Reading; B. Gardiner, a private sol- dier, shooting a serjeant, 102 Warwick; Bird v. Smart, crim. con. 113; J. Fitter, murder of M. Webb,
Wells; Dan. Marogh, perjury, 120 Worcester; Anderton and Wife v. Gibbs, case of legitimacy, 33 York; Joseph Ratcliffe, manslaughter, 50; G. Webb, manslaughter, by administering Morrison's Pills,
305 Attorney-General, his right of prece- dence before the Lord Advocate of Scotland, decided, 119
Baboon, one trained to commit robberies
by some itinerant showmen, 122 Baden, a censorship established, [457] Baring, Mr. A., his speech on the sub- ject of the agricultural interest and its relief, [260]; opposes the repeal of the corn laws, [277], [279] Barron, Mr., speech against the Union, [29]
Bastardy clauses in the new Poor Laws' bill, [227]; Mr. Robinson's motion for their omission, [233]; Lord Al- thorp's defence of them, [234]; pro- posed modification, [236]; alteration proposed by the bishop of Exeter, [247]; decrease of bastardy in such parts of America where the burden of supporting the child is thrown upon the mother, [251]
Bavaria, the King's speech, [457] Beer licences, taxation on, [291] Belgium; (see Holland); tumult at Brussels, and destruction of the houses and property of Orangeists, [448]; French influence in regard to altera- tion of duties, [449]; change of mi- nisters, ib.; opening of the sessions, and votes of the Chambers, ib. Bienne, singular phenomenon exhibited by the wells at, 1
Book-trade with France, 181 Boulden, Judge, sudden death of, in the House of Representatives, United States, 14
Bow-street, information against dealers in game, 100 Bowring, Dr., [278]
Brazils, measures for establishing a
federal form of government, [471] Bristol, bp. of, (Dr. Gray) death, 242 Brussels, riots at, against the Orange- ists, [448]
Brougham, Lord, his speech on the Irish tithe bill, [158]; on the poor- laws bill, [237]; injurious effect of
the present system, [238]; points out the expediency of the proposed mea- sures, [253]; his visit to Inverness,
Budget the, [290]; France, [353]; Portugal, [440]; Holland, [447] Bulwer, Mr. E. L., proposes that hold- ing office should entitle certain of the ministry to seats in parliament, [301] Burns, Mrs., funeral of, 49 Buenos Ayres, attempt at a revolution, [471]
Cambridge, petition from the university of, admitting dissenters to take de- grees, [169]; counter petitions from do., [174] [175]
Campbell, Gen. Sir J., case of his im- prisonment by the Portuguese, brought before parliament, [320]
Canada, Mr. Roebuck's motion for in- quiry into the state of, [323]; petition from Quebec, presented by Mr. Hume, [326]
Carlos, Don, attempts to cross the frontier from Portugal into Spain, [376]; his baggage taken by Rodil, [393]; he escapes on board the Donegal and comes over to England, [394]; returns to Spain through France, [395]; his landing at Ports- mouth, 84; Death of his wife, 238 Carnarvon, Earl of, his speech against the bill for admitting dissenters to the universities, [198]
Catholic priests, dispute between two, as to possession of a chapel, 99 Catholicism, a new Romish saint added to the calendar, 129
Chameleon, revenue cutter, run down by a frigate off Dover, 128 Chancellor, Lord, disavows intention of favouring Catholicism in Ireland, [65] Chandos, Marquis of, brings forward the subject of agricultural distress, [258]; resolution moved by him for remitting taxes pressing on agricul- turists, [259]
Charlestown, destruction of a conventat, by a mob, 128
China and East India trade, meeting respecting, 19
Cholera, successful treatment of, 109 Characters of Lord Rosslyn, &c., 388 Church establishment, Irish, Mr.Ward's motion for reduction of, [37]; pro- portion between Catholics and Pro- testants, [38]; church revenues, [39]; commission appointed to in- quire into the state of the church, [45], note
Church, declaration in favour of, by the king, [44]; do. of the laity, presented to the king, 71. Church and State, petition for separa- tion of, [165] Church-rates, Mr. Divett's motion for abolishing, [206]; withdrawn, [207]; Lord Althorp's plan for their extinc- tion, ib.; opposition and dissatisfac- tion of the dissenters, [209] Claville, Rev. J., law suit respecting the validity of his will, 311 Coal-pit, accident in, at Harley mine, 72 Cobbett, Mr., his motion for repeal of the
malt tax, [265]; assets the house- tax to be unobjectionable, [286] Coleridge, S. T. memoir of, 377 Commission appointed to inquire into the state of the Irish Protestant church, [45], note; the measure ob- jected to by Mr. Stanley, [49,] by Sir R. Peel, [53]
Common Pleas, court of, opened to all the bar, 60
Commutation of tithe; see Tithe Conservative meeting at Dublin, 123 Constantinople, festivities on the mar- riage of the Sultan's daughter, 74 Convent at Charlestown, burnt by a mob, 128
Cooke, G., engraver, death, 215 Cooper, Mr., examined relative to the
fire of the House of Lords, &c. 164 Coorg, rajah of, operations against, on the part of the British, [337] Corn-laws, discussion on, [267]; their injuriousness, [268]; a change of the system, demanded by Mr. Hume, [269]; Sir J. Graham's defence of it, [270]; fluctuations of prices not pre- vented by them, [274] [276]; danger of free trade in corn, [280] Cosway, Sir W., inquest on, 76 County-rates, report of the commission- ers for inquiring into the charges on, 329 Court-martial on Captain Wathen, 11 Courts of law
Chancery, application for writ of pro- hibition to a court-martial, 63 Consistory Court, Tongue v. Allen, dulent publication of banns, 98 King's Bench, Cording v. Ballantine, false imprisonment, 14; Dewar v. Purday, pirating the music of a song, 83; the king v. T. R. Davis,
Vice Chancellor's Court, Marato . Hall, Captain Nisbett's debts, 171 Cross-examination, latitude adopted by counsel in, 2
Crime, state of, in France, 93
Dallaway, Rev. Jas., death, 228 Debating Club, fracas at, 21 Depravity, case of, 43 Derby, earl of, death, 243 Dissenters, remarks on the hostility of the dissenters to the church, [164]; petition from the university of Cam bridge for admitting them to take de- grees, [169]; counter petitions from do., [174]; Mr. Wood's bill for their admission, [175]; bill brought in by Lord J. Russell relative to dissenters' marriages, [213]; interview of the deputation from the Nottingham dis- senters with Earl Grey, 7
Divisions of the House of Commons, re port relative to, 334
Divett, Mr., bis motion (afterwards with- drawn by him) for abolition of church- rates, [206]
Dog, lives of two children saved by, 31 Doyle, Dr., funeral of, 85
Drury-lane, the play called the "Wed- ding Gown," I
Dublin, horrible condition of the poor
in, as described by Mr. Cobbett, 151 Duel between gen, Bugeaud and M. Dulong, members of the chamber of Deputies, 10
Earthquake at Santa Martha, 71; at Carthagena in Spain, 152
East-India and China trade, meeting relative to, 19
East-India Company, action against by
the Bank of Bengal, to recover amount of bills forged upon the Company, 5 Ebrington, lord, presents a petition from the Devonshire landholders, for commutation of tithe, [215] Edinburgh, meeting of the Brit. As-
sociation for the Promotion of Science, at, 132; public dinner to earl Grey, 141 Egypt, Mehemet Ali marches into Syria to put down an insurrection at Naplous [465]
Ellenborough, lord, his remarks relative to the communication between Mr. Littleton and Mr. O'Connell, [131]; speech against the Irish tithe bill, [152]
Ellice, Mr., brings forward the army estimates, [288]
English produce, reluctance of the con- tinental states to admit, [279] English Opera House, the new, opening of, 111.
Epsom, murder of Mr. J. Richardson, near, 25
Estcourt, Mr., presents a petition from the University of Cambridge, against admitting Dissenters, [175]; amend- ment moved by him against Mr. Wood's bill for general admission to the universities, ib.
Evans, col. opposes the second reading of the Poor Law Bill, [227] Exeter, bishop of, his speech against the bill for admitting Dissenters to the universities, [203]; against the Poor Law Bill, [247] [254]; moves an omission of one of the clauses, [255]
Festival, musical, at the Abbey, 86 Finsbury, election for the borough of, 89
Fires: the "William Penn" steam-
boat, 29; fire on board a Dublin steamer, 54; conflagration of Tula, Russian, 96; do. North Tawton, Devon, ib.; conflagrations of a forest near Riga, &c., 121; destructive fire at Liverpool, 124; a government steam packet destroyed at Liverpool, 153; destruction of the two houses of parliament, 155; the Europa inn and twelve other houses, at Rotherhithe, 170; convent of nuns at Hammer- smith, 174
Fireworks, at Constantinople, 75. Fishermen, dispute between English
and French, 31; G. Burnet, master of the "Frolic," shot, 32
Forgeries, on the Bank of England, 3;
on the East India Company, 5 Forgery of a will, lawsuit as to 311 Fortunetelling, egregious dupery of a believer in, 154
Four per Cents Annuities reduction of, [295]
France, opening of the chambers and king's speech, [338]; election of officers of Chamber of Deputies, [340]; character of the tiers parti, ib.; debate on the address, [341]; avowal of revolutionary principles by d'Argenson and Pagès, [342]; claim on the part of France to dictate to other governments, [344]; licentious- ness of the political press, [345]; bill against hawkers of journals, [347]; do. for suppression of political so- cieties, [348]; disturbances at Lyons, [350]; do. at Paris, [352]; budget and finances, [353]; proposal to lower the amount of import duties, [356]; modification of the peerage, [357]; bill for satisfying the pecuniary claims of the United States, [368]; which is rejected and followed by the re-
signation of M. de Broglie, [361] 355; changes in the cabinet and close of session, ib.; king's speech, [362]; resignation of Marshal Soult, who is succeeded by Marshal Gerard, [364]; Gerard's resignation, [366]; new cabinet formed by the Duke of Bassano, ib.; they resign, [366]; the duke of Treviso made prime minister, ib.; prosecutions against the press, [367]; state of crime, 93; Table of the public debt, 349
Frankfort, disturbances at, and occu- pation of the city by the troops of the diet, [456]
Fraud, shameful instance of a pious one, in Ireland, 148.
Free trade in corn, petition from Liver- pool, for [280]
French revenue, table of, 88
clergy, exiled, letter from, to the Lord Mayor, 89
Savings banks, report on show- ing great increase of deposits, 90 Funeral of Lafayette, 70; Dr. Doyle's,
Gambling house, summary disposal of, by the mob, at Richmond, United States, 148
Game, information against dealers in, 100
Gee, Mr., solicitor at Bishop's Stort- ford, extraordinary outrage on, 65; trial of the offenders, 67; and ac- quittal, ib.
Gerard, Marshal, succeeds Soult, as minister of war and president of the council, [364]; resigns, [365]; suc- ceeded by the Duke of Bassano, ib. Germany, treaty between Austria, Rus- sia, and Prussia, [456]; congress at Vienna, ib.; disturbances at Frank- fort, ib.; disputes in Hesse Cassel between the government and the states, [457]; Hesse Darmstadt, ib.; Bavaria, ib.; Lichtenberg ceded to Prussia, [458]; commercial confede- ration of the different states, ib.; meeting of the diet, [460]; plan for a tribunal of arbitration between the states, ib.
Gloucester, Duke of, speech against the bill for admitting Dissenters to the universities, [194]; death, 247 Gloucestershire, election for the eastern division, 122
Goulburn, Mr., his speech against the pe- tition from the University of Cam- bridge in favour of admitting Dis- senters, [171]; presents a counter petition, [175]; speech against the
bill for admitting Dissenters to the universities, [183] Graham, sir James, resigns his office of First Lord of the Admiralty, [42]; his speech in favour of the corn laws, [270]; brings forward the navy esti- mates, [286]
Grant, Mr. R., his bill for removing the civil disabilities of the Jews, [297] Grattan, Mr., speech against the Union, [30]
Greece; dissension in the regency, and intrigues against count Armansperg, the president, [462]; military opera- tions against the Mainotes, ib.; recal of Maurer and Abel, ib.; insurrec- tions in the Morea, [463]; trial of Col- ocotroni and Coliopulos for high treason, ib.; their sentence com- muted for imprisonment, [464]; Ma vrocordati sent to Berlin, Coletti ap- pointed president of the council, ib. Grenville, Lord, death, 204 Grey, Earl, his reply to the Duke of Wellington's speech on the address, [6]; address to, requesting him not to resign office after the resignation of Mr. Stanley, &c., [42]; his speech relative to the Irish Church commis- sion, [57]; his determination to retain the three clauses in the Irish Coercion bill, prohibiting public meetings, [102]; opinion expressed of him by Mr. O'Connell, [104]; he resigns the pre- miership, [115]; his speech on the occasion, [116]; public dinner to him at Edinburgh, 141.
Grote, Mr., seconds Mr. Ward's motion for reduction of Irish Church estab- lishment, [41]
- preacher, disgusting hypocrisy and profligacy of, 40 Harvey, Mr. D. W., and the Colchester election, [315]
Hayti horrible struggle between two prisoners sentenced to execution, a mulatto and a Portuguese, 34 Heber, Mr., sale of his library, 176 Hertford election, action relative to per- jury connected with, 288
Hesse Cassel, the budget proposed by the government rejected by the States, [457]
Hesse Darmstadt, the government con- trolled by the opposition, [457] Hoare, Prince, death, 250
Hohenlohe, Prince, anecdote respecting his miracles, 21
Holland political relations with Bel- gium, [443]; disputes connected with Limburg and Luxemburg, [444]; the
Belgians act as rightful owners of Luxemburg, ib.; the allies of Belgium require that the governor should be removed, for opposing the orders of the Belgians, ib.; the King's speech on opening the States General, [445]; amendments on the address, [447]; the budget, ib.; votes of the States General, ib.
Houses of Parliament, destruction of by fire, 155; examination as to its cause before the privy council, 158 Howitt, Mr. W., one of the Nottingham Dissenters, urges the abolition of a church establishment, 7-
Hume, Mr., his amendment to the ad- dress on the King's speech, [8]; sup- ports Mr. Ward's motion for a reduc- tion of the Irish church establishment, [47]; his opposition to Lord Althorp's plan in regard to church-rate, [209]; opposes the corn laws, to which he ascribes agricultural distress, [267]; moves for a reduction of men in the navy, [287]; his letter animadverting Hydrophobia, case of, 112 upon Mr. Stanley, [326]
Jamaica, proclamation of Lord Sligo, the Jersey, regulations respecting the oyster governor, to the negroes, 94 Jews, bill brought forward by Mr. R. fishery off, 33 Grant for removing their civil disabi- lities, [297]
Jewels, the Princess of Orange's, found, 45
Illegitimatechildren, clauses relative to, in the new Poor Laws' bill, [233]; motion for omitting them, ib.; which is rejected, [235] Illuminations, mode of changing em- ployed at Constantinople, 75 Impostor, a female, tried at Fontaine- bleau, 29
India, steam navigation to, 332 Ingleby, Sir W., motion for repeal of the Journals, French, prosecutions against, duty on malt, [296] Quotidienne, 17; Nationel, 21; Popu- laire, 27
Inquests: Theodora White, suicide, 6; four persons drowned in the Thames, 52; Rev. W. Goddard, sui- cide, 57; Sir W. Cosway, killed by Installation of the Duke of Wellington overturning of the Criterion' 76 Inverness; application of the magistrates as chancellor of Oxford, 74 respecting the expense of executing prisoners, 110
Ireland: good effects of the coercion bill, [5]; debate on Mr. O'Connell's motion for repealing the Union, [18]; his picture of its injustice, [19]; and of its ruinous consequences, [22]; Mr. Littleton's observations on the state of, [138]; Mr. Spring Rice's, [139]; Mr. P. Scroope's, respecting the want of poor laws, and sufficient protection to the peasant, [140]; state of Ireland, [333]; sanguinary affray at Rathcormick, [334]; Dr. M'Hale's letter to the Duke of Wellington, ib. ; dispatches from the Lord Lieut. re- spicting the state of the country, 325 Irish Church, Mr. Ward's motion rela- tive to, [37]
Commission, [45] Temporalities bill, [161] Coercion Act, bill for renewing, [100]; dislike of the agitators to it, [101]; correspondence relative to it between the Lord Lieutenant and Earl Grey, ib.
Tithe bill, [65], [145] Irving, Rev. E., death, 249
King, his reply to the address declaring the determination of parliament to maintain the Union, [35]; his decla- ration in favour of the church, [44] King's college, London, report of, 62 King's speech, the, [1]; on proroging parliament, [330]; parody on ditto, [331] note
Lafayette, funeral of, 70 Lamb, hon. G., death, 202
Lambert, Mr., speech against the repeal of the Union, [30]; policy likely to be adopted by Ireland in case of re- peal, ib.
Land-tax, as proposed to be substituted for tithe in Ireland, [66] Lansdowne, Marquis of, speech on the Irish tithe bill, [154] Law cases and narratives, 288 Leach, Sir John, death of, 239 Lenses, polyzonal, formed in separate pieces exhibited at the Royal Society, Edinburgh, 18
Lichtenberg, principality of, ceded to Prussia, [458]
Lists:-Ministry, 182; Sheriffs, 185; Births, 186; Marriages, 189; Pro- motions, 196; Deaths, 201 Littleton, Mr., speech against the repeal of the Union, [28]; states the provi- sions made by the bill for the amend- ment of the Irish tithe system, [65], and the alterations afterwards intro- duced into it, [70]; speech in reply
to Mr. Stanley, [98]; enters into communications with Mr. O'Connell, [103], [105]; charged by him with deception, [107]; tenders his resig. nation, which is refused, [111]; his speech on the modified Irish Coercion bill, [138]
Liverpool, destructive fire at, 124; a
government steam packet destroyed by fire, 153; fifty persons drowned!173 Llauder, captain general of Catalonia, account of, and his letter of remon strance to the queen-regent, [371] London University, petition voted by Court of Common Council, praying that a charter be granted it, 52 London, Bishop of, his speech in favour of the Poor Laws' bill and its princi- ple in regard to illegitimate children, [250] Londonderry, Marquis of, speech on foreign affairs, and the unjustifiable conduct of the ministry [321] Lords, House of, burnt, 155; discovery of the part of the tapestry in posses- sion of a broker, 179
Lushington, Dr., Sir R. Peel's corre- spondence with, 177
Lyons, disturbances at, 350 Lysons, Rev. Dan., death, 203
M'Hale, Dr., his strange letter to the Duke of Wellington, [334]; disgrace- ful popish fraud by, 148 Maguire, Capt. C., murdered 169 Malt tax, Mr. Cobbett's motion for its repeal, [265]
Mansfield, Earl of, speech on the Irish tithe bill, [156]
Maxwell, Mr. R. C., tried and sentenced for shooting Mr. Holmes, 54 Melbourne, Lord, succeeds Earl Grey as head of the ministry, [123]; bis speech in the debate on the Coercion bill, [143]; on the bill for admitting Dissenters to the Universities, [199] Mexico: General Bravo's attempts against Santa Anna's government, [469]; engagement between him and Victoria, [470]; the legislative cham- bers dissolved by Santa Anna, ib.; revolt against him, and new ministry formed by him, ib.
Miguel, Don, agrees to quit Portugal on condition of an annual pension, [393] Ministers, list of, 182
Ministry, change of, Earl Grey and Lord Althorp resign, [115]; Lord Mel- bourne becomes first lord of the trea sury, ib.; other changes, [116]; Lord Althorp's return to the cabinet, ib.; he is called to the house of peers by
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