Mohammedans, on the conversion of the, 31 Money, on the value of, 323
Montagu, anecdotes of the duke of, 433, 530 Montgomery's West Indies, remarks on, 229 Monthly Magazine, on the conduct of the, 34, 50, 304, 435, 588 Monumental Inscriptions, on, 107 Moscow, celebration of the peace at, 245 Mother-of-pearl, experiments with, 42 Mouse traps, improved, 118 Murders, 172, 268, 269, 476 Murton, Hannah, eccentricity of, 283 Mus in Scotland, on the, 141 Museum, royal, gift to the, 529 Mushrooms, on forcing, 148 Music, neglect of church, 322
— on the Latin and Greek, 421
Musical publications, review of, 257, 351,
festivals, 178, 179, 372, 381 Musomanik society, account of the, 521
Naturalist's reports, 89, 191, 288, 385, 496,
Nautical improvements, 123
Nelson, motto of the family of, 313, 406 Neot's, fire at St. 375
Nerves, on the influence of the, 138 Netherlands, state of the, 167, 264, 362 Newburgh, Earl, account of, 567 Newbiggin, description of, 219 Newcastle, subscription for prisoners at, 83 anecdote of the duke of, 136
Newfoundland codfishery, on the, 210 Nitre, formation of, 44
Norfolk, inclosures in, 280
Northampton infirmary, state of, 281 bible society at, 379
Northumberland, survey of the coast of, 218 Norway, state of, 169, 265, 406, 561 Norwich, monument to Lord Nelson, at, 377 Nottingham, party violence at, 185 Nycteribia of the bat, 214
Odes, on the music of Greek and Latin, 421 Edipus Judaicus, observations on the, s, 208, 325, 417, 510
Onions, practice of the gardeners with,
Optical experiments, 42, 43 Oratory, on parliamentary, 529 Orkneys, rare birds in the, 141
Orleans imposture, history of the, s Oriental languages, on the, 119 Orme, Dr. account of, 472
Oxford, suppression of beggars at, 83
inclosures in the county of, 232 lunatic asylum at, 481
Oxygen gas, combustion of diamond in, 45
Paint, an improved green, 46 Paley, Dr. letter of, 514 Paris, on the works of art at, 406
strictures on a late Tour, 412 Park, grand fete in the, 171 Parson, etymology of the word, 226
Pasigraphy, new system of, 440
Patents, specification of new, 46, 144, 250,
Patrick's purgatory, description of, 19 Patriotism, instance of, 39 Patronage, instances of, 582
Paul, on the conversion of St. 311 Paul's Church, observations on St. 231 Peace, ratification of, 65
celebration of, 70, 76, 171, 284, 186 Peaches, remarkable, 86
Perjury, on the punishment of, 527 Peterborough, earl, his death, 73 Peters, St. at Rome, on, 233 Phædrus, new fables of, 51
Philological Ventilations, 226, 315, 424, 523 Physic, etymology of the word, 216 Pillar in Bedfordshire, 272
Pinto, Mrs. error concerning, 130 Pitt, Mr. anecdotes of, 136, 241 Plate glass, improvement in, 144 Plymouth, breakwater at, 275, 474
made a mercantile port, 373, 570 school at, 474
Poetry, etymology of the word, 226 POETRY, ORIGINAL-Absence, by Torde- sillas, 63-Song, by C. F. Webb, 64-to the Author of the Riddle, ib.-The Sail- or's Fate, ib.-The Game of Life, ib.- Against Flattery, 161-Ossian's Fingal, 162- Happy Contrast, ib.-Lines on Louis XVIII. 163-Vision of Gregory Nazianzen, ib.-Sonnet to Dr. Walker, 164- Sonnet to Homer, ib.-Titania's Choice, ib.-Inscription, ib.-St. Gregory de vita sua, 258-Fragment of a Prospect, 260-Charades, 261-To Susan, ib.- Ode, ib.-Morning, 358-Select Epitaphs from the Greek, 359-On a Child and its Mother, ib.-The Dying Penitent, ib. -A Cambridge Song, ib.-To the Au- thor of Charades, 360--To a Singing Bird, ib.-On the Oak, ib.-The Wreath of Fame, ib.-Pity, 361-Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, 460-Morning, 461-Song, ib.-Enigma, ib.-Prospect in Fife, 462 -Love, 463-The Bourbons, ib.-On a Spendthrift, ib.-A Sonnet, ib.-The Cross, 555-Riddle, ib.-Mary, 556- Autumn, ib.-On Homer, ib. - Anti- quated Coquet, ib.-The Happy Man, 557-To Susan, ib.-On an infant, ib. -On Man, ib.-Fragment, ib.-Sonnet,
Political Events, digest of, 64, 165, 262, 361, 464, 558
Pompeii, discoveries at, 151
Poor, on the Annals of the, 119, 321 Pope, Mrs., epitaph ou, 107
Potassium, on the mode of procuring, 45 Potatoes, on the value of, 509 Pratt, Mr., account of, 471
Prayer in the garden, on the, 19, 124 Prince, epitaph on Mr., 415
Regent, anecdote of, 532 Predictions, remarkable, 309 Problem, a mathematical, 398
Sherlock, letter of Bishop, 239 Ships, new structure of, 42
method of setting fire to, 151, 367
-, on the construction of, 52 Silver, Indian mode of oxidizing, 42 Skegness, description of, 3 Skeleton, account of a fossil, 54 Slate, a remarkable, 76 Slug, on the black, 121, 329
Small-pox hospital, on the, 110, 328, 513 at Bury, 482
Southcote, Joanna, blasphemy of, 103 account of her followers, 215
•, portrait of, 306
Southwark, great fire in, 268
Spain, political state of, 68, 169, 265, 363, 465, 561
Speeches, on long, 520
Staffordshire, benevolent institutions there, 577
Stanley, Thomas, account of, 285 Staple island, described, 220 Steam-boats, account of, 180, 237 Steele family, epitaphs on, 321, 404 Stones, shower of, 344 Stone, a remarkable, 274 Storms, violent, 186, 188, 374 Stowe, will of J. A. 402 Suffolk, improvements in, 284 Sulieman, on the tragedy of, 519 Sunderland, on the harbour of, 7 Superstitious notions, 20, 211 Sutcliffe, Mr. account of, 76 Sutherland, state of, 383 Sutton, on the coast at, 3 Svinine, Mr. defence of, 216 Sweden, catacombs in, 54
political state of, 169, 265, 466, 561
Switzerland, political state of, 69, 168, 264,
Symonds, on the trial of, 228
Tait, Dr. account of, 287
Taste, on literary, 130 Taylor, Sarah, account of, 573
Teams, dishonesty of the drivers of, 507 Tea-tree of Japan, on the, 150 Telescopes, on the light of, 43 Testament, on the New, 428 Tewkesbury, school at, 370 Thacksted steeple, injured, 374 Theatricals, royal, 39
Sadler, Mr. his ascents, 71, 173, 286, 474 Theodosia, on the works of, 404
, on the invocation of, 423
Thistle, Mr. remarkable prediction
Salmon, on preserving the spawn of, 86, Time-piece, a curious, 242
Timber, a remarkable piece of, 384 Tinmouth castle, described, 218 Tithe cause, a remakable, 278 Tithes, increase of, 287
Tiverton, improvement of the roads at, 275 Torques, on the ornament of, 342
Torso, an antique, 148
Tortola, account of missionaries at, 292
Tour, account of a royal, 335 Tournament, description of a, 36 Traps for rats, new, 115
Vaccination, on, 109, 819
Van Butchell, account of, 471
Vandamme, anecdotes of, 112
Welchman, Miss, murder of, 173 monument in honour of, 173 Wellington, Duke of, his introduction, 263
West, John, character of, 371 West, professor, account of, 125 West Indies, on the poem of, 229 Westminster charity school, 71 improvements in, 267 Wey mouth, improvements at, 78, 475 Whately, Miss, account of, 400, 520 Wheat, remarkable field of, 279
merit of potatoes and, 509
Whitburn, situation of, s Whitehaven, hail storm at, 274
Widows in India, burning of, 205 Wigton, charity-school at, 77
Vanderkemp, Dr. on the character of, 22, Wills, remarkable, 121, 137, 402, 439
309, 409, 500, 518
Vases, discovery of, 151
Ventilations, etymological, 226. 315, 424,
Victuallers, conviction of, 285 Virtue, instance of royal, 239 Visionary divination, on, 15, 211, 415 Voltaire's works, a remarkable copy of, 53 Voyage of the queen, 240
Waggons, on improvements in, 507 Wahlstadt, situation of, 54
Wainfleet, description of, 3
Wakefield, Gilbert, anecdote of, 227
his survey of Ireland, errors in,
Wilson, Richard, monument to, 87 anecdote of Dr. 239
Wiltshire agricultural society, account, 188 inclosures in, 285
Winches er, charity at, 277. Winterton, on the coast at, 1 Wintle, Rev. Mr. account of, 271 Withering, Mrs. character of, 281 Witte, Charles, account of, 440 Wiveliscomb, peace celebrated at, 186 Wolverhampton Company, trial concerning,
Woman, an uncommon, 53 Worcester, hospital at, 286
bible association, 198 Workington, agricultural society at, 274
Wales, character of the princess dowager of, Worms, on a remedy for, 104, 408
improvements in, 579
Walls, formation of nitre on, 44
Walsall, gaol at, 284
Walstein, Miss, on the performance of, 452 Warburton, bishop, anecdote of, 338 Washington, capture of, 365 Wasps' nest, a remarkable, 81
Webb, Mr. his charities, 85, 186, 189 driven from London, 468
Wedding, a bidden, 383
Weights and measures, report on, 453
Wrington, Somerset, bible society at, 84 Writing, universal system of, 440 Wyndham, Sir Wm. anecdote of, 310 Wynne, J. H. account of, 329
Rev. Dr. his death and character, 567
Yankee, origin of the word, 213 Yarmouth, on the coast near, 1 York, anecdote of the Duke of, 336 Yorkshire, survey of the coast of, 4
increased value ot land in, 286 Young, Dr. account of, 287
Remarkable persons deceased, of whom some account is given in this Volume.
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