EDINBURGH ANNUAL REGISTER, FOR 1817. VOL. TENTH.-PARTS I. AND II. TRANSFERRED TO EDINBURGH: Printed by Names Ballantyne and Co. FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO., EDINBURGH; 1821. E2 1817 CONTENTS. General Aspect of the Times. Commercial Distress, and its Causes. Discontent. Views of the Democratic Writers. Radical Reform. the British Constitution at the time of the Revolution, and at present. Royal Au- MEASURES RELATIVE TO PUBLIC DISTURBANCES. Prince Regent's Message to the two Houses of Parliament. Committees of Secrecy ap- pointed. Their Report. Debate in the Lords on the Bill for the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. In the Commons on the Bill against Seditious Meetings, and two others. On the Habeas Corpus. These Bills pass the two Houses, |