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CONTENTS.

PART I.

HISTORICAL.

CHAP. I.

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.

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State of Parties- The Whigs--Causes which have led to their Declension as a Party

-The Tories Causes which have secured the Ascendency they at present enjoy

-Liberality of the present Administration State of the Country at the Com-

mencement of the year-Opening of Parliament-King's Speech-Long and ani-

mated Debates on the Address,

3

CHAP. VIII.

PAGE.

142

LEGISLATIVE PROJECTS BROUGHT FORWARD, BUT FINALLY REJECTED,

CHAP. IX.

149

JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES-FOREIGN LOANS-PANIC OF THE COMMERCIAL WORLD,

.

AUSTRIA, ITALY, HUNGARY, PRUSSIA, BAVARIA, THE NETHERLANDS, DENMARK, AND

SWEDEN,

205

.

UNITED srates OF AMERICA, MEXICO, COLOMBIA, PERU, BOLIVIA, BUENOS AYRES, BRA-

ZILS, HAYTI,

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PART II.

LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS.

CHAP. I.

Remarks on the Climate and Vegetable Productions of the Hudson's Bay Countries.

By John Richardson, M.D., Member of the Wernerian Society.—Communicated

by the Author,

3

CHAP. II.

On the Natural History of the Salmon, and on the Salmon Fisheries, as stated in the

“ Report from the Select Committee on the Salmon Fisheries of the United King-

dom, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 17th June 1824;"-with

Remarks,

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CHAP. III.

GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES.

PAGE.

Northern Expedition-Melville Island Russian Expedition along the Northern

Shores of Siberia-Subsidence of the Baltic-China,

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PART III.

CHRONICLE.

I. - POLITICAL CHRONICLE; OR RECORD OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

.

.

Tables, exhibiting the Revenue, Expenditure, Commerce, and Navigation of the

United Kingdom for the Year ended 5th January 1825, &c.

3

Substance of the Report of the Commissioners of Education in Ireland, for the Year

ending March 25, 1825,

Il

Sixth Report of the Commissioners of the Irish Fisheries,

28

Third Report on the Linen Trade of Ireland,

33

Summary of the Number of Houses and Inbabitants in the Several Counties of Ire-

land, according to the Census of 1821; together with a Comparative View of the

Enumeration of the Population, as taken in the Years 1813 and 1821; and of the

Proportions of Houses and Inhabitants to the Acre and the Square Mile in each

County,

38

Table, exhibiting the Amounts and Proportions of the Population professing differ.

ent Religious Creeds in each Province in Ireland, with the Amounts and Propor-

tions thereof in a Course of Education, calculated from the Returns made by the

Roman Catholic Clergy,

40

Caledonian Canal,

41

Highland Churches,

42

Highland Roads and Bridges,

43

Mail Coaches,

45

Northern Lighthouses,

ib.

Isle of Man,

46

Sierra Leone,

47

Labourers' Wages,

An Account of the Quantity of Linen Cloth, of all sorts, exported from Great Bri-

tain to Ireland and to Foreign countries, in the Year ended 5th January 1825;

distinguishing British, Irish, and Foreign Linens, &c.

50

Salmon Fisheries,

51

An Account of the Number of Ships, with their Tonnage and Men, which have enter-

ed the Ports of the United Kingdom during the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824, re-

spectively, distinguishing British Ships from Foreign,

55

A Comparative Statement of British and Foreign Tonnage, cleared Outwards from

the Ports of Great Britain and Ireland, distinguishing the Several Countries, for the

Year ending the 5th January 1825, &c.

56–57

Trade of the United Kingdom,

57

Trade of Great Britain,

58

Trade of Ireland,

ib.

Convention of Commerce, between his Britannic Majesty and the King of Denmark, 59

Separate Article to Ditto,

60

Additional Article to Ditto,

61

Declarations of Great Britain and Hanover, respecting reciprocity of Commerce, sign-
,

ib.

Ratification of the Commercial

Treaty with Buenos Ayres,

62

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Convention between his Majesty and the Emperor of Russia, respecting the Free

Navigation, Commerce, and Fisheries in the Pacific Ocean, and the Limits on the

North-west Coast of America,

Spain. Conventions between their Catholic and Most Christian Majesties, for pro-

longing the stay of the French Army in Spain, after the 1st of January 1825,

65

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II.-LEGAL CHRONICLE; OR RECORD OF REMARKABLE TRIALS AND

LAW PROCEEDINGS.

.

Indictments against Mr O'Connell, for Sedition,

70

Trial of Alexander Pierce, for the Murder of a fellow prisoner named Thomas Cox, 71

Marquis of Westmeath v. Anne Connell,

Meeting of the Faculty of Advocates,

73

Cox v. Kean,

MʻIntire v. Layard,

. 76

Mrs H. Siddons v. Mr Corbet Ryder,

77

Trial of Robert Murray, for robbing the Stirling mail,

. 83

Trial of Thomas Menzies, for Assaulting William Auld,

89

Fife Cause,

Trial of William Probert, for Stealing a Mare,

93

Scots Appeal. John Graham, Esq. W. S. v. the Writers to the Signet,

97

Royal Borough Cess,

98

Trial of Mr Murray, for Libels in the Quarterly Review, against J. S. Buckingham,

Esq.

Judge v. Berkely and Others,

ib.

Trial of Duncan MʻInnes, late Master, and Peter M‘Bride, late Pilot, of the Comet
Steam-Boat, for Culpable Homicide,

ib.

111.-GENERAL CHRONICLE; OR RECORD OF MISCELLANEOUS

EVENTS,

108

IV.-BIOGRAPHICAL CHRONICLE; OR ACCOUNT OF EMINENT

PERSONS DECEASED DURING THE YEAR.

Mrs Barbauld,

The Rev. Charles Wolfe, A. B.

The Right Hon. Charles Earl Whitworth,

The Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.

Henry Fuseli, Esq. M.A. R. A.“

The Right Honourable Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle,

The Right Hon. R. H. Hutchinson, Earl of Donougbmore,

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. 204

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New Publications for 1825,

Births, Marriages, and Deaths,

INDEX,