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for effecting that object.-Mr Tierney's motion on the Bank Restriction, as it affect-

ed foreign exchanges, and the state of the circulating medium.-Bill for restraining

the Bank from paying in specie notes under L. 5.-Opinion of the Bank Directors on

the Reports of the Secret Committees of the two Houses of Parliament,

CHAP. V.

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STATE OF THE CRIMINAL LAW.

General Observations.-Petition of the Common Council praying for a revision of the

Penal Code.-Sir J. Mackintosh moves for returns of Forgeries on the Bank of

England.-Petition of the Society of Friends.-Mr Bennet's motion relative to the

Transportation of Convicts, and the State of the Colony of New South Wales.-

Lord Sidmouth's motion for a Committee to consider the returns relative to the

existing state of Prisons and Crimes.-Motion of Lord Castlereagh on the State of

Prisons.-Sir J. Mackintosh's motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to

consider so much of the Criminal Law as ordains Capital Punishment, carried against

Ministers.-Report of the Committee ordained to be received,

CHAP. VI.

157

CATHOLIC CLAIMS.

Petitions for and against the Catholic Claims.-Mr Grattan's motion for the appoint-

ment of a Committee.-Resolutions to the same effect submitted by the Earl of

Donoughmore.-Bill for abrogating the 25th and 30th of Charles II. lost on the se-

cond reading,

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CHAP. VII.

MISCELLANEOUS PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

Legal Reforms.-Abolition of Trial by Wager of Battle.-Insolvent Debtors' Act.-

Bankruptcy Laws' Amendment Bill.-Game Laws' Amendment Bill.-Bill for re-

gulating the settlement of Paupers.-Mr Tierney's motion on the State of the Na-

tion. Cession of Parga to the Turks.-Foreign Enlistment Bill carried through all

its Stages. Charitable Foundations' Bill.-Sir Francis Burdett's motion on the sub-

ject of Parliamentary Reform.-Prorogation of Parliament,

CHAP. VIII.

200

RE-ASSEMBLING OF PARLIAMENT AND STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

Apparent cause of the disturbances in the manufacturing districts.-Re-assembling of

Parliament in November.-Regent's Speech.-Debates on the Address.-Report on

the Address.-Measures proposed by Ministers for regulating public Meetings, pre-

venting secret military training, searching for arms, and restraining the licentiousness

of the press.-Bill for preventing seditious meetings.-Motions in both Houses of

Parliament for the appointment of Committees to inquire into the state of the coun-

try. Mr Bennet's motion for a Committee to inquire into the present state of the ma-

nufacturing districts.-Bill for preventing training passed into a law.-Mr Hobhouse

sent to Newgate for a libel on the House of Commons.-Lord John Russell's

resolutions on the subject of Parliamentary Reform.-Sir W. De Crespigny's motion

for a Select Committee to inquire into the practicability of Mr Owen's plan for re-

lieving the distresses of the lower classes.-Bill introduced for the disfranchisement

of Grampound.-The arms' seizure bill, the misdemeanour traverse bill, the seditious

meetings' bill, the newspaper stamp-duty bill, and the seditious publications' bill,

passed.-Adjournment of Parliament,

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CHAP. IX.

SCOTLAND,

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Progress of Burgh Reform.-Lord A. Hamilton's motion relative to the burgh of Aber-

deen-Lord Advocate's bill for regulating the mode of accounting of royal burghs.—

Lord A. Hamilton's motion for the appointment of a Committee on the petitions of

the royal burghs carried.-New Jury Court bill.-Motion for suspending, till next

session, some of its enactments.-Report of the Committee on the royal burghs.-Re-

appointment of the Committee,

250

CHAP. X.

FRANCE.

State of parties.—Meeting of the Legislative Body.-M. Barthélemy's resolution rela-

tive to the law of elections carried in the Chamber of Peers, but thrown out in the

Chamber of Deputies.-Laws relative to the press.-Debates thereon.-The budget.

-State of the French Finances.-Ways and means.-Discussions on the budget.-

State of parties at the close of the session. Position of the new ministry.-Distur-

bances at Nismes,

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Spain.

THE REST OF EUROPE.

Death of Charles IV. and his Queen.-Proceedings of General Elio at Va-

lentia.—State of the finances, and of the army and navy.—Edict against foreigners in

the service of the South American Insurgents.-Difficulties in ratifying the treaty for

the cession of the Floridas.-Discovery of a conspiracy in the expedition at Cadiz.

-The introduction of the plague.-Its ravages.-Change of ministry.-Report of

the Council of Castile.-Manœuvre of the Court.-Revolution of the 1st of January

1820.-Germany.-Deliberations of the Diet.-General state of affairs.- Assassina-

tion of Kotzebue.-Congress of Carlsbad.-Resolutions of the Diet.-Austria.-

Prussia-Bavaria-Baden-Wurtemberg.-Hesse Darmstadt.—The Netherlands.

-Denmark.-Sweden.-Russia.-Turkey,

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CHAP. XII.

SOUTH AMERICA, THE UNITED STATES, AND INDIA.

Macgregor's defeat at Puerto Bello.-State of affairs in Venezuela.-Opening of the

campaign of 1819.-Capture of San Fernando d' Apure.-The Royalists in New Gre-

nada defeated.—Attempt on Angostura.- Battle of Cantanra and defeat of the Royal-

ists.-March of Bolivar across the chain of the Cordilleras.—Decisive Battle of Boya-

ca-New Grenada and Venezuela united under the name of the Republic of Colum-

bia-Recapture of San Fernando.-State of the Belligerents.-Peru. - Chili. --

Buenos Ayres.-Brazil.-The United States.-The Floridas.-Conduct of General

Jackson censured.-Finances.-State of the Country.-East Indies.-Death of Se-

too, Chief of the Pindarries.-Capture of Aseerghur.-Second escape of Appab Sa-

bib.-Expedition against the Pirates of the Persian Gulf,

291

PART II.

LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS.

CHAP. I.

BIOGRAPHY-POLITICAL.

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Sir Richard Musgrave.-Sir Robert Calder.-Mr Palmer.-Major Scott Waring.-
Lord Chief Baron Dundas.-Kotzebue.-Blucher,

CHAP. II.

BIOGRAPHY-LITERARY.

George Wilson Meadley.-Dr Wolcott.-Professor Playfair.-Mr James Watt.-M.

Monge,

312

CHAP. III.

VIEW OF IMPROVEMENTS IN SCIENCE DURING THE YEAR.

Light.-Heat.-Hyposulphurous Acid and its Compounds.-Discovery of Hyposulphu-
ric Acid.-Experiments of Sertürner, Vogel, and Gay-Lussac, on the Action of Sul-

phuric Acid on Alcohol.-Mineral Waters.-Measurement of the Height of the Hi-

malaya Mountains.—Curve of permanent Congelation,

CHAP. IV.

334

VIEW OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES, AND OBSERVATIONS OF TRAVELLERS DURING THE YEAR.

Travels in Africa.- Bowdich's Mission to Ashantee.-Travels in Persia.-Sir William

Ouseley.-Moritz Von Kotzebue.-Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzclarence's Journey over land

from India.-Mr. Oxley's second expedition to the interior of New Holland,

343

ORIGINAL POETRY.

The League of the Alps, or the Meeting on the Field of Grütli, by Mrs Hemans,

The Festal Hour, by the same,

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368

Alpine Song,

Joseph Wilkes, Thomas Earp, alias Reddal, and John Duffield,

John Eden, James Wolfe, and George Wolfe,

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75

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John Crowley, Henry Dennehy, John M'Centhy, Michael Linehan, and John Ambrose, 91

Thomas Corrigan,

Henry Stent,

John Holmsby,

George Warden,

Peter Bowers,

PROSECUTIONS AND MISCELLANEOUS CASES.

John Elmore, for Malicious Arrest.-Jones, for Gambling.-Pettigrew, for Unskilful-

ness as a Surgeon.-Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopez, Bart. for Bribery and Corruption.

-John Meyer, John Kinnear, Mosley Woolf, Lewis Levy, and others, for Extensive

Conspiracy.-William Clement, for Libel,

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Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce,

III-REPORTS, &c. ON THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF

PUBLIC ECONOMY.

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IV.-CHRONICLE OF MISCELLANEOUS OCCURRENCES,

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V.--PUBLIC AND PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

Accounts of the Income of the United Kingdom in the year ending the 5th of April

1819,

409

Promissory Notes,

423

The Army,

424

Account of the Number of Prisoners tried at the Old Bailey Sessions,

425

First Report by the Lords' Committees, on the Expediency of the Bank resuming

Cash Payments,

426

Second Report,

447

Report on the Criminal Laws,

470

of the Commissioners appointed for inquiring into the Mode of preventing the

Forgery of Bank Notes,

482

Report of the Committee on the Poor Laws for 1819,

487

of the Commissioners appointed to consider the Subjects of Weights and Mea-