GENERAL INDEX.

A.

ACCIDENT from leaping into the Thames, ii. 173.

from the overturning of a boat, ii. 239.

Acrostic, i. 84.

Address to England, on her Nelson's death, by W. T. Fitz-

gerald, Esq. i. 339.

spoken by a British sailor, i. 383.

from the Ladies of Westminster to Charles James Fox,

on the hustings, ii. 128.

to the inhabitants of Westminster, ii. 206.

Advertisement from a little fairy man, i. 336.

ii. 102.

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for a husband, by a young lady of twenty-three,

for a hackney coachman, ii, 142.

for a husband, ii. 146.

from a Westminster publican, ii. 152.

for a deformed wife, ii. 154.

for a young lady of a generous heart, ii. 224.

from a young lady of fortune for a husband, ii. 238.

from a young lady willing to enter as a volunteer

into the guards, ii. 239.

Advertisements from convivial societies, ii. 150.

- from the proprietors of monkies, ii. 195.
Advice to a young lady, on seeing her dance, i, 253.
Affection, remarkable instance of, ii. 353.

Age, poetical description of, ii. 385

A lady of easy virtue's reason for continuing her profession,

ii. 396.

Allegorical picture presented to Mad. Bonaparte, by Citizen Van
Bree, ii. 186.

American nurse, qualifications for one, ii. 281.

water burner described, ii, 348.

Anecdote of a sailor, i. 100.

VOL. II.

of a country rector, i. 101.

of a French lady and a portrait painter, i. 103-105.
of Garrick and Dr. Johnson, i. 315.

EE

Anecdote of Princess Louisa, of France, who entered as a novi-
ciate in a convent, i. 304.

ii. 58.

of a poor lord of a manor and his curate, i. 316.

of a tavern-keeper and Lord Rodney, i. 406.

of Foote and Jemmy Wright, the eccentric barber,

of a dragoon officer, ii. 301.

of Lucien and Napoleon Bonaparte, ii. 304.

of the Crown Prince of Persia, ii. 333.

of Cromwell's grand-daughter, ii. 359.

of the late Persian Ambassador, ii. 374.

of Dr. Johnson and Andrew Millar, ii. 379.
of Vernet the painter, ii. 388.

of Michael Angelo, ii. 395.

Antiquities, discovery of, at Rome, i. 202.

Archdukes John and Lewis, remarks of, when in England, i. 378.
Arctic Highlands, account of the inhabitants of, by Captain Ross,
ii. 283-87.

Assassination, horrid attempt at, in Scotland, i. 333,

Attaway and Bailey, execution of, for a daring and desperate
robbery, ii. 181.

Attempt at suicide in Hyde Park, ii. 238.

Austria (Empress Queen of) remarkable instance of condescension
and generosity in the, i. 81.

Awkward accouchement, ii. 36.

Axford, (Mr. Henry) remarkable circumstance of recovering his
speech, i. 199.

B.

Babler, (Mr.) letter to, on female misconduct after marriage,

i. 329.

Baffin's Bay, curiosities from, ii. 242.

Baptismal mistake in Suffolk, ii. 368.

Barcelona, description of, ii. 338.

Bartholomew Fair, elegy written in, i. 16.

Barton, (General) serious accident from the horse of, ii. 3.

Bears of Baffin's Bay, extraordinary size of, ii. 392.

Beauty (The) and Butterfly, by Lord Byron, i. 415.

and her Beast, painting of the, and trial relating thereto,

ii. 54-7.

Beef à-la-mode and Game, ii. 334.

Bell and the Dragon, ii. 386.

Bees, effects from the alighting of a swarm, ii. 141.

Bingham, (Captain) and Commodore Rodgers, investigation of
the action between, ii. 174-80.

Blanchard, (Madame) her destruction by the firing of a balloon,

ii. 7.

Blind soldiers, natural wish of, i. 119.

impostor, anecdote of a, i. 322.

Blindness, instance of the cure of, ii. 296.

Blunt (Mrs. Elizabeth) lines on the death of, i. 85.
Body of a prodigious size discovered, ii. 393.

Bolton (Francis) the Boroughbridge pauper, some account of the
eccentricities of, i. 139.

(Duke of) inscription on his coffin, ii. 169.

Bonaparte, instance of the irritablé temper of, i. 127.

and Commerce, i. 129.

his mode of life in exile, ii. 345.

(Joseph) fate of his Spanish state dress, i. 385.
"Bonaparte," a poem, by Mr. Scott, i. 153.

Boston Humane Society, anniversary of, and ode sung on the
'occasion, i. 76.

Breach of promise, ii. 162.

Brown, (Capt.) his account of an expedition up the river Oro-
noco, ii. 11; difficulties attending its prosecution, ii. 12, 13;
tigers and alligators attack each other, ii. 14; distress from
short provisions, ii. 17; arrival at Sanchapa and Tortola,
ii. 19, 20.

Bucks (The) and chimney-sweepers, i. 24.

Bull, by a grave writer on the laws of England, i. 17.
Burnet (Dr.) his assertion respecting elephants, i. 7.

"Butterfly's Ball and Grasshopper's Feast," stanzas composed
by Mr. Roscoe, i. 357.

Button-making, caution respecting, ii. 186.

C.

Cabbage, a remedy for intoxication, ii. 357.
Calculating nativities, ii. 318.

Camden (Mr.) some account of, i. 281.

Canova, the sculptor, presents from, ii. 279.

"Care, a Poker," stanzas addressed to a friend, ii. 277.
Carnarvon (Marquis of) extraordinary affair at the seat of the,

ii. 222.

Carolina (South) device for the great seal of, i. 38.

Carpenters, petition from the body of, that his Majesty would
condescend to wear a wooden leg, and forbid all those em-
ployed about court to appear without one, ii. 163.

Cast iron wheel, enormous weight of a, ii. 33.

Castlebar races, account of, ii. 152.

Cat and dog shearers, description of, i. 258.

Catalani, (Mad.) contests respecting the place of her nativity,

i. 126.

Cattle, scouring in, recipe for the cure of, i. 146.

-, consumption of, in the metropolis, ii. 292.
Caution from a wife respecting her husband, ii. 264.
Cenotaph to the late Princess Charlotte, ii. 347.

Ceremonies and processions in Popish countries, i. 352-56.

Chance, game of, imitated from the French, i. 164.

Characters, account of the death of two extraordinary ones, i. 152.
Charades, by Professor Porson, ii. 60.

Chat of the day, i. 66.

Child-birth, singular case of, i. 336.

Choiseul, (M. De) anecdote of, i. 125.

Christina, (Queen of Sweden) anecdote of, i. 237.

Chronological anecdotes, from Anderson's History of Commerce,
ii. 252.

Church livings, observations on, from Dr. Warren's Ecclesiastical
History, ii. 167.

Clergyman among miners, observations of a, i. 31.

Clerical habit, the confession of a lady who went in one to court,
ii. 94.

Comet, observations on, and poetical descriptions of, i. 160-62.
Concealment, singular instance of, i. 188.

"Contrast," (The) an epigram, i. 81.

Conversation, observations on, i. 1, 2.

Coroner's inquest, and brutal behaviour of parish officers, ii.
34-36.

Coterie, explanation of the word, ii. 212.

Cotton, successful experiments to preserve the animal that pro-
duces it, i. 255-58.

Courier, (The) loyal effusion from, i. 415.

Courtier, soliloquy of a, i. 79.

Cowper's poems, additional lines to, i. 277.
lines added by a lady, ib.

Cow-tree, description of, ii. 26.

Crim. Con., observations on, i. 72.

Cromwell and Bonaparte, anecdotes of, i. 109-111.
bust of, for the King of Prussia, ii. 120.

"Cropsick," or the universal complaint, ii. 230.

Cross readings, humorous effects of, i. 289; ii. 189.

Cumberland (Duke of) remarkable anecdote respecting the, i. 206.
(Richard, Esq.) extract from the last production of,

i. 380.

Cure of forgetfulness, ii. 376.

Curious adventure, i. 172.

Cuzzoni, (Signora) ode to, i. 91.

Dancing bears, advertisement in favour of, ii. 223.
Dandies, information for the benefit of, i. 388.

Dandy, origin of the word, ii. 4.

Dandyism, trait of, ii. 283.

Daring thief, ii. 201.

Davis (Morgan) singular aaaress and advertisement from, i. 68.
Death, presentiment of, in an old lady, i. 165.

Death of his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent. ii. 378.

Delawar, (Earl of) account of his grand fête at Brighton, ii. 188.
Deliberate act of insanity, i. 361.

Delirium cured by music, i. 239.

Democritus Gelasus, a laughing disciple, observations of, i. 19.
Description of the Talent administration, ii. 398.

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"Deserted Cottage," (The) by Mrs. Robinson, i. 183.
Desperate resolution of an usher, ii. 188.

Devil, instance of giving the soul to, i. 47.

--, an apprentice detected in personating the, ii. 201.
Dialogue between Charles the Second and Beckford, in the shades,
ii. 90.

in the Elysian fields between two Dukes, ii. 184.
Direction of a letter to a certain clown of Covent Garden the-
atre, i. 315.

Discovery of a large edifice by a monk, ii. 282.

of the city of Berenice, by M. Belzoni, ii. 305.

Disinterestedness, rare instance of, ii. 303.

Divine (orthodox) advertisement for an, i. 49.

Diving bell, escape of some fish into the, ii. 53.

Doctors' Commons, singular trial in the ecclesiastical court of,

i. 221.

Dodsley (Mr. Robert) account of his death, i. 230.

Dog, remarkable instance of the sagacity of one, i. 199.

Dram, scheme for getting a, i. 15.

Dram-drinking, observations on, ii. 8.

Dramatico-Politico Epistle, ii. 274-76.
Drinking, an ancient fragment, i. 414.

Dropsy, recipe for, i. 342.

Drunkard, description of a, i. 373.

Drunken deputy, statute of the, i. 170.

Drunkenness, essay on, by Dr. Trotter, i. 346.

Dwarf, description of a, i. 185-87.

advertisement from a, ii. 110.