Hall, Captain, on experiments with an invariable pendulum, 420.
Haller, M., his ultra-principles and duplicity of conduct, 280. Hastings, Marquis of, his views and conduct in the war with the Pindarrees, 3. Haydn, the musician, memoirs of, 468.
Hayley, Mr., particulars of his life, and observations on his writings, 367-381. Hayman, the painter, account of, 230. note. Health, improved, of British sailors and soldiers, 76. Herrera, his authority and argu- ments respecting Las Casas, and the origin of the slave- trade, 518.
Hindús, attempt of Aurungzebe to convert them into Moham- medans, 8. Difference in character between them and the Mahrattas, 9. Hogendorp, General, his exile at Rio Janeiro, 382. Holkar, his defeat, and division of his dominions, 4. Rise of the founder of the family, 113. Profligate court of, 117. Holland, See Netherlands. Home, verses on, 327. Hooft, Corn., his Address to Sleep, 401.
How do you know? an epigram, 209.
Hugonots, origin of, 92.
Hunter from Greece, a Dutch poem, 399. Hyacinths, culture of, at Haar- lem, 155.
declining, verses on, 414. Hymn of Adam and Eve, 402.
India, obs. on the British go- vernment of, and the late war with the Pindarrees, 1. 127.
Indians, of South America, hos- tile to conversion to Chris- tianity, 247. Indigestion, obs. on, 168. Infanticide, in India, remarks
on, 125. Johnston, Mr. Charles, specimen of his sonnets, 411. Ionian Isles, their possession by England lamented by French writers, 539. Ireland, sad scenes in, during the Rebellion, 215. Patri- otic songs, 216. Ispahan, barber of, his adven-
tures, 355. That city attack- ed by Turcomans, 358. Jungfrau, its summit ascended, 313. Great height of, ib. Ivory, Mr., on astronomical re- fractions, 426.
Liberty, political, obs. on, 477. Libraries, military,accountof,49. Literature, Royal Society of, obs. on its conduct, 86. London, obs. on the manners of, 185. In former times, char. acter and anecdotes of, 226. Its edifices, bridges, docks, &c., described by a French traveller, 533.
Loneliness, a poem, 111. Louis XVI., account of his exe- cution, 193.
Lucid interval, verses, 266. Luke, Father, his grotesque song, 235.
Lyndsay, Walter, supposed his- tory of, 16. Of Margaret Lyndsay, 19. 21. Lyons, account of, 94.
Macias, a Galician poet, ac- count of, 256. Mahratta war, account of, 1. Difference in character be- tween the Mahrattas and the Hindus, 9.
Maio, Abbate, his discoveries of Ciceronian MSS., 339. Malmaison, account of the gar dens of, 160. Malpighiaceae, exposition of that class of plants, 494. Malwa, account of that district in India, 5. Margarita, island, its acquisi- tion important to Great Bri- tain, 245. Marianne islands, description of, 387.
Mary, Queen of Scots, account of her early education, 430. Mavrocordato, Prince, anecdotes of, 460.
Mendicity, plan for suppressing, 444.
Milton, account of Mr. Hayley's life of, 378. -'s Areopagitica, its ines- timable value, 487.
Mirbel, M., his opinion on the nourishment of plants com- bated, 308. Montgomery, Mr., his stanzas on Night, 110.
Mortality, law of, tabular view of, 78.
Mountain, consequences of the fall of, in the canton of Schwitz, 315.
Mowbray, John, and his sister Clara, view of their charac- ters, 71. Mud-volcanoes, described, 246. Music, poetically celebrated, 149. Anecdotes and obs. re- specting, 233. Rise and pro- gress of, in Italy, 466. paramount influence in Italy,
Napoleon, obs. on the fall of, 56.
French verses on his fate, 507. See also Bonaparte. Narwal, anatomical examination of that fish, 132.
Navy, British, improved state of, in the health of its seamen, 76. Needles, horizontal and dipping, on the variation of, 423, 424. Nepenthes, remarks on the habit
of that plant in opening and closing its pitcher, 311. Netherlands, present state of, 81. New Holland, remarks on our
settlement there, 393. Night, stanzas on, 110. Nightingale, fettered, a poem,
Novels, modern, general view of, 200.
O Oberland, picturesque account of that region of the canton of Berne, 311. Orange-trees, fine collection of, at Brussels, 158. At Rouen, 162. Ottley, Mr., his evidence re-
specting the rejection of Ne- gro
Pacific, passage from to the Atlantic, 246. Painters, obs. on discriminating the works of different artists, 472. Account of the epochs of painting in Italy, 474. Palimpsest MSS., origin and meaning of that term, 339. Paris, horticultural particulars respecting, 160. Fashion in flowers there, ib. Observ- ations on the manners of, 183.
Pendulum, invariable, experi- ments with, 420. People, on the voice of, and on
public opinion, 483. Pepys, Mr., on an apparatus for electro-magnetic experiments,
Philosophy, word for, 36. Phthisis, dyspeptic, obs. on, 170. Piccini, the musician, memoirs of, 470. Pindarrees, account of that peo- ple in India, and the late war with, 2..
Races, at the Cape of Good
Hope, account of, 305. Rainbow, verses on, 413. Ramsay, the portrait-painter, account of, 230. note. Red snow, not unknown on the Alps, 280.
Refractions, astronomical, me- moir on, 426. Religion, its influence in pro-
ducing national changes, 542. Ribeyro, the Portuguese poet, account of, 254. Rio Janeiro, particulars relative to, 383.
Roads in England, remarks and eulogy on, 528.
Roquet, the painter, account of, 230. note.
Rossini, the musician, anecdotes of, 489.
Plants, nourishment of, remarks Rota, visit to, 388.
Rotterdam, horticultural account of, 154.
Rousseau, J. J., remarks on his character and writings, 275.
Scarborough, extracts from a journal at, 264. Schiller's Lay of the Bell, trans- lated, 411. Schwarzenberg, Prince, his high character, 55.
Schwitz, canton of, dreadful con- sequences there of the fall of a rock and mountain, 315. Scott, Sir Walter, his verses on the Caledonian Canal, 536. Scriptures, the reading and pro- pagation of, considered in various points of view, 501- 503.
Seamen, improved health of, 76. Shields, inscription on its cha- rity-school, 535.
Ship, inverted image of, in the sky, at a great distance, 135. Siddons, Mrs., verses to, 414. Her comic powers, 415. note. Simonde de Sismondi, M., a föl- lower of Bouterwek, in his account of Portuguese and Spanish literature, 251. 258. Simplon, new feature in the view from, 283.
Sindia, origin of the house of, 11. Character of Madhajee Sindia, 13.
Slavery, in the British West In- dia islands, practical and legal view of, 286. On slavery at the Cape of Good Hope, 299. Slaves, Negroes, history of their introduction into America, 171. Their labor compared with the work of free men, 176. Their intellectual qua- lities discussed, 177. Usage of, at the Brazils, 383. At the Isle of France, 385. Slave-trade, on the participation of Las Casas in establishing,
Sleep, address to, 401. Smetz, Mr., banker at Antwerp,
his fine garden, 154. Solitude, French verses on, 509. Songs, patriotic, in Ireland, 216.
Sonnet, on approaching death, 411.
Sotheby, Mr., his translation of the Lay of the Bell, 411. Spain, good conduct of the constitutional troops of, 107. Compared with England, in the influence of religion, 501. Spinning and reeling, an epi- gram, 210.
Stagg, John, bookseller, anec- dotes of, 239.
Stars, fixed, on changes in, 429. French verses on, 508. Staubbach, waterfall of, de- scribed, 312.
Stomach, on disorders of, 169. Succory, cultivated in the Low
Countries, 152. Its roots made a substitute for coffee,
ib. Swisserland, its real and appa- rent state contrasted, 540.
Tammeamah, King of the Sand- wich Islands, character of, 392.
Tarentaise, geology of, 279. Tea, injurious effects of, 197. Tea-kettle not lost, an epigram, 210.
Tenure, of land in India, ob- servations on, 123. Thones, valley of, particulars relative to, 272.
Thornton, Mr., his verses called the Portrait, 375. Timor, island, visit to, 386. Tinian, recent account of, 389. Toolsah Bhye, her profligacy and death, 117-119. Touchwood, Mr., character of, 65.
Tours, description of, 91. Triumphs of Temper, practical
good effects of that poem, 377. Observations on, ib. Troops of the allies and of the French, comparative view of, 54.
Troops, constitutional, of Spain, their good conduct, 107. Tubipora, description of, 25. Tulips, on the culture of, in Holland, 156.
Turcomans, anecdotes of that tribe, 356.
Turgot, M., account of his ad- ministration, 189.
Waterfall at Staubbach de- scribed, 312.
Watts, W. P., lines on, 211. Weavers of Spitalfields, anec- dotes of, 228.
West Indies, See Slavery. What Man is made for; an es- say, 35.
Whip, used in the West Indies for flogging the slaves, on the application and power of, 288.
Vaccination, obs. on the effects Widows, burning of, in India,
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