Islanders of Scilly, their extreme wretch- edness, 493, et seq.
Israeli's, D', curiosities of literature, 587, et seg.
Italian evening, poetic description of, 52,
3
Italians, Eustace's private opinion that their character was bad, 278
Jails of Ilchester and Bristol, compared, 88,
9
Japanese mode of interrogating prisoners, 384,5
Japan, Rickord's account of Golownin's captivity in, 379
Japanese, their great humanity to some Russian captives, 383, 388 Jerram on the impolicy and tendency of the poor Jaws, 202, et seq. Jews, their stated sacrifices, 354, 5 Jones's biblical cyclopædia, 266, et seq.; description of Corinth, 267, 8; its litera- ture, 268; character of Gallio, 268, 9; remarks on the Christian church, its institutes and ministers, 269; inquiry whether the present order of Christian churches is consonant to that of the primi tive churches, 270; author's definition of conscience, ib.
Journey from Virginia to the Illinois, by Morris Birkbeck, 33, et seq. Juvenile delinquency, causes of the alarming increase of, 83
Kinneir's journey through Asia Minor, Armenia, and Koordistan, 97, et seq.; highly advantageous situation of these provinces, 98; wretched state of their government, ib.; author's plan, 99; visits Zerni George, 100; present state of Nice, 101; description of eastern posting, ib. ; expeditious tra- velling of the Sourajees, 101, 2; an- thor encour.lers a mail Dervish, 102; Asiatic Greeks, character of, 103; en- campment of Turkmans, 104; their character, ib.; Angora, ib.; its va rious changes, ib.; neighbouring country not tributary to the Porte, ib.; independent government of Chapwan Oglu, ib.; wretched state of the sn cient Cæsarea, 106; Tarsus, 107; ruinous state of Scandaroon, 107, 8; Antioch, 108; its ancient walls very extensive, ib.; Latakia, 109; san- guinary revolution at Aleppo, ib. ; account of a peculiar people called Anty. ras, ib.; the Druses of Mount Libanus, 110; fine appearance of Nicosi, in Cy- prus, 111; present state of the island, ib.; Caraman, 113; Konieh, ib.; phenomenon of a Turkish attempt to
restore a mutilated piece of statuary, ib.; Black Castle of Opium, 114; Boursa, the ancient Prusa, 115; mi- serable state of the author, 115, 6; his return to Pera, 116; renews his jour ney, in company with Mr. Chavasse, 223; visits Terekli or Heraclea, 224; crosses the Kizil Érmak, or Halys, 225 6; Trebisond, 228; Mr. K.'s life -threatened by his Greek servant, ib.; the party cross the Armenian mountains, 228,9; and the Euphrates, 229; plain of Erzeroum, ib.; interest of the na- tives in the fate of Bonaparte, ib.; city of Erzeroum, 230; the river Mo- rad or water of desire, ib; visit an en- campment of Koords, ib. ; hostile visit from the Lesgæ, 230,1; Betlis, 232; the Beg or governor, ib. ; curious account of a transmutation of four leaden bullets into gold, by a persecuted Arabian philoso- pher, 233, 4; alarming illness of Mr. Chavasse, 235; harassing difficulties of their journey to Mousul, 237, et seq.; the Zezidees, ib.; death of Mr. Chavasse, 238; Mr. K. enters Bagdad, ib.; Bussorah, 239; arrives at Bom- bay, ib.
Kirby and Spence's introduction to En- tomology, 116, et seq.; subjects of the present volume, 117; perfect and im- perfect societies of insects, ib. : ex- amples of each, ib. et seq.; first esta- blishment of a colony of Termites, 118, 9; courage and battles of ants, 120; three materials collected by bees, 121, 2; longue of the bee, ib.; the propolis, 123; the bee's faculty of finding the hive, 123,
4; bees made use of to disperse a mob, ib.; remarkable propensity of an idiot boy to bees, 125; on the motions of insects, ib.; gossamer webs, 126; great height at which they are found, 127; ordinary rate of the flight of house flies, ib. ; in- sects have no voices, 128; noises of in- sects, 128, 9; the death watch, ib. ; grasshoppers kept by the Greeks in cages for their song, 129 Koordistan, see Kinneir's journey
Lambe, Dr., his violent death, 592, 3 Latakia, its remarkable ruin, 109 Latrobe's visit to South Africa, 401, et
seq.; great importance of the Cape as a settlement, 402; success of the Moravian missionaries, 402, 3; their judgement in selecting missionary sta tions, 403; cause of Mr. Latrobe's visit to Africa, 404; his arrival at Groenekloof, 406; its population, &c. ib.; Hottentot's mode of celebrating the author's birthday, 407; proceeds to
Gnadenthal, ib.; visited by a Christian Caffre woman, 408, 9; character of the boors, 409; execution of five rebel boors, 410, 11; strength of the iron wood, 412; defile of Trekata'kou, ib.; composition of the rock, ib. ; Mr. Fereira's danger- ous encounter with a tiger, 413; ac- count of an extremely large Hottentot wo- man, 414, 15; new missionary station chosen, 415; battle between two parties of baboons, 417; various-noises on ship- board, 418
Lava, extensive streams of, see Hender- son's Iceland
Law and gospel, Colquhoun's essay on,
30, et seq.
Lectures on scripture doctrines, by W. B. Collyer, D.D. 151, et seq. Leprosy, its prevalence in some parts of Iceland, 185
Lesgæ, a people of Armenia, 230, 1 Letter to an English nobleman, 271, et seq.; remarks on emancipation, 272; opinion of Lord Grenville on the ca- tholic claims, 273; claims of the pro- testant dissenters, ib.; temporal power of the church of Rome, 274; concessions justly demanded from the Roman catholics, 274, 5
Lexicon, Greek, of primitive words, 469, 70
Lord's supper, Brown's discourses on the dispensation of, 584, 5
M'William on the origin, operation, and prevention or cure of the dry rot, 71, et seq.; opposes the principles of Mr. Knight and Sir H. Davy in regard to a supposed effect of light on wood, 72; differs also from the latter on the tex- ture of oak, ib.; fungi, the effect as well as the causes of the dry rot, 73; means by which the disease is con- veyed into buildings, ships, &c., 73; modes of prevention and cure, 73, 4; on obtaining a uniform circulation of air, 74; apparatus for that purpose to be used on shipboard, ib.; annual va- lue of timber cut down in the United Kingdoms, 75; excessive importation of timber, 76; on planting the waste lands, ib.
Outram's dissertations on sacrifices, 550, et seq.; author's opinion of the origin of sacrifices, 350, 1; nature and design of the temple, 351; ministers of the oblations among the Jews, 332; cor- ban, a term designating all the things offered to God before the altar, 352; animals offered in sacrifice by the Jews, 353; the four animal sacrifices, ib.; stated sacrifices of the Jews, 354, 5; types, 355; typical relation of the sacrifices, 356; on the sacrifice of Christ, ib.; his priesthood, ib; on the sacrificial work of Christ as effecting the salvation of man, 357
Pananti's narrative of a residence in Algiers, 472; et seq.; degraded state of Italy, ib.'; misery of the Chris- tian slaves in Barbary, 473; cause of Signor Pananti's captivity by the Algerines, ib; conduct of the Bar- barians to the captives, 474; their cru- elty to a Captain of a Tunisian cor- vette, 475; melancholy fate of a young lady, one of the captives, ib; appearance of the captives before the re- gency, 475,6; humane conduct of the English Consul, 476; condemnation and imprisonment of the author and his fellow- sufferers, ib; wretchedness of a Neapo litan nobleman, a captive at Algiers, 478; liberation of the author, with the total loss of his property, 478, 9; treatment of the Christian captives at Algiers, 479, 80; liberation of all the captives in consequence of Lord Exmouth's suc cessful attack on the city, 481 Patriots, South American, Hackett's
narrative of an expedition that sailed to join them, 575; et seq. Paul's school, St. account of its foun- ders, foundation, and scholars, &c. See Dr. Carlisle on endowed grammar schools, &c.
Peculiarity, remarkable, of the Icelanders, in providing for decayed families, 177 Persecution, the subjects of, 483; the nature of, ib.
Pike's consolations of gospel truth, 173 Pleasures, domestic, by F. B. Vaux, 61-2 Pocklington school, statement of the perver-
sion of its revenues, 362
Poor laws, pamphlets on, 201, et seq. ; poverty and its causes, 202, 3; pau- perism not dependent on population and provision, 203; labour and capi- tal necessary to the production of any kind of commodity, 204; the labourer has no right to enforce employment, 204, 5; is entitled to a just remune- ration for his service, ib.; injustice of the capitalist in reducing wages below the means of subsistence, 206; inju- . rious consequence of parish relief, 208; poverty of the ribbon weavers of Co- ventry, and its consequences, 208, 9; Mr. Hale's report of the state of Spital- fields, 210; poor laws not the primary cause of poverty, 214; Mr. Courte- nay's three considerations prior to abolishing the code of poor laws, ib.; statute right of the poor to claim sustenance of the parish, 215; origi- nal pretence for appropriating livings to religious houses, ib.; mendicity an attendant on superstition, ib; acts against vagrants, ib; begging by licence allowed, 216; origin of the poor laws, ib; Mr. Nicolls's remarks on the poor laws, ib. et seq.; prevalence of mendicity in the Italian states, 218; note; claim of discharged seamen to legal provision, 218; folly and danger of leaving the maintenance of the poor to private benevolence, 219, 20; consequences of the subscriptions for the Spital-fields weavers, 221; singu lar remarks of Mr. Jerram on the poor laws, 222
Poor laws, third report from the select committee on, 420 et seq.; contents of the report, ib.; projects for removing the radical evils of the system, 421; evil consequence of mixing relief with wages, 422; two modes of obviating it considered, 422, 3; proposition of enacting local bills, 424; obstacles to such a regulation, 425; separate maintenance of the children of the
poor, 426; its necessarily heavy ex- pense, 426, 7; objections of Mr. Nicolls, to a separate maintenance of the children of the poor, 428, 9; further objections stated, 431; tendency of schools to perpetuate the existing evils, 433; suggestion for combining the higher and middling class in the exe- cution of the poor laws, 434; select vestries not analogous to kirk sessions, 435; election and duties of the elders, under the session, ib.; management of their parochial poor's fund, 436; change to be made in general vestries, accord- ing to Mr. Sturges Bourne's bill, 436, 7; proposal for returning to the old law, with regard to settlements, 437; Messrs. Nicoll and Courtenay's objections to parochial benefit societies, 437, 8; Mr. Courtenay's proposition for encouraging friendly societies, 440, 1; on the poor of the dissenters, 442; great relief afforded to parishes by dissenting places of worship, 443; evil tendency ou the feelings, of ab- stract speculations on the state of the poor, 443
Rowlatt"s sermons on the doctrines, evi- dences, and duties of Christianity, 245, et seq.; modern fashionable ser- mons, 245, 6; author's remarks on hu- man depravity, 248; on the degree and extent of man's apostasy, 248, 9; on the Divine influences, 249; justification, 250; his definition of faith, 250; ex- tract, 251; his speedy mode for acquiring saving faith, 251; ignorant charge against Calvinism, 252; unjust censure of Calvin, ib. Russian prisons of Petersburgh and Mos- cow visited by Mr. Venning, by per- mission of the Emperor Alexander, 90, 1
Sacrifices, Dr. Outram's dissertations on, 350, et seq.
Sacrifices, origin of, 350, 1
Saxons, origin of titles among them, 586, 7 Scandaroon, its ruinous state, 107, 8 Scholars in St. Paul's school, origin of the
number, as determined by the founder, 531 Scilly islands, report of the miseries of, 494, et seq.; unproductive nature of the islands, 494, 5; male inhabitants chiefly pilots, 495; widows be- come so generally by their husbands being drowned, ib.; their unprovided- for state, ib. ; miseries of the inhabit- ants chiefly occasioned by the rigorous enforcement of the preventive sys- tem, ib.; detail of various cases of ex- treme wretchedness, 498 Scott's, Walter, Border Antiquities of England and Scotland, 305, et seq.; character of the work, 307; funeral monuments of the Celtic tribes, 308; locality and extent of the border country, ib,; the ramparts and wall between the two kingdoms, ib.; cir- cumstances that tended to determine the present boundaries of the two kingdoms, 309; clanship of Scotland not de- stroyed by the feudal system, 310; benefits occasioned by the founding of abbeys on the borders, ib.; ruinous consequences of Edward the First's usur- pation of the Scottish crown, 311; defen- sive system adopted by the Scots, 312; devastating inroads of the Earls of Essex and Hertford, 313; character, &c. of the borderers, 314; their women, 315; prisoners, ib.; religion, 316; anecdote of Cameron, 317; duties of the wardens, ib.; oath of purgation, 318; punishment of the moss troopers, 319; dungeon of Bothwell castle, ib.; Nawarth castle, 320; its dungeon, ib. ; anecdote of Sir Gideon Murray of Elibank tower,
321; admirable intrepidity of Black Ag nes of Dunbar castle, 322 Selkirk, Alexander, Steele's account of him,
595
Sermons on Popery, by the Rev. W. Borrows, 482, 3
Shires or counties before the time of Alfred, 586
Simons's, the Rev. John, letter, Snow's reply to, 242, et seq.
Sinclair's, Miss Hannah, letter on the principles of the Christian faith, 77, 8; sanctification a progressive work, 78; state of the young convert, ib. Skaftar Yokul, its tremendous explosion in 1783, 184; its present appearance, ib.
Slaves, sale of, at Norfolk in Virginia, 35 Slavery, its baneful influence on Ameri- can morals, 37,8
Smith, Lucy, a tale, 389, et seq.; ax- thor's explanatory preface, 390; the story, 391, et seq.; evident design and tendency of the work, 392 Smith's illustrations of the Divine go-
vernment, 336, et seq.; on carrying speculative opinions beyond their cir- cumscribed limits, 337; caution in regard to the management of opinions of a speculative nature, ib.; dangerous consequences of a licentious specula- tion on the doctrine of Divine punish- ment, ib.; author's mode of treating his subject, 338; real question, whe- ther there is in the gospel any pro- visional promise for the finally impe- nitent, 339; the gospel statement of the doctrine, 340, 1; heavy responsi- bility of those who preach a final state of happiness to the unrepentant, 341, 2; a second pretence urged for preaching this supplementary gospel, 342; the legitimate authority of the Christian minister, 343; on the doc- trine of final restitution, as connected with the plea of benevolence, 344, et seq; prevalence of a spurious benevo- lence, ib.; inquiry if the doctrine was preached to the faith of the primitive- believers, 346,7; remarks on the al- leged superior humanity of the abet- tors of the system, 348; indefinite ex- pectations of happiness indulged by sceptics of contemplative habits, 349; the author's argument from the infinite wisdom and benevolence of the Deity exa- mined and exposed, 540; difference in the distribution of favours by the Deity improperly called partiality, 542, 3; man declared to be wholly the creature of cir- cumstance, 544; on punishment, ib.; all
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