viii CONTENTS. 



CHAP. V. 



Mr. Vansittart's new Plan of Fimnce.^BUl for Abolishing Sinecure Offices re- 

 jected [42 



CHAP. VI. 



BUI on the Weymouth and Melcomhe Regis Election. — Bill for the better Pro- 

 vision of Stipendiary Curates. — Bill for the better Regulatian of Ecclesias- 

 tical Courts in England.— Bill for the Belief of Persons impugning the Doctrine 

 of the Trinity. . , . . , [48 



CHAP. VII. 



Proceedings in Parliament respecting the B£newal of the Charter of the East 

 India Company. .......... [58 



CHAP. VIII. 



The Budget, English and Iri^h. . ... . . . .. . [66 



CHAP. IX. 



Debate in loth Houses on the Swedish Treaty. — Discussion in the House of Com- 

 mons rejecting Orange Lodges in England. — Vote of Credit. — Prorogation of 

 Parliament, and Prince Regent's Speech [85 



CHAP. X. 



Domestic Occurrences. — Termination of internal Dhorders. — Public Interest in the 

 Transactions respecting the Princess of Wales.— Affairs of the Roman Catholics — 

 Orange Societies in England.— Bible Associations.— East India new Charter.— 

 Reduction of the Price of Provisions [98 



CHAP. XI. 



'Naval Occurrences.— Loss of the Java.— Engagement between the Amelia and a 

 French Frigate.— Capture of a Flotilla on the Coast of Calabria.— Capture of 

 the Isle of Penza.— Loss of the Peacock Sloop.— Capture of a Convoy on the 

 Dalmatian Coast.— Successes in the Bay of Chesapeake.— Loss of the Vimejo.— 

 Capture of the Chesapeake Frigate by the^ Shannon.— Capture of the Annaconda, 

 and the Islands of Ocracoke and Portsmouth. — Capture of Fiume,— Success q.t 

 Cassis. — Capture of the American Sloop Argjis.— Success in the Gulf of Cataro. 

 -—Capture of Le Weser and La Trave.— Reduction of Batteries at Cur- 

 haven, Sfc, . - [-105 



