Cologne, Elector of, joins France in opposition to British interests, i. [81].
Colonies totally neglected by the Duke of Newcastle, when Secretary of State, i. [396].
Comines, character of, as an historian, i. [375].
COMMONS, House of, session of 1751, i. [8], et seq.;
affair of the Westminster petition against Lord Trentham, [14], et seq.;
contumacy of Mr. Murray, [29], [30];
libels against the House, [31];
inefficient opposition to the three shilling land-tax, [32];
opposition to the Mutiny Bill, [39];
attack on General Anstruther, [42];
committee for the suppression of vice and reform of the police, [44];
proposed subsidy to Bavaria, [48];
debate on Murray’s close confinement, [49], [50];
debates on the Naturalization Bill, [54];
debate on Anstruther’s business, [56];
the House adjourns to see Othello at Drury Lane, [61];
proceedings on the Gin Bill, [66], [67];
relaxation in proceedings against Murray, [84];
Naturalization Bill thrown out, [92];
proceedings on a breach of privilege, [95];
further proceedings on Anstruther’s case, [106];
Habeas Corpus granted by the King’s Bench for Murray, [114];
he is remanded, and the committal of the House acknowledged to be valid, [115];
question of privilege, as to members on the Prince’s establishment, negatived, [116];
the Regency Bill returned from the Lords, and proceedings thereon, [122], et seq.;
Regency Bill passes the House, [153];
close of the session, release and petty triumph of Murray, [200], [201];
a new session, [208];
Murray remanded to Newgate by the House, ibid.;
debate on the same, [209];
reward voted for the apprehension of Murray, who had absconded, [212];
army estimates proposed by Mr. Fox, [213];
land-tax proposed by Pelham, accompanied by an extraordinary system of national policy, [218];
adjournment, and cessation of opposition, [228];
Walpole’s rise and fall by that House, and why, [232], [233];
House meets in 1752, [241];
takes up the affair of the Saxon treaty, [242], et seq.;
motion against subsidiary treaties in time of peace, by Lord Harley, [254];
debate thereon, ibid.;
state of parties in the House, [263];
bill for colonizing the Scottish forfeited estates, [264], et seq.;
prorogation and extraordinary speech of the Speaker to the King, against the management of Scotland, [275];
session of 1753 opens, [293];
engaged in the affairs of Nova Scotia, [295];
affair of the Marriage Bill, [336], et seq.;
affair of the Jew Naturalization Bill, [357], [362];
proposed repeal of the Plantation Act, [364];
motion for repeal of the Bribery Oath, [369];
people look towards it on the ministerial difficulties arising from Pelham’s demise, [383];
debates on the opening war of 1756, [403];
alarm of the ministerial majority at Pitt’s spirited attack on election bribery, [408], [409];
debate on the army estimates, [410];
debate on the Mutiny Bill, [420];
debate respecting adjournment on anniversary of King Charles’s martyrdom, ii. [3];
debate on the Scottish Sheriffs-Depute Bill, [4];
a division of the House falsified by Mr. Potter, [11];
first appearance of the modern application of the distinctions of Whig and Tory, [12], et seq.;
tempestuous opposition of Pitt to the Fox and Bedford coalition, the German treaties, &c., [55];
sit till five in the morning, the longest debate then on record, [49], [133];
complaint respecting circular letters, [63];
debates on the votes for seamen, [67];
debates on a Prize Bill, [78];
charges of bribery by France, [82];
debates on the army estimates, [86];
committee moved on the militia question, [97];
taking of notes by strangers noticed by Hume Campbell, [108];
close of a long debate on the German treaties, [133];
repeal of all the old militia acts to prepare for a new bill, [152];
debates on Prevot’s regiment, [156];
Ways and Means brought forward by Sir George Lyttelton, [176];
debates on employing foreign troops, [184], et seq.;
Militia Bill voted without a division, [191];
vote of credit of one million opposed, ibid.;
debates on the Prussian treaty, [197];
Pitt’s first Parliament, [276];
ordnance estimates and Militia Bill, [301], et seq.;
Byng’s sentence announced to the House by a messenger from the Admiralty, [312], et seq.;
Pitt’s first appearance in the House as minister, and to demand money for Hanover, [313];
further debates on Byng’s sentence, [320], et seq.;
royal message, bill for absolving the court-martial from their oaths of secrecy; passes, but lost in the Lords, [350-366];
inquiry into the loss of Minorca, iii. [7], et seq.;
debates upon the vote of a million, [16];
debates upon the Habeas Corpus, [103], [112];
estimates of the year 1759, [176];
debates respecting officers commissioned vacating seats, [233];
debates on army estimates, [234];
affair of Sackville’s arrest and court-martial, as matter of privilege, [265], [266].
Compton, Sir Spencer, vide [Wilmington].
Conflans, Monsieur, defeated by Sir Edward Hawke, iii. [231], [232].
Constitution of Britain, political view of, iii. [112-115].
Contades, Marshal, loses the battle of Minden, iii. [191], [199].
Contest, a weekly political satire on Pitt’s coming into administration, ii. [276].
Conway, Colonel H. S., his political debut and martial bravery, i. [41];
his parliamentary quickness and character compared with Charles Townshend, [341];
is appointed secretary in Ireland solely from his private merits, ii. [3];
military promptitude in the affair of the Rochfort expedition, iii. [54];
as general, employed in the expedition to Rochfort, [45].