THE 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
For the Year 1815. 
GENERAL 
HISTORY. 
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CHAPTER I. 
Parliamentary Transactions.— Debate relative to delivering up Spaniards 
Jrom Gibraltar.—Debate on keeping Militia embodied.— Transfer of 
Genoa to the King of Sardinia.—Proceedings on the Corn Laws.— 
Trial by Jury in civil causes in Scotland.—Motion for a Committee 
of Inquiry respecting the Bank of England.—Continuation of the 
Bank Restriction Act.—Arrest of lord Cochrane in the House of 
Commons. 
N Feb. 9th the two Houses 
of parliament met again af- 
ter their adjournment. 
One of the first topics of dis- 
cussion by which the public feel- 
ings were interested, related to 
the delivering up, by the lieute- 
nant - governor of Gibraltar, of 
some Spaniards from Cadiz, who 
had taken refuge in that fortress 
from the persecution of the Spa- 
nish government. This circum- 
stance was much animadverted 
upon, both in writing and conver- 
sation, during the last year, and 
was the subject of a motion in 
parliament ; but the expectation 
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of seeing it brought to a future 
discussion was the cause that no 
notice was then taken of it in this 
work. The following is a brief 
statement of the case:—Don An- 
tonio Puigblanc, Hebrew profes- 
sor in the university of Alcala, 
having written against the Inqui- 
sition, determined, after the re- 
sumption of the crown by Ferdi- 
nand 7th, to seek a refuge in 
Gibraltar. For this purpose he 
procured a passport on May 14, 
1814, from the governor of Ca- 
diz, which was countersigned by 
sir James Duff, the British con- 
sul, and by virtue of it, he, witha 
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