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INDEX.

A.

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

Baboo Khan, 355

B.

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

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Boa constrictors, 462

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

C.

Calvinistic clergy not bad members of the
church, 135

Campanero, the, 453, 456
Canadian tea-dealers, 429
Canadians, the, 281

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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

D.

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

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Excursion through United States, 427
Ex-kings, American, 436

F.

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

Fulton, Rev. W., 413

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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

H.

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

I.

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

Jacobinism, 265

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