Bavoux, Professor, trial of, II. 351. guilty, 353. Bennet, Mr, his speech on the Army esti- mates, 1. 72. Motion for inquiry into the state of the manufacturing districts, 241. Belbaven, Lord, elected Member of Parlia- ment, II. 290.
Bartragh, island of, bottle found there which had been thrown into the sea by Lieute- nant Parry, on his voyage of discovery to Baffin's Bay, II. 318.
Bibles, monopoly of, II. 323. Bibliomania, II. 328.
Blanchard, Madame, death of, by the preci- pitation of a balloon, II. 328.
Birch, the Stockport constable, attempt to assassinate, 11. 340.
Bidder, George, his singular powers of cal- culation, II. 390.
Births, list of, II. 517.
Boccacio, the edition sold at the Duke of Roxburghe's sale for an enormous price, re- sold at a price far inferior, II. 321. Bourne, Mr Sturges, his motion on the poor
laws, I. 202. Bill to prevent the misap- plication of poor rates, I. 202.
Bowdich, Mr, his mission to Ashantee, I. S43.
Bowers, Peter, trial of, for the murder of John Sandilands, II. 108. Guilty-Death, ib.
Brazil, state of, I. 296.
Bridecake, two young ladies poisoned by eat- ing, II. 358.
Brownlow, Mr, his speech at the opening of Parliament, I. 14.
Brougham, Mr, his speech on the finance resolutions, I. 59. On the malt tax, I. 97.
Brogden, Mr, brings up the report of the
committee on the finance resolutions, I. 69. of the committee of ways and means, I. 102.
Budget, with ways and means, I. 87. Blucher, Field. Marshal Prince, biographi cal account of, I. 310. Birth, ib. ters the service of Sweden, ib. Makes his first campaign against the Prussians, ib. Is taken prisoner by the same regiment in which he afterwards so greatly distinguish- ed himself, ib. Enters the Russian ser- vice, ib. Details of, down to the battle of Montmartre and entry into Paris, 311. Accompanies the Allied Sovereigns to England, ib. Contributes eminently to the deciding of the battle of Waterloo, ib. Enters Paris a second time as conqueror, ib. Lives in retirement, ib. His death, ib.
Bruce, King Robert, his grave re-opened and inspected, II. $93. Particulars with regard to, ib. Re-interred, 394. Buenos Ayres, state of, I. 295. Burns, his birth celebrated at Dumfries, IL 277. Anniversary at Edinburgh, 284. Burdett's Sir Francis, motion on Parliamen- tary reform, I. 221. Letter to Lord Sid- mouth, II. 378.
Burton, William, trial of, for wilful murder, II. 65. Mysterious, 66. Guilty, 69. Sentenced to die, ib.
Buxton's Mr, weak defence of the brewers, I. 96. Speech on the criminal laws, I.
Burney, Dr, peculiarities of, II. 289.
Calder, Sir Robert, biographical account of, I. 502. Birth, ib. Enters the Navy, i. Advancement in the, ib. Is knighted, i. Becomes Admiral of the White, ib. Ac- tion with the French and Spanish squa drons, 303. Capture of two ships, Trial by court-martial, ib. Appointed Port Admiral at Portsmouth, ib. Death. ib. Calcraft, Mr, on the subject of suppressing the Naval Asylum, I. 82. Speech on the contract for the loan, 95. On the finan- ces, 109. Caledonian Horticultural Society, proceed- ings of, II. 218.
Calvert's Mr, speech reprobating the pro- posed taxes, 1. 96.
Cambridge, Charles, Esq. an official dis. patch from, detailing particulars attendant on the melancholy death of the Duke of Richmond, II. 389.
Camden, Marquis of, appointed to supply the vacancy in the council, occasioned by Lord Ellenborough's death, I. 18.
Canning, Mr, his speech on the Windsor es- tablishment, and the proposed grant to the Duke of York, I. 24. On the finance re- solutions, I. 67. On the subject of the bank, 126. Animadverts on Mr Tier- ney's proposal, 128. Speech in opposi- tion to Sir James Mackintosh, 218. Carlisle, Richard, trial of, for blasphemous libel, II. 15. Guilty, 49. Trial of, for publishing Palmer's Principles of Nature, ib. Guilty, 51. Fined and imprisoned,
ib. Castlereagh's, Lord, speech at the opening of Parliament, I. 18. establishment, I. 25.
Motion on Windsor Motion for bringing
ply to Sir Charles Monck on the question of the occupation of Parga, 208. Lays on the table of the House of Commons, docu- ments relative to the internal state of the country, 231. Motion for preventing se- ditious meetings, 232. Reply to Lord J. Russell on the subject of parliamentary re- form, 245.
Catholic claims, petitions for and against, I.
183. Motion on, lost in both Houses of Parliament, 192.
Catholics, the largest and most respectable meeting of, that ever took place in Ireland, II. 285.
Ceylon, war in the Kandyan country, II.
Chancellor's, Lord, speech in opposition to
the catholic claims, I. 192. Approves of the bill for abolishing trial by wager of battle, 200. Moves the second reading of the bill to prevent delay in cases of misde. meanour, 238.
Chancery, suitors in, II. 316.
Child, remarkable incident concerning a, II.
Christie v. Jones, in the Court of Common Pleas, II. 124.
Cleckson, Joseph, shot in a riot at North Shields, II. 385.
Clark, Frances, trial of, for child murder, II. 75. Guilty, 78,
Clement, James, and Drake, John, trial for murder, II. 52. Acquitted, 60. Clement, William, proceedings against, for publishing two alleged libels contained in "Cobbett's Political Register," II. 184. -189.
Clerk's, Sir George, remarks at the County meeting, Edinburgh, II. 398. Cobbett and Sir F. Burdett, singular corre- spondence between, II. 264.
Cocks, Honourable J. S., moves the address in the House of Commons on the re-as- sembling of Parliament, I. 230. Cockburn, Sir G., his reply to Mr F. Dou glas, I. 83.
Coffee and cocoa, proposed tax on, I. 48. Collingwood, Lieut., attempt to assassinate, II. 354.
Colyear, Hon. B., letter of, giving an ac count of the Italian brigands, II. 287.
Commercial Report, II 231. Total real and declared value of the exported manu- factures of the united kingdom, 233. Total and official value of foreign and commercial merchandise exported from Great Britain, 234. Total value of all articles imported, ib. Bullion, the prices of, 234. Constantinople, execution of State criminals at, II. 402.
Convention of Royal Burghs, meeting of II. 335.
Corrigan, Thomas, trial for the murder of James Holt at Rochdale, II. 93. Guilty of manslaughter, 96.
Corn trade, the state of, II. 229. Exten- sive depredation in, 379.
Copenhagen, persecution of the Jews at, II.
Comet, French account of, II. 333. Comets, calculations with regard to, II. 384.
Copyright act, II. 290.
Corsica, election of deputies for, II. 389. Court of Session, appointments in, II. 329. Courtois, Mr, the miser, death of, II. 269. Account of, ib.
Creadie, Alexander, a man 105 years old, recollections of, II. 394.
Crespigny's, Sir W. D., motion for inquiry into the practicability of Mr Owen's plan for ameliorating the condition of the lower orders, I. 246.
Croker's, Mr, reply to Mr Hume, I. 84. Speech on the catholic claims, 189. Criminal laws, general observations on the state of, I. 157. The attention of Par- liament drawn to it, 160.
Crowley, John, and others, trial for a bur- glary, II. 91. Not guilty. 93. Cumana, the siege of, II. 384. Curwen, Mr, his speech on the proposed grant of L. 10,000 to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, as custos personæ, I.
Danish government negociates a loan with some merchants of Hamburgh, 11. 277. Dates, singular coincidence of, II. 391. Davies, Colonel, his speech on the Army esti. mates, I. 72. On the expences of the Army, I. 75. On the Army supply, I. 76. Motion, 77. Speech on the financial re- solutions, 110. On the foreign enlistment bill, 210.
Deaths, list of, II. 528.
Disturbances in the manufacturing districts, remarks on, I. 223. Brought before Par- liament, 232. Disturbed districts, 11. 338. Disturbances at Glasgow, 381. Donoughmore, Lord, his motion relative to the Catholics, I. 192.
Douglas, Mr F., his speech recommending
to Mr Tierney on the affairs of the Bank, 137.
Excise duties, bill respecting the, before Par- liament, 1. 100.
Finances, state of the, I. 36. rangements, 42. Sinking fund, 44. mount of the proposed taxes, 45. Army estimates, 70. Navy estimates, 81. Ord-
nance estimates, 85. cise duties bill, 100. ries. 102.
the abolition of the office of the two Lay Lords of the Admiralty, I. 85. Duel, a murderous one in America, II. 295. Duels at Gibraltar, 314. Dundas, Lord Chief-Baron, biographical ac- count of, I. 306. Birth, ib. Enters as advocate, ib. Rise, ib. Public and pri- vate character, 307. Death, ib. Eulogy, ib. Dunfermline, re interment of the body of Fine Arts, II. 252. King Robert Bruce at, II, 393.
Earthquake, shock of, felt at Rome, II. 304. East Indies, state of, I. 298. Admirable policy of the Marquis of Hastings, ib. Consolidation of the British power in, ib. Setoo, the chief of the Pindarries, devour- ed by a tiger, ib. Expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, 298. Ecclesiastical Court, Doctors Commons, curious case pending in, respecting patent coffins, II. 302.
Eden, John, Wolfe, James, and Wolfe, George, trial of, for the murder of Isabella Young, II. 83. Eden and J. Wolfe guilty, 91. G. Wolfe acquitted, ib. Edinburgh, Musical Festival at, II. 386. Meeting of the County Gentlemen of, for the purpose of voting an address to the Prince Regent on the present state of the country, II. 595. Rising state of the U- niversity of, 313.
Egypt, geographical discoveries in, by Lieut.- Colonel Fitzclarence, I. 347. Ellenborough, the late Lord, his will proved in Doctors Commons, II. 273.
Ellice, Mr, his motion on the subject of the
Bank restriction, I. 146. Etna, Mount, terrible eruption of, II. 318. Exchequer, the Chancellor of the, his reply to Mr Tierney, I. 42. Motion on the finan ces, 45. Opposes Sir J. Newport's amend- ment, 70. Plan for the year's expenditure, I. 87. Reply to Mr Ricardo, 105. Re- ply to Mr Tierney, on his motion respect- ing the state of the circulating medium, 122. Motion on the expediency of the re- sumption of cash payments, 123. Reply
Budget, 87. Army extraordina- Sinking fund loan bill, 105.
Sir H. Parnell's financial resolutions ne- gatived, 111.
Fitzclarence, Lieut.-Colonel, his journey overland from India, I. 330.
Fitzwilliam, Earl, dismissed from his situs- tion of Lord Lieutenant of the West Ri- ding of Yorkshire, II. 389.
Foreign enlistment, debates with regard to, in Parliament, I. 209.
Forces, military, of India, an account of, IL
Foster, Mr Leslie, his speech on the Catholic question, I. 190.
Francis, Sir Philip, his will proved, II. 285. Fraud, punishment of, II. 280. France, debt of, I. 65. Sinking fund of, ib.
State of parties in, 256. Meeting of the Legislative Body, 258. Resolutions on the law of elections in the Chamber of Peers, 258. Debate on, ib. carried, Presented to the Chamber of De- puties, ib. Rejected, 263. Laws relative to the Press, ib. Debates on, ib. Pass- ed in both Chambers, 266. The Budget, ib. State of the Finances, 267. State of parties at the close of the session, 263. Disturbances at Nismes, ib. New Minis- try organized, II. 263. Fortresses to be put in a state of defence, 295. Fualdès, a second trial relative to the assaS- sination of, II. 276.
Germany, deliberations of the diet, I. 278. General state of affairs, 280. Assassina- tion of Kotzebue, 281. Congress of Carls- bad, ib. Resolutions of the diet, ib. Gibb, James, trial of, for stabbing with in- tent to murder, II. 60. Guilty, 62. Sen- tenced to death, ib. Generals, singular fact of some of the French revolutionary, II. 284.
Geological Society, proceedings of, II. 213. Giarve, the most Rev. G. Peter, Archbishop of Jerusalem, arrives at Oxford, II. 293. Object of his journey, ib. Success, 297. Glasgow, meeting of weavers at, II. 320. Reform meeting at, 379. Disturbances at, 381.
Goulburn, Mr, his speech in reply to Mr J. P. Grant, on the Army establishment, I. 79. Reply to Mr Hume, 80. Gourgaud, General, resides at Hamburgh,
Grain, the prices of, II. 229.
Grampound, Barnstaple and Penryn, cor- ruption and bribery proved against, in the House of Commons, I. 221.
Grant, Mr J. P. his speech on the Army es- tablishment of the country, I. 79. Sug- gests means for reducing the burdens of the country, I. 94. Descants on the ex-
portation of gold, I. 47. Grattan, Mr, his motion relative to the Catho- lic claims, I. 183.
Greenfell, Mr, his speech in reply to Mr. Vansittart, I. 91.
Grey, Earl, his speech on the Catholic ques- tion, I. 195. Speech at the re-assembling of Parliament, 229. Opposes Lord Sid- mouth's bill for curbing the licentiousness of the press, 282.
Grenville, Lord, his speech on the state of the country, I, 256.
Hastings, Marquis of, his admirable policy in the government of India, I. 298. Harrowby, Lord, bis motion on the Bank restriction, I. 154.
Hamburgh, trade of, II. 289.
Hamilton, Lord A. his speech relative to Aberdeen, 1. 250. Motion respecting the petitions from the Royal Burghs of Scot- land, 253. Motion on the new Jury Court bill, 254. Brings up the Report of the Committee on the Royal Burghs, 255.
Moves for the re-appointment of the Com- mittee, 256.
Hamilton, the Duke of, his subscription to the Manchester sufferers, II. 384. ter to the Committee, ib. Hesse-Darmstadt, disturbances in, I. 286. Allayed, 287.
Highland Society of Scotland, proceedings of, II. 219.
Hoax on the foreign virtuosi, resident in the "Eternal City," II. 283. Hoax, Philosophical, II. 290. Hobhouse, Mr J. Cam, committed to New- gate for libel and breach of privilege, I. 248. Circumstances attending the arrest of, II. 403.
the publisher of his history of the Hundred Days at Paris, condemn- ed by the Court of Assize, II. 389. Holland, Lord, his speech on the cash pay- ments bill, I. 155.-On the nature of pu- nishment, 161.
the Ex-King of, lives in retirement at Rome, II. 289. His sister's splendour, ib.
Hope, Sir A. his motion on the Windsor es- tablishment, I. 34. Reply to Mr Bennet,
Horrible circumstance, II. 276. Hunt, Henry, the notorious, addresses a let. ter to the Commander-in-Chief, II. 277. Conduct at the Smithfield meeting, 339.— At Manchester, 362.
Johnston, Moorehouse and others, confined on a charge of high treason, 370. Hume, Mr, his speech on the Army estimates, I. 72. On the Staff, 80.
Hunslet Moor, meeting on, II. 321. Huskisson, Mr, his speech on the finances, I. 65. On the malt tax, 97. Hyposulphurous acid, and its combinations, I. 335. Formation of byposulphite of lime. 336.-Of potash, ib.-Of soda, ib. -Of ammonia, 337.-Of barytes, ib.- Of strontian, ib. Of magnesia, ib.- Of lead, ib. Of silver, ib. Of mer- cury, 338.-Discovery of hyposulphuric acid, ib.
Jamaica, a curious contest between the House of Assembly and the Chief-Justice of, II. 283.
Jean d'Angely, Count Regnault de St, death and character of, II. 289.
Jews, persecution of the, at Copenhagen, II.
Jewels, the King's, discovered, II. 270. Insolvent debtors act, I. 201.
India House, court of proprietors held on the late military affairs in, II. 279. Thanks voted to the Marquis of Hastings, ib. Terrible earthquake at Kutch in In- dia, 325.
Improvements, II. 259.
Southwark bridge opened to the public, ib. Wire bridge thrown over the river Kelvin, ib. Propo. sed National Monument of Scotland, ib. Menai bridge, 260. New Bridewell, Glas- gow, ib. Donations to the College Mu- seum Edinburgh, 261. Project for erect- ing buildings on the Earthen Mound, Ed- inburgh, 261. Statements by Mr Owen, ib. Glasgow and Carlisle road, ib. Bridge over the Esk founded, 262. Canal, ib.
Lansdown, Marquis of, speech at the open- ing of Parliament, I. 9. Motion respect- ing the state of the country, 236. Landlord, Tales of my, communication re- specting, II. 389.
Lamb, the Hon. G. elected member of Par- liament for Westminster, I. 282. Riot occasioned thereby, ib.
Lauderdale, his speech on the opening of
Parliament, I. 13. Opposes Lord Har- rowby's motion on the subject of the Bank, I. 135.
Leeds, discovery of a human being at, in- carcerated in chains in the house of his parents fifteen years, II, 406. Libel, trials for, II. 6. Private, 13. phemous, 15. Light and beat, I. 384.
Infirmary, Royal, discussion at a court of Literary intelligence, II. 243. France, contributors to, II. 272.
Kotzebue, Augustus von, biographical ac- count of, 1.307. Early indications of genius, 308. Sent to the college of Jena, ib. Progress in learning, ib. Applies to the study of law, ib. Private secretary to General Baur, ib. Marriage, ib. Ap- pointed president of Revel, ib. Death of his wife, ib. Superintendent of the Im- perial Theatre of Vienna, 309. Return to Russia, ib. Arrested and sent to Siberia, ib. Leaves Russia on Alexander's ac- cession, ib. Named a Russian counsellor of state, ib. Leaves Russia, ib. Accre- dited political reporter to the Russian go- vernment, ib. Assassinated, ib. Leaves fourteen children, ib. Character of, ib. De- tails of the assassination of, II, 292.
Moritz von, travels through Per-
sia, I. 348. King, the state of the, II. 280 and 295. Kinloch, George, of Kinloch, trial of, for se- dition. II. 405. pearance, ib.
Spain, 246. Germany, 247. Prussia, 249. Sweden, 250. Denmark, ib. Italy, Greece, 251.
Liverpool, Earl of, speech at the opening of Parliament, I. 11. Bill for vesting the care of the King's person in his Royal Highness the Duke of York, 17. Speech on the Earl of Harrowby's motion respect- ing the Bank, 155. Opinion on the in- crease of crimes, 161.
Riots at, II. 326. Lists of new publications, II. 497. Births, 517. Marriages, 521. Deaths, 528. Long, Mr C. his reply to Sir H. Parnell, in the debate on his financial resolutions, I. 107.
Louis 16th, the anniversary of his death ce- lebrated at St Dennis, II. 276. Lees, coroner's inquest on, II. 583,
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