Euphrates route to India abandoned, vi. 155.
Evans, Mr., one of the Sheriffs in 1840, iv. 201; committed, 202. Evans, Sir de Lacy, elected for West- minster, iii. 432; attacks new Poor Law, 447; attacks Prussia for helping Poland, iv. 279; his motion respecting Poland, 285; commands British legion in Spain, 303; returns to England, 309; elected for Westminster, v. 137; repulses the Russians at Inkerman, vi. 44; disabled, 45.
Evictions in Ireland, v. 91; their number,
Ewart, Mr., moves the abolition of capital punishment, iv. 404 and n.; moves the Prisoners' Counsel Bill, 417; his motion on the sugar duty, v. 34 n. Ewelme, rectory of, v. 283. Exchequer, Teller of, i. 129. Exchequer bills, refusal of the Ministry to issue, in 1826, ii. 201; funded, v. 3. Exchequer processes in Ireland, iv. 64. Excise, the, its origin during the Common- wealth, i. 32; its revival in the reign of Charles II., 32.
Exe, the, its use to Exeter, i. 68. Executions, demoralising incidents at, iv. 404; first demand to make them private,
FACTORY ACT, Robert Owen's connection with the, iv. 378; unsuccessful attempt to introduce educational clauses into the, v. 73; passage of the ten hours' clause, 78. Factories, children in, iii. 414; obtained from London, 415; their sufferings, 417; legislation respecting, 418; Sadler's bill, 420; committee on, 420, 421; Commis- sion on, 422; Poulett Thomson's bill of 1836, 423 n.
Fairman, Lieut.-Col., refuses to produce Orange records, iv. 57.
Faithfull, Mr., his disendowment motion, v. 254.
Falmouth, Lord, his influence in Truro, i. 122; his opinion and vote at the Queen's trial, ii. 57; acts as second to Lord Win- chilsea, 416.
Famine, the Irish, of 1822, ii. 275, 276; in Ireland, v. 159; in the Western High- lands of Scotland, 166.
Fancourt, Major, his motion to abolish flogging, iv. 430 n.
Fane, Sir H., Surveyor-General of Ord- nance, ii. 440.
Fantees, the, defeated by the Ashantees, ii. 212.
Fantôme, outrage on the, by Greek soldiers,
Faraday, his discovery of the anaesthetic properties of sulphuric ether, vi. 398. Fardell, Rev. H., pluralities held by, i. 153.
Fawcett, Colonel, killed in a duel by Lieu- tenant Munro, iv. 439; pension refused to his widow, 439:
Felony, counsel allowed in cases of, iv. 416.
Ferdinand, Emperor of Austria, abdicates, v. 401.
Ferdinand, Prince, marries the Queen of Portugal, v. 370; revolt caused by his unpopularity in the army, 370. Ferdinand IV. of Naples, iii. 15; driven out and restored, 15, 16; agrees to the Constitution, 16; invited to Laybach, 20; proceeds there in a British man-of- war, 20; forced to renounce the Consti- tution, 21.
Ferdinand VII., ascends the throne of Spain, iii. 4; abdicates and restored, 4; accedes to the Constitution, 13; removed to Seville and Cadiz, 56; proposes Con- ference at Paris on South American ques- tion, 64; death of, iv. 294; his marriages, 295, 296.
Ferguson, Sir R., member of the Devon Commission, v. 123..
Fergusson, Cutlar, signs the address to Althorp in 1834, iii. 468; his death, iv. 172 n.; denounces Russia's conduct to Poland, 279; his motion respecting Po- land in 1833, 284.
Fernanda, Princess, v. 355; selected for the Duc de Montpensier, 358; married to him, 365.
Ferozepore, threatened by the Sikhs, vi. 222; mutiny of Indian troops at, 280. Ferozeshah, battle of, vi. 222.
Ferrara entered by Austrian troops, v. 380.
Ferretti, Mastai. See Pope Pius IX. Ffolkes, Sir W., elected for Norfolk, iii. 176.
Ffrench, Lord, removed from the magis tracy, v. 200.
Ficquelmont, his appeal to Palmerston, v. 394; proposes fresh terms, 395. Fielden, Mr., supports the motion for a select committee on the Poor Law, iv. 366; presides at the Kersal Moor meet- ing, 383; prepares the Chartist petitions, 383; carries the ten hours' clause, v. 79.
Fielding, his plays, iii. 305. Fieschi, his infernal machine, iv. 314. Fife, electors of, i. 120; ii. 339. Financial year, alteration of, iii. 426.
Fine Arts Commission, the Prince Con- sort's presidency of the, iv. 408. Finlay, Mr., the case of, v. 409. Finloe, distress in, in 1822, ii. 275.
Finn, Mr., attacks Orange lodges, iv. 55; renews the attack, 58.
Finsbury, its increase, ii. 320.
Firearms, adoption of percussion caps for, iv. 428.
Fishbourne, Commander, refused an audi- ence by the governor of Rangoon, vi. 236.
Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury, opposes the reform of the Criminal Code, ii. 133. Fisher, Dr., iv. 421 .
Fitzgerald, M.P. for Kerry, withdraws motion for Roman Catholic emancipa- tion, ii. 362.
Fitzgerald, Rt. Hon. V. (afterwards Lord), President of the Board of Control, ii. 390; his abilities, 391; his defeat at Clare, 392; his account of Lord Angle- sey's Government, 400; his defence of free trade, 428; his Silk Bill of 1829, 428, 430; his illness and retirement, 439; death of, vi. 213.
Fitzherbert. Mrs., her marriage with the Prince of Wales, i. 276. Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl, his Parliamentary influence, i. 118, 119; made Lord Lieu- tenant of Ireland, 304; recalled, 304; re- moved from Lord Lieutenancy of York- shire, 427; appointed to conduct nego- tiation for the Queen, ii. 41; gives office to Grattan, iii. 334.
Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl, proposes a grant to Maynooth, v. 117.
Five Mile Act, the, enacted, ii. 227; re- pealed, 227 n.
Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun, i. 252. Flinders, exploration of South Australia by, vi. 357.
Flinn, Lieutenant, his connection with the Princess of Wales, ii. 16; his evidence, 54.
Flintshire, no contest in, for twenty years,
Flogging, of women abolished, i. 179 and n.; stopped, iii. 293; in the army, at- tacked, iii. 293: limited, iv. 429, 430; statistics of, 430; abolished in the native Indian army, vi. 138.
Flood, his secession from the popular cause in Ireland, i. 312; his quarrel with Grattan, 313.
Florida, its position under Spain, iii. 7; sold to the United States, 8. Fludyer, Sir S., Romilly's godfather, i. 321. Foley, Lord, his Parliamentary influence,
Follett, Sir William, his amendment to the Corporation Bill, iv. 40; spoken of as a possible Tory leader, 44; his suc- cessful defence of Lord Cardigan, 438. Foote opens the Haymarket, iii. 308. Forbes, Lady Elizabeth, ii. 13; leaves the Princess of Wales, 15.
Foreign Enlistment Act, the, of 1829, iii. II.
Foreign Legion, enlisted for service in Spain, iv. 303; attacked in Parliament, 303; Don Carlos declares it "dehors de la convention," 305; its ill success and bad treatment, 308.
Foreign Ministers, relations of the Crown with, v. 436.
Forgery, criminal law committee suggests
Four points, the, vi. 54; offer of Nicholas to accept, 54-
Fox, Rt. Hon. C., supports Wilberforce on the slave trade, i. 105; elected before he was of age, 133; his dislike of the "Wealth of Nations," 215; contradicts Prince's marriage with Mrs. Fitzherbert, 276; condemns Pitt's Reform Bill in 1784, ii. 318; his India Bill, vi. 73. Fox, Sec. of Ordnance, defeated at the Tower Hamlets in 1847, v. 173- Fox, the, fired upon by the Burmese, vi. 238, 239-
France (see Paris), her position in 1815, i. 2; the Revolution of 1789, 4; the rise of Napoleon, 5; the defeat of the Em- pire, 6; her population in 1793 and 1817, 24; her settlements at Pondicherry, 107, 108; draws a cordon sanitaire round the Spanish frontier, iii. 33; en- larges it to an army, 33; accepts the Protocol of St. Petersburg, 119; her proposals for coercing Turkey, 135; sends a force to the Morea, 140; history of, from 1824, 155; the coup d'état of 1830, 163; the Revolution of July, 163, 164; its position in 1830, iv. 232; i- vades Belgium, 244; co-operates with England in interference in Belgium, 250; protests against Austrian occupation of Italy, 263; irritation in, at Périer's Polish policy, 274; irritation in, at fall of Warsaw, 277; recognises Isabella, 297; declines to interfere in Spain, 302, 308; estrangement from England, 310; isolation of, 327; feeling in, for Egypt, 328; irritation in, at Palmerston's East- ern policy, v. 343; visited by Queen Victoria, 343; seizes the Marquesas Islands, 344; accepts the protectorate of Tahiti, 345; indignation in England at the treatment of Pritchard by, 348; undertakes the conquest of Algeria, 350; makes demands on Morocco, 351; orders the bombardment of Tangiers, 353; entente cordiale between England and, 353; is brought to an end, 367; offers help to the Queen of Portugal, 373; opposition of the Government to reforms in, 384; the Revolution of February in, 386; offers to help the Italians, 394; supports the cause of the Hungarian refugees, 407; mediates between England and Greece, 413; re- calls its ambassador from London, 415; Palmerston's threat to, in 1847, 435; the coup d'état in, 443; its claim respect- ing the Holy Places, vi. 3; prevents the firman to the Greek patriarch from being read at Jerusalem, 6; establish-
ment of the Second Empire in, 7; pro- nounced by the British Government to be in the wrong, 11; note of, known as the Vienna note, 18; asks Russia to accept the Porte's amendment, 22; supports England in its rejection of the note, 22; proposal of, relative to Russian ships, 26; recalls its ambassador from St. Petersburg, 27; joins England in an ultimatum to Russia, 29; unpopularity of the war in, 62; concerts terms of peace with Austria without the know- ledge of England, 63; early rivalry of, with England in India, 70; influence of, in India destroyed by Wellesley, 76, 77, 83; desire of, to secure a foothold in Australia, 357, 358.
Franchise, borough, proposed for Leeds, ii. 329; extension of, in Ireland in 1849,
Francis, Emperor of Austria, his views of government, i. 15.
Francis, his attempt to shoot the Queen, V. 26.
Francis, Colonel, murder of, vi. 299.
Francis Joseph, accession of, to the Aus- trian Empire, v. 401.
Fraser, General, defeats Holkar, vi. 87. Frederick, King of Prussia, his views of government, i. 15.
Free Church of Scotland established, v. 319.
Freehold estates not subject to contract debts, i. 148.
Freeholders, forty-shilling, in Ireland, bill for disfranchising, in 1825, ii. 310; their conduct in Waterford in 1826, 314; in 1829, 411; passed, 420.
Freemen, origin of, iv. 34; their privileges, 34; Tory defence of, 40 and n. Free Trade (see Corn Laws), promoted by the Budget of 1842, v. 15; results of, 151; results of, up to 1852, 458; debate on, in 1852, 463.
Fremantle, Sir Thomas, Chief-Secretary for Ireland, v. 116; forced to resign, 136. Fremantle, W., his opinion of the weakness
of the Ministry in 1819, i. 402; in 1821, ii. 63; his connection with Lord Buck- ingham, 116; receives a place at the India Board, 117.
French Revolution, its effects on religion, v. 249.
Freyre, General, in command in Leon, iii.
Froude, Richard Hurrell, v. 271; his death,
Fry, Elizabeth, her labours in prison re- form, i. 177, 178, 190; the prison re- former, iii. 390, 391.
Fuad Effendi, resignation of, vi. 12. Fulton, introduces steam navigation in America, i. 80; invents a steamboat, iii. 253-
Fursey, G., acquitted on a charge of riot, iii. 433.
Futteh Ali, Ameer of Scinde, vi. 167. Futteh Khan, murder of, vi. 157. Futtehabad, arrival of the six fugitives at, vi. 189.
Fyler, Mr., moves for a committee on the silk trade, ii. 428; his account of the dis- tress in Warwick in 1829, 431.
GAGGING ACT, Indian, vi. 317. Galileo, condemnation of, v. 243. Gallipoli, landing of the allied armies at, vi. 30.
Galvani, his discovery of galvanism, v. 65. Gama, Vasco de, his discoveries, i. 99. Game, sale of, i. 140; sale of, illegal, iii. 299. Game Laws, the, i. 137, 138; their failure,
140; description of, in 1830, iii. 298; bills for altering, 300; Althorp's bill, 301. Ganges Canal, vi. 263 n.
Gardner, Colonel, his successes in Kumaon, vi. 110.
Gargiulo, his evidence against the Queen,
Garrick, epigram on, iii. 304.
Gas used as an illuminating agent, i. 85; London lit with, 86.
Gascoyne, General, his motion on the ship- ping interest, in 1827, ii. 361; his motion on the Reform Bill, iii. 211; defeated at Liverpool, 214.
Gaskell, Mrs., her story of "Mary Bar- ton" referred to, iv. 359, 375, 385. Gatton, its condition, ii. 321.
Gell, Sir William, chamberlain to the Princess of Wales, ii. 13; leaves the Princess, 15; his evidence, 54. Genoa annexed to Piedmont in 1815, i. 15. Geology, assault of, on religion, v. 252. George I., penal laws of, ii. 239. George II., penal laws of, ii. 240. George III., his accession, i. 16; his character and career, 17, 273; effects of his insanity, 274, 275; his love for Lady S. Lennox, 275, vi. 206; his marriage with Queen Charlotte, 275; his death, 435; ii. 12, 27, 84; his library, 163; penal laws of, 240; his dread of Catholic emancipa- tion in 1801, 247, 248; his illness in 1810, 250.
George IV., his influence (as Duke of Cornwall) in Truro, i. 123; his intem- perance, 137; his character, 276; his mar- riage, 277; his expenditure, 277, 338; sup- ports the Ministry, 338; assaulted in 1817, 353; bill for protecting his person, 356; approves conduct of Lancashire magis-
trates at Peterloo, 424; reproves Com- mon Council of London, 426; desires a divorce, ii. 6, 19, 25, 28; his accession, 12; his severe illness, 13; Denman's attack on, 54; his coronation, 66-74; his visit to Ireland, 80, 81; his visit to Hanover, 82 n.; his speech in 1820, 86; desires an increased civil list, 86; his antipathy to Canning, 116, 128; his visit to Scotland, 129; iii. 44; dislikes the recognition of the Spanish colonies, 69, 72; captivated with Donna Maria, 155; presents his father's library to the nation, 163; desires to be Commander-in-Chief, 216, 356; his conduct as Regent, 250; his visit to Ireland, 261; thanks God for the rejection of the Roman Catholic claims, 313; his irresolute habits, 351; sends for Lord Goderich, 368; sends for Wellington, 374; complains that Wellington is king, 390; opposed to Roman Catholic Emancipation, 403; yields, 403; dismisses the Wellington Ministry, 408; recalls them, 409; his opinion of Lord Winchilsea, 416; his assent to the Relief Bill, 420; his death, 448; his character, 448; extravagance of, iv. 9; his visit to Dublin, v. 220; his obligations to Peel and Wellington in 1829, 233; his dislike of Lord William Bentinck, vi. 132; condition of agricul- ture before and after the accession of, 340.
Georgey, surrender of, v. 405.
Gérard, Maréchal, commands French
army supporting Belgium, iv. 244; commands attack on Antwerp, 259; minister in France, 306.
Germany, revolution in, in 1830, iv. 262. Ghisiliari, Marquis, recommends Bergami as Princess of Wales' courier, ii. 14. Gholab Singh, ruler of Jummoo, vi. 218; made an independent ruler, 224. Ghoorkas, the, vi. 105; their dispute with the British, 105; the war with the, 107. Ghuznee, capture of, vi. 172; surrendered to the Afghans, 199; retaken by Nott,
Gibbon, his history quoted, i. 225; v. 239; vi. 68.
Gibbs, Sir Vicary, unpopular and ill in 1819, i. 381.
Gibraltar, its capture, position, and im- portance, i. 98.
Gibson, Rt. Hon. Milner, his motion on
the sugar duties, v. 48 n.; receives an appointment at the Board of Trade, 155; returned for Manchester in 1847, 173; votes against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, 423; excluded from the Aberdeen Ministry, 473.
Giddy, Davies, his acquaintance with Davy, i. 65.
Gifford, Sir Robert (Solici or-and-Attor- ney-General), afterwards Lord Gifford, at the Queen's trial, ii. 49; his reply, 56; a member of the Chancery Commis- sion, iii. 284.
Gilbert, Thomas, steward to the Duke of Bridgewater, i. 71; introduces the Duke to Brindley, 71.
Gilbert, Dr., electrical discoveries of, v. 63. Gillespie, Sir Robert, defeat and death of, vi. 107; his repression of the mutiny at Vellore, 277.
Gin, excessive drinking of, in the eigh- teenth century, iv. 446.
Ginkel, General, concludes the Irish war, ii. 234.
Gioberti, Vincenzo, v. 379.
Gipps, Sir G., member of the Canada Com- mission, iv. 120.
Girardin, Emile de, urges Louis Philippe to abdicate, v. 388.
Giurgevo, repulse of the Russians at, vi.
Gizzi, Cardinal, appointed by the Pope Secretary of State, v. 380.
Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., suspends transportation to Van Diemen's Land, iv. 415; early political career of, v. 6; defends Peel's sliding scale, 7; declines to apply the Canada Corn Act to Aus- tralia, 25 n.; his reply on Lord Howick's motion, 27; his language on the free trade question in 1844, 56; resigns on the Maynooth question, 120; appointed to the Colonial Office in Stanley's place, 136; defeated at the re-election, 136; returned for Oxford University, 173; his sanction of an inquiry into the Naviga- tion Act, 216; opposes third-class Sunday trains, 293 n.; abstains from voting on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, 423; at- tacks Disraeli's Budget, 470; Chancellor of the Exchequer under Aberdeen, 472; still a Conservative in 1852, 473; his Budget of 1853, 474; its defect, a reli- ance on the future, 479; retires from the Palmerston Cabinet, vi. 52; his treat- ment of the transportation question, 373; his increase of the spirit duties in 1853, iv. 449.
Glasgow, its history, i. 88, 91; its varied industries, 92; threatened disturbances at, in 1820, 440; obtains private Act for a theatre, iii. 307; condition of the poor in, iv. 358, 359..
Glasgow University befriends Watt, i. 61. Glass duty repealed, v. 45.
Glenelg, Lord, softens the Canada de- spatches to please William IV., iv. 121; his supplementary despatch, 123; dis- allows Durham's ordinance, 133; dis- approves Durham's proclamation, 134; attack upon, in 1838, 158; retires, 160; urges West Indies to abolish apprentice- ship, 170.
Gloucester, Duke of, successful shooting at Holkham, i. 138.
Gloucestershire, dependent on the woollen trade, i. 45; Roman ironworks in, 62; no contest in, for twenty years, 119; allotments to poor first made in, iii. 323. Goa, intolerance of the Portuguese at, ii.
Goderich, Lord (see also Robinson, Rt. Hon. F., and Ripon, Earl of), refuses Wellington's amendment to the Corn Bill, ii. 365; forms a Ministry, 368; his incompetence, 371; resigns, 372, 374; Colonial Minister, iii. 192; proposed for Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland, 370; re- tires and is made Lord Ripon, 387; a timid friend of the negro, 406; his de- spatch to the slave colonies, 408; his retirement, 410; his Canadian policy, iv. 117, 118.
Goding, Mr., his murder, ii. 270. Godoï, Prince of the Peace, iii. 4. Godolphin, Earl of, as a financial minister, V. 474 n.
Godwin, Mary, i. 244.
Godwin, William, i. 222; views of, adopted by Robert Owen, iv. 379. Godwin, General, his expedition against Burma, vi. 240.
Gohud claimed by Scindia, vi. 87.
Gold, price of, i. 331, 396-400; the true basis of value, 411; discovery of, in Australia, v. 459, vi. 378; value of, 459. Goldsmith, his reproach of Burke, v. 230. Gonsalvi, Cardinal, refuses Queen Caroline a guard of honour, ii. 30.
Gooch, Mr., M.P., for Suffolk, ii. 102; obtains the agricultural committee of 1821, 104.
Good, Daniel, execution of, iv. 405. Goodenough, Bishop of Carlis e, i. 51. Goodricke, Sir H., elected for Stafford- shire, iv. 25.
Goold, Honorah, her abduction, ii 272. Gordon, Captain, conveys Mr. Pritchard from Tahiti, v. 347.
Gordon, Lord George, riots provoked by,
walla, 229; annihilates them at Gujerat, 230; approves the order relating to the sepoys' ration money, 283. Goulburn, Rt. Hon. W., stands for Cam- bridge University, ii. 210; Chief Secre- tary for Ireland, 261; an Orangeman, 280, 284; his tithe bill, 292; defends the Orange lodges, 295; limits Lord Althorp's inquiry into the state of Ire- land, 300; introduces bill for suppressing Catholic Association, 306; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 375; resists Roman Ca- tholic emancipation, 381; his economical reforms in 1830, 438; his Budget, 443; condemns the tax on transfers, iii. 204; resists Ebrington's motion in 1831, 222; his Irish Tithe Act, 341; elected for Cambridge University, 358; denounces Irish Church Act, 376; effects of his Irish Church Tithe Bill, 455; Home- Secretary, iv. 4; acknowledges Orange addresses, 55 n.; proposed for the Speakership, 178; moves amendment to Jamaica Bill, 179; opposes Russell's motion for an extra Government night, 343 n.; his establishment of free trade in beer, 448; Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, v. i.; deals with Baring's de- ficit, 3; his Budget of 1843, 27; of 1844, 28; his new annuities, 29; opposed on the sugar duty, 33: his reproof of Dis- raeli, 51; his reduction of the duties protecting kelp, 165; returned for Cam- bridge University in 1847, 173. Govindghur, mutiny at, vi. 281. Grafton, Duke of, his sinecures, i. 129. Graham, Sir J., his career, ii. 436; moves for a general reduction of salaries, 437; his attack on the Ordnance Office, 440; First Lord of the Admiralty, iii. 192; his views on Reform, 206; supports the proposal to create peers, 236; elected for Cumberland, 357; his silence in 1833, 424 votes against Althorp on Baron Smith's case, 453; resigns, 460; with- draws from Brooks's, iv. 49; moves that Agricultural Committee should not report, 83; defeated in Cumberland, 99; accepts office under Peel in 1839, 172; his speech on the railway schemes, iv. 354; his views of the Corn Laws in 1839, 396 n.; his statement of police expendi- ture, 409; deals with the press-gang question, 432; Home Secretary, v. 1; defends Peel's sliding scale, 6; con- verted to free trade, 27 n.; de- nounces Disraeli's mutiny, 51 2.; his bill for continuing the Poor Law, 68; his Factory Bill for 1843, 74; reintroduces it in 1844, 76; carries it, 77; his conces- sions to Ashley, 77; his attitude on the Irish question, 113; his Irish Colleges Bill, 121; supports Peel in 1845, 130; introduces the Life Bill in the Com- mons, 146; elected for Ripon in 1847, 173; states the points at issue between parties in the Scotch Church, 206 n.; his proposals on the Scotch Church
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