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