Billeder på siden
PDF
ePub

Bonpland, his travels with Mr.
Humboldt, 215.
Botany, utility in works on, re-
commended, 100.
Bowring, John, his hymns, 146.
Brayley, Mr. the associate of
Mr. Britton, 251, 252.
Brazil, Emperor of, whether he
will claim a voice at the Con-
gress of Panama, 338.
Brazils, the extent and popu-
lation of, 221. Black popu-
lation of, 223.
Brightman, Mr., his comment

on the Apocalypse, 29.
Britton, J., his Beauties of Wilt-
shire, 249. Early life of,
250. His present agreeable
state, 252, 253.
Brougham, Mr., 206, 207. Cha-
racterised, 81.

Brown, H., his remarkable cre-
dulity in respect to the age
of Avebury Temple, 259.
Bruni Leonardi, 356.
Buenos Ayres, extent and popu-
lation of, 221.
Buildings of the metropolis in
the time of Mr. Evelyn, 307.
Buffalo, recommended for do-
mestication, 124.

Buffon, his error in respect to
the sloth, 69.

Buonaparte, dispute about the
spelling of his name, 39. His
favourite plaything, 40. His
attempt upon Ajaccio, ib.
characterised by M.

Droz, 372.
Burke, his speeches, 188, 189.
Busby, Dr., his concert-room

and orchestra anecdotes, 60.
Butler, his Elephant in the
Moon, 361.

Charles, Esq., his life of

Erasmus, 329.
Byron, Lord, 207. Extract
from his diary, relative to
Mr. Sheridan, 159.
Sheridan
C

Cagots, a remarkable class of
APP. REV. Vol. VIII.

people among the Pyrenees,
supposed to take their rise
from the last of the Saracens,
212, 213.
Caledonian canal, its capacity,

222.

Campbell, the poet, 204.

--, Capt., death of, 18.
Canal, communication at the
isthmus of Panama, &c., 221.
Humboldt's advice in respect
to, 222.

Candia, defence of by the Ve-
netians, 376.

Canning, Mr., a collection of
his speeches delivered at Li-
verpool, 188.

Cannibals, among the North
American Indians, 119. Mo-
tives for their being so, ib.
Carew, his translation of Tasso's
Jerusalem Delivered, 309.
Caribs, a superior race of In-
dians, visited by Humboldt,
216. Manners of, 217.
Carr, John, Esq., his poem of
The Bar, 77.

Carte, his History of England
characterised, 138.

Carver, explores St. Peter's
river, 115.

Cascades, description of those
of Gavarnie, 210, 211.
Castle Combe, a custom once
prevailing there, 257.
Castro de Rodriguez, his Biblio-

theca Rabbinica quoted, 388.
Catholics, number of in North
and South America, 223.
Cauterets, a watering-place in
the Pyrenees, remarkable for
the cure of diseases of the
digestive organs, 210.
Cenis, Mount, description of,
92.

Celibacy of the clergy in Spain,

consequences of, 388.
Chamberlain, Lord, Sir W.
Scott's opinion relative to his
discretionary power, in re-
spect to licensing plays, 262.
Chambers,

Ff

Chambers, Robert, his Edin-
burgh Traditions, 125.
Chantry, verses illustrative of
his fascinating statue of Lady
Louisa Russell, 296.
Charles I., some speeches attri-
buted to him, spurious, 7.
His death, 8, 9.
Charles II., Evelyn's dedication
to, of his Fumifugium, 298.
Evelyn's adulation to, 299,
300. His coolness to Eli-
zabeth, Queen of Bohemia,
182.
Charles Louis, Elector Palatine,
his character, and conduct to
his mother, 181.
Chatelet, Marquise du, 378, 379.
Marchioness du, her
infamous intrigue with St.
Lambert, 385. Death of, ib.
Child, exposition and murder,
custom of in China and India,
197, 198.
Children, offered for sale in Tim-
annee, 12.

Chili, extent and population of,

221.

Chippewas, nation of the Indians,
116. Their creed, 117. Can-
nibals, 119, 120.
Chivalry, remarks on the usages
and age of, 395.
Christian, of Brunswick, es-
pouses the cause of the Queen
of Bohemia, 180. His famous
motto, ib.
Christianity, not favourably re-
ceived beyond our settle-
ments in Africa, 17.
Cibber, characterised, 36.
Cimarosa, anecdote of, 227.
Clare, John, beautiful poem by,

295.

Claraut, M., his theorem, 271.
Clergy, power and influence of,

in South America, 216.
Clergy, of Spain, consequences
of their celibacy, 388. Their
enormous revenues, 391.

Cléry, Mémoirs de, P. L. Hanet,
409.

abstract of his life, 410.
Curious anecdote of, in re-
spect to a present he received
of a pair of gloves from
Marie Antoinette, 412.
Clive, Mrs., 36.

Clock, a remarkable one, con-
structed by Droy of Geneva,

65.
Coal-Formation in North Ame-
rica, 123.

At

Coals, price of, at the pits in
North America, 124.
Cumberland, ib.
Code-Napoleon, 169.
College Recollections, 200.

'9 Royal, of Surgeons, an
illiberal bye-law of the, 164.
Columbia, republic of. Baron
Humboldt's remarks on the
languages, population of, &c.,
218, 219.

Commons, House of, Mr. Can-

ning's idea in respect to, 193.
Companies, remarks on joint-

stock, 242. Arguments for
the freedom of, 328.
Concert-Room, and orchestra
anecdotes of music and musi-
cians, ancient and modern,
by Dr. Busby, 60.
Congrès de Panama, par M. de
Pradt, 337. Objects of, 339
-341.

Conquest, the territorial con-
quest of England, 142. Be-
neficial effects of, 143.
Conscience, liberty of, observa-
tions on, by M. Droz, 368.
Conveyancing, Mr. Hayes' let-
ter relative to, 168.
Corn Laws, observations in re-
spect to the, 326, 327.
Corsica, Sketches of, by Mr.
Benson, 37.
Cortes, conduct of the Spanish,
in respect to the public ex-
penditure, 391, 392.

Cortes,

Cortes of Bribiesca, their declar-
ation in respect to the national
poverty of Spain, 392.
Courtenay, his career in the
court of Mary, as related by
Hume, not genuine, 4.
Cowper, Lord and Lady, Kelly's
first patrons at Florence, 228.
Craven, Lord, supposed to have
married Elizabeth, Queen of
Bohemia, 180.
Crayon, Geoffrey, mentioned,

135.

Critics Roman, Kelly's account
of, 227.

Cromwell, Oliver, anecdote of,
256.

Crouch, Mrs., anecdote of, 235.
Cuba, extension and population
of, 221.

Curran, Mr., anecdote of, and
Father O'Leary, 235.
Currents, Sabine's account of
the direction and forces of, in
the voyage of the Pheasant
from Sierre Leone, 278.

D

Danish language, number of
persons who speak the, in
America, 224.

Dacota nation of Indians, 116.
Their creed, 117. Clear from
the charge of cannibalism,
120. A feast given by them
to Major Long, ib.
Dandolo, Count, translation of
his work on the art of rearing
silk-worms, 241. Character
of, 242.
Dante, 354.

Darell, a horrible narrative of

the last of his family, 258.
Darien, Isthmus of, 221.
Davy, Sir Humphry, his pane-
gyric on Dr. Baillie, 87.
Death, infliction of, as a penalty
for robbery condemned, 369.

Debates, utility of their being

made public, 322.

Delaware tribe of Indians al-
most extinct, 116.
Delhi, extract from the gazette
of, 199.
Devina, 357.

Dick, Lady, verses by, 128.
Dochard, Mr., his mission to the
King of Sego, 19. His death,
ib.

Dog river, in North America,
the fall of the, equal to that
of Niagara, 115.

Dogs, among the Dacotas tribe
of Indians, fine meat, 120.
Domesday book, 144.
Donne, Ďr. John, Walton's life
of, 26. The apparition of his
wife to him, 27.
D'Ossuna, anecdote of the
Duke of, 211.
Doublet, Madame, 383.
Downes, George, his Dublin

University prize poems, 101.
Downshire, Marquis of, 249.
Dream, an account of a, 202.
Droy, a Genevan mechanic, the
constructor of a remarkable
clock, 65.

Dutch language, number of per-
sons who speak the, in Ame
rica, 224.
Duvernet, 384.

[blocks in formation]

Edouard, a romance, by the au-
thor of Ourika, 419.
Elizabeth, Queen, last hours of,
Her melancholy condi-
Refuses medicine,

7.
tion, 8.
and dies, ib.
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bo-
hemia, memoirs of, by Miss
Benger, 174.
England, History of, from the
first invasion by the Romans,
to the commonwealth, by the
Rev. John Lingard, D.D., 1.
English, the, in Italy, 184.
Equinoctial regions of the New

Continent, travels to the, 215.
Erasmus, Life of, with historical
remarks on the state of litera-
ture between the tenth and
sixteenth centuries, by Charles
Butler, Esq., 329.
Esop, the illustrious fabulist,

360.

Evelyn, John, miscellaneous
writings of, collected by Wil-
liam Upcott, 298.
Evening, peculiarities of an
Italian, 95.

F

Fairfax, his translation of Tas-
so's Jerusalem delivered, 310.
Falkland Islands, climate of,
much more temperate than
forty years since, 107.
Fasts of some North American
Indians, 117.

Females of Scotland, in former
times, lamented, 127. .
Ferdinand VII. of Spain, his de-
graded condition, 338. Court
of, 342.
Filicaja, 357.
Fontaine, La, and the fabulists

who preceded him, 359.
Foata Jallon, natives of, 18.
Women of, described, ib. Cha-
racter of, ib.

[blocks in formation]

Galileo, 357.

G

Galluchio, the Corsican Rob
Roy, anecdote of, 40.
Gardiner, Bishop, his conduct
relative to a book recom-
mended to Mary I., 6.
Garrick, Walpole's opinion of
his powers, 36.

Gavarnie, description of the cas-
cades of, 210, 211.
General,calledwar-master among
the Soolimas,.15.
Geology of some part of North
America, 123, 124.
George III., a lover and patron
of music, 65. Also a com-
poser, ib. His melancholy
state in 1788, 157.
Gilbert, Lieutenant, his Exposi-
tion of the first, Principles of
grand Military Combinations
and Movements, 130.
Grey, Lady Jane, some of the
speeches given to her by his-
torians, fictitious, 4.

[blocks in formation]


Ciencia de por Don José Canga Hesiod, supposed by some to be
the author of Esop's Fables,
360.

Arguelles, 386.
Hall Island, an animal like a
mermaid seen on, 108.
Hallam, Mr., his view of the
state of Europe during the
middle ages mentioned, 139.
Handel, characterised, 61. His
Messiah, the coldness of its
reception in London, ib. En-
thusiastically received in Dub-
lin, 62. Favourable reception
of his Samson, ib. Anecdote
of, ib.
Hardy, Mr., his picturesque and
descriptive Tour in the moun-
tains of the High Pyrenees,
208.
Harrington, Sir John, his ac-
count of Queen Elizabeth, 7.
Lord, tutor to Eliza-
beth, Queen of Bohemia, 175.
Harold, his conduct towards
William, 142.

[ocr errors]

Hastings, battle of, M. Thierry's
account of, 142.
Hay, Lord, his embassy to the
French court, 27.
Hayes, William, his Letter to

Mr. Peel on the law of real
property and the practice of
conveyancing, 168.
Haydn, sketch of his life, 63.
Hayti, negro population of, 223.
Hemans, Mrs., her poem on
Chantry's statue of Lady
Louisa Russel, 296.
Henault, du President, 378, 379.
Henry VIII., Luther's opinion
of, 2.

III. of Castile, speech of,
to the General Cortes, 392.

Prince, brother to Eliza-
beth, Queen of Bohemia, 175.
, Dr., his History of Eng-
land appreciated, 138.
Herodotus, passage cited from,
relative to the Greek theo-
gony, 331.

Hohenlinden, a stanza from this

poem quoted, 137.
Hofland, Mrs., her tale of Mo-
deration, 87.

Hogg, his poem of Love's Ju-

bilee characterised, 293.
Holloway, Mr., a creditor of
- Mr. Sheridan's, anecdote of,
237.

Homer and Hesiod, absurdly
supposed by Herodotus to
have been the inventors of
the Greek theogony, 331.
Observations in respect to his
theological creed and poet-
ical power, 332.

Hoole, his translation of the Je-
rusalem Delivered, 310.
Humbolt, Baron, his Travels to
the Equinoctial Regions of
the new continent, 215.

[blocks in formation]
« ForrigeFortsæt »