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