Events from the year 1818 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – George III Regent – George, Prince Regent Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory) Foreign Secretary – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh Parliament – 5th (until 10 June), 6th (starting 4 August) Events 2 January – Institution of Civil Engineers founded. 6 January – Treaty of Mundosir annexes Indore and the Rajput states to Britain. 3 February – Jeremiah Chubb is granted a patent for the Chubb detector lock. 11 February – Marie André Cantillon attempts to assassinate the Duke of Wellington in Paris. 16 April – Court of King's Bench decides the case of Ashford v Thornton, upholding the right of the defendant, on a private appeal from an acquittal for murder, to trial by battle. Four days later, the plaintiff declines to fight. 11 May – the Old Vic is founded as the Royal Coburg Theatre in South London by James King, Daniel Dunn and John T. Serres. 30 May – Church Building Act makes available £1 million for the construction of new Anglican "Commissioners' churches" to serve the expanding urban population. 23 July – the Crown agrees sale of its rights in the royal forest of Exmoor. Thomas Dyke Acland secures a herd of Exmoor ponies, the nucleus of the modern breed. 25 September – Dr James Blundell carries out the first blood transfusion using human blood, in London. 20 October – a convention between the United States and the United Kingdom establishes the northern boundary of the former as the forty-ninth parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle. Undated – Besses o' th' Barn brass band is formed at Whitefield in the Manchester cotton district. Publications Jane Austen's novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (posthumous; actually issued in December 1817). John Evelyn's Diary (posthumous). John Keats' poem Endymion (4 vols.) Thomas Love Peacock's novel Nightmare Abbey (anonymous). Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian (as by 'Jedediah Cleishbotham'). Thomas Bowdler's expurgated The Family Shakspeare, 2nd edn. Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (anonymous). Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems "Ozymandias" (published as by 'Glirastes' in The Examiner 11 January) and The Revolt of Islam (actually issued in December 1817). Mary Martha Sherwood's children's novel The History of the Fairchild Family (vol. 1; anonymous). Births 2 January – Priscilla Horton, contralto, dancer and actress-manager (died 1895) 18 January –