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North America and the United States as Police, benefits resulting to a state of a

they are, 260.

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.

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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

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

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

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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

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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,

87.

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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