Abbot on spring guns, 401 Abolishing poaching, 407
Abraham, letters to my brother, 478 Account of Ceylon, 277
A Ceylonese Dutchman, 279 Acre, 304
Acts in King William's reign, 448 Administration, Pitt, criticised by M. Nec- ker, 21
Administration on the Irish question, 449 Advocates for universal philanthropy, 252 Affray with poachers, 375 African committee, 381 Africans, litigious, 300
Africa, Portuguese in, 380
Agent, Sir George Barlow's, 342
Age, the present, 262
Agriculture in Sierra Leone, 298 Alfonso, King of Castile, 270-273 Almanacks, objections to, 314
America, 427-441; economy, 427; reli- gious toleration, 427; Inquisition, 428; creed, 428; smuggling tea, 429; amalga- mation of republics, 430; education, 431; American rout, 432; coaches and inns, 433; inquisitiveness, 434; new settlements, 435; regulars, 436; govern. ment, 437; universal suffrage, 438; navy, 438; fanaticism, 439; Unitarians, 439; want of games and sports, 440 Anagnosti, 394
Anastasius, 389-398; cardinal fault, 390; in the service of Mavroyeni, 391; his combat, 392; a capital fertile in crimes, 393; opium coffee-house, 395; Chios, 396; Euphrosyne, 397 Ancestors, our wise, 31
Ancient languages more beautiful than any modern, 59
Ancients, Rennel's admiration of the, 261 Anniversary sermon, Langford's, 266 Anomalous situations of the Irish, 447 Anti-rational fallacies, 46 Anti-reformers, fallacies of, 30 Archbishop of Dublin, 445
Architecture in Botany Bay, 409 Argos, encampment at, 390
Argyle, Earl of, his accusations against Sir Patrick Hume and Sir John Cochrane,
177; he charges those persons with caus- ing his failure, 178; is himself charged with arrogance and obstinacy, 179; his execution described by Barillon, 205 Aristotle, Rennel's estimation of, 261 Army, Ashantee, 386, 387
Army, Mahratta, passage of a, 357 Army, praying, 268
Articles of Limerick, 448
Articles, the Bishop of Peterborough's,142 Ashantee, Bowdich's, 380-389
Assessors of Ashantee, 383
Assize calendars, 399
Asylums for the insane, 367
Atheism and scrofula, cure of, 309
Australasia, our trade in, 414
Authors and booksellers, 267
Bank, New South Wales, 416 Bank-notes to convicts, 422 Banks, Sir Joseph, 452, 459 Barbarous courtesy, 299
Barillon quoted to show opinions of James II., 189; his description of the execution of Argyle, 205 Barlow, Joel, 432
Barlow, Sir George, Governor of Madras, 342: his imprudence, 343; his irritability, 349; want of temper and wisdom, 354 Bar, the, eloquence of, 257 Bathurst, Earl, letters to, 408 Battery, a missionary, 331 Belief of the Ashantees, 384
Bengal, missionary action in, 150 Bennet, Hon. H. B., 408
Bentham, Jeremy, his book of Fallacies, 30; his love of method, 31
Best, Mr. Justice, on the protection of game, 404
Bigge's Report on Botany Bay, 408
Biography, use of, 450
Birds of Demerara, 452, 456
Blacks, native, 423
Boles, Major, punishment of, 346 Bolingbroke, Lord, on the politics of Ann's ministers, 181
Booksellers and authors, 267 Boornoo, 383
Botany Bay, 408-426; Governor Macquar- rie, 409; employment for convicts, 410; the double and treble convict, 411; lau- reate, 411; resident clergyman, 411; dismissal of honest men, 412; Fulton, 413; nature of the place, 413; restoring convicts to society, 414; emancipated convicts, 415; Samuel Terry, 416; New South Wales Bank, 416; pardons and indulgences, 417; jobs, 418; sources of profits, 418; stores, 418; hospital at Pa- ramatta, 419; building of the factory, 420; Tories in House of Commons, 420; Mrs. Fry's system, 422; pastoral con- victs, 422; native blacks, 423; marriages, 423
Bourne, Mr. Sturges, his revision of the Poor Laws, 212 Bowdich's Ashantee, 380-389; Coomassie, 381; the embassy, 382; the Niger, 383; character of the king, 383; assessors, 383; king's sisters, 384; belief of the Ashantees, 384; sacrifices, 385; disci- pline, buildings, 385; army, 386; com- merce, 387; Mr. Hutchinson, 387; on the Gaboon, 388; kingdoms on the Niger, 388
Bowles, John, 263-266; spirit of the pam- phlet, 264; apprehensions, 264; France, 265; Jacobinism, 265; attachment to the Crown, 266 Brahmins
show contempt towards the missionaries, 156
Brand, W., his bill on game laws, 399 Breed of game, 378
Brevity in writing insisted on, 195
British education, 258
British Navy, 318
Brocquiere's travels from Palestine, 302- 306
Brother, our Western, 466
Broughton's Letters from a Mahratta Camp, 354-359; Scindia, 355; acts of injustice, 356; ravages of the armies, 357; recovering debts, 358; young Mah- ratta female, 358
Buildings in Ashantee, 385 Bulls, Irish, 293-297
Buonaparte, perfidious character of, 264; Syrian expedition, 287
Burnet, attacked by Rose, 193
Buxton, Mr., his work on prisons quoted, 233
Calvinistic clergy not bad members of the church, 135
Campanero, the, 453, 456 Canadian tea-dealers, 429 Canadians, the, 281
Charles I., his execution compared by Fox with that of Stafford, 184 Chios, 396
Christians, duty of, towards Pagans, 160 "Christian Observer," the cause of much mischief, 170
Church of England, departure from Chris- tian faith, 316
Classical education, its evils, 61; classical literature the great object at Oxford, 65 Classical learning, 56; its hold upon some men, 60
Classical quotations, the watchwords of scholars, 58
Clergy, enforced residence of, 127
Clergy, English, so little distinguished, 257
Clergy of Stutgard, 439
Coaches in United States, 433.
Cochrane, Sir John, accused by the Earl Argyle, 177
Celebs in search of a wife, 336-341; style and characters, 337; Mrs. More's opinions, 339; her talents and piety, 341 Coffee-house, opium, 395 Columbo, 214
Combat, a first, 392 Constantinople. 392
Conversation, one of the greatest pleasures of life, 103
Converts, native, persecutions of, 148 Convicts, employment for, 410; simple and double, 411; restoring to society, 414; emancipated, 415; upon arrival, 417; manumitting, 417
Coronation oath of English sovereigns, 36, 481
Coulacanara, 462
Cromwell, Henry, 446
Cruelty to animals, which kinds demand the interference of the law. 27 Curates, persecution of, by the Bishop of Peterborough, 129 Curiosity, American, 434 Curtius, the modern, 266 Custom-house, the, 465 Customs in Ashantee, 384
Dacre, Lord, his Bill on game laws, 399
Dagumba, 388
Damascus, 303
Dancing, 315
Davison, Mr. John, his work on the poor- laws, 208
Death, engine of, 402
Debts, recovering, 358 Degomba, 388
De la Brocquiere's travels from Palestine, 302-306; expedition overland, 303 Demerara, birds of, 452, 456
Dewan of Travancore espouses the mis- sionary cause, 147 Dinner, tavern 265
Disabilities of Catholics, 112
Discourses on various subjects, 257; pul- pit, 258
Dissenters' Marriage Bill, 427 District school, a, described, 210
Divisions, small, of land in Ireland, a great evil, 120
Doctrines of Godwin, 251
Dogherty, rebellion of, 445
Drogheda, massacre of, 445
Duellist, the, 260
Excursion through United States, 427 Ex-kings, American, 436
Factory at Paramatta, 419 Fair gamester, a, 259
Fallacies of anti-reformers, 30
Fazil Khan, 355
Female, a young Mahratta, 358 Female education, 92
Ferocity of disposition, gamesters', 260 Ferocity, weapon of the common people, 407
Fievée, J., his Lettres sur l'Angleterre, 273-276
Flogging freemen, 424 Foolahs, the, 299
Footman a Methodist, 315
Forbes Colonel, remonstrance of, 350 Fox, Charles James, 170; his unpopularity for protesting against the French and American wars, 171; his poetry flat and insipid, 172; character of his biographer's book, 173; its digressiveness. 175; his history criticised by Rose, 176; his opi- nion of Sir Patrick Hume, 177; contra- dicted by Rose, 178; information with- held from him by Rose, 180; his doctrine invulnerable, 182; he compels the con- currence of Rose, 183; his opinion of the execution of Strafford, 184; his history vindicated by Mr. Heywood, 193
France, court of, and the two last Stuart princes, 183
France without a king. 265
Fraud, its connection with gaming, 259 French in India, 277
French politics and finance, Necker on, 9 French revolution, 260
Fry, Mrs., system of, 422 Fugitive convicts, 423
Fuller quoted against the Bishop of Peter- borough, 141
George III., and the Catholic code, 37 Gil Blas, a sort of, 389
Glass and spikes on walls, 403
Godwin, doctrines of, 251; Malthus, 261 Gormanstown, Lord, 443
Gospel, hatred of, by the Hindoos, 159 Government of Madras, imprudence of the, 343; ignorance of, 351 Government, Ashantee, 383
Government of opinion, 437; effects of a free, 437
Government, rights of, 284 Graces of, 445
Granby, 466, 467; character of the book, 467; the Cliftons, 468
Grattan, on Irish distress, 119
Great men who were not educated at pub- lic schools, 70
Greek, memoirs of a, 389-398 Guilt, new gradations of, 426 Gurney on Prisons, 223
Hamiltonian system of teaching languages, 74; 'contrasted with old system, 77; rapid progress of learning under, 88 Happiness of mankind depends upon reli- gion and morals, 30
Harmonites, the, 439
Headlam, Mr., his letter on the treatment of untried prisoners, 236 Heavenly trance, a, 312 Henry II., reign of, 442
Henry VIII., 443; and the Reformation, 37
Heywood, Mr. Samuel, his vindication of Fox's history, 193
High-life cruelties, 27
Hindoo, good, not always converted into good Christian, 167 Hindoo highwaymen, 357 Hindoo religion, 336
Hindoostanee, proclamations in, respect- ing missionary operations, 145 Historical apology for the Irish Catholics, 106
History of emancipated convicts, 425 Hodgson, Adam, Letters from North America, 427
Holford, Mr., his work on prison manage- ment, 223
Holmes, Admiral, 380
Homer, Rennel's admiration of, 261 Hope, Mr. Thomas, 390
Hospital at Paramatta, 419
House of Commons, Tories of the, 420 Houssa, 383
Hoys, religious, 316
Human sacrifices, 384
Hume, Sir Patrick, accused by Argyle, 179; his counter accusations against Argyle, 179
Hutchinson, Mr., Charge d'affaires Ashantee Mission, 387
Idleness of the Irish labourer, 123 Illustrious characters bred at public schools, 70
India, introduction of Christianity into, 332
India, the power of religion, 164 Indian missions, 144; their early history, 146; persecutions of converted natives, 148; the action of missions on the coast, 149; their action in Bengal, 150; on the Malabar coast, 151; piety of a convert, 152; extracts from Mr. Ward's journal, 153; feelings of the natives on hearing their religion attacked, 154; hatred of the natives to the gospels, 155; alarm of the natives at the preaching of the gospel, 156; account of tenth year of mission, 157; a Brahmin converted, 158; enmity against professors of the gospel, 159; not our duty to preach natives into an insur- rection. 160; in missionary preaching great discretion necessary, 161; inten- tions of missionaries misrepresented by the Brahmins, 162; proselytism fraught with danger, 163; a pious Hin- doo cheated of a holy death, 164; effects of the institution of caste, 165; a con- verted Hindoo loses his caste, 166; de- stroying a Hindoo not making a Chris- tian, 167; the choice of proselytes, 168; conversions of Hindoos can never be more than nominal, 169; mischief done by the "Christian Observer," 170 Indication, chamber of, its powers, 11 Indians, Maroon, 423
Indulgences and pardons, 417
Informers, men of odious character, 22 Ingram on Methodism, 306-327 Illegal taxes, 424 Inns, American, 433 Inquisition, the 428
Inquisitiveness of Americans, 434 Inroads of the Methodists, 326
Insane persons, character of, 365 Instigators of poaching, 377 Institutions, charitable, 254 Inta, 388
Ireland and England, 111
Ireland, England's treatment of, 441 Ireland, little English capital in, 123
Ireland's wealth drained by absentees, 117
Ireton, disinterment of his body, 198 Irish bulls, 293-297
Irish Catholics, apology for, 106
Irish cottages, description of, 121
Irish hatred of England, causes of, 169 Irish under Cromwell, 445
Irish went naked in Elizabeth's reign, 108 Irreligious tendency of public schools, 67 Irrevocable laws, fallacy of, 33
Island of Ceylon, 277; wealth of, 284; animal productions, 285; snakes, 286
Hypocrisy, the bird-cage walk of, 52
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