They lay:-till lo!-as if but yesterday
The wave had left them,-into light again
The shadowy spectacle of ages past
Seems to leap up, as the dim cave unfolds
Its mystery. Say! Christian, is it true?
This cavern's deep recess, strew'd with white bones,
Faint echo to thy Bible! O'er the cave
Pale Science ruminates.
In silence on the scene below, and mark
The morning sunshine,-on that very shore
Where once a child I wandered:-Óh! return,
(I sigh) "return a moment, days of youth,
"Of childhood,-oh, return!" How vain the thought,
Vain as unworthy! yet sad Poesy
Unblam'd may dally with imaginings.
For this wide view is like the shadowy scene,
Once travers'd o'er with carelessness and glee,
And we look back upon the vale of years,
And hear remembered voices, and behold,
In blended colours, images and shades
Long pass'd, now rising, as at Memory's call,
Again in softer light.
Crowning the high hill-top, which overlooks
BREAN-DOWN, where in its lonelier amplitude
Stretches into grey mist the Severn Sea.
There, mingled with the clouds, old Cambria draws
Her line of mountains, fading far away;
There sit the sister Holms, in the mid-tide
Secure and smiling, though its vasty sweep,
As it rides by, might almost seem to rive
The deep foundations of the Earth again,-
Might scorn its shatter'd limits, and ascend
O'erwhelming to these heights, to bury there.
Fresh welt'ring carcases, and leave their bones
A spectacle for ages yet unborn,
To teach its sternest moral to the heart.
'Tis well we hear not the fleet wings of Time.
Enough, if while the summer-day steals on,
We muse upon the wreck of ages past,
And own there is a God who rules the world.
[N. B. The Figures with crotchets refer to the History.]
ACCIDENTS: fall of an embankment
near Crewkherne, 1; irruption of
water into the Thames Tunnel, 4;
accident of two actresses at the Bath
theatre, 9; fall of a house in Palmer's
Rents, 10; an infant killed by a ferret,
12; forty-seven persons drowned at
the launching of a vessel at Man-
chester, 20; fall of the new Bruns-
wick theatre, ib.; fall of part of the
cliff at Hastings, 26; Limerick mail,
56; a Brighton fly,' with three la-
dies, falls down the cliff, 58; man
killed by a fall from a tree in a rook-
ery, 59; explosion of fire-damp in the
Flint colliery, 66; fall of the gallery
in Kirkaldy church, 75; boy strang-
led while suspending himself by a
towel, 100; accident of the Devon-
port mail, 106; explosion of a powder
waggon at Vincennes, ib.; Mr. Bever-
idge killed by his gun going off, 107;
Poole mail, 109; Barnstaple mail
upset, ib.; Mr. Gun, capt. Lloyd, &c.
drowned at the bar of Beal, 110;
W. Lee accidentally shot by R. Parr,
while the latter was firing at a mark,
ib.; boat upset at Windsor, and nine
persons drowned, 111; the Lady of
the Lake steam boat upset on Loch
Lomond, and several persons drowned,
112; boat sunk at Connaught, 114;
fall of houses in Charter-house-lane,
116; bursting of the boiler of the Duke
of Sussex steam packet, 117; Mr. Ro-
bertson's fall from a balloon, 123; fall
. of two houses in Exeter-street, 124;
Kilcoleman church injured by light-
ning, 131; explosion in a coal mine,
163
Acts of parliament, list of, 289*
Althorpe, lord, proposed by Mr. Tier-
ney as chairman of the finance com-
mittee, [3]; objected to by Mr. Her-
ries, [5]; why, [48]; Mr. Tierney's
account of the nomination, [49]; lord
Althorpe's, [51]
America, North. See Mexico, United
States.
America, South. See Bolivar, Bolivia,
Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Colum-
bia, Guatemala, Peru.
Anglesea, marquis of, lord lieutenant of
Ireland, his letter to Dr. Curtis,
[149]
Annuities, loss to government from,
[71]; Mr. Finlayson's calculations, ib.
Anspach, Margravine, death of, 244
Antiquities: Roman pavement dis-
covered at Gloucester, 68; Duncan's
coffin discovered in the ruins of Elgin
cathedral, 112; a rose noble dug up
in a field, 121; examination of a
mummy, 132; American antiquities,
536
Artillery, Perkins' steam apparatus for,
529
Assizes and Sessions :--
Abingdon: S. Brinklett, killing lord
Mount Sandford, 89; G. White, mur-
der, 91
Bury St. Edmunds: J. Bullen, and
Bush, burglary, 104
Chelmsford M. Cashon and J. Brien,
robbery, 176
Cheshire S. Burgess, poisoning game,
Chester J. Clagg, murdering his wife,
113
Glasgow: A. and A. Waddell, sheriffs'
officers, false imprisonment, 184
Gloucester: J. and D. Jones, stealing
brasses from tombstones, 54; Morris
v. Davis, question of legitimacy, 109
Guildford: Dunn v. Davidge, perform-
ing regular dramas at an unlicensed
theatre, 100
Kingston: T. Irons, murder, 46
Lancaster: Jane Scott, poisoning her
mother, 40
Lindsey: Lydia Hart and Isabelle Payne,
robbery, 146
Maidstone: T. Austin, deputy treasurer
Greenwich Hospital, embezzlement,
Middlesex: H. Holine, &c. cutting off
the head of a corpse, 159; W. S.
Northhouse and W. Low, obtaining
money on false pretences, 166
Oxford G. Baker, &c. (poachers)
shooting at J. Mansel, 144
Salisbury: The King v. Seymour, 323
Shrewsbury: J. Pugh and R. Cox,
murder, 349
Taunton: R. Gillam, murder, 49
Pages 289 to 304 are erroneously Winchester: G. Harris, intent to kill,
printed 239-254
32; Moses Sheppard, murder, ib.
York: W. and J. Dyon, murder, 42;
H. Walton, ditto, 96
Old Bailey: C. Stock, stealing an ink-
stand, 7; Joseph Hunton, forgery,
143, 150
Aurora borealis, 126
Austin, Mr. T., deputy treasurer of
Greenwich Hospital, tried for embez-
zling various sums, 179
Baden: edict against secret associations,
in consequence of the rebellion of the
students at Heidelberg, [216]
Balloons: Mr. Green's ascent with his
poney, 99; M. Garnerin's ascent,
106; Mr. Robertson's ascent and ac-
cident, 123; Mrs. Graham and Mr.
Pickering's ascent, Chichester, 138
Bank notes, trial relative to the recovery
of the value of one stolen, 28
Bank notes, bill to prohibit the circula-
tion of Scotch small, [79]
Bankrupts, table of, 258
Belfast, liberation of some slaves from
a vessel, 114
Bell, Mr. C., professor of physiology,
his opening lecture at the London
University, 129
Berington, rev. J., death of, 212
Bets, action for-the case not allowed
to be brought into court, 100
Bigg, W. R., artist, death of, 221
Bills of mortality, 258
Births, list of, 191
Blasphemy, sentence of R. Taylor for,
Blind, Mr. Gall's books for the, 55
Blomfield, Dr., his confirmation as
bishop of London, 108
Boats impelled by paper kites, 96
Bolivar: his address to the convention
at Ocana, [255]; the majority of the
convention hostile to him, [258]; it
is dissolved, ib.; he is invested
with supreme power, ib.; conspiracy
against him at Bogota, [260]; punish-
ment of the conspirators, ib.; he de-
clares war against Peru, on the revo-
lution in Bolivia, [262]
Bolivia invaded by a Peruvian army,
[261]; insurrection against Bolivar,
ib.; the president returns to Colum-
bia, ib.
Bonington, artist, death of, 258
Botta's History of Italy under Napoleon,
extracts from, 466-87
Bouterwek, F., German author, death
of, 252
Bourbon, Marie Therese de, death of,
267
Bowles, rev. W. L., poetry by, 544
Bramham Park, fire at, 98
Brazil: enters into a treaty of peace
with Buenos Ayres, [250]; agreed
that Monte Video shall be an inde-
pendent state, [251]; mutiny among
the troops, [252]; ditto suppressed,
[253]; change of ministry, [254];
treaty with the Hanse towns, 421;
Don Pedro's proclamation against
Miguel's usurpation in Portugal, 429
Bridge, the new London, key-stone of
the last arch fixed, 161
British Mining Company, bill filed by
the shareholders to compel a restitu-
tion of their money, 64
Brougham, Mr., his approbation of the
battle of Navarino, [29]; objects to
the duke of Wellington as prime mi-
nister, [30]; his remarks on Mr.
Herries resignation, [58]; on Mr.
Huskisson and the new ministers,
[59]; speech in favour of the repeal
of the Test and Corporation Acts,
[95]; ditto on the constitution of the
common-law courts, [110]
Brunswick clubs formed in Ireland,
[137]
Brunswick theatre, fall of, 20
Budget, [79*]
Buonaparte, his entrance into Italy, in
1799, from 'Botta's History,' 475
Burglary in the cottage of an old wo-
man, 162
Burke, the murderer, trial of, 365
Buenos Ayres: treaty of peace with
Brazil, [250]; poverty of the state,
[254]; revolution in the government,
[255]; message of the executive to
the legislative, 431
Cameron, sir A, death of, 225
Canal, Kensington, opening of, 157
Canning, right hon. G., motion in par-
liament for a grant to his family, [72];
sir J. Macintosh's eulogium on him,
[77]
Canning, hon. W. P., son of the preced-
ing, his death, 263
Carmarthen, sir T. Picton's monument
at, 105
Carysfort, earl of, death of, 229
Caterpillars, mode of destroying, 523
Catholic Association, its hostility to-
wards the duke of Wellington, [122];
its unwarrantable assumption of pow-
er, [129]; conditions dictated to
parliamentary candidates, ib.; its
alarming organized plans for opposing
government, [131]; parochial clubs
instituted by it, [132]; their princi-
ples, ib.; Mr. Shiel's defiance of go-
vernment, [133]; Mr. Lawless sent
as the agent of the Association, to
organize the north of Ireland, [138];
resolutions adopted by the Association
to preserve tranquillity, [141]; deter-
mination to resist the disfranchise-
ment of forty-shilling freeholders,
[147]; exultation at the duke of Wel-
lington's letter to Dr. Curtis, [149];
Catholic claims, motion for a committee
on, [105]
Chemistry, discoveries in, 527
Guildhall; De Lisle v. Kay &c. shares
in Cornwall Mining Company, 169
King's-bench; Grimall v. Heaviside,
assault, 22; De la Chaumett v. Bank
of England, to recover value of a
5007. stolen note, 28; Woodward v.
Dowsing, libel, 57; Horsington v.
Beaumont, defamation, ib.; Mathews
v. Galindo, 58; Sutton and others for
illegally appointing to a cadetship in
the East India Company service,
318
Chess, match between the London and Requests; curious case between a mis-
Edinburgh clubs decided, 102
Chester, inundation at, 98
Chester, bishop of, (Dr. Sumner) his
consecration, 121
Child killed by its mother in a sudden
fit of insanity, 59
Clapperton, capt., death of, 210; his
second expedition into Africa, 495
'Clarence, duke of, Waterloo regatta
given by, 76
Clinton, governor, death of, 224
Coal-mine, explosion in, at Washington,
163
Cochineal insect, introduced into Spain,
Cochrane, lord, capture of Valdivia by,
463
Coins, 155 found in the stomach of a
man, 128
Collard, M. Royer, chosen president of
the Chamber of Deputies, [163]
Columbia: convention of the deputies
of the states at Ocana [255]; Bolivar's
address, ib.; radical defeat of the
government, ib.; feebleness of the ex-
ecutive [256]; defective constitution
of the army, ib. See Bolivar
Combination of workmen at Dobcross,
Lancashire, 153
Comet, Encke's, 157
Companies, Joint-stock, action relative
to, 64
Congreve, Sir W. death, 235
Convict, the innocence of one proved,
Corder, W. execution of, 106; trial, 337
Corn Bill, the new, [112]
Cornwall and Devon Mining Company,
action to recover money from, 169
Courts Admiralty; Smith, master of
the "Favourite," and others, homi-
cide, 3
Arches; Judgment in the Portsmouth
case, 59
Common Pleas; archbishop of Tuam v.
Morning Herald, libel, 69
Exchequer; Hall v. Longman and Co.,
libel, 11
Delpini, performer, death of, 222
Denmark, education in, 537
Docks, St. Catherine's, opening of, 139;
description of, 140
Documents, public, domestic, 386;
foreign, 397
Dogs, indictment for keeping ferocious
dogs, 67
Dog-stealers; gang of, detected, 163
Douglas, Archibald, lord, death of, 213
Dreams, instances of very remarkable
ones, 107
Drugged liquors, theft accomplished by
administering, 182
Drummond, Sir W. death, 228
Duncan, prof. A. death, 237
Earthquake at Lima, 42; at Genoa, 136
Education in France, M. de Vatismenil's
circular to the rectors of colleges,
on the subject of, [154]
Eldon lord, opposes the repeal of the
Test Act, [84]
Encke's comet, 157
Ersch, prof. death of, 215
Evidence, law of, relative to the ex-
clusion of the evidence of a woman
co-habiting with a man, 58:
Executions: J. Baker, Hambury Price,
10 J. Brown, J. Roberts, and Russell
1. Brown, 63; Jos. Hunton, Jas. Ab-
bott, J. James, and Jos. Mahony, 173
Exorcism of Devils, at Roussillon, 139
Falconry, duke of St. Alban's entertain-
ment at Redbourne, 134
Fenn, Rev. Peter, trial of, for forgery,
118
Fever, at Gibraltar, see Gibraltar.
Finance Commitee, [3]; Mr. Peel's mo-
tion on, [64]
Finance-France, [173]; United States,
Fires in Crutched Friars, 11; at Ha
savannah, 16; in Red Lion-street, 19;
the Clydesdale steam packet,65; Soho
foundry, ib.; Red Lion-street, Hol-
born, Mr. Tingle's family burnt, 74;
Mr. Sparrett's, Battersea, 77; Bram-
ham Park, 98; in the prison at
Tilsit, 103; Huntingdon-street, three
children burnt to death, 138
Firedamp, explosion of, in Flint col-
liery, 66
Flowers, method of making grow in
**** winter, 524
Fog, extraordinary, in London, 156-
Forgery, trial of rev. Peter Fenn for,
118; Joseph Hunton, quaker, 143,
150
France: the new ministry, [152]; M.
Roy, minister of finance; de Fer-
ronays, foreign office; de Martignac,
the interior; Portalis, keeper of the
seals; de Cricq, commerce, [153];
Vatismenil, grand master of the uni-
versity, [154]; his circular to the
rectors of colleges, ib.; difficulties of
the new ministry, [156]; not in
favour with the liberals, [157]; un-
popularity of the Jesuits, ib.; report
on secondary ecclesiastical schools,
[158]; king's speech, [159]; inves-
tigation as to unfair proceedings at
elections, and vacation of seats,[160];
Mousnier Buisson resigns his seat,
[161]; election for president of the
chamber of deputies, [162]; Royer
Collard chosen by the liberal in-
fluence, [163]; resignation of the two
remaining members of the late admi-
nistration, ib. ; address censuring the
late ministry, [164]; king's answer,
[165]; proposition to impeach Vil-
lèle, ib.; the motion referred to a
committee, [166]; they find ground
for the impeachment, [167]; motion
for restoring the national guard,
[168]; tumult during the debate, ib.;
bill for preventing frauds in making
up the electoral lists, [169]; bill abo-
lishing the censorship, [170]; com-
mission to investigate the Jesuit estab
lishments, which reports in their
favour, [171], but government sup-
presses them, [172]; memorial of the
clergy to the pope, against that act,
ib.; finance, [173]; trade, ib.; navy,
[174]; perplexity of the ministry
between the two parties, [175]; ad-
berents of the late administration
dismissed, and liberals admitted into
the ministry, [176]; prefects dismis-
sed in the provinces, ib.; expedition
to the Morea, ib.; murders, 186
Franklin's, capt., second journey to the
shores of the Polar Sea, 466
Gall, Mr., his books and writing ap
paratus for blind persons, 55
Gall, Dr., death of, 254
Game, poisoning of, 142
Genoa, earthquake at, 136; account of
the siege of, in 1799, from Botta's
Italy, 470
Gibraltar, fever at, 128; general Don's
proclamation relative to, 148; num-
ber of deaths, 165, 182
Gloucester, Roman pavement discovered
at, 68
Goderich, lord, view of his ministry, [1];
his letter to Mr. Herries respecting
the choice of a chairman for the
Finance Committee, [8]; resigns his
office, [11]; explains his reasons for
doing so, [34]; his vindication of his
conduct, [60]
Göckingk, von, German poet, death of,
Grantham, riot at, 9-
Greece: convention for the departure
of the Egyptian army from the Morea,
[242]; French expedition to reduce
Navarino, &c., [243]; the fortresses
surrendered by the Turks, ib.; pro-
ceedings of the government, [244];
Capo d'Istria's address, ib.; bound-
aries to be fixed, [245]
Greenock bank, robbery of, 35; trial of
Saunders for, 352
Green, Mr., thrown from his balloon,
90; ascent with his poney, 99
Grey, Sir Geo., death of, 261 1!
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