Index. 509 340; redress of grievances, 332 (note) ; Maynooth grant, 343 ; takes office under Russell, 351 ; restraints of office, absence from Radical divisions, 355 Wardle, G. L., 94 Warrington, 126 Waterloo, battle of, 114 Watson, 119 Wellesley, Marquis of, 97, 108, 252 Wellington, Duke of, victories in Spain, in ; congress of Verona, 168 ; Can- ning, 92 ; in office and retirements from same, 19;, 196, 204, 226, 257, 349; Can- ning's Corn Bill, 200 ; expectations of the Tories, 204 ; Test and Corporation Acts, 207, 208 ; his first principle, 209 ; humiliation on Corn Bill, 209 ; dissen- sions in Cabinet, 210, 211 ; Catholic emancipation, 212, 213 ; weakness of Ministry, 222 ; reform question, 225, 228 ; defeat of Ministry, 226 ; Irish municipal reform, 306; saves Whig Ministry from defeat in the Lords, 367 ; his death, 394 ; Funeral, 396 Wensleydale, Lord (Sir James Parke), 421 Westbury, Lord. See Bethel Western, Mr., 116 Westminster, 127 (Hustings Bill], 189, 231, 241 (vote of censure on members], 285, 463 Westminster committee, the, establish- ment and objects, 27 ; position and connection with Pitt and Fox, 27 ; action in 1779, 1780, and 1783, 28, 29, 32-41 ; members and chairman, 28 ; comprehensive scheme of reform, 31 ; alienation of sympathy from Fox on his coalition with North, 41 ; still presses reform, 42 ; division over Fox's conduct, 43 ; supports Fox at West- minster election, 44 ; resolution on Pitt's action, 44; resolution on reform at last recorded meeting in 1785, 47 Westmoreland, Lord, 195 Wetherell. Sir Charles, 196 Weymouth, Lord, 19 Whigs, Whig party : Whiggism became a creed after 1688, 4 ; differentiation of Radicals from them, 10 ; their supre- macy and Chatham's objection to them, 12; their loss of power, 13, 14 ; taxation of the colonies, 16 ; John Wilkes, 19 ; their theory of Government, 25 ; the regency question, 48 ; position and connection with Prince of Wales, 49 ; Sir Erskine May on the party, 52 ; French revolution, 55 ; desertion of many of the leaders, 58 ; their influence in the Lords, 61 ; effect of the mild Whigs joining the Tories, 61 ; Pitt, 63 ; peace with France, 74 ; Windham a typical Whig, 77 ; ecclesiastical ques- tions, 104; economic reform, no; formal recognition of distinction between them and Radicals, 118, 128 ; coercion bills, 122; word "Whig" ceases to be considered as synonomous with "Liberal," 127; Queen Caroline, 146 ; effect of alliance of Grenvillites and Government, 158 ; Test and Cor- poration Acts, 207 ; small nomination Boroughs and Reform Act, 232 ; the three stages of their relations towards Radicals, 233 ; Roebuck's opinion of them, 239 ; the term Liberal adopted, 239 ; the effect of Radicalism on the party, 287, 288 ; their desertion of Lord Durham, 290; become a minority of Liberal party, 293 ; their advance to- wards corn law repeal, 333 ; com- parison of their aristocracy to Venetian oligarchy, 351 ; instance of their incon- sistency, 352 ; fatality attending them when opposed to Peel, 359 ; misman- agement of finances, 364 ; Aberdeen Ministry, 398 ; cabal against 1860 Re- form Bill, 444 ; comparison of a pure Whig ministry to the dodo, 445 ; folly of mild Whigs in 1866, 465 ; equality of Radicals in influence, 483 ; their indifference at first to reforms origi- nated by Radicals, 484 Their attitudes at various times towards reform questions, 21, 37, 83, 93, 126, 131, 140, 141, 12, 153, 198,404 Irish tithes, 265, 270^ 274, 275, 291, 292 Their relations towards the Radicals, 26, 36, 104, 118, 128, 233, 277, 281, 287, 288, 292, 293, 315, 363, 483 Their relations towards the Tories, 61, 91, 97, 158, 281, 292, 293, 315, 410, 475 Their position and influence at various times, 12, 13, 14, 61, 75, 90, in, 260, 276, 311, 315, 367, 384 Divisions in the party, 19, 39, 55, 83 Whitbread, S., proclamation against sedi- tious writings, etc., 57; reform, 59 (note) ; Education Bill, 94 ; libel pro- secutions, 106 ; Coercion Bill, 107 ; sinecure places, no; Alien Act, 113; war with France, 114 White, J., 449 Whitmore, corn law reform, 175, 187 Wilberforce, William, 78, 84, 116 Wilkes, John, 18, 22, 28 Wilkinson, W. A., 425 William IV., his dislike and dismissal of the Whigs, 2^7; his death, 281; its effect on Melbourne's Government, 282 ; his character, 282, 283 Williams, Colonel, 248 Wilson, George, 377 Wilson, Sir Robert, classed as Radical in 1818, 127 ; member for Southwark, 150, 189 ; a very pronounced Radical, 151 ; supports Canning, 199 ; opposes repeal of one of the "Six Acts," 199 ; opposes Government on clause of Re- form Bill and loses his seat, 228 (note) Windham, William, connection with Westminster committee, 33 ; opposi- tion to reform, 50, 83 ; bitter opponent of Whig party, 58 ; Pitt, 63 ; Home Tooke and others, 64 (note) ; retires from office, 72 ; hatred of France, 73, 77 ; opposes Pitt, 77 ; typical Whiggism,
