reform, 221. Lost, ib. Session closed by
a speech from the throne delivered by the
Prince Regent, 222. Prorogued till the
24th August next, ib. Re-assembles 22d
November, 228. Prince Regent's speech,
ib. Address moved in the House of Lords,
229. Carried, 230. Address moved in
the House of Commons, 231. Carried, ib.
Report on the address brought up and a-
greed to, ib. Bills to curb the licentious-
ness of the press, &c. ib. Motion in the
House of Commons for preventing sediti-
ous meetings, ib. Motions in both Houses
on the state of the country, 235. Nega-
tived, 236. Bill for prohibiting training
read a second time in the Lords, 237.
Bill for preventing delay in cases of mis-
demeanour, 238. Bill for restraining
blasphemous libel, 239. Search for arms
bill passed by the Lords, ib. By the
Commons, 242. Motion on Parliamen-
tary reform, 243. Bill for preventing
blasphemous libel passed in the Lords.
242. Misdemeanour and traverse bill
passed, 243. Motion on Mr Owen's
plan, 246. Negatived, 249. The dis-
franchisement of Grampound, 249. Mo-
tion on the burgh of Aberdeen, 250. De-
bates on, ib. Negatived, 253. Bill for
regulating the mode of accounting in Scot-
land, ib. Motion for referring the peti-
tion of the Royal Burghs of Scotland to a
committee, 255. Carried, 254. Report
on, brought up, 255. Committee re-ap-
pointed, ib.

Parliamentary reform, remarks on, I. 220.
Sir F. Burdett's motion on, 221. Lord
J. Russell's ditto, 243.

papers, II.409. Income of
the united kingdom, ib. Excise duties,
410. Net produce of the revenue, 411.
Income and charge on the consolidated
fund in quarters ending 5th April 1819,
412. Net produce of the revenue in the
years 1817, 1818, 1819, 415. The pro-
duce of the excise duties in the years
1818 and 1819, 415. Net produce of the
revenue in the years 1818, 1819, ib. Con-
solidated fund, 417. Excise duties con-
tinued, 420. Monies paid into the Ex-
chequer of Great Britain, 421. Funded
debt, 422. Report of the secret commit-
tee on the state of the Bank, 427. Second
report on ditto, 447. Report on the cri-
minal laws, 470. Report of the commis-
sion appointed for inquiring into the mode
of preventing the forgery of bank-notes,
482. Report on the poor laws, 487. Re-

port on the subject of weights and mea-
sures, 493.

Parga, motion in Parliament respecting the
cession of, to the Turks, I. 206.

Parnell, Sir R. his finance resolutions, J. 109.
Park, Mungo, his death placed beyond a
doubt, II. 305.

Parisian statistics, II. 407.

Peel, Mr, his speech on the proposed grant
to the Duke of York, I. 30. On the sub-
ject of the Bank resuming cash payments,
I. 136.

Peers, the creation of fifty new, in France,
II. 286.

Peru, state of, I. 205.

Pei, a captured Negro, trial of, for the mur-
der of Zougobra at Sierra Leone, II. 111.
Guilty, ib. Pardoned, 118.

Pettigrew, a surgeon, proceedings against, for
want of skill, II. 126.

Persia, geographical discoveries in, by Sir
W. Ouseley, I. 347.

Persian Ambassador and the fair Circassian

their arrival in England, II. 303. Regent's
levee for giving audience to, 315. Dress
and appearance, ib. Presents from the
King of Persia to the Prince Regent, 316.
Playfair, Professor, biographical account of,
I. 316. Progress in learning, ib. Pre-
dilection for mathematics, ib. Presented
.himself, at eighteen years of age, as a can-
didate for the mathematical chair in the
Marischall College, Aberdeen, ib. Appoint-
ment to his father's living, 317. Resigns,
ib. Elected joint professor of mathema-
tics in the University of Edinburgh, 318.
Succeeds Professor Robison in the chair
of natural philosophy, ib. Remarks on
his writings, ib. Geological inquiries and
tour, ib. Return and death, ib. Felici-
tous character of, by Mr Jeffrey, ib.
Poetry, original, I. 357. The League of the
Alps, ib. Notes on, 364. The Festal
Hour, 265. Alpine Song, 268.
Poland, policy of the Russian government
of, I. 288. Hatred of the Poles to, ib.
Emigration, ib.

Prime Minister, particulars of the degrada-
tion of the Chinese, II. 282.
Prosecutions and miscellaneous cases, II.
119, 189.

Protheroc, Mr, his speech in the committee
of ways and means, I. 95.
Prussia, state of, 283. Fanaticism of the
people, ib. King violates his promises, ib.
Rigorous measures, 284. Army, ib, Fi-
nances, ib.

Public Revenue of the United States, II.
278.

Q.

Quakers, a petition from, presented to Par-
liament for the amelioration of the crimi-
nal laws, I. 162.

Queen, the will of the, proved, II. 271.
Quack Doctor, the trial of, II. 296.

R.

British

Religious Intelligence, II. 238.
and foreign Bible Society, ib.
One or-
ganised at Paris, 239. State of Bible So-
cieties in various parts of the world, ib.
Works wholly or nearly completed during
the year, ib. General Assembly of the
Scottish church, 241.

Richmond, the late Duke of, particulars at-
tendant on his death, II. 389.
Ricardo, Mr, his remarks on the sinking
fund, I. 105. Speech on the measure of
resuming cash payments, 151.

Ridley, Sir M. W. motion on the naval sup-
ply, I. 83.

Riots at Liverpool, II. 526. Paisley, 381.
Glasgow, ib. North Shields, 385.
Robinson, Mr F. his speech on the propo-
sed grant to the Duke of York, 1. 32.
Speech on the foreign enlistment bill, 212.
Royal assent given to the bill for preventing
military training, 249. To seizure of arms
bill, ib. To the bill for restraining blas-
phemous and seditious libels, 249. To the
newspaper duty bill, ib.

Royal Society of London, proceedings of, II.
190.

Institute of France, proceedings of,
II. 197.
Rome, attack of the Baron Rumohr's house
by brigands, 11. 337.

Russell, Lord John, his motion on Parlia-
mentary reform, I. 245.

S.

Salton, Lord, seconds the address in the
House of Lords, I. 8.、

Sarrazin, General, convicted of bigamy, II.

341.

I. 334. Light and heat, lb. Hyposul-
phurous acid, 338. Mineral waters, ib.
Sea waters analysed, 339. Dead sea, ib.
Height of the Himalaya mountains, 340.
Scarlett, Mr, his speech on the finances, I.
67. On the criminal laws, 179.
Scotland, meeting of the General Assembly
of the Church of, I. 241. Burgh reform
of, 250. Recollections of, II. 395.
Shiloh, proclaiming the, II. 274.

Sinclair, Mr, his speech at the opening of
Parliament, I. 16.

Sidmouth, Lord, his speech on the state of
gaols, prisons and crimes in the united
kingdom, I. 164.

Slave trade prohibited by his Belgian Majes-
try, II. 290.

Slavery, state of, in the United States, II.

332.

Smithfield, radical meeting at, II. 359.
South America, state of, I. 291. Defeat of
Macgregor, ib. Venezuela, 292. Mo-
rilla opens the campaign, ib. Captures
San Fernando d'Apure, ib. Bolivar re-
elected president, ib. Carries the war in-
to New Grenada, ib. Santander defeats
the royal army of, ib. Bold attempt on
Angostura, 293. Battle of Cantanra, ib.
Royalists defeated, ib. Decisive battle of
Boyaca, 294. Union of New Grenada and
Venezuela, 293. Recapture of San Fer-
nando d'Apure, ib. State of Peru, ib.
Buenos Ayres, ib. Brazil, 296.
Spain, death of Charles IV., I. 270. Mer-

ciless ruffianism of General Elio, 271.
State of public affairs, ib. Finances, ib.
Army and Navy, ib. Edict against fo-
reigners, 272. Difficulties in ratifying
the treaty for the cession of the Floridas,
ib.

Conspiracy in the expedition at Ca-
diz, 275. The plague, 274. Marriage
of Ferdinand, 275. Ministry changed, ib.
Dark proceedings of the court, 277. E-
dict interdicting all Jews from entering the
Spanish territory, ib. Fever in, II, 391.
Stent, Henry, trial of, II. 96. Guilty, 101.
Recommended to mercy, ib.

Stockport radical meeting, II. 330.
Stokoe, Mr John, tried by a court-martial in
St Helena roads, II. 403. Dismissed his
Majesty's service, 405.

Scale of rewards proposed by the Board of
Longitude, approved of by the Prince Re-
gent, II. 290.

Science, improvements in, during the year,

of the House of Commons, to answer for
breach of privilege, I. 245.
Stuarts, monument to the, at Rome, IL
285. -papers, account of the, 359.
Committee of inspection suspended, 382.

162.

II. 313.

Tierney, Mr, his speech on the Windsor es-
tablishment, I. 21. On the grant to the
Duke of York, 30. On Lord Castlereagh's
motion for a committee of finance, 40. On
the new taxes, I. 49. Motion on the
subject of the Bank, 119. Reply to Mi-
nisters, 128. Speech in support of Mr
Ellice's resolution on the subject of resum-
ing cash payments, 147. Motion on the
state of the nation, 203. Speech on the

state of the Country, 235.
Trials, Criminal.

Clement and Drake, for
murder, II. 52. James Gibbs, for stab.
bing and cutting G. Gibbs, 60. Thomas
Osborne, for the wilful murder of Eliza
Cox, 62. William Burton, for wilful mur-
der, 65. Robert Turner, for wilful murder,
69. Frances Clark, for child murder, 75.
Joseph Wilkes and others, for coining, 78.
John Eden, James Wolfe, and George
Wolfe, for the murder of Isabella Young,
83. Crawley, Denneby, and others, for a
burglary, 91. Thomas Corrigan, for mur-
der, 93. Henry Stent, for inflicting
wounds with intent to murder, 96.
Holmesby, for the murder of his wife, 101.
George Warden, for abstracting money
from letters, 105. Peter Bowers, for
murder, 108. Ralph Woodness, and
Richard Smith, for housebreaking and
theft, 108. James Whiteford, for hame-
sucken and robbery, 110. Pei, a cap-
tured negro, for murder, 111.

-

John

State. Johnson, Drummond, and
Bagueley, for seditious libel, II. 3. Ward
v. Clement, 6. Edward Taylor, for pri-
vate libel, 13. Richard Carlisle, for blas-
phemy, 15. For publishing Palmer's
Principles of Nature, 49.
Turkey, violations of the treaty of Bucha-
rest, I. 288. Decapitation of the delin-

quents, ib.

U.

United States, state of affairs in, I. 296.
Floridas, ib. General Jackson's atro-
cious conduct, ib. Depressed state of the
finances, 297. Distresses of the country, ib.

author of, II. 318.

Vesuvius, visit of the Emperor of Austria to,
II. 302.

W.

Wales, New South, voluntary emigration to,
encouraged, II. 279. Information very
important to the interests of, 339.

the Princess of, intimates her in-
tention of returning to England, 11. 358.
Ward, Mr R. submits the ordnance esti-
mates to the committee of supply, I. 85.
Ward v. Clement, for libel, II. 6.
Warden, George, trial of, for abstracting mo-
ney from letters, II. 105. Guilty, 107.
Sentenced to be executed, ib. Execution,
300. Declaration, 301.
Warrender, Sir G. lays before the House of
Commons the Navy estimates, I. 81. Re-
plies to Mr Calcraft, 82.

Warwick, Earl of, moves the address to the
Prince Regent in the House of Lords, I.

8.

Waters, mineral, analysis of, I. 338. Of
the boiling spring in the harbour of Milto,
339. From the coast of Sussex, ib. Sea
waters, ib. Water of the Dead Sea, ib.
Watt, Mr James, biographical account of, I.
325. Progress of his education, ib. Learns
the art of instrument making, ib. Ap-
pointed instrument-maker to the Univer-
sity of Glasgow, ib. Application made to
him to repair Newcomen's steam-engine,
ib. Success of his discoveries of the na-
ture and power of steam, 326.
Elected a
member of the Royal Societies of London
and Edinburgh, 328. Degree of L L. D.
conferred on him. Chosen foreign mem-
ber of the National Institute of France, ib.
Character by Mr Jeffrey, ib.
Watson, Serjeant, shot, II. 338.
Watkins, Robert Turner, trial of, for mur-
der, 69. Guilty, Death, 74.
Wellington, the Duke of, presides at the ani.
versary dinner of the friends of foreigners
in distress, II. 285. Attempt to assassi
nate at Paris, investigated, S06.
Wernerian Society of Edinburgh, proceed.
ings of, II. 211.

Whale, skeleton of a, found in Clackmannan-
shire, II. 357.

Whiteford, James, trial of, for hamesucken
and robbery, II. 110. Guilty,-Con-
demned, 111.

Wilberforce, Mr, presents a petition from the
Society of Friends to the House of Com-
mons, I. 162. Speech on the criminal
law, 178.

Wilkes, Joseph and others, trial of, for coin-
ing, II. 78. Guilty, 82.
Wolcott, Dr, known by the name of Peter
Pindar, biographical account of, I. 313.
An eccentric character, ib. Coarse and
brutal wit, ib. Goes out to the West In-
dies with Sir William Trelawney, ib.
metamorphosed into a parson, ib. Re-
turns, ib. Fame for satirical writing, 365,
ib. Quarrels with Booksellers and Mi-
nisters, ib. Death and character, ib.

Is

Wolseley, Sir Charles, returned for Birming-
ham, II. 336. Arrest of, 337.
Woodness, Ralph, and Smith, Richard, trial
of, for housebreaking and theft, II. 108.
Wool, foreign, proposed tax on, I. 47.
Wurtemberg, death of the Queen of, 286.
Harmony between the King and his sub-
jects, ib.

Y.

Year, the state of affairs at the beginning of
the, I. 3.

York, curious adventure in the grand stand
at, II. 359.

Yorkshire, dismissal of Earl Fitzwilliam
from the Lieutenancy of, II, 389,

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