Linnæus, system of, compared with the
natural, 605.

Litigation, specimens of, abuse of, 457.
Litigation, state of, in Prussia, 41.
Liturgy, the difference between that of the
American and English churches, 87.
Liver, account of diseases of, 298.
Liverpool, expense of Irish paupers to, 568.
Lives, of Dr. A. Clarke, 605-of Mission-
aries, 607-of Scottish Worthies, 609.
Livings, average value of, in the diocese of
Bath and Wells, 136.

Loire, six weeks on the, by a lady, 467.
London, description of, by a foreigner, 2—

strange fact respecting its temperature, 4.
London, history and survey of, by Smith,
606.

London, temperature of, 149.

Longevity, that of actors, and the cause,
169.

Longevity of astronomers, 464.

Lord's Day, Bill for better observance of,
599.

Low Countries, visit to, by Faulkner, 36.
Luther, residence of, 38.

Lyford Redivivus, account of 544

M.

Maclure, William, his opinions on various
subjects, 297.

Mackintosh, Sir J., account of, 273-his
remarks on the criminal code, 275.
Mackinnon, Colonel, his history of the
Coldstream Guards, 353.

Madagascar, unhappy state of the people
of, 553-a strange prayer, on sneezing,
adopted by them, 555.

Madness in dogs, see hydrophobia.
Maggilivray, W., his compilation of De
Humboldt,

Mahomet, his dispensations to women, 492.
Mahon, Lord, his Appendix to the War of
Succession in Spain, 305.

Mahometan power, history of, 282.
Maize, account of, 108.

Mammalia, in the Ornithorhyncus, one of
them, 352.

Mangroves, their effect on water, 101.
Manioc, nature of, 107.

Manœuvre, a naval one, claimed by Clark
as his invention, 256.

Mansfield, the great Earl of, anecdote of,
549.

Manufacture, a fact showing the power of
British, 464.

Manufacture, British, of cotton, 308.
Marburg, in Germany, the residence of

Luther, 38-state of education in, 39.
March, atmospheric character of, 463.
Market for the sale of women, 70.
Marriage, rite of, how considered in Ame-
rica, 88.

Marriage, ceremony of, in Persia, 498.

Marriage, strange principle of, in Mada-

gascar,

Marriages in Prussia, 41.

Marriageable persons, number of, in Eng-
land, every year, 596.

Martineau, Harriett, her illustrations of po-
litical economy, 602.

Martin, Mr. R. M., on the necessity of
giving poor laws to Ireland, 567.
Materia Medica, elements of, by Dr. Thom-
son, 381.

Maxim, an excellent one, 551.
Mayence, unpopularity of the English in, 37.
Measures, modern, derived from the ancient
ones, 208.

Meat, difference of, loss in roasting and
boiling, 464.

Mechanics of London, remarks on, by a
foreigner, 4.

Medicine, taking hints to, 381-amount to
be taken, how determined, 385-habit
and climate influence the dose, 386, 387.
Medical knowledge, introduction of, into
Egypt, 460.

Members of Parliament, number returned
from England and Wales, 141.
Memoirs of Dr. Burney, by his daughter,

19.

Mendicant, lines written for, by Piron, 550.
Merlet, P. F., his French Instructor, 454.
Messalonghi, detailed account of the siege
of, 231.

Methodology, explained, 312.
Mexico, productions of, 107.

Middle state, of the soul, nature of, 528-
probable employment in, 529.

Mill of Mariemont, a tale founded on a
melancholy incident in the life of Stanis-
laus, King of Poland, 579.

Military Academy, an American one, 76.
Military Maxims of Napoleon, 83.
Milk, vegetable, 103.

Milk, in the breast of a man, 100.
Milton, John, Life and Times of, by Ivimey,

299.

Mortmain Act, intention of, 133.

Mosques, perils of entering them, 70.
Mostyn Hall, anecdote of, 545.

Mourning in America, fast declining, 89.
Mouse Tower, a poetical legend of the
Rhine, 127.

Murat, Achille, his sketch of the United
States, 398.

Murray, Col., his account of Abbotsford,
306.

Museum, the Soane, 610.

Music, how it is estimated in Persia, 498.
Music, Burney's History of, 25.

Muston, Rev. Mr., his opinion on the
question of recognition in the world to
come, 536-his objections answered,
537.

Mussulmans, prayers of, 64.
My Village, a tale, 299.

N.

Nail-making in Buffalo, 611.
Napoleoniana, by an officer of the army,
anecdotes of Buonaparte, 83.
Natural system of botany, compared with
the Linnæan, 605.
Navigation Act, rise of, 248.

Navy, British, some remarks on the sailors
of the, 5-supplied from merchant ves-
sels, 7.

Navy, the Turkish, curious particulars
respecting, 62, 63, 64.
Navy, early history of the British, 240-its
independent existence, 244-bold answer
of, to Prince Charles, 245-conduct of, at
the restoration, 246-details of its tactics
in the time of Queen Elizabeth, 248-
conduct of, during the Commonwealth,
252-Dutch wars, 253, 254.
Neale, Bishop of Durham, anecdote of,
550.

Nettle, account of the sting of, 119.
Netherlands, visit to the, by Faulkner, 36.
New Road to Ruin, 575. 589.
New York, account of the city of, 85, 86-
.houses of worship in, 87-Freemasons'
Hall in, 89-markets of, 90-civility in,
ib.

Newgate, internal state of, 422.

Newspaper wit, specimen of that of the

middle of the seventeenth century, 253.
Newspapers, those of the United States,
308.

Niebuhr, B. G., his History of Ancient

Rome, 197-object of the work, ib.
Nostalgia, the Swiss disease called Home-
sickness, 389.

Notaries, account of the ancient Roman
ones, 207.

Nulli secundus, a military club so called, its
rules, 365.

Nutrition, proportion of, in the Banana
tree, 107.

Paine, Mr., a prologue by, 159.
Paley, his directions to travellers, 73.
Palmer, Major-General James, his treatise
on prisons, 421.

Panics, commercial, improper conduct of
the Bank during, 541.

Parents, relations between English ones
and their children, 13.
Paris, poor of, 462.

Parr, Dr., his character of Sir J. Mackintosh,
273.

Parliament, original relation of the branches
of, 139.

Parsees, inhabitants of the East Indies, a
peculiar people, fully described, 191.
Parry, Captain, proof of his policy in one
of his famous expeditions, 7.
Pasquin, Anthony, anecdote of, 168.
Pasha, Capitan, of Turkey, account of an
entertainment by, 62-his sleeping place,
63.

Pasha, Redshid, the Grand Vizier, account
of, 66.

Patent Laws, the new, 610.
Patriotism, a Dutchman's, 44.
Paupers, Irish, injustice and expense occa-
sioned by their immigration, 568.
Pauper, plan for superintending them, with
a view to get rid of the poor laws, 55.
Paving, amount of, in England and Wales,
147.

Pawnbrokers, their rarity in America, 95.
Pay, military, in 1689, 358-in 1719, 368.
Peasant, description of an Irish one, 559.
Peasantry of Prussia, remarks on, 41-
morality of, 42.

Peasant of the South of France, state of
the, 471.

Peasantry of England, state of, and emi-

gration of, recommended, 594, 595.
Pecchio, Count, his observations on Eng-

land, 1-sketch of his personal history,
2-his account of the English in London,
3 of the sailors, 5-remarks on British
poetry, 6-eulogy of the seamen, 7-his
observations on the Commons, S-his
account of Senor Franco, 9-remarks on

roads, 11-on education, 12-on cus-
toms, 13-description of assizes, 14, 15
-remarks on sects, 17-visit to Mrs.
Fry, 18.

Peel, Sir R., his Reform of the Criminal
Laws, 506.

Peel, Sir R., his speech on the Irish Ques-
tion, 556-its commencement, 560-false
reasoning, 561, 562, 563-his view of
tithes, 564-strictures on the style of his
speech, 573.

Penalty, capital, 505.

Penitentiary System, full account of the, in
America and France, 504-its origin in
America, 509-its progress, 512. 515-
details respecting, 520. 522.
Penn, Life of Sir Wm., Knight, 240-birth
and education, and early life, 241-made
Vice-Admiral of England, 250-his con-
duct in the Dutch wars, 252.
Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, his account
of the rise of that State, 91.
Pennsylvania, origin of the State, and the
name, 92.

Pennsylvania, prison reform first established
in, 510, 511.

Pera, the residence of the ambassadors,
account of, 68.

Persian poetry, 143.

Persia, privileges of women in, 493.
Pestalozzi, system of, general in Ger-
many, 40.

Petrarch, strange speculation concerning
his Laura, 432.

Philadelphia, system of solitary imprison-

ment in, 518. 520-discipline at, 523.
Philadelphia, resolution of the Congress of,
153-discussion on the drama, by the
legislature of, ib.

Philosophical Conversations, by Bakewell,
453.

Philosophical Transactions, account of;
Part II. for 1832, 346.
Phylactery, account of one, 390.
Physiology of Plants, by Decandolle, 309
the word explained, 312.

Pigeons, a wonderful population, 464.
Pikes, formerly used instead of fire-arms by
soldiers, 358.

Pilgrim's, a legend, 125.

Piozziana, or Recollections of Mrs. Piozzi,
542.

Piozzi, Mrs., Recollections of, 542-anec-
dote of her and Gifford, 543-her last
moments, 543-account of her person,
514-prophesy respecting her, 547.

Pipe, the Turkish, advice respecting, 61.
Pitt, Right Hon. Wm., description of his
person, 548.

Pits for dogs, account of, 485, 486. 488.
Piron, lines written by, for a mendicant,
550.

Pirates, haunts of Greek ones, 237.
Planche's Lays and Legends of the Rhine,
125.

Plague, visits of the, at Rome, 202.
Plants, effect of frost on, 610.
Plants, colour of, 99.

Plants, physiology of, by De Candolle, 309
-account of their life, 310-and their
modes of production, 311-their nutri-
tion, 312-ascending and descending sap
of, 313-the duration of the life of, 317
-direction of their growth, 320-altered
in virtue by difference of climate, 386.
Poetry, British, compared with Italian, as
to its effect, 6.

Poison, strange custom of administering, in
Madagascar, 553-nature of that em-
ployed, 554.

Polish Tales, by the authoress of Hungarian
Tales, 575.

Political Economy, Miss Martineau on,
602.

Political Economy, John Hopkins on, 455.
Policy, remarks on that of Great Britain,
432.

Poor, the rights of the, vindicated, 570.
Poor, arrangement for the support of the,

in Baden, 48.

Poor Laws, the only remedy for the evils
of Ireland, 567-this opinion stated by
Sir F. M. Eden and Dr. Woodward,
569-by Dr. Doyle, 570-objections to
them disposed of, and a plan laid down,
572-mode of assessment and adminis-
tering the rate, ib.

Poor Laws, Sedgwick's letter on the repeal
of, in England, 593-his proposal to
abolish them, and to substitute another
code, 594-details of his plan, 596, 597.
Poor Laws, plan for a total change of, 55.
Population, inquiry into the principles of,

51-false theory respecting, 52-this re-
futed, 53-plan for getting rid of a re-
dundant, 55.

Population, comparative increase of, in
England and Ireland, 572.
Portia, the performance of, 549.
Portraiture, poetical account of the birth of,.

260.

Portland, account of the battle of, 252.
Postman, a strange one, 148.

Post Office, business of the General, de-
scribed, 308.

Potwallopers, meaning of the term, 141.
Poverty, that of the lower classes in Eng-
land explained, 53.

Prayer, mode of, in Turkey, 64.
Prayer, a singular, one used on sneezing
by the people of Madagascar, 555.
President, the American, described, 93.
Pretender, account of his abortive attempt
on the Crown in 1745, 361.

Prejudice, power of, 610.
Prigmore, the American actor, strange ec-
centricities of, 156.

Proclamations, Americau, 398, 399.
Produce of Great Britain, remarks on the,
433.

Prologue, an excellent, 159.

Property, crimes against, how punished,
506.

Property, sacredness of, in England, 12.
Prophesy fulfilled, 547.

Prisoners, necessity of separating, 517-
treatment of, in Philadelphia and Au-
burn, 512-520.

Prison discipline, full account of, in Ame-
rica, 504-its commencement, 509-pro-
gress, 510, 511, 512. 515-imperfection
of, 516-two systems, and nature of
each, 517,

Prison discipline, Major Palmer upon,
421-defects of 422-in America, 425-
defective state in Ireland, 427.
Prisoners in Newgate, 422-on board the
hulks, 423-in Ireland, 427.

Prussia, remarks on the social condition
of, 41.

Puberty, cases of premature, 385.
Pulpits, fact relating to, 462.

Pulse, state of the, in some persons, 385.
Punishment, capital, 505.

Q.

Quakers, the introducers of the best peni-
tentiary system, 510.

Quakers, a dinner party amongst, 17.
Quakers, opposition of, to the drama, in
America, 152.

R.

Rabies, canina, see hydrophobia.
Rail-road, a new, in America, 94.
Rail-roads, march of, 148.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, life of, 456.
Ramazan, some account of the festival of,
69-ceremonies of, ib.

Ramrods, how long wooden ones were
used in the army, 362.

Ramsay, the name of, illustrated, 546.
Rankin, M. H., his state of the representa-
tion, 138.

Rates, poor, proposed mode of assessing
and administering, in Ireland, 573.
Recipe, an easy one, 308.

Recognition, mutual, in the world to come,

530.

Reconnoitring, Napoleon's maxim respect-
ing, 83.

Reflections on tithes, by the Bishop of Bath
and Wells, 129.

Regicides, list of the persons who sentenced
Charles I., 246.

Rent, corn, the term explained, 131.
Renegade, The, a poem, by the Rev.
B. T. H. Cole.

Report, parliamentary, on secondary pu-
nishments, 421.

Representation of the kingdom, old and
new, contrasted, 607.
Representation, system of, in America, 96.
Representation of England and Wales,
system of, by M. H. Rankin, 138-sum-
mary of, 141.

Report on the laws relating to cruelty to
animals, 480.

Reshid Pacha, account of, 229.
Reverie, Cullen's doctrine of, 449.
Rhine, Lays and Legends of the, 125.
Richmond, late Duke of (Col. Lennox), his
duel with the Duke of York, 366.
Richmond (Henry VII.), anecdote of, 545.
Richmond Theatre, destruction of by fire,
finely described, 169.

Rifle Brigade, history of, 436.

Ritchie, Mr., his Library of Romance, 453.
Roads, state of, a criterion of civilization,
11-state of those of Spain and Eng-
land, 12.

Roasting, comparative loss of meat by, 464.
Rome, Niebuhr's history of, 197-constitu-

tion of, 199-laws of, 202-twelve tables
of, 203-censors of, 205-laws against
bachelors, 206.

Romans, the public burdens of the, 207.
Romilly, Sir S., reason of his defeat in the

cause of humanity, 505.

Rosetti, professor, strange theories of, 432.

S.

Sabbath, bill for better observance of the,
599.

Sabbath, manner of spending the, in Eng-
land, 4.

Sailors of England, notice of the, by a
foreigner, 5-the men of war and mer-
chant sailors compared, 6-eulogy up-
on, 7.

Sailors, Turkish, piety of, 61-state of,
63.

Sale of Circassians and Georgians, in Con-
stantinople, 71.

Sap, De Candolles's theory of its ascent,
312-also of its descent, 313.
Sarcophagus, the Belzoni site of, 611.
Saturday, importance of that day in Persia,
502, 503.

Savages, rights of, 552.

Savannahs, 103.

Scottish Worthies, lives of, 608.
Scot and Lot, explanation of the meaning
of the words, 140.

Scriptures, errors in the translation of the,
210-observations on, 265.

Scrope, G. P., his examination of the Bank
Charter question, 304.
Seaman, eulogy of a British, 7.
Seasons, stories in illustration of, 460.
Seasons, the, an excellent book on, 295.
Seamen, British, document sent by some
early ones to parliament, 242.
Sects, plan for uniformity of, with church-
men, 375.

Sedgwick, J., on the Poor Rates of Eng-
land, 593-his project for abolishing
them, and substituting a new plan, 594
(see emigration).

Semi-serious observation on England, 1.
Senses, change of them in heaven, 535.
Servants, Dutch remarks on, 44.
Servants, mode of influencing, 550.
Settlement, law of, as proposed to be intro-
duced in Ireland, 572.

Sheep-stealers, the English so called in
America, and why, 95.

Sheffield ware compared with a certain
class of poetry, 143.
Shell fish, habits of, 351.

Sheridan, Right Hon. R. B., description of
his person, 548.

Sheol, meaning of the Scriptural word, 527,

529.

528,
Ships, British merchantmen, description of
the sailors of, by a foreigner, 7.
Ship worms, account of, 148.
Siege, British soldiers at a, 437.
Silks, account of the, in Turkey, 293.
Sing-Sing, in America, the site of a prison
where the penitentiary system is carried
on, 514-nature of the system, 519.
Six Weeks on the Loire, by a lady, 467.
Sketch Book of Fashion, 606.

Slade, Adolphus, his travels in Turkey,
&c., 59.

Slaughter-houses, nuisance of, in New
York, 90-mode of slaughtering them,
91.

Slavery, how treated in America, 93. 95.
Slaves, sale of, in Constantinople, 70.
Slavery in England, state of, 308.
Sleep, observations on, 449.
Smelling, peculiarity of the sense of, 383.
Smith's, W., History and Survey of Lon-
don and Westminster, 606.
Smugglers, ingenious tricks of, 78.
Sneezing, strange ceremony used upon, in
Madagascar, 555.

Soane, Sir J., splendid present of, to the
public, 610.

Society, African Colonization, 93.
Soldiers, see Coldstream-Rifle Brigade.
Solitary confinement, a part of prison dis-
cipline, 512-its effects, 513. 515-in

532.

Spain, war of the succession in, 305.
Spielhouse, nature of the Dutch establish-
ment so called, 45.

Spirituous liquors, strange facility for giv-
ing them to the American army, 75.
Stanislaus, see Augustus.
Standing army, see army.

Stage, morality of the, discussed at length,
154 persecution of the, in America,
152. 154. 157-bad state of, 171, 172-
full account of the French stage, 173.
States, those composing the American
Union, remarks on, 402.

St. Bernard, monks of, 462:

Starke's, Mariana, Guide for Travellers,
461.

Stays, denunciation of, 14.

Stepney, Lady, her novel of New Road to
Ruin, 575-589.

Stratagem, a singular naval, which proved
successful, 342.

Stuart, James, his three years in America,
398.

Suits at law, anecdotes of their length, 457.
Sultan Mahmoud, character of, 65.
Sun, the conjectured residence of departed
souls after death, until the resurrection,
530.

Sunday, bill for the better observance of,
599.

Sunday at sea, poetical account of a, 279.
Superstition, remarkable examples of its
influence, 390.

Superstition, instance of a horrid one, 553.
Surtees, Wm., his history of the Rifle Bri-
gade, 436.

Sussex, H. R. H. the Duke of, speech of, at
the Royal Society, 391.

Sussex, Parry's Guide to the coasts and
watering places of, 475.

Sweden, account of the Ex-King of, 46.
Syme, John, of Ryedale, a patron of
Burns, account of, 280.

Systems, Botanical, comparison of, 605.

Ꭲ.

Tactics, those of the navy in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, 248.
Tales of the Manse, 299.