ce,
against the income-tax and the Army Estimates, 32;
on the proposal to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, 33, 34;
proposes to abandon politics, 34;
literary labours and travel, 34;
returned again for Tavistock at the General Election of 1818, 34;
first speech in the House of Commons on Parliamentary Reform, 35;
growth of his influence in Parliament, 36;
visit to the Continent with Thomas Moore, 36, 37;
impressions of Italy, 37;
brings forward in Parliament his first resolutions in favour of
Reform, 40;
his bill for disfranchising Penryn, Camelford, Grampound, and
Barnstaple, 40;
returned to Parliament for Huntingdon, 40;
and the case of Grampound, 40, 41, 42, 43;
takes the side of Queen Caroline, 41;
writes 'The Nun of Arrouca,' 42;
taciturnity in French society, 42;
his resolutions for the discovery and punishment of bribery, &c.,
43, 44;
proposes an addition of 100 members to the House of Commons, 43;
increase of his political influence, 45, 46;
unseated in Huntingdonshire, and his second visit to Italy, 48, 49;
elected for Bandon Bridge, 49;
on the condition of the Tory party on Canning's accession to power,
50;
and restrictions upon Dissenters, 51;
proposal to enfranchise Manchester, 51;
moves the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 55-57;
and Catholic Emancipation, 59;
rejection of his bill for enfranchising Manchester, Birmingham, and
Leeds, 60;
defeated at Bedford, 60;
visit to Paris, and efforts to save the life of Prince de Polignac,
60, 61;
elected for Tavistock, and appointed Paymaster-General, 62;
prepares the first Reform Bill in conjunction with Lord Durham and
others, 67;
introduces the bill, 69-72;
moves the second reading of the Bill, 73;
returned to Parliament for Devonshire, 75;
raised to Cabinet rank, and introduces second Reform Bill, 75;
reply to vote of thanks from Birmingham, 79;
introduces the third Reform Bill, 80;
carries the bill to the Lords, 81;
and the Municipal Reform Act, 90, 104;
opposition to Radical measures, 90;
and the wants of Ireland, 91;
visit to Ireland, 91, 92;
on Mr. Littleton's Irish Tithe Bill, 94, 95;
'upsets the coach,' 95;
on Coercion Acts, 97, 98;
allusion to his Biography of Fox, 98;
and the leadership in the House of Com