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,
Emperor of (see Francis Jo-
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
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
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,
-, 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
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
Cape of Good Hope, the, taken,
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,
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
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
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,
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
- 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
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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