Improvements and establishments, II. 462. Regent's canal opened for busi- ness, ib. Description of, ib. New improvements east of Carlton-House, 463. Foundation-stone of a literary institution laid at Bristol, ib. Com- munication connecting the Gloucester and Berkley canal with the Thames, and Severn and Stroudwater canals opened, ib. Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, ib. New observatory at Cambridge proposed, ib. First stone of a free national school laid at Pan- cras, ib. Iron bridge opened over the river Chalmer, ib. Isle of Wight in- stitution completed, 463. Proposed institution at Lancaster for the reform of discharged criminals, ib. New market to be erected at Liverpool, 464. Cumberland and Westmoreland joined by a new cast-iron bridge, ib. Two new churches about to be erected at Wakefield, ib. Foundation-stone of the jail of Jedburgh, and bridewell for the county of Roxburgh laid, ib. Increasing splendour of the Edinburgh College Museum, ib.
Ings, James, Brunt, Thomas, Tidd, Ro-
bert, and Davidson, William, trial of, for high treason. Sentenced to die, 131. Sentence executed, ib. Ireland, two curious anecdotes concern- ing the distressed state of, II. 341 Italy. State of Naples, I, 293. Discon-
tent organized among the secret socie- ties, 294. Account of the Carbonari, ib. Insurrection at Naples, 296. Ra- pidly spreads, ib. King forced to ac- cept the Spanish Constitution, 297. Troubles in Sicily, 298. General Pepe's expedition, ib. Convention at Palermo, ib. Neapolitans tyrannize over the Si- cilians, 299. Meeting of Parliament, 300. King's speech, 301. Finances, ib. Measures with regard to Sicily, ib. Views and measures of Austria, 302. Of Russia, ib. Congress at Troppau, 304. Invitation of the Holy Alliance to the King of Naples, 305. Prepara- tions for war, ib. King sets out for Laybach, 307
Lansdowne's, the Marquis of, speech on the proposed dissolution of Parliament, I. 25. On the opening of the new Par- liament, 40. On the existing commer- cial restrictions, 41. Motion relative to commerce, 86. Opposes the motion for a secret committee on the papers re- lative to the Queen, 121. Speech in favour of granting the Queen a list of witnesses, 179
Lauderdale, Earl of, speech condemning the House of Commons in their mode of passing the votes of money, on the accession of George IV. for transacting public business, I. 31. Motion on pre- cedents, 177. Propositions respecting the Queen's defence, 202. Objects to the clause for divorcing the Queen, 231. Imputation on Earl Grey, 233 Leopold, Prince, visits the Queen, II.
Lewis, Mr, his speech on the state of agriculture, I. 83
List of addresses to the Queen, II. 356, and 360
Intelligence, II. 451. Plan of the Royal Society of Literature, ib. Institutions in Wales for the promo- tion of ancient literature, poetry, and music, 452. Prose essays in English, 453. Number of the members of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 453. Number of Schools on the Sys- tem of Bell and Lancaster, 453. A col- lection of single poems and ballads, pub- lished at about a half-penny or one penny each, sold at the immense price of eight hundred and thirty-seven pounds sterling, 453. Plan for deter- mining the weights and measure of all trading countries, 453. Schools in France, 454. Theatres in France, ib. Les Annales des Lagides, recommended as one of the most important works that have appeared on ancient history, 455. Notice respecting the work entitled, Jus Criminale Hungaricum, ib. No- tices of the Universities of Leipsic and Jena, ib. Publication at Vienna of a work entitled Calliope, ib. Geographi- cal Society at Vienna, ib. Manuscript of Homer's Iliad, ib. Discovery of the lost books, De Republica of Cicero, 456. Publication of the Chronicle of Euse- bius, ib. Discoveries of manuscripts or fragments of Cicero's works, ib. School on the plan of mutual instruction at Palermo, 457. Formidable number of journals published in Spain since the revolution, ib. Flourishing state of the universities in Sweden, 458. Num- ber of works in the Royal Library of Copenhagen, ib. Literature of Greece, ib. Dictionary of the Greek language publishing at Constantinople, 460. Li- terature in Russia, ib. Improvements in letters and arts in Egypt, 461. In- scription on Pompey's Pillar complete- ly deciphered, ib. Mr Morrison's suc- cess in the printing of his Chinese Dic- tionary, ib. Literary and thriving state of New South Wales, ib. Liverpool, Lord, speech respecting the dissolution of Parliament, I. 24. Re-
ply to Lord Lauderdale, 31. Opposes the bill against the convicted boroughs, 35. Reply to the Marquis of Lans- downe on the existing commercial re- strictions, 42. Speech on the subject of British commerce, 90. Speech sta- ting his reasons for recommending the consideration of the papers in the Green Bag to a committee, 122. Mo- tion for the nomination of, 136. Re- ply to Earl Grey, 160. Defends the conduct of ministers, 168. Opposition to the Queen's petition, 161. Intro- duces the Bill of Pains and Penalties, 169. Reply to Earl Grey, 172. Mo- tion for fixing the time for the second reading of the bill against the Queen, 176. Refuses to grant a list of witnesses, ib.
Reply to Lord Holland, 177. Speech in opposition to the motion for granting to the Queen a list of wit- nesses, 180. Denies the propriety of granting the Queen's demand, 182. Speech relative to the Queen's defence, 204. Speech in favour of the Bill of Pains and Penalties, 227. On the sub- ject of divorce, 232. Moves the throw- ing out the bill, 235
London, the Bishop of, defends the di- vorce clause in the Bill of Pains and Penalties, I. 231
London, outrages in, respecting not illu- minating for the Queen's arrival, II. 341. Address from the city of, to the Queen, 343. Livery of ditto, 344. Il- lumination in celebration of the aban- donment of the Bill of Pains and Pe- nalties against the Queen, 361 Lushington, Dr, speech on libel against the Queen, I. 185. Speech in closing the case for the defence of the Queen, 216
Marriages, list of, II. 504 Milton, Lord, on inquiry into the agri- cultural distress, I. 83. Approves of the petition from the merchants of Lon- don on the subject of Commerce, I. 95. Motion for repeal of the tax on fo- reign wool, I. 96
Miscellaneous 'concerns, the prices of shares in, I. 438
Montrose, the Duke of, declares his con- viction of the Queen's guilt, I. 236 Morley's gambling-house, circumstances concerning, II. 340
Navy estimates, I. 59
Netherlands, state of the finances, I. 313. Budget, ib. Close of the Session, ib. Reassemble at Brussels, ib. Discus- sions on the Budget, ib. Stagnation of Flemish manufactures, 314. Exhibi- tion of the products of national indus- try, ib.
Nesbett, trial of, for the murder of Mr Parker and his housekeeper, II. 254. Guilty, 259. Sentenced to death, ib. Execution of, 349. Declaration pre- vious to his trial, 351
New publications, list of, II. 465 Nottingham election, contest at, II. 322
October the 30th, the Queen declines re- ceiving any more addresses after, II.
Opening of the new Parliament, I. 37 Ordnance estimates, I. 64
Paisley, threatened insurrection at, I. 20. Continued agitation at, II. 288. Ra- dical address circulated at, 326. Radi- cal meetings and disturbances, ib. Mi- litary practising, ib. Tranquillity ap- parently restored, 333
Palmer, Lord, opposes Lord Castlereagh's motion for adjournment of the House of Commons, I. 164
Palmerston's, Lord, reply to Colonel Da- vies, on the military expenditure, I. 61. Moves the army estimates, 62
Parker, Mr, and Brown, Sarah, the hor rible murder of, II. 319 Parliament, meeting of, at the death of Geo. IV., I. 23. King's message, ib. Votes of money proposed in the House of Commons, 27. Debates on, ib. Passed, 30. Serious discussion in the House of Lords on, ib. Lord Lauder- dale's motion, 31. Motion against Grampound, &c. 32. Debates, on, ib. Passed, 34. Bill against Grampound, &c., opposed in the House of Lords, ib. Disposed of by adjournment, 35. Dis- solution of Parliament by commission, ib. Meeting of the new. Re-election of a Speaker in the House of Commons, 37. Formal opening, 38. King's Speech, ib. Address voted in the House of Lords, 40. In the House of Com- mons, 41. Civil list, 43. Mr Hume's motion, ib. Negatived, 44. Motion re- specting the revenues of Gibraltar, ib. Voted, ib. Motion on the Admiralty droits, 45. Discussion ou, ib. Nega- tived, 52. Question of the civil list brought fully under the consideration of the House, 52. Debate on, ib. Agreed to, 57. Navy estimates, 59. Motion for inquiry into the military expenditure, ib. Committee of supply, 62. Army estimates, ib. Ordnance estimates, 64. Budget, with ways and means, 65. Debates on, 69. Motion respecting the Court of Exchequer, Scotland, 70. Debates on, 73. Nega- tived by only a majority of 12, 77. Mo- tion relative to agricultural distress, 79. Debates on, ib. Carried, 85. Motion
for limitation on, ib. Carried, 86. Mo- tion in the House of Lords for a com- mittee of inquiry into the commerce of Great Britain, 86. Agreed to, 93. Dis- cussion on, in the House of Commons, ib. Motion for repealing the tax on fo- reign wool, 96. Negatived, ib. Mo- tion for the disfranchisement of Gram- pound, ib. Debates, ib. Delayed, 102. Alien Bill, ib. Debates on, 103. Car- ried, 105. Leave given to bring in a bill respecting the national education of the poor, ib. Motion relative to the Welsh judicature, 110. Lord Castle- reagh's amendment, 112. Amendment carried, ib. King's message respecting the Queen, 119. Green Bag laid on the
tables of both Houses, 120. Motion for a secret committee made in both Houses, 121. Debates on, in the House of Lords, ib. Carried, 123. Queen's communication to the House of Com- mons, 124. Motion for a nominated committee, 125. Animated debate on, 128. Delayed, 136. Committee no- minated in the House of Lords, 136. Mr Wilberforce's motion for averting Parliamentary inquiry into the charges against the Queen, 141. Debates on, 145. Motion carried, 154. Resolution of the House presented to the Queen, and rejected by her, ib. Queen's peti- tion for open investigation, 156. Mo- tion respecting, 158. Debate on, 160. Negatived, 162. Motion for adjourn- ment in the House of Commons, 163. Carried, 166. Report of the secret com- mittee of the Lords, 167. Petition of the Queen, 168. Motion on, 169. Ne- gatived, ib. Bill of Pains and Penal- ties, ib. Queen protests against the whole proceedings, 172. She demands a list of witnesses, 77. Debates on the propriety of granting, ib. Committee appointed for examining precedents, ib. Report brought up, ib. Lord Erskine's motion negatived, 181. Queen's peti- tion for a specification of the places where the criminal acts are charged to have been committed, ib. Motion re- specting, ib. Negatived, 183. Motion in the House of Commons respecting a libel against the Queen, 183. Debates on, ib. Motion withdrawn, 186. Crowd- ed meeting of the Peerage, 189. Duke of Leinster's motion, ib. Negatived, ib. Debates on the Bill of Pains and Penal- ties, 190. Queen's counsel heard against the principle of the bill, 192. Lord King's motion against the bill, 199. Negatived, ib. Proceedings against the Queen opened, ib. Case for the prose- cution closed, 201. Motions respecting the course of proceeding, with the de- fence of the Queen, 203. Case for the defence opened, 205. Closed, 212. De- bates on the second reading of the bill, 221. Queen's protest, 231. Commit- tee on the bill, ib. Debates on the se- veral clauses of, ib. Bill thrown out, 236
Parliamentary papers, II. 381. Revenue
dom for the year ending 5th January, 1820, ib. Great Britain distinguished from Ireland, 382. Heads of Expendi- ture, ib. Report on agricultural dis- tresses, 384. Report on the foreign trade of the country, 392. Second re- port on the education of the poor, 404. Report on the criminal laws, 497. Ab- stract of the report on the state of men- dicity in the metropolis, 415. Report on the constitution of the royal burghs of Scotland, 425
Parnel, Sir H., motion on the civil list, I.
Perth, letter of the operative weavers be- longing to, addressed to his Grace the Duke of Athol, II. 239
Plate, meeting for regulating the sub- scriptions for presenting to the Queen a service of, 353
Poor, the national education of, Mr Brougham's plan for, I. 105 Portobello, five persons drowned by the upsetting of a boat off, II. 356 Portsmouth, election of a member of Par- liament for, II. 323
Portugal, state of feeling in, 289. Revo- lutionary junta formed at Oporto, ib. The march of the army to Coimbra, 290. Attempts of the regency at con- ciliation, ib. Revolution at Lisbon, ib. Union of the Juntas, 291. Marshal Be- resford arrives, ib. Is not allowed to land, ib. Sails for England, ib. Dis- cussions, ib. Arrangement, 292. Elec- tions, ib.
Preston, election contest at, II. 322 Prices of shares in canals, docks, bridges,
roads, water-works, insurances, gas- lights, literary institutions, &c. II. 436 Procession to Brandenburgh House to ad- dress the Queen, 357 Prosecutions and miscellaneous cases, II.
Prussia. Financial embarrassments, I. 313. New taxes, ib. Rigorous mea- sures for repressing the movements of the popular party, ib. Free-mason lodges shut, ib. Suppression of secret societies, ib. German dress prohibited, ib. Professor Juhn still in confine- ment, ib.
and Expenditure of the United King- Queen, discussions respecting the, in the
cerning her arrival at Geneva, previous to her landing in England, 339. An- swer to the address of the corporation of York, 346; to the address from the householders, Westminster, 347. Lists of addresses to, 356 and 360. Visited by Prince Leopold, 360. Signifies her intention of attending divine service at St Pauls, 364. Gratifies the wards and parishes, in consenting to receive their addresses in large bodies, 364
Mr Radical address circulated at Paisley, II. 326
House of Commons, I. 28. Delicate si- tuation of, 114., Milan commission, ib. Resolution of ministers, ib. Ex- clusion of her name from the Litúrgy, ib. Consequences of, ib. She sets out for England, 115. Rapid journey through France, ib. Arrival at St Omers, ib. Ministers taken by sur- prise, ib. Lord Hutchinson's mission to avert landing, ib. Accompanied by Mr Brougham, 116. Their arrival at St Omers, ib. Lord Hutchinson's in- terview with the Queen, ib. Her de- mand, ib. Lord Hutchinson's letter, containing the proposal of ministers, ib. Indignantly rejected, 117. Brougham's counter proposition, ib. She precipitately proceeds to Calais, ib. Lord Hutchinson's second letter, ib. Her purpose unchanged, ib. Sails from Calais, and lands at Dover, 118. Tri- umphal journey from Dover to London, ib. Popular enthusiasm in her favour, 119. King's message to Parliament, ib. Green bag, containing charges against her, 120. Correspondence between her and Lord Liverpool, 136. Negociations for settling matters, 138. Unsuccess- ful, 140. Resolution of the House of Commons presented to her, 154. Re- jects it, ib. Her petition to the House of Lords for an open trial, 156. Re- port of the secret committee of the Lords, 167. Bill of Pains and Penal- ties against, 169. She protests against the whole proceedings, 172. Demands a list of witnesses, 177. Is denied, 181. Requests a specification of the places in which the criminal acts are charged to have been committed, 181. Not grant- ed, 183. Uninterrupted transmission of addresses to, 186. Character of her answers, ib. Inflammatory letter to the King, 187. Proceeds to the House of Lords, 189. Trial opened, 199. Emotion at the appearance of Theo- dore Majocci, 199. Evidence against closed, 201. Defence opened, 205. Closed, 212. Second reading of the Bill of Pains and Penalties, 230. Her protest against the bill, and declaration of her innocence, 231. Bill thrown out, 236. Unbounded rejoicing of the people, ib. Detail of the evidence for the support of the bill, II. 3-56. Evidence for the defence, 56-104. Particulars con-
Reading, election at, II. 322 Rebellion in various parts of Scotland, I.
Religious intelligence, II. 439. Amount of the principal religious charities for the year, ib. Union of the two branches of the Scottish Secession Church, ib. Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 440. The ecclesiastical organization of the differ- ent religious denominations in Russia, 450. Persecution of the Christians in China, 451
Reports and notices, II. 431 Revolutionary address affixed to the walls and public places, Glasgow, II. 824 Rhine, commission for removing the ob- structions to the free navigation of, II. 309
Riccardo's, Mr, speech on the state of the corn trade, 1. 83. On commerce, 95 Road, prices of shares in, II. 437 Robinson, Mr, his speech on the corn laws, I. 81. Reply to Mr Baring on commerce, I. 93
Russell, Lord John, his speech relative to the civil list, I. 53. Motion for dis- franchising the borough of Grampound, 96. Speech expounding the malversa- tions of, 97
Russia. Mutiny among a regiment of the Guards, I. 314. Circumstances of, ib. Jesuits expelled from the empire, ib. Enfranchisement of the Livonian serfs, 315. Opening of the Polish Diet by Alexander, ib. His address, ib. Dis- cussions in the Diet, ib. Project of the criminal code rejected, ib. Alex- ander's displeasure, 316
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