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the Chambers. Further proceedings respecting the Slave Trade.-

The King nominates the President and Vice-Presidents of the

Electoral Colleges.-His Ordinances concerning the National

Guard. Further Ordinances concerning the Electoral Colleges.

Change of MinistrySPAIN: Publication of the Authorities of

the Caraccas.-Royal Decree for increasing the White Population of

Cuba. Decree for establishing Free Ports in the Peninsula.

Definitive Edict relative to the Spanish Exiles. Decree respecting

the Royal Vales.-Decree concerning the establishment of Ports of

Deposit. Decree relative to all Foreigners who make common cause

with the Insurgents of Spanish America. Address from the Cabinet

of Madrid to the High Allied Powers.-Official Articles in the form

of Royal Decrees.PORTUGAL:Neglect thrown upon it, on

the possessions in Europe.-Still keeps in its hands the territory of

Restoration of France to its territory.-Sweden enters upon its new

dominion,-German affairs still unsettled.-Speech of the united

sovereign of Holland and Flanders

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A List of the Members of the House of Commons

APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE.

Treaty between his Britannic Majesty and his Catholic Majesty,

for preventing their subjects from engaging in any illicit traffic

Treaty of Commerce between Sweden and the United States of

Report of the Secret Committee of the House of Lords, &c.

Report of the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons, &c. 245

REMARKABLE TRIALS AND LAW CASES.

Mist v. Sir William Rawlins ....

Lady Kirkwall v. Lord Kirkwall

Bannister v. Spooner, Ball, Walters, and Dowding

High Court of Justiciary......

The Kingv. Rev. Wm. Easton, Clerk, James Jerrard, and eight

other persons, for a conspiracy and Riot.

Bullock Hunting

The King v. Edward Bradley...

Philpot v. Mortlock and another.-Extents in Aid...

Reward, Selkeig, Master, on appeal from the Vice-Admiralty-

Court at Jamaica

Shannon v. Brandon-Breach of Promise of Marriage

Kennedy and others v. The Earl of Cassilis and others—Mar-

riage Settlement

Hardenn v. Causton-Breach of Promise of Marriage...

Trial of Channel and Chalcraft, for the Murder of Mr. Chennel

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The Attorney-General v. The Mayor and Corporation of Bristol 318

The Attorney General, at the relation of the Marquis of Bland-

ford and the Hon. Agar Ellis, v. His Grace the Duke of

The King v. Mary Ann Tucker-Libel.

The Attorney General v. Palmer.-Imitation Tea

The Bank of England v. John Johnson, Coal-Merchant

Public General Acts, passed in the Sixth Session of the Fifth

Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Ireland-58 GEO. III. A. D. 1818

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Report of the Northern Circuit Committee

of the Select Committee on the Usury Laws

on Laws relating to Auctions ....

from the Select Committee on the Education of the Lower

Eleventh Report from the Select Committee on Finance........

The Finance Accounts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain

and Ireland, for the year ended fifth January, 1818

Biographical Account of the late Lord Stanhope.......

Memoir of Professor Smith and Mr. Cranch.

MANNERS, CUSTOMS, &c. OF NATIONS AND

CLASSES OF PEOPLE.

Personal Narrative of Travels, &c. by Alexander de Humbolt... 438

An Autumn near the Rhine; or Sketches of Court, Society,

Scenery, &c. in some of the German States, bordering on the

Narrative of my Captivity in Japan, during the years 1811,

1812, and 1813. By Captain Golownin, R. N....

The Reports of Messrs. C. A. Rodney and John Graham, Com-

missioners sent by the United States Government to inquire

into the State of the Republic of Rio de la Plata

Description of Greenland.

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THE

ANNUAL REGISTER,

For the Year 1818.

GENERAL HISTORY.

CHAPTER I.

The Prince Regent's Speech, passed by Commission.-Bill proposed by the earl of Liverpool, and Lord Holland's remarks.—Address to the Prince Regent from the House of Commons.-Speeches.-Sir S. Romilly's remarks on particular Trials.-The Solicitor-General's observations.-Bill presented by Viscount Sidmouth.--Lord Holland's remarks, and Lord Sidmouth's reply.

ON

N January 27, the Prince Regent's Speech was made public to both Houses by commission, the persons entrusted with the office being the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the earl of Harrowby, the earl of Westmorland, and the duke of Montrose. The Speech was read by the Lord Chancellor, and was to the following effect:

"My Lords and Gentlemen; "We are commanded by his royal highness the Prince Regent to inform you, that it is with great concern that he is obliged VOL. LX.

to announce to the continuyou ance of his Majesty's lamented indisposition.

"The Prince Regent is persuaded that you will deeply participate in the affliction with which his Royal Highness has been visited, by the calamitous and untimely death of his beloved and only child the Princess Charlotte.

"Under this awful dispensation of Providence, it has been a soothing consolation to the Prince Regent's heart, to receive from all descriptions of his majesty's subjects the most cordial assurances both of their just sense of [B]

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