Parliamentary Proceedings.-Second Report on Resumption of Cash-

Payments.-Motion for a Committee on the Royal Burghs of Scot-

land.-Army Estimates.-Marquis Camden's Tellership Bill.-

Foreign Enlistment Bill.-Motion on the State of the Nation.—

Motion for considering of Parliamentary Reform.-Revisal of

Fitzgerald Attainder.-Motion for an Address respecting the Slave

Trade.-Bill for Encouragement of Emigration to the Cape of Good

Hope.-Budget.-Speaker's Speech.-Prince Regent's Speech.-

Prorogation

CHAPTER VII.

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Reform Meetings at Manchester and Leeds.-Female Reformers.

Meeting at Glasgow.-Second Meeting at Leeds.-Circular Letter

of Lord Sidmouth.-Meeting for choosing a Representative at Bir-

mingham.-Resolutions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Magistrates.

-Proclamation against Sedition. Mr. Hunt at Manchester.-

Reform Meeting there.-Its Dispersal by the Military.-Thanks of

the Prince Regent.-Proceedings against Mr. Hunt and others.

Other Reform Meetings.-Riots at Paisley-Subscriptions for Man-

chester Sufferers.-Conduct of the Grand Jury-Address of the

Corporation of London.-Prince Regent's Answer-Other Addresses.

-Meeting at York.-Dismissal of Earl Fitzwilliam.-Loyal Ad-

dresses. Associations for raising Yeomanry. Inquest on John

[103

Lees

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CHAPTER VIII.

Prince Regent's Speech.-Amendment to the Address in the House of

Lords. Amendment in the House of Commons.-Documents on the

State of the Country.-Traverse Bill in the House of Lords.-New

Legislative Measures proposed in the House of Lords.-The same in

the Commons. Motion for Inquiry into the State of the Nation.-

House of Lords.-The same in the Commons.-Navy Estimates.-

Training Bill, and Search for Arms Bill.-House of Lords-Pro-

test against Search for Arms Bill

[116

CHAPTER IX.

Seizure of Arms Bill in the House of Commons.-Training Bill

passed in the Commons.-Blasphemous and Seditious Libel Bill

in the House of Lords.-Protests.-Libel Bill in the House of

Commons. Seditious Meetings Bill in the House of Commons-

The same in the House of Lords. Protest. Lord John Russell's

Motion for Reform in Parliament.-House of Commons.-News-

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paper

paper Stamp Bill in the House of Commons.-The same in the

House of Lords...........

CHAPTER X.

FRANCE.

[140

Proposal for changing the Election Law carried in the Chamber of

Peers.-Fifty-four new Peers created in consequence.- Election Law

in the Chamber of Deputies.-Report of Commissioners on it.-State-

ment in the Chamber of Deputies respecting the Persecution of Pro-

testants in the South.-Threatened Renewal of Disturbances at

Nismes.-Protestant Petition.-The Budget.-Law on the Liberty

of the Press. Society of Friends of the Liberty of the Press-Debate

on the Return of Exiles.-State of the French Church-Letter of the

Clergy to the Pope.-Reception of the Missionaries at Brest.-Or-

dinance for the Building of Churches.-Report on the State of the

Establishment.-King's Speech on re-opening the Chambers... [164

СНАРТER XI.

SPAIN.

Death of the deposed King of Spain.-Design baffled by this Event.-

Spread of Disaffection in Spain.-Organised Bands of Robbers.-Con-

spiracy in Valencia.-Severe Measures and Proclamation of General

Elio.-Fresh Change of Administration.-Cadiz Expedition.-

Causes of its long Delay.-Mutiny among the Troops of the Expe-

dition. How quelled by Count Abisbal.--Ruin of the Expedition.-

Disgrace of Abisbal.-Further Proceedings of General Elio.-Re-

sistance of the Magistrates.—Authority assumed by the Inquisition.-

Ravages of the Yellow Fever.-Decree of the King respecting his

Re-marriage-Reception of the new Queen in Spain......... [178

CHAPTER XII.

GERMANY.

Political State of Germany in general.-Hanover.-Meeting of the

Diet.-Important Reforms carried.-New Constitution formed for

the Diet. Wirtemberg-Popular Principles of the King.-Assembly

of the States.-Formation of a new Constitution.-Triumphal Reccp-

tion of the King by his Subjects.-Bavaria.-First Meeting of the

States General-Gracious Speech of the King.-Reduction of his

Army. Prussia.-Delay in the formation of a new Constitution.-

Free spirit of the German Universities.-Kotzebue appointed literary

and political Agent of the Emperor of Russia.-His Assassination.

-General Alarm.-Proceedings of the Diet at Frankfort respecting

the

-

the Universities.-Declaration of the Saxon Princes.-Foreign

Students quit Jena.-Attempt against M. Ibel.-Arrests and Exami-

nations. Secret Societies suspected.-Protestations against the

Measures of the Prussian Police.-No Plot detected in Prussia.—

Coercive Measures of the Diet.-Central Commission at Mentz.-

Severities against popular Writers in Prussia.-Sandt transferred to

Mentz-Persecutions of the Jews in many parts of Germany.-

Strong Measures of the Conference of Carlsbad in their

favour

.... [182

СНАРТER XIII.

NETHERLANDS Law respecting Trade with Sweden.-Speech of the

Minister to the States General on closing the Session at Brussels.-

Royal Speech on opening the Session at the Hague.-Sweden.-

Negotiations respecting the Payments due to Denmark.-Final ar-

rangement of this Affair.-Parga and the Ionian Isles.-Cession of

Parga to Ali Pasha by the British.-Tax opposed by the Legislative

Assembly of the Seven Islands.-Insurrection in Santa Maura. [192

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CHAPTER XIV.

ASIA.

HINDOSTAN. Return of the Governor-General to Calcutta. His An-

swer to an Address from the Inhabitants.-Appa Sahib.-Deposition

of the Peishwa.-Settlement of the Pindarries.--Military Transac-

tions.-General Results of the War.-CEYLON-Suppression of the

Insurrection. Punishment of the Leaders.-Protest of Sir S. Raffles

against the Proceedings of the Dutch in the Malayan Archipelago.-

Treaties formed with the Princes of Sumatra....

CHAPTER XV.

NORTH AMERICA

[199

Refusal of the United States to admit Consuls from the Republics of

South America.-Negotiations with Spain respecting the Cession of

Florida. Decision of Congress on the Seminole War.-Negro

Conspiracy in Georgia.-Discussions on Slavery in Missouri.-

Number of Slaves in the United States.-Commercial embarrass-

ments.-Address of the President on returning to Washington.—

European Emigrants.-Official Letter respecting them ......... [233

CHAPTER

CHAPTER XVI.

SOUTH AMERICA.

VENEZUELA-Expedition of Morillo against Angostura defeated— Revo-

lution of New Granada.-Victory of Bojaca.-Flight of the Viceroy.

-Occupation of New Granada by the Army of Venezuela-Buenos

Ayres-Operations in Chili

241

..... 120

Convention between his Britannic Majesty and the United States

of America ....

Proclamation in the name of his Majesty George III., of the

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Major-

General Ralph Darling, commanding in the Island of Mau-
ritius, &c.

Proclamation by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent

Thanks of the Prince Regent to the Manchester Magistrates and

Yeomanry

122

124.

126

.... 137

Papers relating to the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle ............. ibid

Ordinance of the Senate of Lubeck

Ordinance of the King of Spain addressed to the Prime Minister

and General Secretary of State

....

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...

ibid

139

Treaty between the States of Buenos Ayres and Chili........

Report on the Seminole War.- United States. Senate in Congress 141

Proclamation by Lord Cochrane, Vice-Admiral of Chili, Admiral

and Commander-in-Chief of the Ships and Vessels of the States 154

Substance of the Convention concluded between Norway and Den-

mark

Propositions of the Minister of his Imperial and Royal Apostolic

Majesty, President of the Germanic Diet, to the Diet sitting at

Frankfort.......

Edict of Censorship for the Kingdom of Hanover....

Prussian Edict of Censorship....

Decree of Regulation for Provisionai Execution relative to Ar-

ticle 2 of the Act of Confederation...

ibid

155

156

157

158

159

Decree relative to the Measures for preventing the Abuses of the

Press ....................................................

160

Decree

Provisional Decree relative to the Measures to be taken concerning
the Universities

162

Decree relative to the formation of a Central Commission, for the

purpose of Ulterior Inquiry respecting Revolutionary Plots,

discovered in some of the States of the Confederation

Circular of the Cabinet of Berlin, to its Ambassadors, Ministers

and Diplomatic Agents at Foreign Courts........

ibid

Decree. The Supreme Director of the State of Chili ..... ...... 169

Treaty of Amity, Settlement and Limits, between the United States

of America and his Catholic Majesty.......

Message of the President of the United States.....

Annual Treasury Report of the United States .....

Of the Revenue

..... 170

175

185

ibid

REMARKABLE TRIALS AND LAW CASES.

Dring v. Campbell

.....

Oakes v. Wiggins

.....

Berthon and Costar v. Loughnan and another

The King v. the Parish of St. Mary, Canterbury.....

The King v. John Hudson and John Jones.....

Vale v. O'Brien and Simpson

Stak v. Scammel....

187

188

.....

191

195

196

200

.... 202

204

ibid

209

210

... 213

214

219

221

222

224

227

229

232

The King v. Joseph Taylor and John Earnshaw..

Murder. The King v. Frances Clark, alias Puttavin...
The King v. Souter and Holles..........

Conspiracy to raise the Wages of Weavers at Blackburn