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INDEX.

INDEX TO VOL. II.

ABBOT, Mr. Speaker, opposes Catholic

relief, 354, 355; his speech at the
Bar of the Lorde, 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-

count.

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,

113.

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519; repealed, except the tea duties,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523; the tea duty repealed, 524;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.
Ariny 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.

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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, b.; 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, 491; 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 ca-es, 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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