REIGN OF GEORGE III. (_concluded_).
The Congress at Vienna--Napoleon's Escape from Elba--Military
Preparations--England supplies the Money--Wellington organises
his Army--Napoleon's Journey through France--His Entry into
Paris--The Enemy gathers round him--Napoleon's Preparations--The
New Constitution--Positions of Wellington and Blucher--The Duchess
of Richmond's Ball--Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras--Blucher's
Retreat--The Field of Waterloo--The Battle--Charge of the Old
Guard--Arrival of the Prussians--The Retreat--French Assertions
about the Battle refuted--Napoleon's Abdication--The Allies
march on Paris--End of the Hundred Days--The Emperor is sent
to St. Helena--The War in America--Events on the Canadian
Frontier--Repeated Incapacity of Sir George Prevost--His
Recall--Failure of American Designs on Canada--Capture of
Washington by the British--Other Expeditions--Failure of the
Expedition to New Orleans--Anxiety of the United States for
Peace--Mediation of the Czar--Treaty of Ghent--Execution of Ney
and Labédoyère--Inability of Wellington to interfere--Murat's
Attempt on Naples--His Execution--The Second Treaty of Paris--Final
Conditions between France and the Allies--Remainder of the Third
George's Reign--Corn Law of 1815--General Distress--Riots and
Political Meetings--The Storming of Algiers--Repressive Measures in
Parliament--Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act--Secret Meetings in
Lancashire--The Spy Oliver--The Derbyshire Insurrection--Refusal
of Juries to convict--Suppression of seditious Writings--Circular
to Lord-Lieutenant--The Flight of Cobbett--First Trial of
Hone--The Trials before Lord Ellenborough--Bill for the Abolition
of Sinecures--Death of the Princess Charlotte--Opening of
the Session of 1818--Repeal of the Suspension Act--Operation
of the Corn Law--The Indemnity Bill--Its Passage through
Parliament--Attempts at Reform--Marriages of the Dukes of Clarence,
Cambridge, and Kent--Renewal of the Alien Act--Dissolution of
Parliament and General Election--Strike in Manchester--Congress
of Aix-la Chapelle--Raids of the Pindarrees--Lord Hastings
determines to suppress them--Malcolm's Campaign--Outbreak of
Cholera--Campaign against the Peishwa--Pacification of the Mahratta
district--Apparent Prosperity of Great Britain in 1819--Opening of
Parliament--Debates on the Royal Expenditure--Resumption of Cash
Payments--The Budget--Social Reforms--The Scottish Burghs--Roman
Catholic Emancipation rejected--Weakness of the Government--Meeting
at Manchester--The Peterloo Massacre--The Six Acts--The Cato Street
Conspiracy--Attempted Insurrection in Scotland--Trials of Hunt and
his Associates--Death of George III. 87