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Addington, Mr., 37 sq.; resigns
Speakership, 39; 51, 52 sq., 58,
64, 77 sq., 82 sq., 89, 92, 94,
99, 101, 103, 107, 120, 126; be-
comes Lord Sidmouth, 126; 131,
137, 171. (See Sidmouth)
Additional Force Bill, 120
Adour, river, 440 sq.
Agra, battle of, 176

Ahmednuggur, capture of, 172
Ajax, vessel, destroyed by fire, 263
Albuera, battle of, 417
Albuquerque, General, 407

Alee Mohammed, Viceroy of Egypt,
265

Alexander, Emperor of Russia, 46,
116, 155, 262; at Tilsit, 272;
283, 305, 426, 439, 492, 510
"All the Talents," 190 sq., 246
Alleghur taken, 175

Almeida taken, 409, 411

Althorp, Lord (Earl Spencer), 328
Alva, Admiral, 150
Alvarez, Count, 288
Alvear, Captain, 125
Ambleteuse, fortification of, 102
Amelia, Princess, death of, 369
America, war threatened, 381; war
with, 448 sq.
Amiens, Treaty of, 171, 184

Ancona garrisoned, 142
Andréossi, M., 74, 81, 85
Anholt, smuggling station, 344
Annuities, terminable, 486
Aplin, Admiral, 100
'Apollo,' frigate, lost, 113
Arbuthnot, Mr., 262
Argaum, battle of, 173, 177
Arkwright, Sir R., 19
Armstrong, Serjeant, 98
Aspern, battle of, 305

Asseerghur, surrender of, 173, 177
Assye, battle of, 172
Astorga, 309 sq.

Asturias, Prince of (see Ferdinand
VII.)

Attainder, alteration of law of, 479
Auchmuty, Sir S., 259

Auerstadt, battle of, 221

Aulum, Shah, 176

Aurungzebe, 165, 176
Austerlitz, battle of, 155

Austria, reforms of, 4; war with
France, 142; treaty with France,

156

Emperor of (see Francis Jo-

seph)
Avignon, 507.

Badajoz, 411, 415; siege of, 417 sq.
Bahar, 162

Baird, Sir D., at the Cape, 218, 307
Balance of power, 1 sq.
Bank Restriction Act, 16, 71
Bankruptcies, 345

Bantry Bay, mutiny of, 73
Barabuttee, 178

Barcelona, 294

Barham, Lord, 135, 147

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444 sq., 501

Bear-baiting, 525
Beaufort, Duke of, 335.
Beauharnais, Madame, 9
Bedford, Duke of, 72, 235
Bell, Henry, 522
'Bellerophon,' vessel, 519
Bellingham, Mr., 383
Belsham, Mr., 354
'Belvidere,' frigate, 453
Bengal, 162

Benningsen, General, 269
Bentham, Jeremy, 529
Bentinck, Lord W., 421, 435
Beresford, Marshal, 417, 444
Berlin in Napoleon's hands, 221
Decree, the, 268

Bernadotte, General, 269, 492
Bernsdorf, 46

Bertrands, 507

Bessières, Marshal, 415
Bhoonsla, 166

Bhurtpoor, Rajah of, 182 sq.
Bible Societies, 484
Bidassoa, 288, 295, 434
Bilbao, 430

Birmingham, population of, 21
Blackfriars Bridge, 531
"Bloodhounds of St. Stephen's,"
327

Blücher, Marshal, 494 sq., 510,

515 sq.

Bonaparte (see Napoleon)

Jerome, 276

-, Joseph, 57, 300, 405, 407,

420 sq., 431, 433, 504

-, Louis, 297, 412

Lucien, 413

Bone manure, 19

Bordeaux, Wellington at, 444
Boulogne fortified, 102

Boulton and Watt, Messrs., 521
Bourbons, The, 8, 10, 11, 55, 285,
289, 444, 503, 509, 513, 520
, plot to restore, 113 sq., 118
Bourrienne, 113, 118
Boussa, 536

Boydell, engraver, 531
Bradford, population of, 20
Brand, Mr., 246

-, author, 532

Brandon, Mr., 341

Braganza family, 287

Brazil, departure of Portuguese

royal family to, 291

Brest, storm at, 106

Bridgwater, Duke of, 530

"Britannia needs no bulwarks," 229
Brindley, engineer, 531
British Forum, 357

Brougham, Mr. (afterwards Lord),
132, 451, 472, 476, 528

Brown, Colonel, 67

Brune, Marshal, 285

Brunn, 144

Brunswick, Duke of, 516

Budberg, Russian Minister, 284
Buenos Ayres, capture of, 218,

221; expedition to, 259

Buffalo, 455

Bullion Committee, 346 sq.
Bülow, General, 516

Burdett, Sir F., 249, 254, 355; com-
mitted to the Tower, 358

Burgos, siege of, 423, 430
Burhampoor, surrender of, 173
Burke, 187, 198

Burney, Dr., 532

, Fanny (Madame d'Arblay), 532

Burrard, Sir H., 301
Busaco, battle of, 409

Byron, Captain, 453

Lord, in Parliament, 394

Cadiz, 407; engagement off, 124;
siege raised, 429

Calabria, war in, 217

Calcutta, first Bishop of, 482

Calder, Sir R., 147

Cambridge, Duke of, 92, 154

Cambronne, 507

Camden, Earl 112, 240, 246, 316
Campbell, General, in India, 172
Camperdown, 123
Canada, invasion of, 452
Canning, Mr., 34, 39, 78, 86, 127,
153, 188, 194, 201; 203, 215,
224 sq.; 240, 243; Foreign Secre-
tary, 245, 250, 253, 265, 267, 273,
277; 282, 295 sq., 304, 315, 323;
wishes to resign, 331; duel with
Castlereagh, 332; 365, 450

Canoge, 162

Cape of Good Hope, the, taken,

218

Capital punishment, 351

Capri taken, 217

Carington, Lord, 201
Carinthia, 156
Carniola, 156

Castanos, General, 307

Castlereagh, Lord, 36, 59, 112, 157,
186; War Secretary, 245, 250,
299, 301, 304; Walcheren expe-
dition, 314, 329 sq.; duel with
Canning, 332, 365; Foreign Sec-
retary, 379, 397, 450, 459, 502,
508

Catalonia, 441

Catamaran Expedition, 122
Catharine the Great, 3 sq.
Cathcart, Lord, 278

Catholic Question, 36 sq., 59, 138,

191, 235, 379, 450, 473

Cavendish, 529

Census first taken, 17

Ceylon acquired by France, 57

Charles IV. of Spain, 288 sq., 292;
abdication of, 296
Charlotte, Princess, 116, 470 sq.
-, Queen, 88
Chatham, 1st Earl, 124, 128

2nd Earl, 112, 154, 207, 245,
250; command of Walcheren ex-
pedition, 317 sq., 334; 365, 368
"Chatham, Lord, with his sword
undrawn," 317

Chatillon, 501; Congress of, 442
Chaumont, treaty of, 503

China, first diplomatic relations
with, 535

Churches and chapels, return of the
number of, 353

Cintra, Convention of, 303
Ciudad Rodrigo, assault of, 417,
420; fall of, 408
Duke of, 429

Clancarty, Earl of, 329
Clarence, Duke of, 232, 372, 509
Clarke, manufacturer, 67

-, Mary Ann, 324; trial for
perjury, 339
Clarkson, 209
Clay, H., 465

Clergy, condition of the, 352
Clifford, Mr., barrister, 341
Clinton, General, 443

Clive, Lord, 167

Cobbett, 79, 249, 254, 349, 358,

475, 524

Cochrane, Lord (see Dundonald)

Cockburn, Admiral, 464

Coel taken by storm, 175

Colchester, Lord, 40, 61, (as Mr.
Abbott), 133, 225
Coleridge, 485, 526
Collier, Sir G., 436

Collingwood, Lord, 147, 149, 217,
263, 303, 320; death and cha
racter of, 321

'Comet,' the first steam passage.

boat in the British Isles, 522
Comet, appearance of a, 387
Confederacy of the Rhine, 220
Congreve, Sir W., 282
Constantinople, 276
Coote, Sir Eyre, 318

Copenhagen, battle of, 44; bom-
bardment of, 282
Copons, General, 442

Cornwallis, Lord, 57, 59, 85, 91,
147, 183; death of, 185

Correggio, picture by, in Welling-
ton House, 434

Corruption of Blood, 478
Cortes, abolition of the, 443
Corunna, English retreat to, 308
Cotton, Sir C., 321

Covent Garden theatre burnt, 339
Cowley, Lord (see Wellesley, Henry)
Cowper, Lord, 187
Craufurd, General, 259

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Dalrymple, Sir H., 301
Dalton, John, 529

d'Angoulême, Duchess, 286, 509
Dantzig, capitulation of, 270
Dardanelles, expedition of the, 263
sq.
Davison, army contractor, 228
Davy, Sir H., 19, 529
Dean, John, printer, 357
Dearborn, General, 461
Deccan (see Deckan).
Deckan, the, 162
De Conde, Prince, 114
Definitive Treaty, 57
Delhi, battle of, 176
De Lolme, author, 532

De Loutherbourg, artist, 532
Demerara, 103

d'Enghien, Duc, 114, 510

Denmark, 14, 48, 277; seizure of

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Dundas, Henry, 36 sq., 112, 131
(see also Melville, Viscount).
General Sir D., 328

Dundonald, Lord (mentioned as Lord
Cochrane), 320, 468, 487, 488
Dupont, General, 300

Dwyer, the outlaw, 65

East India Company's Charter re-
newed, 480

'Edinburgh Review' started 527
Edward I., sentence of death in the
time of, 480

Egypt, Expedition to, 49, 265;
French evacuation of, 51; given
up to the Porte, 57

Elba, 56; Napoleon's departure for,

507

Eldon, Earl of, 53, 94, 98, 108, 112,
117; defends Slave-trade, 209,
232, 235, 237, 243, 245, 249,
250, 257, 280; 327, 333; candi-
date for Oxford Chancellorship,
335; 365, 372, 376, 471, 477 sq.,
509, 527
Ellenborough, Lord, 194, 200, 214,
237, 339, 476, 479
Elliot, Sir G., 200, 222
Elliott, Mr., 56

Embezzlement Bill, 345
Emigration, 258

Emmett, Dr., 64

Robert, 64 sq., 69

'Endymion,' frigate, 263
England, naval power of, 7

Erfurth, meeting of Emperors at,
305, 497

Erie, Lake, 454 sq.

Erskine, Lord, 200, 246, 362
Mr., 323

Escoiquiz, Canon, 288
Essequibo, 103

Estremadura attacked, 45
Etruria, 13; Queen of, 295
Ettenheim, 114
'Examiner, The,' 475
Exports, value of, 20
Eylau, battle of, 269

Fauvelet, M., 63, 81

Felbrigg, Windham buried at, 368

Ferdinand, Archduke, 143

- VII. of Spain, 288, 292, 295;
elected king, 296, 315; treaty
with Napoleon, 441, 501
Ferriar, Dr., 24
Ferrol, Port of, 124

Figueras held by the French, 294
Fingall, Earl of, 70

Finland given up to Russia, 285
'Fiorenzo,' frigate, 183
Fire of London, 490
Fitzharris, Lord, 134
Fitzherbert, Mrs., 92, 96, 188
Fitzwilliam, Earl, 200, 222
Florida, 56

Flushing taken, 318

Folkestone, Lord, 475
Fouché, Memoirs of, 283
General, 515

Fox, Mr., 15, 52, 56, 86, 102 sq., 107,
119, 139; King's dislike of, 187,
190 sq.; character of, 195 sq.,
201; plot to assassinate Napoleon,
205; on Slave-trade, 210; death,
215; Catholic Question, 236,
287; History of the Reign of
James II.,' 254
Frame-breaking, 392

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France, 5 sq.; successes of, 12;
peace with, 53 sq.

Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria,
4, 144, 156, 220, 336, 501
Sir Philip, 194

Frankfort, 500

Fraser, General, 182, 266
Frederick the Great, 5, 268

William, Emperor of Prussia,
at Tilsit, 273, 493, 510
Fréjus, Napoleon lands at, 9
French Revolution, 2; prisoners, 390
Frere, Hookham, in Spain, 123;
plenipotentiary, 307
Fulton, engineer, 521

Gaeta taken, 217

Gallicia, retreat to, 310

Gambier, Lord, 278, 282, 320,
465

Garrow, Attorney-General, 478
Garth, General, 37
Gascoigne, General, 209

Gawulghur taken, 174
Gebora, 411

Genoa annexed by France, 142
George III. (see King)

IV. (see Wales, Prince of)
Georges, conspirator, 113
Ghent, treaty of, 465, 468
Gibbs, Sir Vicary, 474
Gibraltar, 42

Gillray, caricaturist, 204
Glenbervie, Lord, 79

Gloucester, Duke of, 473; 'Young

Duke of,' 232

Godoy, 288, 292 sq.
Goodenough, Dr., 78
Gordon, Captain, 463
Goree Island, 98
Goulburn, Mr., 465
Gourgaud, 507

Gower, Lord G. Leveson, 383
Grafton, Duke of, 335
Graham, Sir T., 432, 436
Grahame, author, 532
Grenville, Lord, 35 sq., 56, 83, 100
sq., 107; 120, 126, 130, 138, 152,
187; ministry, 190 sq., 210;
character of, 195 sq., 199; on
Slave-trade, 211, 234 sq.; dis-
solves parliament, 223, 229-232;
ministry dismissed, 245, 254, 265,
334; Chancellor of University of
Oxford, 335, 342, 347, 370, 374,
379, 450, 470

Mr. T., 222 (mentioned also
with Lord G. as 'the Grenvilles')
Grey, 1st Earl, 254 (mentioned also
with 2nd Earl, as 'the Greys')

2nd Earl (mentioned as Lord
Howick), 130, 136, 140, 200, 214;
succeeds Fox, 222; in power, 225;
Irish Act, 238, 240 sq., 271; 254,
278, 334, 345, 374 sq., 379, 450
Gross-Beeren, battle of, 495
'Guerrier,' frigate, 458
Guickwar, office of, 166 sq.
Gurwood, Lieut-Colonel, 418

Haileybury College, 524
Hamilton, Lord A., 330
-, Lady, 151 sq.
weavers of, 389

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