seq.; tendency of population to ex- ...ceed the limits of subsistence, 600; charitable aid productive of consider- able evil, ib.; origin of savings' banks, 601; various plans projected for im- proving the surplus earnings of the poor, ib, principle of friendly soci- eties, ib.; exertions of Mr. Rose, 602; Mr. Bone establishes a tranquillity bank, ib.; plan of it, ib.; Ruthwell economical bank, 603; similar insti- tutions founded, ib.; nature and ad- vantages of savings' banks, ib.; su- periority of economical banks over deferred annuities, benefit clubs, &c. 604, 5; remarks on the influence of poverty in regard to marriage, and promiscuous intercourse, ib.; tendency of economical banks to rectify the evil, 606; population in old countries, has outgrown the limits of subsist- ence, 607; this effect not yet felt in North America, ib.; its consequences on the state of society there, 608; America inferior to England in intel- lectual endowments, ib.; Mr. Rose's pamphlet on banks for savings, 609; extracts, ib.; Duncan's essay on parish banks, 610; Taylor's account of Lon- don savings' banks, ib.; Beaumont's essay on provident banks, 611; Da- vis's friendly advice to frugal persons, ib.; Bone's regulations of tranquillity bank, ib hints towards improving the system of economical banks, ib.; evil operation of parish relief, under certain circumstances, 612; and of the Milbank penitentiary, 613. Scott's inquiry into the effect of bap- tism, &c. 429
Scottish and Sardinian music, their intimate resemblance, 80
Scott's (John), Paris revisited, 209, et seq., moral condition of France, de- plorable, 210; state of the catholic clergy, 211; of the French protes- tants, ib.; inquiry into the sources of the greatness of the British nation, ib.; et seq.; commerce one great source of the moral elevation of the British empire, 213; its operation, ib.; France never a commercial country, 214; importance of the middle class in England,ib.; the representative system, another source of our national prospe rity, ib.; ci devant French patriotism, its nature, &c. 215; English contrasted, ib.; great importance of the freedom of the press, in preserving true patriotism in England, ib.; enlightened toleration never understood in France, 216;
protestant marriages acknowledged in France by Louis XVI. ib.; popery, its various character, 217; no middle class known in France, ib.; the clergy, species of nobility, ib.; governments not qualified to confer religion on a nation, 218; the people themselves the originators of the moral glory of England, ib.; its attachment to wars, i one chief cause of misfortune France, 219; Mr. Scott's caution to England; his judicious remarks on the occasion and nature of the late agitations in Europe, 220; present duty of Eng. land, ib.; concluding reflections, 222: a permanent peace, its probable in- fluence on the social economy of the French nation, ib.
Scott, Walter, character of his poetry,34 Scripture, Dr. Horsley, on the perspicuity
and sufficiency of, 157, 8
Scripture help, designed to assist in reading the Bible profitably, 492; contents, ib.
Sermons, by Bishop Horsley, 151, et seq.
for the use of families and vil- lages, by Thornhill Kidd, 369, et seq. on devotional subjects, by the Rev. A. Bonar, minister of Cromond, 278, et seq.; address to believers, 281, 2; the living temple, 282, 3.
Serpent, a species that makes a noise like a turkey, 113
Servants, female, tracts relative to the conduct, the improvement, and en couragement of, 385, et seq.; pecu liarities attaching to the nature of their situation in society, ib.; their great disadvantages, in regard to their moral condition, 386; their religious disadvantages, ib. et seq.; their influ- ence on society very considerable, 387; extracts from the various tracts, ib. et seq.
Sharpe's report, with minutes of evi- dence, &c. for the better regulation of mad-houses, 293
Sheffield's, Lord, miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, 1, et seq., See Gib- bon.
Siege of Corinth, a poem, 269, et seq.; extracts, &c. ib.
Simeon, Mr. his opinion that the lan-
guage of the ritual is too strong, 435 Simplon and the Valteline, two grand military routes, necessity of their being included within the neutrality of the Geneva and Swiss limits, 99 Sismondi's considerations sur Genève, 94, el seq.; probable evil that would result
from annexing Geneva to the Helvetic league, ib.; importance of Geneva, considered as an enlightened protestant state in the centre of the continent, 96; as belonging morally, to this country, ib; author's apprehensions in regard to the adoption of a liberal system of instruction in France, 97; extract, on the importance of Geneva to the protestant interest, ib. et seq.; protestant colonies in Italy, formed by the Genevese, ib. ; Discours sur la Philosophie de l'Histoire, 99; author's opinion that the state of mankind always has been, and is, progressive in knowledge, virtue, and happiness, ib.
Sketch of Highland manners and cus- toms, 243, el seq.
Slave trade not abolished by Buonaparte from a sense of humanity, 71 Small pox, its ravages among the Ma- has, American Indians, 112; cruel ef- fects of their despair, ib.
Smedley's Jonah, a poem, 291, et seq.; extract on the history of Jonah, ib.; death and resurrection of our Saviour,
Smedley's Prescience, a poem, 472, et seq.; Lord Bacon on divination, 472, 3; Druids' circle at Stone-henge, 474, 5; witch described, ib.; lovers prescience of an unknown mistress, 477. Smith's, Dr. J. P. reasons of the pro- testant religion, 313, et seq.; varied aspects of the papal system, as exhibited by past circumstances and present locality, and as represented by modern enlightened advocates, 319, 20; popery is de- structive of the essential principles of personal religion,' 323, et seq.; denial of the right of private judgement in reli- gious matters, 324, 5; fundamental principles of dissent, the same as those of the protest against the church of Rome,
Squirrels, barking, in N. America, 113 Staitan or Kite Indians, consequences of their extreme ferocity, ib.
Steam-engine, improvement in the con- struction of, a natural consequence of Dr. Black's discovery of the theory of heat, 256 Stone-henge, poetical description of the Druid's circle there, 474, 5
Stone Mrs. and Norris's (the lunatics) cases as stated in evidence, by the Hon. H. G. Bennet, 297, 8
Stourton, Lord, his altar tomb in Salisbury cathedral, 457
Studies in history, by T. Morell, 170. See Morell
Style of Gibbon, contrasted with Hume's and Robertson's, 14, et seq.; art, its prevalent feature, 13
Styles's temptations of a watering place, 591, et seq.; extracts, 592; the the- atres less pernicious to the morals than trinket-shops, &c. at a watering-place, 592, 3
Sulphuric acid, Dr. Ward's patent for a mode of obtaining it by combustion, 264; Dr. Roebuck's improved mode, ib.; mode practised in Lancashire, 265 Surry chapel, great liberality of the congregation worshipping there, 496
Tangiers, administration of justice there by the Kaid, 525; by the Cadi, 526. Tassoni, Walker's memoirs of, 497; sketch of his life and works, &c. ib. et seq.
Taylor, Mr. Dan. his controversy with Mr. Andrew Fuller on the nature of faith, 484, et seq.
Taylor's, Mrs. present of a mistress to a young servant, 385; anecdote as a specimen of the work, ib. et seq.; sub- jects treated of in the volume, ib. Taylor's summary account of the Lon- don savings' bank, 599, 610
Tea, great consumption of, at Morocco, 526; supplied by the English from Gibraltar, ib.
Technical terms in divinity, on the use of, 555
Temperature, Mr. Parkes's remarks on, contradictory, 268
Temples of Jerusalem and Mecca, not to be visited by Christians, &c. 534; mosques not forbidden, ib.
Tenant on an easier mode of procuring potassium, than that which is now adopted, 514; on the means of producing a double distillation by the same heat, 515 Thomson's analysis of a new species of copper ore, 359
Thoughts on the present crisis, &c. 417, et seq. Toleration, religious, an enlightened one, never prevailed in France, 216 Toleration under Bonaparte, a clew towards unravelling its true character, 72, et seq. Tragedies derived from the Greek my- thology, neither acted nor read in England, 90, 1
Tranquillity bank established by Mr. Bone, 602
Transformations of insects, 577 Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, &c. 522, et seq.
Timber, large, its great deficiency in the interior of North America, 112
United brethren, Dr. Brown's account of their missionary labours, 231; ab- solute failure of their attempt to civi- lize prior to christianizing the Green- landers, 233
Valpy's Greek Testament, 341, et seq.; plan of the work, ib., the theological notes unsatisfactory, ib.; character of the text, 342; general estimate of the work, ib.
Virgil's fourth eclogue, contains, accord- ing to Bishop Horsley, some prophe- cies of the Messiah, 153 Vincent's spirit of prayer, 94 Volcanic explosions among the black or
rocky mountains of N. America, 126 Walker's memoirs of Tassoni, 497, et seq; attainments and claims as an author, ib. et seq.; origin of Tassoni's "Rape "of the Bucket," 499; subjects of his "Pensieri Diversi," 501; account of Carlo Emanuele, Duke of Savoy, ib.; traits in the life of Tassoni, ib.; state of patronage in Italy in the 17th century, 503, 4
War, love of, the great characteristic of the French nation, 219; its ruinous tendency on the best interests of in- ternal national society, ib. Watering places, Styles's temptations of, 591
Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington esta-
blishes his head-quarters there, 349; ac- counts of various actions there, 360 Water, want of, distressed state of Ali Bey
and his party from it, 532; nature of its effects on the human frame, 533 Watkins's, (Rev. H. G.) hints and ob- servations, seriously addressed to heads of families, in reference to servants, 385, et seq.
friendly hints to female ser-
Watkins's second report of the London Society for the improvement of ser vants, ib.; extract, 390 Weekly monitor, 174
Wellington, the Duke of, establishes his head quarters at Waterloo, 349; dotes of, 351, et seq.
Western, Mr. nature of his late propo. sitions, 422
White Doe of Rylstone, 33, et seq.; foundation of the poem, 37; extracts, 38; et seq.
Wilks's essay on the signs of conversion and unconversion in the ministers of the church, 538; character of the con- verled minister, 548; his mode of preaching, ib.; essentially different from the unconverted minister, 549; absurdity of a political establishment for con- verting sinners, 550, 1; objectionable passage in the preface to the essay, 554; probably interpolated, ib.; author's re- marks on the use of technical terms in divinity, 555; his excellent remarks on the ministerial character, 556 Williams's, Helen Maria, narrative of events in France, from the landing of Buonaparte, in March 1815, 65, et seq.; extreme change in her political sentiments, ib.; value of her testi- mony in regard to recent events in France, ib.; Buonaparte not popular in France, ib.; his return the effect of a military conspiracy, ib. et seq.; rapidity of his march easily explained, 68; dan- ger to be dreaded from military influence, ib.; Marshal Ney's conduct repro- bated, ib.; state of the Jacobins under Buonaparte, 69; Buonaparte's peni- tence, ib.; contentions in his council chamber, 78; hire of French mobs, ib.; Buonaparte collars his archchancellor, ib. surprize of the French at the declama- tions of the English in favour of Buona- parle, ib.; French caricature, 71; a choice morceau for craniologists, ib.; his abolition of the slave trade, did not originate in motives of humanity, ib.: his alleged design to change the Catholic religion in France, 72, et seq.; encourages publications against popery, ib.; styled by a bishop, the representative of God on earth, ib.; engages the cardinal archbishop, and the protestant president, of Paris, in one religious ceremony, 73; Murat, slight sketch of his character, 74 Miss W's reflections on the then present state of France, ib. et seq. Williams, H. M. on the late persecu- tions of the protestants in the S. of France, 391, et seq.; importance of the present work, 592; author's testi-
mony of the reality of the persecutions, ib.; advantages acquired by the protes- tants, from the late revolution, 393; their complete emancipation under the reign of Buonaparte, ib.; restoration of the Bourbons, thrusts them back into a state of doubtful toleration, 394; insur- rections on the return of Buonaparte, ib.; cruelties at Nismes confined to the pro- testants, ib.; author's remarks on the conduct of the three denominations in London, 395
Williams's moral tendencies of know-
ledge, 594, 5; importance of history, 595 Wilson, Capt. J. Griffin's memoirs of, 275; subject of the narrative, 276, et seq.; account of his conversion, ib. et seq.
Wilson's history and antiquities of dis-
senting churches in London, &c. 401, et seq.; sense in which the author uses the word church, ib.; account of the first dissenting congregation formed in London, ib.; its pastors, ib.; first presbyterian church, 402; rise of the Brownists, ib.; first independent church, ib.; rise of the first baptist church, ib. plan of the work, ib.; list of the principal biographical notices, 403; biographical sketch of the life of W. Kiffin, ib.; embraces the principles of the baptists, 463; controversies on the sub- ject of baptism, 404; falsely accused of plotting against the government, 405; acquires the esteem of the king, ib., ac- cused of compassing the death of the king, ib.; policy of Mr. Kiffin, and meanness of Charles II. 407; execution of his grandsons, by Jefferies, 407; compelled to be an alderman by James 11. 408; his death, ib.; account of Mr. Joseph Jacob, 586; strict laws adopted in his
church, 586, 7; extract from his ser- mon on wigs and whiskers, 587; rhymes on the same subject, ib.; ex- tract from a sermon on the fewness of the faithful,' 588 Wilson's inquiry into the causes of the high prices of corn and labour, &c. 417, et seq. Wirtemberg, kingdom of, great atten- tion paid there to the moral and re- ligious instruction of the lower classes, 355
Wisdom, Philosophy, and Philanthropy rivers!! 128
Wollaston's synoptic scale of chemical equivalents, 357; its essential value, ib.; its description and use, 358 Women, Mahommedan, covered place for them in one of the mosques at Fex, for attending of public prayers, 529 Woodcock, the Rev. H. in reply to Mr. Gisborne's letter to the Bishop of Gloucester. See Bible Society Wordsworth's White Doe of Rylstone,33, et seq.; the author's poetical qualifica- tions not justly appreciated by his contemporaries, ib.; remarks on the love of poetry, ib.; character of Walter Scott's poetry; on poetical pleasure, 35; metaphysical poets, 36; poetical powers of the author, ib.; his faults, 37; a writer's peculiarities are generally among his faults, ib.; foundation of the poem, ib.; extracts, 38, et seq.
Young's, Arthur, Baxteriana, 86, et seq.
Zemzem, Chief of the Well of, deputed to poison persons who have rendered themselves obnoxious to the ruling powers, 436, 7,
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