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Year.

Par.

274

and oxen; visit of the Russian autocrat and the king of Prussia. Dis graceful public delusion....... Base conduct of "the ladies of England" 277 Glorious victory over the Americans, on the Serpentine River, in Hyde Park.. 281

Waste of the public money on shows and

exhibitions..

1814. Threats against JAMES MADISON (the American president). The necessity of deposing him

Agreement of the allies, at Vienna, not

to interfere in favour of America....

1814. John Wilson Croker's manifesto

1814. The English press insists on measures to

destroy the American navy at once..

1814. Pacific professions of the English govern

ment while it was preparing to ravage

the American coasts

1814. Tierney deceives Mr. Bayard

1814. Canning's insolent and contemptuous

language with regard to the American

navy

1814. Cochrane, Cockburn, Warren, and Ross,

ravage the American sea-coast

.....

1814. Bloody deeds of the English Indians at

French town

1814. Sackings and burnings at the town of Hampton, in Virginia

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333

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1814. Burning of the city of Washington...... 1814. President's appeal to the people

Year.

Par.

814. Attempt of the English to take Baltimore 336 814. Ross, the English general, killed by an

American boy...

814. English driven from before Baltimore and compelled to bear out to sea

814. Unparalleled valour of the crew of the American privateer, the General Arm

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1814. Lists of all the ships taken on both sides during the war

1814. Battle of Sandusky, where a handful of

Americans repulsed and routed an

English army.....

1814. Treaty of peace, 24. December. And the

treaty at full length. The conduct of

the English government in proclaim

ing this peace...

1815. Return of Napoleon from Elba, and the

causes of it....

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367

375, 376

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232

Flight of the old battered Bourbons to

Ghent....

1815. Declaration of the allies against Napoleon 224

1815. Prince Regent's message to parliament for

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1815. Seizure of the museums at Paris

1815. Curious letters of Castlereagh and Wel
lington on this subject

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1815. Castlereagh, on his arrival from Paris, received by the House of Commons, the members all rising up, standing uncovered, and clapping their hands.. 278 Immense grants of public money to Wellington

278

The nation begins to find that it has a reckoning to pay, and sadness succeeds joy 282 The effects of a diminution of the quan

tity of paper-money 1815. Glorious victory (8. January) at New Orleans, gained by the American General Jackson, over the English army (seven times his number), under Generals Packenham, Gibbs, Kean, and Lambert, and over Cochrane and Cockburn, with their ships and their gun-boats. Horrible slaughter of the English army, while the American general lost only seven men

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370

1815. (April.) The killing of the American prisoners of war in Dartmoor prison.. 382

1815. Complaints about taxes, and numerous meetings for a repeal of them........ 1815. The parliament passes a corn-bill, to keep up the price of corn 1816. An address attempted to be got up at Maidstone: the people about to throw th addressers into the Medway

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285

ear.

17. Marriage of the princess Charlotte
17, REFORM again raises its head
817. Dungeon law and gagging laws passed
817, Reformers put into dungeons by Sid-

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Par.

388

390

391

mouth. Their dreadful sufferings.... 392 318, Bill of Indemnity for acts done under the laws of 1817

393

818. Riots in Derbyshire. Death of Brandreth, Ludlam, and Turner..

397

398

402

319, Dreadful slaughter of reformers at Man

chester

819. PEEL's BILL passed.

History of the "Bank-restriction" from

its commencement in 1797 to 1819.. 404 The famously stupid and mischievous Act

at full length...
How this operated on the base borough-
mongers; how it took away their rents
and estates; how they cringed to the
Jews and other money-monsters; how
they themselves sold that game to
them, which, for ages, they had made
it a crime to sell or to buy: how, with
their own hands, they thus pulled them

selves down

1819. SIX ACTS passed.

417

418

Opposed by the

401

Whigs, but not repealed by them

1820. Thistlewood, Ings, Brunt, and Tidd, exe

cuted for having formed a plot to kill

the ministers. Their defence; their
unequalled bravery

1820. Napoleon's death

399

241

1820. George III. died in January..
Queen Caroline's strange conduct in not
hastening to England

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In June she arrived at St. Omers, in
France, on her way to England
She is met at St. Omers, by Lord
Hutchinson and Mr. Brougham, who
offer her a pension of 50,000l. a year,
if she will consent never to come to
England, and will renounce her title
and rights as queen
She slips away from these two envoys,

Par.

422

ib.

423

ib.

and comes off to England with all pos-
424
sible speed..

Her reception by the people; their exces-
sive joy; their resolution to uphold
her against all her foes

Reluctance of the ministers to gratify the
wishes of the king by measures of

open force

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King's message to the two Houses, 6. June 427 Queen's message to the two Houses, demanding the enjoyment of her

rights

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A negotiation carried on to get her out of
the country, by Wellington and Castle-
reagh on one side, and by Brougham
and Denman on the other, the result
of which was, that these latter agreed
that she should go, on certain terms,
which terms the other party would not

agree to

ib.

ib.

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