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CHAP. V.
POLITICAL ECONOMY.
State of the different Branches of National Industry-First Debate on the Subject.
-Mr Baring's Motion relative to the Currency.-Mr Gooch's Motion relative to
Agricultural Distress.-The Timber Trade.-Mr Wallace's Plan for a New code
of Navigation Laws,
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CHAP. VI.
MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS.
The Constitutional Association.-The Ionian Islands, and Sir Thomas Maitland.-
Grant to the Duke of Clarence.-Proceedings at Manchester.-Bishop of Peter-
borough's Examination Questions.-Libel in John Bull Newpaper.-Dissolution of
Parliament,
CHAP. VII.
DOMESTIC EVENTS.
Popularity of the King-The Coronation.-Death of the Queen.-King's Visit to
Ireland-To Hanover.-Disturbed State of Ireland,
CHAP. VIII.
FRANCE.
State of France.-Result of the Elections.-First Debates.-Explosions in the Pa-
lace. Neapolitan Affairs.-Disturbances at Grenoble.-Motion for keeping Order
in the Chamber.-Ecclesiastical Establishment.-Loi des Donataires.-Trial of the
Conspirators.-Financial Discussions.-Death of Napoleon Buonaparte,
CHAP. IX.
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
Agitated State of Spain.-Commotions at Madrid.-Meeting of the Cortes.-Change
of Ministry.-Disturbances in the Provinces.-Murder of Vinuesa.-Violence of
the Clubs. Proceedings of the Cortes.-Disorder at Saragossa.-Plague at Barce-
lona.-Refractory Spirit at Cadiz, Seville, and Corunna.-Reports and Debates on
the subject.-Sanitary Cordon, and insurrectionary Movements,
CHAP. X.
ITALY.
King of Naples arrives at Laybach.-Yields to the Views of the Confederates.-Aus-
trian Army passes the Po.-Preparations at Naples.-Defeat of General Pepe.-Dis-
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solution of the Army.-Austrians enter Naples.-Re-establishment of the King.-
Measures taken by him.-Discontents in Piedmont.-The Students at Turin.-Re-
volutionary Movements.-Abdication of the King.-Spanish Constitution proclaim-
ed.-Desertion of the Prince of Carignan.-Action at Novara.-General Submis-
sion.-Treaty of Occupation,
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CHAP. XI.
THE GREEK REVOLUTION.
State of Turkey.-Improvement of the Greeks.-Their plans of Emancipation.-
Movement of Ipsilanti.-General Insurrection.-Alarm of the Porte.-Outrages at
Constantinople.-Execution of the Greek Patriarch.-March of Ipsilanti.-His De-
feat.-Sailing of the Turkish Fleet, which loses a Ship of War-Its return.-Sub-
sequent Operations.-War in the Morea.-Proceedings at Patras.-Demetrius Ip-
silanti.-Capture of Tripolizza.—Of Corinth.-Athens.-Thessaly.-Macedonia.-
Western Greece.-Operations against Ali.-Capture of Arta by the Greeks.-Pro-
ceedings in Candia-Cyprus-Rhodes.-Negotiations with Russia,
CHAP. XII.
AMERICA.
State of Affairs in Mexico.-Defection of Iturbide.—Triumph of the Independents.
Cortes called.-Peru.-Defeat of the Viceroy's Troops.-San Martin enters Lima.
-Constitution established by him.-Revolution completed in Columbia.-Affairs
of Buenos Ayres.—Brazil-Revolution at Bahia.-At Rio Janeiro.-King returns
to Europe.-St Domingo.-United States,
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PART II.
LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS.
CHAP. I.
BIOGRAPHY-POLITICAL.
Mr Grattan.-Earl of Sheffield.-Sir Home Popham.-Earl of Malmesbury.-Keller-
mann.-Lefebvre,
CHAP. II.
BIOGRAPHY-LITERARY.
289
Sir Joseph Banks.-President West.-Mr Arthur Young.-Mr Hayley.-Volney, 301
CHAP. III.
VIEW OF IMPROVEMENTS IN SCIENCE DURING THE YEARS 1820-1821.
ASTRONOMY: Formation of Lunar Tables on the Theory of Universal Gravitation.—
Comet of 1819.-Observations of Cacciatore, Brinkley, and Enke.—PHYSICS: The
Figure of the Earth-The Decrease in the Length of the Day by the gradual cool-
ing of the Earth.-Speculations of M. Fourier on the Secular Refrigeration of the
Globe.-General Consequences deduced from his Analysis.-Geodesical Opera-
tions, and Observations on the Length of the Pendulum.-Captain Freycinet's Expe-
dition.-Trigonometrical Survey of France.-Measurement of an Arc of the Meri-
Idian in the Canton of Berne, and in Holstein.-METEOROLOGY: Observations of
Baron de Humboldt on the Lower Limit of Perpetual Snow in the Himalaya
Mountains and the Equatorial Regions.-ELECTRO-MAGNETISM: Professor Oer-
sted's Discovery of the Identity of Electricity and Magnetism.-Experiments of
Ampere, Arago, Boisgeraud, Biot, Savart, Berzelius, Sir H. Davy, and Mr Faraday, 323
CHAP. IV.
PROGRESS OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY.
Parry's Expedition to the North.-Franklin's Land Journey.-Kotzebue's Voyage.—
Discovery of New South Shetland.-Lyon's Journey to Fezzan.-New African Ex-
pedition.-Burckhardt's Travels to the North of Egypt.-Belzoni's Researches in
Egypt.-Frazer's Tour through the Himmaleh,
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FUGITIVE AND OCCASIONAL POETRY.
Lines written on the 19th of July, in Memory of his Majesty's Coronation,
Lines to the Memory of a late distinguished Character,
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Napoleon. (From the French.)
368
Lines written by Lord Byron, on the Death of his Dog, at Newstead Abbey,
To the Rainbow. By T. Campbell,
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371
The Maid's Remonstrance. By T. Campbell,
372
On the Egyptian Tomb,
373
Lines written on hearing that the Austrians had entered Naples,
374
On Greece,
Lord Byron to Mr T. Moore,
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APPENDIX.
Trials under the Special Commission at Limerick,
-Murderers of Mrs Torrance,
-Michael Moran, &c. for Murder of Thomas Manning,
1.-REMARKABLE TRIALS AND LAW PROCEEDINGS.
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Judgment on Sir Francis Burdett,
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-Timothy Shea, for several Offences,
Judgment on Cartwright, Wooller, &c.
O'Brien, for conspiring, with Franklin, or Fletcher, to excite Disaffection, Proceedings before the Lord Mayor relative to the Constitutional Association,
Dolby, for Libel, at the instance of the Constitutional Association,
The Proprietors of John Bull, for Libel on Lady Caroline Wrottesley,
CRIMINAL TRIALS.
John Hunt, for Libel on the House of Commons,
Messrs Christie and Trail, for the Duel with Mr Scott,
Manasseh Gouldstein, for forging Prussian Dollar Notes,
PROSECUTIONS AND MISCELLANEOUS CASES.
Respecting the legality of the Marriage between the Marquis and Marchioness of
Donegal,
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Lord Erskine against Lady Erskine,
72
Marquis of Londonderry, for Windows broken at the Queen's Acquittal,
Mr Elliston, for the Representation of Marino Faliero,
Public Income of the United Kingdom, for the Year ended 5th January, 1821,
Public Expenditure for the Year ended January, 1821,
Report relative to the Trade with the East Indies and China,
First Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on Foreign Trade,
Second Report,
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Documents issued at the breaking up of the Congress of Laybach,
Report of the Committee on the Poor Rates,
Report of the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty to consider the Subject of
Weights and Measures,
Circular Dispatch to his Majesty's Ministers at Foreign Courts, in regard to the
Affairs of Naples,
Circular from Count Nesselrode,
Circular Dispatch of the Allied Powers,
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V.—REPORTS, &c., ON DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF PUBLIC ECONOMY.