ii. 92;

his parliamentary conduct on Byng’s affair, 336, 338.

Oleron, attack on, iii. 54.

Onslow, Mr. Speaker, witty remark on his official conduct, i. 21; reprimands Mr. Crowle on the Westminster election, _ib._; quarrels with Lord Coke, 28; contemptuous treatment of him by Mr. Murray, 29, 30; impressive speech on the Regency Bill, 126; his character, 129; spiritedly rebuked by Pitt in the debate on Byng’s affair, ii. 350; attacked by the rioters on the Militia Bill, iii. 41; speech on the Scottish Sheriff Depute Bill, ii. 15.

Opposition, remarkable cessation of, i. 228, 239; a systematic one now commences, ii. 151; junction of Pitt’s friends and the Tories against the new Fox administration, iii. 3.

Orange, Prince of, his death, and anecdotes of his marriage, i. 206; political consequences in Holland, 207.

Orange, Princess of, her extraordinary marriage, i. 206; ambition, character, and politics, 207, 208.

Oratorical Club, a school for rhetoric, i. 42.

Oratory, parliamentary, its difference under court-favour, or in opposition, i. 293.

Ordnance, master-general of, pay first raised to 10_s._ per day by the Duke of Marlborough, in 1757, ii. 303.

Orford, second Earl of, his death, i. 84.

Orford, Lord, anecdote of, and the Duke of Newcastle, iii. 30.

Orleans, Père d’, his book causes dissensions at Leicester-house, i. 289.

Oswald, Mr. Commissioner, parliamentary debut and progress, i. 59.

Oxfordshire, a little kingdom of jacobitism, i. 406; election, political manœuvres relating to it in the House of Commons, first bring into play the modern party designation of Whigs and Tories, distinct from the question of the Stuart succession, ii. 12, 20.

Oxford University, attacked by Pitt in the House of Commons with charges of jacobitism, i. 413; contest for the chancellorship on the death of the Earl of Arran, iii. 166.

Parliament, meets in 1751, i. 8; proceedings respecting the treasonable papers attacking the Duke of Cumberland, 10; debate on diminished vote of seamen, 12, 17; transactions on the Westminster petition against Lord Trentham, 13, et seq.; witty observation of Mr. Crowle at the bar of the Commons, 21; Murray brought to the bar, 22; refuses to kneel, and is re-committed to Newgate, 29; debate on the staff, 31; --see further _Lords_ and _Commons_-- regency business arranged, 115, et seq.; political character of lawyers in the legislature, 149, 150; the session ended, and the political consequence, 200; a new session opens, in 1751, 208; adjournment, and remarkable cessation of opposition, 228, 239; opens after the recess, in 1752, 241; consideration of the treaty with Saxony, 242; colonization of the Scottish forfeited estates, 256, et seq.; bill passes the Lords, 275; prorogation, _ib._; session of 1753, 293, et seq.; affair of the charges against the prince’s tutors, 303, et seq.; proceedings on the Marriage Bill, 336, et seq.; opens again with the Jew Bill, 357; adjourns on Pelham’s death, 378; dissolved under the Newcastle administration, and an accommodating new one chosen, 391; session of 1754 opens, 403; first union of the Tories as a party for general political purposes, and thereby forming the leading distinctions of Whig and Tory in the state, without reference to the Stuart succession,