UNION, the Irish.
Union with Scotland, obstacles to, and advantages resulting from.
VICTORIA, Queen, succeeds to the throne;
marries;
her careful exercise of her duties;
draws up a memorandum for the guidance of the ministers;
writes to foreign sovereigns.
Victoria, the province of, grant of a constitution to.
Villiers, Mr. C., advocates the repeal of the Corn-laws.
Volunteers, rise of the Irish, 158; rise of the English.
WALES, Prince or, son of George III., his conduct and establishment;
marries Mrs. Fitzherbert;
is attacked in the streets;
See George IV.
Wales, Prince of, son of the Queen, visits India.
Walpole, Sir R., the case of;
on election petitions;
refuses to repeal the Test Act;
his general policy.
Walpole, Mr. Spencer, supports the Conspiracy Bill.
Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester, denounces Wilkes.
Ward, Mr., his motion on the appropriation of Church funds.
Wedderburn, Mr., on the case of Wilkes;
supports Mr. Grenville's act;
his opinion on the Riot Act;
the chief legal adviser of the Prince of Wales;
suggests the Traitorous Correspondence Bill;
excites the King to resist the removal of Catholic disabilities.
Wellesley, Marquis, proposed to be appointed Prime-minister.
Wellington, Lord, afterward Duke of, his victories in the Peninsula and
in France;
becomes Commander-in-chief;
advises the King to decline dining with the Lord Mayor;
fails in the endeavor to form an administration;
becomes temporary Prime-minister, holding several offices;
condemns the recall of Lord Ellenborough.
Westmoreland, Lord, opposes the abolition of the slave-trade.
Wetherall, Sir Charles, is attacked at Bristol.
Weymouth, Lord, Secretary of State, writes a letter to the Surrey
magistrates.
Whately, Archbishop, his opinion on the Lord-lieutenancy of Ireland;
note.
Whitbread, Mr., promotes the impeachment of Lord Melville.
Wilberforce, Mr. W., proposes the admission of Roman Catholics to the
militia;
devotes himself to the abolition of the slave-trade.
Wilkes, Mr., sets up The North Briton;
criticises the King's speech;
is apprehended;
is expelled the House of Commons for printing the "Essay on Woman;"
is elected for Middlesex, expelled, and re-elected;
as Lord Mayor behaves with spirit during the Gordon riots;
procures the expunction of the resolutions against him.
William IV., his conduct on the Reform Bill;
dies.
Windham, Mr., brings in a bill for reenforcing the army.
Wolseley, Sir C., is elected M.P. by a Birmingham convention.
YARMOUTH, Earl of, Lord Chamberlain.
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