THE STATE OF IRELAND _Doubleday's "Life of Sir Robert Peel"_ 5 1818. THE STATE OF ENGLAND _Lord Sidmouth's "Life and Correspondence"_ 8 PARISH REGISTERS "_The London Medical Repository_" 11 1819. PETERLOO _Lord Sidmouth's "Life and Correspondence"_ 14 THE STATE OF ENGLAND _Shelley's "Poems"_ 20 THE CATO STREET CONSPIRACY "_Annual Register_" 20 1820. THE DEATH OF GEORGE III. _Lord Colchester's "Diary and Correspondence_" 24 THE KING'S SPEECH "_Annual Register_" 25 THE CHARACTER OF JOHN BULL _Washington Irving's "Sketch Book"_ 27 1821. THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON "_The Gentleman's Magazine_" 29 NAPOLEON _Shelley's "Poems"_ 31 NAPOLEON AND ENGLAND _Lord Tennyson's "Early Sonnets"_ 32 1823. THE MONROE DOCTRINE "_Annual Register_" 33 SLAVERY _Stapleton's "Life of Canning"_ 34 THE STATE OF IRELAND _Lord Colchester's "Diary and Correspondence"_ 35 TRANSPORTATION "_The Edinburgh Review_" 38 1824. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND _GLEIG'S "LIFE OF THE HIS SONS Duke of Wellington"_ 39 1825. FREE TRADE _Cobbett's "Rural Rides"_ 41 FINANCIAL CRISIS _Doubleday's "Life of Sir Robert Peel"_ 44 1826. THE FRENCH OCCUPATION OF _MARTINEAU'S "HISTORY SPAIN of the Peace"_ 47 THE REMOVAL OF TRADE _Stapleton's "Life of RESTRICTIONS Canning"_ 49 PORTUGUESE APPEAL FOR AID _STAPLETON'S "LIFE OF AGAINST SPAIN Canning"_ 53 MR. CANNING AND THE PORTUGUESE _STAPLETON'S "LIFE OF APPEAL Canning"_ 54 1827. LIFE OF CONVICT-SERVANTS IN "_THE LONDON MAGAZINE_" 56 AUSTRALIA INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE IV. _Lord Colchester's "Diary and Correspondence"_ 58