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"The Jamaica papers of the 16. of September say, in a letter from Lucca :

rately. The white people will not sub-fon their own resources by giving, or ramit, nor can it be expected of them, to ther being made to give, a fair equiva Orders in Council or out of Council: lent in labour as an exchange for all they can interpret the law almost as those indulgences. On Sunday they well as the attorney-general, and cannot may be seen lying down about the works but feel mortified and angry at any mis- like hogs, and nearly as filthy. constructions of it to their prejudice, which may have received the sanction of the highest authorities in the island. Sept. 13. It is with deep regret "There seems daily stronger cause we have to announce, that in many dis-to fear that insurmountable difficulty tricts of the country a most alarming will attend the taking off the expected and nd dangerous spirit of sulkiness and crop, On one of the best-conducted insubordination has been manifested by estates in this district, having a steamthe new apprentices; and it is feared, engine at work, they cut canes for plants, with fair reason for the suspicion, that and begin to make sugar with the buts. there are some evil instigators amongst Last week, as soon as the shell was them sowing the seeds of discord and blown for the field gang to take their discontent. An intelligent correspon- dinner time, the whole spell gang drew dent from Morant Bay on this subject off, leaving the engine, coppers, &c. &c., observes: I cannot conceive what has to work by themselves, and no persua thus influenced the people in this quar- sion could induce the people about the ter. At first they were genery orderly works to resume their duty at the works and thankful. Some demon of discord until their time for shell blow to turn has got amongst them, which, if so, out had expired. It is notorious that trust he will soon be discovered and the apprentices on this estate have been emple of, or when crop com-under most regular and humane treat pt ten hogsheads of sugar will ment: and it is currently rumoured that be made, where formerly two hundred the general feeling of the apprentices is were. If such conduct had been mani- not to work, or keep spell beyond the fested by the apprentices on the first or hours they may be compelled by law,, even second week of August, much al-even if a reasonable rate of wages lowance might have been made, but not be offered them. at this late period; the more especially "An experienced planter in St. Ann's, so as almost all the apprentices who under the date of the 17. inst., writes have thus misconducted themselves have us- The apprentices in this parish are not only had the law and various pro-daily becoming more insolent and lazy; clamations explained to them by their so much so that a great change for the masters, but by the special justice, and better or worse must soon take place. they admitted they thoroughly under-They are not earning fivepence per diem. stood them, and the change they were This the master cannot stand. From to undergo, and they now take every Hanover our correspondent writes: It opportunity to tell their new masters in is really laughable to find people the field, We know the new law as awakening from their reveries, and dis well as buckra, and the new law we covering that the apprentices are not will have, and not be imposed on any likely to work at all except in the hours. longer by buckra.' Their daily or which the law prescribes. weekly labour is not even a tithe of "At a plantation called Belvidere, the what they heretofore did; and it is per-property of Mr. Cuthbert, the appren fectly clear that the most of them, if tices struck work: and upon the ar only coerced by admonition and left to rival of the special magistrate and a themselves, will do no one thing so long body of the police on the estate, they as they are entitled to the maintenance hooted and pelted the magistrate, and they now enjoy from their masters, and set fire to two trash-houses, which were they never will do so again until thrown burnt to the ground.

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siqooq suidw T vision In the Gazette is the following ac-with regard to the characters of all the mad to betonqas di na yon count of the ebullition: wodel actors now upon the stage; it is neces"We have been informed that the sary for him to read this book, which fire on Belvidere was happily got under clearly develops hall the proximate at about eight o'clock at night, and causes of the present difficulties, enbarthat the police force and a militia guard rassments, discontents, and dangers. It were stationed on the property during embraces the most interesting period of last night. The apprentices attempted the history of our country; it takes a to rescue the prisoners, but were re-look back too; it shows us how we pulsed. The cause of this affair is said have been brought down and plunged to be this: the stipendiary inagistrate into that deini confusion which now had visited the estate on the day above-reigns throughout the kingdom; it prenained, and had ordered several of the sents to young men especially the means apprentices who liad been guilty of mis- of clearly understanding, that without demeanour to receive corporal punish-a knowledge of which they cannot well ment on the estate. It had been stated know what they now ought to think and to Mr. Lyon, in the early part of the ought to do. In order to give the pubmorning, that the people on the estate lic as full a description as I can of the were extremely unruly, in consequence contents of this book, I shall here insert of which he ordered the police force to the CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE, which is be on the property, and when the pu- published at the end of it, the perusal of nishment was to be inflicted on the dea which Table will show the readers of linquents a body of them prevented the this how various and how interesting order of the magistrate froin being car- the matters are which are contained in ried into effect. Immediately Mr. Lyon these two little volumes. odqur n had left the property a messenger was sent to him, stating that the apprentices had set fire to the work. On beings and interp informed of this, Mr. Lyon applied to GEORGE IV. born. Pomp 201-innatud 1762. dog!! another magistrate at Morant Bay, to turn out the militia, but that gentle man thinking he had not the power, applied the clerk of the peace for advice, who informed him that the

senior officer on the Bay could order out War against the French Republic began. the companies, that were the

order was therefore given, and two

companies, with the constabulary force, Prince's marriage

mounted on horseback, proceeded to Prince's enormous debts paid a second Belvidere, where they apprehended

the ring-leaders. These men were

marched off to Morant Bay jail, al

though an attempt was made to rescue Princess Charlotte born

ban ond them by their fellow-apprentices; who Separation of the prince from his wife. were with difficulty repressed, even at

the point of the bayonet."

HISTORY OF GEORGE THE
FOURTH.

It is necessary for every one, who
ishes to be able to form a sound judg
vho Whig
ent of what is now going to happen,

nd especially to form a sound judgment Report of the bullion committee.

Cobbett's punishment for writing against THE BOOK published in London. -the flogging of English local militia The city of London, on the motion of men at Ely, under a guard of Hano- Mr. Alderman Wood, address the verian bayonets. princess, and carry and present the address at Kensington Palace. The secretary of state (Sidmouth) refused to publish the address in the London Gazette.

Sackings and burnings at the town of
Hampton, in Virginia.
Burning of the city of Washington.***y
President's appeal to the people.
Attempt of the English to take Baltimore
Ross, the English general, killed by an
American boy. *

English driven from before Baltimore and
compelled to bear out to sea.
Unparalleled valour of the crew of the
American privateer, the General Arm-
strong.

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

Battle of Sandusky, where a handful of
Americans repulsed and routed an
English army.

Treaty of peace, 24. December. And the =treaty at full length. The conduct of

the English government in proclaiming this peace..

1815.

eturn of Napoleon from Elba, and the
causes of it.

Light of the old battered Bourbons to
Ghent.

Declaration of the allies against Napoleon.
rince Regent's message to parliament for
war against Napoleon.

roceedings in parliament relative to the

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rals 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. (April.) The killing of the American prisoners of war in Dartmoor prison. Complaints about taxes, and numerous The parliament passes a corn-bill, to keep meetings for a repeal of them. up the price of corn.

1816.

An address attempted to be got up at Maidstone: the people about to throw the addressers into the Medway.

1817.

Marriage of the princess Charlotte.
REFORM again raises its head.
Dungeon law and gagging laws passed.
Reformers put into dungeons by Sid-
mouth. Their dreadful sufferings.

1819.

war against Napoleon. Ever-memora- Dreadful slaughter of reformers at Man

ble debates.

Battle of Waterloo.

Japoleon at Plymouth.

Tapoleon sent to St. Helena.

reaty of Paris, 20. November.
he killing of Marshal Ney.
eizure of the museuns at Paris.
arious letters of Castlereagh and Wel-
lington on this subject.

astlereagh, on his arrival from Paris,
received by the House of Cominons,
the members all rising up, standing
uncovered, and clapping their hands.
ninense grants of public money to Wel-
lington.

he nation begins to find that it has a reckoning to pay, and sadness succeeds joy. be effects of a diminution of the quantity of paper-money.

rious victory (8. January) at New Orleans, gained by the American General Jackson, over the English army (seven times his number), under Gene

chester.

PEEL's BILL passed.

History of the Bank-restriction" from

its commencement in 1797 to 1819. 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.

SIX ACTS passed. Opposed by the
Whigs, but not repealed by them.

1820..

Thistlewood, Ings, Brunt, and Tidd, executed for having formed a plot to kill the ministers. Their defence; their unequalled bravery.

Napoleon's death.
George III. died in January.

tonot positively asserted, that she would not quit the country, and beseeching

Queen Caroline's strange conduct in bother to make such assertion, in a public

hastening to England.

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,
and comes off to England with all pos-
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.

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

A negotiation carried on to get her out of the country, by Wellington and Castlereagh 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.

She makes the assertion, which he was so anxious to see. Ngong

Cobbett's motives for acting this part.
Nature and tendency of the advice which
he. gave the queen

The queen having come to this resolution,
the prosecution of her was resolved on,
and the Bill of Pains and Penalties
brought into the House of Lords.
The Bill of Pains and Penalties itself,
All England thrown into a ferment by the
promulgation of this bill.

The Bill read a first tinie' on the 6. of

July, and the trial (or second reading) put off to 17. August.

The bold proceedings of the press and the people during the interval, and the state of complete seclusion in which the king thought it, prudent to live The outeries against him: the odiuu brought upon him.

The SECOND READING of the Bill of
Pains and Peualties.

The

proceedings against the queer opened by the attorney-general Gif ford.

Great surprise and indignation and suspi-"Peep at the Peers" published.
cions and murmurings excited amongst
the people, by her having consented to
go on any terms.

"Letter of the Queen to the King" pub
lished.

Cobbett's private letter to her on the subject, depicting the certain ruin to her which must arise from consenting to go, on any terms.

The House of Commons now address her

with a view of getting her out of the country.

Cobbett's private letter to her, advising
her to reject the advice tendered to her
by the House; the answer which he
advised her to give to that address.
The deputation of the Commons wait on
her with the address.

She rejects the answer proposed to her by
Brougham.

Her answer.
Cobbett's private letter to her, expressing
the sorrow of the people that she had

Prodigious circulation and prodigious effect of these publications.

The witnesses against the queen (26 in number), Swiss, Germans, and Italiane, hunted out of England by the people. and shipped off to Holland by the go

vernment.

Brought back by water in an armed vesse

and landed near the Parliament Housi in a sort of fortress, from which the were conducted into the House Lords by a subterraneous passage. London surrounded by troops and cannes the streets barricaded, soldiers and p

licemen stationed everywhere..
The attorney-general's opening speech..
Cobbett's answer to that speech...
Effect of these on the minds of the peopl
Total discredit thrown on the witnesses