JAMAICA, planters in, compensated for the diminution of the value
of their property by the abolition of slavery;
disturbances in;
its constitution is suspended.
Judges, new tenure of their office.
KING, the, cannot be a witness in any legal proceeding.
LABOUCHERE, Mr. H., reproaches Sir Robert Peel for not resigning.
Leopold, King of Belgium, points of the insufficiency of the description
of Prince Albert.
Lewis, Sir. G.C., speech on the history and power of the East India
Company.
Liverpool, Lord, earnest for the universal abolition of the slave trade;
becomes Prime minister;
makes the Catholic question an open question in the cabinet;
brings in, and subsequently withdraws, a "Bill of Pains and
Penalties";
against the Queen;
attacked by apoplexy and dies;
contemplates an increased grant to Maynooth.
Lopes, Sir M., procures the return of Mr. Pool for Westbury.
Louise, Princess, marriage of.
Lowther, Sir John, obtains a grant of Inglewood Forest.
Luttrell, Mr., is declared elected for Middlesex.
Lyndhurst, Lord, carries an amendment on the Reform Bill;
introduces a Regency bill.
MACINTOSH, Sir J., applies himself to mitigate the severity of the law.
Mahon, Lord, brings in a bill to diminish the expenses of elections.
Mansfield, Lord, condemns general warrants;
insists on the necessity of a bill of indemnity;
vindicates the supremacy of Parliament;
his house is burnt by the rioters in 1780.
Martin, Mr., wounds Wilkes in a duel.
Massachusetts, riots in.
Maynooth, foundation of a college at;
is enlarged and more fully endowed.
Melbourne, Lord, becomes Prime-minister;
resigns;
resumes office;
mismanages the arrangements for Prince Albert.
Melville, Lord, is impeached.
Metternich, Prince, is driven from Vienna.
Miles, Mr., defeats the government on the sugar-duties.
Moira, Lord, employed by the Regent to negotiate with the Whig leaders
in 1812.
Money-bills, power of the House of Lords as to.
Montesquieu, M. de, his opinion of the English constitution.
Montmorin, M., Wilberforce writes to him on the subject of the
slave-trade.
NAPOLEON, Louis, is elected President of the French Republic;
his coup d'état;
conspiracy against.
Navigation laws, the, repeal of.
Nelson, Lord, his victory at Copenhagen.
Newcastle, Duke of, Prime minister in 1760.
New Shoreham, disfranchisement of for bribery.
Newspapers, tax on, reduced and afterward abolished.
Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, writes to the Queen.
Normanby, Lord, ambassador in Paris, complains of Lord Palmerston.
North, Lord, supports the decision in favor of Mr. Luttrell;
opposes Mr. Grenville's act;
opposes Mr. Seymour's bill to limit the Nullum Tempus Act;
opposes reform of Parliament;
rejects the demands of Ireland.
Northington, Lord C., defends the embargo on corn;
indicates the supremacy of Parliament.
Nullum Tempus Act, the, extended.
O'CONNELL, Mr. D., is returned for Clare;
is chief of the Catholic Association.
Octennial act for Ireland.
"Olive Branch, the,"
Onslow, Colonel, complains of the publication of the debates.
Orsini, conspiracy of.
PALMERSTON, Lord, is dismissed from the Foreign-office;
introduces the bill for the transfer of the government of India to
the crown;
writes to the Queen on the abolition of the authority of the East
India Company;
is defeated on the Conspiracy Bill and resigns;
returns to office;
disapproves of the reduction of the paper-duty;
desires to uphold the House of Lords.
Papineau. M., organizes an insurrection in Canada.
Parke, Sir J., is created a peer for life.
Parliament, first meeting of the United.
Peel, Sir Robert, responsible for the change of ministry in 1834;
becomes Home-secretary;
resigns his seat for Oxford and fails to be re-elected;
impropriety of his resignation;
speech on introducing the bill for Catholic Emancipation;
becomes Prime-minister;
declines to form an administration in 1839;
supports Lord J. Russell's resolutions in the case of Stockdale v. Hansard;
his opinion on the question in which House the Prime-minister should
be;
becomes Prime-minister in 1841;
revises the commercial tariff;
suspends the Corn-law;
causes its abolition.
Peel, Colonel, organizes the Volunteers.
Peerages, life, legality of.
Peers, the House of, strikes out of a corn bill some clauses giving
bounties;
their right to inquire into the public expenditure asserted by Lord
Camden and others;
their privileges as to money-bills;
provisions as to Irish peers in the Act of Union;
proposed creation of peers to carry the Reform Bill considered;
the House of Peers rejects the abolition of the paper-duty.
Penal laws, in Ireland;
repeal of;
in the United Kingdom.
Penu, Mr., sent from America to England with "the Olive Branch."
Perceval, Mr., becomes Prime-minister;
proposes a Regency bill;
is murdered.
Percy, Lord, proposes the entire abolition of slavery.
Persigny, M. de, French Secretary of State, his despatch on Orsini's
conspiracy.
Pigott, Sir A., brings in a bill on the slave-trade.
Pitt, see Earl of Chatham.
Pitt, Mr. T., denounces the influence of the crown.
Pitt, Mr. W., on the privileges of House of Commons respecting
money-bills;
note;
becomes Prime-minister;
his long struggle against, and eventual defeat of the Opposition;
comparisons between his father and him;
his India bill;
his Quebec bill;
his Regency bill;
founds Maynouth;
carries the Irish Union;
resigns on the Catholic question.
Plunkett, Mr., opposes the Irish Union.
Ponsonby, Mr. G., condemns the policy of open questions.
Poor-law, the, reform of.
Portland, Duke of, becomes Prime-minister;
again.
Post-office, reform of;
letters opened by the order of the Secretary of State.
Powis, Earl, brings in a bill to preserve the Welsh sees.
Pownall, Governor, introduces a corn bill.
Poynings' Act;
repeal of.
RADETSKY, MARSHAL, his campaign in North Italy.
Reform of Parliament, Alderman Sawbridge proposes a measure of;
Mr. Pitt brings in a bill for;
agitation for, in 1818;
introduced and carried by Lord Grey's administration;
the people indifferent to farther reform.
Regency bill of 1764;
of 1840;
former Regency bills had been passed in the reigns of Edward III.,
Richard II., Henry VI., and George II.;
in Ireland;
bill of 1810.
Registration, extension of, 342.
Rice, Mr. Spring, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduces
Post-office reform;
as Lord Monteagle proposes the rejection of the paper-duty bill.
Roberts, Mr., returning officer for New Shoreham.
Rochfort, Lord, introduces the Royal Marriage Act.
Rockingham, Marquis of, Prime-minister in 1768;
moves a resolution condemning the proceedings against Wilkes;
Prime-minister a second time;
repeals the American taxes;
disapproves of the employment of Hanoverian troops at Gibraltar;
wisdom of his policy toward America;
his speech on the influence of the crown;
becomes Prime-minister a second time.
Rolle, Mr., moots the question of the Prince's marriage.
Romilly, Sir S., opposes the Regency bill;
applies himself to reforms of the law.
Rose, Mr., opposes Sir A. Pigott's bill on the slave-trade.
Russell, Lord J., his opinion on Fox's conduct in Opposition;
on the Regency bill;
carries the repeal of the Test Act;
introduces the Reform Bill;
introduces a bill for municipal reform;
his resolutions in the case of Stockdale v. Hansard;
becomes Prime—minister.
Russia, war with.
SANDWICH, EARL OF, denounces Wilkes's "Essay on Woman."
Sarsfield, General, takes refuge in France.
Savile, Sir G., his bill for the limitation of the Nullum Tempus Act.
Seaforth, Lord, reports of the treatment of slaves in Barbadoes.
Seditious Meetings Act.
Shelburne, Lord, denounces the employment of Hanoverian troops at
Gibraltar;
becomes Prime-minister.
Sheridan, Mr. R., his language on the Prince's marriage;
opposes the Alien Act;
conceals Lord Yarmouth's intention to resign.
Sidmouth, Lord, as Home-secretary, introduces six bills for the
suppression of sedition;
resigns office.
Slavery, abolition of.
Slave-trade, abolition of.
Smith, Mr. W., M.P. for Norwich, on repeal of the Five Mile Act.
Somersett, is released by Lord Mansfield.
Stamp Act, imposed on the American Colonies by Mr. Grenville;
repealed by Lord Rockingham.
Stanley, Mr., afterward Lord, and afterward Lord Derby, denounces the
Catholic Association;
brings in a bill for the abolition of slavery;
fails in the attempt to form a ministry in 1845;
becomes Prime-minister in 1852;
proposes a committee on life peerages;
becomes Prime-minister;
resigns.
St. Vincent, Lord, opposes the abolition of the slave-trade.
Stockdale, Mr., brings an action against Messrs. Hansard.
Sugar-duties, Sir Robert Peel's ministry is defeated on a reduction of.
Sussex, Duke of, protests against some clauses of the Regency Act.
Sydenham, Lord, Governor-general of Canada.
TANDY, NAPPER, proposes a congress.
Temple, Earl, his interview with George III.
Test and Corporation Acts are repealed.
Thurlow, Mr., afterward Lord Chancellor, on the case of Wilkes;
defends the employment of Hanoverian troops at Gibraltar;
denounces Fox's India Bill;
approves of the King's employment of Lord Temple.
Tone, Wolfe, commits suicide.
Townsend, Lord, Lord-lieutenant of Ireland.
Townsend, Mr. C., re-imposes taxes on North America.
Traitorous Correspondence Bill.
Troy, Dr., petitions for a Roman Catholic college in Ireland.