Liverpool, Earl of, his ministry, i.

128; conducted the proceedings
against Queen Caroline, 130; his
administration, ii. 182, 187; dis-
union of the Tories on his death,
189; his ministry and the Cath-
olic question, iii. 140
Loans to government, members
bribed by shares in, i. 382; ces-
sation of the system, 386
Local government, the basis of con-
stitutional freedom, iii. 275;
vestries, open and select, 276;
Vestry Acts, ib., 277; municipal
corporations before and after re-
form, 278-294; local boards,
296; courts of quarter sessions,
297
Logan, the Rev., his defence of

Warren Hastings, ii. 259
London, city of, address George III.
condemning the proceedings
against Wilkes, ii. 20
London, Corporation of, extortion
practised by, on dissenters, iii.
90; address of the Common
Council on the Manchester mas-
sacre, ii. 356; schemes for its re-
form, iii. 286
London Corresponding Society, the,

ii. 282, 283; reported on by a
secret committee, 302; trial of
members of, for high treason, 307;
inflames public discontent, 315;
calls a meeting at Copenhagen
House, ib.; address on an attack

LOR

on George III., 324; increased
activity of, 328; suppressed by
Act, 329

London Magazine, the, one of the
first to report parliamentary de-
bates, ii, 36

London University, founded, iii. 198
Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, the

residence of, enforced, iii. 306
Lords, House of, relations of, with
the crown, i. 2, 307; the influence
of the crown exerted over the
Lords, 23, 54, 66, 143, 312; de-
bates on the influence of the
crown, 52; rejection of the
India Bill by the Lords, 71; they
condemn the Commons' opposi-
tion to Mr. Pitt, 79; their pro-
ceedings on the reform bills, 142,
308, 424; the proposed creation
of peers, 143, 312, 426; position
of the house in the state, 273,
302; increase of its numbers,
274-282; such enlargement a
source of strength, 303; twelve
peers created in one day by
Queen Anne, 274; the represen-
tative peers of Scotland and Ire-
land, ib., 280; proposed restric-
tions upon the power of the
crown, and the regent, in the cre-
ation of peers, 275, 278; pro-
fuse creations by George III.,
277; composition of the house in
1860, 282; its representative
character, 285; the rights of peers
of Scotland, 286; the appellate ju-
risdiction of the Lords, 290; bill
to improve it, 298; the life-peer-
age question, 291; Lords spiri-
tual, 299; their past and present
number, ib.; attempts to exclude
them, 300; the political position
of the house, 302; the influence
of parties, 305; collisions between
the two houses, 306; the danger.
now increased, 307; the creation
of sixteen peers by William IV.,
309; creation of new peers
equivalent to a dissolution, 315;

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position of the house since re-
form, 316; their independence,
317; the scanty attendance in
the house, 320; smallness of the
quorum, 321; indifference to
business, ib.; deference to lead-
ers, ib.; influence of peers over
the Commons through nomina-
tion boroughs, 333; and through
territorial influence, 353, 362;
refusal of the Lords to indemnify
the witnesses against Walpole,
378; the proceedings against
Wilkes, ii. 5, 10; the book
'Droit le Roi' burnt, 7; their
address to condemn the city ad-
dress on the Middlesex election
proceedings, 21; debates on those
proceedings, 16, 22; strangers
and members excluded from de-
bates, 30, 52; scene on one oc-
casion, 31; report of debates
permitted, 49, 54; presence of
strangers at divisions, 57; pub-
licity given to committee pro-
ceedings, 58; to parliamentary
papers, ib.; the privilege to ser-
vants discontinued, 73; and of

MAN

Tories, i1. 166; prompts the
pressive policy of the gove
ment, 286
Luddites, the, outrages of, ii. 34 Ti
Ludgershall, price of seat, i. 339
Lunatics, a state provision for,

409

Lushington, Dr., a life peerag
offered to, i. 294; disqualifia
from parliament, 317
Luttrell, Colonel, his sister mar
ried to the Duke of Cumberland
i. 262; opposed Wilkes for Mid
dlesex, ii. 14; enforced the exclu
sion of reporters, 51
Lyndhurst, Lord, his motion on the
life-peerage case, i. 295; brought
in the Dissenters' Chapels Bill,
iii. 200

Lyttelton, Lord, his address res
pecting the regency, i. 172; his
complaint against the book
called Droit le Roi,' ii. 7
Lyttleton, Mr., his motion on the
dismissal of the Grenville minis-
try, i. 115

ACCLESFIELD, Lord, his de-

the control of the Lords over the
executive government, 85; they
advise the crown on questions of
peace and war, and of a dissolu-
tion, 86; their rejection of a
money bill, 105; relative rights
of the two houses, 108; conduct
of the house in debate, 125;
the Catholic peers take their
seats, iii. 174. See also Parlia-
ment; Peerage; Peers.

Lords, House of (Ireland), compo-
sition of, iii. 300
Lords spiritual. See Bishops
Lottery tickets (government), mem-
bers bribed by, i. 384
Lowe, Mr., his opposition to the

reform bill, 1866, 431; a mem-
ber of Mr. Gladstone's cabinet,
1868, 447

Loughborough, Lord, joins the

the king over his grandchildren,
i. 264

Mackenzie, Mr. S., dismissed from
office, i. 34
Mackintosh, Sir J., his defence of

Peltier, ii. 333; his efforts to re-
form the criminal code, iii. 397
M'Laren and Baird, trial of, for
sedition, ii. 351

Magistrates, military interference
in absence of, ii. 276; the sum-
mary jurisdiction of, iii. 404
Manchester, Duke of, strangers ex-
Icluded on his motion relative to
war with Spain, ii. 31
Manchester, public meeting at, ii.
353; the massacre, 354; debates
thereon in Parliament, 355-358
Mansfield, Lord, exhorted George
III. to exert his influence over

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arliament, i. 37; the precedent
f his admission to the cabinet
ited, 104; his opinion on the
ight of the Commons to incapa-
fitate Wilkes, ii. 16, 22; accused
by Wilkes of altering a record,:
9; his decisions touching the
rights of juries in libel cases, ii.
253, 258; produced the judg-
ment in Woodfall's case to the
House of Lords, 256; his house
burnt by the Protestant rioters,
275; his opinion on military in-
terference in absence of a magis-
trate, 276; his decision in the
negro case, iii. 36; and recog-
nising toleration, 91; his tolerant
acquittal of a priest, 96; a cabi-
net minister, 392

Manufacturing districts, state of
the, ii. 352, iii. 211

Maichmont, Lord, his motion on
the Middlesex election proceed-
ings, ii. 19

Margarot, M., trial of, for sedition,
ii. 298

Marriages, laws affecting the, of
Dissenters and Catholics, iii.
151-153, 188-192; effect of
Lord Hardwicke's Act, 151
Martin, Mr., his duel with Wilkes,
ii. 5

Mary (Queen of England), her sign
manual affixed by a stamp, i.
217

Marvell, A., reported proceedings
in the Commons, ii. 35
Massachusetts, proposal of James
II. to tax, iii. 343; constitution
of, suspended, 353
Maynooth College, founded, iii. 270;
Peel's endowment of, 271; popu-
lar opposition to, ib.
Mazzini, J., his letters opened by
government, iii. 46
Meetings. See Public Meetings
Melbourne, Viscount, in office, i.
145; his sudden dismissal, 146;
reinstated, 153; in office at the
accession of her Majesty, 154;

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organised her household, ib.;
kept in office by the bedcham-
ber question,' 155; retired from
office, 158; his ministries, ii.
205, 206; receives a deputation
of working men, 389; reception
of delegates from trades' unions,
405; framed the Tithe Commu-
tation Act, iii. 219; and the
first Irish Corporations Bill, 292
Melville, Lord, his impeachment,
ii. 93; impeachment of, a blow to
the Scotch Tories, ii. 180
Members of the House of Com-
mons, number of nominee mem-
bers prior to reform, i. 361;
members bribed by pensions,
369; bribery under Charles II.,
376; under William III., 377;
George II., 378: and George III,
ib., 381; bribed by loans and lot-
teries, 382; by contracts, 387;
wages to, provided for in Lord
Blandford's reform bill, 412;
the abolition of property qualifi-
cations, 448; their exclusion
from the House of Lords, ii. 31;
the system of pledges to con-
stituents considered, 70; certain
privileges of, discontinued, 73.
See also Commons, House of
Meredith, Sir W., his speech against

capital punishments, iii. 395
Middle classes, the, strength given
to Whigs by adhesion of, ii. 186,
196, 365; a combination of the
working and middle classes ne-
cessary to successful agitation,
384, 416

Middlesex, electors of, cause of,
supported by public meetings, ii.
268

Middlesex Journal, the, complaint
against, for misrepresenting de-
bates, ii. 39

Middlesex, sheriffs of, committed
by the House in the Stockdale
actions, ii. 80

Military officers, deprived of com-

mand for opposition to the policy

MIL

of George III., i. 28, 47; this
practice condemned under the
Rockingham ministry, 34
Military and Naval Officers Oaths
Bill, the, iii. 143

Militia, the Catholics in, ii. 114
Miller, proceeded against for pub-
lishing debates, ii. 41; inter-
position of the city authorities,
ib.; tried for publication of a
libel, 254

Mines, labour of children, &c.,

regulated in, iii. 411
Ministers of the crown, the respon-
sibility of, i. 6, 108; regarded
with jealousy by George III., 9;
constitutional relations between
the crown and ministers, 14, 108,
145, 154, 159, 205; the influence
of the crown exerted against its
ministers, 36, 66, 90, 106; ap-
peals by ministers from the
House of Commons to the people,
by dissolutions of parliament,
86, n., 141, 150, 158, 308, 424,
ii. 90; the pledge exacted by
George III. of his ministers, i.
107; ministers supported by the

crown and the Commons in re-
form, 142, 310, 424; the influ-
ence of great families

over

ministries, 165; numerous ap-
plications to, for peerages, 283;
votes of want of confidence, 57,
77, 81, ii. 90; and of confidence,
141, 425, ii. 91; ministers im-
peached by the Commons, 92;
the stability of recent ministries
considered, 95; ministers de-
feated on financial measures,
101; increasing influence of
public opinion over, 144, 186,
264, 364; the principles of co-
alition between, 157, 217; re-
sponsibility of ministers to their
supporters, 192, 214; the pre-
miership rarely held by the head
of a great family, 229; revision
of salaries of, iii. 387
Minorities, proposed representation |

NEW

of, at elections, in reform bill
(1854), i. 452; Lord Cairns's
clause, 1867, iii. 439
Mohun, Lord, cudgelled Dyer for a
libel, ii. 244

Moira, Earl, his mission to the
Whig leaders, i. 125; the
'household question,' 126
Moravians. See Quakers
Morton, Mr., moved the insertion
of the Princess of Wales's name
into the Regency Bill, i. 174
Muir, T., trial of, at Edinburgh,
for sedition, ii. 292; comments
thereon in Parliament, 299
Municipal Corporations. See Cor-
porations

Murray, Lady A., married to the
Duke of Sussex, i. 270
Murray, Mr., his refusal to kneel
at the bar of the Commons, ii. 74
Mutiny bill, the passing of, post-
poned, i. 82

Mutiny Act (Ireland) made per-
manent, iii. 313; repealed, 316

NABOBS,' the, their bribery at

elections, i. 335, 338; rank
themselves among the King's
friends,' 335

Napoleon, First Consul of France,

demands the repression of the
press, ii. 332; the dismissal of
refugees, iii. 54; trial of Peltier
for libel on, ii. 333
Naturalisation Act, passing of, iii. 53
Navy, impressment for, iii. 21;

flogging in, abated, 405
Negroes freed by landing in Eng-

land, iii. 35; in Scotland, 37;
the slave trade and slavery abo-
lished, ii. 277, 404, iii. 39
New Brunswick, the constitution
of, iii. 358

Newcastle, Duke of, in office at

accession of George III., i. 12;
his resignation, 21; dismissed
from his lord-lieutenancy. 23
Newenham, Mr., his motion re-

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specting the debts of Prince of
Wales, i. 251

New Shoreham, voters for the
borough of, disfranchised for
bribery, i. 339

Newfoundland, the constitution of,
iii. 358

Newport, the Chartist attack on,
ii. 409

New South Wales, a legislature
granted to, iii. 359; transporta-
tion to, abolished, ib.; demo-
cratic constitution of, 370
Newspapers, the first, ii. 240, 243;
stamp and advertisement duties
first imposed, 245; increased,
327; removed, 380-383; im-
provement in newspapers, 264,
337; commencement of 'The
Times' and other papers, 265, n.;
measures of repression, 330, 358
New Zealand, constitution granted
to, iii. 372

Nomination boroughs. See Boroughs
Nonconformists. See Dissenters
Norfolk, Duke of, his eldest son

abjured the Catholic faith, 1780,
iii. 99, n.; his Catholic Officers
Relief Bill, 143; enabled by
Act to serve as Earl Marshal,
154

OCT

by mob, 47; his personalities in
debate, 126; in office, 142, 145;
driven from office, 150; the
Coalition, 153; his measure to
conciliate the American colonies,
iii. 355

Northampton borough, cost of elec-
toral contest for (1768), i. 339;
case of bribery from the corporate
funds of, 413

North Briton' (No. 45), the pub-
lication of, ii. 3; riot at the
burning of, 8
Northumberland, Duke of, sup-
ported in bribery at elections by
George III., i. 341

Norton, Sir F. (the speaker), sup-
ported Dunning's resolutions, i.
53; his speech to George III.
touching the civil list, 238, 239;
altercations with, when in the
chair, ii. 128

Nottingham Castle, burnt by mob,
ii. 387

Nova Scotia, responsible govern-
ment in, iii. 368

Nugent, Lord, his bill for Catholic
relief, iii. 151; obtained relaxa-
tion to Irish commerce, 310

against, ii. 248, 250, iii. 2
North, Lord, his relations, as pre-
mier, with George III., i. 44;
his complete submission to the
King, 44, 49, 58; his overtures
to Chatham, 48; to the Whigs,
49; his ministry overthrown,
56; his conduct in office ap-
proved by the King, 57; joined
the 'coalition ministry,' 63; dis-
missed from office, 71; liberal
in creation of peers, 277; in the
bribery of members, 381; with
money sent by George III., ib. ;
by shares in a loan, 384; his
second loan, 386; approved the
Middlesex election proceedings,
ii. 18, 24; his carriage broken

ACT, the, iii. 82

O'Connell, Mr., advocated universal
suffrage, &c., i. 416; reprimanded
for libelling the house, ii. 60;
his position as an orator, 121;
leads the Irish party, ii. 201;
heads the Catholic Association,
369; agitates for repeal of the
Union, 393; trials of, 394, 397;
released on writ of error, 399;
returned for Clare, iii. 163; his
re-election required, 174; his
motions on Irish tithes and
Church, 260-267

O'Connor, F., presents the Chartist
petition, ii. 412, 413
Octennial Act, the (Ireland), iii.
306