First Lord of the Treasury Earl of Liverpool.
Lord Chancellor.

Earl of Eldon.
Lord Privy Seal

Earl of Westmoreland.
President of the Council

Earl of Harrowby,
Secretary of State for the Home
Department

Right Hon. R. Peel.
Secretary of State for the Foreign
Department

Right Hon. G. Canning.
Secretary of State for Colonies
and War

Earl Bathurst.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Right Hon. F. J. Robinson.
First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Melville.
Master General of the Ordnance. Duke of Wellington.
President of the Board of Control Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynne.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster

Lord Bexley.
Lord Sidmouth.

.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN HISTORY.

CHAP. I.

Parliamentary Proceedings in February. - Opening of Parliament.- King's

Speech.--State of Ireland.--Address.-Catholic Association.— Usury Laws.-

Ways and Means.-- Supplies.-St. Catherine's Docks.—Justices of the Peace.-

Ireland.- Dissenters' Marriages.-Apothecaries in England and Wales.-
Spring Guns.-Export of Machinery. - The Budget

page 3

CHAP. II.

London Water-Works.—Catholic Priests.--Catholic Petitions.— Irish Unlawful

Societies.-Ship Canal.- Assessed Taxes.- Supplies.- Marine Mutiny.- Cruelty

to Animals.-- Annual Duties.- Thames Quay.-Canadian Waste Lands.---

Peruvian Mining Company.—Americun and West-Indiu Trade.— Police Magis-

trates.— Pay of Ships of War.-Criminal Law.— The Indian Army.--Cus-

toms and Excise.- Dissenters' Marriages.—Combination Laws.—Quarantine

Laws

141

CHAP. III.

Supplies. — Catholic Relief Bill.—Combination Laws. - Spirit Duties.-Corn

Laws.— Elective Franchise of Ircland.-Game Laws.- Provision for the Ro-

man Catholic Clergy

320

CHAP. IV.

Beer Duties.-Scotch Imprisonments.-Abuse of Prisons in England.-- Roman

Catholic Relief Bill.— The West India Company's Bill.- South America.-

Judges' Salaries.-Quarantine Laws.—Juries Bill.— Naturalization Oaths.---

Scotch Attainders.- Oppression in Ireland.-London University.-Grants to

the Duchess of Kent and the Duke of Cumberland.— Delays in Chancery.-

Cotton Mills Regulation

384

CHAP. V.

Unitarian Marriages.- London College.- Quarantine Laws.- Mauritius Trade.

- Canada Corn.- London Tithes.- Burning of Hindoo Widows.—Colonial In-

tercourse. Grant to the Duke of Cumberland.-Merchant Laws.-- Writs of

Error --Duty on Soap and Candles.- Discipline of the Navy.-- Irish Char-
tered Schools.- Lord Charles Somerset.-Petition from Jamaica.— Buckingham

House.-- The Judges' Salaries.-- Supplies.- Customs.-Consolidations.---Borough

of West Loo.-Shooting and Stabbing (Scotch) Bill.-Distillery Bill.- Rev.

Mr. Shrewsbury.- Combination Laws-Ships' Registry.—Dr. Frie.- Mr.

Kenrick.-- Bubble Act Repeal.- Appellate Jurisdiction.- Deccan Prize Money.

-South America.- His Majesty's Speech and Prorogation

481

CHAP. VI.

State of the Country, external and internal.- Agriculture, Manufactures, Com-

merce, &c.-Ireland.Colonies

625

CHAP. VII.

State of France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, the North,- Russia, Greece, Turkey,

627

America, &c.

PUBLIC PAPERS.

Revenue of Great Britain

632

Income and Expenditure

634

Duties Repealed.

635

Gold and Silver exported

636

British and Foreign Exports

637

Stamps of Newspapers..

638

Vessels entered Inwards

639

Turkey Trade....

ibid.

Excise of Ireland

ibid.

Duty on Hops..

640

Slave Population-West Indies and the Cape

641

Protest to the Second Reading of the Unlawful Societies Bill, entered on the

Journals of the House of Lords, March 3, 1825

642

on the Third Reading of the Corn Bill, March 20.

643

on the rejection of the Bill limiting the consequences of Attainder in Cases

of High Treason and Murder to the Offender or Offenders, entered on the

Journals of the House of Lords, on Thursday, May 26

644

Convention of Commerce — Denmark and Hanover

646

with Russia

649

Russian Arbitration

652

Treaty with Colombia..

653

with the South American Provinces

657

Speech of the King of France on opening the Royal Sitting of 1825

660

of the King of the Netherlands on opening the States General 661

Message of the Vice-President of Colombia in charge of the Government to the

Congress of 1825

664

Speech of his Excellency the President of the United Mexican States, on closing

the Session of the Constitutional Federal Congress

674

Answer of his Excellency the President of the Congress to the foregoing Speech, 678

Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adams, as President of the United States, ibid.

Address from Venice to the Emperor of Austria

684

BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES AND CHARACTERS

1. Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan [3]

2. Memoirs of John Philip Kemble, Esg, including a History of the Stage,

&c. &c.

[21]

3. Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan in the years 1821 and 22, including

some Account of the Countries to the North-East of Persia, &c. &c. by James

B. Frazer, Author of a “ Tour in the Hamala Mountains"

[29]

4. An Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South

America, by W. B. Stevenson

[43]

5. Travels among the Arab Tribes inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and

Palestine, &c. &c. by J. S. Buckingham

[50]

6. A Picture of Greece in 1825: being the Journals of James Emerson, Esq.,

Count Pecchio, and W. H. Humphreys, Esq.; written during their recent

visits to that Country

[65]

7. Journal of a Residence and Travels in Colombia, during the years 1823 and

1824, by Captain C. Stuart Cochrane, R. N.

[78]

8. Practical and Internal Evidence against Catholicism, by the Rev. Joseph

Blanco White

[88]

9. Antediluvian Phytology, illustrated by a Collection of the Fossil Remains of

Plants, peculiar to the Coal formations of Great Britain, by Edmund

Tyrell Artis, F. S. A. F.G.S.

[90]

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