[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, Amiens, trial of Petit, the robber, 13 Colombia, Guatemala, Peru. 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 Admiralty Sessions, trial of Jacob Irving, Assizes and Sessions :- 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,
Lancaster: Heywood, &c., robbery, 154 -W. Robinson, murder of his wife, 158-E. G. and W. Wakefield, &c., Lincoln: Avil v. Clay, &c., injury from for abduction of Miss Turner, 316 bursting of the boiler of the Graham Middlesex Sessions: Blond, vending ob- Steam-packet, 138 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
Astronomy, &c., 511 Warwick: Joseph Birch, murder, 67
Athens, siege of, [299], defeat of the Avalanches in Switzerland, 8 Greeks, [303]. See Greece. 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
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] Caulaincourt, death of, 232 Censorship, re-established in France, [222]
Chancellor, Lord, (Eldon) on the Wel- lesley case, 297
Chancellor, Lord, (Lyndhurst) enters on his office, 93
of Ireland (Lord Manners) retires from office, 135 Chancery, Mr. M. A. Taylor's motion respecting, [138]
Chandos, Marquis of, questions to mi- nisters on the Catholic Association, [14], note
Child, one born with the figure of a tor- toise on its head, 57 Church, Colonel, appointed generalis- simo of the Greek forces, [301]; re- pairs to Corinth, [322]
Clarence, Duke of, additional allowance to, [8]-[14]; appointed Lord High Admiral, [103]
Cochrane, Lord, arrival of, at Poros, and address to the Greek government, [300]; made commander of the Greek fleet, [301]; plan for raising the siege of Athens, ib.; appears oll the coast of Egypt, [304] Codrington, Sir Edward, arrives at Na- varino, [312]; interview with Ibrahim Pacha, [313]; battle of Navarino, [317]; despatches relative to ditto, 410; protocol of conferences with his colleagues, 413 Coiners, gang of, 70 Coleridge, Mr., stanzas by, 540 Columbia: arrival of Bolivar at Bogota,
[335]; he departs for Venezuela, ib.; makes Paez the supreme chief, [336]; re-establishes tranquillity in Vene- zuela, ib.; resigns the presidentship, [337]; Santander, the vice-president, also resigns, [338]; congress refuses to accept the resignation of either, [339]; national convention ordered to be convoked, [340]; revolt in the south- ern provinces, ib.; Lopez Mendez named chief of Guayaquil, [341]; Bolivar returns to Bogota, ib.; finan- ces, [342]
Comet, a new, 512
Copley, Sir J., on the Catholic question, [33]; made Lord Chancellor by the title of Lord Lyndhurst, [102]. See Lyndhurst.
Coral, smuggled, concealed in butter, 103
Corn-laws, motion in parliament on, [64]; different modes of protecting corn, [65]; a variable duty, [67]; VOL. LXIX.
supply of corn from foreign markets during the war, [77]; Mr. Hume's scheme, [82]; bill introduced into the House of Lords, [146]; correspon- dence between the Duke of Welling- ton and Mr. Huskisson, [148] Coronation oath, letterson, from his late majesty to Lord Kenyon, 467 Courts: Admiralty; Adamson v. Jarvis, 23; manumission of slaves, 124; case of a slave woman returning from Eng- land to Antigua, 338; two slaves, J. Smith and Rachel, 354; Jack Martin, a slave, 355
Arches; King v. Sanson, 123 Chancery; Wellesley v. the Duke of Beaufort, 297
Common Pleas; Birk . Hart and Findley, 53; Levy v. Milne, &c. libel, 100; Graddon v. Price, thea- trical engagement, 114; Richardson v. Sir G. Webster, election expenses, 170; Snow v. Leyland, lost bank-note, 173; Price v. Thwaites, libel, 315 Exchequer; King v. Giuseppe Guecco, smuggling coral, 103
Guildhall; Maudsley v. Le Blanc, action to recover a sum for machinery from the steam-washing company, 9; San- diman v. Breach, hire of a post-chaise on Sunday, 38
King's-bench; Watson v. Clement, nui- sance from a steam-engine, 88; Thwaites v. Wright, 99; Clifford v. Latow, a wife's debts, 172; Beaumont v. Thwaites, libel, 310
Guildhall; Brunton &c. v. Blackmore &c., patent, 12; East v. Chapman, libel in Sunday Times, 312
Dublin; Eneas Macdonnell, libel, 193; the king v. Meireillos, conspiracy to defraud, 355 Old Bailey; Mary Wittenback, murder of her husband, 336
Cricket, novel mode of playing, 101 Crime, state of, for seven years, 1; re- port of the committee on criminal commitments, 371
Criminal-law, Mr. Peel's improvements of, [185]
Crim-con, case and punishment of, at Madrid, 130
Croker, Mr., lines on Canning's death, 536
Currency, sir F. Burdett's opinion re- lative to, [78]
Deaf and dumb, new method of cure applied to, 9, 115
Dead body, attempt to steal, 69 2 N
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-
93) bia, [342] Mexico, [344]; United States, 427 femago lo staja od go Fires: paper-manufactory at Coosehean,
Cornwall, 39 Gordon Castle, 125;
Theatre Ambigu Comique, Paris, 126; Sheerness, twenty-three houses destroyed, 134; Chapel-street, Edge- Buware-road,149; conflagration st -on Abo, 152, Dupplin castle, Perthshire, 159; Mr. Hopkins' warehouse, Queen- street, 183; Legacy Office, Somerset House, 1861 bap 79323500l Fish, singular one caught near Ply- mouth, 136; emigration of fishes, 517 3
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 Barcelon, [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, 3745 Bury, ditto, 376qqin Garter, Chapter of the order of, 94
Gascoigné, gen: 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, [502]; 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 bridgeat,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,
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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