ended by foreign troops, and
professing a different religion to themselves. The assembly of Napoli,
however, as soon as they had been informed of the conclusion of the
treaty, dispatched an address to the King of Bavaria, praying him to
hasten the arrival of their monarch. The address was followed by a
deputation, which was received at Munich with marks of royal favour, and
which had been commissioned to assure their future sovereign of their
good will and ready submission to his rule. The young monarch quitted
Munich for Greece on the 6th of December, proceeding by the way of
Naples, Otranto, and Brindisi, to Corfu, where he was to be met by the
army intended to support his newly-erected throne. He made his entrance
into Napoli on the 5th of February, 1833; and the regency appointed
for the duration of his minority--for he was a minor--replaced the
provisional government.

CHAPTER XLIII.

{WILLIAM IV. 1832-1833}

_Meeting of Parliament; Reelection of Mr. Manners Sutton as
Speaker..... . Opening of the Reformed Parliament by the
King in person..... Case of Mr. Pease..... Irish Coercion
Bill..... Irish Church Bill..... Irish Tithe Bill.....
Financial Statements..... Bank of England Charter
renewed..... . East India Question..... Abolition of Slavery
in the Colonies..... Factory Bill..... The Corn Laws.....
Resolutions against Bribery, &c...... Bill to Remove the
Civil Disabilities of Jews..... Prorogation of
Parliament..... Foreign Affairs_

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT--RE-ELECTION OF MR. MANNERS SUTTON AS SPEAKER.

{A.D. 1833}

The first reformed parliament was opened by commission on the 29th of
January. The first business of the commons was to elect a speaker. Mr.
Manners Sutton had not been advanced to the peerage, although such a
mark of honour is usually bestowed on those who have filled the chair
for so long a period, and with such distinguished applause. At the
general election he had been returned one of the members for the
university of Cambridge; and ministers having obtained his consent to
put him in nomination, resolved to support his re-election as chairman.
This intention was not concealed; and on the meeting of parliament Mr.
Hume moved that Mr. Littleton, one of the members for Staffordshire,
should take the chair. The Radicals, of whom Mr. Hume was one of the
leaders, took this step on the score of Mr. Manners Sutton's politics,
con