ABB

ABBOT, Charles. See Colchester

Abbott, Mr. Justice, afterwards
Lord Tenterden, presides at first
trial of Hone, 462; made Chief
Justice, 464

Abingdon, corruption in, 145
-Lord, buys seat for Oxford, 145
Academical Society suppressed, 436
Acland, Sir Thos., one of the House
of Commons deputation to the
queen, 581

Adams, Dr., counsel for king in 1820,
587

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a retired soldier, one of the Cato
Street conspirators, 526; turns
king's evidence, 528
Addington. See Sidmouth

Dr., Lord Sidmouth's father, 280
Hiley, 282, 306

Addison, 325; his views on the stamp
duty on newspapers, 380
Administration, Liverpool, defeated

in 1816 on property tax, 409; and
on other subjects, 411; their re-
pressive measures in 1817, 432;
their press prosecutions, 458, 461;
their weakness in 1819, 486, 487;
members of, scattered through Eu-
rope on eve of Peterloo, 505; their
advice to the Regent after Peterloo,
511; on point of dissolution in
1820, 564; decide on proceedings
against the queen, 581; contempt
felt for, after the queen's trial, 604
Admiralty, Registrarship of Court of,
149; salaries of secretaries to, 411
Agriculture, improvements in, 165;
beneficial effects of the war on,
400; distress of classes engaged in,
in 1816, 416.

Albemarle, Lord, reception of regi-
ment in which he was serving, after
Waterloo, 222

Alexander, Czar of Russia, his charac-

ARU

ter, 16; his views of government,

17

Algiers, description of, 227, 229; Xi.
menes' expedition against, 228;
Charles V.'s expedition against,
ib.; burned by the French, 229;
ultimatum delivered to, 231; expe-
dition against, 232; bombarded, 234
Alien Act, the, 474; of 1818, 475
Alison, Sir A., his erroneous views
on finance, 491

Alliance, the Holy, formed by Alex-

ander, at the instigation of Madame
Krudener, 16

America, discovery of, 114. See also
United States

Anderson, the author of the 'History
of Commerce,' 340

Anglesey, no contest in, for fifty
years, 138

- Lord, his place at the coronation,

615

Anson, Admiral, 225

Appleby, Lord Lonsdale's borough,
137, n.; Lord Liverpool elected for,
274; Tierney sits for, 309
Apprentices, parish, 186, 401
Arden, Lord, his sinecure, 149
Argyll, Duke of, marries the Duchess
of Hamilton, 80
Arkwright, Sir R., his invention of
the water-frame, 60, 130, 169, 240;
synchronous with Adam Smith's re-
searches, 330; his origin, 464
Armada, the destruction of, 225
Armour, the Statute of, 218
Arms, seizure of, bill for the, 519
Army, the, 217; history of, 218; un-
popularity of, 218, 219; gradual
increase of, 222; patronage in, 223;
bill to punish attempt to seduce
persons serving in it, 435
Arundel, borough of, 141; Romilly
member for, 316

ASH

Ashburton, Lord, Bentham's 'Frag-
ment of Government' attributed to,
333

Assaye, battle of, 264

Assessed taxes, the, their amount in
1792, 45

Athlone, Tierney sits for, 309
Austen, Jane, 376

Austerlitz, its consequences, 23, 128
Austin, William (‘Villikin'), his pa-
rentage, 250; adopted by the Prin-
cess of Wales, 553
Australia, its population in 1816, 115
Austria, effects of the Revolutionary

War upon, 7; her losses during the
war, 9; her acquisitions in 1815,
11; her exhaustion, 12; Venice
allotted to, 17

Avon, the river, its advantage to
Bristol, 78

BAIL

AILEY, Dr., attends Princess Char-
lotte, 535

Baker, Sir R., police magistrate in
London, removed for conduct at
queen's funeral, 621

Bakewell, his improvements in agri-
culture, 166

Bamford, the Radical,' his arrest in

1817, 466, n.; his conviction and
sentence, 512, n.

Bandon Bridge, Tierney sits for, 309
Bank of England, founded by Pater-
son, 47; its history and privileges,
ib.; its suspension of cash pay-
ments (see also Cash Payments and
Currency), 48; its position in 1815,
484

Bankes, Mr., patron of Corfe Castle,
141

Bankruptcies in 1817, 417; in 1818,
478

Barbadoes, Lord Seaforth Governor
of, 149

Barbarossa, Horuc and Hayradin,
their piracies and achievements,

228

Barbary, the States of (see also Al-
giers), 227

Baring, Sir Francis, answers Boyd's
currency pamphlet, 480

Barnes, Thomas, editor of the 'Times,'

381

Barracks, erection of, 221

Barrington, Shute, Prince Bishop of
Durham, 173

Barrow, its condition in 1815, 107
Bathurst, Bragge, Lord Sidmouth's
brother-in-law, 280, 282, 303; his
character and career, 305; succeeds

BLA

Canning at the Board of Control,
604
Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich, 173
Bayley, Mr. Justice, presides on Pe-
terloo trial, 510

Beaufort, Duke of, his Parliamentary
influence, 137

Beaumont, his duel with Lambton
156

Beccaria, originator of the greatest
happiness principle, 334
Beddoes, Dr., assists Davy, 74
Bedford, Duke of, his Parliamentary
influence 137; sells Camelford, 143;
his description of the distress of,
in 1816, 417

Bedfordshire, education in, 213
Beeralston, borough of, 141

Belfast, its progress in the nineteenth
century, 99

Belgium annexed to Holland in 1815,
17

Bell, Dr. Andrew, his new system of
education, 215, 216

·

Henry, builds the Comet,' 92
- Mr., his inventions for printing
calicoes, 64

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Benbow, Admiral, 225

Bentham, Jeremy, his 'Panopticon,'
203; his career and works, 332,
337, 368

Bentinck, Lord W., his offices, 147
Bergami, Bartolomeo, his engagement
as courier to the Princess of Wales,
548; his rapid promotion, 551; his
relatives, 552

Berkshire, its disproportionate repre-
sentation, 134; increase of rental
in, 166; education in, 212
Berthollet, M., his experiments in
bleaching, 64

Bethnal Green, distress in, 181
Beverly, E. of, pluralities held by his

son, 174; patron of Beeralston, 141
Bideford, riot at, 419

Bilston, men of, draw loaded wagons
to London, 422

Birch, constable, shot by the Radi-
cals, 505

Birkenhead, condition of, in 1816,
107

Birmingham, two days' journey from
London in 1745, 87, and cf. 106; its
history, population, and trade, 106;
distress in, in 1816, 422; Sir C.
Wolseley elected legislatorial at-
torney for, 505
Black, 327, 347

'Black Dwarf,' the, prosecution of, in
1817, 459

Blackstone, his opinion of the Game

BLA

Laws, 159; his Commentaries
and Jeremy Bentham, 332
'Blackwood,' its publication and its
publisher, 390

Blanketeers, march of the, 440
Blood-money, system of, 206
Boadicea, 371

Bolingbroke, Lord, 325

Bolton adopts the cotton manufac-
ture, 55

Bombay, imperfect communication
with England, 93; ceded to Eng-
land, 124

Bona, massacre at, 231
Bonnymuir, the battle of, 530
Bon Repos, Pierre Riquet de, his Canal
of Languedoc, 79

Boroughs, Parliamentary, See House
of Commons

Borroughs, his exploits, 123

Boswell, Sir A., his death in a duel,
156

Boulton, Mr., of Soho, his connec-

tion with Watt, 71; promotes trade
of Birmingham, 106

Boyd, Mr., his letter on the currency,
480

Bradford, dependent on the wool
trade, 52

Bramber, borough of, 141

Brandreth, the Nottinghamshire Cap-
tain, 446

Brevium Custos, office of, the paten-
tees, 149

Bridewell. See Prisons

Bridge building, the use of iron in,

86

Bridgewater, Duke of, his career, 79;
his introduction to Brindley, 81
Bridges, London, 96

Bridport, riot at, 419

Brighton Poor Bill, 189

Brindley, James, his early career, 80,
169; introduction to the Duke of
Bridgewater, 81

Bristol, its advantageous situation on
the Avon, 78; defeated by Liver-
pool, 100; its population in 1815,
107; meeting at, after Peterloo,
513

Britain, her position in 1815, 18; her
previous history, 19; her perse-
vering efforts in the Revolutionary
War, 23; her position at its close,
24; description of, ib.; population
of, in 1815, 25

Brougham, H., sits for Camelford,
143; stands for Liverpool, 144; his
quarrel with Canning, 156; his ac-
count of land enclosures, 165; his
character and career, 310, 387; his

BUR

autobiography, 312; his article on
Byron, 362; his article on Spain,
389; procures repeal of property
tax, 408; his attack upon the Re-
gent, 411; his account of the dis-
tress of 1816, 417; his hatred of
the Radicals, 426; proposed as
member of the Bank Committee,
487; his opinion of the Ministry in
1819, 515; adviser to the Princess
of Wales, 558; prevents the prin-
cess returning to England in 1819,
561; treats the omission of the
queen's name from the Liturgy as a
trifle, 565; appointed Attorney-
General to the queen, 567; desires
to compromise the queen's case,
568; joins the queen at St. Omer,
570; his apprehensions on her re-
turn, 574; his advocacy of her case
in the House of Commons, 576;
conducts negotiations for a com-
promise, 578; prepares the queen's
answer to Wilberforce's address,
581; at the trial, 588; his cross-
examination of Majocchi, 589; his
speech, 590; applies Milton's de-
scription of Satan to George IV.,
593; urges queen's claim to be
carried before Privy Council, 608
Brougham, Peter, killed in a duel,
155

Brunt, a shoemaker, one of the Cato
Street conspirators, 528
Buckingham, Marquis, afterwards
Duke of, his Parliamentary in-
fluence, 137, 283; advocates re-
pressive legislation in 1819, 516, 523
Budget, the, of 1816, 406; of 1817,

453; of 1818, 469; of 1819, 499
Bullion, the, Committee of 1810, 49
Bunyan, John, 325

Buonaparte, Joseph, defeated at Tala-
vera, 265

Burdett, Sir F., challenged by Can-
ning, 156; his arrest in 1810, 318;
returned for Westminster, 476; his
Reform motion in 1819, 503; his
career, ib.

Burdon places an iron bridge over
the Wear at Sunderland, 86
Burgess, Bishop of St. David's, 174
Burgoyne, Sir J., his capitulation,

127

Burke, Rt. Hon. E., supports Wilber-
force on the slave trade, 120; his
account of capital felonies, 1:3;
his testimony to Howard, 199; an
example of the reaction due to the
French Revolution, 336, 345
Burney, Dr., 375