Cornwallis, Marquess, his policy as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland regard- ing Catholic relief, 335, 501; con- certs the Union, 502. Corporations, the passing of the Cor- poration and Test Acts, 303, 304; extortion practised on dissenters under the Corporation Act, 315; motions for repeal of Corporation and Test Acts, 322-326, 328; their repeal, 66, 367; the consent of the bishops, 368; the bill amended in the Lords, 370; admission of Catho- lics to, 376, 482, 497; and Jews, 386.
(England), the ancient system of Corporations, 462; loss of popu- lar rights, 463; corporations from the Revolution to George III., 464; corporate abuses, ib.; monopoly of electoral rights, 463, 466; corporate reform, 466; the bill amended by the Lords, 467; self-government restored, 468; the corporation of London excepted from the bill, ib.
-(Ireland), apparent recognition of popular rights in, 318; exclu- sion of Catholics, 472, 473; the first municipal Reform Bill, 474; opposition of the Lords, 475; the municipal reform Act, ib.-
land), close system in, 470; munici- pal abuses, ib.; reform, 471. Corresponding societies, proceedings
of, 127, 137, 144, 173; trials of mem- bers of, 145, 156; bill to repress, 173.
Courier, newspaper, trial of, for libel, 175.
Criminal Code, improvement of, 553,
556; counsel allowed in cases of felony, 558; summary jurisdiction of magistrates, 562; the transpor- tation question, 559.
Crown colonies, the. See Colonies. Crown debtors, position of, 264. Cumberland, Duke of, grand master of the Orange Society, 229; dis- solves it, 231.
DAVIOT Case, the, 436.
Deaths, Act for registration of, 395. Debt, imprisonment for, 268; debtors' prisons, 269; exertions of the
Thatched House Society, 270; in- solvent debtors, 271; later measures of relief, ib.
Delegates of political associations, the practice of, adopted, 127, 173, 219,
229, 235; assembled at Edinburgh, 144; law against, 185; in Ireland,
Democracy to promote associations in 1792, 134, 136; alarm excited by, 138; proclamation against, 141; in Scotland, 144; in the colonies, 535; discouraged by good government, 576. See also Party. Derby, Earl of, his ministries, 85, 89, 95; persuades the Lords to agree to Jewish relief, 390.
Derbyshire insurrection, the, 186. Diplomatic relations with the Papal Court Bill, 425, n. Dissenters, origin of dissent, 295–297; the penal code of Elizabeth, 293, 295; dissent from James I. to Chas. II., 300-304; attempts at compre hension, 304, 306; Corporation and Test Acts, 303, 304; conduct of dissenters at the Revolution, 305; the Toleration Act, ib.; dissenters in reigns of Anne and Geo. I. aud II., 307; the Occasional Conformity Act, 308; annual Acts of Indem- nity, ib., n.; their numbers at acces- sion of Geo. III., 309, n; impulse given by Wesley and Whitefield, 310; relaxation of penal code com- menced, 313; general character of the penal code, 314; extortion prac tised on dissenters by the City of London under the Corporation Act, 315; debate on subscription to the Articles by dissenters, 316; and ad- mission to universities, ib., 400; subscription by dissenting school- masters abolished, 317; offices in Ireland thrown open, 318; first ino- tions for repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, 322-326; motions for reliet of Unitarians, 329; and of Quakers, 331; Lord Sidmouth's Dissenting Ministers' Bill, 349; re- lief from requirements of the Tole- ration Act, 350; the army thrown open, 356; bills for relief of dis- senters in respect of births, mar- riages, and burials, 362, 363, 392- 396; repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, 66, 367; dissenters ad- mitted to the Commons on making an affirmation, 382; admitted to universities and endowed schools, 397-401; the London University, 400; the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, ib.; final repeal of penal code, 402;
the church-rate question, ib.; prog- ress of dissent, 411, 418; numbers of different sects, &c, 419; in scot- land, 444, n.; in Ireland, 454; rela- tions of the Church and dissent, 420; and of dissent to political liberty, 422.
Donoughmore, Lord, his motions for Catholic relief, 346, 350, 352. Douglas, Neil, trial of, for sedition, 191.
Downie, D., trial of, for high treason,
Drakard, J., trial of, for libel, 179. Dundas, Mr. leader of the Tories in Scotland, 50.
Dundas, Mr. R., his influence in Scot- land, 56.
Dungannon, convention of volunteers at, 491.
Dyer, cudgelled by Lord Mohun, for a libel, 107.
EARL Marshal's Office Act, the, 364. East India, the Company, allowed a drawback on tea shipped to Amer- ica, 521; first parliamentary recog nition and regulation of, 541; Mr. Fox's India Bill, 542; Mr. Pitt's, 544; the Bill of 1853, 545; India transferred to the crown, ib.; subse- quent administration, ib.
Eaton, D. 1., trial of, for sedition, 151. Ecclesiastical Commission, the, 414. Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, the, 426. Edinburgh Review, the influence of, 57. Education, proposals for a national system in England, 568; in Ireland, 455, 569; address of the House of Lords on the subject, 570; the sys- tem continued, ib. Edwards, the government spy, 278. Eldon, Lord, retired from office on promotion of Canning, 63; opposes the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, 66, 369; and Catholic relief, 378; assisted poor suitors to put in answers, 265; favors au- thority, 553; resists amendment of the penal code, 556.
Elective franchise, Ireland, the regula- tion of, 366, 379, 508; admission of Catholics to, 376, 508.
Elizabeth, Queen, her church policy,
Ellenborough, Lord, his conduct on the trials of Hone, 190, and n.; a cabinet minister, 553; resists
amendment of the criminal code, 556.
Entinck, Mr., his papers seized under a general warrant, 249; brings an action, 250.
Erskine, Lord, a leading member of the Whig party, 40; supports the rights of juries in libel cases,. 118; case of Dean of St. Asaph, ib.; of Stockdale, 119; promotes the Libel Act, 120, 122; defends Paine, 135; and Hardy and Horne Tooke, 158. Erskine, E., seceded from the Church of Scotland, 432.
Erskine, Mr. H., the leader of the Whigs in Scotland, 50.
Ewart, Mr., his efforts to reform the criminal code, 558.
Excise Bill, its withdrawal in defer- ence to popular clamor, 124. Ex-officio informations, filed by gov- ernment for libels, 111, 179, 212; bills to restrain, 112, 116. Expenditure, national, vast increase in, since 1850, 574. Extradition treaties, 290.
FACTORIES, labor of children, &c., regulated in, 567.
Financial policy, the present system of, 573; originated by Sir H. Par-
Fitzgerald, Mr. V., defeated in the Clare election, 371.
Fitzwilliam, Earl, dismissed from his
lord Lieutenaney for heading a pub- lic meeting, 195; his conduct as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 333, 499; his motion on the state of Ire- land, 350.
Five Mile Act, the, 303. Flogging, articles on military flog- ging punished as libels, 178; in army and navy abated. 563. Flood, Mr., his efforts for indepen- dence of Ireland, 492; for reform, 495.
Foreigners. See Aliens.
Fox, Mr. C. J., opposes the repress- ive policy of 1792, 44, 141; and of 1794-6, 31, 167-172, 254; his ad- vice to the Whigs to take office re- jected, 32; refuses office under Lord Shelburne, 33; in office with Lord North, 34; his policy contrasted with Mr. Pitt's, ib., n., 35; sympa- thizes with the French Revolution, 42; attempted coalitions with Pitt,
44, 53 leserted by his party, 45; secedes from Parliament. 51; in of- fice with Lord Sidmouth, 54, 341; effect of his death on parties, 55; his remark on the rights of juries in libel cases, 116; his libel bills, 120; takes the chair at a reform meeting, 1779, 127; advocates the relief of Catholics, 318, 339; and of Dissent- ers and Unitarians, 325, 329; his India bill, 542.
Fox Maule, Mr., presents petition of the General Assembly, 440. Free Church of Scotland, the, 442. Freedom of Opinion. See Opinion, Freedom of.
Free trade, the policy of, adopted, 80, 241, 572; effect of, on colonial poli- cy, 530.
French Revolution, effect of, on par- ties, 42; sympathy with, of English democrats, 134, 136, 138; alarm ex- cited by, 138, 198, 201. Friends of the People, the Society of, leading Whig members of, 43; dis- countenances democracy, 138. Frost, J., tried for sedition, 142.
GENERAL Assembly, the (Church of Scotland), petitions for relief from the Test Act, 328; passes the Veto Act, 433; rejects Lord Aberdeen's compromise, 436; addresses Her Majesty, 439; admits the quoad sa- cra ministers, 440; petitions Par- liament, ib; the secession, 441; the Veto Act rescinded, 442. General warrants, issued in the case
of the "North Briton," 246; against Mr. Entick, 249; actions brought in consequence, 247; condemned in Parliament, 252. George III., his party tactics on ac- cession, 25; influence of his friends, 27; overcomes the Coalition, 36; influenced by Lord Thurlow, 40; his repugnance to the Whigs, 41, 55; to Fox, 53; directs the suppres- sion of the Gordon Riots, 132; his speech and message respecting se- ditions practices, 1792 and 1794, 141, 152; attacked by the mob, 164; opposes Catholic relief, 335, 336; and the Army and Navy Service Bill, 344; his message to Parlia- ment touching affairs in Ireland, 492; seeks to tax the American col- onies, 515, 516.
George IV., his conduct on the pass- ing of the Catholic Relief Bill, 375, 378.
German Legion, the, Cobbett's libel
Gerrald, J., tried for sedition, 150. Gibson, Mr. Milner, heads movement against taxes on knowledge, 215; his proposal to establish county financial boards, 477.
Gillray, his caricatures, 124. Gladstone, Mr., separates from Lord Palmerston's ministry, 87; his finan- cial policy, 573.
Goderich, Lord, his administration, 65. Goldsmith's Hall Association, the, 145, 150.
Good Hope, Cape of, a constitution granted to, 537.
Gordon, Lord G., heads the Protes- tant Association, 123, 321; presents their petition, 130; committed to Newgate, 133.
Gower, Lord F. L., his resolution for the state endowment of Irish priests,
Graham, Sir J., separates from Lord Palmerston's ministry, 87; case of opening letters by, 281; his answer to the claim, &c., of the Church of Scotland, 439.
Grant, Mr. R., his motions for Jewish relief, 383, 385.
Grattan, Mr., advocates Catholic re- lief, 340, 346, 350-354; the indepen- dence of Ireland, 490, 492, 505; his death, 357.
Grenville, Lord, the tactics of his par- ty, 53, 61; in office, 53, 341; intro- duces the Treasonable Practices Bill, 164; advocates Catholic re- lief, 338; his Army and Navy Ser- vice Bill, 342; fall of his ministry,
257; cases of, between the Revolu- tion and 1794, 253; the Acts of In- demnity, 253-259; in Ireland, 359. Halifax, Earl of, issue of general war- rants by, 246, 249; action brought against him by Wilkes, 249. Hardwicke, Lord, changes caused by his Marriage Act, 362. Hardy, J., tried for treason, 156. Hawkesbury, Lord, his refusal of Na- poleon's demands against the press and foreigners, 176, 287. Hewley, Lady, the case of her chari- ties, 401.
Hobhouse, Sir J. his Vestry Act, 461. Hoghton, Sir H., his Dissenters' Relief Bills, 317.
Hone, W., trials of, for libel, 189. Horsley, Bishop, his opinion on the rights of the people, 165; amends the Protesting Catholic Dissenters' Bill, 327.
Howick, Lord. See Grey, Earl. Hudson, Dr., tried for sedition, 143. Hudson's Bay Company, the, expired, 571.
Hume, Mr., his motion against Orange lodges in the army, 230; his scheme for voluntary enlistment, 263; his proposed reform of county adminis- tration, 477; his exertions in revision of official salaries, 548.
Hunt, Leigh, tried for libel, 179. Hunt, Mr. headed the Manchester meeting, 193; tried for sedition,
Huskisson, Mr., his commercial policy, 62, 572.
IMPRESSMENT for the army, 260; for the navy, 261. Imprisonment, for debts to the Crown, 264: contempt of court, 265; on mesne process, 267; for debt, 268. See also Prisons. Indemnity Acts, the, on expiration of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Acts, 256, 257: Annual, the first
passed, 308, n. Independents, the, their tenets, 296; their toleration, 302; numbers, &c., 419, 420, n.
India. See East India. Informers. See Spies. Insolvent debtors, laws for the relief of, 271.
Ireland, the Reformation in, 299; dan-
gerous state of, 1823-25, 365; and in 1828, 371; burial-grounds in, open to all persuasions, 397; the tithe question, 445, 451-454; na- tional education, 455, 569; May- nooth and Queen's Colleges, 456; Government of Ireland prior to the Union, 479; the Parliament, ib.; the executive, 481; power monopolized by churchmen, 482; supremacy of English Government, 483; com- mercial restrictions, 483, 484; par- tially removed, 488, 490; residence of lord-lieutenant enforced, 481, 485; conflicts between the Commons and the Executive, ib.; state of Ire- land, 1776, 487; the volunteers, 489; they agitate for independence and parliamentary reform, 490-492, 494; the convention at Dungannon, 491; independence granted, 493; admission of Catholics to the elec- tive franchise, 330, 497; the United Irishmen, 173, 498; feuds between Protestants and Catholics, 499; the rebellion of 1798, 500; Union with England concerted, 502; opposi- tion bought off, 503; the Union effected, 506; its results, ib.; effect of Catholic relief and reform in the representation, 379, 508; present po- sition of Ireland, ib.; and of its Catholic inhabitants, 509; the num- ber of Irishmen on the English bench, ib., n.; corporate re- form, 472; new poor-law introduced into, 565.
JAMAICA, colonial institutions in, 512, 525; contumacy of assembly re- pressed, 531.
James II. expelled by union of church
and dissenters, 305; his proposal to tax col ny of Massachusetts, 514. Jews, the Naturalization Act of. 1754, repealed, 125; tolerated by Crom- well, 302; excepted from Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act, 862; the first motions for their relief, 383; Mr. Grant's motions, ib., 385: Jews admitted to corporations, 386; re- turns of Baron Rothschild and Mr. Salomons, 387, 388; attempt to ad- mit Jews under declaration, 383; the Relief Acts, 390; number of, returned, 391.
Judges, their conduct in libel cases, 188, 189; number of Irishmen on
King's Friends, the," a section of the Tory party, 27; estranged from Pitt, 53; coalesce with the Whigs, ib.; estranged from them, 53. Knight's (a negro) case, 273.
LANSDOWNE, Marquess, his motions respecting the marriages of Catho- lies and Dissenters, 363; for relief of English Catholics, ib.
Law, the improvement in the spirit and administration of, 550; legal sinecures abolished, 551. Legislatorial attorneys, election of, at public meetings, 190, 191; practice of, imitated by the Chartists, 235. Letters, opened at the Post-office by government, 279; the former prac- tice, 280, and n.; case of in 1844, 281.
Libel, the Act, 120-122; Lord Sid- mouth's circular to the lord-lieuten- ants respecting seditious libels, 186; conduct of judges in libel cases, 188, 189. See also Sedition, &c. Liberal Party, the. See Party. Liberty of opinion. See Opinion, Lib-
Liberty of the subject. See Subject, Liberty of.
Licensing Act, the, 105; not renewed,
Liverpool, Earl of, his administration,
58, 62; disunion of the Tories on his death, 63; his ministry and the Catholic question, 353. Local government, the basis of consti- tutional freedom, 460; vestries, open and select, 461; Vestry Acts, ib., 462; municipal corporations before and after reform, 462-476; local boards, 477; courts of quarter ses- sions, ib.
Logan, the Rev., his defence of War- ren Hastings, 119.
London, corporation of, extortion
practised by, on dissenters, 315, ad dress of the Common Council on the Manchester massacre, 195; schemes for its reform, 469.
London Corresponding Society, the, 137, 138; reported on by a secret committee, 153; trial of members of, for high treason, 156; inflames public discontent, 162; calls a meeting at Copenhagen House, 163; address on an attack on Geo. III., 170; in- creased activity of, 172; suppressed by Act, 173.
London University, founded, 400. Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, the resi- dence of, enforced, 485. Lords, House of, the Catholic peers take their seats, 380.
Lords, House of (Ireland), composi- tion of, 479.
Loughborough, Lord, joins the Tories, 45: prompts the repressive policy of the government, 140. Luddites, the, outrages of, 182. Lunatics, a state provision for, 566. Lyndhurst, Lord, brought in the Dis- senters' Chapels Bill, 401.
MACKINTOSH, Sir J., his defence of
Peltier, 177; his efforts to reform the criminal code, 557. M'Laren and Baird, trial of, for sedi- tion, 190. Magistrates, military interference in absence of, 182; the summary juris- diction of, 562. Manchester, public meeting at, 192, the massacre, 193; debates thereon in Parliament, 194-196. Mansfield, Lord, his decisions touch- ing the rights of juries in libel cases, 114, 118; produced the judgment in Woodfall's case to the House of Lords, 116; his house burnt by the Protestant rioters, 132; his opinion on military interference in absence of a magistrate, ib.; his decision in the negro case, 273; and recogniz ing toleration, 315; his tolerant ac- quittal of a priest, 319; a cabinet minister, 553.
Manufacturing districts, state of the, 191, 410.
Margarot M., trial of, for sedition, 150. Marriages, laws affecting the, of Dis-
senters and Catholics, 362–364, 392- 395; effect of Lord Hardwicke's Act, 362.
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