CONTENTS. 



Tower. — Delai/ in the Execution of the Order.— Saucy Letter from 

 Sir Francis to the Speaker of the House of Commons. — Sir Francis 

 taken from his House by force, and sent to the Tower. — Tumults 

 and Accidents. — Sir Francis Burdett's Letter to the Speaker laid by 

 him before the House. — Severe Strictures on the Conduct of Sir Fran- 

 cis Burdett. — Resolution of the House of Commons on Si Francis 

 Burdett's Letter to the Speaker.— Actions at Law brought by Sir 

 Francis Burdett against the Speaker, the Serjeant at Arms, and the 

 Earl ofMoira, as Constable of the Tower.— These Parties defended. 

 And the Privilege of the House of Commons, in the Cases to which 

 they refer, recognized by the Court of King's Bench, as Part of the 

 Law of the Land. — Addresses to Sir Francis Burdett, and Petitions 

 to the House of Commons for his Release; and also for that of Mr. 

 Jones from Newgate. — A grand Procession arranged, intended as an 

 Act of National Homage to Sir Francis Burdett, on the Day of his 

 Liberation from the Tower. — Sir Francis Burdett slips away from 



the Tower by Water Discontents at this. — But the Procession goes 



on.— Remarks on the Conduct of Sir Francis Burdett in conniving at 

 the Design, but declining to Join in the Procession. — Reflections on 

 the Practice of publishing Daily Accounts of what passes in Parlia- 

 ment 86 



CHAP. VII. 



Finance — Ways and Means of the Year for Great Britain and for 

 Ireland. — Affairs of the East India Company. — Offices in Reversion 

 Bill. — Passed in the House of Commons, but thrown out of the House 

 of Lords. — Third Report of the Committee of Finance. — Motion by 



■ Mr. Martin respecting Public Economy. — Resolutions on this Subject 

 moved by Mr. Banks respecting Sinecure Places and exorbitant 

 Salaries or emoluments. — Offices in Reversion Bill. — Resolutions 

 moved by Mr. Horner and agreed to, respecting Bullion, and Foreign 

 Coins, Bank Notes, S^c. 8^c. — Bullion Committee appointed — Their 

 Report. — Twelfth Report of the Commissioners of Military Inquiry. 

 — Expulsion of Mr. Hunt, for Peculation, from the House of 

 Commons • 116 



CHAP. vni. 



Mr. Brand's Motion for Parliamentary Reform negatived.— Mr. Grat- 

 tan's Motion for a Committee on the Catholic Petitions. — Debated. — 

 Negatived. — A Motion to thesameEffect in the Houseqf Lords, by the 

 Earl of Donoughmore, negatived. — Measures adopted by the Legisla- 

 ture for Conciliating the Attachment of the Irish Nation. — Motion by 

 Sir Samuel Romilly for bringing under the Consideration of the House 

 of Commons some Parts of the Criminal Law of this Couyitry.^" 

 Agreed to, and leave given to bring in a Bill for that Purpose. — Ob- 

 jections to the Bill — Debates. — the Bill rejected — Motion by Sir 

 Samuel Romilly for carrying into Execution the Acts already passed 

 for the Erection of Penitentiary Houses, for confning and employing 

 CoJivicls.—The Principle of this System approved, but some time 



