INDIA, Fox’s India Bill;
Pitt’s India Bill;
Mutiny in;
transfer of the authority of the Company
to the crown;
establishment of the Order of the Star
of India;
is visited by the Prince of Wales.
Ireland, affairs of;
connection with France;
rebellion in.
JAMAICA, planters in, compensated for the diminution
of the value
of their property by the abolition of
slavery;
disturbances in;
its constitution is suspended.
Judges, new tenure of their office.
KING, the, cannot be a witness in any legal proceeding.
LABOUCHERE, Mr. H., reproaches Sir Robert Peel for
not resigning.
Leopold, King of Belgium, points of the insufficiency
of the description
of Prince Albert.
Lewis, Sir. G.C., speech on the history and power
of the East India
Company.
Liverpool, Lord, earnest for the universal abolition
of the slave trade;
becomes Prime minister;
makes the Catholic question an open question
in the cabinet;
brings in, and subsequently withdraws,
a “Bill of Pains and
Penalties”;
against the Queen;
attacked by apoplexy and dies;
contemplates an increased grant to Maynooth.
Lopes, Sir M., procures the return of Mr. Pool for
Westbury.
Louise, Princess, marriage of.
Lowther, Sir John, obtains a grant of Inglewood Forest.
Luttrell, Mr., is declared elected for Middlesex.
Lyndhurst, Lord, carries an amendment on the Reform
Bill;
introduces a Regency bill.
MACINTOSH, Sir J., applies himself to mitigate the
severity of the law.
Mahon, Lord, brings in a bill to diminish the expenses
of elections.
Mansfield, Lord, condemns general warrants;
insists on the necessity of a bill of
indemnity;
vindicates the supremacy of Parliament;
his house is burnt by the rioters in 1780.
Martin, Mr., wounds Wilkes in a duel.
Massachusetts, riots in.
Maynooth, foundation of a college at;
is enlarged and more fully endowed.
Melbourne, Lord, becomes Prime-minister;
resigns;
resumes office;
mismanages the arrangements for Prince
Albert.
Melville, Lord, is impeached.
Metternich, Prince, is driven from Vienna.
Miles, Mr., defeats the government on the sugar-duties.
Moira, Lord, employed by the Regent to negotiate with
the Whig leaders
in 1812.
Money-bills, power of the House of Lords as to.
Montesquieu, M. de, his opinion of the English constitution.
Montmorin, M., Wilberforce writes to him on the subject
of the
slave-trade.
NAPOLEON, Louis, is elected President of the French
Republic;
his coup d’etat;
conspiracy against.
Navigation laws, the, repeal of.
Nelson, Lord, his victory at Copenhagen.
Newcastle, Duke of, Prime minister in 1760.
New Shoreham, disfranchisement of for bribery.
Newspapers, tax on, reduced and afterward abolished.