[N. B. The figures with crotchets refer to the History.]
ABDUCTION: Miss Kincaid, 184; Ellen Leahy, 191; Miss Turner, 316 Aberdeenshire, storm in, 174 Abo, dreadful conflagration at, 152 Accidents: explosion at the Thames Tunnel, 8; ditto in Bloomsbury, 27; showman killed by a lion, 34; fall of a part of Staines church, during ser- vice, 37; explosion of a Steam-boat at Lyons, 44-ditto of a dogger vessel, 59-shock from ditto felt to an extra- ordinary extent, 60; explosion of a powder-mill, Ewell, Surry, 63; a man buried among hay, 77; death by lightning, 90; breaking in of the Thames Tunnel, 97, 113, 118, 121, 123; boat sunk in the Shannon, 101; explosion of the Graham Steam- packet, 106; man injured by a lion, 128; the Preston North-Star' stage coach upset, 142; fall of a stack of chimneys, Edinburgh, 143; killed by a boiler of soap, 153; two men buried in the new tunnel, Bristol, 165; explosion of a powder-mill near Edinburgh, 167-Mr. Brown's bal- loon crushed, 170-fall of Wexford bridge, 177-accident at Guildhall, Lord Mayor's dinner, 182-the Leeds 'True Blue' coach upset, and driver killed, 187-explosion of gas, College Street, Westminster, 190-fall of part of Kew palace, 192-explosion of detonating powder,Birmingham,195 Adder, bite of, 99
Admiral Lord High, office of restored, and bestowed on the Duke of Clarence, [103]
Aerostation. See Balloon. Alençon, new fanatical sect at, 129 Alexander's Travels from India, extracts from, 496
Algiers; the Dey insults the French Consul, [226]-a French squadron blockades the harbour, [227] America,N.See United States, and Mexico. America, S. trade opened from Spain,
in foreign vessels, [246]; the Pope grants canonical institution to bishops, [247]. See Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru. Amiens, trial of Petit, the robber, 13 Anatomical preparations, injection for,
Antiquities; coins, &c., found in a bar- row at Newmarket, 23; building dis- covered, at Pompeii, 126; coins dug up at Hallyclare, 131; oaken coffin of St. Cuthbert, Durham Cathedral, ib. ; coins, &c., found at London Bridge, 132; at St. Mary's Abbey, York, 167; at New Cumnock, 168 Assizes and Sessions:-
Admiralty Sessions, trial of Jacob Irving, manslaughter, 106
Cambridge; Duke of Portland v. Haw- kins, trespass on Newmarket heath, 137
Carlisle Philip Tinneley, murder, 50; Richard Fox, ditto, 51
Exeter J. Orchard, forgery, 61 Kingston: Buckley and others, coining, 70
Lancaster: Heywood, &c., robbery, 154 -W. Robinson, murder of his wife, 158 E. G. and W. Wakefield, &c., for abduction of Miss Turner, 316 Lincoln: Avil v. Clay, &c., injury from bursting of the boiler of the Graham Steam-packet, 138
Middlesex Sessions: Blond, vending ob- scene prints, 181 Monmouth: Sarah Jones, child-mur- der, 73-W. Watkins and others, assault on a supposed witch, 79 Surrey: Oldfield v. Miller, indictment for obtaining money under false pre- tences, 175
Warwick: Joseph Birch, murder, 67 Astronomy, &c., 511
Athens, siege of, [299], defeat of the Greeks, [303]. See Greece. Avalanches in Switzerland, 8 Aurora Borealis, 166, 511
Austria: dissolution of the Hungarian Diet, [290] despatch from Prince Met- ternich to the Austrian internuncio at Constantinople [314], note Autographs, sale of, 39
Balloons: Mr. Green's ascent, Mile End Road, 80-ditto sixty-sixth ditto, at Newbury, 101; Mr. Brown's, at Wake- field, 170
Bank-notes lost, action to recover, 173 Bank of France, report of committee on, [209], note
Bankruptcy, on the Chancellor's juris- diction in, [139]
Bankrupts and Insolvents, number in -1826, 1
Barcelona, French garrison withdrawn, [246]
Bear, enormous one destroyed by a peasant in France, 174; child wounded by, at Dublin, 177
Bees, battle between two swarms, 110 Beechey, Captain, his Northern expedi- tion, 94
Berbice; her freedom claimed by a ne- gress at, [193]
Beethoven, composer, death of, 239 Blake, W., engraver, death, 253 Boar, man killed by, 185
Bolivar, arrives at Bogota, and departs for Venezuela, [335]-resigns the presidentship, [337]-returns to Bo- gota [341]. See Colombia. Bolivia, Cusco and Puno joined to, [345] Bow Street, application to have the mystery respecting the applicant's birth cleared up, 150 Boxing, death occasioned by, 149 Brazil: progress of the war with Buenos Ayres, [326]; battle of Ituzaingo, ib. (see Buenos Ayres) failure of a naval expedition, [328]; Maldonado cap- tured, ib.; negociation for peace, ib.; Monte Video ceded by the Buenos Ayres plenipotentiary, [329]; con- vention with Great Britain for aboli- tion of the African slave trade, 418; emperor's speech on opening the le- gislative assembly, 433 Bridge, London, antiquities found at, 132
-suspension, at Hammersmith, 526 Brougham, Mr., his reasons for support- ing Mr. Canning's ministry, [119] Brunswick, Duke of, his conduct towards the king of England and the Hano- verian minister, on his coming of age, [288] Budget, the, [172]
Buenos Ayres: war with Brazil, [326]; successes of the Buenos Ayreans, [327]; they advance to Rio Grande, ib.; M. Garcia sent to negociate peace at Rio Janeiro, [329]; he con- sents that Monte Video should be re- cognized as belonging to Brazil, [330]; the treaty rejected at Buenos Ayres, ib.; Rivadavia, the president, resigns, [333]; Dr. Vincent Lopez elected, ib.; he declines, ib. ; but is at length installed, [334]; separation of Cor- dova from the other states, and pre- tensions of the other provinces, ib. ; finances, [335]
Burdett, Sir F., motion on the Catholic question, [16]; opinion on the corn- laws and currency, [73]; justifies his coalition with the new ministry, [118] Burglary, extensive, at Messrs. Grimaldi and Johnson's, watchmakers, Strand, 188
Burmese commercial treaty with the East India company, [193]; the Ta- liens expelled from the territory of Rangoon, [194]
Burning hill, at Holworth, 168
Cabinet, state of, on Lord Liverpool's illness, [91]; difficulty of appointing a premier, [92], &c.
Calcutta, account of, from Alexander's Travels, 496
Cameleopard, entry of one into Paris, 120
Canning, Mr., on the Catholic question, [58]; resolutions on the corn-laws introduced by, [64]; looked to as Lord Liverpool's successor, [93]; consulted by the king as to the form- ation of a new ministry, [94]; op- posed to parliamentary reform, [103]; his explanation relative to his conduct, with regard to the formation of a new ministry, [113]; correspondence with the Duke of Wellington, [121], note; attack on ditto, [155]; death, [190]; political character, ib.; funeral, 143; memoir of, 477; lines on his death, 536
Cape of Good Hope, Lord C. Somerset returns from the governorship of, [195]
Capo d'Istria, chosen President of Greece, [300]
Carlile, Richard, his testimony refused at the Old Bailey, 11
Carriers, liability of, and action to re- cover loss of a box, 43,
Cassas, Louis Fran. death of, 260 Catholic Question, [14]
Catholic Association, [14)
supply of corn from foreign markets Caulaincourt, death of, 232
during the war, [771; Mr. Hume's Censorship, re-established in France, scheme, (82); bill introduced into the [222]
House of Lords, [146]; correspon. Chancellor, Lord, (Eldon) on the Wel- dence betiveen the Duke of Welling- lesley case, 297
ton and Mr. Huskisson, [148] Chancellor, Lord, (Lyndhurst) enters on Coronation oath, letters on, from his his office, 93
late majesty to Lord Kenyon, 467 of Ireland (Lord Manners) Courts : Admiralty ; Adamson v. Jarvis, retires from office, 135
23; manumission of slaves, 124; case Chancery, Mr. M. A. Taylor's motion of a slave woman returning froin Eng- respecting, [138]
land to Antigua, 338; two slaves, J. Chandos, Marquis of, questions to mi- Smith and Rachel, 354; Jack Martin, nisters on the Catholic Association,
à slave, 355 (14), note
Arches ; King v. Sanson, 123 Child, one born with the figure of a tor- Chancery ; Wellesley 6. the Duke of toise on its head, 57
Beaufort, 297 Church, Colonel, appointed generalis- Common Pleus; Birk . Hart and
simo of the Greek forces, (301); re. Findley, 53 ; Levy v. Milne, &c. pairs to Corinth, (322)
libel, 100; Graddon y. Price, thea- Clarence, Duke of, additional allowance trical engagement, 114; Richardson to, [8]-[14); appointed Lord High
v. Sir G. Webster, election expenses, Admiral, [103]
170 ; Snow v. Leyland, lost bank-note, Cochrane, Lord, arrival of, at Poros, and 173; Price v. Thwaites, libel, 315
address to the Greek government, Exchequer ; King v. Giuseppe Guecco, (300); made commander of the smuggling coral, 103 Greek fleet, [301]; plan for raising Guildhall; Mand-ley y. Le Blanc, action the siege of Athens, ib., appears oil to recover a suini for machinery from the coast of Egypt, (304)
the steam-washing company, 9; San- Codrington, Sir Edward, arrives at Na- diman v. Breach, hire of a post-chaise
varino, (312); interview with Ibrahim on Sunday, 38 Pacha, [313]; battle of Nayarino, King's-bench; Watson v. Clement, nui- (317); despatches relative to ditto, sance from a steam-engine, $8; 410; protocol of conferences with Thwaites v. Wright, 99; Clifford u. bis colleagues, 413
Latow, a wife's debts, 172; Beaumont Coiners, gang of, 70
v. Thwaites, libel, 310 Coleridge, Mr., stanzas by, 540
Guildhall; Brunton &c. v. Columbia : arrival of Bolivar at Bogota, Blackmore &c., patent, 12 ; East .
[335] ; he departs for Venezuela, ib.; Chapman, libel in Sunday Times, makes Paez the supreme chief, (336);
312 re-establishes tranquillity in Vene-
Dublin ; Éneas Macdonnel), zuela, ib.; resigns the presidentship, libel, 193; the king v. Meireillos, [337); Santander, the vice-president, conspiracy to defraud, 355 also resigns, (338); congress refuses to Old Builey ; Mary Wittenback, murder accept the resignation of either, [339]; of her husband, 336 national convention ordered to be Cricket, novel mode of playing, 101 convoked, [340]; revolt in the south- Crime, state of, for seven years, 1 ; re- ern provinces, ib.; Lopez Mendez port of the committee on criminal named chief of Guayaquil, [341];
commitments, 371 Bolivar returns to Bogota, ib.; finan- Criminal-law, Mr. Peel's improvements ces, (312)
of, [185] Comet, a new, 512
Crim-con, case and punishment of, at * Copley, Sir J., on the Catholic question, Madrid, 130
(331; madé Lord Chancellor by the Croker, Mr., lines on Canning's death, title of Lord Lyndhurst, [102]. See
536 Lyndhurst.
Currency, sic F. Burdett's opinion rec 'Coral, smuggled, concealed in butter, lative to, [78]
103 Corn-laws, motion in parliament on,
Deaf and dumb, new method of cure (64) ; different modes of protecting applied to, 9, 115 corn, [65] ; a variable duty, [67]; Dead body, attempt to steal, 69 Vol. LXIX.
2 N
Deer, extraordinary mortality of, at Cranbourne chase, 109
Detonating powder, serious accident from, 43
Deodand, singular one; a horse by which a man had been accidentally killed, ordered to be destroyed, 142 Dignum, C., singer, death, 239 Dissenters' marriages, 24
Dodd, G., engineer, death, 256 Doyle, Dr., character of the established church of Ireland by, [38]
Drama; Drury-lane, Gil Blas, 78; Covent-garden, Peter Wilkins, ib. Dublin, University election, 97 Duel; Goulard and Caire, two medical students, Paris, 36
Duelling, law against, in Bavaria, [289] Dupplin Castle, Perthshire, destroyed by fire, 159
Earthquake at Morteigne, France, 3 East Retford, bill for disfranchisement of [181]
Edinburgh, extraordinary snow storm at, 47
Egypt; fidelity of Mohammed Pacha to the Porte, [297] Eichhorn, J. G. death, 249 Eldon, lord, resigns the chancellorship,
[100], [115] note; he explains the reasons for his conduct, [120]; vase presented to him by the king, 91 Elections, discussion in parliament re- specting proceedings connected with, [175]; committee appointed to inquire into polls, [182]
Electro-magnetic instrument, Watkins',
Herald, Morning, action against, for libel, by Mr. Barber Beaumont, 310 Herries, Mr., made chancellor of the Exchequer, [192]
Horse-stealing, prevalence of, 22 Holloway, engraver, death, 234 Hulks, state of, 64
Hume, Mr. opposes the additional allowance to the duke of Clarence, [10], [13]; plan respecting the Corn- laws, [82]
Hungary: the diet dissolved, [290] Hurricane in Ireland, 11; off Scotland, 49
Huskisson, Mr., correspondence with the duke of Wellington on the Corn- laws, [148]; speech on the state of commercial shipping, [166] Hydrophobia, horrible case of, 45; another case, 46; Mr. T. Fenby, 141; J. Metcalf, 190
Jamaica: dispute relative to the allow- ances to the British troops adjusted, [193]
Java, insurrection, [286]; suspension of hostilities, [288]
Jesuits, their increasing power, [37]; decision relative to, in the French Chamber of Peers, [204]
Imagination, extraordinary case of the force of, in pregnancy, 57 Indies, E. commercial treaty with the Burmese, [193]; petition to parlia- ment by the inhabitants of Calcutta, against the stamp duty, [194]; peri- odical press, [195]; regulations re- lative to the press at Bombay, 359 Inquests a new-born child, 4; R. M. Bowles, starved, 21; Ann Hudson, hydrophobia, 45; Mr. Deering, jun. 56; a body found in Combe Wood, 148; F. Amphlett, killed by boxing, 149, T. Cantrill, 180; W. Harfield, driver of the Leeds True Blue' coach, 187; J. Metcalf, hydrophobia,
Inundations in Calabria, 119 Joint-Stock companies, liability of, 9, 53, [14]
Jones, rev. M. miser, death of, 160 Ireland: machinations of the Catholic priests, [24]; their influence over lord Waterford's tenantry, [25]; affidavits in proof of the artifices of the priests, [26]; note. Catholic emancipation, [34]; meeting of the Catholics of Dublin, [62]; conver- sions from popery, 42, 65, 92, 108, 109; outrages near Cashel, 64; ditto, Clonmel, 70
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