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spirit of the Roman Catholic religion
as exhibited by Mr. Butler's attack on
the Protestants, 477.

Boccaccio, a reviver of ancient learn-

ing, 316; remarks on his Decameron,
316, 17.
Boothroyd's new family bible and im-
proved version, &c. 236, et seq.; pe-
culiar difficulties attaching to a trans-
lator of the bible, 236; his primary
duty, 237; merits of the present
translator, ib.; rendering of the third
chapter of Habakkuk, 238, 9; his re-
marks on the book of Job, 239; his
rendering of various passages con-
sidered, 240, et seq.
Boyd's translation of the Agamemnon
of Eschylus, 31, et seq.
Brazil, recent expeditions into the in-
terior of, 274.

Buchanan's memoirs, of painting, &c.
276, et seq.; Charles I., a liberal en-
courager of the arts, 277; state of the
fine arts under the Stuarts, 278; re-
vival of the arts during the late reign,
ib.; collection of Charles I. alienated,
ib.; Houghtou gallery consigned to
Russia, ib.; the private collections of
Italy disposable during the French in-
vasion, 279; loss of the marbles of
Egina to England, ib.; four superb
paintings by Raffaelle, reconveyed to
Madrid, for want of purchasers in
England, ib.; Marechal Soult's col-
lection disposable, 280; high excellence
of the Angerstein collection, ib.; the
French artists not progressive in skill,
281; great national collections of pic-
tures not beneficial, ib. ; dispersion of
the Orleans collection in England,
282; amusing detail of amateur manœuvr-
ing, 284, 5; reflections on French paint
ers and French pictures, 285; David,
ib.; Claude and Poussin, ib.

Bull of Jubilee, by Pope Leo XII. in
1825, 177, et seq.

Burder's, H. F., lectures on the essenti

als of religion, &c. 455, et seq.
Butler, Charles, Dr. Blomfield's letter to,
in vindication of English Protestants,
&c. 474, et seq.
Butler's, Charles, letter to the Rt. Rev.

C. J. Blomfield, 474, et seq.
Calendar, perennial, and companion

to the almanack, 78, et seq.; ori.
gin of tulips, ib.; some account of the
effects of the Dutch tulipo-mania, 81;
danger from keeping odoriferous plants in
bed chambers, 82; death of a gardener
from sleeping in a pinery, ib.

Campbell, of Carbrook, his observations
on the anti-christian tendency of mo-
dern education, &c. 98, et seq.
Campbell's Theodric and other poems,
116, et seq.; distinctions of narrative,
dramatic, and lyrical poetry, 116;
lyric poetry embraces two different
kinds of composition, ib.; Campbell
the best lyric poet of the age, 117;
fails in every other kind of poetry,
ib.; story and character of Theodric,
118; stanzas to the rainbow, 118, 19;
to the memory of the Spanish patriots,
120; song to the evening star, 121; re-
marks on his 'Last Mau,' 122; song
of the Greeks, 122, 3:
Carey's Mrs., journal of a tour in France
in the years 1816-17. 332, el seq.;'
Caen, its situation, cathedral, &c. 334,
5; Tours, 336; description of the city,
ib.; origin of its name, 337; and of
the term Hugonot, ib.; province of Tou-
raine described, ib.; Lyons, 338; re-
mains of an ancient aqueduct, ib.; the
Broteaux, 339; the offices of coachmen
and boatmen, at Lyons, performed by
women, 339, 40; the author's remarks
on female education, schools, private go-
vernesses, &c. 341, et seq.
Carlow bible-society, account of the disgrace-

ful and ferocious conduct of the papists,
at the last anniversary, 68, et seq.
Carpini's description of the person and ha-

bits, &c. of the Tartars, 28; his relation
of some marvellous adventures among
them, 29.

Catechism, the Protestant dissenter's,
with a preface by Dr. Newman, 371;
Cervantes, character of his writings, &c.
488.

Chivalry, its essential character, 197.
Christian father's present to his children,
447, el seq.

Chronicle, the Saxon, translated by the
Rev. J. Ingram, 54, et seq.; age and
contents of the chronicle, 58, 9; ils
high merits, 59; characterised by sim-
plicity of detail, ib.; extracts, ib. ;
exploits and death of Cynewulf, 60.
Clergy, catholic, many of them infidels,

107.

Cochin-China, White's voyage to, 86, et

seq.; illiberal policy of the Dutch
throughout the whole of their colo-
nies, 87; commerce an efficient in-
strument for extending Christianity,
88; attempt of the Americans to es-
tablish a commercial intercourse with
Cochin-China, ib.; causes of its fail-
ure, ib.; extent and divisions of Onam

or Cochin-China, 89; the country seized
by some Tonquinese rebels, ib.; Cam-
bodia conquered by the same people, ib.;
great strength of the royal city of Hue,
90; the canal from Saigon to the Cam-
bodia river, ib.; character of the Ona-
mese, 91; description of their persons,
ib.; their total want of cleanliness, ib.;
the city of Saigon, population, &c.
92; Christian population, 92, 3; their
manufactures, &c. 93; religion, ib.;
population of the whole empire, ib.;
description of the country, its pro-
ductions, commerce, &c. 94; its im-
proving condition under Bishop A-
dran, ambassador from Louis XVI.,
ib.; the various works undertaken under
his auspices, ib.
Cochrane's, Captain, narrative of a pe-
destrian journey through Russia and
Siberian Tartary, &c. 227, el seq.
Coleridge, portrait of, 157, 8.
Conversations, imaginary, of literary
men, &c. by W. S. Landor, 211, et seq.
Cowper, Lord Chancellor, his admirable
conduct towards Richard Cromwell, 168.
Cox's Horæ Romanæ, 71, et seq.; diffi-
culties of St. Paul's epistles, from his
peculiar style of writing, 71, 2; de-
sign of the author, 72; specimen of the
translation and notes, 73; comment on
part of the thirteenth chapter, 74, 5.

Dante, his early life, &c. 391.
Dante, M. Sismondi's remarks on his writ-
ings, 203, 4; probable origin of his In-
ferno, ib.

D'Arlincourt's Etrangére, 412, et seq.;
consummate vanity of the author, 413, et
seq.; specimen of his fine style of writing,

416;
love communicated by electricity, ib.
Dawson's nosological practice of physie,
&c. 458, et seq.; Mr. Lawrence's pro-
position that insanity always proceeds
from disease of the brain, considered and
exposed by the author, 459, 60; re-
marks on the subjects of hypochondrias,
461; they frequently attain a long life,
ib.; instances from the ancients and mo-
derns, ib.; distressing sensations occa-
sioned by dyspepsia, ib.; difference of
the feelings of the dyspeptic and the hypo-
chondriac, ib.

Devotion, Mary Holderness's manual of,
5.68, et seq.

Disscut, the progress of, by a Non-con-
formist, 371, et seq.; high tone of the
Quarterly Review in an article on this
subject, 371; its false statement, in
reference to Palmer's Protestant dis-

senter's catechism, 371, 2; its illiberal
attack on the author of Protestant Non-
conformity, 372; plan of Palmer's
catechism objectionable, 373, 4; ob-
ject of the Quarterly Reviewer, in the
article on dissent, 374; unprovoked
attack on the dissenters, 374,5; his
-mode of accounting for the diminished
influence of the clergy, and accession
to the dissenters, 375; the Noncon-
'formist's questions in reply, 376, 7;
dissent proved to be necessary to the church,
ib.; testimony of Dr. Chalmers that
the dissenters are great moral bene-
factors of their country, 377; re-
marks on the reviewer's complaint
that pecuniary speculation has min-
gled itself with the religious zeal of
the dissenter, 378, 9; the poverty of
the benefices alleged by the reviewer
to be one cause of the progress of
dissent, 380; the superior liberality
of opinion in word and practice, of
the clergy, another cause of it, 381;
his statement of the 'grievous sins' of
the Methodists, 381, 2.
Dunallan, a story, 462, et seq.
Dutch, illiberality of their policy in
-their colonial territories, 87.
Dyspepsia, distressing sensations occasioned
by it, 461; difference between the dys
peplic and the hypochondriac, ib,
Education, national, pamphlets on, 97,
et seq.; remarks on the education of
the poor, 98; education cannot be a
positive evil, 99; classification of the
modern opinions respecting education,
-99, 100; remarks on the New Lanark
system, 101; Dale Owen on teaching
children the doctrine of the depravity of
the human heart, 102, 3; Jeremy Ben-
tham's opinions on education, 104;
his attempt to shew that the second
commandinent forbids the graphic
art, ib.; explodes the ten command-
ments, 105; questions intended to shew
the absurdity of teaching children to be-
lieve in and fear God, &c. 105, 6; many
of the Roman Catholic clergy infidels
at heart, 107; absurd reasoning of
the popish priests of Carlow, ib.
extract from one of the Protestant clergy-
mens speech at Carrick, 109; Father
M'Sweney's remarks on the indiscri-
minate reading of the bible consider-
ed, 109, 10; human teaching not de-
preciated by the friends of bible edu-
cation, 110; Hooker on the suffici-
eucy of Scripture as a rule, &c. 111';
the deterioration of our peasantry •

rises not from the diffusion, but from
the want of education, 112; evil con-
sequence of the discontinuance of pa-
rental instruction, and of the cateche-
tical mode of public teaching, &c.
113; proof that education does not
tend to insubordination, 114; the re-
ligious instruction of the young mise-
rably neglected in Scotland, 115.
Election, Hamilton on the doctrine of,
169, et seq.

England, the history of the kings of,
translated by the Rev. J. Sharpe, 54,
et seq.

Essay, practical, on the manner of study-
ing and teaching in Scotland, 98, et
seq.

Evening-star, song to the, by Campbell,

121.

Expositor, pocket, selections from Dr.
Doddridge, &c, 382.

Ferocity of character which distinguishes
society in the West Indies, cause of it,
575.

Fever, epidemic, in Ireland, account of
the rise, progress, and decline of, &c.
254, et seq.; epidemics formerly con-
sidered as direct manifestations of Di-
vinė displeasure, 255; Sydenham's
opinion of them, ib.; prerequisites
to the knowledge of the origin of epi-
demic fever, ib.; its late prevalence
in Ireland to a severe degree, 256;
probable causes of it, 257; severe
winters frequently followed by epi-
demic fever, ib. ; injurious effect of
severe cold on wheat, &c. 258; calami-
ties that resulted from the late war,
and consequent upon its termination,
259, 60; wretched state of the Irish poor
in 1816-17, 260; fever always preva-
lent among them, ib.; became uni-
versally epidemical in 1817, 261; es-
timate of the proportion of the popu-
lation that suffered by the fever, 262,
3; average of its mortality, 263; its
diminished virulence in proportion as
it extended, 263, 4; was more fatal
to males than females, 264; less fatal
to young than to old persons, ib. ; and
also to the poor than to the opulent,
ib.; objections to the opinion that a
peculiar condition of the atmosphere
is required for the prevalence of epi-
demic fever, 265; its causes to be
sought for rather in the moral and
physical circumstances of society,
266; two remarkable facts stated by Dr.
Harty, in proof of the correctness of this

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opinion, 266, 7; Dr. Barker's opinion
of the origin of the Irish epidemic un-
supported by evidence, 268; opinion
of the medical officers of the Irish
fever hospitals that continued fever,
however originating, is capable of dif-
fusing itself by a contagious influence
under circumstances favourable for
its spreading, ib. ; instance in proof of
this position, ib.; error of medical
writers, in multiplying the species of
fever, 537; important service per-
formed by Cullen, in arranging the
numerous species of fever, ib. ; typhus
considered by him and other medical
writers, as a distinct genus possessed
of a contagious character, ib.; the
phenomena observed during the late
epidemic not correspondent to his ar
rangement, 538; the diversified cha-
racter of fever is to be referred to
certain contingent circumstances, ib.;
diversity of opinion respecting the
contagious nature of fever assuming
the continued form, ib.; the plague a
disease sui generis, ib.; extract from the
evidence in proof of the dissemination of
the late fever, by the agency of contagion,
539; the medical men, clerical visiters,
nurses, &c. almost generally attacked by
the fever, 539, 40; the evidence ad-
duced in proof of the contagious na-
ture of continued or typhus fever,
conclusive, 541; the diffusion of fe-
ver, as an epidemic, occasioned by a
morbid poison, ib.; importance of
the philosophic investigations of Dr.
Haygarth, 542; beneficial effect of
free ventilation, ib.; value of the
present works, 543; great advan-
tages derived from the formation of
fever hospitals, ib.

Filacaia, his sonnels, addressed to Italy
and to Fortune, 326.
Forster's perennial calendar, and com-

panion to the almanack, 78, et seq.
France, journal of a tour in, during the
years 1816 and 1817, by Frances
Jane Carey, 332.

Frauds, detected, Grinfield's origin of,
150, et seq.; the capricious code of
worldly honour, contrasted with the re-
vealed law of God. 150, 51.
Fuller's, the Rev. Andrew, works, with
memoir by the late Dr. Ryland, 505,
et seq.; subjects of the first volume,
506; of the second, ik. ; observations
on Mr. Belsham's acknowledgement,
that persons
most indifferent to the
'practice of religion, are the most

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likely to embrace a rational system
' of faith,' 507; remarks on the let-
ters addressed to Mr. Vidler, 508;
subjects of the third volume, ib.;
high merit of the letters on Sande-
manianism, ib. ; subjects of the fourth
volume, 509; of the fifth and sixth
volumes, 510; his statement of the
method he pursued in treating of the
Apocalypse, ib.; the seventh, eighth,
and ninth volumes, 511; character
of the author as exhibited by his
diary, correspondence, &c. his re-
marks on the effects of his labours in the
missionary cause, 512; concluding ob-
servations of his late venerable biographer,
ib.

Green-house companion, the, 83, el seg. ;
Grinfield's origin of frauds detected,
&c. 150, et seq

Guarini's Pastor Fido, character of, 325.
Guatemala declares itself a federal re-
public, 302.

Hamilton on the doctrine of election,
169, et seq.; mistake of the author
and others in regard to the doctrine
of election, 169; the author's view of the
nature of his subject, ib.; objections to
his remarks, 171 ; the concluding ob-
servations to his second chapter, 172;
the practical uses of the doctrine not
distinctly noticed, 172, 3; causes of
the objections to the preaching and
reception of the doctrine stated, 173;
use of the doctrine by the Antinomiau,
174; difference between the Arminian
and the Antinomian, 175; extract
from Calvin, ib. ; doctrine of St. Paul
on the efficient cause of our salvation,
176; design of the scriptural doctrine,
ib.
Hamilton's tracts upon some leading
errors of the church of Rome, 286,
et seq.; the leaders of the opposition
wealthy absentees from Ireland, 287;
evils arising out of the present state of
ecclesiastical patronage, ib. ; exposition
of the chief impediments to the improve-
ments of Ireland, 287.

Harty's historic sketch of the causes,
&c. of the contagious fever epidemic
in Ireland, during the years 1817,
18, and 19, 254, et seq,
Havana, its importance as a port, 563.
Hawkins's, Letitia Matilda, memoirs,

anecdotes, &c. 164, el seq.; remarks
on Roubiliac as an artist, 164; striking
instance of his ingenuousness, ib.
anecdotes of West, Bacon, Nollekins,

165; Chantrey's beautiful statue of lady
Lucy Russel, ib.; observations on Bos
well and Johnson, 165, 6; the author's
opinion of her father's life of Johnson,
166; its severity, ib.; weak conduct
of Lord Mansfield during the riots,
167; anecdote of Sir William Jones,
167, 8 ; instance of the excellent feeling
of Lord Chancellor Cowper, 168.
History, English, Ellis's original letters,
illustrative of it, 123, et seq. ; literary
industry of the Anthor, J24 ; his de-
sign in the present work, 125; correct
historical information not to be attained
from works of merely general history, ib. ;
great value of original letters of eminent
persons, ib.; specimens of familiar let-
ter writing nol to be found earlier than
the 15th century, 126; letter of Henry
VII. respecting Perkin Warbeck, 127,
8; the character of Henry VIII. falsely
estimated, 128; Sir Thomas More to
Cardinal Wolsey, 128, 9; Henry VIII.
to Cardinal Wolsey, 129; Henry VIII.
married to Ann Boleyn before his di➜
vorce was pronunced, 130; the burn-
ing of friar Forest and of a wooden
image, 130, 31; letter of the princess
Elizabeth to Edward VI. with her por-
- trait, 131, 2; firmness of the princess
Mary, 132; letter of queen Elizabeth to
king James, denying her intention to sa-
crifice queen Mary, 133; royal recipes
for the gout, 134 ; letter of James I. to
his son Henry, on coming to
the English crown, 134, 5; of Charles
I. to prince Rupert, 135; letter of Oli-
ver Cromwell to Col. Walton, announcing
the death of his son, ib.; letter of James
II, respecting the duke of Monmouth,
137; from the chevalier St. George to
his princess Clementina, ib.; history
and disappearance of the Stuart pa-
pers, 138; Ellis's original papers, il-
lustrative of English history, &c.
123.

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History, modern, Miller's lectures on
the philosophy of, 139, et seq.; the
philosophy of human society arose among
the Greeks, 140; the expediency of a
balance of powers first asserted by
Archytas, ib. ; source of Plato's opin
nions of the laws of legislation, ib. ;
he describes the world as having been con
structed by a beneficent Creator, 141 ;
Aristotle's judgement in regard to political
society, ib.; Machiavel, the first great
modern writer on political philosophy,
ib.; his Prince' styled the manual
of republicans by Rousseau, 142 ;

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character of More's Utopia, ib.;
double effect produced by the Refor-
mation on European governments,
ib.; Sir J. Mackintosh's eulogy on
Grotius's law of nations, ib.; Bacha-
nan the first systematic assertor of
popular right and representation, &c.
ib.; occasion and effects of Hooker's ec-
clesiastical polity, 142, 3; Hobbes as-
serts the natural equality of man,
his reason for it, 143; Locke and
Paley on the social compact,' ib.;
remarks of the author on their reasoning,
143, 4; strictures on his observa-
tions, 144, 5; Sir James Mackintosh
on the esprit des loix, 146; extract
from the Theodiceé of Leibnitz, on the
manner in which the existence of evil is
reconciled with the doctrine of optimism,
147, 8; objections to the theory of
optimism, 148; observations on them,
ib.

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Holderness's, Mary, manual of devotion,
568, et seq.

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Hoppus on the importance of an early

and decided attachment to the con-
cerns of a future world, 269, et seq.
Horæ Romanæ, by Robert Cox, 71, et
seq.

Howell's characters of Theophrastus,

from the Greek, &c. 449, et seq. ; cha-
racler of the adulator, 450; defective
state of the text of Theophrastus, and
difficult task of the translator, 451;
imitators, &c. of Theophrastus, ib. ;
merit of the notes, ib.; strictures on
phraseology, 452, 3,

Howison's foreign scenes and travelling

recreations, 563, et seq.; importance
of Havana as a port, ib.; remarks of
Mr. Robinson, on the supposition of
the occupation of Cuba by the British,
564, 5; it would eventually full under
the control of the United States, 564;
necessity for East and West Florida be-
ing occupied by the United States, ib.; pre-
sent dependence of Havana on the United
Stales, 565; observations of Mr. Poin-
•sell on the same subject, 565, 6; syslem
of piracy practised at Havana, and coun-
tenanced by the public authorities, 566, 7;
situation, commerce, &c. of Havana,
567; character, &c. of the priests, 568;
depraved state of society at Havana,
ib.; frequency of assassinations there,
ib.; prevalence of yellow fever, 569, 70;
its proximate causes not correctly ascer
tained, 570; the present political situa-
tion of Cuba remarkable, 571; descrip-
lion of sun-sel at sea, ib.; the appear.

arces attending sun-set in the East, and
in the West Indies contrasted, 573;
mistaken notions entertained in Europe,
respecting the pleasures, &c. of life in
India, 574; rapid mortality of the di-
male in the West Indies and Southern
American States, ib.; cause of the fe-
rocity of character which distinguishes
European society in the West Indies,
&c. 575.

Bue, great strength of its fortifications,

90.

Hugonot, origin of the term, 337.
Hypochondriacs frequently attain a long
life, 461.

Improvvisatori, history and character of,
482, et seq.

Ingram's translation of the Saxon chro-
nicle, 54, et seq.

Ireland, Bible society in, 61, et seq. ;
ecclesiastical emancipation the real
object of the Irish Roman catholics,
61, the priests the chief exciters of
the clamour for emancipation, 62:
popery set up again in almost every
country of Europe by the British go-
vernment, 63; the true cause of the
danger arising from popery, ib.; the
policy of perpetuating the restrictions
and disqualifications of the Roman
catholics, the real question before
the nation, ib.; original design and
failure of the test act, ib. ; the church
of Rome in Ireland not to be trusted
with political or ecclesiastical power,
64; is incapable of alliance with a pro-
testant government, ib.; the Orange
faction the most formidable enemy of
the protestant religion in Ireland, 65;
reasons for wishing the abrogation of
the remaining penal laws of Ireland,
66; ecclesiastical power an engine
of mischief, ib. ; not acknowledged.by
the English constitution, ib.; the Ro-
man catholic not always necessarily
an abettor of his own church, 67;
inconsistency of British policy to-
wards Ireland, ib.; approaching cri-
sis in the affairs of Ireland, 68;
ferocious conduct of the papists at the
Curlow bible society, ib. el seq.; two
ways of proceeding in regard to Ire-
land, 70; popery must be destroyed by
the bible, 71.

Iturbide, late emperor of Mexico, his
military transactious and, abdication,
290; his return to Mexico, capture,
and execution, 293; character of, 8€.
294: see Mexico.

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