lkes.
Battle, wager of, abolished.
Bernard, trial of, as accomplice of Orsini.
Bishoprics, provision for the increase of;
exclusion of the occupants of the junior bishoprics from the House of
Peers;
resignation of, by aged bishops.
Blucher, Field-marshal, proposes to put Napoleon to death.
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