency to transact business, 204; obtained the royal assent to bills, ib.; his interview with the King, 202; negotiated Pitt's return to office, 203; his conduct impugned, 204; motions to omit his name from Council of Regency, 205; his opinion as to the accession of an infant king, 220; his position as a statesman, ii. 119; retired from office on promotion of Canning, ii. 189; opposes the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, 192, iii. 160; and Catholic relief, 171; assisted poor suitors to put in answers, 27; favours authority, 392; resists amendment of the penal code, 397
Election petitions, the trial of prior to the Grenville Act, i. 362; under that Act, 365; later election petition Acts, 367; their transfer to judges of superior courts, 369, n.; iii. 441
Elections, expensive contests at, i. 333, 338, 354; vexations contests, 350; Acts to amend election proceedings, 449; writs for, addressed to returning officers, 450. See also Reform of Parliament
Elective franchise, Ireland, the regulation of, iii. 155, 172; admission of Catholics to, 168, 335
Elizabeth, Queen, her church policy, iii. 63
Ellenborough, Lord, his admission to the cabinet, when Lord Chief Justice, i. 103; his conduct on the trials of Hone, ii. 350, n.; a cabinet minister, iii. 392; resists amendment of the criminal code, 397
Entinck, Mr., his papers seized under a general warrant, iii. 7; brings an action, ib.
Erskine, Lord, his motions against a dissolution, i. 70, 74; his speech on the pledge required from the Grenville ministry, 113; his support of reform, 402, 404, 407; the character of his oratory, 117; a leading member of the Whig party, ii. 161; supports the rights of juries in libel cases, 258; case of Dean of St. Asaph, ib.; of Stockdale, 299; promotes the libel Act, 260, 263; defends Paine, 280; and Hardy and Horne Tooke, 307
Erskine, E., seceded from the Church of Scotland, iii. 239
Erskine, Mr. H., the leader of the Whigs in Scotland, ii. 172
Establishment Bill, the, brought in by Burke, i. 241
Ewart, Mr., his efforts to reform the criminal code, iii. 398
Exchequer chamber, court of, reverse the decision in Howard v. Gosset, ii. 82
Excise Bill, its withdrawal in deference to popular clamour, ii. 266
Ex-officio information filed by government for libels, ii. 248, 33 378; bills to restrain, 251, 255
Expenditure, national, vast increase in, since 1860, iii. 420
Extradition treaties, iii. 59
FACTORIES, labour of children, etc., regulated in, iii, 411
Families, great, the state influence of i. 8, 353; opposed by George III., 11, 40; their influence at the present day, 165
Financial policy, the present system of, iii. 418
Fitzgerald, Mr. V., defeated in the Clare election, iii. 163
Fitzherbert, Mr., proscribed for opposition to court policy, i. 29
Fitzherbert, Mrs., married the Prince of Wales, i. 269
Fitzwilliam, Earl, dismissed from his lord-lieutenancy for attending a public meeting, ii. 356; his conduct as Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, iii. 114, 324; his motion on the state of Ireland, 136
Five Mile Act, the, iii. 75
Flogging, articles on military flogging punished as libels, iii. 335; in army and navy abated, 405
Flood, Mr., his reform bill, i. 401; his efforts for independence of Ireland, iii. 315; for reform, 319
Foreigners. See Aliens
Four and a half per cent. Duties, the, sources of the revenue to crown, i. 235, 245; charged with pensions, 257; surrendered by William IV., 261
Fox, Mr. C. J., his remarks on the policy of George III., i. 49, 51, 55, 60; coalesced with Lord North, 63; in the coalition ministry, 65; brought in the India Bill, 67; dismissed from office, 71; heads the opposition to Pitt, 74; his name struck off the list of privy councillors by the King, 89; and proscribed from office, 100; admitted to office, 103; again 108; his death loosened the tie between the Regent and the Whigs, 120; his conduct regarding the Regency Bill, 181; comments thereon, 193; his disapproval of the Royal Marriage Act, 265; the Westminster election, 351; cost of the scrutiny, 352; received unfair treatment from Mr. Pitt, ib.; denounced parliamentary corruption by loans, 385; supported the proceedings against Wilkes, ii. 26; his wise remark on unrestrained reporting, 51; his position as an orator, 114; opposes the repressive policy of 1792, ii. 165, 288; and of 1794-6, 149, 320-327 iii. 12; his advice to the Whigs to take office rejected, ii. 150; refuses office under Lord Shelburne, 151; in office with Lord North, 153; his policy contrasted with Mr Pitt's, ib., n., 159; sympathises with the French Revolution, 163; attempted coalitions with Mr. Pitt, 165, 176; deserted by his party, 166; secedes from Parliament, 173; in office with Lord Sidmouth, 177, iii. 125; effect of his death on parties, ii. 178; his remark on the rights of juries in libel cases, 256; his libel bills, 260; takes the chair at a reform meeting, 1779, 269; advocates the relief of Catholics, iii. 95, 122; and of Dissenters and Unitarians, 103, 104, 108; his India Bill, 378
Fox, Mr. Henry, Sir R. Walpole's agent in bribery, i. 378
Fox Maule, Mr., presents petition of the General Assembly, iii. 250
France, the treaty of peace with, proscription of the Whigs for disapproval of, i. 23; members bribed to support, 379
Franchise, the, of England, at the accession of George III., i. 331;—of Scotland, 355;—of Ireland, 359; under the Reform Act, 427-430; later measures of reform, 450; the fancy franchises of the Whigs, 451; of the Tories, 454; franchises proposed in 1866, iii. 435; granted in 1867-68, 437-440. See also Reform in Parliament
Free Church of Scotland, the, iii. 252
Freedom of opinion. See Opinion, Freedom of
Free trade, the policy of, adopted, ii. 210, 416, iii. 412; effect of, on colonial policy, 363
French Revolution, effect of, on parties, ii. 163; sympathy with, of English democrats, 279, 281, 283; alarm excited by, 284, 360, 365
'Friends of the People,' the society of, statements by, as to the composition of the House of Commons, i. 332, 361; leading Whigs members of, ii. 64; discountenances democracy, 283
Frost, J., tried for sedition, ii. 289
Fuller, Mr. R., bribed by a pension from the crown, i. 371
GASCOYNE, General, his anti-reform motion, i. 423
Gatton, the number of voters in, prior to reform, i. 332; the price of the borough, 367
Gazetteer, the, complained against for publishing debates. ii. 39
General Assembly, the (Church of Scotland), petitions for relief from the Test Act, iii. 107; passes the Veto Act, 240; rejects Lord Aberdeen's compromise, 244; addresses Her Majesty, 248; admits the quoad sacra ministers, 249; petitions Parliament, 250; the secession, 251; the Veto Act rescinded, 252
General warrants, issued in the case of the 'North Briton,' iii. 2, against Mr. Entinck, 7; actions brought in consequence, 4; condemned in Parliament, 9
Gentleman's Magazine, the, of the first to report parliamentary debates, ii. 36
George I., his civil list, i. 233; the powers he claimed over his grandchildren, 264; consented to the Peerage Bill, 275
George II., his Regency Act, i. 168; his civil list, 233; the great seal affixed to two commissions during his illness, 186; his savings, 236
George III., the accession of, i. 9; his education, 10; determination to govern, 11-17; his jealousy of the Whig families, 11; his secret counsellors, 12; his arbitrary conduct and violation of parliamentary privileges during Lord Bute's ministry, 22; during Mr. Grenville's, 28; his differences with that ministry, 27, 31, 33; his active interference in affairs during that ministry, 31; pledged himself not to be influenced by Lord Bute, ib.; consented to dismiss Mr. S. Mackenzie, 32; the conditions of the Rockingham ministry, 34; exerted his influence against them, 36, 39; attempted, with Chatham, to destroy parties, 40; his influence during Chatham's ministry, 41, 43; tried to retain him in office, 43; the king's ascendency during Lord North's ministry, 44, 49, 58; his irritation at opposition, 45, 48; exerted his will in favour of the Royal Marriage Bill, 45; took notice of proceedings in parliament, 46; proscribed officers in opposition, 47; exacted a pledge of his ministers to maintain the American war, 49; his overtures to the Whigs, 49, 50; debates on his personal interference in parliament, 51-55, 69; sought to intimidate the opposition peers, 54; the defeat of his American policy, 56; his approval of Lord North's conduct, 58; the results of the king's policy, 59; the second Rockingham ministry, 60; their measures to repress his influence, 61, 258, 349, 373; Lord Shelburne's ministry, 62; the king' s resistance to the 'coalition,' 66-70; his negotiations with Pitt, 63, 64; use of his name against the India Bill, 67; his support of Pitt against the Commons, 78-82; his position during this contest, 83; its result upon his policy, 87; his relations with Pitt, ib.; his general influence augmented, 89, 92; prepared to use it against Pitt, 90; the king's opposition to the Catholic question, 93; his illness from agitation on this subject, 98; his relations with Addington, 96, 98; Pitt reinstated, 99; the king's refusal to admit Fox to office, 100; the admission of Lord Grenville and Mr. Fox to office, 103; his opposition to changes in army administration, 104; unconstitutional use of his influence against the Army and Navy Service Bill, 105; the pledge he required of his ministers, 107; his anti-Catholic appeal on the dissolution (1807), 116; his influence prior to his last illness, 117; his character compared to that of the Prince Regent, 119; the king's illnesses, 167-216; the first illness, 167; his scheme for a regency, 169; modified by ministers, 170; speech and addresses on this subject, 170; consented to the withdrawal of his mother's name from Regency Bill, 173; his second illness, 175; recovery, 189: anxiety to provide for a regency, 195; his third illness, in between the Pitt and Addington ministries, ib.; recovery, 197; fourth illness, 199; questions arising as to his competency to transact business, 201-206; gave his assent to bills, 202; anecdote as to his reading the bills, 202; Pitt's interview with the king, 203; his last illness, 206; the passing the Regency Bill, 208-213; his civil list, 234; other sources of revenue, 235; the purchase of Buckingham House, 236; his domestic economy, ib.; debts on his civil list, 237; profusion in his household, 240; his message on the public expenditure, 241; his pension list, 257; his annoyance at his brothers' marriages, 262; his attachment to Lady S. Lennox, 263; the Royal Marriage Act, 264; claimed the guardianship of Princess Charlotte, 271; profuse in creation of peers, 277; his expenditure at elections, 342; supported bribery at elections, and of members, 341,344,381; his opposition to reform, 91, 399; his answer to the city address on the proceedings against Wilkes, ii. 20; his objection to political agitation by petitions, 65; his party tactics on accession, ii. 142; influence of his friends, 143; overcomes the Coalition, 155; influenced by Lord Thurlow, 160; his repugnance to the Whigs, 161, 178; to Fox, 176; directs the suppression of the Gordon riots, 275; his speech and message respecting seditious practices, 1792 and 1794, 287, 302; attacked by the mob, 316; opposes Catholic relief, iii. 117, 118; and the Army and Navy Service Bill, 128; his message to parliament touching affairs in Ireland, 316; seeks to tax the colonies, 344, 347
George IV., the ascendency of the Tory party under, i. 129; the proceedings against his Queen. ib.; his aversion to Lord Grey and the Whigs, l33; his popularity, 134; his opposition to Catholic claims, 136; yielded, but showed his dislike to his ministers, 137; the Act to authorise him to affix his sign manual by a stamp, 216; his civil list and other revenues, 244, 245; his conduct on the passing of the Catholic Relief Bill, iii. 168, 172
Germaine, Lord G., his statement respecting George III.'s personal influence, i. 49
German Legion, the, Cobbett's libel on, ii. 335
Gerrald, J., tried for sedition, ii. 298
Gibson, Mr. Milner, heads movement against taxes on knowledge, ii. 382; his proposal to establish county financial boards, iii. 297
Gillray, his caricatures, ii. 265
Gladstone, Mr., separates from Lord Palmerston's ministry, ii. 219; his financial policy iii. 418; rejected by Oxford University, 1865, 429; introduces a reform bill, 1866, 431; becomes premier in 1868, 447; his Irish Church Bill, 1869, ib.; his Irish Land Bill, 448; and other measures, 449 et seq.
Glasgow, the defective representation of, i. 356
Gloucester, bribery at, i. 437
Gloucester, Duke of, married Lady Waldegrave, i. 262
Goderich, Lord, his administration, ii 191
Goldsmiths' Hall Association, the, ii, 293, 298
Good Hope, Cape of, a constitution granted to, iii. 372
Gordon, Lord G., the petitions that he presented to Parliament, ii, 64; heads the Protestant Association, ii, 272, iii. 98; presents their petition, ii. 273; committed to Newgate, 276
Gosset, Sir W., sued by Howard for trespass, ii, 82
Government, executive, control of Parliament over, ii. 85; strong and weak governments since the Reform Act, 95. See also Ministers of the Crown
Gower, Earl of, his amendment to resolutions for a regencv, i. 212; cleared the house, ii. 31
Gower, Lord F. L., his resolution of the state endowment of Irish priests, iii. 156
Grafton, Duke of, dismissed from lord-lieutenancy for opposing the court policy, i. 23; accepted office under Lord Chatham, 40; complained of the bad results of Chatham's ill-health, 42; consequent weakness of the ministry, 43; his resignation, ib.; his ministry broken up by debates upon Wilkes. ii. 18
Graham, Sir J., separates from Lord Palmerston's ministry, ii. 219; case of opening letters by, iii. 46; his answer to the claim etc., of the Church of Scotland, 248
Grampound, the disfranchisement bills of i. 409
Grant, Mr. R., his motions for Jewish relief. iii. 198. 181
Grattan, Mr., character of his oratory, ii. 118; advocates Catholic relief, iii. 123, 131, 136-141; the independence of Ireland, 313, 315, 332; his death, 145
Great seal, the, use of, under authority of parliament, during George III.'s illness, i. 182, 186, 209; questions arising thereupon, 191; affixed by Lord Hardwicke to two commissions during illness of George II., 186
Grenville Act, trial of election petitions under, i. 365; made perpetual, 366
Grenville, Lord, the proposal that he should take office with Pitt, i. 100; formed an administration on his death, 103; differed with the King on the army administration, 104; the Army Service Bill, 105; cabinet minute reserving liberty of action on the Catholic question, 107; pledge required by the King on that subject, 108; dismissed, ib.; his advice neglected by the Regent, 121; attempted reconciliation, 122; failure of negotiations on the 'household question,' 126; his difficulty in issuing public money during George III.'s incapacity, 214; the tactics of his party, ii. 176, 186; in office, 176, iii. 125; introduces the Treasonable Practices Bill, ii. 317; advocates Catholic relief. iii. 120; his Army and Navy Service Bill, 126; fall of his ministry, 128
Grenville, Mr. George, succeeded Lord Bute as premier, i. 25; did not defer to George III., 26; remonstrated against Lord Bute's influence. ib. 31; supported the king's arbitrary measures, 28; differences between them. 31; his Election Petitions Act, 365; his statement of amount of secret service money, 379; the bribery under his ministry, 380; opposed Wilkes's expulsion, ii. 12; his motion for reduction of land tax, 101; attacked by Wilkes, ii. 103; his schemes for taxation of American colonies, iii. 347
Grey, Earl, his advice neglected by the Regent, i. 121; declined office on the 'household question,' 126; advocated reform, and led the reform ministry, 139, 402, 407, 420; lost the confidence of William IV., 145; accused Lord Eldon of using George III's name without due authority, 201, 205; the regulation of the civil list by his ministry, 246; his views on the present state of the House of Lords, 308, n.; advised the creation of new peers, 311, 315; favoured a shorter duration of parliament, 441; the character of his oratory, ii. 119; the separation of his party from the Radicals, ii. 182, 199; carries Parliamentary Reform, 196; his ministry, 198-204; his Army and Navy Service Bill, iii. 127; advocates Catholic claims, 130; and relief from declaration against transubstantiation, 144
Grey, Mr. (1667), an early reporter of the debates, ii. 35
Grosvenor, General, his hostile motion against Mr. Pitt's ministry, i. 78
Grote, Mr., advocated vote by ballot, i. 446
HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION ACTS, the,—of 1774, ii. 302, 313, iii. 12; of 1817, ii. 343, iii. 16; of 1860 and 1871, 19; cases of, between the Revolution and 1794, iii. 11; the Acts of Indemnity, 12-19;—in Ireland, 19, 147
Halifax, Earl of, warrants by, iii. 7; action brought against him by Wilkes, 6; obtained the consent of George III. to exclude his mother from the Regency, i. 173
Hamilton, Duke of, a Scottish peer, not allowed the rights of an English peer, i. 286
Hamilton, Lord A., advocated reform in the representation of Scotland, i. 358
Hanover, House of, the character of the first two kings of, favourable to constitutional government, i. 76
Hanover, kingdom of, the revenues attached to the crown till her Majesty's accession, 247
Hansard, Messrs., sued by Stockdale for libel, ii. 78
Harcourt, Lord, supported the influence of the crown over parliament. i. 37
Hardwicke, Lord, affixed the great seal to commissions during illness of George II., i. 186
Hardwicke, Lord, changes caused by his Marriage Act, iii. 151
Hardy, T., tried for treason, ii. 307
Harrowby, Earl of, supported George IV on the Catholic question, i. 114
Hastings, Mr. Warren, impeachments not abated by dissolution, established in his case, ii. 93
Hastings, the sale of the seat for this borough. i. 346
Hawkesbury, Lord, the supposed adviser of George III. against the Grenville ministry, i. 111; his declaration as to the King' s competency to transact business, 201; his refusal of Napoleon's demands against the press and foreigners, ii. 332, iii. 54
Heberden, Dr., his evidence regarding the King's illnesses, i. 204, 205
Henley, Mr., seceded from the Derby ministry on the question of reform, i. 455
Henry III., V., VI., and VII., the revenues of their crowns, i. 226, 227
Henry VIII., his sign manual affixed by a stamp, i. 217; his crown revenues, 227
Herbert, Mr., his bill as to the expulsion of members, ii. 19
Heron, Sir R., his bill for shortening the duration of parliament, i. 442
Hewley, Lady, the case of her charities, iii. 199
Hindon, bribery at, i. 340
Hobhouse, Mr., committed for libelling the house of commons, ii. 60
Hobhouse, Sir J., his vestry Act, iii. 277
Hoghton, Sir H., his Dissenters Relief Bills, iii. 93
Holdernesse, Lord, retired from office in favour of Lord Bute, i. 19
Holland, Lord, his amendment for an address to the Prince of Wales, i. 210
Hone, W., trials of, for libel, ii. 349
Harner, Mr. F., his speech against a regency bill, i. 210
Horsley, Bishop, his opinion on the rights of the people. ii. 319; amends the Protestant Catholic Dissenters Bill, iii. 106
Household, the. See Royal Household
House tax, the, Lord Derby's ministry defeated on, ii. 102
Howard, Messrs., reprimanded for conducting Stockdale's action. ii. 80; committed, 81; sued the sergeant-at-arms, 82
Howick, Lord, denounced secret advice to crown, i. 111, 112. See also Grey, Earl
Hudson, Dr., tried for sedition, ii. 290
Hudson's Bay Company, the, ii. 615
Hume, Mr., his motion against Orange lodges in the army, ii. 402; his scheme for voluntary enlistment, iii. 24; his proposed reform of county administration, 297; his exertions in revision of official salaries, 386
Hunt, Leigh, tried for libel, ii. 335
Hunt, Mr., headed the Manchester meeting, ii. 354; tried for sedition, 363
Huskisson, Mr., his prophecy as to reform in Parliament, i. 416; his commercial policy, ii. 187, iii. 417
Hyde Park, meeting in, prohibited 1866, iii. 434; park railings pulled down, and riots in the park, ib.; another meeting prohibited in 1867 but held in defiance of government, 437; failure of a bill to give additional powers to government, 439; unsettled state of the law, ib.
IMPEACHMENT of ministers by parliament, ii. 92; rare in later times, 93; not abated by a dissolution, ib.
Impressment, for the army, iii. 20; for the navy, 21
Imprisonment, for debts to the crown, iii. 25; contempt of court, 26; on mesne process, 29; for debt, 31. See also Prisons
Indemnity Acts, the, on expiration of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Acts, iii. 15, 16;—Annual, the first passed, 82, n.
Independents, the, their tenets, iii. 67; their toleration, 73; numbers, etc., 222, 224, n.
India Bill, the (1783), thrown out by influence of the crown, i. 71
India. See East India
Informers. See Spies
Insolvent debtors, laws for the relief of, iii. 34
Ireland, the position of the Church in, caused alarm to William IV., i. 145; number of archbishops and bishops of, 281; lost their seats in Parliament by Act of l869, ib. n.; representative bishops of, ib., n.;—civil list of, 245; pensions on the crown revenues of, 257 258; consolidated with English pension list, 261;—the parliament of, their proceedings on the regency, 194; address the Prince, ib.; Irish office-holders disqualified for parliament, 373;—the representative peers of, 280; restriction upon the number of the Irish peerage. ib.; its absorption into the peerage of the United Kingdom, 289; Irish peers sit in the Commons, 281;—representation of, prior to the Reform Bill, 359, 361; nomination boroughs abolished at the Union, 360; Irish judges disqualified, 375;—the Reform Act of, 430; amended (1850), ib.; the Reformation in, iii. 70; dangerous state of, 1823-25, 154; and in 1828, 163; burial grounds in, open to all persuasions, 194; the tithe question, 256, 263-268; national education, 270, 413; Maynooth and Queen's Colleges, 270; Government of Ireland prior to the Union, 299; the Parliament, 300; the executive, 302; power monopolised by churchmen, ib.; supremacy of English Government, 303; commercial restrictions, 305; partially removed, 310, 312; residence of lord-lieutenant enforced, 302, 306; conflicts between the Commons and the Executive, 307; state of Ireland, 1776, 308; the volunteers, 311; they agitate for independence and parliamentary reform, 312-315, 318; the convention at Dungannon, 314; independence granted, 316; admission of Catholics to the elective franchise, 110, 322; the United Irishmen, ii. 329, iii. 322; feuds between Protestants and Catholics, 324; the rebellion of 1798, 325; Union with England concerted, 327; opposition bought off, 330; the Union effected, 333; its results, ib.; effect of Catholic relief and reform in the representation, 172, 335; present position of Ireland, ib.; and of its Catholic inhabitants, 336; the number of Irishmen on the English bench, 337, n.;—corporate reform, 290; new poor law introduced into, 408; disestablishment of the Irish Church, 1869, 447; the Irish Land bill, 1870, 448
Irnham, Lord, his daughter married to the Duke of Cumberland, i. 262
JAMAICA, colonial institutions in, iii. 340, 356; contumacy of assembly repressed, 364
James I., his crown revenues, i. 227
James II., expelled by union of church and dissenters, iii. 77; his proposal to tax colony of Massachusetts, 343
Jews, the admission of, to parliament, ii. 84; naturalisation Act of, 1754, repealed, 266; tolerated by Cromwell, iii. 73; excepted from Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act, 151; the first motions for their relief, 178; Mr. Grant's motions, ib., 181; Jews admitted to corporations, 182; returns of Baron Rothschild and Mr. Salomons, 183, 184; attempt to admit Jews, l85; the Relief Acts, 186, 187; number of, returned, ib.
Johnson, Dr., a compiler of parliamentary reports, ii. 36, 37, 50, 79 113, n.
Jones, Mr. Gale, committed for libel on the House of Commons, ii. 60
Judges, the introduction of a judge into the Grenville, i. 103; disqualified from parliament, 375; except the Master the Rolls, ib.; their conduct in libel cases, ii. 348, 349; number of Irishmen on the English bench, iii. 337, n.; spirit and temper of the judges, 391; their tenure of office assured, 392
Junius, the letter of, to the king, ii. 252
Juries, rights of, in libel cases, ii. 253-263
KENNINGTON COMMON, Chartist meeting at, ii. 410
Kent, Duchess of, appointed Regent (l830), i. 221
Kentish petitioners imprisoned by the Commons, ii 62
Kenyon, Lord, his opinion on the coronation oath, i. 93
Kersal Moor, Chartist meeting at, ii. 409; election of popular representative at, ib.
King, Lord, moved to omit Lord Eldon's name from the council of regency, i. 205
King, questions as to accession of an infant king, i. 219; as to the rights of a king's posthumous child, 222; rights of a king over the royal family, 262. See also Crown, the
'King's Friends, the,' the party so called, i. 13; their influence, 35; led by Addington, 100, 103; their activity against the Army Service Bill, 106; the 'nabobs' rank themselves among them, 335; a section of Tory party, ii. 143; estranged from Pitt, 176; coalesce with the Whigs, 177; estranged from them, 179
Knight's (a negro) case, iii. 37
Knighthood, the orders of, i. 324
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