Index^ 501 Reunion of the party on the break-up of Pitt's ministry in 1801, 73 ; Fox and Grey and the party, 77 ; position of at dissolution in 1830, 223 ; first use of the name of to cover Whigs and Radicals, its effect, 240, 241 ; gains in general election, 1835, confined chiefly to Radicals, 260 ; two sections of, their respective positions, 485 Libraries free, acts to establish and their result, 379 Linton, W. J., 336 Littleton, E., 88, 96 Littleton, E. J. , 235, 252, 268 Liverpool, city of, in, 163, 231, 320, 368, 431, 444, 471 Liverpool, Earl of, secretary at war, 97 ; premier in 1812, his ministry, 109 ; defeat of on budget in 1816, 1 17 ; manner of his Government's dealing with the reform agitation, 118 et seq. ; Seditious Meetings Act, 122 ; more re- pression after Peterloo affair, 135 etseq. ; conduct of Government with regard to Queen Caroline, 146 ; divisions in Government on Catholic emancipation, 156 ; alliance with the Grenvillites, 157 ; the Spitalfields Act, 176 ; illness of and its consequences, 192 Loans to meet deficits in 1816, 117 London, city of, 13, 20, in, 119, 231, 3!5. 359. 3 6 8, 43i Londonderry, second Marquis of. See Castlereagh Londonderry, third Marquis of, 196 London University, 444, 471 Lopes, SirM., 215 Lords, House of. See peers Loughborough, Lord, 58 Lovett, William, Chartist, 293, 295, 327, 336, 360 Lowe, Robert (afterwards Viscount Sher- brooke), 417 (note), 458, 469 Lucas, Samuel, 377 Luddites, the, 108 Lyndhurst, J. S. Copley, Lord, opposes Catholic emancipation in 1827, 193 ; takes office under Canning, 197 ; his opposition to Liberalism, 257, 269, 276, 306 ; life peerages, 422 Lytton, E. Bulwer, afterwards Lord, teller in division against Irish coercion in 1838, 236 ; his character, 239 ; motion to repeal stamp duty on newspapers, 255 ; votes for reform in 1839, 297 (note) ; his efforts in Radical cause, defeat for Lincoln and afterwards (in 1852) returned as a Tory, 213 ; amend- ment to Layard's administrative reform resolution, 417 M Macaulay, T. B. (afterwards Lord), his- torian, 14 ; votes for the ballot, 300 ; enters the Cabinet, 304 ; Chartist petitioners, 322 ; opposes 1860 Reform Bill, 444 Macdonald, 171 Machinery : riots in 1812, 107 ; inquiry and legislation respecting it in 1824, 178 ; panic and consequent reaction, 182 Macintosh, Sir James, 153, 172, 185 Mackerrow, Rev. W., 377 Madocks, W. A., 94 Maguire, J. F., 454, 460 Malt tax, 377, 431 Manchester : corn law question, 131 ; reform question, 131, 474; St. Peter's Field catastrophe, 133 et seq. ; proposed enfranchisement of, 210, 220 ; Chartist demonstration, 362 ; national educa- tion, 377 ; India Bill, 431 ; proposed additional member, 444, 474 Manhood suffrage advocated by West- minster committee, 31 Manners, Lord John, 390 (note) Marriage law amendment, 250, 264, 2 75 Maynooth. See Ireland Mazzini, Joseph, 339, 457 Meetings, public, a distinguishing feature of period 1768-1770, 122 ; acts to pre- vent, 73, 122, 123 Melbourne, Lord, in office under Grey, 226 ; becomes premier, his political principles, 254 ; dismissal of ministry by the King, 257 ; premier a second time, negotiations for ministry, 268 ; weakness of Government, 276, 307, 308 ; corn law question, 279, 297, 307 ; his declaration as to folly of abolishing protection, 297 ; Jamaica disturbances and defeat and resignation, 299 ; the "bed-chamber question," 299; Irish municipal reform, 303. See also Ireland ; discredit of Government in 1839, 303 ; changes, 304 ; position in 1840, 305 ; defeat of Government on the budget, 310 ; votes of confidence, 310, 312 ; Conservatism and Radicalism, 315 Melville, Lord. See Dundas Miall, Edward, and the Chartists, 360; first enters Parliament for Rochdale, 395 ; primogeniture abolition, 406 (note) ; administrative reform, 417 (note) ; national education, 420 ; mo- tion to disendow Irish Church, 421 Middlesex, 285 Miles, W., 334, 339, 348 Militia Bill, the, 390 Mill, John Stuart, autobiography, 328 ; enters Parliament for Westminster, 463 ; his influence, 467 ; Irish griev- ances, 468 ; a hero of the reform demonstrations, 474 Milnes, R. M. (afterwards Lord Hough- ton), notes on pp. 378, 406 Moldavia, 419 Moles worth, Sir William, character of, 238 ; corn laws, 279 ; property quali- fication and peerage reform, 280 ; reform, notes on pp. 289, 364 ; Char- tist petition, 301 (note) ; representative government in colonies, 372 ; in Aberdeen's Cabinet, 398
