ABERCORN, Earl of, his rights as peer of
Great Britain and of Scotland, 239.
Abercromby, Mr., his motion on Scotch
representation, 298.

Aberdeen, Earl of, the Reform Bill of his
ministry, 377.

A'Court, Colonel, deprived of command for
votes in parliament, 24.

Addington, Mr., mediates between Geo. III.

and Pitt on the Catholic question, 80,
81; forms an administration, 81; official
difficulties caused by the King's illness
at this juncture, 163-165; his relations
with the King, 82; resigns office, 83;
leads the "King's friends," 84; takes
office under Pitt, ib.; made a peer, ib.; his
declaration as to the King's competency
for business, 167; permits debate on
notice of motion, 334, n. See Sidmouth,
Viscount.

Addresses to the crown, from parliament,
respecting peace and war, or the dis-
solution of parliament, 458, 459; from
the people, for a dissolution, 460; Lord
Camden's opinion, 461; this right af-
firmed by vote of the Commons, ib.
Admiralty Court, judge of, disqualified
from parliament, 311.

Althorp, Lord, the Melbourne ministry dis-
missed, on his removal from the Com-
mons, 121.

American colonies, the war with, stopped
by the Commons, 48, 458.
Anne, Queen, land revenues at her accession,
192; their alienation restrained, ib.; her
civil list and debts, 194; increase of peer-
age, during her reign, 229; created twelve
peers in one day, ib.; holders of offices
disqualified by Act of Settlement, 308;
popular addresses to, praying a dissolu-
tion, 461.

Appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords'
bill, 249.

Appropriation of grants by parliament, re-
solution against issue of unappropriated
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money, 64; commencement of the sys-
tem, 469; misappropriation of grants by
Chas. II., 194.

Arcot, Nabob of, represented in parliament
by several members, 330.

Army and Navy Service Bill opposed by
Geo. III., 87; withdrawn, 89.
Assizes, commission for holding, issued
during Geo. III.'s incapacity, 157.

BAKER, Mr., his motion against Geo. III.'s
secret counsellors, 58.

Ballot, vote by, motions for adoption of,
346, 371.

Baronetage, past and present numbers of,

269.

Barré, Colonel, deprived of command for
votes in parliament, 24; resigns his com-
mission, 40; passed over in a brevet, ib.
"Bedchamber Question, the," 128.
Bedford, Duke of, remonstrates against Lord
Bute's influence, 28.

Berkeley, Mr. H., his motions for the ballot,
373.

Bishops, their number in the House, 249;
attempts to exclude them, 250; their
present position, 252; their votes upon
the Reform Bill, 258, 259; Irish repre-
sentative bishops, 234.

Blandford, Marquess of, his schemes of re-
form, 342.

Bolingbroke, Lord, his theory of "a patriot
king," 10.

Boroughs, different rights of election in,
275, 295; nomination boroughs, 274, 276,
295, 299, 300; numbers of voters in, 276,
295, 300; seats for, bought or rented,
280, 287; advertised for sale, 280; prices
of, 281, 282, 286, 287, 305; law passed
against the sale of boroughs, 287; go-
vernment boroughs, 288.
"Borough-brokers," 282.

Boyer, reports debates in parliament, 415.
Brand, Mr., his motion against the pledge
required of the Grenville ministry, 90.

Bribery at elections, prior to parliamentary
reform, 277; commenced in reign of
Charles II., ib.; supported by George III.,
284, 286; acts to restrain, 277, 280,
284. 287; bribery since the Reform Act,
359; later bribery acts, 362-365; proof
of agency, 362; inquiry by commission,
363; gross cases, 364; travelling ex-
penses, 365; policy of legislation, 366.
Bribery of members of parliament. See
Members of the House of Commons.
Brougham, Lord, his motion against influ-
ence of the crown, 112; opinion on life
peerages, 245; advises, as chancellor, the
creation of new peers, 259; his motion
for reform, 349; on the duration of par-
liament, 368.

Buckingham, Marquess of, refuses to trans-
mit the Irish address to the Prince of
Wales, 162.

Burdett, Sir F., his schemes of reform, 337,

338; committed for contempt, 435; re-
sists the warrant, 449; apprehended by
force, ib.; brings actions for redress, 450.
Burgage tenure, franchise, 275.
Burke, Mr., his scheme of economic reform,

44, 200, 216; drew up the prince's reply
to Pitt's scheme of a regency, 153; his
proposal for sale of crown lands, 212; for
reduction of pension list, 215; opposes
parliamentary reform, 335; his ideal of
representation, 383; opposes Wilkes's
expulsion, 394; his remarks on pledges to
constituents, 444; character of his oratory,
482, 492.

Bute, county, absurd case of election for,

297.

Bute, Earl of, his unconstitutional instruc-
tions to George III., 9; aids his personal
interference in government, 16; his rapid
rise, 18; becomes premier, 19; arbitrary
conduct, ib. 20; and parliamentary
bribery, 314, 317; his fall, 21; secret in-
fluence over the King, 22, 27, 29; re-
tires from court, 24.

CABINET, the, admission of a judge to seat
in, 86; all the offices in, held by the
Duke of Wellington, 123; the interior
cabinet of George III., 11.
Calcraft, Mr., deprived of office for opposi-
tion to court policy, 25.
Camden, Lord, disapproves the Middlesex

election proceedings, 398, 404; defends
his conduct in the cabinet, 401; opinion
on popular addresses to the crown, 461.
Campbell, Lord, his opinion on life peer-
ages, 245.

Canning, Mr., his conduct regarding the
Catholic question, 80, 93, 113; in office

under Mr. Perceval, 92; overtures to,
from the court, 104; declines to support
George IV. against his Queen, 108,111, n.;
character of his oratory, 486.
Carlton House, the cost of, 210.
Carmarthen, Marquess of, proscribed for
opposition to court policy, 46.

Caroline, Queen (of George IV.), proceed-
ings against, 107-111; the Divorce Bill,
109; withdrawn, 110.

Catholic Emancipation, opposition to, by
George III., 78, 89; by George IV., 113;
measure carried, 115; a plea for parlia-
mentary reform, 342.

Cavendish, Lord J., his motion on the
American war, 48.

Cavendish, Sir H., reports the Commons'
debates (1768-1774), 410, n.
Chancellor, Lord. See Great Seal, the.
Charles I., alienates the crown lands, 190.
Charles II., crown revenues recovered at
accession of, 190; subsequent waste, 191;
appropriates army grants, 194; bribery
at elections, and of members, commenced
under, 277, 280, 312.
Charlotte, Princess, question as to guar-
dianship over, 227.

Charlotte, Queen (of George III.), accepts

the resolutions for a regency, 155, 178.
Chatham, Earl of, in office at accession of

George III., 11; retires and accepts peer-
age, 17; refuses to resume office, 23, 27;
his demeanour as a courtier, 34; forms an
administration, ib.; endeavours to break
up parties, ib.; ill health, 36; retires,
37; statement as to the King's influence,
38; receives overtures from Lord North,
41; approves the Grenville Act, 304;
advocates parliamentary reform, 327;
favours triennial parliaments, 368; his
opposition to the proceedings against
Wilkes, 387, 398; by bill, 403; by re-
solution, 404; and by addresses to dis-
solve parliament, 403, 404, 459; con-
demns the King's answer to the city
address, 403; strangers excluded from
his speeches, 403, 410; supports popular
addresses to the crown, 461; his opinion
on the exclusive rights of the Commons
over taxation, 473; position as an orator
481, 491.

Chippenham election petition, Walpole dis-
placed from office by vote upon, 303.
Civil list of the crown, 194; settlement of,
on accession of George III., 195; charges
and pensions thereon, 197, 214-218;
debts incurred upon, 194, 203; charges
removed from, 204, 205; Civil List Acts,
1782, 202; 1816, 204; regulation of the
civil list, 204, 206; Commons committee

on, 205; no debts upon, during the last
three reigns, 206. See also Pensions from
the Crown.

Clerke, Sir P. J., his Contractors' Bill, 322.
Coalition Ministry, the formation of, 53;
its policy, 55; overthrown, 60.
Cockburn, Lord, his description of Scotch
elections, 296.

Coke, Lady Mary, admired by the Duke of
York, 220.

Coke, Lord, an authority for life peerages,
244.

Coke, Mr., moves a resolution hostile to the

Pitt ministry, 66.

Commission, for opening parliament during

incapacity of George III., questions aris-
ing thereupon, 155, 159, 178; form of
such commission, 178; his inability to
sign commissions for prorogation, 173; the
commission for holding assizes, 157.
Commissions to inquire into bribery at
elections, 363.

Commons, House of, unconstitutional influ-

ence of the crown over the, by undue in-
fluence and intimidation, 3, 20, 24, 31,
39, 63, 88; by influence at elections,
288; by places, pensions, and bribes, 306
-323; debates thereon, 44-47, 58,
59, 112; their contest with Pitt's first
ministry, 61-70; resolutions against a
dissolution, 62, 63, 460; against the
issue of money unappropriated by parlia
ment, 64; against the recent changes in
the ministry, 65; resolutions to be laid
before Geo. III., 66; resolution against
interference by the Lords, 67; comments
on this contest, 70-73; debates on the
pledge required of the Grenville ministry,
90-93; action of the Commons as re-
gards a regency, 142-187; doubts re-
specting the issue of new writs during
George III.'s incapacity, 147; elect a
speaker during King's incapacity, 153;
vote authorising use of great seal, 155,
156, 178; address on King's recovery, 158;
regulation of crown revenues and civil
list, 194-205; relations between the
two houses, 255; as to reform, 256; as to
taxation, 472; composition of the house
since the revolution, 272; its dependence
and corruption, ib.; defects in the repre-
sentation, 273; ill-defined rights of elec-
tion, 275; nomination boroughs, 274-
277, 295, 299; influence of peers in the
house, 277, 300; bribery at elections,
277; since reform, 359; at the general
elections (1761), 279; (1768), 281; sale
of boroughs, 280-287; gross cases of
bribery, 282; bribery supported by Geo.
III., 284, 286; government influence

over boroughs, 288; revenue officers dis-
franchised, ib.; majority of members no-
minated, 299; trial of election petitions,
301; by committee of privileges, 302; at
the bar of the house, ib.; the Grenville
Act, 303; corruption of members, 306-
323; by places and pensions, 306; mea-
sures to disqualify placemen and pen-
sioners, 307; number of, in parliament,
310; judges disqualified, 311; bribes to
members, 312-317; under Lord Bute,
314; the shop at the pay-office, 315;
apology for refusing a bribe, 316; bribes
by loans and lotteries, 318-321; by
contracts, 321; parliamentary corruption
considered, 323-326; proceedings in
Commons regarding reform, 327-375;
efforts to repeal Septennial Act, 367;
vote by ballot, 371; qualification Acts,
373; proceedings at elections, 375; later
measures of reform, ib.; relation of the
Commons to Crown, law, and people, 385
-480; contests on questions of privilege,
385; proceedings against Wilkes, 386;
deny him his privilege, ib.; expel him,
389; repel his accusation of Lord Mans-
field, 392; expel him for libel on Lord
Weymouth, 393; his re-elections declared
void, 396; Luttrell seated by the house,
397; motions upon Middlesex election pro-
ceedings, 399, 405; address to the King
condemning the city address, 402; the
resolution against Wilkes expunged, 406;
exclusion of strangers from debates, 407,
428; the exclusion of ladies, 429, n.; the
lords excluded from the Commons, 411;
contest with the printers, 413; prohibit
the publication of debates, 414; increased
severity in 1771, 418; proceed against
the city authorities for resisting the
speaker's warrant, 422-425; erase the
messenger's recognisance, 423; report of
debates permitted, 427; reporters' galle-
ries, 431; strangers' galleries, ib.; publi-
cation of division lists, 432; presence of
strangers at divisions, 433; publicity
given to committee proceedings, ib.; to
parliamentary papers, 434; early prac-
tice regarding petitions, 436; house in-
fluenced by the presentation of petitions,
438; debates on, restrained, 443; pledges
by members, 444; discontinuance of pri-
vileges, 446; to servants, ib.; of priso-
ners kneeling, 447; privilege and the
courts of law, 448-454; case of Sir F.
Burdett, 449; Stockdale and Howard's
actions, 450; commit Stockdale and his
agents, 452; commit the sheriffs, ib.;
right of Commons to publish papers af-
fecting character, 454; increased power