parentage of Le Sage, ib. Plan of his education, 138. Method he took to fatisfy himself whether the Author of Nature continued to impose on himself the fame law that originally marked the inftitution of the Sabbath, 139. Remarks on the ftate of the mathema- tical fciences in France, 141. Sketch of his intellectual character, 144. Outline of his theory of impulsion, 145. Objections to, 148. Is unjustly accused of irreligion, 150. Illuftration of the doctrine of final causes, 152. Pruffia, account of the kingdom of, 156. Pruffia, causes of the late disasters of, 374. e
Quakers, basis of their morality, 87. Statement of their reasoning against mufic, 88. The amusements of the theatre and dancing prohibited among, 91. alfo reading of novels and the fports of the field, 92. Peculiarities
in their drefs, 92. and language, 93. ¡Private manners of, 96. Their regu- lations with regard to trade, 97. Ac- count of their four great tenets, 98. Their interior government, 99. Quarterly lift of new publications, 235.487.
Rhine, defcription of the banks of, 28г. Rivinus, A. Quirinus, endeavours to form an artificial botanical fyftem, 312. Ruffia, probable confequences of her per- fevering in the war, 381.
Sabbath, method adopted by Le Sage to afcertain whether or not the operations of Providence were fufpended during, 139.
Sage, Le. See Prevolt. Sanjac, 261.
Sanjac-fherif, or standard of Mahomet, kept by the Turks as the palladium of their empire, 257.
Savage's account of New Zealand, 471. Description of the Bay of Islands, 472. Character of the New Zealanders, 473. Religion, &c. 475. Account of the fuccefs of the Quaker experiment for civilizing the North American Indians, 476.
Second-fight, of the Highlanders, remark on, 186.
Shakespeare, incident relating to the statue of, at Stratford, 189.
Shiraz, climate of the environs of, 63. Signior, Grand, titles, abfolute power, &c. of, 255, 259.
Slave-trade. See Wilberforce.
Smith, Dr Adam, his character of mer- chants, 27.
Solomon, illuftration of fome of the ima- gery of, 233.
Sotheby's Saul, general character of, 206. Manner in which the poem opens, 207. Description of the approach of Saul and his guards, 209. Challenge of Goliah, 211. Song of the virgins celebrating the victory, 212. Defcription of the myftic veil which concealed the shrine of Afhtaroth, 214. Saul's vifit to the witch of Endor, 216.
Soul, Lucretius's account of the compofi- tion of, 231.
Spain. See Capmany.
Spenfer, account of Ireland, 41.
Stiles, Dr Ezra, extract from the works of, 115.
Sunn hemp of Bengal, 351.
Surya Siddhánta, an Indian astronomical
Tabor, Mount, defcription of, 33. Tabiran, the modern capital of Persia, 66. Teleology, a term adopted for the doctrine of final caufes, 151.
Theophraftus, botanical arrangement of, 308.
Thornton's, Prefent State of Turkey, 249. Eulogium on the ancient Greeks, 250. Opportunities the author enjoyed of ob- taining information, 252. Origin of the Turks and progrefs of their con- quefts, 253. Account of their religion, 254. Church establishment, 257. Ci- vil inftitutions, 259. Abfolute power of the fultan, ib. Dread of popular in furrections the only check to, 264. State of property, 264. Army, 265. Revenues, 267. Manners and charac- ter, 269. Reflexions on the present fi- tuation of the Turkish empire, 270. Thrafkers, account of, 57. Thunberg, changes made in the arrange- ment of Linnæus by, 315. Tournefort's fyftem of botany, 313. Turkey. See Thornton.
Turks, contrast between their figure and manners, and thofe of the Europeans, 269.
Vizir, Grand, office and duties of, 280. Ulema, the men of learning among the Turks, 262.
Volunteers, from their difperfion all over
the island, incapable of stopping the progress of an invading enemy, 7. Voyagers, on the credit due to the marvel- lous reports of, 187.
Wabebis, account of the fect of, 70. Waring's Travels in Perfia, 61. Canons propofed for the benefit of travellers, Ab- ib. Route of the author, 62. ftract of the hiftory of Perfia fince the death of Nadir Shah, 64. Account of the prefent King, 66. Military force of the country, 68. Revenue, 69. Account of the Wahebis, 70. Warsaw, defcription of, 443. Whalley, General, one of Charles I.'s judges, account of, 106.
Wheatley on Money and Commerce, gene- ral character of, and grand principle on which the author's difcoveries hinge, 284. Propofitions of Dr Adam Smith, mifreprefented by, 285. What the bafis of a favourable or an adverfe exchange, according to him, 287. Real and nominal exchange, con- founded by, 288. What the prin- cipal utility of bills of exchange, 289. Effects of a debased currency on the ex- change. Caufes from which disorders may arife in a system of metallic cur- rency, 293. Changes gradually intro- duced, as a country increases in wealth,
into its fyftem of currency, 293. Ex- porting of bullion not fo detrimental as is commonly fuppofed, 296. Decrease in the value of the gold and filver coin accounted for, 297.
Wilberforce on the abolition of the slave- trade, 199. Remarks on Mr Long's portait of the negro character, 201. Degraded state of the natives of Africa the effect of their fituation and circum- stances, not of any inherent inferiority of character, 202. National crimes most frequently punished by the opera- tion of natural causes, 203. Wildenow's Species Plantarum, 306. U- tility of the study of botany, 307. Ac- count of the early writers on that sub- ject, 308. Botanical method of ar- rangement of Cæfalpinus, 309. Of Morifon, Ray, &c. 310. Difference between a natural and artificial method, 311. Method of Rivinus, 312. Sex- ual fystem of Linnæus, 313. Imper- fections in, attempted to be remedied by different botanifts, 314. Deviations made by the prefent author, 315. View of the additions and changes made in, fince the time of Linnæus, 316.
Wood, near the Hague, account of, 278. Z
Zealand, New. See Savage.
No. XXI. will be published in October 1807.
D. WILLISON, PRINTER, EDINBURGH.
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