farmers and artisans, 43; difficulties to be encountered by the poorer classés of settlers, 44; back-settler's ideas of elegance, 45; rapid progress of the emigrant population of the American states fowards a nation of powerful energy, 48.
Birkbeck's letters from Illinois, 169, et seq.; his account of his own situation, ib.; his prospects, 169, 70; state of reli- gion among the backwood's men, 171, 2 Bishop of London's charge to his clergy in 1818, 569, et seq.; his panegyric of his clergy, 569; his picture of the pre- sent times, 570; danger of the church, and its enemies, 571; errors and in- consistency of his Lordship's reason- ing, 572, 3; his charge against the dissenters, 574; tacitly condemns the Bible society, 574, 5; 'letter from lord Treasurer Burleigh, to Arch- bishop Whitgift,' 575.
Black Agnes of Dunbar-castle, her admir- able intrepidity, 322 Black Castle of Opium, 114 Blolsteinn, or the stone of sacrifice, 191 Boors, Dutch, at the Cape, character of, 409; five refractory boors, execution of, 410, 11
Booth's lexicon of the primitive words
of the Greek language, 469, et seq.; character of the present work, 469; specimens of definitions, 470 Border antiquities of England and
Scotland, by Walter Scott, 305, et seq. Borrows's two sermons on reformation from Popery, 482, 3; remarks on the subjects of persecution, 483; nature of persecution, 483, 4
Bothwell castle dungeon, 319, 20 Breidafiord, islands of, 253
Breidamark Yokul, or the mountain of ice, - 181, 2
Bristol jail, its wretched stale, 86, 7, 8 Brougham's letter to Sir Samuel Ro-
milly, on the abuse of charities, 358, et Iseq.; change made by the Lords in the original bill in regard to the appointment of commissioners, 358, et seq.; change in regard to the powers of the commissioners, 360, 1; charities excluded from the operation of the bill, 361; abuse of the funds of Pocklington school, 362; qua- lifications of the paid commissioners con- sidered, 363; remarks on party op- position to ministers and its results, 365, et seq.
Brown's discourses on the Lord's supper,
584, 5; duty of Christians to cultivale cheerfulness of mind, 58
Brown's Psyche, a poem, 263, 4; extract, ib.
Burleigh, lord treasurer, letter of, to Archbishop Whitgift, on the conduct of the clergy, 575.
Bursa, formerly Prusa, its present state, population, &c. 115
Buxton on prison discipline, 82, et seq.; causes of the alarming increase of juvenile delinquency, 88; admirable management of the interior of Ilchester jail, 84, 5, 6; wretched state of Bristol jail, 86, 7, 8; Mr. B.'s comparison of the two jails, 88, 9; proceedings of the commillee of the society for the improve- ment of prison discipline, &c. 89,90; Mr. Venning's visit to the Russian pri- sons of Petersburgh and Moscow, 90, 1 Byron's, Lord, Childe Harold, Canto 4th, 46, et seq.; reflections on the death of the Princess Charlotte, 51; an Italian even- ing, 52, 3; apostrophe to the ocean, 53, 4
Cæsarea, the ancient capital of Cappa-
docia, 106; its miserable state, ib. Cameron, Richard, his first preaching among the Annandale men, 317
Campbell's sermons on interesting sub- jects, 70, 1; subjects considered, ib.; on progressive improvement, 70 Cape of Good Hope, its great importance as a settlement, 402
Carlisle's, Dr. description of the endowed grammar schools in England and Wales, 528, et seq.; great accuracy of the author's topographical dictiona ries, 528; his unsolicited appoint. ment to the secretaryship of the commission for investigating the en- dowed school and charities, ib.; author's proofs of the necessity of a public investigation of the management of en- dowed schools and charities, 529; ar- rangement of the present work, ib.; its various topics, 529, 30; foundation of St. Paul's school, 530; account of Dr. John Colet, the founder, 530; regula tions concerning the scholars, 531 ; ' what shall be taught, 531, 2; articles read to parents offering their children a scholars, ib.; Erasmus's detailed descrip tion of this institution, written to Justur Jonas, 533; admirable liberality of the excellent founder, 534; his death and burial, ib.; further particulars respecting the school, scholars, admission, &c. 535, et seq.; bequest of Mr. Stock, for the support of one scholar at this school, 536; laudable management of the funds of the institution, 537; list of the high masters, ib.; present masters, ib. et seq.; eminent persons educated in St. Paul's school, 538
Celtic tribes, their funeral monumenti, 30%
Chalmers's, Dr. reasoning in his evidence and authority of Christian revelation, examined by Dr. Mearns, 505, et seq. Charge of the Bishop of London to his clergy, in 1818, 569, et seq. Charities, abuse of, Brougham's Letter to Sir Samuel Romilly on, 355 Cherpilloud's book of versions, 61, 2 Childe Harold: Canto the fourth, 46, et seq.
Childe Harold, Hobhouse's illustrations
of the fourth canto of, 323, et seq. Christian Caffre woman, remarkable ac- count of one, 408, 9 Christian faith, Miss Sinclair's letter on the principles of, 77, 8 Christianity, Rowlatt's sermons on the doctrines, evidences, and duties of, 245, et seq.
Christian slaves at Algiers, account of their treatment, 479, 80
Christ, Person of, Wilson's popular inquiry into the scripture doctrine of, 373, et seq.
Clergy of Iceland, their great superiority over their brethren in other countries, 261, 2
Colel, Dr. John, founder of St. Paul's
school, detailed account of him and of the foundation, 530; et seq.
Collyer's, Dr. lectures on scripture doc- trine, 151; et seq.; evil of an indis- criminating severity of criticism, 151; mankind most beneficially taught by persons whose intellect is " on a level with their own, ib.; dif- ferent treatment to be observed by critics, towards original writers and mere compilers, 152; profound learn- ing, &c. not essential to the ordinary instruction of mankind, or to the at- tainment of an extensive popularity, io.; peculiar eircumstances that may tend to the exposure of a weakly. evident founded popularity, 153; improvement in the Dr.'s style, ib.; crisis of trial for a young writer, ib. et seq; subjects of the present lectures, 154; the Dr.'s plan, ib.; the authority and claims of revelation, ib. et seq. ; sal- vation through faith, 156; the duty of submitting system to the Bible, 157: propriety of a popular writer's ab- staining from the appearance of philo- sophizing, 158; objection to certain modes of expression used by the author, 158, 9; and note. Colquhoun on the law and gospel, 30, et seq.; subjects treated of, b.; the law considered as a rule of life, 32; difference
between the law and the gospel, ib. s folly of resting on a violated covenant, 33 Commerce of Iceland, 262; Committee, select, third report of, on the poor laws, 420 ; et seq.
Congo expedition, &c. 445, et seq.; in- fluence of the mysterious on the hu- man mind, 446; conjecture as to the probable consequences of a successful expedition into the interior of Africa, 447; unknown state of the interior of Africa, 449; present state of the in- quiry in regard to the Niger, ib.; ex- istence of the chain of the mountains of the moon uncertain, 450; answer to some objections as to the identity of the Niger and the Zaire, ib. ; deeply interesting account of Cranch, the na- turalist, 451; his unsubdued ardour in his researches, 452; his death at Em- bomma, 453; sailing of the expedition, 454; some account of Porto Praya, ib.; arrival at Malemba on the African coast, 455; visit from the negroes, ib. ; the Congo enters the Zaire, 456; the Sorio people, 457; appearance of the river, 458; collection of human bones, 518; account of a black man named Simmons, ib.; consultations at the court of Embomma, 519; peculiar mode of interment, 520; cataract of Yellala, 521 government in Congo, 523: sla- very, ib.; crimes, ib.; curious ordeal, 524; religion, 525; calamitous state of the party, 325, 6; character of the Congoese, 527; state of the highest part of the river that was seen, ib.; probability of its issuing from some lake, 528
Corban, its meaning among the Jews, 352
Corinth, its situation, 267, 8 ; literature,ib. Courtenay's treatise on the poor laws,
Cox's lives of the more eminent fathers of the first three centuries, 264, 5; character of the work, ib.; author liable to Tertullian's, censure against the Bishop of Rome, 265 Cranch, the naturalist, account of his life, 451, et seq.; his ardour in his favourite study, ib. ; his great attain- ments, ib.; his dangerous researches on the sea coast, 452; employed to collect for the British Museum, ib. ; his religious sentiments, and death at Embomma, in Africa, 453 Curiosities of literature, by M, D'Israeli, 587, et seq.; account of Chidiock Titchbourne, 588; his address to the
populace, before his execution, 589; verses written in the Tower, on the night before he suffered, ib. the author's at- tachment to the Stuarts, and hatred of the Puritans, 590; secret history of Charles I. and Queen Henrietta, 591; character of the Queen, ib.; her engagement with the Pope and King of France, to educate her children in the Catholic faith, 591, 2; dismission of her French household by the King, 592; the Duke of Buckingham, 592, 3; Felton the assassin, 593; propositions found in his trunk, when he slew Buckingham, 593; Felton's manly behaviour before the council, 593,4; death of Dr. Lambe, 594; Alexander Selkirk, and De Foe's Robinson Crusoe, 595; Steele's account of Selkirk, 595, 6; prototype of Ro- binson Crusoe's man Friday, 596; charge against De Foe unfounded, ib. ; mendicants called Tom o' Bedlams, ib.; song of one, 596, 7
Cyclopædia, biblical, Jones's,' 266, et seq.
Death-watch, cause of its noise, 128, 9 Delinquency, juvenile, causes of the alarming increase of, 83
Dictionaries, topographical, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by Dr. Carlisle, their adinirable accuracy, 528 Discipline, prison, report of the com- mittee of the society for the improve- ment of, 82, et seq.
Dissenters, their care of their poor, 442; relief afforded to parishes by their charities, 443
Dissertations, Watson's, on various sub- jects, 458, et seq.
Divine truth, Thornton on the best
means of promoting the spread of, 71
Domestic pleasures, by F. B. Vaux, 61,2 Druses, a remarkable peopie dwelling be- tween Tripoli and Acre, 110 Dry rot in timber, M'William's essay on the origin and cure of, 71, et seq. Durant's character of Barnabas; a ser- mon, 79, et seq.; the purposes of the Almighty effected by the use of means, 79, 80; ministers of the gospel have a strong claim on the prayers of their hear- ers, 81; hearers should be tender of their minister's reputation, 81
Elders, under the Kirk sessions, election and
Elibank tower, anecdote of its lord, Sir Gideon Murray, and his plain daughters, 321
Elldborg, the fortress of fire, its crater, &c. 190
Endowed grammar schools in England and Wales, Dr. Carlisle's concise de- scription of them, 528, et seq. English Consul at Algiers, his humane con- duct, 476
Erzeroum, city of, 230 Eusebius, Falconer's case of, in regard to Mr. Nolan's charge of his muti- lating Scripture, 563, et seq. Eustace's private opinion of the Italian cha- racler very unfavourable, 278 Evidence, Christian, Mearns's princi- ples of, in examination of Dr. Chal- mers's argument in his Evidence, &c. of the Christian Revelation, 505 Evening, Italian, Lord Byron's descrip- tion of, 52, 3
Expedition to explore the river Zaire, narrative of, 518
Eyafiord, a district of Iceland, en-
lightened state of its inhabitants, 174
Falconer's case of Eusebius of Cæsarea, 563, et seq.; Mr. Nolan's charge against the bishop, 563, 4; his tran- slation of Eusebius inaccurale, 565; passages alleged to have been erased, 567; improbablity of the truth of the charge, ib.; bishop accused of muti- lating St. Mark's gospel, 568 Fathers of the first three centuries, Cox's lives of the most eminent, 264, 5 Fawcett, memoirs of. 240, et seq. Felton, propositions found in his trunk when he slew the Duke of Buckingham, 593; his firm behaviour before the council, 594 Foe, De, charge against him by Dr. Beattie, relative to his Robinson Crusoe, un- founded, 596
Forest residence, gloominess of it, 41 Foliage, by Leigh Hunt, 484, et seq. Fualdes, M. circumstances attending his murder, 59, et seq.
Fungi, the effects as well as the causes of the dry rot in timber, 73
Gallio, remarks on his conduct, 268, 9 Geysers, their eruptions described, 26, et seq.; remarkable mode of obtaining premature eruptions, 29
Gnadenthal, a Moravian settlement, 407 Godwin's life of the late Mr. Richard Morris, 160, et seq.; reason of his entering the army, 161; becomes the subject of religious impressions, ib.; in- curs on that account the ill-will of his comrades, ib. et seq.; is cold-burned, 162; himself and some comrades pre- vented from attending the meeting-house
by their officers, 165, 4; obtain leave from the war-office to attend a dissenting place of worship, 164; he is cold-burned a second time, for addressing a religious meeting ib.; gains the notice of Lord and Lady Robert Manners, 165; or- dered into military confinement for ab- sence from duty, ib.; tried by court mar- tial, 166; makes his own defence, ib. ; sentenced to be picketed, ib.; his manly firmness of conduct, ib.; receives his discharge by the interference of Lord R. Manners, 167; becomes pastor of the baptist church at Amersham, 168; erects. a cotton manufactory, ib.; his death, ib. Golownin's captivity in Japan, 379, el seq.; author appointed by Russia to explore the Kurile Isles, &c. 380; is seized with six others by the Japanese, 391, 2; humanity of the natives towards the captives, 383; curious ac- count of their examination, 384, 5; their fruitless attempt to escape, 386,7; fur- ther remarkable kindness of the Ja- panese to them, 388
Gospel truth, Pike's consolations of, 173 Gossamer webs, 126; great height at which they are found, 127 Grasshoppers kept in cages by the Greeks, for their song, 129
Greece, modern, a poem, 598, et seq.; its character, ib.; the exiles from the Morea, 598, 9, Greece under the Turks, 600, 1
Gresk language, short introduction to, 468, 9
Greek lexicon of primitive words, by
the Rev. J. Booth, 469, et seq. Greeks, modern, of Asia Minor, 103 Groenekloof, a Moravian settlement in South Africa, its population, &c. 406、
Hackett's narrative of the expedition "which sailed to join the South American patriots, 575, et seq.; character of the war in South America, 576; slate of the independent armies, 577,8; barbarity of the royalists, 578; wretched clothing of the independents, 579; their aversion to foreign aid, ib.; conditions of en- trance into the patriotic service, 580; five corps of British volunteers that sailed for South America, their uniforms, equip- ments, &c. 580,1; failure of the expe- dition, and the misfortunes and dis- persions of the party, 582, 3 Hawksley's protestant reformation com- memorated, 275, er seq.; author's sub- ject, 276; duty of duly appreciating the principles of the protestant reformation, 277; principles of protestant noncon- formity neglected in the present day, ib.
Hebraica, Principia, 471, 2 Henderson's Iceland, 21, et seq.; strik- ing peculiarities of the country, ib. et seq.; nature of Dr. H.'s mission, 23; welcomed by the islanders, 24; first view of the dire effects of subterraneous fires, ib.; disadvantage occasioned by his late arrival, ib.; plan of his intended journey, 25; plain of Thingvalla, the ancient supreme court of justice, ib.; description of the eruptions of the Geysers, 26, et seq.; the new Geyser, 27, 8; sin- gular mode of obtaining premature ex- plosions, 28, 9; desolate state of the country north east of Holum, 174; valley of Eyafiord, ib.; excellent cha- racter of its inhabitants, ib.; their grateful emotions on being able to purchase copies of the New Testament, ib.; exemplary conduct of the Sys- selmand, 175; Icelandic mode of spend- ing the Sunday, ib.; dispute between two distant churches, as to the right to an old copy of the Scriptures, 175, 6; author's interview with Thorlakson, the translator of Milton, 176; high state of morality in the north of Iceland, ib.; hospitable mode of providing for reduced families, 177; boiling springs at Reykium, ib.; description of the prodigious stream of lava occasioned by the eruplions of 1724 and 1730, 177, 8; the tremendous Sulphur Moun- tain, its crater, black liquid pool, &c. 179; various striking travelling ad- ventures, ib.; terrific wooden bridge over an impetuous torrent, ib.; remark- able rope bridge still more tremendous, 180; phenomenon of a profane fa- mily, ib.; Breidamark Yoku!, the mountain of ice, 181, 2; its rapid progress towards the sea, 182; author passes a dangerous torrent flowing from beneath it, b.; another remarkable moving ice-mountain, 183; account of the desolating explosion of Skaftar Yokul, 184; its striking appearance at a distance, ib.; leprosy prevalent in Iceland, 185; eruption of Kotlugia Yokul, 186; Winter residence at Reykia vik, 187, 8; mode of passing the long evenings, 188; extract, 189; surtar- brand or mineralized wood,190; crater of Eildborg, or the fortress of fire, ib.; Snaefell, 191; description of a mountain disruption, 192; discovery of Thorolf's court of justice, 194; blotstein, or stone of sacrifice, ib.; islands of the Breida- fiord, 253; extensive bed of surturbrand, 253, 4; range of mountains illumined by a midnight sun, 255; hot bath of Snorro Sturluston, 255, 6; valley of
smoke, 256; curious account of the nau- tical mice of Iceland, 257; cavern of Surt- shallir, 258; theroaring mount, 259; con- nexion between its noise and the eruption of jets of steam and water, 259; striking superiority of the Icelandic clergy over those of other countries, 261,2; commerce of Iceland, 262 Henrietta, Queen of Charles the First, her character not understood by Hume, 591; engages with the Pope, and the King of France, to educate her sons in the catholic religion, ib.; the King's dismissal of her French household, 598
Hobhouse's illustrations of the fourth canto of Childe Harold, 323, et seq.; contents of the work, 323; remarks on the author's boast of having dis- covered the cause of Tasso's imprison- ment, ib.; his abuse of quotations occurring in his remarks on the burn- ing of Rome by the Goths, ib. et seq.: the devastations under Genseric, Viti- ges, and Totila, 329, et seq.; his criti- cism of Muratori, Gibbon, and Tira- boschi examined, 332, et seq. Hottentot rooman, account of one extremely corpulent, 414
Hunt's foliage, 484, et seq. ; author's ub- scure intimations of his principles, 485; beautiful stanzas on a sick child, 486; poetical extract from Words- worth, 487, 8; Wordsworth's just esti- mate of the true use of the ancient mythology, 488; character of the au- thor's poetic talents, 489; his Invo- cation, as characteristic of his style, ib.; further extract, 491; the Nephe- liads, a song, 491, 2
Iceland, Henderson's journal of a resi- dence in, 21, et seq. see Henderson. Ice mountain in Iceland, progressive move- ment of one towards the sea, 181, 2 Idiot boy, remarkable propensity in one to bees, 125
Ilchester jail, admirable management in the conducting of it, 64, 6; contrasted with Bristol jail, 88, 9
Illinois, Birkbeck's letters from, 169, et seq.
Inns, American, east of the mountains, 39 Inquiry into some curious subjects of history, &c. by T. Moir, 385, et seq. Insane world, 55, et seq.; design of the writer, ib.; extract, 56, et seq. Insects, motions of, 125; have no voices, 128; their noises, 128
Introduction to the Greek language, 468, 9
Iron-wood, African, its great strength, 412
Japanese mode of interrogating prisonETS, 384,5
Japan, Rickord's account of Golownin's captivity in, 379
Japanese, their great humanity to some Russian captives, 383, 388 Jerram on the impolicy and tendency of the poor Jaws, 202, et seq. Jews, their stated sacrifices, 354, 5 Jones's biblical cyclopædia, 266, et description of Corinth, 267, 8; its litera- ture, 268; character of Gallio, 268, 9; remarks on the Christian church, its institutes and ministers, 269; inquiry whether the present order of Christian churches is consonant to that of the primi tive churches, 270; author's definition of conscience, ib.
Journey from Virginia to the Illinois, by Morris Birkbeck, 33, et seq. Juvenile delinquency, causes of the alarming increase of, 83
Kinneir's journey through Asia Minor, Armenia, and Koordistan, 97, et seq.; highly advantageous situation of these provinces, 98; wretched state of their government, ib.; author's plan, 99; visits Zerni George, 100; present state of Nice, 101; description of eastern posting, ib. ; expeditious tra- velling of the Sourajees, 101, 2; 'an- thor encour.lers a mail Dervish, 102; Asiatic Greeks, character of, 103; en- campment of Turkmans, 104; their character, ib.; Angora, ib. its va rious changes, ib.; neighbouring country not tributary to the Porte, îb. ; independent government of Chapwan Oglu, ib.; wretched state of the an- cient Cæsarea, 106; Tarsus, 107; ruinous state of Scandaroon, 107, 8; Antioch, 108; its ancient walls very extensive, ib.; Latakia, 109; san- guinary revolution at Aleppo, ib. ; account of a peculiar people called Ancy- ras, ib.; the Druses of Mount Libanus, 110; fine appearance of Nicosi, in Cy- prus, 111; present state of the island, ib.; Caraman, 113; Konieh, ib.; phenomenon of a Turkish attempt to
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