Coronation of Charles X., 70 Corri, Domenico, composer, death of, 251 Corsica, extracts from Benson's Sketches of, 224*
Cotton, general, altack on Donabew, [126], &c.
Cotton manufactories, disturbances in, at Houlme in France, 114 Cottons, duties on, [106]
Covent Garden: Orestes in Argos, 54 Courier, M. Paul Louis, assassination and memoir of, 51; trial of his assassin, 126
Court-martial, on captains Parry and Hoppner, 148
Courts: Admiralty; case of the Zodiac, 9; trial of the master and pilot of the Comet steam-packet, 174 Chancery; Townshend, v. Agnew,
Common Pleas; Brooke v. Carpenter, 95; J. Hunter, es, contempt of court, 159
High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh; W. Allen, robbery and murder, 182; case of the Comet, 184
House of Lords; Maule, v. Maule, 77 King's Bench; Montague v. Espi- nasse, 12; The King . Taylor, gaming houses, 16; Harborough v. Pinner, assault, 49; Down v. Halling, &c., 68; Poole v. Elliston, assault, 76; Robinson, v. Ward, for recovery of a sum of money paid by the de- fendant into his own banker's in his own name, 150; Joseph v. Perrer, 1; Byrne v. Parkins, 7*; Blore v. Stockdale, libel 13* Craven, earl of, death of, 268 Crimes, 337
Currents of the Ocean, 257*
Custom House, fall of the floor of the long room, 11
Customs, produce of, [115], [117] Cuxhaven, hurricane and inundation, 14
Fanaticism and Imposture, 66, 79 Ferdinand IV. of Naples, death of, 218 Fife cause, final decision of, 169 Finances, statement of, by the chancellor of the Exchequer, [115]; Mexico, [200] Finlayson's Mission to Siam, &c., extracts from, 213*
Fires: Kent, Indiaman, 22; in St. Mary
Axe, 65; extensive fire in Mortimer- street, &c., 22; at Gravendeel, 100; at Mr. Jones's, Cavendish-street, 109; at Obigt, 134; destructive fire at Mira- michi, New Brunswick, 173 Fish, quantity of, imported, at London,
Fisher, Dr. (bishop of Salisbury), death of, 247
Foreign Enlistment Act, proclamation en- forcing, [122]
Fossil Remains, in Sussex, 48 Fouché, memoirs of, suppressed, 2 Foy, general, death and memoir of, 287 France: opening of the session of the Chambers, [134]; king's speech, ib.; civil list, [136]; indemnification to emigrants, ib.; sinking fund, &c., [137]; conversion of the Rentes, &c., [138]; budget, [139]; state of sinking fund, ib.; law against sacrilege, [140]; state of the clergy, ib.; prosecutions against liberal journals, the Constitutionnel and Courier Français, ib.; decision of the Cour Royale respecting ditto, [141]; petition for sending consuls to the new states of America, [142]; M. de Vil- lele's defence of the policy of France towards the American states, ib.; ne- gociations with Hayti, relative to the independence of the latter, [143]; see Hayti; regulations for horse-races, 36; assassination of M. Courier, 51; in- creased salaries of judges, 53; new peers, 56; arrival of the duke of North- umberland as ambassador extraordi- nary, 59; of Sidi Mahmoud, envoy from Tunis, 60; article in the Aris- tarque respecting a loan to Rothschild, 61; Coronation of Charles X., 70; disturbances in the cotton manufactories in Houlme, 114; trade with the inde- pendent States of South America, 116; Societé Commandataire de l'Industrie,
miracle, 131; murder at Castres, 138; public libraries, 286* Franklin, Mrs. (Miss Porden), death of,
Franks family, Keefe and Bourke tried for murder of, 31*
Frederick, sir J., death of, 220 Funds, fluctuations in, from 1786, 187 Funeral ceremonies of the Siamese, 215* Fury court-martial to inquire into the loss of, 148; shipwreck of, 251* Fuseli, H. artist, death and memoir of, 241
Gaming-house: J. Taylor fined for keep- ing, 16
Geary, sir W., death of, 271
Genoa: a young woman killed by her
lover, who afterwards kills several other persons, and destroys himself, 166 Geography, &c, 251
George III., illness of in 1788, 182* 183*; political intrigues connected with that event, 184*
Germany regulations respecting bank- rupts, 17; See Austria; Wurtemburg.
Gigantic man, account of, 91 Glastonbury, lord, death of, 243 Gotha, duke of, death of, 226 Goulburn, Mr., motion and speech on the Catholic Association, and unlawful so- cieties in Ireland, [18]
Graham, sir James, death of, 236 Graham, lieut. P., indicted for challenging lord Harborough, 51 Gravendeel, fire at, 100
Greece: insurrection headed by Coloco- troni, [184]; his submission, ib.; he and the other leaders of the rebellion sent to Hydra, ib.; blockade of Patras, [185]; siege of Navarino, [186]; sur- render of Old Navarino, [188]; recal of Colocotroni, [190]; military opera- tions in the Morea, ib.; naval prepara- tions of the Turks for the siege of Mis- solonghi,[191]; naval operations, [193]; unsuccessful attempt to burn the Turk- ish fleet at Alexandria, ib.; offer of the Greeks to place themselves under the protection of Great Britain, ib.; M. Rodios' letter to Mr. Canning in name of the provisional government, 56° manifesto of the Greek nation, 106*; protest of M. M. Roche and Washing- ton, the deputies of France and Ame- rica, to the provisional government, 108* Guatemala : disturbances, [208]; election of president, ib. ; expenditure, ib.
Halhed, Mr., intimacy and literary con- nexion with Sheridan, 171* Halo light, polarized state of, 261* Hamburgh, commercial regulations at,
103; number of vessels arrived at, 185 Hanover, convention of reciprocity of commerce with, 69*
Hanseatic cities, convention of commerce, &c. with, 70°
Harborough, lord, action of assault against a seaman, 49; challenged by Mr. Gra- ham, of the Ramillies, 51
Havana, description of the city of, 225* Hay, R. W., under secretary, Colonial office, 116
Haymarket Theatre, “Quite Correct," 110 Hayti: negociations with France, [143]; French decree, [144]; confirmation of ditto, [145]; proclamation of Presi- dent Boyer, ib. note; intended insur- rection, [147]; increased duty on Eng- lish goods, ib.; trade at Port-au-Prince, ib. note; proposed defensive alliance with Colombia, 136*
Hearne, John, tried at Cork, for a rape, and married to the prosecutrix, 120 Heathcote, sir F., death of, 228 Henniker, sir Fred, death of, 270.
Hertz, Rachel, case of, who swallowed several hundred needles, 241* Hippesley, sir J. Coxe, death and memoir of, 246
Hohenlohe, prince, miracle by, 131 Holman, a tailor, case of his refusing to support his daughter, 78
Horse-racing in France, 36; in Russia, 125
House of Lords, case of Bayley v. Maule, 59; list of undecided appeals and writs of error, 186 Howison's "Foreign Scenes," extracts from, 225; description of the city of Havana, ib.
Hume, Mr., his motion against the Irish church establishment, [80] Hungary meeting of the diet, [155]; speech of the emperor of Austria to the diet, 92*
Huskisson, Mr., motion respecting our colonial commerce,[89]; ditto abolition of fees in colonial ports, [104]; ditto on the Combination laws, [91]; ditto re- specting the diminution of duties, [106]
Jealousy, singular and dreadful instance of, in a soldier at Genoa, who, after kill- ing and wounding several persons, de- stroys himself, 166
Jerningham, dowager lady, death of, 231 Jeweller, action brought by, to recover balance of a bill, nonsuited, 12 Jesuits' college at Stonyhurst, 279* Imports, colonial, at Liverpool, compared
with the rest of Great Britain, 185 Improvements: project for forming a street between Lincoln's-inn-fields and Strand, to be called Lincoln's-Inn Place, 151
India, navigation to, by steam, 171 Inquests: hon. J. H. Stanhope, 3; Red- mond Barry, 85; J. Tietjen, killed by an elephant at Exeter Change, 153 Ionian Islands: tranquil state of, [183]; acts relative to ecclesiastical establish- ment, ib.; change in state of landed property, ib.
Joint-stock companies, table of, and list of advertisements of, [2]; proposed bill relative to, [88]
Josephs, Mr. E, expelled the Stock Exchange, 121
Ireland: Catholic Association, [1]; see Parliament; new Catholic Association formed, [48]; bill for regulating elect- ive franchise in, [67]; proposed provi- sion for the Catholic clergy, [69]; committee of the Lords for inquiry into the state of Ireland, [71]; poverty of the peasantry, [72]; their dependence
Lens, J., death of, 271
Levant company, surrender of charter of, [113]
Libel, action for, against the editor of the Dublin Star, 20*
Lilford, lord, death of, 266
Lime, oxalate of, its electric powers, 260* Lincoln's-Jun Place, project of a new street to be so named, 151
Linquiti, Chevalier, death of, 281 Lion fights at Warwick, Nero, 105; Wallace, 108
Lisbon, regulations relative to goat-own- ers, 133
Lists, Sheriffs, 189
Births, 190
Marriages, 195
Promotions, &c., 209
Deaths, 215
General Acts, 315
Local Acts, 321
Liverpool, colonial imports, 185 Liverpool, lord, speech on the Catholic relief bill, [64]; his conduct with re- gard to the Catholics animadverted upon by sir F. Burdett, [79] Living Skeleton, 239* Loan, Danish, 27
London, consumption of provisions in, 187 Lucerne, M. Keller, a magistrate, murder- ed at, 156
McElroy, Edw., tried for setting fire to Mr. Wood's car-house, at Carduffkelly,
Maddock, rev. T., death of, 226
Malines, jubilee in honour of St. Rom- baut, 115
Manifesto of the emperor Nicholas of Russia, 96*; of the Greek nation, 106* Marriage, singular one, of a prisoner tried for rape, and the prosecutrix, 120 Mars, Mademoiselle, anecdote of, 8 Martyn, rev. Thomas, death of, 255 Mechanical arts, 266*
Mechanics' Institution, London, 77 Meeting at the Mansion House, 169 Meteor in Guelderland, 258* Mexico: recognition of its independence, [14]; meeting of congress, and presi- dent's speech, [199]; treaty of com- merce with Great Britain proposed to congress, but not ratified, [205]; close of the session, and president's speech, ib.; military defence, navy, judicial administration, [206]; voluntary sur- render of two Spanish ships, [208];
surrender of the castle of St. Juan de Ulloa, ib.; inland navigation, 34 Meyer, Dr. J., death of, 268 Mezzofanti, prof. (celebrated linguist), account of, 280*
Middleton, explosion of a mine at, 4 Miloradovitsch, prince, shot in an insur- rection at St. Petersburgh, [162] Mine, explosion of, at Middleton, 4 Mines in Spanish America, 285* Mining shares, &c., estimate of payments on, 48*
Miramichi, New Brunswick, dreadful fire and hurricane at, 135, 174 Missionaries: East Indies, 46*; North America, ib.
Missolonghi, siege of, [191]; surrender of the fort of Anatolico, [192] Money-market, panic in, [123] Moute Video, success of the Independents against the Imperialists, [179] Moore's Life of Sheridan, extracts from, 166*
Moretti's fulminating acid, 261*
Morris, Miss, and two other females burnt to death, 109
Mostyn, lady, killed by her horses running away, 10
Mountain, Dr., bishop of Quebec, death of, 203
Muirhead, J. G., tried for misdemeanor,
Murder: Francis Baker, esq., by Mr. Desha, son of the governor of Kentucky, 18; John Ryan, by his wife and Patrick Cusack, 28; at Oporto, 33; Frances Smaller, 37; Mary Ann Hallenborough, 38; at Constantinople, 48; in Switzer- land, 53; of a sealing party, in New South Wales, 63; Josephine Duprat murders her husband, 64; Behier mur- ders his wife, and a girl, 90; horrible murder at Paris, 91; Chevalier, 112; James Read, by his wife, ib.; murder in the forest of Facq, 154; murder of M. Keller, 156; singular murder of a child, by cutting off its head, ib. ; at Frouquet, 164; in La Bresse, 168; at Genoa, 166; A. Hogg, 3*
Murray, lieutenant-governor of Demerara, Mr. Serjeant Rough's petition against,
Musical festivals at York, comparison of receipts, 1823 and 1825, 131
Naples: death of the king, [181], 218; reduction of the Austrian troops in the Two Sicilies, [182]; pretended miracles, ib.; assassins executed, 55; quarantine regulations, 80
Natural Philosophy, 228*
Needles, case of a Jewess, at Copenhagen, who swallowed upwards of 300, 230* Netherlands: distress occasioned by in- undations, [148]; speech at the close of the session of the states-general, ib. ; decrees for the regulation of education and the universities, [149]; letter from the court of Rome to the archbishop of Mechlin, [150] note; opposition of the Catholic clergy to the decrees, and liberality of those of Luxemburg, [150]; new duties imposed by France on the manufactures of the Netherlands, ib.; new session of the states-general, [151]; insurrection in Java, [152]; engage- ment near Samarang, [153]; king's speech, 89; financial embarrassments in India, ib.
New Brunswick; fire and hurricane at Miramichi, 135
Newcomen, lord, death of, 220
New Orleans, gigantic organic remains discovered near, 247*
Newgate, annual state of, 339 Newspapers, transmission of to the colo nies, 110
Nicholas, emperor, see Russia. Northumberland, duke of, goes to France as ambassador extraordinary, 59 North West Expedition, court-martial re-
lative to the loss of the Fury, 148; ac- count of the expedition, 149, 251*
Obituary: Madame Krudener, 215; We- witzer, 217; Ferdinand IV. of Naples, 218; Thomas Green, ib.; Dr. Dixon, ib.; sir Leonard T. W. Holmes, 219; George Dance, architect, ib.; lord Newcomen, 220; sir J. Frederick, ib.; J. Cox, ib.; lord Thanet, 221; Dr. Tilloch, 222; duke of Gotha, 226; rev. T. Maddock, ib.; J. H. Parry, 227; Mrs. Franklin (Miss Porden) ib. ; sir T. F. Heathcote, 228; adm. Purvis, ib.; lord Braybrooke, 230; dowager lady Jerningham, 231; sir James Ers- kine, ib.; John Young artist, 232; rev. Dr. Elmsley, ib.; Mrs. Barbauld, 234; W. Owen, R. A., 235; rev. R. Bland, ib.; sir James Graham, 236; earl of Balcarras, 237; rev. J. Pridden, 238; G. Saverio Poli, 240; H. Fuseli, R. A., 241; lord Glastonbury, 243; baron Denon, 244; sir J. C. Hippis- ley, 246: Dr. Fisher (bishop of Salis- bury), 247; carl Whitworth, 248; Domenico Corri (composer) 251; lord Kilmaine, 252; sir J. G. Egerton, ib. ; George Chalmers, 253; Dr. Andrewes (dean of Canterbury), 254; sir W W. Pepys, 255; professor Martyn, ib.; princess Borghese, 258; Dr. Rees, ib.; sir Thos. Bertie, 261; Dr. Mountain (bishop of Quebec), 263; Peter Tachan (giant), 264; rev. H. Kett, ib.; Snow- don Barne, 266; lord Lilford, ib.; lady St. Jolin, 267 ; duke of St. Alban's, ib.; Dr. J. Meyer, 268; earl of Craven, ib.; duchess dowager of Dorset, 269; sir W. E. Taunton, 270; sir Frederick Henniker, ib.; sir W. Geary, 271; John Lens, ib.; lieut.-col. Downman, 272; lord Radstock, 273; earl of Donoughmore, 275; Constantine De- metriades, ib.; col. Campbell of Glen- Jyon, 276; earl of Carlisle, 277; col. James Capper, 279; Miles Barne, 280; Mrs. W. P. L. Wellesley, ib.; sir T. Stepney, ib.; chevalier Linquiti, 281; rev. P. R. Dobree, 282; Lacepède, French naturalist, 283; Walter Fawkes, 285; sir J. Stewart, ib.; George Cal- vert, 286; hon. A. Waldegrave, 287; general Foy, ib.; duchess of Rutland, 288; Dr. J. Nott, 289; dowager mar- chioness of Bath, 291; David, French painter, 292
Ogle Castle, East Indiaman, shipwreck of, 155
O'Gorman, Mr., secretary to the new Catholic Association, his intemperate speech, [45]
O'Hara case for the recovery of an es tate, 22*
Olaneta, royalist general in Peru, defeat and death, [211]
Opera-house, foundation stone discovered,
Oporto, murder at, 33
Organic remains, discovered near New Orleans, 247*
Ouroux, M., artificial anatomy contrived by, 245
Owen, Mr. (of Lanark) lectures at Wash- ington, 17
Owen, William, R.A., death of, 235
Palin, John, trial of, for stealing four bank notes, of 1,0007. each, 151 Paraguay, [212]; British subjects obtain leave to quit the country, 56 Parkins, ex-sheriff, Byrne versus, 7* Parliament: opening of, by commission, -[3]; King's speech, [4]; lord Dudley and Ward's, [5]; Mr. Brougham's, [8]; Mr. Canning's reply to, [12]; debates on the Roman Catholic Asso- ciation, [17]; Mr. Goulburn's speech, [18]; sir H. Parnell's and Mr. Peel's, [23]; Mr. Plunkett's, [26]; Mr. Canning's, [32]; petition presented by Mr. Brougham from the members of the Catholic Association, [40]; bill passed against the Association, [42]; petition of the Catholics presented by sir F. Burdett, [46]; Mr. Plunkett's speech, [47]; Mr. Peel's, [49]; motion car- ried, and committee formed, [51]; Catholic relief bill, [52]; Mr. Peel's speech, [54]; duke of York's speech, [58]; Mr. Brougham's comments on, [61]; bill passes the Commons, intro- duced into the Lords, [64]; bill rela- tive to Elective Franchise in Ireland, [67]; committee of inquiry into the state of Ireland, [71]; Mr. S. Rice's motion respecting religious animosities in Ireland, [79]; Mr. Hume's motion against the Irish church establishment, [80]; abuses in the charter schools of Ireland, ib.; abuses in chancery, [85]; judges' salaries, [86]; laws relating to juries, and bankrupt laws, [88]; joint- stock companies, ib.; Unitarian mar- riage bill, [89]; usury laws, ib.; Scotch law proceedings, [90]: combination laws, [91]; report of the committee on ditto, [96]; hill passed on, [97]; corn laws, [98]; alterations in our colonial policy, [99]; diminution of duties proposed by Mr. Huskisson, [106]; financial situation of the country, [115]; reduction of duties, [118]; assessed
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