To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this. Volume. N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.
Agriculture, the high price of its produce the cause of national prosperity, 320. Remedies for agricultural distress, 322. 324. Causes of, 377. 434. Alexander, Emperor of Russia, anecdotes of, 223.
His por- trait drawn by Napoleon, 238. Alps, verses on a hunter in, 440. Alsatia, in White Friars, account
of that sanctuary in the reign of James I., 183.
Alva, Duke of, his cruel charac- ter, 468. Anecdote of his being out-generaled by the Countess of Schwartzburg, 469. Ambassadors, remarks on their conforming to the customs of foreign courts, 483. Americans, unfavorable charac- ter of, 427. Incivility of ta- vern-keepers and servants, ib. Angers, in Brittany, description of, 269.
Angina Pectoris, case of, 420. Apoplexia Cephalica, memoir on,
Apprentices of London, in the
17th century, their manners and habits, 182. Archer, Dr., on paracentesis of the thorax, 414. Archipelago, Indian, See Raffles. Arm, on a disease of, 423.
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Barlow, Mr., on the rates of chronometers, 307.
Barry, Dr., on intestinal worms, 423.
Beaver, account of fossil re-
Bell, Mr., on the nerves, 294. Benevento, account of, 156. Beroe, on the British species of,
Bishops, bench of, n 1751, cha-
racterized by Lord Orford, 5. Black, Dr., on diseases of the brain, 422.
Bolingbroke, Lord, character of, by Lord Orford, 8. Bonaparte, speech of Mr. Grat- tan on a war with, after his return from Elba, 124. Anec- dotes of, from his own con- Na versation
versation with Mr. O'Meara, and his opinions of various eminent men, 229-239. Son- net to, 258. See also Napoleon. Botany, uses of that science, 146. Its rise and progress in England, 147. Bottomry, that contract ex- plained, 397.
Brain, on diseases of, 422. Brewster, Dr., on the forms and refraction of crystals, 129.141. Brinkley, Dr., on parallax and aberration, 305.
Bruce, the Scotish poet, lines by, 96.
Burmhan empire, particulars of a mission to, 50. Butler, Mr., on the plumage of birds, 135. Buxbaumia Aphylla, remarks on,
Castlereagh, Lord, said by Bona- parte to have made a very bad peace for England, 232. Cat, new species of, 134. Catania, antiquities and present state of, 508.
Catherine, Empress of Russia, anecdotes of, 222. Catholics of Ireland, opinion of Napoleon Bonaparte on their emancipation, 231.
Caudine Forks, account of the scite of that stratagem, 156. Character, individual, essay on,
Charles, Prince, the Pretender, obs. on his character, 42. Charles V., his retirement from worldly grandeur, 460. His remark on the discordance of clocks and watches, ib. Un- graciously treated by his son, 461.
Chateau Gontier, neatness, clean- liness, and order of that town, on the banks of the Mayenne, 268. Chesnut-trees, prodigious, in Si- cily, account of, 509. Chlorine and Carbon, on a new
compound of, 293. Christianity, on the diffusion of its blessings in Africa, 197. Chronometers, on the rates of, 367.
Climate of England, remarks on, 28.
Coal-fields, obs. on, 132. Coal-tar, on a substance pro- duced by the decomposition of, 291. Collinson, Mr., his correspond- ence with Linnæus, 27. Constipation, case of, 415. Consumption, productive and un-
productive, obs. on, 17. Cope, Sir John, account of his
defeat at Preston Pans, 38. Cork, on the mineralogy of the
neighbourhood of, 130. Corn, obs. on the price of, 435. Corpses, dried, in the Capuchin convent in Sicily, 502.
Cosenza, its population and pro- ducts, 167.
Cotrone, description of, 163. Cotton, Sir John, anecdote of, 11. note.
Country Gentlemen, English, their character delineated,402. Crampton, Dr., on inflammation of the pancreas, and on drop- sies, 420.
Cranes of Ibycus, a poem, 261. Cromwell, that name likely to be- come extinct in the family of the Protector, permission having been refused for its descent in the female line, 248. Particulars of Oliver Crom- well's character and actions, 249-253. Specimen of his eloquence, and comments on it, 252. Cryptogamia, account of plants of that class, 141. Arrange- ment of, 147. Crystals, on the forms and re- fraction of, 129. 141. Currency, obs. on, 437. Govern- ment to be the only circulators of coin and notes, ib. Cuticle, nails, &c., on the nutri- tion of, 137.
Ear, on diseases of, 422. Earle, Mr., on the re-establish- ment of a destroyed urethra, 293.
Earth, on the mean density of, 302. Earthquake, at Sylla, in 1783,
its frightful destruction, 166. Eclipse, solar, calculation of, 304. Ellis, Mr., his correspondence with Linnæus, 29.
England, her political situation since the war described by Napoleon Bonaparte, 231. her
2 progress in arts and commerce during the late war, 526.
Evelyn, Sir G. Shuckburgh, See Kater.
Fairy-formed Harp, a ballad, 99. Felis, new species of, 134. Fever, Report of the Fever Hos- pital in Dublin, 423, 424.
Yellow, of Barcelona, his- tory of, 519-525. Fleming, Dr., on the mineralogy of Cork, 130. On the Water- rail, 135. Fleming, Dr., on the Genus Beroe, 141.
Foggia, account of, 158. Fossil-skeleton, account of, 142. France, a neat and clean town in,
"for a wonder," 268. History of, during the period of the Constituent Assembly, 486. Obs.on the situation of, before the Revolution, 487.
Nn 2 Franklin,
Franklin, Dr., story of, and obs.
on his character, 107. Friendship, remarks on, 277. Frizel, Dr., on a ruptured ute- rus, 415.
Frog, common, notice of, 143. Fucus, new species of, 141. Fungi, supposed to be produced from Animalcula infusoria, 29. G
Garden, Dr., his botanical letter, written on the day of his mar- riage, 32.
Geognosy of East Lothian, 136. George II., character of, by Lord Orford, 11.
German Ocean, on the bed of, 140. Germany, state of philosophy in, 543.
Government, on its personal and
its social character, 454. Granite, curious appearances of, in Shetland, 353.
Granville, Lord, account of, 9. Grattan, Mr., memoir of, and specimens of his speeches, 113-126.
Dr., on inflammation of the Ear, 422. Gravity, specific, instrument for ascertaining, 143. Greeks, horrid treatment of, by the Turks, 286.
Grenada, story of a student, an alchemist, and his daughter, 407.
Greville, Mr., on Cryptogamous Plants, 141. On a new Fucus, ib. On a new Potentilla, 142. On Buxbaumia Aphylla, ib. Grierson, Dr., on sand-stone petrifactions, 134. Griffiths, Mrs., her discovery of a new Fucus, 141. H
Herculaneum, See Papyri. Herschel, Mr., on separating iron from other metals, 292. On the aberrations of compound lenses, &c. 301. Highlanders, Scotch, their mode of fighting, 39, 40.
Holden, Dr., on the juice of the Papaw tree, 136.
Holm of Noss, account of, 347. Holy Family, allegorical story of, 532.
Home, Sir Everard, on skeletons
of the Dugong, &c. 291. On the Manatee, 293. Homildon, or Halidon Hill, bat- tle of, made the subject of a dramatic poem, 310. Hunter, of the Higher Alps, poetic story of, 440. Hutton, Dr., on the mean den- sity of the earth, 302. Hygrometer, new, account of,
James I., his character well drawn in the Fortunes of Nigel,' 171. Scene between him and Nigel in Greenwich Park, 173. At the council- board, 176.
Jameson, Professor, on the rocks of Sandside, 135. On the geo- gnosy of East Lothian, 136. On the rocky mountain-sheep, 139. Various notices by, 144. Java, origin of the Dutch settle- ment there, 241.
Ibycus, cranes of, a poem, 261. Jersey, account of that island, 265.
Iliad, opinions of French and English critics on the argu- ment of, 356. Illinois-country, statements re- specting, 426-494. Impressment, remarks on, 217. Insurrection-act, in Ireland, obs. on, 67.
Johnstone, Chev. his adventures after the battle of Culloden, 44. Joseph, the carpenter, story of, 532. Ireland, view of the causes of the present distress and distur- bances in, 58-82. Speech of Mr. Grattan on Irish Rights, 117. Particulars of the dis- tress in, 379., note.
Iron, on the separation of, from other métals, 292. Masses of, their effect on chronometers, 307.
Italy, its scenery and topogra-
phy described in verse and in prose, 438. 446. Justice, natural and legal, obs. on, 455.
Justices of the Peace, in Ireland, obs. on the character and func- tions of, 73.
Kater, Capt., on a re-measure- ment of the cube, &c. of Sir G. S. Evelyn, respecting a stand- ard of weights and measures, 304.
Kidd, Dr., on Naphthaline, 291. L
Labor, in Ireland, too scantily paid, 59.
Lambert, Mr., on new plants. from Nepaul, 142. Landlords, in Ireland, not suf- ficiently attentive to their te- nants, 62. Landlords, See Rent. Land-owners, of England, their impolitic conductin late years,
212. Lasnes, Marshal, character of, by Bonaparte, 237. Lenses, compound, on aberra- tions of, 301. Lesbia, lines of Catullus to, translated, 335. Liberty and Necessity, remarks on the doctrines of, 208. Linnæus, anecdotes and corre- spondence of, 27. et seq. Liverpool, Lord, extract from his speech on the state of the country, 16. note. Loefling, Peter, his multifarious duties as an explorer of na- tural history in Spain, 34. London,statement of diseases and comparative healthiness of, at different periods, 200-203. London Museum, lines on see- ing, 333.
Lothian, East, geognosy of, 136. Love in a Rose-bud's Breast, a ballad, 99.
of God, on the motives to,
275. Louis XVI., his amiable conduct in the early part of the Re- volution, 490. (note.) His in- terview with the Poissardes, 499.
XVIII., said by Bonaparte to have applied to him for the restoration of his throne, 235. Luttra Vittata, account of, 142. Lyttelton, Lord, character of, by Lord Orford, 7.
Macknight, Dr., his mineralogi- cal notices, 131. Magnetic phænomena, farther researches on, 296. Malagrowther, Sir Mungo, his interview with Nigel in the Tower, 177.
Mal-aria, remarks on, 159. Malays, obs. on those people, and their probable advance- ment, 243. Specimen of Malay Annals, 245. Malthus, Mr., remarks on his doctrines, by a French writer, 481.
Manatee, on the peculiarities of that animal, 293. Manners, Lord, his opinion of Orange Associations, 80. Massena, Marshal, his character by Bonaparte, 237. Meat, made tender by the juice of the Papaw-tree, 136. Medina, Duke de, commander of the Spanish Armada, his ship- wreck and treatment at Shet- land, 341. Metternich, Prince, opinion of him by Napoleon, 239. Mineralogy, See Fleming, See Macknight.
Mirabeau, obs, on his character and conduct, 493. Money, remarks on the desire of, 280.
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