prevalence of a military spirit, fostered by long war and brilliant achievements. As the depriving of Buonaparte of that sovereignty which he had. wielded to the hazard and disturbance of all the neighbouring states was the great object of the powerful confederacy formed against him, it was not to be expected that its recovery, by means which proved the remaining force of that engine of which he was still the absolute master, would be acquiesced in ; and the instant declaration of the allied sovereigns, that they were firmly resolved to employ every effort for the defeat of his unwarrantable enterprise, announced an impending conflict which no pacific negociation could terminate. The extraordinary events of this new revolution, of which the immediate success was not less wonderful than its sudden extinction, have afforded subjects for narrative rendering the present year in some respects more dramatically interesting, if the expression may be allowed, than any which have preceded it in the long course of political contention. Its rapid changes, and the memorable battle which at once overthrew an imperial throne, and consigned its possessor to perpetual imprisonment on a rock in the midst of a distant ocean, were incidents singularly adapted to work upon the universal passion for wonder and novelty. The termination of the contest would have been more satisfactory had the restored monarchy of France been able to support itself by the attachment of the people under its sceptre; but the means by which its restoration was effected, and the severe humiliation to which the French nation was reduced by a complete subjection to foreign powers, have infused such a spirit of disaffection, that the continued occupation of its frontier towns by the allied troops has been judged indispensable for the security of the Bourbon throne. This necessity has not only imposed a heavy burthen upon France, and aggravated the public discontents, but has obliged the Allied Powers to keep up their military establishments to a point inconsistent with that pacific character which it might have been hoped that all Europe would have hastened to assume after its long and destructive wars. Great Britain, which has so often been looked to for the supply of those pecupiary resources, in which the other members of the confederacies into which she has entered were deficient, after having borne a disproportionate share of the vast expenses incurred by the operations of war, has found it expedient to retain a standing army of a magnitude wholly unparalleled in any former period of nominal peace. This measure, the necessity for which is ascribed partly to the unsettled state of France, and partly by the additions made by conquest to the British Empire, has effectually prevented any alleviation of the public burthens during the present year, or the immediate prospect of it for futurity. The martial glory to which the nation has been raised by the exertions of its brave progeny at Waterloo, will render this year a memorable era in its military history; CONTENTS. Parliamentary Transactions-Debate relative to delivering up Spaniards from 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 Prince Regent's Message on the landing of Buonaparte in France: Address and Debates.-Lord Wellesley's Motion respecting the Escape of Buona- parte from Elba, and Debates ou the subject.-Discussion of the Treaty with America.-Motions and Debates respecting the Transfer of Genoa to the King of Sardinia.—Mr. Whitbread's Motion for an Address against a at Waterloo.-Message respecting the Duke of Cumberland's Marriage, and CHAP. VI. [50 France.-State of Parties.-Unpopularity of the Bourbon Government.-Land- CHAP. VII. [55 Proceedings of Joachim Murat, King of Naples.-His peculiar Situation.— CHAP. VIII. Russian and Austrian Troops arrive on the Borders.—Their advance.—The |