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