against the India Bill, 66; sup- ports Pitt against the commons, 75-77; his position during this con- test, 77-79; its effect upon his policy, 80; his relations with Pitt, 81; his general influence aug- mented, 82; prepared to use it against Pitt, 83; dismisses him, 85; opposition to the Catholic question, 85-88; illness from agi- tation on this subject, 89; his re- lations with Addington, ib., 163; refuses to admit Fox to office, 90; Pitt reinstated, 91; admits Lord Grenville to office, 93; opposes changes in army administration, 94, and the Army and Navy Ser- vice Bill, ib.; unconstitutional use of his influence, ib.; pledge he re- quired of his ministers, 96; his anti-Catholic appeal on the disso- lution (1807), 102; his influence prior to his last illness. 103; his character compared to that of the Prince Regent, ib.; the King's illnesses, 141-178; the first illness, 141; his scheme for a regency, 142; modified by ministers, 143; speech, and addresses on this sub- ject, 144; consents to the with- drawal of his mother's name from Regency Bill, 146; second illness, 147; recovery, 159; anxious to provide for a regency. 163; third illness, in the interval between the Pitt and Addington ministries, 163, 161; recovery, 165; fourth illness, 166; questions arising as to his competency to transact busi- ness, 167-171; gives assent to bills, 168; anecdote of his reading the bills, ib.; Pitt's return to of fice, 169; their interview, 170; his last illness, 172; the passing the Regency Bill, 173-177; his inabil- ity to sign commissions for proro- gation, 172; difficulties as to issue of public money, 178; his civil list, 192; other sources of reve- nue, 194; purchases Buckingham House, 195; domestic economy, ib.; debts on civil list, 195-199; Sir F. Norton's address, 197; pro- fusion in the household, 198; his message on public expenditure, ib.; his pension list, 211; his an- noyance at his brothers' marria- ges, 215; his attachment to Lady
S. Lennox, 216; the Royal Mɛr riage Act, ib., 217; claims guar dianship of Princess Charlotte, 222; profuse in creation of peers, 226-228; supports bribery at elec- tions, and of members. 274, 276, 303; his opposition to reform, 83, 316; his answer to the city ad- dress on the proceedings against Wilkes, 379; objects to political agitation by petitions, 414. George IV., ascendency of the Tory party under, 112; the proceedings against his Queen, 113; his aver- sion to Lord Grey and the Whigs, 116; his popularity, 117; his op- position to Catholic claims, 118; yields, and exerts his influence against his ministers, 119; au- thorized to affix his sign-manual by a stamp, 178; his civil list and other revenues, 200.
Germaine, Lord G., his statement respecting Geo. III.'s personal in- fluence, 52.
Glasgow, defective representation of, 283.
Gloucester, bribery at, 346. Gloucester, Duke of, marries Lady Waldegrave, 215.
Gordon, Lord G., presents petitions to parliament, 413. Gosset, Sir W., sued by Howard for trespass, 427.
Government, executive, control of parliament over, 429; strong and weak governments since the Re- form Act, 437. See also Ministers of the Crown. Gower, Earl of, his amendment to resolutions for a regency, 176. Grafton, Duke of, dismissed from lord-lieutenancy for opposing the court policy, 32; accepts office under Lord Chatham, 45; com- plains of the bad results of Chat- ham's ill-health, 47; consequent weakness of the ministry, 48; re- signs, ib.; his ministry broken up by debates upon Wilkes, 377. Grampound disfranchisement bills, 323, 324.
Grattan, Mr., character of his ora- tory, 455.
Great seal, the, use of, under au- thority of parliament, during Geo.
III.'s illness, 156-158, 176; ques- tions arising thereupon, 159; af
fixed by Lord Hardwicke to two commissions during illness of George II., 156. Grenville Act, trial of election pe- titions under, 291; made perpet- ual, 292.
Grenville, Lord, in office with Pitt, 90: forms an administration on his death, 92; differs from the King on army administration, 93; the Army Service Bill, 94; cabinet minute reserving liberty of action on the Catholic ques- tion, 95; pledge required by the King on that subject, 96; dis- missed, ib.; his advice neglected by the Regent, 107; attempted reconciliation, 108; failure of ne- gotiations on the "Household Question," 110; his difficulty in is- suing public money during George III.'s incapacity, 178. Grenville, Mr. George, succeeds Lord Bute as premier, 34; does not de- fer to George III., 35; remon- strates against Lord Bute's influ- ence, ib., 38; supports the King's arbitrary measures, 35; differ- ences between them, 37; his elec- tion petition act, 291; statement of amount of secret service mon- ey, 301; the bribery under his ministry, 302; opposes Wilkes's expulsion, 372; motion for reduc- tion of land tax, 442. Grey, Earl, his advice neglected by the Regent, 107; out of court fa- vor, 112; declines office on the "Household Question," 110; ad- vocates reform, and leads the re- form ministry, 121-124, 249, 319, 320, 332; loses the confidence of William IV., 124; accuses Lord Eldon of using George III.'s name without due authority, 168, 171; regulation of the civil list by his ministry, 201; advises the crea- tion of new peers, 250, 253, 337; favored a shorter duration of par- liament, 349; character of his oratory, 455.
Grey, Mr., (1667,) reports the de- bates, 390.
Grosvenor, General, his hostile mo- tion against Mr. Pitt's ministry,
Grote, Mr., advocates vote by ballot, 353.
HALIFAX, Lord, obtains consent of Geo. III. to exclude his mother from the Regency, 145. Hamilton, Duke of, a Scottish Peer, not allowed the rights of an Eng- lish peer, 232.
Hamilton, Lord A., advocates re- form in Scotch representation, 286. Hanover, house of, character of the first two kings of, favorable to constitutional governinent, 20. Hanover, kingdom of, revenues at tached to the crown till her Ma- jesty's accession, 194, 203. Hansard, Messrs., sued by Stock- dale for libel, 423.
Harcourt, Lord, supports the influ- ence of the crown over parlia- ment, 44.
Hardwicke, Lord, affixed great seal to commissions during illness of George II, 156.
Harrowby, Earl of, supports George IV. on the Catholic question, 100. Hastings, Mr. Warren, impeach- ments not abated by dissolution
established in his case, 436. Hastings, sale of borough seat, 277. Hawkesbury, Lord, supposed ad- viser of Geo. III. against the Grenville ministry, 98; his dec- laration as to King's competency to transact business, 168. Heberden, Dr., his evidence regard- ing the King's illnesses, 170. Henley, Mr., secedes from the Der- by ministry on question of re- form, 360.
Henry III., V., VI., and VII., reve-
nues of their crowns, 187, 188. Henry VIII., his sign-manual af- fixed by a stamp, 180; his crown revenues, 188.
Herbert, Mr., his bill as to the ex- pulsion of members, 378. Heron, Sir R., bill for shortening duration of parliament, 349. Hindon, bribery at, 273. Hobhouse, Mr., committed for con- tempt, 409.
Holdernesse, Lord, retires from of fice in favor of Lord Bute, 29. Holland, Lord, amendment for an address to Prince of Wales, 175. Horner, Mr. F., his speech against a regency bill, 174. Household, the. hold.
House tax, Lord Derby's ministry defeated on, 442. Howard, Messrs., reprimanded for conducting Stockdale's action, 425; committed, 426; sue the ser- geant-at-arms, 427.
Howick, Lord, denounces secret ad- vice to crown, 98, 99. See Grey, Earl.
Huskisson, Mr., his prophecy of re-
form in parliament, 329.
IMPEACHMENT of ministers by par- liament, 435; rare in later times, ib.; not abated by a dissolution, 436.
India Bill, the, 1783, thrown out by influence of the crown, 68. Ireland, position of Church, causes alarm to William IV., 124; num- ber of archbishops and bishops of, 229, representative bishops of, ib.
Icivil list of, 194, 201; pen- sions on crown revenues of, 210, 212; consolidated with English pension list, 214. parliament of, their proceedings on the re- gency, 162; address the Prince, b.; office-holders disqualified in, 297. the representative peers of, 228; restriction upon number of the Irish peerage, ib.; absorp- tion of, into peerage of United Kingdom, 235; Irish peers sit in the commons, 229. represen- tation of, prior to Reform Bill, 286, 288; nomination boroughs abolished at the Union, 287; Irish judges disqualified, 298.-
form Act of, 340; amended (1850), ib. Irnham, Lord, his daughter mar- ried to Duke of Cumberland, 215.
JAMES I., amount of his crown rev- enues, 188.
Jews, admission of, to parliament, 428.
Johnson, Dr., the compiler of par- liamentary reports, 391, 392, 403, 451, n.
Jones, Mr. Gale, committed for libel on the House, 409.
Judges, introduction of a judge into the cabinet, 93; disqualified from parliament, 298; except the Mas- ter of the Rolls, 299.
KENT, Duchess of, appointed Re- gent (1830), 185.
Kentish petitioners imprisoned by the commons, 411. Kenyon, Lord, opinion on the cor- onation oath, 85.
King, Lord, moves to omit Lord Eldon's name from the council of regency, 171.
King, questions as to accession of an infant king, 182; as to the rights of a king's posthumous child, 184; rights of a king over the royal family, 214. See also Crown, the; George III.; Regen- cy; &c.
'King's Friends, the," the party so called, 24; their influence, 41; led by Addington, 90, 92, 94; their activity on the Catholic question, 87; against the Army Service Bill, 94; the "nabobs" rank themselves among, 270. Knighthood, the orders of, 260.
LADIES attending debates in the commons, 386; their exclusion, 404, n.
Lambton, Mr., his motion for re- form, 288, 324. Lancaster, Duchy of, revenues of, attached to crown, 188, 194, 204; present amount, 204.
Land revenues of the crown. See Revenues of the Crown.
Land tax, the, allowed twice over to crown tenantry, 208; reduced by vote of the commons, 442; third reading of a land tax bill delayed, 70, 443.
Lansdowne, Marquess of, his amend ment to resolutions for a regency 176. Lauderdale, Earl of, condemns the king's conduct to the Grenville ministry, 100, 101; his rights as peer both of Great Britain and Scotland, 234.
Leicester, case of bribery from cor- porate funds, 327. Lennox, Lady S., admired by George III., 216.
Life peerages, 237; to women, ib.; the Wensleydale peerage case, 239.
Liverpool, Earl of, his ministry, 112;
conduct the proceedings against Queen Caroline, 114, 116.
Loans to government, members bribed by shares in, 304; cessa- tion of the system, 307. London, city of, address George III. condemning the proceedings against Wilkes, 378.
London Magazine, the, one of the first to report parliamentary de- bates, 391.
Lords, House of, relations of, with the crown, 16, 17; influence of the crown exerted over the lords, 56, 66, 123, 252; debates on the in- fluence of the crown, 54-57; re- ject the India Bill, 67; condemn the commons' opposition to Mr. Pitt, 74; proceedings on the re- form bills, 122-124, 249, 336; pro- posed creation of peers, 123, 250, 336; proceedings on the regency bills of George III., 143-178; po- sition of the house of lords in the state, 223, 245; increase of its numbers, 224-228; enlargement a source of strength, 244; number of peers, from Henry VII. to George III., 224, 226; twelve peers created in one day by Queen Anne, 224; representative peers of Scotland and Ireland, ib., 229; sixteen peers created by William IV., 250; proposed restrictions upon the power of the crown, and the regent, in creation of peers, 225, 227; profuse creations by George III., 226; composition of the house in 1860, 229, n.; its representative character, 231; rights of peers of Scotland, 232- 234; appellate jurisdiction of the lords, 236; bill to improve it, 242; life peerage question, 237; Lords spiritual, 242; past and present number, 243; attempt to exclude them, 244; political position of the house, 245, 263; influence of parties, 247; collisions between the two houses, 248; the danger in- creased, 249; creation of new peers equivalent to a dissolution, 254; position of the house since reform, 255; their independence, ib.; pro- ceedings indicating their power, 256; scanty attendance in the house, 258, 259; smallness of the quorum, 258; deference to leaders, 259; influence of peers over the commous through nomination
boroughs, 266; and through ter ritorial influence, 283, 288; refusal of the lords to indemnify the wit- nesses against Walpole, 301; pro- ceedings against Wilkes, 368, 370; "Droit le Roi" burnt, 367; ad- dress to condemn the city address on the Middlesex election proceed- ings, 379; debates on those pro- ceedings, 375, 380; strangers and members excluded from debates, 386, 403; scene on one occasion, 336; reports of debates permitted, 402, 405; presence of strangers at divisions, 407; publicity given to committee proceedings, 408; to parliamentary papers, ib.; privi- lege to servants discontinued, 420; prisoners kneeling at the bar, 421; control of the lords over the ex- ecutive government, 429; advise the crown on questions of peace and war, and of a dissolution, 430; rejection of a money bill, 445; sketch of parliamentary oratory, 450.
Lords spiritual. See Bishops. Lottery tickets (government), mein- bers bribed by, 305. Ludgershall, price of seat, 272. Lushington, Dr., a life peerage of- fered to, 239; disqualified from parliament, 298.
Luttrell, Colonel, his sister married to the Duke of Cumberland, 215; opposes Wilkes for Middlesex, 374; enforces the exclusion of strangers, 403.
Lyndhurst, Lord, his motion on the life peerage case, 239. Lyttelton, Lord, his address respect- ing the regency, 145; his com- plaint against "Droit le Roi,"
Lyttleton, Mr., his motion on the
dismissal of the Grenville minis- try, 102.
MACCLESFIELD, Lord, decided in favor of rights of crown over grandchildren, 217. Mackenzie, Mr. S., dismissed from office, 40, 41. Manchester, Duke of, strangers ex- Icluded on his motion relative to war with Spain, 387. Mansfield, Lord, exhorts George III to exert his influence over parlia
Martin, Mr., his duel with Wilkes, 368.
Marvell, A., reported proceedings in
the commons, 391. Mary (Queen of England), her sign- manual affixed by a stamp, 101. Melbourne, Viscount, in office, 125; his sudden dismissal, ib.; rein- stated, 130; in office at accession of her Majesty, 131; organizes her household, ib.; kept in office by the "Bedchamber Question," 132; resigns office, 134.
Melville, Lord, his impeachment, 436.
Members of the House of Commons,
number of nominee members, 287; bribed by pensions, 295; bribery under Charles II., 299; under William III., 300; George II., 301; George III., 301-304; bribed by loans and lotteries, 304-307; by contracts, 307; wages to, provided for in Lord Blandford's reform bill, 326; abolition of qualitica- tions, 354; excluded from debates in the Lords, 388; system of pledges to constituents considered, 418; certain privileges of, discon- tinued, 420. See Commons, House of.
Middlesex Journal, the, complaint against, for misrepresenting de- bates, 394.
Middlesex, sheriffs of, committed by
the House in the Stockdale ac- tions, 425.
Military officers, deprived of com- mand for opposition to the policy of Geo. III., 36, 51; practice con- demned under the Rockingham ministry, 40.
Miller, proceeded against for pub- lishing debates, 396; the city au- thorities interpose, 397. Ministers, of the crown, responsi-
bility of, 19, 95; regarded with jealousy by George III., 21; con- stitutional relations between crown
and ministers, 25-28, 95, 125, 131, 135, 436; influence of the crown exerted against its ministers, 43, 65, 83, 94, 119; the pledge ex- acted by George III. of his min- isters, 95; supported by the crown and the commons in reform, 120, 250, 335; influence of great fami- lies over ministries, 139; numerous applications to, for peerages, 241; votes of want of confidence, 59, 74, 77, 434; and of confidence, 122, 336, 434; ministers impeached by the commons, 435; the stability of recent ministries considered, 437; their financial arrangements dissented from, 441.
Minorities, proposed representation of, at elections, in reform bill (1854), 358.
Moira, Earl, his mission to the Whig leaders, 110; the "Household Question," 110.
Morton, Mr., moves insertion of
Princess of Wales's name into Regency Bill, 147.
Murray, Lady A., married to the Duke of Sussex, 221. Murray, Mr., refused to kneel at the bar of the commons, 421. Mutiny bill, the passing of, post- poned, 77.
"NABOBS," the, their bribery at elections, 269, 272; rank them- selves among the "King's friends," 270.
Newcastle, Duke of, in office at ac- cession of George III., 11; resigns, 30; dismissed from lord lieuten- ancy, 32. Newenham, Mr., motion for address
on debts of Prince of Wales, 206. New Shoreham, bribery at, 272; dis- franchised, 273.
Nomination boroughs. See Bor- oughs.
North, Lord, his relations, as pre- mier, with Geo. III., 48; complete submission, 49, 51, 60; his over- tures to Chatham, 51; to the Whigs, 52; his ministry over- thrown, 57, 58; his conduct ap- proved by the King, 59; joins the "coalition ministry," 63, 64; dis- missed from office, 69; liberal in creation of peers, 226; in the bribery of members, 303; with
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