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GENERAL HISTORY.

The Prince Regent's Speech.-Insults offered him.-His Message to both

Houses of Parliament.-Taken into Consideration by the Houses of Lords

and Commons, and a Secret Committee appointed in each.—Report from

the Committee in each House

Singular Circumstance respecting the Committee of the Lords.-Bill for the

Suspension of the Habeas Corpus, moved by Lord Sidmouth in the House of

Lords.-Debates. -Protest.-Lord Castlereagh in the House of Commons

moves for Bills, for the more effectually preventing Seditious Meetings and

Assemblies; for the better prevention and punishment of attempts to seduce

persons in his Majesty's forces by Sea and Land from their allegiance; and

for making perpetual parts of an act, for the safety and preservation of his

Majesty's person and government, including those of the Prince Regent.-

Debates. Different Clauses of the Seditious Meetings Act gone through.—

The same bill in the House of Lords.-Protest

War Salaries of the Secretaries of the Admiralty.-Motion respecting the

Lords of the Admiralty.-Motion for a Committee on the Public Income and

Expenditure, by Lord Castlereagh-First Report of the Committee.-Bills

for abolishing the Offices of Justices in Eyre, and for a Compensation for

Civil Services.-Pass both Houses.-Irish Peace preservation Bill. [35

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Issue of Exchequer Bills for local and temporary Relief.-Mr. Tierney's

Motion renewed, for the Abolition of the Office of Third Secretary of State

for the Colonies.-Roman Catholic Question.-House of Commons.-House

Resignation of the Speaker, and subsequent Proceedings.-Lord Sidmouth's

circular Leter discussed in both Houses

Prince Regent's Message to both Houses, and proceedings in consequence [65

Continuance of Irish Insurrection Act.-Mr. Wilberforce's Motion for an

Address to the Prince Regent relative to the Foreign Slave Trade.-Par-

liament closes.-Prince Regent's Speech.

Domestic Events.-Course of the Year.-Double suspension of the Habeas

Corpus.-Celebration of the Queen's and Prince Regent's Birth-Days.-

Trials. Special Commission held at Derby.

France. Decree respecting Slaves introduced in the Colonies.-Negociations

with the Allied Powers.-Ordinance concerning the Debts of the City of

Paris.-Disturbances at Lyons.-Royal Ordinances for the creation of

Majorats. Election for the Chamber of Deputies, and Royal Speech.-

Project of a Law for the Press. -Law for the establishment of Re-

Spain.-Disturbance in Valencia.-Edict prohibiting Books.- Conspiracy in

Barcelona.-Castanos and his Accomplices condemned.-Papal Bull re-

specting the Property of the Church in Spain.- Queen of Etruria.- Decree

relative to the Culture of Tobacco in the Havannah.-Abolition of the Slave

Trade-Portugal.—Irruption of its Army into Montevideo.-Part taken

by the Allied Powers.-Defection of Pernambuco, and its Reduction.—

Plot in Portugal
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Russia. Regulation for the Discharge of the Public Debt.-Facilities

granted to Mercantile Men.-The Emperor quits his Capital, having first

published a Decree for the Regulation of Proprietors and Colonists.-

Sweden.-Conspiracy against the Crown Prince, and his Address to the

Citizens of Stockholm.-Proclamation by the King respecting Economy.

-His Address to Prince Oscar.-Speech read by the Prince.-Vienna.

Stutgard. Sitting of the States.-Their Dissolution.-The King takes upon

himself the Regulation of the Finances.-Duchy of Saxe-Weimar : Its

admission to the Germanic Confederation.-Session of the States-General of

the United Provinces.-King's Speech.-Dutch Tea-Trade.-Piedmontese

Gazette.-Constantinople

America, North and South.-Message to the Senate and House of Repre-

sentatives from President Madison.-Votes taken for President and Vice-

President.-Monroe chosen for the former Office, and his Speech.-Second

Speech, on December the 2d.-State of Spanish Affairs

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Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between his Britannic Majesty

and his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies

Dispatches from India.-Insurrection of Trimbuckjee Dainglia

REMARKABLE TRIALS AND LAW CASES.

The King v. Thomas Jonathan Wooler.-Libel

The King v. James Williams.—Ditto

The King v. William Hone.-Ditto

Hodgson v. Scarlett.-Freedom of Speech at the Bar

Rouquet v. Sherborne.-Liability of Carriers

Trafficking in Slaves

George Cooke v. Colonel Maxwell.—Assault and False Imprisonment

Hartley v. Harriman

Oram v. Fromont and Others.-Non-Liability of Carriers

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Fieldes v. Hooker

The Rev. Edward Drake Free, Clerk, v. Sir Montague Roger Bur-

goine.-Non-attendance at Divine Worship

The King, on the Prosecution of James Harris v. the Rev. Robert

Woodward, Clerk, and others.-Conspiracy

Trial of Roger O'Connor, Esq.

The King v. Hamilton.—Child Stealing

Preston v. Scarborough.-Stealing a Letter

Archer-Setting Fire to Hay and Barley Stacks

PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS.

Passed in the Fifth Session of the Fifth Parliament of the United

Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 56 George III.

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Treaty between his Majesty the King of France and Navarre and his

Majesty the King of Portugal, concluded Aug. 28, 1817

Translation of the Bull against Bible Societies

Tables, Public Income, Expenditure, &c.

PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS.

Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the

of the Committee on the Employment of Climbing Boys

First Report from the Select Committee on Finance

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Voyage of his Majesty's late Ship Alceste, to the Yellow Sea, c.

Narrative of the Shipwreck of ditto

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Narrative of a Journey from Chamouni to Mount Blanc

Notes of a Mineralogical Excursion to the Giant's Causeway

Of Cinnamon as an Article of Commerce

On the Greenland or Polar Ice

Persian Gulf.-Discovery of Eight Islands

Account of a Rhinoceros Hunt in India

Exploits of a Lion Shooting Party

History of the Coccus Lacca, or Lac Insect

Account of the Biddery_Ware

Use of the Cocoa-Nut Tree

Death of a Parsee at Bombay

Account of a Passage across the Bay of Bengal

Account of the Funeral Ceremonies of a Burman Priest

Geography of Cochin China

The Burial of Sir John Moore

Campbell's Ode on the Retirement of Mr. J. P. Kemble

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