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[N.B. The figures with crotchets refer to the History.]

ABERDEEN, earl of, his correspondence
with the marquis of Barbacena, rela-
tive to the interference of Great Bri-
tain on Miguel's declaring himself
king, 435

Accidents: fire in a mine at Wanlock

Head, 67; fall of a room at the
Norfolk Arms, Hyde, thirty persons
killed, ib.; six persons killed at the
Methodist chapel, Hermandwike, 77;
five houses crushed by fall of a rock,
at Nottingham, ib.; explosion of the
"Fulton, American steam frigate,
102; explosion of a powder-mill,
Hounslow-heath, 104: woman and
child suffocated in a privy, 129; the
'Patrick' steam-vessel injured by
a hurricane, 138; the Dolphin,'
convict-ship, sunk, and many convicts
drowned, 178; fall of one of the bells
at St. Sepulchre's, 182; a boat cut
in halves by a whale, 185; four per-
sons drowned in fording the Clyde in
a cart, 186; [See also Fires.]
Acts of parliament, list of, 274
Adelaide, the, case of, for slave-trading,
39

Adrianople, treaty of, between Turkey
and Russia, [219]

Aerostation, Mr. Green's ascent at
Bristol, 103

Algiers, its quarrel with France, [172];
French expedition against, [173]
Amphitheatre, at Arles, 33
Anticoste, number of dead bodies disco-
vered at, 115

Antiquities: discovery of a grand man-
sion at Herculaneum, 21; amphi-
theatre at Arles, 33; two episcopal
stone-coffins, Chichester cathedral,

111

Arles, amphitheatre at, 33

ing Geo. Green, his fellow-appren-
tice, 136; T. Churchyard, man-
slaughter, 306

Cork: Leary and others, conspiracy to
murder Mr. Low, &c. 359

Exeter: Kezia Wescombe and Richard
Quaintance, poisoning Samuel Wes-
combe, 142

Lancaster: J. Latimer, murder of G.
Howorth, 54; Thomas Buxton, &c.
for conspiring to effect a marriage
with Miss Hickson, 297

Leeds: Hannah Atherton, child-steal-
ing, 92

Lewes: the King v. Philp, cruelty to a
servant, 86

Leicester: Trimmer v. lord Hunting-
tower, 324

Middlesex: H. Milbourne, falsely act-
ing as an attorney, 36
Newcastle: Jane Jameson, parricide,

44

Nottingham: J. Moore, stealing two
rabbits, 84

Norwich John Stratford, poisoning
John Burgess, 140

Old Bailey: Clements, &c. piracy, 68;
Esther Hibner, &c. murder, 71; M.
Jacobs, arson, 74; A. Finlayson,
stealing sir W. Beechey's plate, 105;
E. M. Van Butchell, manslaughter,
112

Oxford: S. Berry, stealing a pig, 44
Tyrone: T. Read, &c. murder of J.
O'Neill, 150

Winchester: J. Stacey, murder, 320
York: Miles v. Cattle, &c. to recover

loss of a travelling bag, 65; J. Mar-
tin, setting fire to York Minster, 301
Atheist, a person declaring himself one,
not admitted as evidence on trial, 15

Army, French, return of the number of Baird, sir David, death of, 242
officers, 191

Arndt, Von, death of, 210
Arson, trial of Moses Jacobs for, 74
Assizes and Sessions:-

Aylesbury: W. Dowsett, burglary in

the house of the Rev. T. Jones, 46
Bury St. Edmund's: W. Vialls, wound-

Bankes, Mr. G., speech against the Ca-
tholic Relief Bill, [41]

Barrup, Benj. trial for attempt to mur-
der Mary Mortlock, 13

Beechey, sir W., his plate stolen, and
afterwards restored, by a servant,

105

Beet-root sugar, increasing manufac-

ture of, in France, 404
Belsham, rev. Thos., death, 253
Benning, Mr., editor of the Kentucky
Gazette, shot by Mr. Wickliffe, 116
Bethnal Green, riots at, 101
Bicephalous girl, at Paris, 183
Binckes, J. B., imprisoned for fraudu
lently negotiating the sale of an
office in the department of the Lord
Privy Seal, 30

Blind man, forgery by, 11

Blomfield, Dr. bishop of London, cere-
mony of his enthronement, 12
Body-snatchers, two committed for ob-
taining a corpse under false pre-
tences, 4

Bonin, islands of, visited by Russian
navigators, 543

Book-trade, meeting of the booksellers
to regulate the prices of new books,

190

Brazil: the emperor recalls his daugh-
ter, the queen of Portugal, from Eng-
land, [192]; explanation published
by the Brazilian minister, ib.; extra-
ordinary meeting of the Legislative
Assembly, [235]; regulation of the
bank, ib.; reductions in expenditure,
[237]; finances, ib.; revolt in Per-
nambuco, attempt to impeach the mi-
nisters of war and justice for arrests,
and trials in consequence, [238]
Bridges, suspension, in France, 186
Brunswick, duke of, his quarrel with the
king of Hanover, [201]; called upon
by the Diet to apologise, which he
neglects to do, [202]; report of the
commission appointed to investigate
the dispute, 127

Buchan, earl of, death, 224
Budget, the [119]; increase of revenue
in 1828, ib.

Buenos Ayres: the government over-
turned by Lavalle, [238]; he defeats
col. Dorrego (the governor) and
Rosas, [239]; and orders the former
to be shot, ib.; the federalists under
Rosas approach the capital, [240];
which is besieged ib. treaty concluded
between Lavalle and Rosas, [241]
general Paz takes Cordova and defeats
the federalists, ib.; new convention
between Rosas and Lavalle, and
change in the government [242]
Buonaparte, Napoleon, processes insti-
tuted by various individuals to re-
cover legacies bequeathed to them
by him, 120
Burke, the murderer, executed at Edin-
burgh, 19

Calculus, vesicular, in a horse, 547
Cambridge, regulations relative to de-
Canning, Mr. his correspondence in
grading at the University, 36
1826, regarding the Portuguese con-
stitution, 405

Carey, Dr. death of, 253

Catholic Association, its suppression
urged in the king's speech [7]; bill
for that purpose brought in by Mr.
Peel, ib. the government bullied into
submission by the association [11]; the
association not to be,put down by the
common law [19]

Catholic peers, take their seats in par-
liament, 82

Catholic question: both the duke of
Wellington and Mr. Peel formerly
against concession to the Catholics
[2]; sudden change of measures on the
part of the ministers [3]; Mr. Peel's
bill for removing Catholic disabilities
[12]; its plan, &c. [22]; arguments
against concession to the Catholics
[28]; petitions against do. [36]; de-
bate on the second reading of the bill
Chabert, Xavier, fire-eater, discharged
[38]; copy of the bill, 367
by the Insolvent Debtors' court, 79;
accepts Mr. Smith's challenge to
Chichester cathedral, stone coffins dis-
swallow 20 grains of phosphorus, 167
covered in 111

Clare, J., stanzas by, on Boston Church,
554

Clinton, sir Henry memoir of, 533
Coach proprietors, action against for
Codrington, sir Edward, his charges
loss of a travelling bag, 65
against captain Dickinson [135]; 328
Coin counterfeit, colouring of, 16
Colchester, lord, death of, 227
Columbia: the Peruvians blockade and
take possession of Guayaquil, [243] ;
advantage obtained over general Plaza,
[244]; preliminary articles of peace
signed but frustrated by Prieto's re-
fusal to give up Guayaquil, ib.~
armistice and surrender of Guayaquil,
[245]; a constituent Congress called
by Bolivar, ib. mode of electing de-
puties, [246]; the sentence of death
against Santander commuted for
banishment, ib. Bolivar's decree
against secret meetings [247]; insur-
rection in Popayan, ib. another in
Antioquia headed by Cordova, il.
Combination of Workmen, case relative
to 24
Commercial commission, the French
royal, report of 400

1

Convicts, several drowned by sinking of
the Dolphin 178-escape of some con-
victs from the Albion coach on their
way from Chester to London, 180
Cordova, general, heads the insurrection

against Bolivar, in Antioquia, [247];
his proclamation against him, [248];
Court Martial, on captain Dickinson,
for his conduct in the battle of Nava-
rino, [135], 328
Courts: Admiralty, case of the ship
Adelaide, exportation of slaves, 39;
case relative to Fanny Ford, a slave,
125
Common Pleas; Lane, secretary imperial

distillery company u. Wickley, &c.
shareholders, 18; George v. Jackson,
recovery for money for maintaining
defendant's son, 20; Fish v. Travers,
shooting a dog, 35-Kemble v. Far-
ren, theatrical engagement, 107
Guildhall; Basham v. sir W. Lumley,
false imprisonment, 1

Insolvent Debtors'; Ralph Fellowes,
tea-dealer, 17; prince Giardinelli,
25, Xavier Chabert, the fire king, 79;
--R. Best, 97

King's Bench; Child y. Affleck, defa-
matory character of a servant, 37;
the King v. D. Evans, refusing to
bring back a sailor from a foreign
port, 79
Prerogative;

Langford v. Maberly,
Mr. Leader's will, 8; Colvin v. Fraser,
Mr. Farquhar's will, 290
Crowe, Rev. W. death of, 215
Cuba: Spanish expedition from, against
Mexico, [253]

Curtis, Sir W. death, 212

Dantzic, dreadful inundations at, 78
Davy, sir Humphry, memoir of, 504
Dawe, G., artist, death of, 248
Dawson, Mr., announces his change of
opinion with regard to the Catholic
question [2]

Dickinson, capt., tried by court martial

for his conduct at the battle of Naya-
rino, [135]; report of the trial, 328
Diebitsch, count, succeeds Wittgenstein.
in the command against the Turks,
[205]. See Russia

Discovery, Russian voyage of, 542
Discovery of a new metal, 546; opti
cal, ib.

Dog, action for shooting one, 35
Drama; the Robber's Bride, English
Opera House; 124; the Recruit, do.
159; Mr. Lister's tragedy of Epi-
charis, 176

Drinking, boy killed by, 45

Drury Lane, Mr. Lister's new tragedy of
Epicharis, 176

Duel, duke of Wellington and lord Win-
chilsea, 58

East, sir Gilbert, singular bequests in
his will, 34

Earthquake, in the province of Murcia,

63

Eldon, lord, his speech on the Catholic
Question, [87]

Epsom, first stone laid of the grand
stand, 17; singular lunar phenomenon
seen at, 159

Equitable Assurance Company, state of
their funds, 181

Executions; Burke 19; Redgard, Kelly,
Birmingham, and Goodlad, 64;
Esther Hibner, 73

Eyesight, case of recovery of, after 16
years blindness, 185

False imprisonment, action for, Basham
v. Sir W. Lumley, 1

Farquhar, Mr., law case relating to his
will, 290

Farren, Mr., action brought against by
Mr. C. Kemble, for refusing to per-
form at Covent Garden, 107
Ferns, bishop of, his correspondence
with lord Mountcashel on the meeting
at Cork, 165

Ferronay, count de, French minister for
Foreign Affairs retires from office,
[138]

Finances, see Budget: French, [152];
Spanish, 472

Field-land gang, execution of three of, 84
Fires Glasgow theatre destroyed, 5;

York Minster set on fire by Martin,
23; at Camberwell, with loss of lives,
66; Mr. Skipper's stationery ware-
house, St. Dunstan's Hill, 67; in a
mine at Wanlock Head, ib.; in West-
minster Abbey, 80; Bell Yard and
Shire-lane, 94; Mrs. Usher's, Fen-
church Street, two lives lost, 95; Mr.
Pick's London Road, and six lives
lost, 97; the Bazaar, Oxford Street,
98; Warehouses at Manchester, 176;
Ramsgate theatre, 186
Fire-escape, 160

Fischer, C. A. death of, 223
Fitzgerald, W. T. death of, 238

Fleet Market, the new one opened, 184
Forgery, trial of J. Hunter, a blind man,
for, 11; do. J. Williams, an attorney,
48; do. R. H. Jones &c, forging on the
Custom House, 162

Foxton, J. executioner, Newgate, death
of, 33

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France: embarrassing position of the
new ministry [137]; retirement of
Count de Ferronay, and difficulty of
finding a successor, [138]; pro-
posal for appointing prince Polignac
rejected, ib. King's speech at open-
ing of the chambers [139]; nomination
of presidents [142]; preponderance of
the liberals, ib.; regulation of the
municipal councils, [143]; the de-
partmental bill, [146]; both that
and the communal bill withdrawn
by ministers, [147]; the impeach-
ment against Villèle withdrawn,
[148]; proceedings against M. Pey-
ronnet [149]; bill for regulation of the
Customs, ib. petitions of the vine-
growers, and depression of the wine
trade, [150]; reduction of the excise
duty on wine, [151]; decline of cloth
manufactures [152]; of the finances ib.
steam vessels and the advantages
anticipated from them in the event of
war, [153]; reductions in public ex-
penditure, [154]; affairs of Greece,
ib.; a Neapolitan given up to his go-
vernment, in consequence of misre-
presentation, [155]; close of the ses-
sion, ib.; unpopularity and weakness
of the ministry, [156]; Polignac re-
turns and succeeds Portalis, [157];
other changes, ib.; unpopularity of the
new ministers, [158]; particularly of
Labourdonnaye and Bourmont, [159];
opposition of the journals to the cabi-
net party, [162]; prosecution against
the Journal des Debats, &c., [163];
Courvoisier's plan for making the pro-
cureurs generaux spies on public opi-
nion, [167]; petition for the dismissal
of ministers, [168]; Labourdonnaye
retires,[170]; the troops recalled from
Greece, [171]; unsuccessful applica.
tion from Greece for another subsidy,
[172]; origin of the quarrel between
France and Algiers, ib.; expedition
against the latter, [173]; dreadful
thunder storms, 121; suspension
bridges lately erected, 186; return
of the number of officers, 191; report
of the royal commercial commission,
400

Gaol, escape of a prisoner from, at Here-
ford, 27

Garth, gen. Thos. death of, 251.
Giardinelli, prince, his petition for dis-
charge from the King's Bench opposed
by Mr. Stannard, 25

Glasgow theatre destroyed by fire, 5
Gossec, composer, death of, 217

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Greece, negotiations relative to, between
the ambassadors of the Porte and the
Reis Effendi, [217]; article in the
treaty of Adrianople relative to, [220];
success of the French expedition to the
Morea, [223]; surrender of Vonizza
to gen. Church, [224]; of the Turks
at Carvassara, ib.; of Lepanto, &c. ib.;
conference and declaration on the part
of the allies, ib.; Capo d'Istrias ob-
jects to the suspension of hostilities,
[225]; revolt of the troops in some
places, [227]; gen. Church resigns,
ib.; the national assembly at Argos,
[228]; Russia arrogates the power of
settling the Greek question, [230]
Guatemala; surrender of the capital to
the San-Salvadorians, [258]; Barun-
dia elected provisional president, ib.;
inability to pay the interest of the
loan from England, [259]
Gurney's steam carriage, description
of, 159

Hanover, decision of the diet against the
duke of Brunswick, [202]
Harris, lord, death of, 234
Harrison, Thos. architect, death of, 221
Hemans, Mrs., the 'Song of the Night,'
555

Herculaneum, a grand mansion and
paintings discovered at, 21
Hereford, escape of J. Evans from the
gaol at, 27

Hervey, Mr., dreadful death of, occa-
sioned by hydrophobia, 152
Hounslow Heath, powder mill blown up,
104
Huntingtower, lord, action against, by
the rev. H. Trimmer, for various
nuisances, 324

Hurn, rev. W. death of, 247
Husband, a female, 10
Hyde, near Manchester, fall of a room
at the Norfolk Arms, and thirty per-
sons killed, 67
Hydrophobia, dreadful case of, (Mr.
Hervey) 152

Jesuits, restrictions on their entering
the United Kingdom, [62]
Jew, objected to as a Juror, 117

Incendiary: number of houses set on
fire, at different times, at Sommeville,
by a boy named Lambert Courzot, 138
Indiaman, the Cambrian, loss of, 118
Infanticide: Mrs. Imeson kills one of
her children in a fit of insanity, and
afterwards attempts to destroy herself,

15

Jungfrau, ascent of, by seven hunters 540
Inquests: Jas. Allen, a female married to
another woman, 10; on a child killed
by its mother (Mrs. Imeson) 15; Jas.
Steward, killed by drinking, 15
Interment, shocking case of premature,
182

Inverness, floods in, 150

Inundations, extensive, at Dantzic, 78 ;
in Scotland, 148, 150
Ireland: disturbed state of the country
for a number of years, [18]; bill for dis-
franchisement of forty-shilling free-
holders, [99]; new registration of
freeholders, [128]; Mr. O'Connell's
address to the Clare electors [124];
he is re-elected without opposition,
[126]; distracted state of the country,
and contests between Orangemen and
Catholics, [129]; meeting of the ma-
gistrates in Tipperary to restore the
Insurrection Act, [130]; Mr. O'Con-
nell elected for Clare, 118; meeting
of the order of liberators held at Dub-
lin, 119; disturbances at Fermanagh,
122; judge Jebb's remarks, at Armagh
assizes, on processions and meetings of
unlawful tendency, 134; meeting of
magistrates to consider the state of the
county of Tipperary, 156; separation
of the Calvinists and Unitarians of the
Synod of Ulster, 161; meeting at
Cork to consider the circumstances of
the Protestant church, 165; Protes-
tant colonization meeting, 184
Iron, increase of manufactories of, in
France, 403; mines of, discovered in
Gard and Avignon, ib.

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Italy death of Leo XII., [198]; suc-
ceeded by Castiglione, Pius VIII.,
[199]

Kemble, Miss F., her debut at Covent
Garden, 173

Kollmann composer, death of, 233
Labourdonnaye, count, succeeds Marla-
tignac, as minister of the interior,
[157]; his excessive unpopularity,
[159]

Lafayette, M. Calemard, assassinated at
Paris, 85

Laing, major Alexander Gordon, memoir
of, 526

Lamarck, count, naturalist, death of,
255

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Lethbridge, sir Thos., his sudden change
in favour of Catholic concession, [36]
Life boats, new, 125

Lincoln's Inn, composition of the
benchers with the. parish of St. An-
drew, &c. for poor-rates, 33
Lists: Ministers and Cabinet, 192
Sheriffs, 193
Births, 194
Marriages, 197

Promotions and Preferments, 205
Deaths, 210

Lloyd, Dr., bishop of Oxford, death of,
231

Lunar phenomenon, singular one ob
served at Epsom, 159

Lyndhurst, lord, supports the Catholic
Relief bill, [75]; variance between his
present and former opinions, [76] note,
[77] ditto

Malaria, silk a protection against, 547.
Manchester: falling in of the ground in

Cateaton Street, into a sewer, 161;
several warehouses destroyed by fire,
176
Manufactures, state of, 'and prices paid
to workmen, at Stockport and other
parts of Lancaster, 171
Marriage, fraudulent, trial of a conspi-
racy for, 297

Martin, Jonathan, trial of, for setting fire
to York Cathedral, 301
Mawe, J. death of, 249

Metal, a new one discovered in the
Oural Mountains, 546

Metternich, prince, a cabinet of rare
medals stolen from his seat at Kœnig-
swart, 120

Mexico: civil war between the Parti-
zans of Pedrazza and Guerrero,
[250]; the latter takes possession of
the government, after his rival's flight,
ib.; Specie plundered at Puebla by
soldiers who guard it,[25]]; restoration
of order, and meeting of Congress, ib.;
law of expulsion, against the old Spani-
ards, [252]; Guerrero's address to
the Congress, ib.; exhausted state of
the finances, ib.; unsuccessful at-
tempt to raise an income tax, [253];
expected Spanish invasion, ib.; extra-
ordinary session of Congress, ib.; a
forced loan and other expedients for
raising supplies, [254]; slavery abo-
lished by Guerrero, ib.; Spanish ex-
pedition from Cuba, and invasion
under gen. Barradas, [255]; agree-
ment between Santana and the Spanish
general Barradas, [257]; capitulation
of the Spaniards, [258]
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