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of Fort Monjouick, 397. Surender
of Barcelona, and affecting incident
which occurred during the siege, 400.
Fertile genius of the earl of Peter-
borough, 401. He enters Valencia,
402. An adventure,

404

Brother Abraham's answer to Peter
• Plymley, Esq.

215
Brook's history of St. Helena, vide He-
lena.

439

Brighton, Trelawney's characters at,
British chronology, Whitaker's, 448
Buchanan Irving's memoirs of the
life and writings of George, 125.
Account of Ruddiman's edition of
Buchanan's works, 126. His charge
of ingratitude to queen Mary, proved
to be false, 129. The publication of
the Detection' justified, 130. Two
anecdotes of the conduct of Buchan-
an to king J. while a child, 131,
& seq.

Burnett's specimens of early English
prose writers, 15. Specimens from
the Polycronicon, the first prose
chronicle in the English language, 18.
Wiskliffe, the first entire translator
of the bible, 20. Prayer of bishop
Pecock, temp. Henry 6th, 21.
Of
Caxton, 22, Extract from a sermon
of bishop Latimer's, 23. Wilson's
art of thetoric, the first systematically
critical work in the English language,
temp. reg. Mar., 24. Of John Lilly,

Caucasus, Wilkinson's description of
mount, 27. Height of the Caucasian
mountains difficult to be ascertained,
28. The eastern parts, the lowest
and most fertile, 28. In N. and N.W.
the winters long and severe. In the
west, the summer seldom longer
than three months, from the beginning
of June to the latter end of August,
29. The country, between the Der-
bend and the Kurr, constituted the
antient Hyrcania, 29. Christianity
more prevalent formerly than at pre-
sent, 30. Account of the free city
of Endria, 30. The tribe of the
Leshgaes, great men-stealers, 30.
The rights of hospitality heid sacred
and inviolate, 31. Of a tribe, who
call themselves Kuwaetschi, (cuirasse
makers) who belong to the most an-
tient inhabitants of Caucasus, 31.
Account of Derbend, 33. The cot-
ton of Baha prized for its quality,
33. Singular spot, called Ates-chjoh,
34. Cats held in great veneration
by the Duschi, 35. Apology of a no-
bie Georgian for the sale of a village
of Jews,

35

Carlisle's topographical dictionary of
England,

109

Catechism, Williams's sermons on the
Church,

210

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Is present at the siege of Maes-
tricht in 1676. After the revolution
he takes the oaths of allegiance to the
prince of Orange, 394. Isemp oy-
ed two winters at Inverness, 395.
Affer the death of William, he is re-
commended by lord. Cutts to lord Pe-
terborough, and accompanies him in
the exposition which was intended to
place the archduke Charles of Austria
on the throne of Spain, 395. Surren-
der of the fortress of Denia in the
kingdom of Valencia, 396. Capture

vide Memoirs.

Cayley's memoirs of Sir Thomas More,
Ceylon, Cordiner's description of, 193.
Ceylon, the Taprobana of the ancients
and the Serendib of the Arabians,
first visited by the Portugueze in
1505, were expelled by the Dutch in
1658, and by them surrendered to the
British in 1796. Remained under
the controul of the East India compa-
ny, till 1802, when the management
of the place was undertaken by minis-
ters, 193. The soil and production
of Ceylon similar to those of Coro-
maudel, 194. Columbo the seat of
government, 194. Division of the
inhabitants into three general classes,
Cingalese, Candians, and Malabars,
195. Account of the Cingalese, 196.

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Comyn on contracts,

338

Conscience, Wyvill's discussion in ta-
vour of liberty of,
415
Constantinople to Brusa in Asia Minor,
Brenner's excursion to. 507. Des-
cription of Mount Olympus, 508.
Population of Brusa computed at
100,000 souls, 509. Of the Ulu
Dschamy, or great mosque, ib. Of
the arsenal of Brusa, 510. Curio-
sity of the Turkish women, 511. Οι
the mineral baths, 511. Ascent of
Olympus, ib. Account of Appollonia,
512. The trade of Brusa consisting
principally of raw and manufactured
silk, 512. And of tobacco-pipe clay,
53 Turkish taciturnity, 514
Anecdote of Ahmed Effendi,
Continental alienation, Inquiry into the
causes of, 36. Defence of the late
ministers for not subsidizing Prussia,
37. For not promoting the Russian
loan, 38. For not sending an Eng-
lish army to the continent, 39. Alie-
nation of the continent to be imputed
to our inadequate diplomacy, and our
maritime usurpation, 42. Account
of the present political parties in Rus.

54

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Critical history of the Roman republic,
vide Republic.

Crusaders, or the Minstrels of Acre, 150
Cutter, in five lectures upon the art of
cutting friends, acquaintances, and re
lations,

447

DALLAS's Knights,

95

Davies's history of antient and modern

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Dawn of liberty on the continent, 435
Defence, Birch's memoir on national,

63
Delacroix's moral reflections on public
and private crimes, 480.
Sentence
passed upon a large and unhappy por
tion of the female sex,582. Ot writers
who have been tempted to sacrifice
decency to the extravagancies of a wild
and voluptuous imagination, 483.
Defence of capital punishment on the
extreme depravity of human nature,
ib. Of bankruptcies, 484. Anec-
dotes on duels, 488. Project of a
foundling hospital, 489. The au-
thor's notions of education proper for
the priesthood,

490
Description of Ceylon, Cordiner's, vide
Ceylon.

Description of Mount Caucasus, vide
Caucasus.

Dialogue on Marriage, Poggio Braccio-
lini's,
58
Dictionary of the Scottish Language,
vide Jamieson.
Dictionary of England, Carlisle's topo-
graphical,
109
Dreams, the theory of; in which an
enquiry is made into the powers and
faculties of the hunan mind, as they
are illustrated in the most remarkable
dreams recorded in sacred and profane
history,
304
Drury's account of his adventures at
Madagascar, 84. He embarks on
board the Degrave East Indiaman in
the 14th year of his age, 1701. The
ship wrecked off Madagascar, 85. He
becomes a slave of a native Lord
or Dean, 86. Marks of submission
paid by inferiors of the most humili-
ating kind, 87. A religious thanks.
giving, 88. The monarch, or a de-
puty of the royal family obliged to
perform the office of butcher for all
his subjects, 89. Description of the
method used by the natives to kill ox-
en, 91. The author escapes, 92
Duncombe's village gentleman, and the
attorney atlaw,

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217

national resources,
Enthusiast, Hog's rural,

Essays on the performers of the London
theatres, Hunt's, vide Hunt.
Evangelical preaching, Hints to the pub-
licand the legislature on the nature
and effect of, 379. The primary
tendency of methodism to convert the
doctrine of Christ into the most po-
tent engine of depravity, 380. The
moral virtues which are sometimes
observable in the votaries of metho-
dism are not the natural product of
their belief, but of the virtuous dispo-
sitions which they inherit from their
nature, and which often triumph over
the incentives to immorality so co-
piously furnished by their faith, 381.
Observations on the precipitate teme-
rity with which the promulgators of
methodism undertake the pastoral
office, 383. Of Dr. Hawker, 385.
Account of the new birth of an oid
woman while busy at the wash-tub,
386. Of an Unitarian Christian, 388.
The worldly-mindedness and carnal

torical ballads,

113

Fellowes' body of theology,
Female sex, Meiner's history of the,

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have been adjusted by treaty than by
civil war, 344. Remarks on the ex-
ecution of Charles, 345. On the
character of Cromwell, 345- Of
General Monk, 346. The reign of
Charles the Ild. the era of bad go-
vernment and good laws, 346. Of
the pensionary de Witt, 347. The
merits of the exclusion bill contrasted
with the restrictions, which the
tories proposed to lay on a popish
successor, 348. Reflections on the
death of Russel and Sidney, 350.
The primary object of James 11.as
well as of Charles was to connect him.
self with France by pecuniary ties, in
order to become the more absolute at
home, and more independant on the
bounty of an English parliament, 351.
Picture of the church-party at this
period, 352. Unsuccessful attempts
made by the Duke of Monmouth and

Argyleto subvert the tyranny of James,

France, Wraxall's history of,
France, Wraxall's tour through,

353

93

93

GALLERIE Preussischer charactere,
aus der Franzo sichen handschrist
übersetz,

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507

Glasgow, proceedings of the presbytery

Gallery of Prussian characters, vide
Prussian.

Galvanism, in ascertaining the influence
of certain poisons or medicines upon
the irritability of the animal body,
Pilger's inquiry into the effects of,
462. The galvanic test applicable to
measure the degree of irritability
possessed by an animal body at the
moment of death, 463. Application
of galvanism to ascertain the effects
of particular poisons, or of certain
medicines upon the irritability of a
system, 463. Galvanic experiments
on a horse, 464. The relation ex-
isting between the human and brute
creation with respect to the origin of
diseases, 465. White oxyd of arse-
nic either as a medicine or poison,
produces the greatest effect on the
animal economy, 466. et seq. Ef-
fects produced by corrosive sublimate,
467. By the muriate of barytes,
468. By tartar emetic, 468. By
camphor, ib. By wine or brandy,
469. By opium, ib. By the dis-
tillation of bay-leaves, 470. By wa-
ter hemlock, 470. By belladonna,
ib. By the yew, 471. By gentian
and colocynth root, ib. By the flow.
ers of arnica, ib. By valerian, ib.

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HAMEL'S melanges historiques et
literaires,

448

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Hay's rural enthusiast,
Helena, Brook's history of St 371.
First discovered by the Portugieze in
1501, who retained it for a century,
were then expelled by the Dutch;
and they in their turn yield it to the
English in 1651, 372. The atmos-
phere remarkably mild, ibid. The
high price of provisions, 372. Po-
pulation consisting of 504 white in-
habitants, and 1560 blacks.
Highmore's treatise on the law of luna-
су,
106
Highmore's Letter to Lord Ellenbo-
rough,
Highmore's Letter to a noble Lord,
438

438.

Hints to the public and the Legislature
on the nature and effect of evangeli-
cal preaching, vide Evangelical.
Hints respecting the education of poor
children,
305

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History of the ancient modern Nice,
Davies's,
Historiques et literaires melanges, 448
History of the early part of the reign of
James II. vide Fox.

History of the Roman republic, Leves-
que's critical, vide Republic.

History of English philosophism, from its
origin to its introduction into France
inclusively,

493
History of St. Helena, Brook's, vide
Helena.

Hoare's Giraldus Cambrensis, vide Gi-
raldus.

Hodgson's Juvenal,
225
Holland, on the present situation of
Spain, Whitbread's letter to Lord,
308

Hunt's essays on the performers of the
London theatres, 374. Critique on
Mrs. Siddons, 376. On Bannister,
377. On Mrs. Jordan, 378. On
Mrs. H. Siddons, 378. Miss Dun-

can,

Hurde's Poems,

ILLUSTRATION of the sexual sys-

tem of Linnæus, Thornton's, 241

Indian literature, ancient,

Indian guide, Gilchrist's East,
India, march of the French to, 523.

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525

Layman's reply to a barrister, op evan-

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Concerted expedition to India in1801,
523. Rout of the French to the banks
of the Indus, 525. Of Alexander's ex-
pedition, 525. Account of opium,

Infidelity, antidote to,

Inquiry into the extent and stability of
national resources,

285
Inquiry into the changes induced on at-
mospheric air, by the germination of
seeds, the vegetation of plants, and
the respiration of animals, vide At-
mospheric.

Inquiry into the effects of galvanism in
ascertaining the influence of certain
poisons, or medicines upon the ir-
ritability of the human body, vide
Galvanism.

Inquiry into the causes of continental
alienation, vide Continental,

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Lax's remaks on Euclid's Elements,

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