Foreign Bible Society, in his late

charge to bis clergy, see Bible Society. Little Davy's new hat, Bloomfield's his

tory of, 76, 7; extract, 77 Liturgy, Mr. Bugg's opinion of the re

strictive nature of its language, 436 Love and opportunity, a song, 380 Locusts, a flight of, described , 579 London Missionary Society, Dr. Brown's

account of, 234 ; causes of their first misfortunes, ib.; instrumental in exciting new energy into the other mission

ary societies, ib. Low Countries, good policy of uniting

them with the States of Holland, 352 Lunatic asylums, pauper, l'uke's prac

tical hints on the coustruction and economy of, 293, 301, et ssq.

ral production of salt petre on the walls of subterraneous and other

buildings, 511 Kidd's Sermons for the use of villages

and families, 369, et seq.; author's style considered, 370; reflections on the piety of Abrjah, ib.; on the prayer of

Jesus on the Cross, ib. Kiffin, Mr. W. biographical sketch of

his life, 403, et seq.; ee Wilson's history of dissenting churches. Kirby's entomology, see Entomology. Klaproth's travels in the Caucasus, and

Georgia, 328, et seq.; formidable extent and power of the Russian em-' pire, ib.; origin of the expedition, 329; nature of the author's arduous duties, 330; general character and estimate of the work, ib. et seq.; reli gion, &c. of the Calmucks, &c, 332 ; description of the Kördä or praying mill, ib. et seq.; other superstitious ceremo nies, 334; Grandshuhr or master-book of the whole world, ib.; great prevalence of priestcraft among them, ib.; doubtful nature of the author's religious principles, 335; his statement of their moralily, ib, et seq.; their mode of ordination for priests' orders, 336; ahsurd nature of their petitions, 337 ; superstitious observances among the Mon. gols, ib.; practise a kind of baptism, 358 ; mode of preparing for death, ib.; general habits, &c. of the Tscherkessians, ib.; remains of Madshar, 339; great elevation of the Elbrus and Moinwari mountains, ib.; superstitious opinion of the natives concern

ing them, ib. et seq. Knowledge, Williams's moral tenden

cies of, 594,5 Konig on a fossil human skeleton from

Guadaloupe, 505; not a fossil rea

main, but merely an incrustation, 506 Kubla Kban, a poem, by S. T. Cole

ridge, 571 Kürdä, or praying mill, 332

Mc Lean, Mr. Archibald, his contro

versy with Mr. Andrew Fuller on

faith, 485, et seg.. Madhouses, reports, &c. respecting

them, 293, et seq.; awful interest of the subject, ib.; inquiry if madness be curable by medicine, 294 ; opinion of practitioners on the subject, various, ib.: probable causes of this difference, 295; remarkable instance of allernation in mental and bodily disease, 296 ; mental sanity frequently precedes the death of insane persons, ib.; inqu ries in regard to a conciliatory inode of treatment, 297; extract from tive Hon. H. Grey Bennett's evidence before the House, ib. et seq.; cuses of Mrs. Slone and of Norris, ib.; statement of some particulars that have been beneficial in lunatic asylums, 300); inquiry in regard to exercise, ib, et seg.: defecis in lunatic asylums, 301 ; Mr. Tuke's proposed classification of pirlients, 302; Mr. Bakewell's plun, ib.; au interesting case of apparently religious insanity, 303; the subject, in fact, a bold profligate, ib.; Mr. Bakewell's opinion in regard to supposed religious maniacs, ib.; greai credit lue to him for his firm intrepid.ty in exposing the false assertions that religion is the frequent occasion of madness, 304 ; dependence on medicine ip cases of insanity very small, 305; great necessity of county establishments, 306; probability of beneficial effects

from the investigation, ib. Majolo, the, a tale, 77, et seq.; reflec

tions on acquired knowledge, &c. 78; character of the Majolo, 79; the Majoli, who they are, ib.; appearance of ike Majolo, ib.; character of the indigenous music of mountainous countries,

Lalunde fond of eating spiders, 582 Leaves, 399, et seq.; character of the

poems, ib.; the child of love and genius,

400 Lecture on Skulls, see Headlong Hall. Letters from a gentleman in the north

of Scotland, see Highlands. Letter to Mr. Gisborne by one of the

clergy, see Bible Society, 52 Lewis and Clarke's travels to the source

of the Missouri river, 105, et seq.; see Missouri. Lincoln, letter to the bishop of, on ac

count of his attack on the British and

80; character seldom understood by an estimate of the qualities of the mind, 81; illustrated in the (imagined) character of Don Lopez, ib.; Majolo's reasons for thinking the life of a merchant the most preferable, 82; his first efforts to obtain literary eminence detailed, 82, 3; concluding remarks on the character of

the work, 84 Mandan Indians, 117; their tradition of

their remote history, 117 Mani's, Dr. two tracts, on regeneration

and conversion according to the sense of holy scripture, and the church of

England, 429, et seq. Medicine of the Mandans, an American

tribe, its singular meaning, 118;

medicine stone, 119 Meeting-houses, evils "likely to result

from their being made subject to pa

rochial assessments, 494,5 Memoirs of lady Hamilton, 284, et seq.;

see Hamilton. Mirage, account of one in Caubul, 466 Messiah, bishop Horsley's opinion of

the origin of the prophecies among

the heathen concerning him, 152, 3 Messiah, the only safe basis on which

passages from the old testament can

be applied to him, 27 Methodist (Wesleyan) missions in the

West Indies, 234; in the island of
Ceylon, ib.; conversion of a Budha

priest, ib. Middle class of society, its rise and great

national importance, 213; not known

in France, 214, 217 Military influence, its danger, as illustrated

in the conduct of the French soldiery, 68 Milbank Penitentiary, its probable evil

tendency, 613 Ministers of the church, Wilks's essay

on the conversion and unconversion

of, 538, et seq.; see Wilks. Missionary exertions, encouragements

for prosecuting them, 225 Missions, Brown's history of, 223; et seq.

See Brown. Missouri river, Lewis and Clarke's travels

to the source of, 105, et seg.; importance of the expedition, ib., reflections on the influence of vastand antecedently unexplored reg ons on a philosophical and imaginative spirit, 107; description of the party, 109; nature of the anticipated difficulties, ib. et seq.; ob. stacles from the extreme rapidity of the current and treachery of the bank, 110-1; description of the Osages, ib.; their oron account of their descent from a snail, ib.; general appearance of the country, 112; extensive ancient

burying grounds of the Indians, ib. ; ravages of the small pox among the Mahas, effects of their despair, ib. ; death of Sergeant Floyd, ib.; remarkable bends in the river, 113; Ottoes and Missouri Indians, ib.; effects of a hurricane, ib. ; Staitan or Kite. Indians, ib.; notice of some natural curiosities, ib.; remarkable regular mound, ib.; water of the rivers rendered deleterious by the great quantity of copperas, &c. in its bank, ib.; Sioux, a numerous and powerful tribe, ib.; determined conduct of some associated young und brave men in this tribe, 115; description of some an. cient fortifications 116; the Rickaras, ib.; reject the use of spirituous liquors, ib.; Mandaus and other tribes, 117; Mandans, tradition of their origin, 117, 118; remarkable circumstance in their religion, 119, 119; barbarous revenge of a Minnetaree chief, 119; in.tense cold of the winter, 120; vol. canic appearances, 121 ; sharp and dangerous encounter with a bear, 122; singular mode of procuring buffaloes, 123; perilous situation of the Capt. L. and one of his men, ib.; discover the summits of the rock mountains, ib.; Capt. L. arrives at the first cataract,ib. extent, &c. of the various fails, 125; cataracts describerl, ib.; danger of Capt. C. and others from the effects of a heavy rain, 126; destruction of the buffa. loes at the falls, ib.; their immense breeds, ib.; remarkable mountain explosions, ib.; Capt. L. surprized by a bear, 127; the party pass the gates of the rocky mountains, ib.; arrive at the three forks,' 128; Shoshonee Indians, their actions, &c. 128, 129; cross the mountainous track, ib,; arrive at the Columbia river, 130; discover the Pacific ocean, 131; customs, &c. of the Indians on Colombia, a

river, ib.; returu of the party, 132 Mongols, religion, &c. of, 336, et seg. Monitor, weekly, 174 Moorish school at Fez, 529 Morell's studies in history, vol. 2. His.

tory of Rome, 170, et seq.; best mode of waking history the vehicle of moral and religious instruction, 171 ; conversion of Constantine, 172; refleclions

on il, 173 Morris's memoirs of the life and wri.

tings of the Rev. Andrew Fuller, 478,

el seg. See Fuller Moultau, 466 Mound of the litlle devils, 113; Indian

tradition concerning them, 114

Mountainous districts, their general fea

tures, nearly similar, 249, et seg. Mountain scenery, Chateaubriand's remarks

on it, 47 Mountain scenery, its influence on the

mind and feeling, 250, et seq. Mgiruvari, a mountain of Caucasus, de.

scription of, 340 Murat, remarks on his character, by Miss

Willians, 734 Music, at Morocco, its nature, 527 Music, native, of mountainous countries

wild, abrupt, and mournful, 80; great resemblance between Sardinian and Scottish music, ib.

Narrative of events in France, from the

landing of Bonaparte till the restora,

tion of Louis XVIII. 65, et seq. Nelson's, Lord, letters, were not publish

ed by Lady Hamilton, 289 New Covenant, translated into Hebrew,

for the Jews, 343, et seq. ; work includes Matthew only, 343; Jona's translation of the New Testament, 344; • plan and execution of the work, ib.; · emendatory hints to the translators,

345, et seq. Ney, Marshal, Miss Williams's remarks

on his character, 68 ; executed at

Paris, ib. Niagara, Chateaubriand's dangerous adven

Ture there, 48 Nismes, cruelties perpetrated there, confined

to the protestants, 394 Nonconformist church, the first in England, · some account of, 401 Norris (the lunatic) his case staled, 297,

state of the United Kingdom, 417,

et seq. Papal system, its varied aspect as exhibited

in past circumstances, and in present locality, and as represented by modern enlighiened advocates, 317, 318; its just features exhibited in Spain, Portugal, &c. not in the descriptions of Butler

and Eustace, ib. : Papists, their zeal in propagating their

religious opinions, 226 Parish relief, its evil operation under

certain circumstances, 612 il Parisina, a poem, by Lord Byron, 273,

et seq.; objections to the tale, ib.; its effect painful, 274 ; Lord B.'s poems

merely sketches of characters, ib. Paris revisited, see Scott (John) Parkes's chemical essays, 255, et seq.

manufacturers should be conversant with scientific principles, ib.; the arts precede the sciences in the progress of mankind towards refinement, &c. ib.; Lord Bacon's proof that the discovery of gunpowder was accidental, 256 ; nature of these essays, ib.; subo jects of the essays, ib. et seq.; his ad. vice to a medical student considered, 258; his description of making cast, steel obscure, 266; his remarks on temperature contradictory, ib.; his account of combustion unphilosophical, ib., his statement in regard to the bittern of the Cheshire, 8c. works, erroneous, 261 ; barytes, used by the French manufacturers of porcelain, 263; Drs. Ward and Roebuck's modes of forming sulphuric acid, 264 ; a particular process in Lancaskire described, 265; on citric acid, 266 ; its process and produce, ib. ; attempt to make it in Sicily, 267, on fixed alkalies, ib.;

general remarks, 268. Parsey's deserted village restored, a - poem, 398, 399; extract, ib. Paul's letters to his kinsfolk, 346, et seq.;

causes of the discontent that suc

ceeded to the first return of the Bour. · bons, 347; negligence of the police

rendered - Buonaparte's journey to Paris' safe and easy, 348 ; his effective preparations for the invasion of Belgium, rb.; affair of Quatre Bras, zb.; danger of Blucher, 349; 'retreat of Wellington upon Waterloo, ib.; alarm al Brussels, 350; instances of English and of French bravery, ib.; noble sentiments of Wellington, 351; perseverance of the British troops, 351 ; real nature of Napoleon's errors at Waterloo, 352 ; author's opinions that the late poli

Notes, to illustrate the text of books, a

modern contrivance, 13; objections

against the notes to Gibbon's Decline ..and Fall, 14 Notes, intended as materials in regard

to the affairs of the French Protestants of the Department du Gard, 209

Ode, a second, to Buonaparte, 75, 76;

its character wholly imitative, ib.;

extract, 76 Opoleyta, a tale of Ind, 158, et seq.; ex

tracts, 159 Oregan, a river of the West, 130 Orr, a united Irishman, remarks on his

case, and on his defence by Mr. Cur

ran, 168 Dsages, American Indians described,

110, 111; their own tradition of their origin, 111

Pamphlets on the present distressed

tical trouble of Europe originated in .The partition of Poland, ib.; reflec. tions on the mischiefs that would have arisen from the burning of Paris, 353; objectionabie levity of the author in speaking of the papal heresy,

354 ; his opinion of the present state . of the Romish church, incorrect, ib.;

great attention paid to the religious education of the lower classes in the kingdom of Wirtemburg, 350 ; illjudged remarks on the restoration of the Gallic church, exposod, ib.; his reflections on the stale of the Protestants

in France, 356, 357 Peculiarities of an author, are generally

among his faults, 37 Penny-a-week Purgalorian Society, 396;

Carlyle's remarks on it, ib. Pearose's, Liewellyn, journal, 395, et

seq.; 'nature of the work, ib.; evidence of its autbenticity unsatisfactory, 396; some account of the author, ib.; testimony of Mr., now Sir B. West, 397; Mr. Taylor's account of the journal, ib.;

its character, 398 Peshawer, residence of the Afghaun court,

468 ; description of the surrounding

country, 557 Philosophical transactions for 1814,357,

et seg.; synoptic scale of chemical equivalents, 357, 8; analysis of a new species of copper ore, 349; Ba. kerian lecture, on some new electro. ohemical phenomena, ib.; new experiments on the fluoric compounds, 360, et seq.; experiments and observations on a new substance which becomes a violet-coloured gas by heat, 362, et seq.; account of a family hava ing hands and feet with supernumerary Angers and toes, 504; experiments and observations on the influence of the nerves of the eighth pair, on the secretions of the stomach, 505; on a fossi! human skeleton from Guadaloupe, ib. ; observations on the fupco tions of the brain, 506; further experiments and observations on iodine, 507, et seq.; observations respecting the natural production of saltpetre on walls of subterraneous and other buildings, 511; on the nature of the salts termed Prussiates, and on acids formed by the union of certain bodies with the elements of the Prussic acid, ib.; some experiments on the combustion of the diamond and other car. bonaceous substances, 513; some ac. count of the fossil remains of an ani. mal more nearly allied to fishes than

any other classes of animals, 514; OR an easier mode of procuring potassium than that which is now adopted, ib.; on the influence of the nerves upon the action of the arteries, 515; on the means of producing a double distilla. tion by the same heat, ib.; an account of some experiments on animal heat,

516 Poems, by Lord Byron, 595 Poland, partition of, occasioned in a great degree the troubles of Europe,

352 Policy of an infidel despot more bene.

ficial to society than the principles of

popery, see extract, 71, et seq. Political establishment for the conver

sion of sinners, absurdity of it, 550, 1 Poor's rates, era of the act of their esta.

blishment, 493 Popery, diversified nature of its chance

ter in various countries, 217; pam.
phlets on, 313; pomp of the Romisk
church, kc. adverse to the simplicity
of the Christian institute, 314; its late
threatening situation, ib.; the feelings
and the practice of protestants, on this
occasion strangely at variance, 316;
present efforts of the Romish church
to re-establish herself, ib. ; duty of
protestants to counteract its efforts,
317; design of the pampblets, ib.;
papal system, its varied aspects, as er:
hibited by past circumstances and present
locality, and as represented by modern,
onlightened adoocates, 317, 8; Dr.
Smith's candid mode of treating his subject,
318; reasons for considering the papal
system unallerable, ib.; its true fea.
tures exhibited in Spain and Portugal,
not in England, &c. ib.; Butler and
Eustace's professions of liberality, in
direct opposition to the spirit of the
Romish church, ib.; they are une
authorized advocates, 319; inquiry
into alleged pretensions to religious avo
thority, iò, el seq.; reasons for rejecting
the authority of the pope and church of
Rome, 321; supremacy of the pope
considered, 322; Romish infallibility,
doubt whether it attaches to the pope
or to the church, ib.; Carlyle's remarks
on Mr. Ryan's collective infallibility,
322, 3; his reasons for the Romisk
clergy's deriving their succession from the
priests, and not from the prophets, 329;
popery destroys the essential princi.

of personal religion, &c. ib. et seq.; fundamental principles of dissent, the same as those that protest against the church of Rome, 325; duty of diso