LA MONACA DI MONZA, by G. Rosini, 339 Lancashire, Traditions of, by J. Roby, 25 Lander, (Rich.) his Records of Clapper- ton's last expedition to Africa, 286- sketch of his life, 287 Landlords, influence of good and bad, in Ireland, contrasted, 319
Landon, (Miss) her Venetian Bracelet, and other poems, 159 Language, that of the Celts, 4
Lansdowne, (Marquess of) his conduct as an Irish landlord, 319
La Paz, description of, 577
Lardner, (Dr.) his Cabinet Cyclopædia, 1 Last Supper, latent beauty pointed out in Da Vinci's picture of, 437
Lawrence, (Sir Thomas) death of, 304- Lawrie Todd, a novel, by Mr. Galt, 466 Laws, account of those in force, in the Pagan countries of Africa, 291 Lectures on Sculpture, by J. Flaxman, 191 Leipsic, battle of, 511
L. E. L., (see Landon)
Leslie, (Professor) his objections to light- ning rods, 174
Letter to the Earl of Aberdeen, by Mr. Knight, 183-from Sydney, edited by R. Gouger, 258-on the Present Dis- tress, by C. C. Western, 455 Letters, Two, on Population, by Mr. Se-
nior, 106-character of those of the East, 420
Life in India, estimate of, 331, (see Munro -Raffles)
Life, Ages of, a poem, by a Hungarian poet, 413
Life and Times of Edmund Calamy, by J. T. Rutt, 241
Light, phenomena of, 91
Lightning-rods, Mr. Murray on, 172- plan for constructing, 175 Lion, Californian, anecdote of a, 49 Literature, Eastern, Sir T. Munro's opinion of, 420
Loncarty, battle of, 5-6
London, (Bishop of) his remarks on the inspiration of Moses, 254
-, University, yearly accounts of, 471 Londonderry, (Marquess of) his Narrative of the War in Germany and France, 500 Long, St. John, (see St. John) Longs, (the Misses) misrepresentations with respect to, 182
Lost Heir, a novel, 468
Louis the Sixteenth, character of, 283 Love, early susceptibility of, a proof of a genius for the fine arts, 221-Sir T. Munro's opinion of love, 425
Love Letters from Dr. Doddridge, 80-84 Lushington, (Dr.) letter of, to Lady Byron,
Luther, character of, 128
Luxuries, tax on, 547
MAGYARS, Poetry of, by Dr. Bowring, 408 -song of the conquest of, 410
Mahommed, character of, 127 Mahommedans, character of those in Africa, 290-their faith making rapid strides there, 291
Maid of Scio, by Miss Snowden, 300 Maintenon, (Mad. de) character of, 127 Malacca, probable cause of its being re- tained by the East India Company, 479 Malay girl, polite conduct of one, 483 Mallam, a sacred character in Africa, 290 Malt, tax on, 547
Malthus, (Mr.) his correspondence with Mr.Senior, 106--his principle with respect to population, 312
Man, depravity of, illustrated, 120 Manual of the economy of the human body, in health and dieease, 470
Manners, account of early, in Scotland and England, 16
Manuring, the Harleian system of, 64 March to Finchley, Hogarth's, 437 Maria Louisa, wife of Buonaparte, her conjugal affection, 513
Marie Antoinette, reproachful character of, by President Jefferson, 283
Marshall, (Mr.) his evidence as to the ex- hausted state of some of the Irish pea- santry, 320
(J.) his popular summary of vaccination, 530-seasonableness and im- portance of his work, 530-533
Massacre, periodical, of drones in hives, 382
Materialists, doctrines of, 404-answered by Sir H. Davy, 405
Mechanics, concise system of, 151 Medes, poetical description of their march towards Nineveh, 525
Memoirs and Correspondence, &c. of Pre- sident Jefferson, 277-of the Life and Services of Sir T. S. Raffles, 475 Mendicity, vagrant, the grievance of in Ireland, 315
Mennais, de la, character of, 137 Mercantile Teacher's Assistant, by J. Mor rison, 150
Merchants, their profits during the war, 459 -cause of their present want of profits, 460
Mercy in civil war, remarkable instance of,
Milman, (Rev. Mr.) his History of the Jews, 252
Mind, reply to the arguments for the mate- riality of, 405-characteristic property of a great one, 477 Mines, Mexican, 40
Alining, new review on, 471
Mining Speculations, remarks on, in South America, 568
Minister, a British, a character of one, 494 short account of the present mi- nistry, 496
Minto, (Lord) letter from to Sir S. Raffles,
Miracle, the explosion which prevented the rebuilding the Temple, under Julian, was one, 255-necessity of it towards its end, 256
Missionaries, some account of, in South
Africa, 210-description of their princi- pal establishment in Kaffreland, 212- good result of their labours, 214 Missionary, humane conduct of one in the East, 489
Moments of Loneliness, by S. E. Hatfield, 300
Montaigne, character of, by various authors, 243
Montgomery, (Robert) his Satan, a poem, 159-foolish praises of, quoted, 165- title of the poem preposterous, 166- specimen of its bombast, 167 Moore, (T.) his Letters and Journals of
Lord Byron, 217-translation of one of his melodies into French, by Sir S. Raffles, 478
Moreau, (Gen.) death of, before Dresden,
Morland, the painter, 454
Morrison, (James) his Guide to Book- keeping, 150
Mortality of Penang, 479
rate of, amongst the Jews in London, 299 Moses, speculations with respect to his five books, 254
Mothers, example of the good effects of the early care of their children, 57- those of poets have generally reason to be proud of their affection, 230 Mummy, the art of making, probably de- rived from a practice of bees, 380 Munro, (Sir T.) Life of, 417
Murder, how punished in Africa, 291 Murray, (J.) his treatise on Atmospherical Electricity, 172
Museum, the Hunterian, 471 Music, the, of the Africans, 294 Mythology, folly of employing, in modern fine arts, 203
NABOB, an Indian, pleasant description of one newly returned to England, 336 Napoleon, description of his exhibition at the Champ de Mai, in 1815, 275-his speech on the occasion, 276
Narrative of the War in Germany and France, by Lord Londonderry, 500—its character, 514
Natural History, loss sustained by, 489 of Insects, 370
Negro slaves among the ants, 371-de- scription of them, 385
Negroes in Africa, religious opinions of, 290
Neuters, amongst ants, nature of, 383 Newnham, (Rev. F.) his dramatic poem of the Pleasures of Anarchy, 237-his admirable candour, 238—his letter to the manager of the Surrey Theatre, 239 Newspaper, an Egyptian, 472 Newspapers, circulation of, in France, Eng- land, and the Netherlands, 616
New South Wales, superiority of its situa- tion, clime, &c., 259-Emigration to ought to be encouraged, particularly from China, 264-English settlers in, 265— Government of, 266-Wool, the great object in, 268
Newstead Abbey, Lord Byron's farewell revelries at, 228
Nineveh, the Fall of, by Mr. Atherstone, 514-the prophet Elkoshite's denuncia- tions against that city, 516
Novels, New, 462
the, of 1829, their evanescent cha-
Nonconformists, (see Dissenters)
Norfolk, Vocabulary of, 301
Nun of Monza, the, a novel, 339-its plot explained, 340
OPIE, the painter, 454
Opposition, Parliamentary, evils of an un- principled one, 494-cannot be justified against the present administration, 499 Optics, 86-89-94
Orange, (Prince of) his embarkation at Holland for England, 246
Oxford, G. Colman's first night at, 351 Oxygen, curious properties of, 403 Oyster, the pearl, account of, 45
PAGANISM, threatened to be superseded in Africa by Mahommedanism, 291 Painters, Lives of the most eminent Bri- tish, by A. Cunningham, 432 Painting in England, causes of its inferio- rity, 433-historical, particulars con- nected with, 434-source of the pleasure we derive from contemplating, 443-ex- tract from Burke on this point, 444— observations on, 196, 197-painting of statues, 199
Paper, the wasp an excellent maker of, 375 history of, ib.-377
Paper, tax on, 547 Papyrus, remarks on, 376 Paracelsus, his character, 357 Paratonneres, (see Lightning) Paragreles, Mr. Murray on, 172
Parents, infringement of the rights of, by the Lord Chancellor, 177 Paris, population of, 156
Passumahs, real character of, 482-religion of, 483
Partridge, quack speech of, 365 Party, evils of, 492
Paupers, impolitic construction of the poor laws in favour of, 311 Pearls, diving for, 44
Peasantry, the Irish, character of, 314- real state of, 316-increase of, 318- their physical strength, 320 Peel, (Right Hon. Robt.) anecdote of, in connection with Lord Byron, 225
(Mr.) his character as a minister,
Penang, first establishment of, by the East India Company, 479-its mortality, ib. Pepper, bad system of growing in Beucoo- len, 482
Perception, speculations as to the mode of,
Persecution of the Jews, 253 Perth, battle of, 10
Peru, Travels in various parts of, 564
-, Literary and Antiquarian Society of, 155
Pestalozzian system, 607
Petrarch, Life of, by Mr. Moore, 472 Pettyman (Capt.) his Resources of the United Kingdom, 492
Pharmacopoeias, Rennie's Supplement to the, 470
Phidias, his superior conception, accounted for, 198
Physics, Elements of, by Dr. Arnott, 86 Picts, some account of, 3
Pitt, (Mr.) his erroneous opinions on popu- lation, 312
Plant-lice, are milked by Ants, 386 Plato, his influence on the arts, 199 Pleasures of Anarchy, a dramatic poem, 237
Postum, the ruins of, beautifully described, 397
Poet, a poor one, described, 352
Poetry, (see Landon, Montgomery)-cot- tage, 152 of the Magyars, by J. Bow- ring, 408-sources of the inspiration of, 221-specimen of the African, 292 Political Economy, S. Read's work on, 469 (see Population) Pollen, the, of flowers, mode in which bees collect it, and its use to them, 380 Poniatowski, (Prince) his death, 511 Poor Laws, proposal to apply them to Ire- land, 309
Pope Pius the VIIth, anecdote of, 399 Popish Plot, account of hobby-horsing pro- cessions connected with the, 244 Popular Summary of Vaccination, by Mr. Marshall, 530
Population, mode of increasing without raising the price of labour in New South
Wales, 262-state of the Jewish in Great Britain and Ireland, 299-erroneous opi- nions of Mr. Pitt respecting, 312-Mr. Malthus's doctrine concerning, ib.-two letters on, by Mr. Senior, 106-Mr. Mill on, 107-its relation to food, 110-reme- dies for the excessive increase of,!12 Portugal, the policy of England towards, discussed, 186-right of the people of to choose their mode of government, 187 Potosi, mountain of, 565-town of, 566-- climate of, 567-education in, 570 Poulson, (G.) his Antiquities of Beverley, 299
Power, (Mr.) author of the Lost Heir, 468 Preaching, science of, vindicated, 114-
Mr. Simeon's attempt to reform, 116— his bints on, 119-recommendations to those who wish to be good preachers. 123 Prejugés, Des Reputations, by J. B. Sal- gues, 123
Presentiment of Death, instance of, 449 Prince of Wales's Island, mortality of, 479 Profits, commercial, the golden period of, 459-cause of the present want of, 460 Prophecy, Scriptural, Mr. Simeon on, -concerning the Jews, 122 Propolis, the, of flowers, collected by bees, its use in the hive, 380 Protecting Duties, impolicy of, 548 Prussic acid, salutary effects of, 364 Public men, moderation of the present, 493 Publication, its true end perverted, by a sordid love of gain in certain booksellers,
nected with, 270
Reputations, Salgues on, 123
Records of Clapperton's last expedition to Africa, 286
Reform, Parliamentary, necessity of extin- guishing faction to promote, 495 Refraction of Light, illustration of its effects, 94
Religion on the Continent, 147—that of the Passumahs in the island of Sumatra, 483
Remarks on Moore's Notices of Byron, by Lady Byron, 585
Rennie, (Mr.) his history of insect archi- tecture, 372-his supplement to the Pharmacopoeias, 470
Republicanism in America, Jefferson's hopes of, and Washington's despair of,
Resources, the, of the United Kingdom by Captain Pettyman, 492 Respiration, phenomenon of, 403 Retreat, some of the hardships of a, 541 Revelation, evidences of, 148
Revolution of France, its use as an instru- ment of Providence, 145-its origin at- tributed to Marie Antoinette, 283-coins of the, 472
of 1688-preparations in Hol- land for, 246
the American, character of the founders of, 279-circumstances attend- ing the declaration of the independence of, 280
Reynolds, (Sir Joshua) birth and early life of, 442
Rhinoceros, account of an escape from one,
SAADI, an Eastern writer, character of, 420 St. Aignau, (M. de) his agency in bringing about the peace in 1813 between Buona- parte and Austria, 511
St. John Long, his discoveries in the heal. ing art, 356
St. Peter's Church at Rome, 393 Saladin, account of his death, 70-and character, 71
Salamanca, the battle of, 540
Salgues, (J. B.) on Reputations, 123 Salinas, ludicrous anecdote of, 542 Salmonia, the accredited production of Sir H. Davy, 392
Sanson, the Paris guillotine-man, 472 Sardanapalus, poetical representations of him, 525-and of his return to Nineveh,
Satan, a poem, by Robert Montgomery, 159-the title preposterous, 166-speci- men of bombast in, 167
Savings Banks, number of, in England, a proof of the independent spirit of the people, 321
Scandinavia, songs of, 471
Scaum's Beverlac, 299
Scenery, the peculiar, of South Africa, 208 Schwartzenburgh, (Prince) appointed to the command of the Allied armies, 509 attempt on Dresden, ib. Scotland, curious condition with reference to the poor laws, 316
History of, by Sir W. Scott, 1 -sketches of, in early times, 16 Scott, (Sir W.) his History of Scotland, in the Cabinet Cyclopædia, 1-character of the history, 2-faults, 3-compared with his Tales of a Grandfather, 9-defects of the history, 15
Scriptures, explanation of some of the diffi- culties of, 121
Sculpture, Flaxman's lectures on, 191- wrong course of instruction in, 192- sculptures of Egypt, 196—of Greece, 199 Sea, funeral at, 335
Seal, combat between one and two sharks, described, 48
Seasons, remarks on, in Africa, 296 Sectarianism, M. Gregoire on, 102 Senior, (W. N.) his Letters on Population, 106 his attack on Mr. Malthus's doc- trine, 113
Sermons on the Law and Gospel, by Mr. Simeon, 114-select, of the German pul- pit, 139-specimens of, 141 Settlements, new, powers of governors of, 266
Settler, account of the condition of one, in
New South Wales, 261
Sharks, means of protection adopted by pearl divers against, 46-combat between two sharks and a seal, described, 48 Shee, (M. A.) appointed President to the Royal Academy, 304
Sheridan, (R. B.) his singular promise to Gainsborough, the painter, 449 Simeon, (Rev. Charles) his Hora Homile-
ticæ, 114-his zeal to reform the practice of preaching, 116—his exposition of the Bible, 117
Singapore, entitled from its position to be called the Malta of the East, 484 Sinkel, his epistle to the deputies of the Armenian Communion, 103
Sketches in Ireland, extract from, 319 Slavery in the Mauritius, 606 Slaves, guilty of theft, how punished in Africa, 292
Negro, proposal to employ them in New South Wales, 263
-, amongst the ants, 371- mode in which they are reduced to sla- very, 385--and their wonderful instincts, 386
Small-pox, vaccination a sure safeguard
against, 530-extinction of, by means of vaccination in many parts of Europe, 533 -instance of the negligence of the legis- lature respecting, ib.
Snail, mode of destroying, used by bees, 380
Snowden, (Miss) her poetry, 300 Society, the Zoological, principally estab- lished by Sir S. Raffles, 491-state of, in Sydney, 264-267-reflections on the progress of, 395-the Royal Asiatic, present, of Prince Mirza, 305
Song, an African one, 293-another, 295- Hungarian, 410, 411-dancing, 415 Southey, (Dr.) his account of the last days of Barry the painter, 452
Spider, elevation of in the air might have suggested the air-balloon, 370-point respecting, proved by Mr. Rennie, 390 Sport, an ancient English one, described, 302
Squib, a good election one, 302
Stanley, a narrative connected with the noble house of, 31
Statues, Egyptian, cause of their imperfec- tion, 196-Flaxman on the painting of,
Steam, curious application of, 57
-vessel, the Enterprize, description of her manoeuvring at Madras, 431 Stories of Travels in Turkey, 469
Waterloo, and other Tales, 268
-character of the work, 269-extracts from, 270-272
Storm, description of an African, 288 Storming a town, the time for attempting it, 509
Strickland, (Mr.) extracts from his discourse on the poor laws, 313
Suffolk, vocabulary of, 301
Sumatra, some account of, 482-affection- ate character of the people of, 483 Sun, the setting of, in Africa, 296 Superstition, Indian, 581
Supplement to the Pharmacopoeias, by J. Rennie, 470
Surgery, curious anecdote respecting an in- strument used in, 174
Suworoff, (Gen.) anecdotes of, 20 Sweden, Crown Prince of, (see Bernadotte) Sydney, a letter from, 258-description of the state of society in, 254-267
TABERNACLES, Feast of, what it predicted
Tales of the Munster Festivals, 463-of a Briefless Barrister, 467
Taste, Mr. Alison's heresies in, 200 Taylor, (W. C.) his history of France and Normandy, 469
Taxes on Industry, proposal to reduce, 545 -on raw materials, 546-on materials employed in literature, 547-on luxuries, ib.
Temple, of Jerusalem, miraculous interpo-
sition to prevent the rebuilding of, 256 Temple, (Edw.) his Travels in Peru, 564 Tendency, misuse of the word in discussions relating to population, 108 Tertulia, a Mexican, 42
Theft, how punished in Africa, 291 Theological Institutions, account of the plan pursued at, 148
Theology, (see Divinity)-introductory lec- ture on the study of, by the Rev. T Dale, 148
Thornhill, (Sir J.) his influence on English painting, 435
Thornton, (Bonnel) account of his literary
contributions to the Connoisseur, 350 Thunder, means of averting, 173 Tinterero, anecdote of one, 47 Title, a taking one for a poem, 240 Topography, (see Beverley)
Tornado, description of an African, 288 Torture, practice of, in South Africa, 214 Tory, the appellation nearly extinct, 499 Tracy, a novel, 465
Trade, comparative state of, 458-reviving in this country, 461
Traditions of Lancashire, by J. Roby, 25 Transformation of Insects, 371-that of the butterfly and ant-lion, ib.-of the bee,
Traun, the cataract of, accident at, nearly fatal to Sir H. Davy, 401
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