1824.] • Chronology of Ihe Month. 273 



constitiition, in wliat respects the rights of caused it ceases; in either case, there Is (o 



iiulividiials, except in th<' cases and cir- be presented to the Assembly on its 



i-innstancps speci.'ied in the next section, meeting, a report on all the iiiipiisonnients 



35. In cases of rehtllion or of hostile inva- and grounds of arrest, and other precaii- 



MOD, and the safety of the state requiring tionary measures, wliicli may have been 



tjiat some of t!ie forms v^liich guarantee taken. Whatever authorities may have 



personal liberty should be dispensed x«ith ordered those measures, shall be held 



tor a certain time, the same may be done responsible for the abuses which may have 



by a special act of the legislature. If, 

 liowever, the lei;islature should not at this 

 time be assembled, the government may, 

 the danger of the country being itnuiinent, 

 exercise this precaution as a provisional 

 and indispensable measure, to be immedi- 

 ately suspended when the necessity which 



taken place. 



'J'lie ttffairs of Peru liavo been ren- 

 dered critical, Jjiit IJolivar is now 

 clothed with r,uprctiie power, and the 

 establishment of a Kepubiicui govern- 

 meat is confidently nnticipjited. 



INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS, in and near LONDON, 

 With Biographicul 3Temoirs of dlsiuiguished Characters recmtuj dtccascd. 

 CHRONOLOGY OF THE MONTH. fop the relief of persons siifleriiig by 



f7EB. 21. — ^Statue of the late Dnke of shipwreck. 



Kent opened to the public at the top 

 of Portland-place. 



21. — Mr. Williams, m.p. for Lincoln, in 

 an able speech, renewed his motion in the 

 Ho«5e of Commons for inquiring into the 



-The Court of Common Council re- 

 Solved to petition the House of Commons 

 to repeal the house and window duties. 



— . — A numerously attended meeting 

 held at Freemasons' 'ravern, — Sir Josepli 



delays and expenses of the Court of CIxmii- Yorke in the chair, — to aid the subscrip- 



cery. The motion was withdrawn, on tlie tion for a moni!n:cnt to the memory of 



nnderstanding that a Commission would Charles Dibdin. Many of his celebrated 



be appointed by the crown for the purpose, songs were snug: 4:)0/. were subscribed. 



— . — News received that hostilities had Alas! poor Dibdin, who died in indigence, 



commenced wilii Algiers. is now beyond the reach of these conipli- 



26.- — Evtmsive warehouses, belonging ments and contributions. Gratitude tlius 



to Messrs. Pickford and Co. adjoining the exerted towards men ifi the tomb seems 



Kegenl's Canal, City-road, with property 

 to the amount of o0,000i. destroyed by 

 fire. 



— . — " Olive, princess of Cumber- 

 land," petitioned the House of Connnous 

 <br investigation of her claims. 



■27. — Old Bailey sessions ended, when 



merely to be an indulgence of vanity on 

 the part of those who exerted. Let us be- 

 hold a great national society, whose object 

 it shall be to protect living merit and ge- 

 nius from sutfering and mi'-ery ! 



to. — The ninth annivcr.sary of Covent- 

 garden Theatrical Fund celebrated at 



twenty-three prisoners were sentenced to the Freemasons' Tavern ; the Dnke of 

 death ; one to transportation for life ; one York in the chair. Upwards of 2.50 noble- 



for fbnrtcen, and thirty. seven for seven, 

 years ; lifty-nine others were sentenced to 

 minor punishments. 



March 2. — Violent winds did consider- 

 able injury in London, by blowing down 

 chimneys, tiles, &c. Disastrous accounts 



men and gentlemen weie present. The 

 contributions amounted to l-iSOl. 10s. 



12. — The inhabitants of the parish of St. 

 Anne, Soho, petitioned the Ploase of Com- 

 mons for an abatement of taxation and 

 abolition of the .Sinking Fund. The peti- 



received at Lloyd's of shipwrecks and loss tioners complained tliat four njillions were 



of lives on the ea.stern coast. annually extorted from the industrious 



— .—A meeting took place at the East English people, not for the benefit of the 



India House, to take into consideration people of Ireland, but to be wastefully ex- 



tlie meritorious services of the Marquis of ponded in Irish places, pensions, patron 



age, and jobs. 'I'hey therefore prayed, 

 that these four millions and the Sinking 

 Fund might be used iu the remission of 

 taxes. 



15. — Hie first pile of the new London- 

 eat 



Hastings. Alter considerable discussion, 

 a motion was carried for the production of 

 certain correspondence and documents, to 

 enable the Court to judge of the propriety 

 of making a further grant. 



— . — The Society of Ancient Britons bridge sunk, in the presence of a 



celebrated their ItOth anniversary. Col- number of spectators. 



lections for the support of their schools MAIiRIFD. 



were con-iderahle. At Wandsworth, Louis Kaan, esq. of 



4. — \ publi<: meeting of numerous and Vienna, to Frieda, daughter of M. D. 



dixtingnished characters took place at the Getting, esq. of East hill, Wandsworth. 



Ctty.of-London Tavern; the Archbishop Mr, James Lane, of Old Burlington- 



of Canterbury in the chair. It was re- street, to Miss Anne Musters, of Nether- 



liolvcd to establish a national institution cote, WarviickMiiie. 



T. C. 



