S60 
"Laon, battles there, 37 ?« 
Larceny, alteration in the law refpecling, 
174, 246. 
Lauderdale, earl of, an unfuccefsful candi¬ 
date for iheriff, 128. 
Laurel frigate wrecked, 312. 
Laurence, lord-mayor of London, his ex¬ 
cellent behaviour during the plague, 
SO. 
Leadenball-ftreet, 451; market, 452, 3. 
Leary accufed of murder, 365; executed, 
366. 
Leatherfellers’ hall, 455; alms-houfes, 4835 
company, 606. 
Lcicefter-fquare, 570. 
Leipfic, 3465 battles there, 347, 8. 
Liberty of the prefs, reftridtions on in 
France, 234; in England, 246; in India, 
247. 
Life-annuities on government fecurity, 
^ 7 3 > 4 * 
Lime-ftreet ward, 594. 
Lincoln’s Inn and fquare, 524; ornaments 
propofed, 525. 
Lion’s Inn, 526. 
Little Britain, 4S6. 
Livery of London, a particular privilege of, 
97; not allowed to prefent petitions to 
the king on the throne, 12"; their pe¬ 
titions refufed even at the levee, 239 ; 
lift of the companies, 601 — 15. 
Local militia bill, 174. 
Lollards’ tower, 405. 
Lombard-ftreet, and Lombards, 467, 8. 
London, compared wirh other cities, 49, 
50; different approaches to, ibid; par¬ 
tial introfpedlion of, 51; fituation and 
extent, 49, 53; its fancied form, 53; 
historical annals, 54-396. In the time of 
the Romans, 55 ; the Saxons, 55, 6 5 ha- 
raffed by the Danes, 57 ; conquered by 
khesa, 58 ; under the Normans, 59 ; fup- 
plied with water, 64; divided into wards, 
<5 ; partially lighted, 67 ; fuppofed to be 
too full of houfes and people, 83 ; pre¬ 
parations to refill the Spaniffi armada, 84; 
fortified, 88 ; difmantled, 89 , attive in 
reftoring the king, 89 ; the great plague, 
followed and extinguifhed by the great 
fire, 50, 91; its charter feized, 92, re- 
ixorcd, and all rights confirmed, 93, 4; 
the ftreets lighted, 96 ; infulted by fir 
.Robert Walpole, 96 ; difpleafed with the 
peace of Paris, 108; American war, 114; 
Correfponding Societies, 125; income, 
I Jo ; aodrefles the king upon the change 
of the miniftry, 357; addreffes the du- 
chefs of Brunfwick, on her arrival in this 
country, 158; commercial fpeculations, 
164, 170; fpirited refolutions on the fub- 
jedt of corruptions in the ftate, 212 ; de- 
' feated in an adtion againft the London- 
Dock Company, 215 ; addrefs to the 
prince regent, 245 ; to the princefs, 361, 
a ; addrefs and feaft on the reftoration of 
the houfe of Orange, 370 ; rejoicings on 
the downfall on Bonaparte, 384. Build¬ 
ings, ftreets, &c. 396—591. Entertains 
the prince-regent, emperor of Ruftia, 
king of Pruffia, &c. 473—476; civil go¬ 
vernment, 591; wards, 593; police-of¬ 
fices, 597 ; military government, 598 ; 
ccciefialtical government, 599; livery 
companies, 601 ; lord-mayors, and price 
of bread, for th» left 80 years, 616. 
London-bridge, hiftory of, 101, 2, 3. 
London coffee-houfe, 52; tavern, 455. 
London hofpital, 450 ; houfe, 487, 
London-ftone, 427, 8. 
London-Wall, 55, 481, 
LONDON, 
Lord-mayor, his office and dignity, 59*5 
court, 596. 
Lord-mayor’s ffiow, by water, 69, 70 ; by 
land, 592. 
Loriners’ company, 612. 
Lothbury, etymology of, 479. 
Lotteries firft inftituted in London, Si 5 
arguments for and againft them, 211. 
Louis, fon of Philip king of France, 63. 
Louis XVIII. king of France, arrives in 
England, 158 ; ilfues a proclamation, 
323 ; his affairs wear a favourable afpeft, 
• 377 , 381; called to the throne upon 
certain conditions, 382 ; makes his pub¬ 
lic entry into London, 38S ; goes to 
France, 389; makes his public entry 
into Paris, 390. 
Louis king of Holland, his abdication, 233. 
Louifa queen of Spain, her infamous cha- 
radter, 177. 
Louifa-Maria, emprefs of France, 232; her 
departure from Paris, 381 ; iuchefs of 
Parma, &c. 388. 
Luddites, 273. 
Ludgate-ftreet, formerly Bowyer-row, 51 ; 
the prifon, 84, 502 ; the gate, 104. 
Lunardi, the fiift aerial navigator in Eng¬ 
land, 138, 19. 
Lutzen, battle of, 338. 
Luxury, regulations to reftrain, 77, 8. 
Lying-in holpital, 460. 
Mac Mahon, his appointment of paymafter 
of widows’ penfions, 276 ; his difappoint- 
ment, 277; private fecretary to the 
prince-regent, 283; the falary agreed to 
be paid by the prince, 284. 
Macedonian frigate taken by the Americans, 
307. 
Madrid taken by the French, 183,4; by 
the Englifti, 302 ; recovered by the 
French, 303; again abandoned by them, 
352. 
Malaga, fruitlefs attempt upon by lord 
Blancy, 225. 
Magdalen-hofpital, 515. 
Manchefter-fquare, 578. 
Manilla frigate loft in the Texel, 312. 
Mansfield, earl, his monument, 553. 
Manfion-houfe, 465. 
Margaret Douglas, her tomb, 556. 
Marine Society, 455. 
Mark-lane, or Mart-lane, and the coin- 
market, 437. 
Marlborough-houfe, 572. 
Marmont defeated and wounded at Sala¬ 
manca, 302 5 his propofal faves Paris, 
381 ; his ftipulation in favour of Bona¬ 
parte, 382. 
Marr and family murdered, 273, 4. 
Marlhalfea prifon and court, 512. 
Martinique, infurredtion there, 262. 
Mary queen of England, charadter of her 
reign, 79. 
Mary queen of Scots, 556. 
Marybone, whence derived, 576; church, 
5765 workhoufe, 577; gardens, 577; 
park, 577, 8, 9. 
Mafons’ hall, 480; company, 608. 
Mafquerades, firft appearance in I.ondon, 
7 *; 
Mafl'ena takes Ciudad Rodrigo, 226, 7, and 
Almeida, 227; his ftraitened fituation, 
129; retreats from Santarem, defeated 
at Fuentes d’Honor, and abandons Al¬ 
meida, 254. 
Maura, St. ifte of, taken, 237. 
Mauritius taken from the French, 237. 
Maury, cardinal, 383. 
May-fair, Berkeley-fquare, 576, 
May-games, 72, 3. 
Maynooth-csllege, 175. 
Mayor of London, 6 j j firft chofen anny* 
ally, 62; made a privy.counfellor, yj, 
Mecklenburgh-fquare, 589. 
Medellen, battle of, 190. 
Mellitus, bi/hop of the Eaft Saxons, 55, 65 
diredled to confecrate Weftminfter-abbey,. 
but St. Peter faves him the trouble, 
543 - 
Menageries, why appended to palaces, 
438, 9. 
Merchant Taylors’company, 68, 9; fchool, 
428; hall and arms, 605. 
Mercers’ hall and chapel, 470; company, 
their charities and arms, 6oz. 
Merinos, French ftore-lhip taken, 311. 
Mermaid in Eaftcheap, 430. 
Mews, or ftables, 563. 
Middle-row might eafily be fpared, ?8q. 
Middlefex-hofpital, 581. 
Mincing or Mincheon lane, 437. 
Minories, whence fo named, 438. 
Mint, on Tower-hill, 443, 4 ; Southwark; 
512. 
Miranda’s expedition to Spaniftj America, 
162, 3. 
Mohn Oodheen, Tippoo’s fon, kills him- 
felf, 264. 
Moguer taken by the Spaniards and Englift, 
225. 
Monkwell-ftreet, 483. 
Monfieur, count d’Artois, brother to Louis 
XVIII. his proclamation upon entering 
France, 377; makes his public entry 
into Paris, 386. 
Monfter, 121. 
Montague clofe, 508. 
Monte Video taken by ftorm, 164, 
Monument, 431, 2. 
Moore, Sir John, fent into Spain, 182.; 
obliged to retreat, 188; killed, 189. 
Moorfields, 462 ; Little, 481. 
Moorgate, 105. 
Morand, and his whole corps, taken by the 
Ruffians, 337. 
Moreau comes from America to ferve 
againft France, 344 ; killed, 345 ; re- 
fledlions on his condudl, ib. 
Mofcow, 2905 taken by the French and 
burnt by the Ruffians, 297. 
Mofqua, or Borodino, battle of, 297. 
Murder, by the Scotch law, 394; (hocking 
murders, 273, 4; 318, 363, 4, 5 ; by 
miftake, 318, 19. 
Murray, Sir John, his failure before Tar¬ 
ragona, 354. 
Murviedro taken by Suchet, 257. 
Mufeum, European, 5715 Bullock’s, 573.; 
Britiffi, 582. 
Muficians’ company, 6it. 
Napier, Capt. deftroys a flotilla on the eoaft 
of Calabria, 266. 
National debt and public revenue, 360,373. 
Needle-makers’ company, 613. 
Nelfon fends the fword of the French ad¬ 
miral as a prefent to the city, 128; killed 
at the battle of Trafalgar, his monument 
and funeral proceffion, 133-6. 
Nennius, duke of Locria, 105. 
New Exchange, or Britain’s Burfe, 538. 
New River, ceremonies at the completion 
of it, 85 ; office of, 522. 
Newgate, 105,6; foundation of the new 
prifon of Newgate, no; burnt down, 
115; prefent ftate of, 373, 502. 
Newgate-market, and its avenues, to pay 
toll to the city, 107 ; prefent ftate, 493. 
Newgate-ftreet, and the worfted-ihops, 501. 
Newington-caufeway, 513, 
Newland, Abraham, 158. 
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