The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 614 pages of information about The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860.

The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 614 pages of information about The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860.
Blucher, Field-marshal, proposes to put Napoleon to death. 
Boston, United States, tea ships at, boarded by rioters, and the cargo
  thrown into the sea. 
Bristol, Lord, denounces the appointment of the Chief-justice to a seat
  in the cabinet. 
Brougham, Mr., afterward Lord Chancellor, the chief adviser of the
  Queen;
  defends the ministry for stopping Lord Powis’s bill. 
Brownlow, Mr., opposes Pitt’s commercial reforms. 
Buonaparte, Napoleon, detention of. 
Burdett, Sir F., carries a motion for repeal of Roman Catholic
  disabilities. 
Burke, Mr. B., opposes the expulsion of Wilkes;
  supports Mr. Grenville’s act;
  complains of the insolence of the House of Peers;
  supports the repeal of the bill for taxing the American Colonies;
  on annual Parliaments;
  brings in a bill for economical reform;
  his “short account of a late administration”;
  asserts the right of the House of Peers to examine the public
  accounts;
  his violent language on the Regency Bill;
  member of Lord Rockingham’s second ministry;
  his view of the attachment of the Colonies to England. 
Bute, Earl of, Prime-minister in 1762;
  resigns office.

CABINET, character of. 
Camden, Earl of, approves the resolution of the House of Commons;
  opposes the Royal Marriage Act;
  supports Lord Chatham’s views on the American question;
  moves the Regency bill of 1788. 
Campbell, Lord, his “Lives of the Chancellors” referred to;
  his denunciation of the Declaratory Act;
  and of the Regency bill;
  on the Chief-justice in the cabinet. 
Canada, disquietude in;
  union of the two provinces. 
Canning, Lord, grants the right of adoption to the Hindoo feudatories. 
Canning, Mr. G., attacks the appointment of the Chief-justice to a seat
  in the cabinet; becomes Prime-minister;
  dies;
  his opinion on the question in which House of Parliament the
  Prime-minister should be. 
Caroline, Princess of Brunswick, marries the Prince of Wales;
  investigations into her conduct;
  she dies. 
Cave, Mr., punished for publishing reports of debates. 
Census established. 
Charlotte, Princess, birth of. 
Chartists, rise of;
  outrages of, at Birmingham and Newport. 
Chatham, Earl of, Secretary of State in 1760;
  Lord Privy Seal in 1767; supports Lord Rockingham’s resolution on the
  expulsion of Wilkes;
  denies the power of the Parliament to tax America. 
Church reform, sketched out by Sir Robert Peel;
  earned by Lord Melbourne’s ministry. 
Clarence, Duke of, opposes the abolition of the slave trade;
  his leaning toward the Whigs. 
Clarendon, Earl of, omits to reply to the despatch of the French
  minister. 
Clergy, Roman Catholic, question of endowing the. 
Colborne, Sir John crushes the insurrection in Canada. 
Colonies, general grant of constitutions to, in New

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