Organization of the German Diet. Its powers. Wirtemberg. Baden. Hesse Darm. stadt. Prussia. The Netherlands. Denmark. Russia. Meeting of the Polish Diet. Effects of the Spanish Revolution. Warfare in Venezuela. Armistice with Morillo. Chili. Lord Cochrane and San Martin's Expedition against Lima. Revolution at Guaya- quil. Buenos Ayres. Its various Revolutions. The United States. Union of the LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS—delayed till next volume. Thistlewood and his Companions for High Treason, Hunt, and nine others, for their concern in the Proceedings at Manchester, Sir Francis Burdett, for Libel, contained in a Letter to his Constituents on the Manches- Sir Charles Wolseley, Bart., and Joseph Harrison, for Sedition, Cartwright, Wooler, and others, for Proceedings at Birmingham, and for unlawfully electing Sir Charles Wolseley as a Representative to the Commons, Trial of the Scottish Insurgents made Prisoners at Bonnymuir,-Andrew Hardie, &c. . 187 236 John Speirs, 237 Thomas Mackay, . ib. Nesbitt, for the Murder of Mr Parker and his Housekeeper, Trial of Soldiers for Murder, by firing from a window at Greenock, Pleas of Insurance Offices, relative to Chemical Apparatus employed by Severn, King, and Co. Severn, King, and Co., v. Drew, or the Imperial Insurance Company, An Account of the Revenue and Expenditure of the United Kingdom for the year end- Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Agricultural Distresses, Report from the Select Committee appointed to consider of the Means of Maintaining and Improving the Foreign Trade of the Country, Second Report of the Commissioners on the Education of the Poor, Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to consider of so much of the Criminal Laws as relates to Capital Punishment, Abstract of the Report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the State of Memorial to the American Senate and House of Representatives on African Coloniza- Report on the Constitution of the Royal Burghs of Scotland, - PART 1.-HISTORICAL. CHAPTER I. DEATH OF THE KING. Death of George III.-Genera! View of his Age.-His Public and Private Character. -Accession of George IV-Death of the Duke of Kent. Tee first important event which di- ving, had been intimately associated versified the present year, was one with the name and person of George which, even as occurring to an indi- III. All the revolutions which, duvidual long since dead to himself and ring more than half a century, had to the world, caused a deep emotion agitated the world, and changed its in the public mind. For many years, aspect; wonderful mutations in the the monthly bulletins had continued external and internal state of the emregularly to announce, that his Ma- pire-in its relations with the neighjesty was in good health and spirits, bouring states, and with all the rest but that his disorder continued una- of the world ;-a new tone infused bated. The public having ceased to into human thought, and into the read these bulletins, it had scarcely whole frame of society ;-these were been observed that the last one had the objects which at once presented stated some change to have taken themselves, on comparing the complace. It burst, therefore, as a com- mencement with the close of this long plete surprise upon the nation, when reign. The train of contemplation an official bulletin announced the ex. into which we are thus drawn, di-. tinction of all that yet survived of this vides itself naturally into two leading aged and revered Monarch. Small branches-the age, and the character, as this event now was, it awakened of George III. in every thinking mind a crowd of It has been said, that every age interesting and solemn recollections. considers the events which have disAll the ideas of royalty and of kingly tinguished it, as more wonderful than power, as originally formed in the any other. Admitting fully this pronemiod of almost every Briton now li- ness to exaggeration, and that the |
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