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CONTENTS.

PART I.

HISTORICAL.

CHAP. I.

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT THE QUEEN.

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State of Parties.-Meeting of Parliament.-Debates on the Address.-Lord A. Hamil-

ton's Motion relative to the Queen.-Queen's Annuity Bill.-Breach of Privilege.-

The Marquis of Tavistock's Motion.—Mr Smith's Motion relative to the Liturgy.—

Annuity Bill passes in the House of Lords.-Queen accepts the Annuity,

CHAP. II.

FINANCES.

Introduction of the Subject.—Motions by Mr Maberly, Mr Creevy, and Mr Hume.-

Navy Estimates.-Army Estimates; numerous Divisions.-Ordnance Estimates.

-The Budget.-Address to the Crown on the subject of Economy and Retrench-

ment,

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CHAP. III.

FOREIGN POLICY.

Motions by Earl Grey and Sir James Mackintosh, relative to the Congress and the

Affairs of Naples.-Motion by Sir Robert Wilson-By the Marquis of Lansdown-

By Mr Hutchinson, on the State of Europe-By Mr Stuart Wortley, on the De-

clarations of the Congress-By Lord W. Bentinck, on the Affairs of Sicily,

CHAP. IV.

CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS.

The Catholic Question-Mr Plunkett's Bill-Carried in the Commons-Debates in

the Lords-Negatived.—Disfranchisement of Grampound.—Transference of its

Votes.-Motion for Parliamentary Reform by Mr Lambton.-By Lord John Rus-

sel. Sir J. Mackintosh's Bill for Mitigation of Punishment in Cases of Forgery,

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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,

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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,

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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.

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Sir Joseph Banks.-President West.-Mr Arthur Young.-Mr Hayley.-Volney, 301

CHAP. IIL

VIEW OF IMPROVEMENTS IN SCIENCE DURING THE YEARS 1820-1821.

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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-

dian 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,

Napoleon. (From the French.)

Lines written by Lord Byron, on the Death of his Dog, at Newstead Abbey,

To the Rainbow. By T. Campbell,

The Maid's Remonstrance. By T. Campbell,

On the Egyptian Tomb,

Lines written on hearing that the Austrians had entered Naples,

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