TO THE

Abington Pigots, evils of its inclosure bill,
247.

Absentees, amount of British income spent
by, 314.

Aikin, (Miss) 56.

Alexander 1. of Scotland, 332-Alexander
II., 334-Alexander III., his reign an
interesting period of Scottish history,
335-Defeats Haco of Norway, 339—
his misfortunes and death, 340.
Ali, (Makomet of Egypt) singular plot
against his life, 458.

Ali, (Pasha of Yauini) account of, 466.
Allen, (W.) Home Colonies, 522.
America, North, travels in, why generally
defective, 417-ignorance of the Ameri-
cans respecting England, 422-their
schools and colleges, 423-system of
government and administration of law,
425-legislative debates, 426-spirit of
party in elections, 431-operation of the
democratic principle on the administra-
tion of justice, 433-difference between
the Americans and English as to moral
feeling, 437-women held in low estima-
tion, 437-cause of this, 438-excessive
use by the Americans of ardent spirits,
ibid. English America capable of de-
fending itself against the United States,
439-American carnival, 441-estate of
New Harmony, 442-preference given
in America to the episcopal church, 445
-lessons and examples of their ances-
tors not wholly abandoned by the Ameri-
cans, ibid.

Anne, (queen of James I.) expense of a ten

days' residence of, at Bath, 66-value
of her jewels, 76-her character, 77.
A. P. D. G. Sketches of Portuguese life,
manners, costume, and character, 184-
account of the author, ibid.
Anti-Pauper System. See Working Classes.
Assheton, (Mr.) 64.

Attacotti, tribe of Ancient Britains, 146.
Ava, Mr. Crawfurd's Journal of an Embassy
to the Court of, 27-Ava, as described
by Marco Paolo, 28-visited by Mendez
Pinto, whose account Mr. Crawfurd
deems unfaithful, 29-Mission of Mr.
Higginson to ibid.-Mission to, of Colo-

nel Symes, 30-Mr. Crawfurd's appoint
ment and suite, ibid.-picture of the
country viewed by him on his way,
31-
gives an account of the celebrated petro-
leum wells, ibid.-curious specimens of
petrified wood and fossil bones of animals
collected by him, 33-his reception at
Ava, 34-Burmese notions of dignity,
ibid.visited in his steam-boat by the
king's ministers, ibid.-treaty of com-
merce, consisting of twenty-two articles,
reduced by their pertinacity to four, 35
-commendable patience of Mr. Craw-
furd in this proceeding, ibid.-singular
punishments to which these ministers are
subjected by the king, 36-character of
the king, 38- barbarous amusement
practised by him of riding upon a man's
shoulders, ibid.-hall of audience de-
scribed, 41-presentation of the ambas-
sador, and amusement that followed, ibid.
-water-festival of the Burmese, consist-
ing of boat-racing, described, 42 -
amusements of the Burmese, 43-Bur-
man punishments, ibid.-frightful picture
of the brutal ferocity of this people, 45

their chandalas, or persons appointed
to burn the bodies of the dead, 46-bar-
barous custom as to a wife dying in child-
bed, bid. funeral of a priest, hid.no-
tions of the Burmese on the subject of
disease, and other physical evils, 47—
degraded class among them, denominated
slaves of the temples, 48-their different
tribes and respective practices, ibid.-
state of the peasantry, 49--little progress
of the Burmese in the useful arts, or in
the higher branches of literature, ibid.—
their notions of religion, 50-their pub-
lic records, 51-curious specimen of the
fidelity of these records in the account
given by the court historiographer of the
war with the English, ibid.-value of
Martaban ceded to the English at the
close of this war, 51-Mr. Crawfurd's
address to the Burmese in announcing
the event of the cession, 52-mistaken
in his supposed policy of our keeping
possession of Rangoon, 53-value of the
map attached to his work, ibid.

Bacon

Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, (Duke,) his in-
ducement to travel in America, similar
to that of Captain Hall, 418-short
account of the duke, 419-course fol-
lowed by these travellers the same, 420

where their descriptions vary, the
cause easily accounted for, 421-com-
mendable designs of Captain Hall in
writing his travels, 440commits a
geopraphical mistake, ibid.-popularity
of his work in America, 446.

Bicheno, (J. E.,) on systems and methods
in natural history. See Natural His-
tory.

Blind Harry, the Scottish historian, 356.
Boat racing, festival of, with the Burmese,
42.

Boëthius, (Hector,) his vaunting account

of early Scottish story examined, 121.
Bohun, (Sir Humphrey de,) slain in single
combat by Robert Bruce, 351.
Bosch, (General Van dem,) 540.
Brazil, (prince of). See Portugal.
Breeding, practice of, as to animals, appli-
cable to tribes of mankind, 155.

Bremhill, weekly allowance to the young
women by the overseers of the parish of,
259.

Brighton, Co-operative Society, account
of, 365.

Brisson, (Jacques,) Histoire Financière de
la France, 492.

Brougham, (Henry,) charge of cruelty al-
leged by, against a naval officer, 412.
Browne, (Captain John Murray,) historical
view of the revolutions of Portugal by,
134-character of the author, 185
value of his works, 187, 220, 224.
Brownlow, (Lord,) 267.
Buchan, (Countess,) her imprisonment, 357.
Buchanan, (George,) 122,
Buckland, (Professor,) remarks of, on ani-

mals no longer found to exist, 33.
Bulama, project of a colony at. See Beaver.
Burmese. See Ava.

Busbequius, ambassador to the Turkish
court, 485.

Butler, (Bishop,) 7.

Cheltenham and Gloucester, compared as
to their respective population and
churches, 4.

Chinese, literature of the, 85- make no
technical distinctions between tragedy
and comedy, 86-a tragedy of, the sor-
rows of Hau, critically examined, ibid.
82-a tragedy of Voltaire's constructed
from one of their plays, 93—the Hundred
Plays of Yuen translated by Père Pre-
mare, ibid.-revolts with the Chinese,
the sure result of famine, ibid.—the dra-
matis personæ and divisions of their
plays, ibid.-their poetry, 94-use of
parallelism in their verse, ibid.from
their fondness of it employed to the de-
corations of rooms and temples, 97-
spirit of their poetry, 98-cause of the
little estimation in which Chinese litera-
ture is held in the west, 99-songs and
odes intended to be accompanied by mu-
sic the earliest poetry of the Chinese,
100-specimens, from their ancient book
of odes, 101-their low estimation of
the stage, 102-account of their best
modern poets and modern productions,
ibid.-no instances found among them of
epic poetry, 104-the pastoral not used
by them, 105-specimens of the moral
and didactic, 106—the satirical, ibid.—
the descriptive, 107-use of mythology
in their poetry, 108-specimens of the
descriptive, 109-poetical pieces taken
at random, 111-mistake of Profes-
sor Rémusat, as to an English opinion
of Chinese poetry, rectified, 113 a
dictionary of Chinese poetry necessary
for Europeans to form of it a right esti-
mate, ibid:-a Chinese romance, under
the title of the Fortunate Union, about
to appear in English, 114-construction
of this romance, 115-extracts from it,
116-120.

Christian of Denmark, visit of, to his sister
queen Anne, at Somerset-house, 61.
Church of England. See England.
Cintra, convention of, 218.
Clarendon, (Lord,) 3.

Carey, (Sir R.,) anecdote of, 54, note.
Catholic religion, use of the ceremonial of,
2-infidelity of the higher order of the
clergy, as common as gross superstition
in the lower order, 6-various schisms
in, enumerated, 10-14.
Chalmers, (George,) 135.
Chamberlain, (Mr.,) 76, 77.

Comyn, (Sir John,) stabbed by Robert
Bruce, 349.

Cooper, (Dr., Pres. of Columbia College,)
political anecdote respecting, 436.

-saying of, 345,

works on the subject of, 359--plan of
John

John Bellers, 360-communities in Hot-
tentot villages at the Cape of Good Hope,
361-society of Harmony near Pitts-
burg, N. America, ibid. community of
the people called Shakers, 362-com-
munity near Wheeling, on the Ohio-
village and land of the Harmonists pur-
chased by Mr. Owen, 363-other com-
munities in N. America, 364-commu-
nity at Orbiston, ibid.-in London, of
printers, ibid.-community near Dublin,
ibid. Brighton Co-operative Society,
365-proceedings of these co-operators,
ibid.-their mode of reasoning, 366-
their arguments against machinery, 367
-co-operation deemed by them a re-
medy against this evil, 368-success at-
tending the Brighton Society, 370-|
care taken by it as to admission of mem-
bers, 371-three societies formed by a
lady in imitation of it, 372-benefits the
co-operators hope to derive from these
associations, ibid.-influence of these
associations, if successful, on the rest of
society, 373-evils that would result
from their absorbing the greater part of
the working population, ibid.

Corbet, (Richard,) 72.
Correio Braziliense, 184.
Cox, (Captain,) 32.

Cranmer, (Archbishop,) 14.
Crawfurd, (John,) Journal of an Embassy
from the Governor-general of India to
the Court of Ava, 27.
Cromwell, (Oliver,) knew the force of re-
ligious principle, and availed himself of
it, 10.

Cromwell, (Sir Oliver,) his reception of
James I., 58-his character and history,
62.

ten by her in consequence of the excite-
ment occasioned by Moore's Farewell to
his Harp, 294-complains in verse, in
her fifteenth year, of frequent and vio-
lent headachs, 295-lines by, to a star,
298 her regret at not having the ad-
vantage of the customary female educa-
tion, ibid.-her feelings on possessing it,
by the benevolence of a friend, as ex-
pressed in her letters while at school,
297-lines by, written in illness and
under a sense of decay, 298-subse-
quent lines, the last she wrote, express-
ing her fear of madness, 299-anecdote
of her attachment to her books, when on
her death bed, and forbidden to read
them, ibid.-her person described, 300
←number and character of her writings,
ibid.

Davis, (J. F.) Han-Koon Tsew, or the Sor
rows of Han, a Chinese Tragedy, trans-
lated from the original, 85.
Death, thoughts on the fear of, 26.
Denson, (John,) address to the Society for
the Encouragement of Industry, 240–
striking instance cited by, of the bene-
fits derived from dividing a large farm
into small allotments, 253-states the
wages of a peasant to be less than what
is allowed to an imprisoned felon, 254
-details the ill effects of the allowance
system, 255.

Derwentwater, beautiful picture of domes-
tic feeling on contemplating it, 25.
D'Israeli, (J.,) inquiry into the literary and
political history of James I., 54.
Donkin, (Sir Rufane,) Dissertation on the
course and probable termination of the
Niger, 226-sources of his mistake as
to this river, 227-in support of his
theory, Herodotus made to say what he
does not say, 228-in the same manner
Ptolemy misapprehended by him, 229
-improperly supposes the Cape de
Veide islands to be the Happy Islands,
230 his theory, making the Nile of He-
rodotus and the Niger of Pliny to be the
modern Niger historically overthrown,
233 his mistaken notions, as to other
rivers being the Niger, combated, 235
-his doctrine of fluvial aneurisms, ibid.
-his predilection for ancient classic
authorities, and disregard for modern
ones, the result of his great learning,
237-expedition of the two Beecheys
cited against him, 238-ridicules Mungo
Park for a faney, that might not inaptly
have applied to himself, ibid.-picture
of his feelings on the supposed truth of
his discovery, 239-his mistake as to the
river of Timbuctoo, ibid.-reply of the
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