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 Index. 497 of National Public School Association, 377 et seq. ; appointment of vice-presi- dent of council, 421 ; contest over the " Revised Code," 450 ; debate on treat- ment of inspectors' reports, 457 et seq. Effingham, Earl of, 33 Eldon, John Scott, Lord, Hardy's (and others) trial for high treason. 64 (note) ; character and ideas of government, 73 ; cabals with the King against Grenville Ministry, 87 ; Lord Chancellor, 89 ; Education Bill of 1807, 94 ; Castlereagh and Canning, 109 ; the Spitalfields Act, 176; Canning's South American policy, 177 ; refuses to serve under Canning, 192, 195 ; becomes the representative of antiquated party, not asked to join Wellington's administration, 205 Ellenborough, Lord, Lord Chief Justice and in the Cabinet, 82; approval by Commons, 83 Emmett, execution of, 76 Endowed schools : parliamentary pro- posals and motions, 434, 443, 445, 452, 453- 460 Epithets or names, political, tendency to use them against opponents, 52 ; con- sideration of their meaning, 52; term applied to Liberty and Reform at end of eighteenth century, 64 ; terms applied to Radicals in 1819, 127, 149 Equal electoral districts advocated by Westminster committee, 31 ; one of the "points" of the charter, 363; motion in favour of them in 1848, 363 Evans, Sir De Lacy, defeats Hobhouse at Westminster, 245 ; the reform ques- tion, 255, 297 (note); 364 (note); na- tional education, 378 (note) ; primo- geniture abolition, 406 (note) ; abolition of purchase in the army, 452 Evolution in national life, an instance of the continuity of, 60 ; repudiation of the principle by Government, 121 Ewart, William, his character, 238 ; primogeniture abolition, 280; defeat at 1837 general election, 285 ; the reform question, 316 (note) ; the education question, 329, 378 (note) ; his bill to establish free libraries, etc., 378 ; the advertisement duty, 379 ; corn law repeal, 396 Factory children, parliamentary pro- posals as to, 328 et seq., 333 el seq. Faithful, George, 238, 243 Farmers, hope of the Radicals in the, disappointed, 232 Fawcett, Henry, 464, 468 Fenian outbreak, 447 Financial questions in 1833, 244 ; troubles in 1844, 330 ; Whig mismanagement of finance, 364, 365 ; reductions in esti- mates, 368 Finlay claims (Greece), 379 Fitzpatrick, Colonel, 30, 33 Fitzvvilliam, Earls, 36, 58, 63, 138, 307 Fleetwood, Sir H., 300 Flood, Mr. 50 Folkestone, Lord, 95, 105, 125 Forster, Sir Charles, 395, 406 (note) Forster, W. E., 460, 465 " Forum, The British," 98 Fox, Charles James, leaves Norths ad- ministration and becomes a Liberal, 22 ; desire for reform, 26 ; connection with official Whigs and Westminster committee, 27 ; permanent chairman of Westminster committee, 28 ; in office under Rockingham, 36 ; resolution of Westminster committee praising his opposition to North, 36 ; supports Pitt's reform motion, 37; quarrel with Shel- burne, 39 ; King's objection to him, 39, 40, 41, 76 ; separation from Pitt, 39 ; influence on his intimates, 39 ; his treat- ment after quarrel with Shelburne, re- sentment and coalition with North and its consequences, 40 ; King cannot form Ministry without him, 41 ; aliena- tion of popular sympathy caused by coalition, 41 ; his position on Pitt's re- form motion, 42 ; dismissed from office by King, 42 ; contest with Pitt, 43 ; troubles with constituents and West- minster committee, 43 ; outrage on at his meeting, 43 ; his majority against Pitt reduced to one, dissolution, re- turned by narrow majority and scrutiny, 44 ; resume" of his character, his place in political life, 46 ; own opinion of himself, 46 ; outgrows effects of coali- tion, 49 ; French revolution, differ- ences with Burke, 50, 51 ; declaratory act with regard to libel, 56 ; opposes proclamation against seditious meet- ings, 57 ; proposes repeal of laws against Nonconformists, 57 ; advocates reform in 1793, 58 ; leads Radicals in uphill fight, 60, 63 ; reasons for belief in French revolution and Napoleon, 60 ; motion against subsidy to Emperor of Germany, 65 ; secession from Parlia- ment, its inexpediency, 66 ; union with Ireland carried during his secession, 67; supports peace of Amiens, 75 ; alliance with Grenville in 1804, 76 ; weak posi- tion, 82, 83 ; powerless to initiate Liberal measures, 84 ; efforts for peace, 84 ; illness and death, 85 ; character, work, and influence, 85, 86 Fox, W. J., elected for Oldham, 357; reform motion, 1848, 364 (note) ; the charter, 371 ; free schools, 387 ; Rus- sell's militia proposals, 390 (note) ; primogeniture abolition, 406 (note) ; administrative reform, 417 (note) ; Chinese question ("Arrow"), 424; loses his seat, 425 France : various effects and influence on parties in England of the French revo- lution, ii, 49, 50, 51, 64, 65 ; war with France, 58, 65, 74, 76, 85, 93, 112, 114; revolution in Spain, 168 ei seq. ; war 2 K