ABBOT, Mr. Speaker, opposes Catholic
relief, 354, 355; his speech at the Bar of the Lords, 355, n. Abercromby, Sir R., his opinion of the Irish soldiery, 500; retires from command, 501.
Aberdeen, Earl of, his ministry, 86; its fall, 87; his efforts to reconcile differences in the Church of Scot- land, 436, 443.
Addington, Mr. See Sidmouth, Vis-
Additional Curates Society, sums ex- pended by, 415, n.
Advertisement duty, first imposed, 108; increased, 172; abolished, 214. Affirmations. See Quakers. Agitation, political.
See Opinion, Liberty of; Political Associations; Public Meetings. Aliens, protection of, 283-288; Alien Acts, 284, 285; Traitorous Corre- spondence Act, 285; Napoleon's de- mands refused, 286; the Conspi- racy to Murder Bill, 289; Extradi- tion Treaties, 290.
Almon, bookseller, proceeded against,
Althorp, Lord, brings forward cases of imprisonment for debt, 266; his Church rates measure, 1834, 404; plans for tithe commutation, 416; commenced the modern financial policy, 574.
American colonies, the war with, a test of party principles, 29, 32; first proposals to tax them, 515; Mr. Grenville's Stamp Act, 517; repeal- ed, 518; Mr. Townshend's schemes, 519; repealed, except the tea duties, 520; attack on the tea-ships, 521; the port of Boston closed, 522; the con-
stitution of Massachusetts super- seded, ib.; attempts at conciliation, 523; the tea duty repealed, 524; independence of colonies recog- nized, ib.; its effects on Ireland, 487. Anne, Queen, the press in the reign of, 106; her bounty to poor clergy, 414.
Anti-Corn Law League, the, 239-242. Anti-Slavery Association, the, 133, 232.
Appropriation question, the, of Irish Church revenue, 448-454, 475. Army, the interference of military in absence of a magistrate, 132; Orange lodges in, 230; impress- ment for, 260; freedom of worship in 344, 349; the defence of colonies, 539; flogging in, abated, 563. Army and Navy Service Bill, the, 342. Arrest, on mesne process, 267; abol- ished, 268.
Articles, the Thirty-nine, subscription to, by clergy, and on admission to the universities, 305, 316, 400; by dissenting schoolmasters abolished, 317, 318.
Associations. See Political Associa- tions.
Auchterarder Cases, the, 434, 436. Australian colonies, the settlement and constitutions of, 526, 535.
BALLOT, Vote by, one of the points of the Charter, 235; in the Colonies, 536.
Baptists, the number and places of worship of, 419, 420, n. Beaufoy, Mr., his efforts for the relief of dissenters, 322-324. Bedford, Duke of, attack by the silk- weavers, 125.
Birmingham, public meetings at, 191, 218; election of a legislatorial attor- ney, 192; political union of, 216, 218.
Births, bills for registration of, 362, 395.
Boards. See Local Government. Boston, Lord, assaulted, 130. Boston, the port of, closed by Act, 522. Bourne, Mr. S., his Vestry Act, 461. Braintree Cases, the, 405. Brandreth, execution of, 186. Briellat, T., tried for sedition, 142. Bristol, reform riots at, 219. Brougham, Lord, defends Leigh Hunt, 179; describes the license of the press, 180, n; promotes popular ed- ucation, 211, 612; his law reforms, 550.
Brownists, the, 297.
Bunbury, Sir C., attempts amendment of the criminal code, 555. Burdett, Sir F., his Catholic Relief Bills, 365, 370.
Burghs (Scotland), reformed, 470. Burial, the, of dissenters with Church of England rites, 392, 395; bills to enable dissenters to bury in church- yards, 396; permitted in Ireland, 397. Burke, Mr., separates from the Whigs, 42; his alarm at the French Revo- lution, ib., 140; among the first to advocate Catholic relief, 318; his opposition to relief of dissenters, 326, 329.
Bute, Earl of, driven from office, 110, 125.
CAMBRIDGE University, admission of
dissenters to degrees at, 316, 400; the petition for admission of dis- senters, 1834, 398; state of feeling at, on Catholic relief, in 1812, 351. Camden, Lord, supports the right of juries in libel cases, 117, 121, 122; his decisions condemning the prac- tice of general warrants, 246, 250; protects a Catholic lady by a pri- vate Act of Parliament, 319; op- poses taxation of the American colonies, 519, 520; a friend to lib- erty, 552.
Campbell, Lord, his Act to protect publishers in libel cases, 114. Canada, a crown colony, 525; free constitution granted, ib.; the insur- rection, and reunion of the prov-
inces, 531; responsible government in, 532; establishes a protective ta- riff, 535; popular franchise in, ib. Canning, Mr., his influence on parties, 52; in office, 63; secession of Tories from, ib.; supported by the Whigs, 64; advocates Catholic relief, 63, 334, 351, 353, 358; brought in the Catholic Peers' Bill, 359; his death, 65, 366.
Capital punishments, multiplication of, since the Revolution, 553; since restricted to murder and treason, 558.
Caricatures, influence of, 123. Caroline, Queen, effect of proceedings against, upon parties, 61. Catholic Association, the, proceedings of, 204-209, 372, 374. Catholic Emancipation. See Roman Catholics.
Castle, the government spy, 276. Cato Street Conspiracy, the, 200; dis- covered by spies, 278.
Censorship of the press, 103, 106. Chalmers, Dr., heads the Free Kirk
movement, 433; moved deposition of the Strathbogie presbytery, 438. Chancery, Court of, reformed, 549, 551.
Charlemont, Earl of, heads Irish vol-
unteers, 191; opposes claims of Cath- olics to the franchise, 495. Chartists, the torch-light meetings, 234; the national petition, ib.; meet- ings and riots, 235; proposed elec- tion of popular representatives by, 236; the meeting and petition of 1848, 237-239.
Chatham, Earl of, effect of his leav- ing office on parties, 26; his protest against colonial taxation, 518; that measure adopted by his ministry during his illness, 519; his concil- iatory propositions, 523; proposed to claim India for the Crown, 541. Church of England, the, relations of the Church to political history, 291; the Church before the reformation, ib.; the Reformation, 292; under Queen Elizabeth, 293; relations of the Reformed Church with the State, 297; Church policy from James I. to Charles II., 300, 302; attempts at comprehension, 304, 306; the Church at the Revolution, 305; un- der William III., 306; state of, at accession of George III., 308; Wes-
ley and Whitefield, 310; motion for relief from subscription to the Arti- cles, 316; surrender by the Church of the fees on dissenters' marriages, &c., 395; the Church-rate question, 402; state of Church to end of last century, 409; hold of the Church over society, 410; church building and extension, 413: Queen Anne's bounty, 414; ecclesiastical revenues, ib.; sums expended by charitable societies, 415, n.; tithe commuta- tion, 416; activity of the clergy, 417; Church statistics, 420; rela- tions of the Church to dissent, ib.; to Parliament, 421.
Church in Ireland, the establishment of, 299, 300; state of, at accession of Geo. III., 312; at the Union, 444; the tithes question, 445, 455; advances to the clergy, 446; Church reform, 447; The Temporalities Act, 448; the appropriation question, ib.; the Irish Church commission, 450; the report, 454; power monopolized by churchmen, 482.
Church of Scotland, the presbyterian form of, 298; legislative origin of, ib.; Church policy from James I. to George II., 302, 305, 307, 312; motion for relief from the Test Act, 328; the patronage question, 430- 438; earlier schisms, 432; the Free Kirk secession, 441.
Church rates, the law of, 402; the question first raised, 403; the Brain- tree cases, 405; number of parishes refusing the rate, 407; bills for ab- olition of, ib. Civil Disabilities.
See Dissenters; Jews; Quakers; Roman Catholics. Coalition ministries, favored by Geo. III., 26, 37, 38; the Coalition, 1783, 34-36; attempted coalitions between Pitt and Fox, 44, 54; coalition of the Whigs and Lord Sidmouth's party, 54; Lord Aberdeen's minis- try, 86.
Cobbett, W., trials of, for libel, 178; withdraws from England, 189; pro- secuted by Whig government, 212. Colliers and salters, in Scotland, sla- very of, 274; emancipated, 275. Colonies, British, colonists retain the freedom of British subjects, 510; colonial constitutions, 511, 525, 527, 532; democratic form of, 535, 536; the sovereignty of England, 512;
colonial expenditure, 512, 531; and commercial policy, 513, 530, 534; taxes common to dependen- cies, 514; arguments touching im- perial taxation, ib.; taxation of American colonies, 517-523; the crown colonies, 524; colonial ad- ministration, 527; first appointment of Secretary of State for, ib.; pat- ronage surrendered to the colonies, 529; responsible government, 532; conflicting interests of England and colonies, 534; dependencies unfit- ted for self-government, 540; India, ib.
Commerce, restrictions on Irish, 484; removed, 488, 490, 506; Pitt's prop- ositions, 496; restrictions on colo- nial commerce, 513; the protective system abandoned, 530, 571; the Canadian tariff, 535.
Common Law, Courts of, reformed, 551.
Commons, House of, England, oath of supremacy imposed on the Com- mons, 293; O'Connell refused his seat for Clare, 380; number of Ca- tholic members in, 381; Quakers and others admitted on affirmation, 382; a resolution of the House not in force after a prorogation, 390, n; refusal to receive the petitions of the American colonists, 518. See also Parliament.
Commons, House of, Ireland, the com- position of, 480; conflicts with the executive, 485; claim to originate money bills, ib.; bought over by the government, 491, 493, 504. Conservative Party, the. See Parties. Constitutional Information Society, 137; Pitt and other leading states- men, members of, ib.; reported on by secret committee, 152; trial of members of, for high treason, 156. Constitutional Association, the, 203. Contempt of court, imprisonment for, 265.
Conventicle Act, the, 303. Convention, National, of France, cor- respondence with, of English socie- ties, 137, 173. Conventions. See Delegates, Politi- cal Associations. Copenhagen House, meetings at, 163, 170.
Corn Bill (1815), the, 183, 572. Corn laws, repeal of, 81, 239, 573.
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