THE

EDINBURGH ANNUAL REGISTER,

FOR 1816.

THE

EDINBURGH

ANNUAL REGISTER,

FOR 1816.

VOL. NINTH.—PARTS I. AND II.

EDINBURGH :

Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH ;

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN; AND
HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. LONDON.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. I.

Opening of the Session of Parliament. Debates on the Address, and on the Trea-

ties concluded with Foreign Powers in 1815. Motion for the production of the

“Christian Treaty." Financial Exposition by the Chancellor of the Exchequer,

CHAP. II.

Debates on the Army Estimates. Petitions against the Property-Tax. Vote against

its continuance. The War Malt Tax is abandoned by the Minister. The Budget,

CHAP. III.

Bill for the Regulation of the Civil List. Motion for abolishing the Office of one

of the Secretaries of State. Motion respecting the Augmentation of the Salaries

of the Secretaries of the Admiralty. Motion concerning Salaries and Emoluments

in Public Offices. Mr Grenfell's Motion concerning the Transactions with the

Bank Bank Restriction Act extended till 1818. Consolidation of the English

and Irish Exchequers. 'New Silver Coinage,

CHAP. IV.

Sir John Newport's Motion on the State of Ireland. Various Proceedings of Par-

liament connected with the Question of Catholic Emancipation,

CHAP. V.

Report of the Committees on the Mendicity and Vagrancy, and on the Police of

the Metropolis. State of Manners as illustrated in the Evidence led before these

Committees,

CHAP. VI.

Committee and Debates on the Purchase of the Elgin Marbles. Vote of a Monu-

ment in Memory of the Battle of Trafalgar,

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