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Reading; B. Gardiner, a private sol-
dier, shooting a serjeant, 102
Warwick; Bird v. Smart, crim. con.
113; J. Fitter, murder of M. Webb,

115

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,

129

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,

288.

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,

85

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]

Harding,

- 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

on

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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