organist of Chelsea College, 104—his death, 106-singular omissions in Mad. d'Arblay's work, ib.—its real object, 107 - the authoress's first appearance in the literary world, ib.—her Evelina,' 109 -her Cecilia' and Camilla,' 110- age of the authoress, ib.—her "Wan- derer,'111-causes of the bad taste and style of these Memoirs, ib.—her portrait of Boswell, 112-her anecdotes of Dr. Johnson, 115--and last interview with, 117-her father's interview with George
III. and Queen Charlotte, 119. Burton, his accurate description of mental
malady, 186, 187 — his account of Hip- pocrates' visit to Democritus, 188– wrote his Anatomie with a view of re-
lieving his own melaycholy, ib. Byron, Lord, 17_his 'Prophecy of Dante,'
449-his Francesca of Rimini,' 450- bis ‘Don Juan,' ib.
land, 207–consequences resulting from the seizure of church property, 209– claims of the Established Church to care
and protection, 211. Church of England, great improvement in
the clergy of, 79. Cibber, Colley, anecdote of Shirley, related
by, 5. Coleridge, Hartley, Poems by, 517. Clergy of the Church of England, great
improvement in, 79. Collier, 2, 9. Colman, George, Esq., his evidence before
the Commiitee of the House of Commons on the state of the laws affecting dramatic
literature, 7. Court ceremonies, unwise neglect of, 337. Cowper, William, character of his mental
malady, 186—various modes of self-de-
struction attempted by, 190, Crabbe, Rev. George, his correct delinea-
tions of mental malady, 187—the most searching of moral anatomists, and most graphic of poets, 203—his patriotism in Tifting up the veil spread between the upper classes and the working-day
world, ib. Croker,' Right Hon. John Wilson, his
Boswell ' quoted, 47, 115, 251. Cromwell, Oliver, his terror on the recital
of Shirley's stanzas on the fall of Charles
I., 11. Cruelty to animals, necessity of a law for
punishing, 81. Cunningham, Rev. Francis, obligations of
the Protestant cause to, 49-instrumental iu making the English reader acquainted with Oberlin, ib.
Camille Desmoulins, attorney-general to
the lantern,' 41, 43. Carwell, by Mrs. Sheridan, 229. Cary, Mr., his translation of Dante, See
Dante. Castlereagh, Lord, his character of the
Duke of Wellington, 333. Cavendish,' one of the most vulgar and
witless of the sea.novels, 486, Chabot, 37, Chapman, 29. Chaulnes, Duke de, account of, 104. Chalmers, Thomas, D.D., 'On the Use and
Abuse of Literary and Ecclesiastical En- dowments.' See Church and the Land-
lords. Charles X. of France, causes of his over-
throw, 170. Chesney, Captain, his' Reports to Govern-
ment on the Navigation of the Euphrates,'
212. See Steam-Navigation to India. Chess, game of, 317. Church and the Landlords,198—ministerial
proposition for the confiscation of church property in Ireland, ib.-suicidal con- duct of the land-owners, 199-favourable position of the clergyman of a parish for bracing the upper and lower orders of society together, 200--the clergy the best outworks of the land-owners, 204- benefits of an established national church, ib.case of the two states of Connecticut and Rhode Island, 205– state in which the Dissenters would be placed by the fall of the Church of Eng-
Dacre, Lady, 'Recollections of a Chaperon,'
edited by. See Novels of Fashionable · Life.. D'Ancre, Maréchal, account of, 165. Dante, the Inferno of, translated by Ichabod
Charles Wright, 449— excellence of Cary's translation of the Divine Comedy, ib.-his version, from the measure, no likeness of the original, ib.—failure of the attempts to introduce the terza rimą as an English measure, ib.Lord By- ron's · Prophecy of Dante' and · Frau- cesca,' 450—difficulties of executing the translation of any long poem in rhyme, ib.—the various readings of a true poet an interesting and instructive study, 451 -Mr. Wright's new version of Dante uncalled for, ib.-bis great obligations to
Cary,
Cary, 452—his measure Dantesque to Mr. Kyan's patent, 127—Sir Robert Sep- the eye only, ib.--the sense of Cary pings's report in its favour, ib.-causes twisted out of blank verse into rhyme, of dry-rot, ib.- Pliny's doctrine on the 453—specimens of the two versions, ib. origin of the disease, ib.-schemes for -the versions of the episode of Fran dealing with the juices in the felled cesca of Rimini,' by Cary, Lord Byron, timber, ib.-process of desiccation, 128 and Wright, compared, 459_Taaffe's -instances of its failure attested by Mr. nonsensical commentary on the story of Knowles, ib.—Sir Humphry Davy's Francesca and Paolo, 463-Mr. Wright's hint for preventing the growth of fungi, faulty rhymes, ib.-his ear at once 129—Mr. Kyan's theory, ib.—Fourcroy's Scotch, Irish, and Cockney, ib.-his dictum, ib.-Mr. Knowles's comment notes shrewd, sensible, and always mo thereon, ib.—substance of Mr. Faraday's dest, 464.
lecture thereon, 131-the "fungus pit' Danton, 41, 43, 46.
at Chatham described, ib.- Sir Robert D'Arblay, Madame, her "Memoirs of Dr. Smirke's experiments, 132—duration
Burney, arranged from his own Manu of the antiseptic virtue of medicated scripts, from Family Papers, and from timber, 133–benefits which would re-
Personal Recollections,'97. See Burney. sult from the discovery and general Darvill, R., his “Treatise on the Care, adoption of a cheap, safe, and efficacious
Treatment, and Training of the English preventive of dry-rot, ib. Race-horse.' See Turf,
Dryden, John, his inferiority, as a drama- Dealtry, William, D.D., his 'The Church tist, to Shirley, 13.
and its Endowments; a Charge,' 198. Dumont, M., his Souvenirs de Mirabeau' See Church and the Landlords.
characterized, 155 - his enlightened Death, 175-Sir Henry Halford's remarks views of the French Revolution, ib.
on the phenomena of the death-bed, ib. his testimony to the services of Mr. -The two immediate modes by which Burke, 156-his character of Brissot, death is brought about, ib.-death by 172. syncope, ib.-death by asphyxia, ib. Dyce, Rev. Alexander, 29. contrast between the state of the body and that of the mind, 176_delirium, ib. -death by lightning, 1974-the coup de grace, ib. -the sting of death not con- tained in the physical act of dying, ib. Edgeworth, Miss, useful lessons conveyed conduct to be observed by a physician in her Tales, 152. in withholding or making his patient ac Edye, John, his Calculations relating to quainted with his opinion of the fatal the Equipment of Ships, 125. See issue of his malady, 178-death-bed of Dry-rot.
George IV., 179-prophetic power at Eichenberg, Professor, his translations of · tributed to individuals dying of peculiar Shakspeare, 120. maladies, 180.
English climate, 330. Death, Shirley's exquisite verses on, 13. English race-horse, Treatise on the Care, Delirium, Abernethy's description of, 176. Treatment, and Training of, by R. Darvill, Democritus, account of Hippocrates' visit V. S. See Turf. to, 188.
English Revolution of 1688, 170. Denman, Lord Chief Justice, his opinion | Erskine, Lord, anecdotes of, 123, 124.
on the general question of libels, 36. Euphrates, Captain Chesney's reports to Dionysius, the tyrant, 11.
government on the navigation of the, Dry-rot in timber, 125-proposition of Mr. 212. See Steam Navigation to India.
Matthews for the appointment of a rot., • Evelina,' character of, 109. prevention officer or wood physician, 126_his treatise « On Naval Timber and Arboriculture, ib.—Merits of Mr. Knowles's' Inquiry into the Means taken to preserve the British Navy,' ib.-ad Faraday, Mr., his lecture on Mr. Kyan's mirable article on the dry-rot in the discovery for preventivg the dry rot in Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britan timber, 131. nica, ib.-results of some recent expe | Forbes, Duncan, A.M., his translation from riments, 127-discovery of a means of the Persian of the Adventures of Hatim preventing this disease in timber, ib. Taï,' 506.
Foreign
Foreign and Domestic Policy of England, “La Charte Bérard,' 478—M. Lafitte's
522-Holland, 523–Algiers, ib.-Italy, drama, 481-Louis Philippe made King, 525-_Greece, 5264-Turkey, ib.--Pó ib.-royal journey to the coast, 482— land, 527- Portugal, 528_Duke of the revolution not a national movement, Wellington's motion, 540--King's an ib.-Soult's fourteen Bastilles, 484-in- swer to the address of the House of sane excursion of the Duchess of Berri, Lords, 541–Irish Church Bill, 547— ib. practical working of the Reform Bill, Fungus pit at Chatham described, 131.
550. Fouquier Tinville, 42. Fox, Right Hon. Charles James, 47 --anec- dote of, 122.
Gaming, 98. Frederic II, of Prussia, his character and Genius described, 118.
share in producing the French revolu George IV., death-bed of, 179. tion, 168.
• Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches French Revolution, 152— Causes' of the, durch Joseph von Hammer. Bande by Lord Johu Russell, ib.-his unfinished 1-8. See Turkish Empire.
Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe since Gibbon, E., Esq., his outline of the Turkish the Peace of Utrecht,' ib.—his lordship history, 286. characterized as a' petit littérateur,'ib. - Gifford, 'William, Esq., 2. the present performance an impudent Gilly, William Stephen, M.A., his Memoir catchpenny, 153—extends only to the of Felix Neff, Pastor of the High Alps, death of Louis XV., ib.-high-coloured and of his labours among the French description of the profligacy of his court, Protestants of Dauphiné, a Remnant of ib.—Lord John's account of Rousseau's the Primitive Christians of Gaul,' 47. amours, ib.--and of Voltaire's liaison See Neff. with Madame du Châtelet, ib.—his lord Goethe on the character of Hamlet's mad- ship's superficial acquaintance with the ness, 185. French language, 154–M. Dumont's Gold of Pitt,' 37.
Souvenirs de Mirabeau,' 155 — that Grant, Mr. Robert, 43. work the best answer to Lord John's Greece, policy of England towards, 526. silly stories and theories, 157 — the Greek lyric poetry, 349—the Greek elegy French government, till the latter part and ode, ib.-origin of the ode, 350 of Louis XV.'s reign, in accordance with triumphant songs of Moses and Deborah, the feelings and wishes of the people, ib. ib.-character of the Greek lyric muse, -high-minded patience and unconquer 351-distinction between Greek and able spirit of the French nobility and Hebrew song, 352—the lyre of an- clergy in adversity, 160—the magistracy cient Greece, 353— combination of illustrious for talent, integrity, and public the choric dance with inusic and poe- spirit, 161-firmness of the Parliament try, 354-lyric writers who preceded even in the latter days of Louis XV., ib. or were contemporary with Pindar, 355 -injustice of making the upper classes -Archilochus, ib. Alcmæon, 357- in France responsible for the crimes of Stesichorus, 358—Ibycus of Rhegium, the revolution, 162—real causes of the 361-Alcæus, 363–Sappho, 366-ver- revolution, 166 — feeble character of sions of her ‘Fragment,' by Ambrose Phil- Louis XVI., ib.-example of America, lips, Boileau, and Mr. Merivale, 367 – Mr. ib.--exertions of the philosophers, 167— Merivale's translation of her ode to Ve- disorder in the finances, 168 — Lord nus, 368–Erinna, 370—Anacreon, 371 John's parallel between Voltaire and -inquiry into the genuineness of the our Saviour, 173—his confession re odes attributed to, 374-Simonides the specting the philosophers, 174. See Le younger, 375—his Danaë the tenderest Vasseur.
passage in Greek poetry, ib.--Mr. Ro- French Revolution of 1830, 464-Mé bert Smith's version of it, 376_Bac- moires pour servir à l'Histoire de, par chylides, 377. M. Alex. Mazas,' ib.-merits of the work, ib.--account of the author, 465–sum- mary of his narrative, ib.-first shot fired
H. by an Englishman, 468–Duke of Or- leans, 470—M. Lafitte, 471 — M. de | Hacket, Bishop, his motto, 70. Polignac, ib.-M. de Mortemart, 473– Halford, Sir Henry, his · Essays and Ora- tions, read and delivered at the Royal 1 serve the British Navy from the earliest College of Physicians; to which is to the present Times,' 126. added an Account of the Opening of the Kyan, Mr., his patent for the prevention of Tomb of Charles I.,' 175. See Death; dry-rot. See Dry-Rot.
and see also Madness. Hamlet, his criterion of madness, 181, 184,
185. Head, Captain C. F., his · Eastern and
Egyptian Scenery, Ruins,' &c., illustra Labour, Professor M'Culloch’s dictum con- tive of a journey from India to Europe; cerning, 150. with remarks on the advantages and
Lafayette, 33. practicability of steam.navigation from
Landlords. See Church and the Land. England to India, 212. See Steam Na lords. vigation to India.
Language, effect of, upon national charac- Hatim Taï, a romance, translated from the ter, 69.
Persian, by Duncan Forbes, A.M., 506. Le Vasseur, Mémoires de René de la Hawtrey, Mr., his directions in the con Sarthe, ex-Conventionnel, 29—the work struction of the Alcaic stanza, 364.
a fresh instance of French 'fabrication, ib. Hebert, 37, 43.
-the editor, M. Achille Roche, sub- Herbert, Sir Henry, his character of Shir stantially the author, 30—the work an ley's plays, 6.
apology for the period of the French Heine's Reisebilder, or Pictures of Travel, revolution called the reign of terror,' quoted, 33.
31—the Champ de Mars in May, 1790, Hippocrates, account of his visit to Demo 33— Bishop Talleyrand, ib.-Lafayette critus, 188.
and the fusillades in 1791, ib.--the mas- Holland, policy of England towards, 523. sacre at Paris, in September, 1792, ib.- Horace, accuracy of his portraits of mad character and situation of the Girondists ness, 183.
at the opening of the French Conven- Houchard, General, 40.
tion, 34—the Feuillans, ib.-club of the Houstoun, Mr., his incidental discovery Jacobins, 35-trial and condemnation
concerning the speed of canal boats, of Louis XVI., ib.-Vergniaud's vote 213.
for blood, ib._his speech on the appel Huguenots, their intolerance of the pas. au peuple, 36-Marat, “l'ami du peu- time of dancing, 61.
ple,' ib.-his sincerity, ib.-Hebert and Hulls, Jonathan, the real inventor of the Chabot, 37-the gold of Pitt, ib.-deal- steam-boat, 213.
ings of successive governments with the Jacobin club, 38-execution of the Gi- rondists, 39--the author's defence of Ci-
tizen Egalité, ib.—and of Robespierre Ibycus of Rhegium, account of, and of his and the Mountain, ib-General Hou- writings, 361.
chard, 40—the author's mission to the Jesuits, one of the principles of, 47—the army, ib—Danton, 41-Camille Des-
most efficient society ever established, moulins, ib.-Fouquier Tinville, 42— 48.
establishment of sans-culottism, 16.--de- Impressment of seamen, 345, 496.
cree of the Convention acknowledging Insanity. See Madness.
the existence of a Deity, 45-picture of Invention, 118.
Robespierre's government, ib.-law of Johnson, Dr., anecdotes of, 115, 251.
the 22nd Prairial, ib.-history of the Jonson, Ben, 14. .
9th Thermidor, 46-downfall of Robes- Ireland, church property in, ministerial pierre, ib.
proposition for the confiscation of, 198. Liverpool, Earl os, sketch of, and of his ad- Italy, policy of England towards, 525. ministration, 333.
Louis Philippe, king of the French, 11, 161
470, 473.
Lowe, Sir Hudson, 489. Knolles, the historian of the Turks, Dr.
Johoson's eulogy on, 285-character of
his history, 286. Knowles, John, his "Inquiry into the means which have been taken to pre- / Macaulay, Mr., his attempt to make the
upper
entitled 'French Wines and Politics,' Professor M'Culloch's dictum concern- ing labour, 149-story entitled For Each and for All,' profits and wages, Nanny White and old Joel, 150-Miss M.'s exemplification of the phenomena of money; mouse skins and mammoth bones, 151-Moore's She Politician,'
ib.-parting advice to Miss M., ib. Massinger, his Luke, and his Sir Giles
Overreach, 14. Matthew, Patrick, his "Treatise on Naval
Timber and Arboriculture, with Critical
Notes,' 125. See Dry-Rot. May, Thomas, his panegyric on Shirley, 4. Mazas, M. Alexandre, his "Mémoires pour
servir à l'Histoire de la Révolution de
1830.' See French Revolution of 1830, Merivale, J. H. Esq., his edition of Bland's
Greek Anthology, comprising the Frage ments of early Lyric Poetry, with spe- cimens of all the poets included in Meleager's Garland. See Greek Lyric
upper classes in France responsible for the crimes of the revolution, 162-cha-
racter of his speeches in Parliament, ib. M‘Culloch, Professor, his paradox concern-
ing absenteeism exposed, 148—his dic-
tum concerning labour, 150. Madness, 181--Sir Henry Halford's Essay
"On Shakspeare's test of insanity,' 181 -accuracy of Shakspeare's delineations of mania, ib.--Horace's portraits of madness exemplified to the life, 183– Hamlet, his criterion of madness, 181, 184-cases of monomania, 184-in. stance related by Orfila, ib.-Damien, ib.- Villemain and Goetbe on the cha. racterof Hamlet's madness, 185-mental malady described by Burton, 186—its first stage, it.- variety and individual clearness of Shakspeare's delineations of mental malady, 187—melancholy of Jaques, ib.—the grave-digger's scene in Hamlet, 188-the lighter species of melancholy exemplified in Burton's ac- count of Hippocrates's visit to Demo- critus, ib.-Scott's Clara Mowbray, an example of the retiring melancholy, 190 -the 'roving melancholy described, 191-Madge Wildfire, ib.-Ophelia, ib. -Lear,' a study for the pathologist,
192-progress of his madness, 192, 198. Madras school, one of the principles of, 47. Malcolm, Sir John, his Sketches of Persia,
513. Marat, Jean Paul, l'ami du peuple,' 36. Marryat, Captain, his novels characterized,
485. Martineau, Miss, her Illustrations of
Political Economy,' 136—the work a monthly series of novels on political economy, ib.--the authoress an Unita- rian, ib.-her praiseworthy intention, ib.-but unfeminine and mischievous doctrines on the principles of social welfare, ib.-plan of the work, ib.the fair writer's account of her own doings, ib.-outline of story the first, Life in the Wilds' 137-of «The Hill and the Valley,'138—of Demerara,' Miss M.'s doctrine of property, 139—of · Ella of Garveloch, prolificacy of herrings and bannocks, anticipated over-popula. tion, the preventive check, 140-the s Manchester Strike, 143-story of •Cousin Marshall, abomination of poor- laws, alms-houses, lying-in hospitals, &c. 144–Ireland,' Mr. Tracey and Mr. Rosso, Sullivan, Dora, and Dan, Miss M.'s grand panacea, 145-her defence of Professor M‘Culloch's exploded para- dox concerning absentees, 148-story
Merivale, Mr. jun., his translation of a
fragment of Bacchylides, 378. Middleton, Thomas,'his dramas charac-
terized, 14. Milton, lí. Mirabeau, M. Dumont's Souvenirs de, 155
-character of, 156. Montluc, Marshal, his commentaries ong
of the most characteristic work in any
language, 68. Moore, Thomas, his 'She Politician,' 151
-his “Epitaph on a Tuft-hunter,' 231
Neff, Felix, pastor of the High Alps, Me- moir of, and of his labours among the French Protestants of Dauphiné, a rem- nant of the Primitive Christians of Gaul; by William Stephen Gilly, M.A., 47- the biographer's benevolent exertions in behalf of the Vaudois, 48-first account received by him concerning Felix Neff, 49—Neff's birth and education, ib. his early aspirations for military fame, or for scientific research, 50-publishes at sixteen a treatise on the culture of trees, ib. -enters as a private into the military service, ib.-quits the service and prepares for holy orders, ib.-re- ceived into the church as a proposant, ib.-employed three years in this ca- pacity in the neighbourhood of Geneva, 51-invited to Grenoble, ib.---supplies at Mens the place of an absent pastor,
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