North America and the United States as Police, benefits resulting to a state of a
Oath, the sanctity of, not taught in Maynooth college, 478.
Observations on the Corn Laws, 426-ex- tract from, 444.
Ottoman Porte, faithful to its treaties, 384-- policy of the allied sovereigns respect- ing questioned, 385. Pakenham, (Captain) 367.
Paoli, described as an artful intriguer, 368. Parental affections greatest in the lower classes of society, 569, 570. Parks, observations on, 311-Chantilly, 312-many injured or destroyed in the civil wars, 313-materials of, 320- water, 321-trees, ibid.-Sir H. Steuart's at Allanton, 323.
Parry, (Captain W. E.) attempt to reach the North Pole in boats, 523-difficulties of the enterprise, 524-construction of the boats, ibid.-setting out of the ex- pedition, 525-rein-deer taken on board, ibid. the Hecla beset by the ice, ibid.— provision placed in store on Walton island, ibid. -Hecla anchored on the North coast of Spitzbergen, ibid.-departure of the boats, ibid. provision placed in store at Little Table island, 526-mode of travelling, ibid.-watches to obviate the possibility of mistaking noon for midnight, ibid. note-allowance for pro- vision, 527-mode of preparing cacao, 528-progress slow from difficulties to be surmounted, ibid.-set of the ice to the southward, 529-the expedition given up, 530-description of the ice floes, ibid. highest latitude reached, 531-tempera- ture of the sea and air, 532-insects, ibid. return, ibid.-red snow, ibid.-bear killed, 533 arrive at Table island, and find the bears had eaten the bread, ibid.-arrival on board the Hecla, 534-remarks on the expedition, 534-538-a ship preferable to boats, 536-situation of the western magnetic pole, 537-subjects of natural history collected, ibid.-probability of a North-West passage being hereafter made by the Americans, 538.
Party spirit, injurious effects of in writers of history, 198.
Pauperism, alarming tendency to in this country, 574,
well-constituted one, 495-difficulty of determining the true limits of its powers, 497-excellence of that of our Saxon ancestors, 497-causes of its decline, 500-first police bill introduced into parliament, in what respect defective, 502-hopes to be derived from the pre- sent parliamentary inquiry into the state of the police, 503-suggestions of what the committee ought to do, 503, 504. Pope, (Alexander) superiority of to the poets of the present day, 420. Poor Laws, reprobated by Mr. Malthus, 540 -regarded favourably by Blackstone and Mr. Spence, 540-and by Defoe, 541- to be lamented, that a benevolent plan formed by Mr. Pitt respecting the poor laws was not carried into effect, 559- sentiments of Mr. Whitbread on the sub- ject, 560-report and evidence relative to the poor laws by Mr. S. W. Nicoll, characterised as a work of great merit, 570, note.
Poor Rates have increased, from the middle of the last century, a thirteenth part an- nually, 554.
Population increased by the low price of provisions, 426-increased as people be- come more wretched, 547-cannot be checked, 568, 572.
Pottery, general improvement of, 320. Price, (Sir Uvedale) on gardening, 307, 317, 321.
Prison Discipline, report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of, 489.
Publications, (New) lists of, 299. Pulci, question of his religion, 61. Punishment, corporal, shown not to be ne- cessary in naval discipline, 395. Punning, lines on, 98. Rattle-snake, ludicrous account of, 452. Reformation, progress and suppression of, in the sixteenth century, 50-causes of its extinction there, 80 in England, 204. Relfe's Historical Memoirs, remarks on, 509, 511.
Religion of the heathen world in the second
century, 39-restraints and penalties on religious opinions, 220.
Report on the criminal laws of England, 147-from the select Committee on the
Salmon Fisheries of the United Kingdom, | Sodality of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, 345-seventh, of the Committee for the account of a society bearing that name, Improvement of Prison Discipline, 489- 482. eighth, of the Commissioners of Irish Education Inquiry, 459-of the Select Committee on Emigration from the Uni- ted Kingdom, 539.
Repton, improver of landscape gardening, 317, 321.
Rogers, (Samuel) termed the grandfather of living poetry, 420.
Roman Empire, state of, in the second cen- tury, 39.
Romish Church, not the most ancient form of Christianity, 50-its catechism, 69- its resemblance to paganism, 80-poly- theistic, 213-moral effect of confession, ibid.-mischievous consequences of the doctrine of transubstantiation, 215-in- tolerance of, 220-education of the Ca- tholic clergy a question of the highest moment, 459-Catholic College of May- nooth. See Maynooth.
Roos, (Hon. Fred. Fitzgerald de) Travels
Southey, (Dr.) a funeral song by, for the Princess Charlotte, 94.
Spence, (Mr.) favourable to the poor laws, 540.
Starkie, (Thomas) Treatise on Criminal Pleading, 147.
Steam-boats, immigration of Irish labourers into England increased by, 560. Steam-guns, remarks on, 276, note. Steam-vessels, 279-wonderful account of one by a traveller, 453. Steuart, (Sir Henry) the Planter's Guide; or a Practical Essay on the best Method of giving immediate Effect to Wood, by the Removal of large Trees and Under- wood, 303.-See Trees.
Stothard, (Charles) valuable drawings by, in the possession of the Society of Anti- quaries, 488-his memoirs and other literary productions of his widow highly commended, 489, note.
Strafford, (Lord) attainder of, 230-extracts from his letters, 247.
Stuart, (Dr. Gilbert) persecution of Dr. Henry by, 194.
Superstition, instances of, in Rome and Greece, 45, 47.
Tooke, (Mr.) quoted on the subject of the corn laws, 432.
Tooke's (W.) translation of Lucian, defect of, with its causes, pointed out, 32. Torrens, (Col.) quoted on the subject of the corn laws, 435.
in the United States and Canada, 260. Russel, (W. Oldnall) Treatise on crimes and Indictable Misdemeanours, 147. Salmon Fisheries of the United Kingdom, reports from the Select Committee on, 345-laws respecting defective, 346- parliament petitioned on this subject, Taylor, (Rowland) anecdote of, 83. 347-deficiency of the reports, ibid.-Teneriffe, attacked by Nelson unsuccess- migrations of the salmon, 348, 350- fully, 371. spawning season, ibid.-proceedings of the fry, after evolving from the egg, 351 -irregularity in the fence months, for the protection of the fisheries, favourable to the poacher, 351, 352-May the proper period for the commencement of fishing, 353, 354-August the period of its termination, 355-eel-traps, kidels, and mill-dams, destructive to the fisheries, 355, 356-abolishment of these engines recommended, 357-remedies against the evil of mill-dams suggested, 359-value in his respect of tide-nets, 360- restrictions imposed by law on these nets, ibid.-question of their utility examined, 361-question examined to whom the salmon bred in rivers belong, 362-the propriety of tide-nets farther investigated, 363-a speedy legislative enactment, as to the fisheries, desirable, ibid. Scott, (Sir Walter) song by, 96. Shelley, (Percy Byshe) writes a mock elegy
on the poet Keats, 418-his portrait the best in Mr. Leigh Hunt's reminiscences, 425 supposed to have changed the opi- nions that governed him in his early ca- reer, 125.
Sicily, description, by Admiral Collingwood, of the old king and queen of, 383. Smith, (Horatio) instance of Mr. Leigh Hunt's injustice to, 425.
Trafalgar, battle of, 376. Traveller, one of the early productions of Mr. L. Hunt, 408.
Trade, shifting and changeable nature of, 541-changes in, though beneficial upon the great scale, ruinous in their immediate effects, 543-instance of this cited, ibid. -the spirit of trade short-sighted and rapacious, 573.
Trees, considered as ornamental, 313, 316, 321-want of success in transplanting them large, 322-this difficulty surmount- ed, 323-fundamental principles, 326- the trees must be adapted to the soil, ibid. their condition and properties must be attended to, ibid.-nutriment neces- sary, 327-air of a proper temperament, ibid.-almost seems to be endued with volition, 329-affinity between the roots and branches, ibid.-properties naturally acquired by unsheltered trees, ibid.-de- cay of trees transplanted from a sheltered to an exposed situation, 331-practical instructions, ibid.-age of trees for trans- planting, 333-process of removing, 334
in transplanting the lee side should be turned to the weather, 335-the trees should not be pollarded, 336-the roots must be placed with great care, 337— earth mixed with coal-ashes beneficial, 339-expense of transplanting, 350. Trent, council of, 68.
Trowbridge, (Captain) conduct of in the attack on Teneriffe, 371.
Turkey, high character of, for fidelity to its treaties, 384-propriety of the conduct of the allied sovereigns towards question- ed, 386.
United Kingdom.-See England. United States of America compared with
Vaudois, (The) account of their colonizing in Calabria, 55-cruelties and massacre to which they were subjected, 77-80. Vegetable and animal life compared, 327. Volcanoes, 298.
Wages, governed by the price of corn, 429, 430-state of, in the middle of the last century, 549-in Edward III.'s reign, 550-fixed rate of wages abolished by Henry VIII., 553-state of wages in Sir William Petty's time,555-motion by Mr. Whitbread for fixing the minimum, 559. Wales, New South, two years in, 1-com- pared with British North America as respects agricultural emigrants, 2-and with the United States, 3-community of the capital, 4-imported animals be- come more prolific, and improve in size, 7-brief chronology of events, 8-pack of hounds, 10, 11-Australian agricultu- ral company, 12-manufactures, 14- public and private carriages, 15-schools, ibid.-newspapers, ibid. - horse races, 16 -early difficulties, 17-population, 22 -policy of transportation considered, 24 -treatment of the convicts, ibid.—jour- ney in quest of a settlement, 27-kan- garoo hunting, 28-tame kangaroo, ibid. -natives, 29-topography, 31.
New South Wales, 3-descendants of Ger- man settlers in, 262-increase of territory | and population, ibid.-roads and canals, 265-exports, 271-imports, 272-ship- ping, ibid.-navy and naval establish- ments, 273-naval actions with the British, 276-difficulty of establishing dry docks, 280-army and militia, 284– expenses of government, 285-intercourse with other governments, ibid.-discus- sions with Great Britain, 286-probabi- lity of a change of government, 290- striking instance of party-feeling, 293— state of religion, 294-education, 295– newspapers, 296-accommodations, ibid. -ice-boat, 227-expedition against, 504 -arrival of the expedition in the Chesa- peake, 505--Washington selected as the point of attack, ibid.-army assembled Waldenses. See Vaudois. for its defence, abid.its position forced, | Walpole, (Horace) on gardening, 304. and ships, ordnance, and stores, destroyed | War, general principle in contending with by the Americans, 507-the squadron
undisciplined troops, 510.
provement of America, 266.
Watch, system of London, the total subver- sion of it recommended, 504. Water contains much nutritive aliment, 339. Waterworks, defence of, 307, 308. Wedgwood's, general improvement of pot- tery by, 320. Whitehall; or the Days of George IV., 84,
anchors below Baltimore, and the troops | Washington, (G) suggestions for the im- landed, ibid.-Major General Ross killed, ibid.511-the Americans defeated, 507 - a night attack projected, 508-this given up from the fleet being able to give no as- sistance, 509-the troops reimbarked with the prisoners and guns captured, 510- general principle in warfare with undisci- plined troops, ibid.-remarks on the injury done to Washington, 512-515-public property in the city of Alexandria spared, 513-ravages of the Americans in Canada, 514--the expedition proceeds to Jamaica | Wickliff, popularity of his doctrines, 54. for refreshments, and thence to the Missis- Widows, burning of.-See India. sippi, 515-the first division lands on the Wieland, remarks of, on Lucian, 47. left bank, 516--cannonaded by a vessel William III., character and conduct of, 253. stealing up the river in the night, 517- Wilmot, (Sir E. E., Bart.) Letter to the surrounded by the enemy, 518-the Magistrates of England on the Increase enemy beaten back, ibid.-Sir Edward of Crime. See Crimes. Packenham arrives, ibid.—his death, ibid. Winter's Wreath, 84, 89, 90, 92. the American position under General Wordsworth, lines to a skylark by, 90. Morgan carried, 519-two guns taken at Zoology a defective branch of education in Saratoga captured, ibid.--General Gibbs this country, 346.
Whig party, character of, previous to the Revolution, 252.
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