: The Dawn of the XIXth Century in England: A social sketch of the times by Ashton John - England Social life and customs 19th century

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Accident at a Review--The King shot at, at Drury Lane Theatre--Behaviour of the Royal Family--Biography of Hadfield--His trial and acquittal--Grand Review of Volunteers on the King's birthday--The bad weather, and behaviour of the crowd 8

High price of gold--Scarcity of food--Difference in cost of living 1773-1800--Forestalling and Regrating--Food riots in the country--Riot in London at the Corn Market--Forestalling in meat 16

Continuation of food riots in London--Inefficiency of Police--Riots still continue--Attempts to negotiate a Peace--A political meeting on Kennington Common--Scarcity of Corn--Proclamation to restrict its consumption--Census of the people 23

The Union with Ireland--Proclamations thereon--Alteration of Great Seal--Irish Member called to order --Discovery of the Planet Ceres--Proclamation of General Fast--High price of meat, and prosperity of the farmers--Suffering of the French prisoners--Political dissatisfaction--John Horne Tooke--Feeding the French prisoners--Negotiations for Peace--Signing preliminaries--Illuminations--Methods of making the news known--Ratification of preliminaries--Treatment of General Lauriston by the mob--More Illuminations--Manifestation of joy at Falmouth--Lord Mayor's banquet 32

Disarmament and retrenchment--Cheaper provisions--King applied to Parliament to pay his debts--The Prince of Wales claimed the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall--Parliament pays the King's debts--Abolition of the Income Tax--Signature of the Treaty of Amiens--Conditions of the Treaty--Rush of the English to France--Visit of C. J. Fox to Napoleon--Liberation of the French prisoners of war 45

Proclamation of Peace--Manner of the procession, &c.--Illuminations--Day of General Thanksgiving--General Election--A dishonoured Government bill--Cloth riots in Wiltshire--Plot to assassinate the King--Arrest of Colonel Despard--Trial and sentence of the conspirators--Their fate 55

Strained relations with France--Prosecution and trial of Jean Peltier for libel against Napoleon--Rumours of war--King's proclamation--Napoleon's rudeness to Lord Whitworth--Hoax on the Lord Mayor--Rupture with France--Return of Lord Whitworth, and departure of the French Ambassador 65

Declaration of War against France--Napoleon makes all the English in France prisoners of war--Patriotic Fund--Squibs on the threatened invasion--"The New Moses"--Handbill signed "A Shopkeeper"--"Britain's War-song"--"Who is Bonaparte?"--"Shall Frenchmen rule over us?"--"An Invasion Sketch" 74

Invasion Squibs continued--"The Freeman's Oath"--"John Bull and Bonaparte"--"The Eve of Invasion"--"A Biography of Napoleon"--"Britons, strike home"--Enrolment of 400,000 Volunteers--Napoleon at Calais--Apprehension of vagrants, and compulsorily recruiting the Army and Navy with them--Patriotism of the nation--Preparations in case of reverse--Beacons--Spies--The French prisoners--Emmett's rebellion in Ireland--Its prompt suppression--General Fast--Relief of the Roman Catholics 89

Caricatures of the Flotilla--Scarcity of money--Stamping Spanish dollars--Illness of the King--His recovery--General Fast--Fall of the Addington Ministry--Debate on the Abolition of the Slave Trade--Beacons--Transport--Election for Middlesex--Reconciliation between the King and the Prince of Wales 104

Nelson's funeral--Epigrams--Death of Pitt--His funeral--General Fast--Large coinage of copper--Impeachment of Lord Melville--The Abolition of the Slave Trade passes the House of Commons--Death and funeral of Fox--His warning Napoleon of a plot against him--Negotiations for peace--Napoleon declares England blockaded 120

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