archipelago for crossing the straits, 35; their intercourse with different parties of the natives, 36; arrival at Sydney Cove, ib.; route of the second voyage, ib.; extent of the coast examined during this voyage, ib.; the third voyage, 37; the vessel alarmingly injured by grounding on a sand bank, ib.; providential escape of the vessel from being wrecked, 37, 8; advantageous result of the voyage, 38; fourth voyage of the author, in a differ- ent vessel, ib. ; curious specimens of native art in Clark's island, 38, 9; con- flict with the natives in Hanover Bay, 39, 40; danger of the vessel in Bucca- neer's archipelago, 41, 2; Capt. K. re- turns to England, 42.
Australia, prosperous state of its colonies,
Babylon, description of the ruins of, 67,
Ban-de-la-Roche, see Oberlin, Jaen Fre- deric.
Barbers, the last of the, a portrait by Miss Mitford, 571, 2.
Barnet, the battle of, 431, 2.
Bartsch's Peintre Graveur, 363, et seq. Bernard, Sophia, her noble conduct, 310. Bible, translation of the, into Chinese, by Dr. Morrison and by Dr. Marshman, 517, 18.
Books, ancient, Taylor's history of the transmission of, to modern times, 531,
et seq. Botany, ode to, 73, 4.
Bradley's sermons, 208, et seq. Bretschneider's vindication of the modern theology of Lutheran Germany, &c. 389; the author's preliminary remarks on the accusations of Mr. Rose, 389, 90; his four positions that disqualify a man from giving information worthy of credit, 390; observations on his last position, ib.; on the accusations of Mr. Rose, ib.; Dr. B. on Dr. Wegscheider's system, 391; remarks on the scheme of mediate and immediate revelation, ib.; on his illustration of the principles of the anti- supernaturalists, 392, 3; difference be- tween religion and theology, 393, 4; ex- tract from Dr. Tittman on theology, 394, 5; Dr. B.'s further remarks on Mr. Rose, and on the fathers of the first four centuries, 895, et seq.; observations on his statements, 398, 9; he accuses Mr. Rose of a defective acquaintance' with the opinions, &c. of those against whom he wrote, 400, et seq.; the author's illustration of the state of German theo- logy since the year 1750, 403, et seq.;
on the different direction: it has taken, 403; the persons from whom each par- ticular opinion has proceeded, 406; the acceptance which the various notions have met with, 406, et seq.; names of emi- nent divines omitted to be noticed by the author, 408, 9; he accuses Mr. Rose of indiscretion, &c. 409, 10; de- clares him to be incapable of forming a judgement upon German theology, 410,
Brook, the little, and the Star, 567, et seq.; see Literary Souvenir.
Buckingham's travels in Mesopotamia, 55, et seq.
Buonaparte, Napoleon, the life of, 148, et seq.; an impartial estimate of character, &c. not easily to be made by contempo- raries, 148, 9; Sir Walter Scott's quali- fications for the office of biographer in the present case considered, 149; his delineation of the French monarchy, 150; comparison of the character of Louis XVI. and Charles I. considered, ib.: the atrocities attending the French revolution have no parallel in the pro- gress of the English revolution, 151; outrages committed on the Royal family at Versailles, ib.; the statement objec- tionable, 151, 2; Mirabeau's celebrated apostrophe, 152; curious conversation between Buonaparte and an Hungarian officer, 154; remarks on the death of the Duke D'Enghien, 155, 6; general re- marks on Napoleon's campaigns, 157; the battle of Waterloo, 158, 9; Napo- leon's external appearance, 163, et seq. Burder, H. F., on the evidence of reve lation arising from prophecy, 493, 4. Burgess's, Bishop, short catechism on the duty of conforming to the established church, 918, et seq.; the author pre- viously known as an abettor of coercive principles, 320; character of the short catechism,' 321; the new testament the only ground of the Christian's obedience, 322; the Bishop's definition, &c. of the church of Christ, 322, 3; remarks on the sequel of his definition, 323; the Bishop's question refers, not to the church of Christ, but to the church of England, 324; bishops, priests, and dea- cons asserted to have been appointed by the apostles to govern the church, &c., 325; the Bishop's statement examined, 325, et seq.; the word bishop means overseer, 326; elders and bishops proved to be identical, ib.; every pastor of a Christian church is a bishop, ib.; a church of England bishop does not re- semble a primitive bishop, ib.; remarks
on a particular part of the confirmation service, 327; description of a late confirm- ation, extracted from the Kent Herald, 327, 8; on the succession of the Chris- tian ministry, 328; the Bishop's answers not consonant to Scripture, 328, 9; the mode of appointing bishops in England, 329; the bishops declared to be the judges whether a person is called of God to the ministry, 330; remarks on this point, ib.; on the civil right of pub- licly exercising the Christian ministry, 331, 2; the Bishop attempts to prove the duty of conforming to the estab- lished church, 333, et seq.; his reasons examined, ib.; he fears that sects holding no communion with any true church, are not parts of the Catholic church for which Christ died, 339, et seq.; strictures on the Bishop's assertions, ib. Burnett's practical hints on light and shade
in painting, 506, et seq.; remarks of Sir Joshua Reynolds on the management of light and shade by the Venetian painters, 507; character of Mr. Burnett's work, 508; Rembrandt's mode of managing light, 509; Claude's mode, ib. Burton's testimonies of the Anti-Nicene
Fathers to the divinity of Christ, 276, et seq.; observations on evidence, 277; examples of the advantages to be derived from the referential mode of inquiry, 278, 9; on the testimony of Clement and Ignatius to apostolic doctrine, 280; con- trary opinions as to the creed of the church during the first three centuries, in reference to the divinity of Christ, 281; remarks of the author on Mr. Burgh's" Inquiry," &c., 281, 2; cha- racter of the present work, 282; exami- nation of the testimony of Clemens Alex- andrinus, 283, 4.
Bushman, the wild, song of, 147, 8. Bushmen, present state of the, 141, 2; origin of the bitter enmity between them and the colonists, 142.
Byron, Lord, Howitt's stanzas on, 81.
Caffers, wide extension of their race and language, 138, 9.
Cards, Gerinan, afford beautiful specimens of wood-cutting, 369, 70.
-, playing, imported probably from the East, 370. Characteristics, religious, by Thomas Aird, 166, et seq.
Characters, alphabetic, the Phenicians the inventors of, 512.
China, description of the great wall of, 525. Chinese, the colloquial language of the, 510, 11.
Church, established, a short catechism on the duty of conforming to the, by Bishop Burgess, 318.
Cities, American, comparative view of, 84, et seq.
Clarke's Vestigia Anglicana, 428, et seq.;
plan of the work, 429; his account of the wandering Jew, 430. Clergy, Protestant, in Ireland, the unpopu larity of, 187.
Clouds, the, by the editor of the Amulet, 564, et seq.
Collyer, Dr., on the claim of revelation to inspiration, 495, 6.
Composition, vitiated taste in, becoming prevalent among northern writers, 169. Confirmation, an account of a late, extract- ed from the Kent Herald, 327, 8. Congregations,
Protestant dissenting,
's cursory remarks upon the present state of, 180, et seq.
Costa's, Mr. Da, remarks on the modern Neologists, 32, 3.
Court, the Persian, and king, splendour of 203, 4.
Croly's Apocalypse of St. John, 120, et seq.; on the causes of the failure of inter- pretation, 121, 2; the apocalypse stated to consist of six distinct portions, 123; differences in the present system from most former ones, ib.; the author's ex- planation of the four angels of the Eu- phrates, 124; Mr. Baxter on the same point, 125; opinions of Drs Boothroyd and Valpy, and Mr. Irving, ib.; on the number 666, 125, 6; 'the Two Witness- es,' and 'the Little Book,' 127, 8; pious reflections of the author, ib.
Cunio, Alberico and Isabella, twins, in- teresting account of them, 371. Cunningham's two years in New South Wales, 412, et seq.; a judicious history, &c. of New South Wales, a great de- sideratum, 412; the author endeavours to be witty at the expense of the Evange- licals, 413; a few serious reflections ad-
Death by the pendulum, as related to have been practised in the Inquisition at Ma- drid, 460.
De Prati's outlines of an improved system
of teaching languages, 541, et seq.; Mr. Hamilton's pretensions to novelty not well-founded, ib.; the author's statement of his pretensions, 542, 3.
Der Zusland der Protestantischen Religion in Teutschland, &c., 1, et seq.
Diarbekir, its situation, population, &c., 63. Duchesne's Essai sur les Nielles, 363, et seq.
Emancipation, Catholic, a few philosophi-
cal reasons against, 185, et seq. Emigration, report of the select committee on, 229, et seq.; extent of the labours of the parliamentary committee, 229; low state of wages in Ireland, 230; the in- crease of the population of Ireland owing to its poverty, ib.; effects of the cultiva- tion of the potato, 230, 1; system of letting and middlemen, 231; evils from the splitting of farms, ib.; remarkable instances given in evidence, 232; evils of early marriages, 232, 3; Dr. Doyle's opinion, that these early marriages are oc- casioned by extreme poverty, 233; the population of Ireland not excessive, in regard to the surface of the country, ib.; the value of land deteriorated by sub- letting, 233, 4; difficulty of the landlord to recover possession of his land at the end of the lease, 235; efforts of some gentlemen to lessen the harshness of ejection, ib.; distress of the ejected tenantry, 236; estimate of the mendi- cants in Ireland, ib.; the outrages in Ireland attributable to its redundant po- pulation, 237; evil consequences of those outrages in regard to cultivation, ib.; the colonies capable of sustaining a large emigration, 238, note; the ejected population the objects of the proposed measure of emigration, ib.; inquiry as to the efficiency of the plan, ib., et seq.; its expenses considered, 239, et seq.; objects of the scheme of emigration, 243; pub-
lic charity not a legitimate object of government, ib.; remarks on the sup- posed general improvement of Ireland by this scheme, 244, 5; observations on English emigration, 245, et seq.; its operation in Kent, 246; on the poor's rate as a fund for the expenses of emi- gration, 247, 8; futility of the plan for exterminating juvenile delinquency, by exiling the delinquents, 248; the asser- tion that the unemployed labourer con- sumes more than he produces, examined, 248, 9; the subject of repayment con- sidered, 250, et seq.; report of the se- lect committee on emigration, in 1826, 229, et seq.; mendicants in Ireland, the number of, 236.
Engraving, the origin and early history of, 363, et seq.; Mr. Ottley's fac-similies, 364, 5; the art of engraving not a simi- lar process to that of translating, 365; few persons capable of discerning the higher qualities of engraving, 366; some fine specimens of the graphic art, ib.; the Italian artist inferior to the English in talent, but superior in en- thusiasm, ib.; fault of the English artist, 366, 7; cause of the value of painters' etchings by original masters, 367; mode of engraving on copper and in wood, 368; wood-carving long antecedent to en- graving on copper, ib.; origin of wood- engraving in Europe unknown, 369; had existed in China many centuries be- fore, ib.; applied to the manufacture of playing-cards in Venice, ib.; the Ger- man cards afford some beautiful speci- mens of wood-cutting, 369, 70; the game of cards probably imported from the east, 370; extract from Papillon's treatise on graving on wood, ib.; in- teresting account of the twins Alberico and Isabella Cunio, 371; their death, ib.; inquiry into the genuineness of the narrative, 372; Mr. Ottley's account of the manner of wood-engraving, 372, 3; the Italian goldsmiths the earliest who practised engraving, 373; working in niello, 373, 4; the process described, 374; the Abbé Zani discovers an im- pression from an engraving by M. Fini- guerra, 375; the sulphurs, 876; the earliest known print, ib.; Albert Durer the greatest of the German artists, ib.; Italian engravers, 376, 7.
Essays on literature, &c., by T. Hathaway, 69, et seq.
Euphrates, its breadth at Beer, 55; divides into many channels below the town, ib. ; import of its name, 56.
Evening, an, on Pelion, 175, et seq.
Eyam, the desolation of, &c., by William and Mary Howitt, 72, et seq.
Fac-similies of scarce and curious prints, by W. Y. Ottley, 363, et seq. Faulkner's, Sir Arthur B., rambling notes and reflections, 423, et seq.; account of a visit to Pleyel, 424, 5, and to the house of Voltaire, 425, 6; description of the marble bust of Voltaire at the Royal In- stilute, 426; present state of religion in France, ib; the Salpetrière, 427, 8. Fincher's achievements of prayer, 538, et seq.; design of the work, 538; admirable simplicity of its plan, 539.
Forget-me-not, 557, et seq.; a country apothecary, by Miss Mitford, 574, 5; cha- racter of Mr. Hood's contribution, 576. Friendship, on, 355, 6.
Friendship's offering, 557, et seq.
Germany, the neologism of, 1, et seq. Greece, anticipation of the future happiness of, 177, 8.
Gregory's mathematics for practical men, 43, et seq.; the author's notice of three similar works, ib.; origin of the present treatise, 44; contents, 45; its character, 45, 6.
Goldsmiths, Italian, the first who prac- tised engraving, 373.
Gwilt's Sciography, or examples of shadows,
Halen, Don Juan Van, narrative of his im- prisonment in the Inquisition at Madrid, &c., 459, et seq.
Hale's cursory remarks upon the present state of Protestant dissenting congrega- tions, 180, et seq.; necessity for making efforts to increase the number of Gospel ministers, 181; on the duty of providing pastors with the comforts and conve niences of life, 182, 3; inquiry as to the mode by which dissenting ministers may be more amply remunerated, 183; the dissenting ministry has not risen in po- pular estimation of late years, 184. Hathaway's essays on the pleasures of li- terature, &c., 69, et seq.; view of human nature when presented with learning and piety united, 69, et seq.
Hayes, Captain, his admirable seamanship on the coast of France, during a storm, 505, 6.
Heber's hymns, adapted to the weekly ser- vice of the Church, 472, et seq.; authors of the hymns selected, 473; Jerusalem in ruins, ib.; hymn for Whitsunday, 474; remarks on the selection, 475; hymn on recovery from sickness, 476, 7.
History of the Inquisition of Spain, 459, et seq.
Hottentots, free, beyond the limits of the
colony, present state of, 140.
Hours, solitary, 272, et seq.; stanzas, en- titled abjuration,' 273, 4; the broken bridge,' 274, 5; it is not death,' 275. Houses, the rival, of York and Lancaster, Emma Roberts's inemoirs of, 428, et seq.
Howitt, William and Mary, poems by, 72, et seq.; ode to botany, 73, et seq.; the pen, 76, 7; stanzas on human destiny, 77, 8; the authors members of the so- ciety of Friends, 79; specimens of the anti-quakerish character of the work, ib. et seq.; stanzas on Lord Byron, 81, 2. Hughes's vocabulary to the Edipus Rex of Sophocles, &c., 467, et seq.; increas- ing claims of education in the present day, 468; on the best mode of obtaining them, ib; design and execution of the present work, 469, 70; on some novel opinions respecting classical literature, 470; remarks on the two departments of education, the literary and the scien- tific, 471, 2.
Human destiny, stanzas entitled, 77, 8. Hymns for the weekly service of the
Church, by Bishop Heber, 472, et seq.
Indecision in Religion, remarks on, 167, 8. India, Lieut. Alexander's travels from, to England, 193, et seq.
Inquisition of Spain, history of the, 459, et seq.; death by the pendulum, 460; mi- litary adventures of Juan Van Halen, 461; he executes a successful manœuvre against the French in Spain, ib.; return of Ferdinand to Spain, ib.; the Inquisi- tion resumes its activity, 462; Van Ha- len is arrested and ordered to be shot, ib.; the order found to be irregular, and he is made lieutenant-colonel, ib.; he engages in a conspiracy of the liberales, and is confined in the Inquisition at Murcia, ib.; seeks to obtain an inter- view with the King, and is removed to Madrid, ib.; account of the circum- stances that passed at the interview, 463; kindness of Ferdinand, 465; character of his favourites, ib.; Van Halen is put to the torture, ib.; effects his escape from the prison, 465, 6; passes through France to England, 467; subsequent circumstances of his life, ib. Inspiration and revelation, distinction be- tween them, 379, note.
Ireland, speech of the earl of Farnham on the reformation in, 97, et seq. Ireland, three months in, 185, et seq. ¡ the
present work a poem, its contents, &c., 185; apostrophe to the absentee, 185, 6; unpopularity of the Protestant clergy in Ireland, 187; observations on some of his statements, 187, 8.
Island, the Pelican, and other poems, by
James Montgomery, 433, et seq.
James's naval history of Great Britain, 503, et seq.
Jay's Christian contemplated, 219, et seq. ; observations on a certain class of objectors to the doctrines of the lectures, 219, et seq.; on the cause of the distaste for practical preaching, 222; on addressing the lower classes, 223, 4; number and subjects of the lectures, 225; remarks on domestic religion, in reference to the Church, 225, 6; objections against its practice considered, 226, 7; on the principal constituents of the heavenly state, 227, 8.
Jerusalem in ruins, hymn on, by Bishop
Jesus Christ, Michaelis on the burial and resurrection of, 377, et seq.
Jew, the wandering, 430.
King's, Captain, narrative of a survey of
the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, 34, et seq.
Klaproth, M. Von, his observations on the last Russian and English embassies to China, 530, 1.
Knighthood, orders of, created by Moham-
medan princes for Christians, 203, note.
Lectures on select portions of the evidences
of revelation; by various ministers of the London congregational union, 485. Lee's, Professor, controversial facts on Christianity and Mohammedanism, by the late Rev. Henry Martyn, 255, et seq.; schism, ecclesiastical, between the Ottomans and the Persians, 256; radi- cal difference between the Soonees and the Persian Sheahs, ib.; the Sheah schism acquires the ascendancy in Per- sia, 256, 7; Sir J. Malcolm's remarks on the difference between these sects, 257; the Imaums of the Soonees defamed by the Persian divines, 258, 9; striking correspondence between the Sheah and the Romanist system, 259; both the Romish and the Persian Churches have their mystics and their schoolmen, 260; controversy between Mr. Martyn and a Poollah respecting the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, 261, 2; the Sooffees di- vided into many sects, 263; Sir John Malcolm's account of their different
sects, 264; the most celebrated of the Sooffee teachers have been famed for their knowledge, 265; poetry the es- sence of Sooffeeism, 266; specimen of Sooffeeism, 266, 7; character of Sooffee- ism, 267; Mr. Martyn's remarks on the abstract essence of the Deity, &c., not being an object of love, 268, 9; curious reasoning of the Moollah, 270; the Jeres not justly to be charged with altering the sacred text, 271; Professor Lee's criteria for deciding in regard to a claim to a di- vine mission, 272.
Light and shade in painting, Burnett's practical hints on, 506, et seq.
Literature, religious, in France, its pro- gress, 32.
Llorente's history of the Inquisition of Spain, abridged, 459, et seq.; death by the pendulum, 460. Love, apostrophe to, 354.
Macquarrie river, 414. Malte-Brun, M., his remarks on the policy of China, in regard to its language, 512, 13.
Manumission, the petition and memorial of the planters of Demarara and Ber- bice, on the subject of, examined, 417, et seq.; the order in council, 417; the court of policy of Demarara refuse to comply with it, ib.; they petition his Majesty in council, ib.; plea of the me- morialists for their right of property in their slaves, ib.; slaves cannot be consi- dered as mere property, 418; Lord Bathurst on the right of slaves to the Sunday, 419; slaves have their rights, ib.; the planters' objections to the pro- posed plan of manumission, ib.; the plea that West India produce cannot be pro- fitably cultivated by free labour shewn to be groundless, 420; the enfranchised population of the West India islands are subsisted by their own efforts, 420, 1. Mardin, the city of, its remarkable situa- tion, 62; its population, &c., ib. Martyn's, the late Rev. Henry, controver- sial facts on Christianity and Moham- medanism, 255, et seq.
Mathematics, Dr. Gregory's, for practical men, 43, et seq.
Mesopotamia, Buckingham's travels in, 55, et seq; the author sets out from Aleppo, 55; crosses the Euphrates at Beer, ib.; its breadth, ib.; its appear- ance below the town, ib.; etymology of its name, 56; on the names of rivers in ancient times, ib.; description of the Tigris, ib.; Orfah, the Roman Edessa, ib.; origin of its present name, 57; the
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