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and simple government, 227;
the ultimate authority, 227,
228; the safety-valve" and
the "regulator," 229, 230;
choice of premier, 232; ex-
trinsic check on Parliament,
234; colonial governors, 234-
236; case of George III. and
American War, 238, 239;
action of William IV., 240,
241; probable action of power
to create peers, 243; example
in Queen Anne's reign, 246;
and in reign of William IV.,
247; growing spirit of matter-
of-factness, 248, 249; new
thought and old, 250, 251,
252

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VERSAILLES, liv.

V

Victor Emmanuel, 55, 83
Victoria, 97, 99
Voltaire, 195

W

WALMODEN, Mme. de, 72
Walpole, Sir Robert, 11, 49, 72, 95,

119

War Office, 206, 215
Washington, 26, 130

Ways and Means department, 217
Wellington, Duke of, xxv., xxvii.,
Xxxiv., 100-104, 121, 122, 249
Wells, Mr., lxii., lxx., lxxi.
Wensleydale, Lord, 124
Westbury, Lord, 214

Whigs, the, 41, 42, 65, 68, 69, 151,
189, 240, 241, 243, 283, 284,
285

Whitehall, the Court at, 50

William III., 40, 55

IV., 11, 53, 83, 101, 240,

246, 247, 248

Willis's rooms, 64

Wilson, James, 216, 217
Wiltshire, 165

Working men, political power of,
xxii.; combination of, xxiii.;
danger of uneducated in-
fluence, xxix.; consideration
of in constitution, 37; Mr.
Bright and, 166; unrepre-
sented, 166, 174, 175
Würtemberg, 195

U


UNITED STATES, 3, 203, 221

ZEUS, 36

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