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,

74.

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.

See Royal House-

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.-

Re-

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,"

369.

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