ABIJAH, extract from Kidd's Sermon on
his piety, 370
Additional Strictures on Mr. Good's
Version of the Book of Job, 613
Afghaunistan, tradition of its being
peopled by the descendants of the
Jews, 559; extract, &c. ib. et seq...
Afghaans, manners and character of,
558, see Elphinstone's Caubul.
Agricultural Interest, distress of, 419,
et seg.
Ali Bey's Travels in Morocco, &c. 521,
et seq.; the author really a Spaniard,
522 ; sketch of his journey, ib.;
• remarks on the credit due to the
author under the peculiar circum-
stances of the case, 524 ; his reflec-
tions on landing at Tangiers, 525;
court of justice, ib.; tea-drinking ex-
cessive at Morocco, 526 ; ceremony
of introclucing a bride to her husband,
526; nature of their music, 527;
wretched state of the Jews, 527 ;
Ali a favourite at court, 528; des.
cription, population, &c. of Fez, ib.;
a place assigned for the Mahommedan
zoomen at the public prayers, 529; su-
perstitions of the people, ib.; Moor-
ish schools, ib.; highest point of the
Atlas range, 530, Morocco, its de.
caying state, ib.; author sets off for
Algiers, ib.; distressed state of the party
from the want of water, 531 ; its effects
on the animal frame, 533 ; his opinion
as to the interior state of Africa, ib.;
temples of Jerusalem and Mecca may
not be visited by Christians, &c.534 ;
mosques not forbidden, 534; El
Kaaba, or the house of God, 555; ce.
reinony of washing its foor, 536;
procession to Mount Arafat, its motives,
ib.; chief of the well of Zemzem,
horrid nature of his occasiooally re-
quired functions, 537
Alpine Highland Scenery, a singularly of
fensive description of, 248; its true
character, 250
Atlas Chain, its highest elevation, 530
Ambrose's Opoleyta, 158, et seq.;
sketch of the tale, and extracts, 159,
el seg.
America inferior to Europe in intellece
tual endowments, 608
Athaliah, a sacred drama, translated
from the French, 88, et seq.; difference
between the Greek and English
drama, 88; nature of the Greek
drama attributable to its origin, ib.;
characters of the Greek dramatist
prepared to his hand, 89; spectator
always previously acquainted with
them, ib.; difference in the conduct
of the personages of the Greek and
English drama, ib.; originality of the
French tragedians reproached for
their close imitation of the Greek
dramatists, ib.; tragedies derived from
the Greek mythology banished froin
the English stage, 90, 1; Athaliah
the best production of the French
stage, ib.; remarks on the style of the
English translation, ib.; extract, 91
et seq.
Bakewell's Letter to the chairman of
the select committee of the House
of Commons, on the state of mad-
houses, 293, 302
Banks for Savings, pamphlets on, 599,
et seq.
Baptismal Regeneration, tracts on, 429,
et seq.; reasons of the nonconformity
of the ejected clergy, ib.; baptismal
regeneration a prominent reason, 430;
now denied by a part of the clergy to
be the doctrine of the church, ib.;
nature of Messrs. Biddulph and Scott's
objections to Dr. Mant's statements,
ib.; baptismal regeneration as ex-
plained in the ministration of public
baptism, 431; in the catechism, 432;
Messrs. Scott and Biddulph's opinion
that the language is only a little too
strongly figurative, ib.; fatal conse-
quences of the doctrine, 433; since-
rity of the evangelical clergy recog-
nized, 434; mortifying expedients to
which they are reduced, 435; Mr.
Biddulph's opinion of the words in
the baptismal service, ib.; Mr. Bugg's
opinion of the restrictive appellation
of the language of the liturgy, 436;
reasons for objecting to admit hypo-
thetical explanations of the cate-
chism, &c. 437, et seg.; remarks on the
sentiments of the church of England
on baptism, 439, et seq.; Hooker on
the nature of sacraments, ib.; real
subject of the controversy, 441;
Hooker on the necessity of baptism,
442; circumstances that have tended
to give undue importance to baptism,
445; Calvin on the sacraments, ib.;
diversity of opinion in regard to
baptism, ib., perpetual obligation and
real importance of baptism attach
probably to its sacramental character,
448; its real efficacy explained, 449
Baptism, modern, different from the
primitive institute, 446, et seq.; see
Baptismal Regeneration.
Baptism practised among the Monjols,
338
Baptist Mission, Dr. Brown's account
of, 234
Barytes, mines of, 261; its use in the
manufacture of porcelain, 264
Baxteriana, by Arthur Young, 86, et
seg.; advantages arising from a constant
attention to the duties of religion, ib.
Bears, white and brown, in North America,
122 ; formidable encounters with them,
ib, and 127
Bees Wax, a secretion from the animal,
583
Believers, address to them, 281
Bellamy's Jonah, a poem, 289, et seg.;
extract, ib.; objectionable passage,
290
Bends in the Missouri, remarkable,
113
Benefits derived from Insects, 380 ;
extract, 381, 2
Bennetl's, the Hon. H. G, evidence before
the House of Commons, of his visit to
Eethlem, 297, 8
Ben Nevis, the highest eminence of the
Highlands, 249
Bible Society, various pamphlets on it,
53; et seq.; early opposition to it,
ib. ; that controversy rests exclu-
sively with the members of the esta.
blishment, 54 ; its tendency to sub-
vert church and state considered,55;
an incalculable advantage thrown
away by the church, 56, 7; advice to
the clergy how to put down the dis-
senters, 57 ; the political, not the
moral dangers of the church the
cause of the fears of the clergy, 58;
appeal to the clergy, extracied from
Mr. Bullar's pamphlet, ib.; the oppo-
sition of the majority of the clergy
to the bible society affords-real
ground for the fear of danger threat.
ening the church, ib.; the national
establishment inadequate to effect its
original purposes, ib. et seq.; the church
stated to be divided into the orthodox and
the evangelical parties, 60; this division
of the church shown to have existed
prior to the Bible society, ib.; views
of the dissenters towards the church,
61; Mr. Gisborne to the Bishop of Glou-
cester, in reference to the arrogant claims
of some high-churchmen, 61 ; extract
from the Bishop of Lincoln's charges on
the coalition of churchmen and dissenters,
62; Mr. Buliar's appeul on the ground
of Christian benevolence, 64
Bickersteth's Scripture Help; designed
to assist in reading the bible profit-
ably, 492, subjects created of, ib.
Biddulph's Baptism, a seal of the
Christian covenant, &c. 429
Bikaneer 464, character of its prince, ib.
Bloomfield's History of Little Dary's
new flat, 76,7; extract, 77
Blucher, his dangerous situation, 349
Bonaparte not popular in France, 66 ;
regained his empire by a military conspi-
racy, ib, et seq.; his journey to Paris,
68; described as 'Robespierre à cheval,
69 his conduct to the Jacobins, ib.; his
penitence, ib. et seq.; contentions in his
council chamber, 70 ; orders a minister
to be shot, ib.; collars his arck-chancel-
lor, ib.; his designs on the catholic church,
72
Bonaparte, Napoleon, a second ode to,
75, 6; character and extract, ib.
Bonaparte's, Napoleon, private hours,
written by himself, 93, 4; the work
fictitious, ib.
Bonar's Sermons, 278, et seg.; objection-
able nature of many sermons, ib.;
hints to preachers and publishers of
sermons, 279; cautions to young
ministers in regard to visiting, &c.
280; claims of the author to public
attention, 281 ; occasion of publishing
the present Sermons, ib.; address to bea
lievers, 281, 2; subject of the ser-
mons, ib.; the living temple, 282, 3
Bone's rules of an institution called
Tranquillity, 599; see Savings Banks.
Brande, on some new electro-chemical
phenomena, 359
Bride, mode of introducing her to her hus-
band at Tangiers, 526
British dominion in India beneficial to
the natives, 457
British Nation, inquiry into the true
sources of its greatnesss, 211, et seg.;
its glory chiefly owing to the indivi-
duality of the character of the peo-
ple, 218
British, their negligence as a nation
in propagating their religious faith,
227; their great zeal as private
Christians, ib.
Britton's Cathedral Antiquities of Eng-
land, 450, et seq.; antiquarianism, its
present prevalence very extensive,
ib. ; author's qualifications, ib. et
seq. ; execution of the work, ib.;
his statement of his rules and mode
of working, 453, 4; confused state
of the early cathedral service, 454;
power of Bishop Erghum, ib.; most
noted occupants of this see, 455;
author's nolice of Bishop Jewel, ib.;
descriplion of the Cathedral as exhi-
bited in plate 2, ib.; nature of the true
merits of the architects, 456; author's
opinion in regard to the spire, ib.; altar
tomb of Charles, Lord Stourton, who was
executed at Salisbury, 457; great merit
of the plates, &c. ib.;
Brodie's experiments and observation's
on the influence of the nerves of the
eighth pair on the secretions of the
stomach, 505
Brownists, rise of, 402
Brown's propagation of Christianity
among the beathen, &c. 223, et seq.;
introductory reflections, ib.; first rea
ception of the Gospel by the Greenlanders,
224,5; encouragement to the prose-
cution of missionary exertions, ib.;
zeal of Papists and Mahometans
greater than that of Protestants, 226;
the British, as a nation, more negli..
gent than other Protestants in estab-
Jishing their religion in their colonies,
ib.; their great exertions as private
Christians, ib.; contents of the pre-
sent work, ib. et seq.; conduct of the
Portuguese and Dutch in the island of
Ceylon, 228; objectionable conduct of
the British, 228, 9; schools restored by
Sir A. Johnstone, ib.; English and
Dutch East India Company con-
trasted, ib.; Anglo-American missions
among the Indians, 229; character
of Eliot, ib.; his. intrepid behaviour
when among the irritated and inimical
Indians, 230; his labours and succes-
sors, &c. ib.; Danish missions, 231;
praiseworthy conduct of the Danish
government, ib.; Moravian missions,
ib.; effect of Christianity, as exhibited
in the conduct of the Greenlanders, 232 ;
attempts to convert the heathen
should precede attempts to humanize
them, 233; failure of the Moravians
on pursuing a contrary mode, ib.;
Methodist missions in the West In-
dies, 234 ; their conversion of a
Budha priest in the island of Ceylon,
ib.; the Baptist mission, ib.; London
missionary society, ab.; cause of their
difficulties at the commencement of
their operations, 235; their influence
in giving enorgy to the Christian world
stated, ib.; contents of the concluding
chapter, ib.
Budha priest, a convert to the Method.
ists in tbe island of Ceylon, 234
Buffaloes, Indian mode of procuring a
large supply of them, 123; fre-
quently carried down the Missouri,
126
Bugg's spiritual regeneration not neces.
sarily connected with baptism, 429
Byron's poems, 595, et seq.; reason for
supposing the 'poem written for the
public, 596 ; character of the ‘Sketch
from Private Life,' ib.; • Fare thee
· Well,' 596 ; the sentiment of pathos
may exist where there is no moral
feeling, 596, 7 ; lines to his lordship's
sister, 598
Byron's Siege of Corinth, 269, et seq.;
Parisina, 273, el seq.; his poems
merely sketches of character, 274
Calla-baugh, its remarkable situation, 467
Calmucs, their religion, &c. 332;
Kürdä, or prayer machine, ib.
Calvin on the Sacraments, 445
Canound, its sandy plains, 464
Caricature, a French one, 71
Carlisle's account of a family having
hands and feet with supernumerary
fingers and toes, 504
Carlo Emanuel, duke of Savoy, some ac-
count of, 501
Carlyle's examination of the arguments
for the pre-eminency of the Roman
Catholic episcopacy, 313; inquiry
into alleged pretensions to religious arsa
thority, 319; Mr. Ryan's collective in.
fallibility examined and ea posed, 322, 3;
substantial reasons of the Romish clergy
for deriving their succession from the
priests, rather than from the prophets,
323; reply to Mr. Ryan's remark con
cerning the reveries of Joanna South
cott, 326 ; remarks on a penny-a-week
purgatorian society, 326
Cathedral Antiquities of England, 450;
see Britton's, &c.
Carraccioli, his execution on board
Lord Nelson's ship attended by Lady
Hamilton, 288
Cast Steel, mode of making it according to
Mr. Parkes, 260; a corrected state-
ment of its manufacture, ib.
Cataracts of the Missouri, 121, et seg.
Caubul, Elphinstone's account of the
kingdom of, 471, et seq.,556, et seq.
Caucasus, Klaproth's travels in, 328,
et seq.
Caufiristan, supposed to be inhabited by
the descendants of the Greeks, settled
there in the time of Alexander, 564
Ceylon, propagation of religion by the Por-
tuguese and Dulch, 228; evil conse-
quences occasioned by its capture by the
English, ib.; schools restored by Sir A.
Johnstone, 230
Chalmers's state of the United Kingdom
at the peace of Paris, &c. 417, et seq.
Characler seldom understood by estimating
the qualities of the mind, 81,
Charles Il. his meanness in borrowing
money from his subjects, 407 ; accepts
of £10,000. from Mr. W. Kiffin, a
Baplist minister, 28.
Chateaubriand's recollections of Italy,
England, and America, 45, et seq.;
beauties of the Roman horixon, 46; re-
flections on mountain scenery, 47; dan-
gerous adventure at the falls of Niagara,
48 ; author's plan for exploring North
America, 49; reflections on the charac-
ter of St. Peter, 51; on men of letters,
· ib. et seq.
Chemical Essays, by S. Parkes, 255, et
seg. ; see Parkes.
Christabel, a poem, by S, T. Coleridge,
565, et seq.; extracts, 566, et seq.
Christian's plan for a county provident
bank, 599, et seq.
Christian's, the, tranquillity of mind at the
close of life, its great enjoyment, 89
Christian triumph, a sermon, by Mr.
Snelgar on the death of Mr. Wraith,
593
Church government the chief difference
between the establishment and the
dissenters, 544
Church of Rome, its present state not an
object of indifference to Protestants,
345
Circassians, their religion, &c. 338, et
seq.
Citric acid, remarks on the mode of
obtaining it, its use, &c. 266
Clare, lord chancellor, severe indirect
attack upon him by Mr. Curran,
166
Clarke and Lewis's travels to the source
of the Missouri river, 105, et seq.; see
Missouri
Classification of patients in lunatic hose
pilals, 302
Clande's defence of the reformation,
313, 327 ; Bayle's bigh estimation of
it, ib.;
Clerical faith, its origin and nature, 199,
et seq.
Colburn, Abiah, remarkable for his
powers of calculation by memory;
singularities in the anatomical struc-
ture of most of his family, 504
Coleridge's Christabel, a poem, 565, et
seq.; its unfinished state, ib.; its cha-
racter, 566; extracts, ib. el seq.;
Kubla Khan, 571
Colombia Oregan, or river of the West,
130
Commerce, the real foundation of the
greatness of the British empire, 212;
incompatible with despotisn), 214
Confirmation not a sacrament in the
English church since the discontinue
ance of the unction, 542; design of
the rite, ib.; to be administered by a
bishop only, 543
Considerations sur Genéve, par M. Sise
mondi, 94, et seq.; see Sismondi.
Controversy with the Bible Society rests
wholly with members of the establish-
ment, 54
Conversion and unconversion of minis-
ters of the church, Wilks's essay on,
538, et seq.
Conversion in regard to persons baptized,
declared to be a thing unheard of in the
gospel, 541
Conversion, tracts on, 538, et seq.; the
nature and influence of error, ib.;
Christian ministry considered as a
ministry of initiation, 540; as a
priesthood analogous to the Jewish
economy, ib.; Romish church com-
prehends both views of the subject,
ab.; faith the gift of the Romish
church, 541; conversion in regard to
persons who have been baplized, declared
to be an unheard of thing in the gospel,
541 ; confirmation not a sacrament
in the English church since the dis-
continuance of the unction, 542; de-
siga of this rite, ib.; to be adminis-
tered only by the bishop, 543; the
, principle on which the sacraments in
the English church are administered
not essentially different from that of
the Romish, 544; Mr. Biddulph's
manly statement that the real point
of difference between the established
church and the dissenters is in regard
to church government, ib.; two modes
only of deciding the point, ib.;
the apostolical commission and the
sancti o of the state deemed by
the evangelical clergy a stronger
bond than acknowledging the same
head, and preaching the same gospel,
ib.; Mr. Bugg's opinion that Mr. Cun-
ningham's conciliatory promise is
erroneous and inefficient, 546; (note)
Mr. C's proposition to consider re
generation in two different senses, ib.;
the term conversion, objected to by Dr.
Mant, ib.; Mr. Wilks's character of the
converted minister, 547, et seq.; differs
essentially from the unconverted minister,
ib.; remurkable adinissions of Dr.
Mant, 551, et seq.; his inconsistency,
552; Dr. Paley on the necessity of
preaching conversion, 553; objection-
able nature of a passage in the pre-
face of Mr. Wilks's essay, 554, and
extract; Mr. Wilks's remarks on the
use of technical terms in divinity, 555;
on the ministerial character, 556
Converted minister of the church, his charac-
ter, 548; mode of preaching, ib; con-
trasled with the unconverted minister, 549
Cookery, specim n of Highland, 246,7
Corinth, Lord Byron's Siege of, 269,
et seq.; estimate of the poem, ib.
extracts, &c. ib. et seq.; destruction of
the city, 272 ; Lord Byron's poems
inerely sketches of character, 274
County establishments for insanity,
great call for them, 305; hints in re-
gard to their erection, ib. . .
Covenant, the new, translated into the
Hebrew for the Jews, 343, et seq.
Craniologists, a choice morceau for them, 71
Cunningham's, Rev. J. W. conciliatory
project, stated by Mr. Bugg to be
erroneous and insufficient, (note) 546;
his proposition to consider regenera-
tion in two different senses, ib.
Curran, the right honourable J. P. his
speeches, 162, et seq.; just claims of
the community upon the extraordi-
nary talents of its members, 163 ;
versatility of his oratorical powers,
164; his singular talent at cross examina-
tion, 165, his galling attack upon Lord
Chancellor Clare, 166
Danish government, its laudable zeal in
disseminating Christian principles,
&c. through its colonies, 231 :
Davish missions, Dr. Brown's account
- of, 231
Davis's friendly advice to industrious
and frugal persons, &c. 599, 611;
see Savings' banks.
Davy's account of some new experi-
ments ou the ffuoric compounds, 360,
et seq.; new experiments and obser-
vations on a new substance which bem
comes a violet-coloured gas by heat,
362; its discovery by M. Courtois,
363; various experiments, 363, Et
309.; proposed nomenclature of this
substance, and of its combinations,
369
Davy's experiments on the combustion
of the diamond and other carbona-
ceous substances, 513; further ex-
periments and observations on iodine,
507, et seq.; account of some ex-
periments on animal heat, 516
Death of Christ, provision made by it of
two kinds, 485,-
Deserted Village restored, a poem, by
A. Parsey, 398, 9
Disciples had sufficient evidence of the
resurrection of Christ, 185, et seg.;
hardness of heart the cause of their
unbelief, 187
Discours sur la philosophie de l'histoire,
94,99; see Sismondi.
Dissent, ils fundamental principles the
same as those of the protest against the
church of Rome, 325; duty of ministers
to state their reasons for it, ib.
Dissenters, advice to the clergy how
to put them down, 57
Dissenting churches, Wilson's history
and antiquities of, 401, et seq.; 585,
et seq.
Disseuting ministers, extracts from their
resolutions in regard to the persecu.
tion of the French Protestants, 177,
et seq.; see French Protestants.
Distressed state of the United Kingdom,
417, et seq.; opinion of Mr. Chalmers
that the nation was never more flou-
rishing, ib.j general consent as to the
distressed state of the nation,. 419;
remarks on the distress of the agriculo
tural interest, ib.; dubious nature of
the late attempt to obviate them, ib.;
inquiry into the distresses of the far.
mers, 420; true nature of the case,
421 ; object of the landlords, ib, et
seg.; Mr. Western's late propositions,
422 ; nature of the relief wanted by
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