CONTENTS. xi 



CHAP. XII. 



Spain. — Weahness and Fluctuations of the Government. — Character of the 

 Kinz. — Change of Ministry . — Matrimonial Connections heticeen the Courts 

 of Spain and Portugal. — Conspiracy at Madrid. — Decree respecting Reli- 

 gious Orders. — Property of Jesuits restored. — Prisoners at Ceuta removed. 

 — Royal Nuptials — General Pardon, with great Exceptions. — Portugal : 

 its Commerce flourishing. — Brazil declared a Kingdom. — Naples. — Treaty 

 with the Piratical States. — ■Sicilian Papers excluded from Naples. — Trans- 

 actions with the United States of America. — Decree respecting the Political 

 Relations between the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily. — Rome instdted by 

 Pirates and Banditti. — Torture forbidden in the Inquisition.' — Security de- 

 clared to Purchasers of National Property. — Confiscation no longer per- 

 mitted to the Profit of the Inquisition. — Negociations of tjie Church of Rome 

 with France. — Venice. .--.-.-- [129 



CHAP. XIII. 



Germany. — Slow Progress in political Alteration. — Hanover, Annexation of 

 East Friseland, and Cession of Lauenberg. — Order of Guelph.' — Assembly 

 of States. — Prussia. — Discussions relative to Representative Government. — 

 Restrictions on the Press. — Electorate of Hesse- — Continuance of Differ- 

 ences between the King and States of JVurtemberg. — Death of the former, 

 and Acts of his Successor. — Austria, financial Plan — Death of the Em- 

 press, and Marriage of another. — Germanic Diet. — Constitution of JFei- 

 mar. — Switzerland. — Diet. — Law in Frihurg. - - - [136 



CHAP. XIV. 

 Sweden and Norway. — Denmark. — Russia. — Ionian Islands. — Turkey. [145 



CHAP. XV. 



United States of America. — Opposition to the Commercial Bill viith England. 

 — Treaties ivith the Indians. — Disputes with the Spanish Government. — 

 Decline of Manufactures. — Measures for restoring Payment in legal Cur- 

 rency. — Hostility on the Gulph of Mexico. — President's Message. [l J2 



CHAP. XVI. 



Spanish America. — Carthagena. — Caracca. — Isle of Margarita. — Buenos 

 Ay res. — Its Army defeated in Peru. —Its Fleet under Brown in the Pacific. 

 — Its Declaration of Independence. — Bolivar. — .4rmy from Brazil takes 

 possession of Montevideo. — Mexico. — Venezuela. — British West India Is- 

 lands. — Jamaica. — Insurrection in Barbadoes. — Alarm in the other Colonies. 

 — Proceedings in St. Vincent, Demurara, Barladoes' General Assembly, 

 Dominica, Jamaica, ----- -- [157 



CHAP. XVII. 



East Indies. — Renewal of Hostilities with the Nepanlese. — Actions, and 

 final Treaty. — Proceedings in Cutch. — Insurrection at Bareilly. — Irrup- 

 tion from Mahratta. — China, ------- [166 



CHRONICLE. 



