Land revenues of the crown. See Revenues

of the Crown.

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.,

220.

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,

401.

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,

28, 29.

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;