ral production of salt petre on the walls of subterraneous and other buildings, 511
Kidd's Sermons for the use of villages and families, 369, et seq.; author's style considered, 370; reflections on the piety of Abijah, b.; on the prayer of Jesus on the Cross, ib. Kiffin, Mr. W. biographical sketch of his life, 403, et seq.; see Wilson's his- tory of dissenting churches. Kirby's entomology, see Entomology. Klaproth's travels in the Caucasus, and
Georgia, 328, et seq.; formidable ex- tent and power of the Russian em- pire, ib.; origin of the expedition, 329; nature of the author's arduous duties, 330; general character and estimate of the work, ib. et seq.; reli gion, &c. of the Calmucks, &c, 332; description of the Kürdä or praying mill, ib. et seq.; other superstitious ceremo- nies, 334; Grandshuhr or master-book of the whole world, ib.; great preva- lence of priestcraft among them, ib.; doubtful nature of the author's reli- gious principles, 335; his statement of their morality, ib, et seq.; their mode of ordination for priests' orders, 336; ah- surd nature of their petitions, 337; superstitious observances among the Mon- gols, ib.; practise a kind of baptism, 358; mode of preparing for death, ib.; general habits, &c. of the Tscherkes- sians, ib.; remains of Madshar, 339; great elevation of the Elbrus and Mqinwari mountains, ib.; supersti- tious opinion of the natives concern- ing them, ib. et seq.
Knowledge, Williams's moral tenden- cies of, 594,5
Konig on a fossil human skeleton from
Guadaloupe, 505; not a fossil re- main, but merely an incrustation, 506 Kubla Khan, a poem, by S. T. Cole- ridge, 571
Kürda, or praying mill, 332
Lalande fond of eating spiders, 582 Leaves, 399, et seq.; character of the poems, ib.; the child of love and genius, 400 Lecture on Skulls, see Headlong Hall. Letters from a gentleman in the north
of Scotland, see Highlands. Letter to Mr. Gisborne by one of the clergy, see Bible Society, 52 Lewis and Clarke's travels to the source of the Missouri river, 105, et seq.; see Missouri.
Lincoln, letter to the bishop of, on ac-
count of his attack on the British and
Foreign Bible Society, in his late charge to his clergy, see Bible Society. Little Davy's new hat, Bloomfield's his- tory of, 76, 7; extract, 77
Liturgy, Mr. Bugg's opinion of the re- strictive nature of its language, 436 Love and opportunity, a song, 380 Locusts, a flight of, described, 579 London Missionary Society, Dr. Brown's account of, 234; causes of their first misfortunes, ib.; instrumental in ex- citing new energy into the other mission- ary societies, ib.
Low Countries, good policy of uniting them with the States of Holland, 352 Lunatic asylums, pauper, Tuke's prac- tical hints on the construction and economy of, 293, 301, et ssq.
Mc Lean, Mr. Archibald, his contro- versy with Mr. Andrew Fuller on faith, 485, et seq. Madhouses, reports, &c. respecting them, 293, et seq.; awful interest of the subject, ib.; inquiry if madness be curable by medicine, 294; opinion of practitioners on the subject, various, ib.: probable causes of this difference, 295; remarkable instance of alterna- tion in mental and bodily disease, 296; mental sanity frequently precedes the death of insane persons, ib.; inqu ries in regard to a conciliatory mode of treatment, 297; extract from the Hon. H. Grey Bennett's evidence before the House, ib. et seq.; cases of Mrs. Stone and of Norris, ib.; statement of some particulars that have been beneficial in lunatic asylums, 300; inquiry in regard to exercise, ib. et seq.; defects in lunatic asylums, 301; Mr. Tuke's pro- posed classification of patients, 302; Mr. Bakewell's plan, ib.; an interest- ing case of apparently religious insa- nity, 303; the subject, in fact, a bold profligate, ib.; Mr. Bakewell's opinion in regard to supposed religi- ous maniacs, ib.; great credit due to him for his firm intrepid.ty in expo- sing the false assertions that religion is the frequent occasion of madness, 304; dependence on medicine in cases of insanity very small, 305; great necessity of county establishments, 306; probability of beneficial effects from the investigation, ib.
Majolo, the, a tale, 77, et seq.; reflec- tions on acquired knowledge, &c. 78; character of the Majolo, 79; the Majoli, who they are, ib.; appearance of the Majolo, ib.; character of the indi- genous music of mountainous countries,
80; character seldom understood by an estimate of the qualities of the mind, 81; illustrated in the (imagined) character of Don Lopez, ib.; Majolo's reasons for thinking the life of a merchant the most preferable, 82; his first efforts to obtain literary eminence detailed, 82, 3; con- cluding remarks on the character of the work, 84
Mandan Indians, 117; their tradition of
their remote history, 117
Mant's, Dr. two tracts, on regeneration
and conversion according to the sense of holy scripture, and the church of England, 429, et seq.
Medicine of the Mandans, an American
tribe, its singular meaning, 118; medicine stone, 119
Meeting-houses, evils likely to result from their being made subject to pa- rochial assessments, 494, 5
Memoirs of lady Hamilton, 284, et seq.; see Hamilton.
Mirage, account of one in Caubul, 466 Messiah, bishop Horsley's opinion of the origin of the prophecies among the heathen concerning him, 152, 3 Messiah, the only safe basis on which passages from the old testament can be applied to him, 27
Methodist (Wesleyan) missions in the West Indies, 234; in the island of Ceylon, ib. conversion of a Budha priest, ib.
Middle class of society, its rise and great national importance, 213; not known in Frauce, 214, 217
Military influence, its danger, as illustrated
in the conduct of the French soldiery, 68 Milbank Penitentiary, its probable evil tendency, 613
Ministers of the church, Wilks's essay
on the conversion and unconversion of, 538, et seq.; see Wilks.
Missionary exertions, encouragements for prosecuting them, 225
Missions, Brown's history of, 223; et seq. See Brown.
Missouri river, Lewis and Clarke's travels to the source of, 105, et seq.; impor- tance of the expedition, ib.; reflections on the influence of vast and antecedent- ly unexplored reg ons on a philosophi- cal and imaginative spirit, 107; descrip- tion of the party, 109; nature of the anticipated difficulties, ib. et seq.; ob- stacles from the extreme rapidity of the current and treachery of the bank, 110-1; description of the Osages, ib.; their own account of their descent from a snail, ib.; general appearance of the country, 112; extensive ancient
burying grounds of the Indians, ib. ; ravages of the small pox among the Mahas, effects of their de- spair, ib.; death of Sergeant Floyd, ib.; remarkable bends in the river, 113; Ottoes and Missouri Indians, ib.; effects of a hurricane, ib.; Staitan or Kite Indians, ib.; notice of some natural curiosities, ib.; remarkable re- gular mound, ib.; water of the rivers rendered deleterious by the great quantity of copperas, &e. in its bank, ib.; Sioux, a numerous and powerful tribe, ib.; determined conduct of some associated young and brave men in this tribe, 115; description of some an- cient fortifications 116; the Ricka- ras, ib.; reject the use of spirituous liquors, ib.; Mandaus and other tribes, 117; Mandans, tradition of their origin, 117, 118; remarkable circumstance in their religion, 118, 119; barbarous revenge of a Minnetaree chief, 119; in- tense cold of the winter, 120; vol- canic appearances, 121; sharp and dangerous encounter with a bear, 122; singular mode of procuring buffaloes, 123; perilous situation of the Capt. L. and one of his men, ib.; discover the summits of the rock mountains, ib.; Capt. L. arrives at the first cataract,ib. extent, &c. of the various falls, 125; cataracts described, ib.; danger of Capt. C. and others from the effects of a heavy rain, 126; destruction of the buffa- loes at the falls, ib.; their immense breeds, ib.; remarkable mountain ex- plosions, ib.; Capt. L. surprized by a bear, 127; the party pass the gates of the rocky mountains, ib.; arrive at the three forks,' 128; Shoshonee Indians, their actions, &c. 128, 129; cross the mountainous track, ib,; ar- rive at the Columbia river, 130; dis- cover the Pacific ocean, 131; customs, &c. of the Indians on Colombia, a river, ib.; return of the party, 132 Mongols, religion, &c. of, 336, et seq. Monitor, weekly, 174 Moorish school at Fez, 529 Morell's studies in history, vol. 2. His- tory of Rome, 170, et seq.; best mode of making history the vehicle of moral and religious instruction, 171; con- version of Constantine, 172; reflections on it, 173
Morris's memoirs of the life and wri- tings of the Rev. Andrew Fuller, 478, See Fuller
Mound of the little devils, 113; Indian tradition concerning them, 114
Mountainous districts, their general fea-
tures, nearly similar, 249, et seq. Mountain scenery, Chateaubriand's remarks · on it, 47
Mountain scenery, its influence on the mind and feeling, 250, et seq. Mqiruvari, a mountain of Caucasus, de- scription of, 340
Mural, remarks on his character, by Miss Williams, 734
Music, at Morocco, its nature, 527 Music, native, of mountainous countries wild, abrupt, and mournful, 80; great resemblance between Sardinian and Scot- tish music, ib.
Narrative of events in France, from the
landing of Bonaparte till the restora- tion of Louis XVIII. 65, et seq. Nelson's, Lord, letters, were not publish- ed by Lady Hamilton, 289 New Covenant, translated into Hebrew,
for the Jews, 343, et seq.; work in- cludes Matthew only, 343; Jona's translation of the New Testament, 344; plan and execution of the work, ib.; emendatory hints to the translators, 345, et seq.
Ney, Marshal, Miss Williams's remarks
on his character, 68; executed at Paris, ib.
Niagara, Chateaubriand's dangerous adven- ture there, 48
Nismes, cruelties perpetrated there, confined to the protestants, 394 Nonconformist church, the first in England, some account of, 401
Norris (the lunatic) his case stated, 297,
Notes, to illustrate the text of books, a modern contrivance, 13; objections against the notes to Gibbon's Decline and Fall, 14 Notes, intended as materials in regard to the affairs of the French Protes- tants of the Department du Gard, 209
Ode, a second, to Buonaparte, 75, 76; its character wholly imitative, ib.; extract, 76
Opoleyta, a tale of Ind, 158, et seq.; ex- tracts, 159
Oregan, a river of the West, 130
Orr, a united Irishman, remarks on his case, and on his defence by Mr. Cur- ran, 168 Osages, American Indians described, 110, 111; their own tradition of their origin, 111
Pamphlets on the present distressed
state of the United Kingdom, 417, et seq.
Papal system, its varied aspect as exhibited in past circumstances, and in present lo- cality, and as represented by modern en- lightened advocates, 317, 318; its just features exhibited in Spain, Portugal, &c. not in the descriptions of Butler and Eustace, ib.
Papists, their zeal in propagating their religious opinions, 226
Parish relief, its evil operation under certain circumstances, 612 Parisina, a poem, by Lord Byron, 273, et seq.; objections to the tale, ib.; its effect painful, 274; Lord B.'s poems merely sketches of characters, ib. Paris revisited, see Scott (John) Parkes's chemical essays, 255, et seq.; manufacturers should be conversant with scientific principles, ib.; the arts precede the sciences in the progress of mankind towards refinement, &c. ib.; Lord Bacon's proof that the dis- covery of gunpowder was accidental, 256; nature of these essays, ib.; sub- jects of the essays, ib. et seq.; his ad- vice to a medical student considered, 258; his description of making cast steel obscure, 266; his remarks on temperature contradictory, ib.; his account of combustion unphilosophical, ib., his statement in regard to the bittern of the Cheshire, &c. works, erroneous, 261; barytes, used by the French manu- facturers of porcelain, 263; Drs. Ward and Roebuck's modes of form- ing sulphuric acid, 264; a particular process in Lancashire described, 265; on citric acid, 266; its process and pro- duce, ib.; attempt to make it in Sicily, 267; on fixed alkalies, ib.; general remarks, 268.
Parsey's deserted village restored, a poem, 398, 399; extract, ib. Paul's letters to his kinsfolk, 346, et seq.; causes of the discontent that suc- ceeded to the first return of the Bour- bons, 347; negligence of the police rendered Buonaparte's journey to Paris safe and easy, 348; his effec- tive preparations for the invasion of Belgium, b.; affair of Quatre Bras, ib.; danger of Blucher, 349; retreat of Wellington upon Waterloo, ib.; alarm at Brussels, 350; instances of English and of French bravery, ib.; noble sentiments of Wellington, 351; perseverance of the British troops, 351; real nature of Napoleon's errors at Waterloo, 352; author's opinions that the late poli-
tical trouble of Europe originated in the partition of Poland, ib.; reflec- tions on the mischiefs that would have arisen from the burning of Paris, 353; objectionabie levity of the au- thor in speaking of the papal heresy, 354; his opinion of the present state of the Romish church, incorrect, ib.; great attention paid to the religious education of the lower classes in the kingdom of Wirtemburg, 350; ill- judged remarks on the restoration of the Gallic church, exposed, ib.; his reflections on the state of the Protestants in France, 356, 357 Peculiarities of an author, are generally among his faults, 37
Penny-a-week Purgatorian Society, 326; Carlyle's remarks on it, ib. Penrose's, Liewellyn, journal, 395, et seq.; nature of the work, ib.; evidence of its authenticity unsatisfactory, 396; some account of the author, ib.; testi- mony of Mr., now Sir B. West, 397; Mr. Taylor's account of the journal, ib.; its character, 398
Peshawer, residence of the Afghaun court,
468; description of the surrounding country, 557
Philosophical transactions for 1814,357,
et seq.; synoptic scale of chemical equivalents, 357, 8; analysis of a new species of copper ore, 349; Ba- kerian lecture, on some new electro- chemical phenomena, ib.; new expe- riments on the fluoric compounds, 360, et seq.; experiments and observa- tions on a new substance which be- comes a violet-coloured gas by heat, 362, et seq.; account of a family hav- ing hands and feet with supernumerary Angers and toes, 504; experiments and observations on the influence of the nerves of the eighth pair, on the secretions of the stomach, 505; on a fossil human skeleton from Guada- loupe, ib.; observations on the func tions of the brain, 506; further ex- periments and observations on iodine, 507, et seq.; observations respecting the natural production of saltpetre on walls of subterraneous and other buildings, 511; on the nature of the salts termed Prussiates, and on acids formed by the union of certain bodies with the elements of the Prussic acid, ib.; some experiments on the com- bustion of the diamond and other car- bonaceous substances, 513; some ac- count of the fossil remains of an ani- mal more nearly allied to fishes than
Policy of an infidel despot more bene- ficial to society than the principles of popery, see extract, 71, et seq. Political establishment for the conver sion of sinners, absurdity of it, 550, 1- Poor's rates, era of the act of their esta- blishment, 493
Popery, diversified nature of its charac- ter in various countries, 217; pam. phlets on, 313; pomp of the Romish church, &c. adverse to the simplicity of the Christian institute, 514; its late threatening situation, ib.; the feelings and the practice of protestants, on this occasion strangely at variance, 316; present efforts of the Romish church to re-establish herself, ib.; duty of protestants to counteract its efforts, 317; design of the pamphlets, ib.; papal system, its varied aspects, as ex- hibited by past circumstances and present locality, and as represented by modern, enlightened advocates, 317, 8; Dr. Smith's candid mode of treating his subject, 318; reasons for considering the papal system unalterable, ib.; its true fea tures exhibited in Spain and Portugal, not in England, &c. ib.; Butler and Eustace's professions of liberality, in direct opposition to the spirit of the Romish church, ib.; they are un authorized advocates, 319; inquiry into alleged pretensions to religious au thority, ib. et seq.; reasons for rejecting the authority of the pope and church of Rome, 321; supremacy of the pope considered, 322; Romish infallibility, doubt whether it attaches to the pope or to the church, ib.; Carlyle's remarks on Mr. Ryan's collective infallibility, 322, 3; his reasons for the Romish clergy's deriving their succession from the priests, and not from the prophets, 329; popery destroys the essential princi. ples of personal religion, &c. ib. et seq.; fundamental principles of dissent, the same as those that protest against the church of Rome, 325; duty of dis-
senters to state the reasons of their dissent, ib.; reveries of Joanna Southcot in- stanced by Mr. Ryan, as one of the evils of protestantism, 326; reply of of Mr. Carlyle, ib.; penny-a-week purgatorian society, ib.; Mr. G.'s re- marks on it, ib.; Claude's "defence "of the reformation," 327; Bayle's high estimate of it, ib. Population in old countries outgrows the limits of subsistence, 608
Porrett on the nature of the salts termed triple Prussiates, and on acids formed by union of certain bodies with the elements of the Prussic acid, 511 Poverty among the Highlanders described,
Poverty, the actual source of the pre-
sent distress of the nation, 425; its causes, ib.; its extensive influence in regard to marriage and promiscuous intercourse, 605; counteracting ten- dency of economical banks, 606 Praying-machines, curious account of, 332 Preaching Christ, Durant's sermon on the best mode of, 174, et seq. Presbyterian church, the first in Eng- land, 402
Prescience, a poem, 472, el seq.; ex- tracts, 474, et seq.
Preston's review of the present ruined condition of the landed and agricul- tural interests, 417, et seq. Priest's orders, process of ordination for, among the Mongols, 336
Private hours of Nap. Bonaparte, writ-
ten by himself, 93,4; the work fic- titious, ib.
Protestant colonies in Italy, formed by the Genevese, 97
Protestant marriages in France, their legi- timacy acknowledged by Louis XVI. 216
Protestant religion, Dr. Smith's reasons
of, 313. See popery Protestants in France, on the present state of, (Jan. 1816) 100, 1. (Note) Protestants in France, Walter Scott's remarks on the present state of, 356, 7 Protestants in the South of France, Miss
H. M. Williams's account of the per- secutions of, 891, et seq. *Protestants, less zealous than Papists
and Mahometans, in propagating their doctrines, 226; their feelings and their practice strangely at vari- ance, in regard to the late threatening state of the Romish church, 316. Psalms, Bishop Horsley's translation of the book of, 20, et seq.; specimens by the bishop and the reviewer, 28,
Religious freedom in danger; or, the toleration act invaded by parochial assessments in religious places of worship, 493. See Hill, the Rev. Rowland Religious insanity, a remarkable appa- rent loss of, 300; the subject really a bold profligate, ib.; the visionary fervours of devotion in some maniac, the effects, not the cause of insanity, ib, Religious liberty in France, the advantages it gained from the Revolution, 393; its complete emancipation under Buonaparte, ib.; returns to a state of doubtful tolera tion under the Bourbons, 394 Revenge of an American Indian chief, on account of his wife's infidelity, 119 Rimini, story of, a poem, by Leigh Hunt, 380, et seq.
Robertson's, Dr. happy talent for nar-
rative conversation, 6; character of his style, 15, 17; never attempted to write poetry, 19
Roman Catholic priesthood, its spirit utterly fatal to the liberties of man- kind, 217
Roman horizon, Chateaubriand'c description of the beauties of, 46
Romish church. See popery Romney, his exhibition of Lady Hamil ton in various characters, 286 Rose's, Right Hon. George, observations on banks for savings. 599, 509, et seq. Royal legitimacy, not dependent merely on birth, 221
Ruthwell economical bank, 603 Ryan's arguments for the pre-eminency of the Roman Catholic episcopacy, Carlyle's examination of, 310, et seq.; see popery
Sacraments, on the nature, &c. of, 439, et seq.
Sal ammoniac, remarks on the manufacture, &c. of, 261
Savings Banks, pamphlets on, 599 et
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