The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860
PREFACE.
CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
- CHAPTER I. Mr. Hallam's View of the Development of
the Constitution.Symptoms of approaching Constitutional
Changes.State of the Kingdom at the Accession of George
III.Improvement of the Law affecting the Commissions of the
Judges.Restoration of Peace.Lord Bute becomes Minister.The Case
of Wilkes.Mr. Luttrell is Seated for Middlesex by the House of
Commons.Growth of Parliamentary Reporting.Mr. Grenville's Act for
trying Election Petitions.Disfranchisement of Corrupt Voters at New
Shoreham.
- CHAPTER II. The Regency Bill.The Ministry of 1766
lay an Embargo on Corn.An Act of Indemnity is Passed.The Nullum
Tempus Act concerning Crown Property; it is sought to Extend it to
Church Property, but the Attempt fails.The Royal Marriage Act.The
Lords amend a Bill imposing Export Duties, etc., on Corn.
- CHAPTER III. Mr. Grenville imposes a Duty on Stamps
in the North American Colonies.Examination of Dr. Franklin.Lord
Rockingham's Ministry Repeals the Duty.Lord Mansfield affirms a
Virtual Representation in the Colonies.Mr. C. Townsend imposes Import
Duties in America.After some Years, the Civil War breaks
out.Hanoverian Troops are sent to Gibraltar.The Employment of
Hanoverian Regiments at Gibraltar and Minorca.End of the
War.Colonial Policy of the Present Reign.Complaints of the Undue
Influence of the Crown.Motions for Parliamentary Reform.Mr. Burke's
Bill for Economical Reform.Mr. Dunning's Resolution on the Influence
of the Crown.Rights of the Lords on Money-bills.The Gordon Riots.
- CHAPTER IV. Changes of Administration.The
Coalition Ministry.The Establishment of the Prince of Wales.Fox's
India Bill.The King Defeats it by the Agency of Lord Temple.The
Ministry is Dismissed, and Succeeded by Mr. Pitt's
Administration.Opposition to the New Ministry in the House of
Commons.Merits of the Contest between the Old and the New
Ministry.Power of Pitt.Pitt's India Bill.Bill for the Government
of Canada.The Marriage of the Prince of Wales to Mrs.
Fitzherbert.The King becomes Deranged.Proposal of a
Regency.Opinions of Various Writers on the Course adopted.Spread of
Revolutionary Societies and Opinions.Bills for the Repression of
Sedition and Treason.The Alien Act.The Traitorous Correspondence
Act.Treason and Sedition Bills.Failure of some Prosecutions under
them.
- CHAPTER V. The Affairs of Ireland.Condition of
the Irish Parliament.The Octennial Bill.The Penal
Laws.Non-residence of the Lord- lieutenant.Influence of the
American War on Ireland.Enrolment of the Volunteers.Concession of
all the Demands of Ireland.Violence of the Volunteers.Their
Convention.Violence of the Opposition in Parliament: Mr. Brownlow,
Mr. Grattan, Mr. Flood.Pitt's Propositions Fail.Fitzgibbon's
Conspiracy Bill.Regency Question.Recovery of the King.Question of
a Legislative Union.Establishment of Maynooth College.Lord Edward
Fitzgerald.Arguments for and against the Union.It passes the Irish
Parliament.Details of the Measure. General Character of the
Union.Circumstances which Prevented its Completeness.
- CHAPTER VI. A Census is Ordered.Dissolution of
Pitt's Administration.Impeachment of Lord Melville.Introduction of
Lord Ellenborough into the Cabinet.Abolition of the Slave-trade.Mr.
Windham's Compulsory Training Bill.Illness of the King, and
Regency.Recurrence to the Precedent of 1788-'89.Death of Mr.
Perceval.Lord Liverpool becomes Prime-minister.Question of
Appointments in the Household.Appointment of a Prime-minister.
- CHAPTER VII. The Toleration Act.Impropriety of
making Catholic Emancipation (or any other Important Matter) an Open
Question.Joint Responsibility of all the Ministers.Detention of
Napoleon at St. Helena.Question whether the Regent could Give
Evidence in a Court of Law in a Civil Action.Agitation for
Reform.Public Meetings.The Manchester Meeting.The Seditious
Meetings Prevention Bill.Lord Sidmouth's Six Acts.
- CHAPTER VIII. Survey of the Reign of George
III.The Cato Street Conspiracy.The Queen's Return to England, and
the Proceedings against her.The King Visits Ireland and
Scotland.Reform of the Criminal Code.Freedom of Trade.Death of
Lord Liverpool.The Duke of Wellington becomes Prime-minister.Repeal
of the Test and Corporation Act.O'Connell is Elected for Clare.Peel
Resigns his Seat for Oxford.Catholic Emancipation.Question of the
Endowment of the Roman Catholic Clergy.Constitutional Character of
the Emancipation.The Propriety of Mr. Peel's Resignation of his Seat
for Oxford Questioned.
- CHAPTER IX. Demand for Parliamentary Reform.Death
of George IV., and Accession of William IV.French Revolution of
1830.Growing Feeling in Favor of Reform.Duke of Wellington's
Declaration against Reform.His Resignation: Lord Grey becomes
Prime-minister.Introduction of the Reform Bill.Its Details.Riots
at Bristol and Nottingham.Proposed Creation of Peers.The King's
Message to the Peers.Character and Consequences of the Reform
Bill.Appointment of a Regency. Re-arrangement of the Civil List.
- CHAPTER X. Abolition of Slavery.Abridgment of
the Apprenticeship.The East India Company's Trade is Thrown
Open.Commencement of Ecclesiastical Reforms.The New
Poor-law.State of Ireland.Agitation against Tithes.Coercion
Bill.Beginning of Church Reform.Sir Robert Peel becomes
Prime-minister.Variety of Offices held Provisionally by the Duke of
Wellington.Sir Robert Peel Retires, and Lord Melbourne Resumes the
Government.Sir Robert Peel Proposes a Measure of Church
Reform.Municipal Reform.Measures of Ecclesiastical Reform.
- CHAPTER XI. Death of William IV., and Accession of
Queen Victoria.Rise of the Chartists.Resignation of Lord Melbourne
in 1839, and his Resumption of Office.Marriage of the Queen, and
Consequent Arrangements.The Precedence of the Prince,
etc.Post-office Reform.War in Afghanistan.Discontent in
Jamaica.Insurrection in Canada.New Constitution for Canada and
other Colonies.Case of Stockdale and Hansard.
- CHAPTER XII. Sir Robert Peel becomes
Prime-minister.Commercial Reforms. Free-trade.Religious
Toleration.Maynooth.The Queen's University.Post-office
Regulations.The Opening of Letters. Naturalization of
Aliens.Recall of Lord Ellenborough.Reversal of the Vote on the
Sugar Duties.Refusal of the Crown to Sanction a Bill.The Question
of Increase in the Number of Spiritual Peers.Repeal of the
Corn-laws.Revolution in France, and Agitation on the
Continent.Death of Sir Robert Peel.Indifference of the Country to
Reform.Repeal of the Navigation Laws.Resolutions in Favor of
Free-trade.The Great Exhibition of 1851.
- CHAPTER XIII. Dismissal of Lord
Palmerston.Theory of the Relation between the Sovereign and the
Cabinet.Correspondence of the Sovereign with French Princes.Russian
War.Abolition of the Tax on Newspapers.Life Peerages.Resignation
of two Bishops.Indian Mutiny.Abolition of the Sovereign Power of
the Company.Visit of the Prince of Wales to India.Conspiracy
Bill.Rise of the Volunteers.National Fortifications.The Lords
Reject the Measure for the Repeal of the Paper-duties.Lord
Palmerston's Resolutions.Character of the Changes during the last
Century.
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