A.
Abercromby, Mr, his motion on Buona- parte's escape from Elba, and debate thereon, I. 168 Abington, Earl, moves the address in the Upper House, I. 3
Accounts, public, for the year, II. ccxxxiii Acts, public, for the year, II. ccxviii African female, account of one, a sailor in the British navy, II. lxii Agricultural report for January, II. x- For March, xxvi-For August, Ixi- For October, lxix-For December, lxxxi Allied Sovereigns enter into a treaty with Britain against Buonaparte, I. 163. De- bates in Parliament on this treaty, 174. Amount of troops to be furnished by each, 183. Their formidable prepa. rations for war, and positions of their armies, 220. Enter France at the head of their troops, 279. Refuse to treat with the provisional government,
282
America, North, affairs of, I. 353. At-
tack of New Orleans, 355. Ratifica- tion of the treaty of peace, 356. Fol- lowed by a commercial treaty, 359. Ludicrous names of the rivers of, II. xlix
America, South, affairs of, I. 362 Angouleme, Duchess of, driven from Bourdeaux, I. 150. Arrives in Eng- land, II. xxxix. Returns to Paris, xlix Duke of, capitulates in the south to Buonaparte's troops, I. 161 Appointments and promotions, list of principal ones, II. cclxxxiii
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Best, Mr Serjeant, moves for a bill to amend the insolvent debtor's act, I. 28; but withdraws it, 29 Bigamy, curious case of, II. xxviii Blacas, Count, unpopular in France, I. 91.
Dismissed from Louis's ministry, 303 Blucher, Marshal, in imminent danger at the battle of Ligny, I. 228. Effects his retreat unmolested, ib. His army ar rives on the field, and decides the bat- tle of Waterloo, 246. He pursues the flying French army, 247. Meeting of him and Wellington after the battle of Waterloo, 246. Anecdote of him, II, xxxvii Bourbon, Duke of, endeavours, without success, to raise a force in La Vendee, I. 159
Brune, Marshal, murdered at Avignon, I.
341
Brunswick, Duke of, falls gloriously in the battle of Quatre Bras, I. 230 Brussels, account of a masked ball there,
II. xví
Buccleuch, Duke of, presents the Ettrick
Shepherd with a pastoral farm, II. xxxi Buonaparte, account of his behaviour at Elba, I. 137. He corresponds with France and Italy, 138. Embarks at Elba, and lands with a few attendants at Frejus, 143. Advances without op- position, 144. His first meeting with the royal troops, 146. They join him as he marches on Paris, 149. He issues decrees from Lyons, 150. Arrives in Paris, and resumes the government, 157. Makes proposals of peace to the allies, which are rejected, 162. Dis- putes between him and his ministers, 202. Pays court to the Federates, 205. Disaffection of the people to his go- vernment, 209. His speech to the Le- gislative Chambers, 217. Prepares to meet the allied armies, 222. His speech to his soldiers, *225. Attacks the Prussians, and drives them from Charleroi, 226. Defeats them again at Ligny, 227. Attacks the British ar- my at Waterloo, and, after a desperate battle, is routed with great slaughter, 236, 246. His conduct in the field, 242, 243-and flight from it, 246. His car- riage and baggage taken at Genappe, 247. He returns alone to Paris, 256. Abdicates in favour of his son, 262.
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Champ de Mai, ceremony of, I. 213 Chancellor of the Exchequer for Ireland brings forward the Irish budget for the year, I. 21
Charleroi, the Prussians driven from it by Buonaparte, 1. 226 Chesters, Roxburghshire, singular occur. rence there, II. xxi Chinese, disagreements between them and the British, I. 349 Cochrane, Lord, escapes from prison, and appears in the House of Commons-Is arrested, tried, and sentenced to farther imprisonment, I. 77, 78. Farther par- ticulars, II. xxiii Congress of Vienna declares Buonaparte without the pale of the law of nations, I. 162. Removed to Frankfort, 220 Convention between Britain and the Ne- therlands, II. cl. Between the same and Prussia, clxxii. Between the same
and Russia, clxxxv. Between the Bri- tish and Dutch governments, cxc Corn, bill for restricting the importation of, I. 34. Discussions on it, 35. View of the arguments for and against the bill, 36. Observations on the policy of the measure, 57. Is the cause of seri- ous riots in London, 79. Anecdote of a soldier and cobler, connected with it, 86 Correspondence between M. de Caulain
court and Lord Castlereagh, II. clxvi Corunna, insurrection of Porlier there, I.
366
Currency, question of its alleged deprecia- tion examined, I. 60
Curson, Captain, killed at Waterloo, I.
242
Dartmoor, seven American prisoners kill- ed there, in an attempt to escape, II. xxix Davoust, Marshal, his address to the ar- my of the Loire, I. 308. He is removed from the command, 309 Death of Lady Hamilton at Calais, II. xiv. Of the Duke of Dorset, xvi. Of the Prince of Aremberg, xix. Qf Lady Mary Fitzgerald, xxx Declaration of the allied powers relative to the slave-trade, II. clvi. Of the same on Buonaparte's return from Elba, clxi. Of Louis from his court at Ghent, clxxiii. Of Buonaparte to the French on commencing war, clxxxiii Delancey, Sir William, killed at Waterloo, I. 242
Delawar, Lord, his speech on seconding the address to the Prince Regent, I. 3 D'Esterre, Mr, of Dublin, killed in a duel by Mr O'Connel, II. xi Dispatches from Rear-Admiral Hotham, dated H. M. ship Superb, before New London, 23d January, with enclosures from Captain Hayes and Hope, II. lxxxvi
from Vice-Admiral Sir Alex- ander Cochrane, dated H.M. ship Ar- mide, off Isle-au-Chat, 16th December, 1814, inclosing one from Captain Lock- yer, II. lxxxvii-Another, dated January 18, lxxxix
from E. Cooke, Esq. under secretary of state, dated Rome, 20th
*xliii
May, inclosing military reports from Colonel Church, II. xcii. Another, da- Dispatches from Lord Burghersh, dated ted Rome, May 22, xcvi Rome, May 16, and Teano, May 21, in- closing the military convention with Naples, II. xcvi. Another, dated Na- ples, 23d May, c
from the Duke of Wellington, dated Waterloo, June 19, II. ci. Others dated Cateau, 22d, and Joncourt 25th, cv. Orville, 28th, cvi. Gonasse, July 2, cvii. Same place, July 4, inclosing the military convention with Davoust, cviii. Louvre, June 30, transmitting one from Sir C. Colville, cx. Paris, July 8, cxii
- from Captain Maitland, dated H. M. ship Bellerophon, July 14, II. cxii
from Admiral Lord Keith, dated Ville de Paris, in Hamoaze, July 21, with inclosures from Captains Ayl- mer and Palmer, II. cxiii
from Colonel the Baron de Montalembert, dated in the Gironde, July 31, II. cxiii
from Lieut.-General Brown- rigg, dated Candy, February 25, II. cxvi from Sir Hudson Lowe, dated Cujes, July 24, II. cxxiv
from Sir James Leith, dated Guadaloupe, August 12, II. cxxiv
from the Vice-Presidency at Fort-William, dated February 20, with enclosures from Mr Secretary Adam, and Sir David Ochterlony, II. cxxxiii from Admiral Lord Exmouth, with an enclosure from Captain Fahie, dated H. M. ship, Malta, Gaeta Bay, August 9, II. cxxxvii
from Earl Moira, dated Fut- tyghur, June 1, II. cxxxix
from the Earl of Clancarty, Dorset, Duke of, account of his death, II. dated Vienna, May 6, II. clxviii
xvi
Dublin, interesting incident at Aston's quay there, II, xxxvi
Duel between Mr O'Connel and Mr D'- Esterre, II. xi-Between Colonels Quentin and Palmer, xiv
Dundee, loss of a pinnace, with passengers, Dwarf, description of a very small one, II, at the ferry there, II. xxxviii Xxxvii
Eclipse, Leith smack, lost near Yarmouth, II. lxxv
Edinburgh, freedom of, conferred on J. C. Curwen, Esq. I. xv-Bill for a canal between it and Glasgow, xix-New road over the Calton-hill, xxix-Celebration of the Prince Regent's birth day, lviii. Musical Festival, lxxi. Visit of the Austrian Archdukes John and Lewis, lxxix
Excelmans, General, his letter to Murat intercepted, I. 135. Trial and acquittal of, 136
Execution of Elizabeth Fenning, for poi- soning a family, II. xlvii Explosion on board a vessel at Berwick, II. v. Of fire-damp in a coal mine, xliii. In a sugar refinery in London, lxxv
Fayette, M. de La, proposes resolutions in the French legislature on the state of the nation, I. 258. Hints to Buona- parte the necessity of his abdication, 261
Fire, in St Paul's church-yard, London, II. vii. In St George's street, London, xxxiii. At Waterford, lvii. In the mint, London, Ixviii. In High Holburn, lxvii Fitzgerald, Lady Mary, account of her death, II. xxx
Fouche, M. his conduct on the restoration of Louis XVIII. I. 129. His duplicity to Buonaparte, 269. Secretly embraces the interests of the Bourbons, 282. Resigns the ministry of police, and pub- lishes reasons of his conduct, 318 France, internal state of, I. 87. Defects
of the administration, 90. Condition and character of the royalists, 92. Di- visions of the royal family, ib -Fears of the national proprietors, 96. Acount of the jacobin party, 97. The Buoca- partists, 98. Discontents of the army, 99. The constitutionalists, or neutrals, the most numerous party 102. Report on the state of the country, 107. De- hate on the liberty of the press, 112. Censorship proposed by M. Faure, and passed with some modifications, 116.
Expedients of the disaffected to elude the law, 117. Scandalous affair in the church of Durnac, 118. Debate on a plan for indemnifying emigrants, ib. Intrigues of the republicans, headed by Carnot and Fouche, 130. Warlike pre- parations, 132. Intrigues at the Congress of Vienna, 133. Insubordination of the army, 136 Interest excited by emis- saries in favour of Buonaparte, 137. Organization of a conspiracy for his re- storation, 139. Culpable indifference of the ministry to the proceedings of the conspirators, 140, 144. Landing of Buonaparte at Frejus, 143. Suspicions of treachery in the war department, 145. Confusion and bustle at Paris, 147. Defection of the troops from the royal cause, 149, 156 Reins of go- vernment seized by Buonaparte, 157. The cities and provinces receive his au- thority, 159. Plot to carry off the em- press detected at Vienna, 201. Exer- tions of the partizans of Louis, 20s. Preparations for war, 207. Additional act to the constitution, 210. Ceremony of the Champ de Mai, 212. Meeting of the Legislative Chambers, and Buona- parte's speech to them, 216. Battle of Ligny, 227. Of Quatre Bras, 229. Route of the army at Waterloo, 246. Discussions in the chambers on Buona- parte's return, 258. Furious debates on acknowledging Napoleon II. 263, 266. He is indirectly acknowledged, 267. Movements of the French corps after their defeat at Waterloo, 277. Effect their retreat to Paris, 279. Provisional government solicits an armistice, ib. Austrian and Bavarian armies cross the Rhine, and advance into the country, 283. The grand Russian army also cross it, 284. Situation of the provi- sional government, and debates in the chambers, 285. Preparations to defend Paris, 289. It surrenders by capitula- tion, 293. Dissolution of the chambers, and entrance of Louis into Paris, 302. Proscription of peers and others, 304. Distraction in the provinces, 306. The army of the Loire disbanded, 309. Dis- turbances in the south, 310. Assembly of the chambers, 318. New ministry, 320. Sufferings inflicted on the country by the Prussian soldiers, 322. Disper- sion of the national Museum, 323.
pie, 344-Operations of Sir David Och- terlony, 345-Defeat of Ameer Sing, and conclusion of the war, 348-Con- quest of the kingdom of Candy, 351 Indies, West, affairs of, I. 361 Ionian Islands placed under the protec
tion of Britain, I. 340. Treaty between Britain and Russia on this subject, II. cxciii
I.
Indies, East, affairs of, I. 341-War in Nepaul, $42-Death of General Gilles-
Ireland, disturbances in, and revival of the insurrection act, I 341. Farther parti- culars, II. vi. Emigration from, xl. At- tack on the Cork mail-coach, lxiv Jury trial in civil cases established in Scot- land, I. 31. Observations on the sub- ject, ib. 32
Kalunga, unsuccessful attempt to storm it, I. 344 Kandy-See Candy. Kelso, singular accident there, II. vi Kent, outrage by smugglers on the coast of, II. 1
L.
Labedoyere, Colonel, carries over the troops under his command to Buona- parte, I. 146. Brought to trial, con demned and shot, 314. Farther parti- culars, II. lv
Laon, the broken French troops form a junction there after the battle of Water- loo, I. 277
Larochejaquelin, death of, and submission of La Vendee, I. 220
Lavalette, M. seizes the post-office at Pa-
ris, and facilitates the entrance of Buo- naparte, I. 156. He is tried and con- demned, II. lxvii-But escapos from prison, lxxx
Lauderdale, Earl of, his speech in favour of abolishing the pillory, I. 29 Legitimacy, remarks on the principle of,
as applied to monarchial right, I. 272 Leicester, dreadful catastrophe there, II. xlvi
Leon, Princess of, account of her death, II. viii
Ligny, sanguinary battle of, I. 227 London, serious riots there on account of the corn-bill, in which the houses of many members of parliament were de-
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