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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.

I and J

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.

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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.

M

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,

490.

N

Its

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,

400.

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

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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,

419..

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..

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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.

on, 308.

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Rotterdam, horticultural account
of, 154.

Rousseau, J. J., remarks on his
character and writings, 275.

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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,

519.

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.

T

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,

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.

V

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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