1800. Dec. 31. Union between England and Ireland. 1801. Feb. 14. The King attacked by illness. July 15. Grand review in Hyde-Park of the Volun Oct. 1. teers. Treaty of Peace between France and 1802. June 3. Ten thousand pounds voted by parliament to Dr. Jenner, for his discovery of the cow-pock. Oct. 26. The Volunteer Corps reviewed, by the 1804. Feb.14. The King taken ill. Dec. 14. War between England and Spain. Oct. 21. Lord Nelson defeats the French and 1806. Jan. 9. Grand public funeral of Lord Nelson. Oct. 10. Mr. Fox's public funeral. 1807. Jan. 28. Peace between England and Prussia. Mar. 7. Slave Trade abolished. July 12. Copenhagen bombarded by the English. Aug. 14. Street Gas-lights first introduced in Gol-den-lane. Oct. 6. Louis XVIII. under the title of Count de Lille, takes refuge in England. Nov: 1. Russia declares war against England. 1809. Oct. 25. A jubilee, on account of his Majesty entering the fiftieth year of his reign. On this account, a pardon was issued to all deserters. 1810. Nov. 14. 1811. Feb. 3. The Princess Amelia buried. On account of the King's illness, the Prince of Wales was sworn in before. the Privy Council, as Regent. 1812. May 11. Mr. Perceval, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons, by Bellingham. 1812. May 5. The office of Vice Chancellor created, and the Vice Chancellor, Sir John Leach, takes his seat. July 18. Treaty of Peace signed between Great 1814. April20. Louis XVIII. enters London in state from 24. June 6. The Emperor of Russia and King of June 20. Peace proclaimed in London. Dec. 24. Peace signed at Ghent between England and America. 1815. June 18. Battle of Waterloo. July 15. Napoleon Buonaparte surrenders himself to Captain Maitland, of the Bellerophon; and on August 7th sails for St. Helena. 1818. Nov.17. Queen Charlotte died, aged 75. 1820. Jan. 23. Death of the Duke of Kent. " 29. This good King died at Windsor Castle, in the 82d year of his age, and 60th of his reign-the longest and most interesting in the English annals. Feb. 16. George III. buried at Windsor. HIS MAJESTY, KING GEORGE THE FOURTH. PASSING by the intermediate genealogies of the House of Brunswick through the course of the middle ages, it will only be necessary very briefly to shew in what way' the proximity of blood came, which in the early part of the last century caused the Brunswick line to be called to the throne of these kingdoms. Elizabeth, daughter of James I. married Frederic, Elector Palatine, afterwards King of Bohemia. By this prince she had a daughter, Sophia, married to Ernestus, Elector of Hanover, and representative of the Houses of Brunswick, Hanover, Lunenburgh, Wolfenbuttel, Zeile, &c. whose posterity, by virtue of the act of settlement, now fill the throne of Great Britain. His Majesty was born August 12, 1762. The birth of this prince diffused a general joy through the nation, and loyal addresses were voted to their Majesties by both Houses of Parliament, by the city of London, the two Universities, and all the other great bodies corporate in the kingdom. A few days after his birth he was created Prince of Wales, by letters patent. The mode of conferring this dignity is by investiture with a cap, coronet, gold verge, and ring, and by issue of letters patent under the great seal. In 1765 he was elected a knight companion of the Order of the Garter, and installed at Windsor, July 25, 1771. The education of the Prince of Wales was conducted on a plan perfectly well calculated to render him a respectable scholar and an accomplished gentleman, but ill calculated to make him a prudent prince. It was so austere, perhaps we should not use too harsh a word if we were to say repulsive, that the moment of his Royal Highness's emancipation, was that of a prisoner from |