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.-

M tion 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 ....

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CHAPTER VII.

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

Lees

[103

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-

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

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

............... [140

CHAPTER X.

FRANCE.

Priposal 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

C

CHAPTER 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 Recep-

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 Exani i-

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

CHAPTER 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.-Tar opposed by the Legislative

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

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...

[199

CHAPTER XV.

NORTH AMERICA

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.-åddress 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-Buenus

Ayres-- Operations in Chili ........

... 241

CHRONICLE.

Births

Marriages

Promotions

Deaths.....

... 108

109

112

115

APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE.

........

Convention between his Britannic Majesty and the United States

of America

120

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.

122
Proclamation by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent

124
Thanks of the Prince Regent io the Manchester Magistrates and
Yeomanty

126

Papers reluting to the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle

ibid

Ordinance of the Senate of Lubeck

137

Ordinance of the King of Spain addressed to the Prime Minister

and General Secretary of State

ibid

Treaty between the States of Buenos Ayres and Chili........ 139
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

ibid

Propositions of the Minister of his Imperial and Royal Apostolic

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

Frankfort ........

155

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

156

Prussian Edict of Censorship...

... 157

Decree of Regulation for Provisionai Execution relative to dr-
ticle 2 of the Act of Confederation...

158

Provisional Decree relative to the Measures to be taken concerning

the Universities .......

159

Decree relative to the Measures for preventing the Abuses of the

Press in

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

162

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......

170

Messuge of the President of the United States......

175

Annual Treasury Report of the United States ...

185

Of the Revenue

ibid

.. 202

Rex v.

REMARKABLE TRIALS AND LAW CASES.

Dring v. Campbell ... .......

187

Oakes v. Wiggins

188

Berthon and Costar v. Loughnan and another

191

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

195

Christie v. Jones..

196

Forged Bank Notes-Ransom y. Fish

200

Young v. Wright and another

Rennie v. Cropper

201

French v. Giles

ibid

Crump and another v. Bayley ( Clerk).

209

Sir Manasseh Lopez, bart.....

210

In the matter of the Ship Asia

213

Cutting and Maiming.

214

Hayes, falsely called Watts v. Watts...

219

Gordon v.
Gordon

221

The King v. John Hudson and John Jones.

222

Vale v. O'Brien and Simpson

22+

Stak v. Scammel......

227

Murder.-- The King v. Frances Clark, alias Puttavin.

229

The King v. Souter and Holles.........

232

Arson

234

Bedford Charity.......

236

Conspiracy to raise the Wages of Weavers at Blackburn ............ 242

Burglary......

244

Stabbing.--Henry Stent

251

Libel.– The King v.
Richard Carlisle

260

......Do.......... ..Do

261

Man v. Davis ( Clerk)

265

The King v. Joseph Taylor and John Earnshaw..

266

Criminal Informations

270

Curling v. Buck ........

273

Butcher v. Campbell and others......

274

Wallace, E.xecutrix, v. Good

277

Curtis v. Kingdom...

...............