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INDEX.

[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

men

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,

525

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

*

New, 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]

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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

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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.

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Deaths, 222

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',

525

Emigration, report of select committee

on, 382; third ditto, 387; Ireland,
389; England, ib.; Scotland, 392;
expediency of a loan for facilitating
emigration, 393; board of emigration,
400

Erivan, taken by the Russians, [294]
Executions: T. Norton, highway rob-
bery, 147; J. Slade, murder of rev.
J. Waterhouse, 149; W. Haywood and
his two sons, 156; Reuben Martin,
194; J. French, and J. Williams, 198

Fanaticism, singular case of, at Alençon,
129

Fences, quickset, mode of making, 521
Ferrers, earl, death, 247

Finance accounts: public income, 264;
public expenditure, 266. See Budget.
Finances France, [208]; Portugal,

[254]; Buenos Ayres, [335]; Colum-

bia, [342]; Mexico, [344]; United
States, 427

Fires: paper-manufactory at Coosebean,
Cornwall, 39; Gordon Castle, 125;
Theatre Ambigu Comique, Paris,
126; Sheerness, twenty-three houses
destroyed, 134; Chapel-street, Edge-
ware-road, 149; conflagration at
Abo, 152; Dupplin castle, Perthshire,
159; Mr. Hopkins' warehouse, Queen-
street, 183; Legacy Office, Somerset
House, 186

Fish, singular one caught near Ply-
mouth, 136; emigration of fishes,
517

Fisher's, capt. apparatus for watering
ships, 41

Flour, foreign, importation of, [81]
Flowers, method of raising natural, in
winter, 523

Foscolo Ugo, death, 255

Forgery at the Bank of England, 20;

trial of J. Orchard for, 61

Fossil reptile discovered at Exeter, 107
France: meeting of the new chambers,
and royal speech, [197]; discussions
relative to Portugal, ib.; new law to
regulate the selection of jurors, [201];
decision relative to the jesuits, [204];
slave-trade, [205]; finances, [208];
state of manufactures, [209]; royal
debts, [210]; law relative to the
press, [211]; violent opposition to it,
[213]; amendment of it, [216]; bill
carried in the deputies, [219]; with-
drawn in the peers, [220]; national
guard of Paris disbanded, [221];
censorship re-established, [222]; the
chambers dissolved, [223]; creation of
peers, [223]; general election, [224];
ministers defeated in the elections,
[225]; change of ministry, [226];
dispute with Algiers, ib.; commercial
treaty with Mexico, [227]; French
garrison withdrawn from Barcelona,
[246]

Franklin, capt. his Arctic expedition by
land, 508

Freethinking Christians, objection to the
marriage ceremony according to the
church, 25

Funerals: Mr. Gifford's, 7; duke of
York's, 14; king of Saxony, 94; Mr.
Canning's, 143

Galley slaves, at Toulon, treatment of, 97
Game laws, lord Wharncliffe's bill,

[183]; marq. of Salisbury's, [184]
Gaols: Bedford, commitments to, 374;
Bury, ditto, 376

Garter, Chapter of the order of, 944

Gascoigne, geu. moves for a committee
on the state of commercial shipping,
[162]

George III., letters of, to lord Kenyon,

on the coronation oath, 467
Giffard, sir Amb. Hardinge, death, 243
Gifford, W. funeral, 73; anecdotes of, 490
Gill, J. tried and convicted for stealing

two oxen, afterwards found to be inno-
cent, and pardoned, 179
Giraffe, entry of one into Paris, 120
Gloucester and Berkeley ship canal
opened, 87

Gloucester, riot at, and toll - house
pulled down by the mob, 162, 169
Gold-mines of the Ural, 519
Graham steam-packet, explosion of, 106,
action brought against the proprie-
tors, 138

Greece, state of, [297]; successes of
Karaiskaki in Livadia, [298]; island
of Euboea blockaded, [299]; siege of
Athens, ib.; dissentions respecting
the place of a national assembly,
[300]; lord Cochrane's remonstrances,
ib.; assembly convened, ib.; Capo
d'Istria elected president of Greece,
ib.; gen. Church, and lord Cochrane
proceed to the relief of Athens, [301];
Karaiskaki killed, [302]; total defeat
of the Greek army before Athens,
[303]; surrender of the Acropolis,
[304]; military events in Western
Greece, [305]; affairs at Napoli di
Romania, [322]; ditto in Western
Greece, ib.; British order in council
against the Greek marine, [323];
treaty for the pacification of Greece,
403. See Turkey.
Greek steam-boats, 59

Grey, earl, speech on the new ministry,
[133]

Goderich, lord, premier on the death of
Mr. Canning, [191]
Gordon, duke, death, 248

Gordon castle, extensive fire at, 125
Gordon's Mr. new steam-carriage, 202
Guatemala revolt of the province of
St. Salvador, [347]; rebels repulsed,
[348]

Hamilton capt. extract of letter from,

to sir Edw. Codrington, 414
Hammersmith; suspension bridge at,526
Hauff, W. German author, death, 260
Heat, magnetic influence of, 512
Heber, bishop, lines by, "An Evening
Walk in Bengal," 540

Hecla, the discovery-ship, description
of her fitting-up, 58; account of the
expedition, 503

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,

190

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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