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Chronicle of Events. 



21. Captain Back sailed from Chatham 

 in command of His Majesty's ship Terror, 

 on an exploring expedition to Wager 

 River. 



22. Trial in the Court of Common Pleas, 

 in which Lord Melbourne was defendant, 

 and Mr. Norton, one of the police magis- 

 trates of the metropolis, plaintiff. The 

 trial related to alleged criminalities be- 

 tween Lord Melbourne and Mrs. Norton. 

 The jury, without hesitation, found a ver- 

 dict for the defendant. 



23. Death of James Mill, the historian of 

 British India, and the political economist. 



25. Louis Alibaud fired at the King of 

 the French, with a walking-stick gun, as 

 the King was passing in his carriage from 

 the Tuileries. No injury was done, the 

 ball lodging in the roof of the carriage. 

 Alibaud was tried by the Court of Peers 

 on the 8th of July> and guillotined on the 

 llth. 



30. Death of James Madison, one of 

 the leading men of the United States in 

 the infancy of the republic. He succeeded 

 Jefferson in the presidency. 



July 24. Armand Carrel, editor of the 

 K National," and one of the political writers 

 who were conspicuous in the Revolution 

 at Paris in 1830, killed in a duel with 

 the editor of " La Presse." His remains 

 received a public funeral, at which men of 

 such opposite sentiments asChateaubriand, 

 Arago,Lafitte,and Beranger, were present. 

 25. On the evening of the festival of St. 

 Jago, the patron of Malaga, after the day 

 had been spent in festivity, the national 

 guard of Malaga revolted, and put to death 

 their governors. The Spanish Constitu- 

 tion of 1812 was afterwards proclaimed. 

 The Constitution was also proclaimed in 

 Cadiz, Seville, and other towns. 



28. Death of N.M.Rothschild, the lead- 

 ing stock-broker of Europe, at Frauckfort 

 His remains were brought to London for 

 interment in the Jews' burial-ground 

 Whitechapel-road . 



August 3. Considerable excitement in 

 Madrid, in consequence of the intelligence 

 respecting the proclaiming of the Consti- 

 tution of 1812 in Malaga, Cadiz, &c 

 Madrid declared in a state of siege. Ge- 

 neral Quesada, the captain-general o 

 Madrid, gave assurances to the Queen 

 Regent, who was residing at St. Ildefonso 

 that he would answer for the tranquillity 

 of the capital. 



12. The regiment of provincial militia 

 doing duty at St. Ildefonso broke out into 

 a sudden insurrection, demanding thi 

 Constitution of 1812. They forced them 

 selves into the apartments of the Queen 

 Regent, in spite of the remonstrances o 



he French and English ambassadors, and 

 )btained her acceptance of the Consti- 

 ution. This produced a revolution at 

 Madrid. Isturitz, the prime minister, 

 made his escape, reached Lisbon, and from 

 hence proceeded to England. General 

 Quesada was taken by the populace about 

 ;hree miles from Madrid, and put to death 

 n a savage manner. Ultimately the Con- 

 stitution was proclaimed by the Queen 

 Elegent, subject to the revision of the 

 fortes ; and a new ministry was formed, at 

 :he head of which was placed M. Cala- 

 ;rava, as president of the council, and M. 

 Vlendizabal was appointed minister of 

 i nance. 



22. The annual meeting of the " British 

 Association for the Advancement of 

 Science" commenced at Bristol. The 

 Marquis of Lansdowne, who was to have 

 presided, was prevented by the illness and 

 death of his eldest son, the Earl of Kerry. 

 The chair of the meeting was filled by the 

 Marquis of Northampton, and upwards of 

 1300 scientific and literary characters were 

 present during the week's proceedings. 



September 7 . Formation of a new French 

 ministry in the room of M. Thiers and his 

 colleagues, who had resigned in conse- 

 quence of Louis Philippe's refusal to com- 

 ply with the ex-minister's interpretation 

 of the obligations of the Quadruple Treaty 

 and to send a force into Spain. M. Mole 

 was made president of the council, and 

 M. Guizot minister of public instruction. 



9. Sudden outbreak at Lisbon, and de- 

 mand made of assent to the Portuguese 

 Constitution of 1820. The queen, Donna 

 Maria, accepted the Constitution, and the 

 revolution was got over without blood- 

 shed. But the change has not been cor- 

 dially acquiesced in. A number of the 

 peers protested against it, the husband of 

 the Queen resigned his military command, 

 and there are various indications of rest- 

 lessness in Lisbon. A British naval 

 squadron is stationed in the Tagus. 



22. Opening of the Session of the pro- 

 vincial Parliament of Lower Canada, by 

 the Earl of Gosford, the Governor-in- 

 Chief. It was shortly afterwards dis- 

 solved, in consequence of the spirit of op- 

 position manifested by the members. 



23. Madame Malibran de Beriot, the ce- 

 lebrated singer, who had been taken ill on 

 the 14th, during one of her performances 

 at the Manchester musical festival, died 

 this day, aged twenty- eight. 



26. The duke de Montebello, French 

 ambassador in Switzerland, delivered to 

 the Federal Diet an official note, inti- 

 mating that all relations, diplomatic and 

 commercial, were suspended, until satis- 



