D'Aubigny, his arrest of Mr. Pritchard, v.
Davenant, his economical writings, i. 141; iii. 351.
Davidson, a negro, one of the Cato Street conspirators, i. 437; executed, 440. Davies, Colonel, wishes to limit the sup- plies to six months, ii. 439.
Davies, Sir John, his description of Ire- land, ii. 230.
Davis, Charles, assists in editing the Nation, v. 94; character of, 190. Davy, Sir H., his early career, i. 64, 65, 147; invents the safety lamp, 65, 112; his opinion on the introduction of gas, 86 n.; his di-covery of the anaesthetic properties of nitrous oxide gas, v. 398. Dawkins, Professor Boyd, his views on prehistoric man, vi. 366.
Dawson, Rt. Hon. G., his attack on Can- ning, ii. 361; his speech at Derry, 397; his amendment to Graham's motion in 1830, 437; his election in 1830, iii. 176. D'Azeglio, Count, v. 379. Dead Weight, the. See Annuity. Debt, the National, its amount in 1816, i. 24, 29, 39; its origin, 26; its rapid increase, 27, 38; gloomy anticipations at its increase, 28; Burdett proposes its repudiation, ii. 109; its repudiation de- manded at county meetings, 119; con- version of the Navy 5 per cents., 119; conversion of the 4 per cents., 165; con- version of stock, v. 30; lean of £8,000,000, 172; the Irish, 211, 221; formation of the new 3 and 2 per cent. stocks, 478. (See also Sinking Fund.)
Debt, imprisonment for, i. 172 n.; arrest for, iii. 313; arrest and imprisonment for, iv. 418.
Debtor, elected for Beverley, iii. 313. Debtors, the law relating to, iv. 418; prison treatment of, 420; the act of 1844,
De Caus, Solomon, his inventions, iii. 253, 262; inventions of, v. 63. Decazes, Monsieur, Ministry and fall of,
Deccan, attempt to establish a balance of power in the, vi. 75; geographical meaning of the term, 81 n.
De Clifford, Lord, his opinion and vote on the Queen's trial, ii. 57.
Deeg, battle of, vi. 87.
Defenders, the, in Ireland, ii. 294.
De Ferronay, Monsieur, his retirement, iii. 160.
Defoe, his writings, i. 211.
De Grey, Earl, retires from the Lord- Lieutenancy, v. 116.
De la Cour, M., appointed French am- bassador at Berlin, vi. 12.
Delegates, Court of Jurisdiction, partly transferred to Privy Council, iii. 292 . Delhi, capture of, by Lake, vi. 85; pro- hibition of suttee in, 139; the mutiny at, 299; a Mogul emperor set up in, 307; siege of, 312; fall of, 313.
Demont, Louise, her evidence against the Queen, ii. 53.
Demosthenes, establishes himself at Pylus, iii. 124.
Denman, Thomas (afterwards first Lord), ii. 31; appointed Attorney-General to the Queen, 31; his opinion of Alderman Wood, 33; refuses to allow Mrs. Den- man to call on the Queen, 38; memor- able words of, 43; his defence of the Queen in the Lords, 44; applies descrip- tion of Iago to Leach, 45; at the trial, 49; reception of, at Cheltenham, 51; his opinion of Brougham's peroration, 52; his speech, 55; interrupted in a speech by prorogation, 59; urges the Queen's claim to be crowned before Privy Council, 67; his election for Not- tingham, iii. 176; on Chancery reform, 284; his conduct of the Bankruptcy Bill, 290 and n.; receives seals of Chancellor of the Exchequer during interregnum, iv. 2 n.; joins Useful Knowledge Society, 74; his charge on "Stockdale v. Han- sard," 198; his attitude in the House of Lords, 205; appointed to try Lord Car- digan, 437; his condemnation of the proceedings in O'Connell's trial, v. 109; votes against the conviction, 110; op- poses Russell's Sugar Duties Bill, 158. Dennie, Colonel, attacks Afghans, vi. 190; death of, 192.
Deothul, action at, vi. 109.
De Potter, M., Dutch journalist, iii.
167; signs the declaration of Belgian independence, 170.
Derby, the Brandreth riot at, and the conviction of the rioters, i. 365-367; corrupt condition of, iv. 38.
Derby, 12th Earl of, opposes Liverpool and Manchester Railway, iii. 262.
Derby, 14th Earl of (see also Stanley, Lord), appointed Prime Minister, v. 451; his pledge on the corn question, 452; astounded at Disraeli's declara- tions, 462; resigns, 471; his joke on the constitution of Aberdeen's Cabinet, 472; fails to form a Ministry in 1855, vi. 51; condemns Commodore Lambert's seizure of the Burmese ship, 238 n.; second Administration of, 320.
Derbyshire, no contest in, for twenty, years, i. 119.
De Rigny, Admiral, in command of the French fleet off Greece, joins Codring- ton at Vourla, iii. 122; at Navarino, 124-125.
De Ruyter sails up the Thames, i. 108. Descartes, his influence on religious thought, v. 246.
De Tocqueville, M., quoted, iii. 380; his views on associations, iv. 398; supports
the cause of the Hungarian refugees, v. 407; called scatter-brained Palmerston, 444 n.
De Villèle, M., forms a Ministry, iii. 34; the Duke of Wellington's interview with, 45; his irritation at British policy, 61; his press prosecutions and fall, 156, 159.
Devitt, Edward, murdered, v. 186. Devon, Lord, serves on Commission on Irish land tenure, v. 123.. Devonport unrepresented, ii. 320. Devonshire, Duke of, Canning dies at his house at Chiswick, ii. 367; his in- fluence in Derby, iv. 38, n.; v. 417. Dhian Singh, favourite of Runjeet Singh, vi. 218; supports Shere Sing, 219; murdered, 220.
Dhuleep Singh, son of Runjeet Singh, vi. 218; raised to the throne, 220. Diaz, Bartholomew de, his discoveries, i.
Dicey, Professor, his remarks on colonial constitutions, vi. 377 n.
Dick, Sir Robert, leads the assault at Sobraon, vi. 223.
Dickens, Charles, his materials for the opening scene in "Pickwick," ii. 287; "Bleak House," referred to, iii. 277; "Oliver Twist," iv. 365; his description of the Marshalsea, 420.
Diebitsch, Marshal, his campaign of 1829, iii. 143, 230; in command against the Poles, iv. 270; plan of his campaign, 271; defeated, 272; dies, 274. Dietz, Prince Ferdinand's adviser, v. 370. Dilke, Sir Charles, his forecast of the future of New Zealand, vi. 363; his re- marks on the Christian conversions among the Maories, 364. Disendowment, an early motion for, v.
Disraeli, Benjamin (afterwards Earl of Beaconsfield), tries to unite Tories and Radicals, iii. 363; opposed to the Poor- Law, 448; iv. 362; his novels, 369; moves the rejection of the bill for continuing the Poor Law, 369; ridicules the social quacks, 375; his speech on the Chartist petition, 385; condemns the Local Police Bill, 387; his verdict on the Im- port Duties Committee, v. 11 n. ; attacks Peel's ministry, 50; his ridicule of the Cabinet Councils of 1845, 131; denounces Peel's "subime audacity," 138; his active opposition to Peel's Corn Bill, 140; comparison of with Bentinck, 142; becomes leader of the Tory party, 202; endeavours to lighten the taxes of the landlords, 206; asks an explanation of progress," 217; moves a revision of the Poor Laws, 226; declares his want of sympathy with the Poles, 369; his motion in 1851 for the relief of the agriculturists, 424; moves the claims of the landlords to participate in fiscal relaxations, 432; Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, 451; his predictions about free
trade falsified, 458; declares his abandon- ment of protection, 463: his amendment of Mr. Villiers' resolutions, 464; accepts Palmerston's resolutions instead, 465; his Budget, 465; defeated, 471; his re- mark on coalition governments, 472; his life of Lord George Bentinck, vi. 131; his criticisms on the Afghan war, 174; his apophthegm respecting great countries, 322.
Disraeli, Isaac, iv. 367.
Disruption controversy, v 295; rise of the Moderate party, 303; protest of the Evangelicals against pluralities, 305; the agitation for the call, 307; adop- tion of Veto Act, 309; the Auchterarder case, 310; refusal of the Evangelicals to accept the decision of the House of Lords, 312; the Strathbogie case, 314; expulsion of presbyters for complying with the law, 315; the declaration, claim, and protest, 318; the secession, 320; connection of the controversy with the Tractarian movement, 320. Dissenters, disabilities of, i. 155, 156; their position in 1828, ii. 377; grievances of, iv. 69; successes of, 70; marriages, Peel's bill for, 71; Russell's bill for, 71; passed, 72; marriage of Roman Catholics by Roman Catholic priest illegal and children illegitimate, 148; oppose the educational clauses of the Factory Bill, V. 74; endeavours to remove their dis- abilities, 260. (See Universities, Church Rates.)
Dissolution, the, of 1818, i. 392; of 1820, ii. 85; of 1818, 324; of 1830, 449; of 1831, iii. 211; of 1841, iv. 369; v. 1; of 1847, 172; of 1852, 457:
Distillation, illicit, its prevalence, ii. 185; history of, iv. 445.
Distress in 1816, i. 158, 331, 337, 339-345; grants in aid of, in 1817, 373; in 1819, 415, 416; in 1820, ii. 91; in 1826, 206; in 1829, 426; in 1830, iii. 178, 179; between 1837 and 1842, iv. 357; its extent in 1842, v. 16, 20; its effect on the revenue, 23.
Divett, Mr., his motion against Church rates, v. 254 n.
Division lists, publication of, iv. 344. Dniester, the boundary of Russia, iii. 38. Dog-carts, suppression of, iv. 402. Doherty, Solicitor-General for Ireland, iii.
Dudley, "Dud," discovers a mode of smelting iron with coal, i. 63. Dudley, Lord, his description of the pro- sperity of 1825, ii. 181; accepts Foreign Öffice, 356; retains it under Wellington, 374; endeavours to mediate between Wellington and Huskisson, 388; retires, 388; his opinion of Navarino, iii. 131; his views on Eastern po icy, 131. Duelling, iv. 433; judicial opinions on, 434; reluctance of juries to convict for, 435; resorted to by members of Parlia- ment, 436; trial of Lord Cardigan for,
437; society formed for abolishing, 440; suppressed in the army, 440.
Duels, famous, i. 135, 136.
Dufay, electrical discoveries of, v. 64. Duffy, Mr. (afterwards Sir) Charles Gavan, edits the Nation, v. 94; his ability, 189.
Dufour, General, his campaign against the Sonderbund, v. 377.
Dum Dum, origin of the greased cartridge panic at, vi. 290.
Duncan, Lord, his motions on the window tax, v. 427.
Duncannon, Lord (afterwards Lord Bess- borough), introduces O'Connell, ii. 422; on the Reform committee, iii. 206; sup- ports Wrottesley's call of the House, 384; Home Secretary, 469; O'Connell's letter to, 473.
Duncombe, T. S., his motion in behalf of Chartist convicts, iv. 391 m.; moves a hearing for the Chartists, v. 19; his motions respecting the Westminster theatres, 294; his motions on letter- opening, 379 n.
Dundas, Rt. Hon. Robert (afterwards Lord Melville), supports the Quarterly Re- view, i. 265.
Dundas, Hon. R., his pension thrown out, ii. 441.
Dundas, William (Lord Clerk Register), defends the royal boroughs, ii. 334; de-
fends the representative system of Edin- burgh, 341..
Dundee, its importance as a seat of the linen trade, i. 58.
Dunning, his motion against the influence of the Crown, ii. 317.
Dunwich, borough of, i. 122; ii. 320. Dupleix, governor of French India, vi.
Dupuis, consul at Coomassie, ii. 213. Durham, members given to by Charles II., i. 115; jurisdiction in Palatinate of, iii.
Durham, Lord, his opinion of the Revolu- tion of July, iii. 175; Privy Seal, 192; his views on Reform, 206; a party to the dissolution of 1831, 212; proposes to create Peers, 236; attacks Lord Grey, 237; objects to Stanley's Irish bills, 369; retires on an earldom, 387; selected for mission to St. Petersburg, 387 m.; alleged to have planned Ward's appropriation motion, 460 n.; attacks Brougham, iv. 130; sent to Canada, 131; his character, 131; his conduct, 131; attacked in Par- liament, 132; resigns, 133; returns home, 134; his Canada report, 135; his failure, 137; his mission to St. Petersburg, 258; unsuccessfully intercedes for Poland, 279; his opinion of Nicholas I., vi. 57. Durham letter, the, v. 286, 422; quotation from, 424 n.
Dutch, the, their trade with India, i. 107; their naval superiority in the seventeenth century, 198; join in the expedition to Algiers, 205, 209; drinking habits of the,
iv. 443; navigation laws directed against the, v. 214. Dymoke, the Champion, his office at the coronation of George IV., ii. 73.
EAST INDIA COMPANY, the, its exclusive privileges, i. 107, 109; abolished, 109; termination of monopoly of, iii. 423, 435 n.; thrilling character of its achieve- ments, vi. 68; why it sought a monopoly, 69; how its servants came to engage in war and diplomacy, 71; extensions of territory forbidden by the, 73; deprived of its monopoly, 73; possessions won for it by Cornwallis, 75; by Wellesley, 78; sale of offices by directors of the, 101; extent of its territory at the time of Lord Moira's arrival, 111; its charter of 1833, 144, 145; which led to war with China, 194 2.; abolition of, 321; review of its rule, 322.
East Retford, bribery at, in 1826, ii. 384; bill for disfranchising, 385. Ebrington, Lord, introduces O'Connell,
i. 422; elected for Devonshire, iii. 176; his resolution on the defeat of the Re- form Bill, 222; made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, iv. 160.
Ecclesiastical Commission, disclosures of the, v. 256; its functions, 260. Ecclesiastical Courts (see also Delegates, Court of), appeals from transferred to Privy Council, iii. 292 n.; members of Parliament not subject to decrees of, 314; members made subject to, 315; Pollock's bill for consolidating, iv. 15; v. 262; instances of the exercise of their jurisdiction, 262; reformed, 264. Ecclesiastical Titles Act introduced, v. 422; modified, 429; made retrospective, and passed, 431.
Edgeworth, Maria, her account of illicit stills in Ireland, i. 185; her novels, 253- 256.
Edinburgh, its situation, population, and history, i. 92, 93, 261; representation of, Abercromby's motion on, ii. 341; obtains a private Act for a theatre, iii. 307; Grey banquet at, 475; School of Arts in, iv.
Edinburgh Review, the, i. 242.
Education, of the higher classes, i. 132; promoted by political causes, 132; de- fects in, 133; at the Universities, 134; elementary, in 1816, 186; disliked by the upper classes, 186; in England, 186, 187; in Scotland, 187; improvements in, 189; in Ireland, iii. 351; v. 116; the Charter schools, iii. 351; commissions on, 352; Kildare Place schools, 353; Stanley's scheme for, 354; attacked, iv. 181; pro- gress of, 182; in England, condition of, in 1839, 182; first grant for, 183; insuffi- ciency of grant for, 183, 184; Russell's scheme for, 184, 186; state of, in 1841, 373; grant, 399; abortive attempt in 1843 to provide, v. 73; Maynooth Col-
lege, 117.; establishment of the Queen's Colleges, 121; in India, vi. 151; verna- cular schools instituted for, 263; its effect on the moral condition of the people, 393. Edward I., statute of, against tavern haunting,
Edwardes, Lieutenant (afterwards Sir Her- bert), repulses the army of Moolraj, vi.
Edwards, George, informs against the Cató Street conspirators, i. 438; leaves the country, 440.
Edwards, Mr., rejected by the Strathbogie presbytery, v. 314.
Edwards, Mr., his interview with the governor of Rangoon, vi. 236. Egerton, Lord Francis, wins South Lanca- shire, iv. 6; moves amendment to Irish Corporation Bill, 62; repeats the motion, 89. Egypt, British occupation of, proposed by the Czar, vi. II.
Eldon, Lord, sinecures enjoyed by his family, i. 129; condemns battue shoot- ing, 138; his parentage, 147; his defence of the Criminal Code, 169; Shelley's description of, 245; his character and career, 294, 295, 303; his account of the distress of 1816, 342; joins the Brunswick Club, 400; his opinion of the Peterloo massacre, 422, 423; his views in 1819, 428; mobbed in Ringwood, ii. 51; at the Queen's trial, 52; his remarks on the Civil List, 86; opposes the reform of the Criminal Code, 133; opposes the Mar- riage Act, 149; opposes the Spitalfields Bill, 174; exerts his influence in 1826 against Palmerston, 211; at the Duke of York's funeral, 218; his religious views, 246; his opposition to the Roman Ca- tholics, 260, 419; his opinion on the Grampound Bill, 331; his resignation, 352; his exclusion from the Wellington Ministry, 375; his opposition to the re- peal of the Test Act, 380; denounces the Irish Church Bill, 384; his opinion of the Clare election, 392; his dislike of Canning's policy, iii. 70; his delays and doubts, 280; his political and legislative duties, 281; serves on Chancery Com- mission, 284; protests against Irish Tithe Bill, 348; his position in 1833, 360; his opinion of the trade demonstration in 1834, 441; his dislike of the Corporation Act, iv. 39, 42; his speech on the Dis- senters' Marriage Bill, 71.
Election, the general, of 1818, i. 392, 393; of 1820, ii. 86; of 1826, 209, 313; of 1830, iii. 176; of 1831, 214; of 1832, 357; of 1834, iv. 6; of 1837, 99; of 1841, 225; v. 1; of 1847, 172; of 1852, 458. Election committees, conflicting decisions of, iv. 138; Buller's bill for reconstitut- ing, 139; injustice of, 208; bills for re- forming, 209.
Election Law, the. See Registration. Electricity, successive investigations of, v. 63; applied to telegraphs, 67.
Elizabeth, Queen, endeavours to check the growth of London, i. 83; the people her army, 192; her religious policy, ii. 221, 223, 225; her rule, iii. 2; her auto- cratic language, v. 440.
Ellenborough, the first Lord, sinecures enjoyed by his family, i. 129; unable to read the "Wealth of Nations," 216; presides at the trials of Hone, 380; his retirement, 381; opposes the reform of the Criminal Code, ii. 133, 134; his sen- tence on Lord Cochrane, iii. 10. Ellenborough, the second Lord (afterwards Earl of), his opinion and vote at the Queen's trial, ii. 57; his opinion of the Spitalfields Acts, 174; Lord Privy Seal, 375; President of Board of Control, 396; his views on the Eastern question, iii. 137; his opinion of cheap law, 286 n.; President of Board of Control, iv. 4; approves Lords' amendments to Corpora- tion Act, 43; his issue of war medals, 427; his declaration on the Hunt trial, 429; President of the India Board, v. 1; appointed First Lord of the Admir- alty, 136; President of the Board of Control, vi. 142; his views of foreign policy, 143; his wishes relative to the East India Company, 145; his present to Runjeet Singh, 157; his negotiations with Scinde for the navigation_of_the Indus, 168; appointed Governor-General of India, 194; his character, 195; desires the withdrawal from Afghanistan, 199; his orders to the generals, 206; his proclamation respecting the Somnauth gates, 202; desires to retain command of the Indus, 203; finds pretexts for in- tervention in Scinde, 203; his demands on the Ameers, 205; entrusts the work of coercion to Sir Charles Napier, 206; censure of his conduct at home, 213; his interference in Gwalior, 214; re- called, 214; characteristics of his rule, 214; his friendship with Sir H. Hardinge, 216; his condemnation of Canning's Oudh proclamation, 320; retires from the India Board, 320.
Ellice, Rt. Hon. E., Secretary at War, iii. 461.
Elliot, Captain Charles, ambassador to China, 195; surrenders the opium, 195; refuses Lin's severe terms, 196; appeals to Auckland for armed assistance, 196; declares a blockade, 197; his conduct of the war, 197.
Elliot, his defence of Gibraltar, i. 98.
Elliott, Ebenezer, quoted, iv. 420; his view of the tax upon corn, v. 17. Elliott, Hugh, vi. 195 n.
Ellis, George, supports the Quarterly Review, i. 265; sells Claremont, ii. 2. Ellis, C. (afterwards Lord Seaford), his defence of slavery, iii. 393 n.
Elphinstone, his amendment on the in- come-tax, V. 13.
Elphinstone, General, appointed to the command in Cabul, vi. 178; his mili- tary unfitness, 183; urges negotiating instead of fighting, 185; begins the retreat, 187; detained as a hostage, 188. Elphinstone, Lord, his energy during the Indian mutiny, vi. 314.
Elphinstone, Mountstuart, his mission to Afghanistan, vi. 94..
Ely, riots at, in 1816, i. 344. Ely, Lord, v. 105 n.
Emaum Ghur, Napier's march to, vi. 210. Emigrants, sufferings of, iii. 328; number of, 328; number of, in 1836-40, iv. 399; Irish, sufferings of, v. 208.
Emigration encouraged by the Govern
ment in 1819, i. 415; early attempts at, iii. 325; extent of, in 1815 and 1832, 325; cost of, 325; committee on, 326; bill for regulating, 327; facilities for, by steam, iv. 399, 400; increase in, vi. 341; causes of, in the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries, 338; effects of, on the condition of the labouring classes, 389. Emmet, rebellion of, ii. 263. Enclosures, land, i. 144; effect of, on the iii. 312
Encumbered Estates Act passed, v. 169; its results, 169.
England, her fortunate situation, i. 95; the causes of her prosperity, 96.
England, General, forces the Bolan Pass,
English-speaking races, rate of increase of, vi. 381.
Enniskillen, Lord, Deputy Grand Master of Orange Lodges, iv. 54. Episcopacy in Scotland, history of, v. 298. Equity. See Chancery.
Erastianism, hostility of the Scotch to, v. 300.
Erskine, Lord, at the Queen's trial, ii. 53; his saying about the Grenvilles, 1175 his efforts to promote kindness to ani mal-, iii. 296 n.
Espartero made Regent, v. 354; fall of, 356.
Essex, Poor Law in, iii. 321.
Essex, Lord, his denunciation of the Anti- Corn Law League, v. 129..
Esterhazy, Prince, his magnificence, ii. 73. Estimates, attack upon, in 1816, i. 334; their amount in 1820; ii. 92; in 1821, 113; in 1822, 118; in 1823, 151; in 1824, 165; in 1825, 183; in 1830, 438; referred to select committees, v. 199.
Eton, education at, i. 133; Canning and Lord Wellesley at, 307; Shelley at, 244; dread of railways at, iv. 354.
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