seg.; tendency of population to exceed the limits of subsistence, 600; charitable aid productive of considerable evil, ib., origin of savings' banks, 601; various plans projected for improving the surplus earoings of the poor, ib.; principle of friendly societies, ib.; exertions of Mr. Rose, 602 ; Mr. Bone establishes a tranquillity bank, ib.; plan of it, ib.; Ruthwell economical bank, 603; similar institutions founded, ib.; pature and advantages 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 promiscuousintercourse, ib.; tendency of economical banks to rectify the eril, 606; population in old countries, has outgrown the limits of subsistence, 607; this effect not yet felt in North America, ib.; its consequences on the state of society there, 608; America inferior to England in intellectual endowments, ib.; Mr. Rose's pamphlet on banks for savings, 609; extracis, ib.; Duncan's essay on parish banks, 610; Taylor's account of London sayings' banks, ib.; Beaumont's essay on provident banks, 611; Davis'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 bapitism, &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 marrieges acknowledge France by Louis XVI. ib., poper various character, 217; no middle known in France, ib.; the cler species of nobility, ib.; governo not qualified to confer religion nation, 218; the people themse the originators of the moral glor England, ib.; its attachment to w one chief canse of misfortune France, 219; Mt. Scott's eautio

England; his judicious remarks on 5 occasion and nature of the late agitat

in Europe, 220; present duty of E land, ib.; concluding reflections, 24 a permanent peace, its probable fluence on the social economy of 1

French nation, ib. Scott, Walter, character of his poetry, Scripture, Dr. Horsley, on the perspicu.

and sufficiency of, 157,8 Scripture help, designed to assist

reading the Bible profitably, 492

contents, ib. Sermons, by Bishop Horsley, 151, et se

--- for the use of families and vil lages, by Thornhill Kidd, 369, et seg

- on devotional subjects, by th 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

conduet, the improvement, and encouragement of, 385, et seq; peculiarities attaching to the nature of their situation in society, ib.; their great disadvantages, in regard to their moral condition, 586; their religious disadvantages, ib. el seq.; their influe 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, el sego,

extracts, &c. ib. Singuana, 464 Simeon, Mr. bis 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 seg.; probable evil that would result

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

from annexing Geneva to the Helyetic league, ib.; importance of Geneva, considered as an enlightened proiestant 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, i progressive in kpowledge, 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 ainong the Ma

has, American Indians, 112; cruel ef

fecis of their despair, ib. Smedley's Jonali, a poein, 291, et seq.;

extract on the history of Jonah, ib.;

death and resurrection of our Saviour, 1 292 Smedley's Prescience, a poem, 472, et

seq.; Lord Bacon on divination, 472, 3;

Druids' circle al 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.; "aried aspects of the papal system, as exhibited by past circumstances and present locality,

and as represented by modern enlightened - advocates, 319, 20; i popery is de

structive of the essential principles of personal religion, 323, et seg.; denial of the right of private judgement in religious matters, 324, 5; fundamental principles of dissent, the same as those of the protest against the church of Rome,

325 Snelgar's Christian triumph, a sermon

on the death of Mr. Wraith, 593; short sketch of Mr. Wraith's life, ib.;

et seq. Solimaun, mountains, a triple chain, 557 Speeches of the Right Hon. J. P. Cur

ran, 162, et seq. Spence's entomology. See entomology. Spiders, eaten by Lalande and others,

mode of spinning their webs, de

scribed, 583, 4 Spire of Salisbury cathedral, Britton's re

marks on it, 456 Spirit of prayer, by N. Vincent, 94 Spirituous liquors rejected by the Rickaras,

an American Indian tribe, 116

.

Tangiers, administration of justice there by

the Każd, 525, ; by the Cadi, 526. Tassopi, Walker's memoirs of, 497 ;

sketch of his life and works, &c, ib.

el seg. 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 seryant, 385; anecdole as a specimen of the work, ib. et seq.; sub

jects treated of in the yolume, 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 divinily, or 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,

Toleration, religious, an enlightened one,

never prevailed in France, 216 Toleration under Bonaparte, a claw towards

unravelling its true character, 72, et seg. Tragedies derived from the Greek my

thology, neither acted nor read in

England, 90, 1 Tranquillity baok established by Mr.

Bove, 602 Transformations of insects, 577 Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, &c. 522,

et seg. Timber, large, its great deficiency in

the interior of North America, 112

United brethren, Dr. Brown's account

of their missionary labours, 231; absolute failure of their attempt to civi. lize prior to christianizing the Greenlanders, 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, aecord

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, 196

Watkins's second report of the London

Society for the improvement of ser

rants, ib.; extract, 390 Weekly monitor, 174 Wellington, the Duke of, Establishes this

head quariers at Waterloo, 349; anec

dotes of, 551, et seq. Western, Mr. nature of bis late propo.

sitions, 422 White Doe of Rolstone, 33, et seg.;

foundation of the poem, 57; extracts, 38;

et seg. Wilks's essay on the signs of conversion

and unconversion in the ministers of the church, 538; character of the converled minister, 548; his mode of preaching, ib.; essentially different from the unconderied minister, 549; absurdity of a political establishment for converting sinners, 550, 1; objectionable passage in the preface to the essay, 534 ; probably interpolated, ib.; author's TBmarks on the use of technicai 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 ber political sentiments, ib.; value of her testimony in regard to recent erents 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; danger to be dreaded from military influence, ib.; Marshal Ney's conduct reprobated, ib.; state of the Jacobins under Buonaparte, 69; Buonaparle's penitence, ib.; contentions in his council chamber, 78; hire of French mobs, ib.; Buonaparte collars his archchancellor, ib. surprize of the French at the declametions of the English in favour of Buonaparle, ib.; French caricature, 71; a choice morceau for cradiologists, 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, ibc; engages the cardinal archbishop, and the protestant president, of Paris, in one religious ceremony, 73; Mural, slight sketch of his character, 743 Miss V'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.; importanoc of the present work, 592; author's testi

Walker's memoirs of Tassoni, 497,et seg;

attainments and claims as an author, ib. et seq.; origin of Tassoni's “ Rape « of the Bucket,” 499; subjeets of his u Pensieri Diversi," 501; accoun'sof Carlo Emanuele, Duke of Sacoy, 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 Waler, 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 ses. vants, ib.

mony of the reality of the persecutions, ib.; advantages acquired by the protestants, 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 loleration, 394 ; insurrections on the return of Buonaparte, ib.; cruelties, at Nismes confined to the protestants, 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 kistory, 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 subject of baptism, 404 ; falsely accused of plotting against the government, 405; acquires the esteem of the king, ib., accused 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 sermon on wigs and whiskers, 587;. rhymes on the same subject, ib.; extract 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 religious 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 Fer, 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 qualifications 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.; extracis,

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,