Cornwallis, (Lord), his administrations in India, 177, 178
Court of Chancery-see Chancery Cradock, (J.), his second volume of me- moirs, their trifling character, 423-his account of the ascent of the Duke of Orleans in a balloon, 429-visits the coral manufactury at Marseilles, 430 Creation, Mosaic account of compatible with the laws of physiology, 515 Cresy, (Mrs. Edward), her translations of Milizias' lives of celebrated architects, 125
Crimea, the Italy of Russia, description of, 122
Criticisms, dramatic, by Tieck, 457 Croly, (Rev. Mr.), his poetical" dirge," 285-his poem of the Enchanted Cas- tle, 286
Crusca, de la, dictionary of, controversy respecting its authority, 480 Cumberland, Richard, his British theatre, the cheapest and most complete col- lection of plays ever given to the pub- lic, 365
Cupola, celebrated octangular Florence, 131
Cuvier, Baron, charges of Dr. Desmoulins against him, 505
Cylinder, description of large one to be used in a newly projected mode of con- veyance, 227, 229
Cymbeline, play of, remarks on its per- formance, 458
Dagley, (R.), his Death's Doings cen- sured, 305
Dandy, the derivation of, 111-account
of an antient one by Theophrastus, 211 Dantzic, one of the chief depots in the north of Europe for the exportation of corn, 2
Deaf and Dumb, a concise exposition of
the method of instructing them, by G. Young, 105
Death, failure of the project for substi- tuting labour and imprisonment for the punishment of death in the United States of America, 57
Death's Doings, a publication by R. Dag- ley, 305
Debt, public, see Fundholder
Defensio Regia, by Salmasius, attracts universal attention, order in council against its introduction into England, 266 Democracy, the experiment of, tried under most advantageous circumstances in America, 48
Desmoulins, (Dr.), his natural history of
the human race-attack on Baron Cu vier, 505-his errors and false conclu sions, 514, 515
Dictionary, (Dr.) Jamieson's mechanica one, examined, 234-see Jamieson Diet, a treatise on, by Dr. Paris, 37 Dinner, French, a description of, 94- improvements upon, ib.-habits of the French at dinner, 95
Diocletian, edict of, fixing the prices of provisions, 326
Dog, travels of the dog Keeper, in search of his master, 223
Drama, reasons why good writers do not attempt it, 371-see Acting Theatres, also Tieck
Dramatic Criticisms by Tieck, 457 Dwarf, account of one, 346
Ebsambal, Temple of, account of it, 337 Education, thoughts on female, 329- important suggestions respecting, 331 -see Deaf and Dumb Elbing, one of the chief depots in the north of Europe, for the exportation d corn, 2
Elephant, instance of the intellectual fa culties of one, 295
Elsevier, (Daniel), his letter declining to publish Millin's Letters, and Treatise on Theology, 271
England, her superior fertility owing equally to her manufactures and agri- culture, 12-expensiveness of compared with that of foreign countries, 89, 90 Englishmen, their spirit of excursion un- intelligible to foreigners, 89 Equity-see Chancery
Etiquette, points of in French manners, not generally known, 95 Etymons of English words, by the late John Thompson, 110 Evidence, mode of taking it in the Court of Chancery, seriously defective-the reason of the commissioners of Inquiry for not proposing to alter it, stated, 251, 252 Exceptions, a proceeding in the Court of Chancery, 247, 248
Fanatic, curious account of one in Russia, 115
Farmer-see Agriculturist
Faustus, Doctor, his conjectured identity
with the inventor of typography, 145 Federal system in America-able publica tions in defence of, 516-see Federa list-the security it affords to the rights of the people, 522
Federalist, The, a collection of letters on the constitution of the United States, by Messrs Hamilton, Madison, and Jay-object of the work, 516-it is a masterly comment on the constitution, 518-perusal of it recommended to Englishmen, 526-see America Females, important suggestions for the education of young, 331
Feudal system, the, relaxed in Poland, 8 Fiction, materials for an essay on German works of, pointed out, 138 Food, animal, the nature of, 39 Four years in France; a narrative of an English family's residence there during that period; preceded by some account of the author's conversion to the Catho- lic faith, 87-character of the author, 88-the merit of his work as a family picture, ib.
Forget me-not, an annual publication, its character, 284
Fortitude, instance of it, 472
Fouqué, (Baroness de la Motte), stories from the German of, 526-her tale of the Castle of Scharfenstein, 531 France, poetry of, difficulties attending its composition, 466-success of fo- reigners in, 467-narrative of four years' residence in, 87
Frank, (Miss), her memoirs of the life and writings of Lindley Murray--her esti- mate of his character, 293
Fulton's Pronouncing Vocabulary, 105, 106
Fundholder, an ad valorem tax recom- mended to be laid on the annual produce of the funds, 315
Gallies, War, of the antients, Treatise on by John Howell, 403 Gamba,(Chevalier), his travels into South- ern Russia-his suspicions of British commercial policy-labours to revive Napoleon's continental system against Great Britain, 447
Garrick, (David), anecdote of, 346 Garrence, or madder, grown in the neigh- bourhood of Avignon, 96
Garum, the famous sauce of the Romans, distilled from decayed fish, 41 Gas, natural lights produced from it at Bakou, a port in the Caspian Sea, ap- plied to superstitious purposes, 456 Gauchos, inhabitants of the Pampas, ae- count of, 156
George 3d, anecdote of, 433
German, Stories from the, selected from the works of Hoffman, de la Motte, Fouqué, Pichler, Kruse and others, by R. P. Gillies, 526
German Novelists, The, by Mr. Roscoe, account of, 137-character of German novels, 138
Germany, notes and reflections during a ramble in merits of the work, 352, 353
Gillies, (R. P.), his version of German
Stories his merits as a translator, 526 Gilley, (Rev. Mr.), his paper on the Albi- genses in the Amulet, objectionable for its sectarian warmth, 275
Glory, what it has cost Great Britain, 313
Göthe, his Rifleman's comrade, 434-
his remarks on Manzoni's tragedy of Camagnola, 484
Good, (Dr.), his book of nature, 70 Government, it cannot, by active interfer- ence, enrich the people, 311
Grammar of the Portuguese language by John Laycock, 105
Grammar, English, Lindley Murray's: origin of, 300
Guebres, superstitions of, 456 Gypsies, Russian, account of, 120
Hanging, why held honourable by the Americans, 280
Haricot seeds, grown in the neighbour- hood of Avignon, 96
Hastings, (Warren), his administration in India, 174
Hastings (Marquis) of, his administration in India, 180
Head (Captain), journey of, across the Pampas, and among the Andes, 152- his illiberal censures on manners, 153, 158, 162
Heman's, (Mrs), her poem called "a Bet- ter Land," 397
Henderson, (E.), his Biblical Researches, and Travels in Russia, 113, character of that work, 114, 124-failure of his biblical mission to Russia, 124 Hibbert, Robert, his hints to a young Ja- maica sugar planter, 218
High Life below stairs, a farce, the tu- mult it occasioned in the gallery, the cause of making it a pay place, 348 Hoffman, select stories from the German of, by R. P. Gillies, 526
Jamieson, (Dr.), his mechanical dictionary
-its title ridiculed, 234-its preten- sions examined, shewn not to be a new work-not to be a dictionary of mecha- nical science-and not to be a dicti- onary of science of any sort, 238 Jay, (Mr.), a contributor to the American work, the Federalist, 518
Ice, set of, in a westerly direction, re-
marked upon, 67, 68
Jellies and other glutinous matters, not easy of digestion, 41-reason of this, ib. Jews, condition of in Poland, 7-in
Southern Russia, their eagerness to get copies of the New Testament accounted for, 116-their mode of multiplying the copies of the Old Testament, 117 Improvement of towns, petitions respect- ing, passed in 1825 and 1826, 27-de- crease in those petitions not so great as might have been expected, 128 Inconsistency, a defence of by Dr. Parr, 104
Indla, British, Malcolm's political history of, 167
Ingush, a sect, curious description of, 123
Inns in Germany, account of, 357 Inquiry, result of, into the abuses in Chancery-see Chancery Intercourse, improvement in internal in- tercourse extraordinary, in the last seventy years, 225
Labour, nations of whose staple commo- dities labour has furnished the greater portions, and nature the less, have the advantage in the market, 208 La Bruyere, his translations of the cha- racters of Theophrastus, 210 Ladies, French, no impropriety in their receiving visitors in their bed rooms, 92, 93-see Females
Land, value of in Prussia, 5-course of its cultivation, ib.
Land, proprietors of in Prussia, repre-
sented to be in great distress, 6 Landon, (Miss), her serenade, 306 Landschaft, or states, their valuation of
certain estates in Prussia, and scheme for borrowing money upon them,-6 their appeal to the king of Prussia against the English corn laws, ib. Language, character of several European languages, 473-controversy respecting Italian, 480-the English, its derivation 110-see Good-Grammar
Lavapie, the St. Giles's of Madrid, des- cribed, 34-adventures of Sandoval there, 34, 35, 36
Law, the jargon of its language, one rea- son why the amendments in jurispru- dence have not kept pace with other improvements, 241
Lawrence, (Dr.), his opinions that the different races of men are only varieties of the same species, well founded,
Laws, Corn-see Corn
Lawyer, the Cabinet, a useful, but inac- curate publication, 332 Laycock, (John), his grammar of the Por- tuguese language, 105
Leake, (Colonel), his publication of a curious edict of Diocletian's for fixing the prices of provisions, 326 Leisure Hours, by Moritz Arndt, 476 Lemon, (Robert), deputy keeper of the state papers-his industrious and ac- curate searches respecting Milton's his- tory, 259
Lesghis, robbers, account of, 452, 453 List of petitions and private bills in par- liament, and proceedings thereupon, session 1826, 27-compared with that of 1825, 27
Lives of celebrated architects, 129-see Bateman, Biographical Sketches, Klop- stock, Murray, North
Llanos, (Mr.), his Sandoval, or the Free- mason, a Spanish tale, 30 Longobards, some account of, 486-the fall of, 487, 488
Lope, (de Vega), notice of—his labours
in verse-character of his writings, 468
Lover, tragical adventure of one, 472 Lungs, the, give off eleven ounces of car- bon, and twenty of water, as it is esti- mated, during the twenty-four hours, 40
Magnetic needle, discoveries concerning its variations and change of intensity, 63-the influence of the local attrac- tion corrected by Mr. Barlow's plate, ib.
Man, natural history of, by Dr. Desmou- lins, 505-see also Good-Physiology Mangles (Capt.)-see Irby Manzoni, works of, 480
Marriage, mode of negociating it amongst the Moravians, 299
Marvell (Andrew), associated with Mil- ton in the office of Latin Secretary- letter of Milton to Bradshaw in his favour, 269
Mary, sister of Lazarus, beautiful poetical picture of her death, 496
Masters, in Chancery, their duties, 243 Materialism, the medical profession prope to, 84, 85, 86-see Bateman Maury (Don Juan Maria), his poetry of Spain, 466
May, the first of, a German story, 536 Mechanical, (Dr.) Jamieson's dictionary
of mechanical science, examined, 234 Memoirs of J. Cradock, vol. 2d, 428 Mendoza, description of, 159 Messiah, Klopstock's, poem of, the new
English translation of, by a lady, 493 Milizia (Francesco), his lives of cele- brated architects, in Italian, translated into English, 125-account of his life, 126
Miller (William), his
sketches of British characters recently deceased, &c., 112
Millhouse (Robert), his song of the Pa-
triot, sonnets and songs, 108, 109, 110 Milton (John), some account of the life and writings of, by the Rev. H. J. Todd, estimate of the character of, 258-dis- coveries in State Paper Office relating to, 259 Mine, description of one, 358-mines South American, (Captain) Head's account of one, 165-remarks on spe- culations in, 165, 166
Mitford (Miss Mary R.), her story of the "Chalk Pit," 283-her story of "Grace Neville," 287-her "Sketches of Rural Character," her style and manner, 316, 318-extracts, 324-her story of" the Queen of the Meadow," 397 Monasteries, remarks on their overthrow, 424
Money, value of Roman, explained, 327 Monopoly, in corn trade, injurious, 203- in the drama, 374.
Monti, an Italian writer, notice of, 481, 482
Moon, distorted appearances of the, ob- served by Captain Parry and his asso- ciates, 64
Moore (Ann), the fasting woman of Tut- bury, her singular case, 73, 74 Moravians, account of a settlement of, in Pennsylvania, 298
Mortgages, deemed an ordinary appen- dage to a Polish estate, 9 Murray(Lindley), life and writings of, by Miss Frank, 293
Napoleon Bonaparte, odes to, 491, 492 -his son, some particulars relating to, 360
Nature, the book of, by (Dr.) Good, 70 Navigation, petitions respecting in 1825 and 1826, 27
Needle, magnetic-see Magnetic Negro, character of, described, 218 Nice, a description of, 101-its terrace lined with orange trees, 102-its port, pier, cathedral, &c., ib. Nixon's English Parser, 106 Nobility, cheapness of in Poland, 9,—see Aristocracy
Normans, singular petition of, sung to the late king of France, on his restora- tion, 92
North (Sir Dudley), his character, 12, 13 North (Right Hon. Francis), his cha- racter, 12, 13
North (the Hon. and Rev. John, his cha- rácter, 12, 13
North (the Hon. Roger), his character-
his lives of his three brothers, 12, 13, 14
North-west passage, journal of a third voyage for the discovery of, by Captain Parry, 59
Novelists, German-see German Nubians, account of, 339 Number-books, description of, a bad class of, 235, 236, 237
Oils, difficult to be digested, 41
O'Keefe, recollections of the life of, by himself, 343
Orleans, Duke of, his ascent in a balloon, 429
Orkney islands-see Shetland isles
Palladio, some acconnt of, 135 Palmyra, its present state calculated to disappoint curiosity, 342
Pampas, journey across the, 152-ac- count of, and their inhabitants, 154, 155
Parhelia, observed in the polar regio 64
Paris (Dr.) his treatise on diet, 37- Diet
Parr (Dr.), his aphorisms, opinions,
flections, and a sketch of his life, 10% Parry (Captain), his third voyage to t Polar seas, 60
Pearl divers, Indian, abstain from eve alimentary stimulus previous to the descent into the ocean, 39 Peasantry of the Prussian provinces, the degraded condition, 4-of Poland, 8- paucity of their numbers, ib.-thei food, ib.-their love of whiskey, ib. Penitentiaries, character and effects of i the United States, 57-failure of th scheme for substituting labour and in prisonment for death, ib.
People, all power derived from, the pri ciple of the American as of the Britis Constitution, 519
Peter's (St.) Church at Rome, historic facts relating to, 133
Petitions, private, list of for the Sessi 1826, 26-see List
Physiology, laws of, compatible with tl Mosaic account of the Creation, 515- see also Good Man Pichler, story from the German of, R. P. Gillies, 526 Pilgrim, account of one, 355 Pisa, description of, 197 Planter, Hints to the Young Jamai Sugar Planter, 218 Poetry, Anglo-Saxon Illustrations of, J. J. Conybeare-opportunities a industry of the author, 183-Sax mode of writing poetry-specimens Anglo-Saxon poetry, 184, 185, 188- French, difficulties of composition 466 Spanish, its brilliant period, 4 -Italian, controversy respecting, 48 Poets of Spain, historical notice of, 46 468-Lope de Vega, Villegas, 46 469-specimens from the latter, 469 Italian, 482-of France, 467 Poland, provinces of, declining in ag
culture, 7-Jacob's account of, in agricultural point of view, 41 Polonius, character of, remarks on, 404 novel view of, 465
Poor laws, their evil tendency, 334 Popes, the part taken by in the fall
the Longobards, and the establishme of Charlemagne's empire, 487, 490 Powell (Richard), Milton's father-in-la his misfortunes and death, 260 Powell (Mrs.), widow of Richard, a
mother-in-law of Milton, her petiti for the restoration of her husband's p perty, 261-she petitions for her thir and is opposed by Milton, 263 Prompter, the, a poem, its merits, 366
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