INDEX. A. Abercromby, Mr, his motion on Buonaparte'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. Ixii Agricultural report for January, II. xFor March, xxvi-For August, IxiFor October, lxix-For December, lxxxi Allied Sovereigns enter into a treaty with Britain against Buonaparte, I. 163. Debates 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. Attack of New Orleans, 355. Ratification of the treaty of peace, 356. Followed 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 England, 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 Aremberg, Prince of, account of his death, II. xix Army estimates for the year, I. 17 ,motion for abolishing corporal pu nishments rejected in the House of Commons. Remarks on the subject, I. 251 Arniston transport, narrative of the loss of, II. xli Arundel Castle, preparations for a grand fete there, II. xxxix Austria refuses permission to Murat to march through her Italian dominions, I. 187 B. Baker, Mr, a respectable magistrate in Ireland, murdered, I. 341 Bank of England, affairs of, I. 23. Renewal of the restrictions on cash payments, 25. Observations on the profits derived from its transactions with government, ib. State of its accounts, II. iii Barbary States, memorial of Sir Sydney Smith, on the expediency of putting an end to their piracies, II. ccxiv Bath, order of the, divided into three classes, I. 75 Bengal Indiaman, account of the loss of, II. xxix Berri, Duke de, his insolent and impru dent behaviour to a French officer, I. 93. Anecdote of him, II. xxxvii Berthier, Marshal, throws himself from a window, and is killed, I. 207 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 arrives on the field, and decides the battle 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. xvi 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 opposition, 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. Disputes between him and his ministers, 202. Pays court to the Federates, 205. Disaffection of the people to his government, 209. His speech to the Legislative 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 army at Waterloo, and, after a desperate battle, is routed with great slaughter, 286, 246. His conduct in the field, 242, 243-and flight from it, 246. His carriage and baggage taken at Genappe, 247. He returns alone to Paris, 256. Abdicates in favour of his son, 262. His farewell proclamation to his soldiers, 267. He is removed to Rochefort, 270. Goes voluntarily on board the British ship Bellerophon, and is brought to Torbay-His letter to the Prince Regent, 334, 335. Arguments respecting the mode of treating him, 395. He protests against being kept a prisoner, 338. Is sent to the Island of St Helena in the Northumberland, 340 Bulletins of his Majesty's health, II. v, xiii, xix, xxvii, xxxvii, li, lxvii, lxx, lxxvii C. Calcutta, loss of a fleet of boats there, II. xxxix Cameron, Colonel, killed at Quatre Bras, I. 231 Candy, conquest of the kingdom of, I. $51. Farther particulars, II, 1 Canning, Lieut.-Colonel, killed at Waterloo, I. 242 Carnot, M. history of, I. 125. His me morial against the Bourbons, 126. Memorial on the capitulation of Paris, 295 Castlereagh, Lord, his speech on Buonaparte's escape from Elba, I. 164. Discussion of his motion on this subject, 167. Demands of France the restora. tion of the foreign monuments of art in the Louvre, 824 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 particulars, 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 Netherlands, II. cl. Between the same and Prussia, clxxii. Between the same and Russia, clxxxv. Between the British 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 serious 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 depreciation examined, I. 60 Curson, Captain, killed at Waterloo, I. 242 D. Dartmoor, seven American prisoners killed there, in an attempt to escape, II. xxix Davoust, Marshal, his address to the army 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. Of 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 Alexander Cochrane, dated H.M. ship Armide, off Isle-au-Chat, 16th December, 1814, inclosing one from Captain Lockyer, II. lxxxvii-Another, dated January 18, lxxx:x from E. Cooke, Esq. under secretary of state, dated Rome, 20th May, inclosing military reports from Colonel Church, II. xcii. Another, dated Rome, May 22, xcvi Dispatches from Lord Burghersh, dated Rome, May 16, and Teano, May 21, inclosing the military convention with Naples, II. xcvi. Another, dated Naples, 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 Aylmer and Palmer, II. cxiii from Colonel the Baron de Montalembert, dated in the Gironde, July 31, II. cxiii from Lieut.-General Brownrigg, 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 Futtyghur, June 1, II. cxxxix from the Earl of Clancarty, dated Vienna, May 6, II. clxviii Dorset, Duke of, account of his death, II. E. Eclipse, Leith smack, lost near Yarmouth, II. lxxv Edinburgh, freedom of, conferred on J. C. Curwen, Esq. II. 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 poisoning 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, Ixxv F. Fayette, M. de La, proposes resolutions in the French legislature on the state of the nation, I. 258. Hints to Buonaparte 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, lxviii. 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 publishes reasons of his conduct, 318 France, internal state of, I. 87. Defects of the administration, 90. Condition 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, 157. Organization of a conspiracy for his restoration, 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 government seized by Buonaparte, 157. The cities and provinces receive his authority. 159. Plot to carry off the empress detected at Vienna, 201. Exer tions of the partizans of Louis, 205. Preparations for war, 207. Additional act to the constitution, 210. Ceremony of the Champ de Mai, 212, Meeting of the Legislative Chambers, and Buonaparte'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 Buonaparte'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 provisional government, and debates in the chambers, 285. Preparations to defend Paris, 289. It surrenders by capitulation, 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. Disturbances in the south, 310. Assembly of the chambers, 318. New ministry, 320. Sufferings inflicted on the country by the Prussian soldiers, 322. Dispersion of the national Museum, 325. |