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the same subject, by an American poet,
380.

Dwight, beauties of, 92, et seq.; on the

divine benevolence, 934.

Ebioniles first mentioned by Irenæus, 342.
Ebsambal, temple of, 4.

Elm, history of the, 177; probably not
indigenous to England, ib.

Elpha, the last habitable place on the
Nile to which Nubian boats ascend, 3.
Eredy, Saint, cell of, 8, 9.

Ferdinand VII., king of Spain, memoirs
of, translated from the Spanish, by
M. J. Quin, 355, et seq.; beneficial
effects of Christianity on political in-
--stitutions, 356; the progress of free-

dom interrupted by the consequences
of the French revolution, 356, 7;
probable causes of the imbecility of Fer-
dinand, 357; his peculiar situation in
his father's court, 358; political cor-
ruption and degradation of the kingdom
at that period, 358, 9; causes from
which great revolutions generally ori-
ginate, 359; general results of those
respective causes, ib.; French troops
received in Spain as friends, 360, 1;
bad policy of Bonaparte, 361; abdi-
cation of King Charles, 362; letters of
the queen expressive of her hatred of her
son, 362, 3; death of Charles, 363;
true character of Ferdinand, ib.; his
amusements, 364; proofs of his ulter
heartlessness, ib.; kis mode of govern-
ment in accordance with the views of the
Holy Alliance, 366.

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ite, and ancient Hebrew Christians, con-
founded by the Editors of the new version,
332; Ebionites first mentioned by Ire-
næus, ib.; consisted of two sects, ib.;
extracts from Epiphanius and Jerome,
respecting the Hebrew gospel, 332, 3;
their testimonies either mistaken or
misrepresented by the Editors of the
new version, 333; the Editors' state-
ment of the case of Marcion, 334;
case of Marcion examined by the present
writer, 334, 5; remarks on the Editors'
reference to the copies of Cerinthus and
Carpocrates, 336, et seq.; contradictory
assertions of a Calm Inquirer exposed,
339; remarks on the Editors' various
renderings of Luke ii. 2., 339, 40.
Grolius, his escape from prison, by the con-
trivance of his wife, 41.

Hajji Baba, of Ispahan, adventures of,
by Morier, 341, et seq.; character of
Hajji, ib.; the present work a correct
exposure of the state of society in
Persia, 342; the Persians, the French-
men of Asia, ib.; the modern Persians
exhibit strong marks of their ancient
origin, ib.; prefatory remarks of the
author, 342, 3; design of the present
work, 343; Hajji's introduction to the
king's physician, ib. ; account of his
interview with the Frank doctor, 346,
et seq.; description of the interior of
the physician's harem, 348, 9; contest
between the Mollahs and a Frank dervish,
349, et seq.; Hajji's inquiries respecting
the country of Frangistan, Boonapoort,
and the Coompani, or old woman said to
govern India, 352, et seq.

Freeman, the Rev. Langton, his reinark-
able orders respecting the disposal of
his dead body, 128.
Fruit of the Dead Sea, 31.

Geneva, description of the city of, 316, et
seq.; morals of, 318.
Glasgow, pauperism of, see Chalmers,
Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke,
vindication of the authenticity of the
narratives contained in the first two
chapters of, 328, et seq.; the divinity
of the religion of Christ is necessarily
connected with the integrity of its
written records, 328, 9; labours of
Griesbach invaluable, 329; the genu-
ineness of the text a purely critical
question, ib.; design and merits of
the present work, 330; decided con-
viction of Griesbach of the genuine-
ness of the first two chapters of Mat-
thew, 331; the terms Nazarene, Ebion-

Hall's, Robert, address on the state of
slavery in the West India islands, 280,
et seq.; West India slavery the most de-
grading species of slavery, 281; colonial
legislatures adverse to the religious instruc-
tions of the slaves, 281, 2; remarks on
the late extraordinary conduct of the local
authorities in Jamaica, 283, 4.

memoir of Mr. Toller,

see Toller's sermons.
Harvard's narrative of the establish-
ment and progress of the mission to
Ceylon and India, 435 et seq. ; metho-
dist missions to the West Indies and
Ceylon founded by Dr. Coke, 435;
his noble generosity and ardent zeal
for the cause of missions, ib.; de-
votes himself entirely to missionary
services, and studies the Portuguese
language, ib.; decay of the language
and influence of the Portuguese in India,

436; declining state of the Roman
Catholic missions, their home mission
in England excepted, ib.; noble ex-
ample of the papists in instituting
missions, ib.; important national
advantages secured by the exertions
of British missionaries, 437; Dr.
Coke sails for Ceylon, ib.; dies on
the passage, ib.; his just claims to
high rank among the advocates and
promoters of Christian missions, ib. ;
estimate of his character, 438; the
author lands at Ceylon, ib.; returns
to England in ill health, ib.; pro-
gress of the Ceylon mission, ib. ; num-
ber of scholars, ib.; excessive stupi-
dity of the adult natives, ib.; com-
paratively inoffensive nature of Bud-
huism, 438, 9; its probable corrup-
tion from a purer faith, ib.; a Bud-
huist's relation of the last incarnation of
Budhu, 439, 40; real import of the tra-
dition, 440; true meaning of Hindoo
absorption, ib.; probable progress
and corruption of Budhuism, 441;
Budhuist wiharees or temples, ib. ; image
of Budhu, ib.; the tooth of Budhu con-
sidered as the palladium of the kingdom,
ib.; care bestowed on its preservation,
ib.; taken from the insurgents by the
British, ib. ; the Creator not worship-
ped under any form of polytheism,
443; extract from the sermon of a con-
verted priest, 443, et seq.; Budhuism of
the common people, 445, 6.
Henderson's, Dr. appeal to the mem-

bers of the British and Foreign Bible
Society, &c. see Professor Lee's re-
marks.

Henniker's, sir Frederick, notes during
a visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis,
Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem, 1, et
seq. list of European travellers to
Nubia, &c. and extent of their pro-
gress, ib.; author's style, &c. 2;
penetrates into the temple of Ebsam-
bal, agam blocked up with sand, 4;
various temples visited by the author,
ib.; island of Philoe, 5; Nubian
monuments, 8: cell of St. Eredy, 8,9;
three pillars of crystal, 9; remarks on
the three descriptions of monuments
found in Egypt, 11.

Hinton's new guide to prayer, 265, et
seq. important feature of the present
work, 265; specimen of the reflections
and prayers, 266, 7, 8; defect of the
work, 268, 9; true nature of social
prayer, 269; remarks on some ob-
jectionable modes of expression and on

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Hor, Mount, and tomb of Aaron, £9,
Hunt's, Sir Aubrey de Vere, duke of

Mercia, &c. 163, et seg.; remarks
on the author's subject, 164; ode to
April, 167, 8; the family picture, 169;
Jerusalem, from a drawing, ib.

India, Southern, Egypt and Palestine,
diary of a tour through, by a field offi-
cer of cavalry, in the years 1821 and
1822, 247, et seq.; pious intention of
the author, 247; quits Bangalore for
Madras, ib.; description of a singu.
larly romantic village, ib.; and ex-
tract; route to Arcot and Madras de-
scribed, 248; visit to Tranquebar,
ib.; Tamul bible association at Jaffna,
composed wholly of natives; present
rajah of Tanjore educated by Swartz,
ib.; his attachment to the mission,
ib.; grave stone to the memory of Swartz,
245; dexterity of the thieves of Serringa-
pallah, 249; interview with Rhenius
and Schmidt at Palamcottab, 250;
stale of the schools in the Tinetelly
country, 250, 1; a Roman Catholic
congregation joins the Protestant com-
munion, ib.; prosperous state of the
central Tamul school at Nagracoil,
in Travancore, 251, 2, and extract;
country and town of Travancore de-
scribed, 252; friendly disposition of
Dr. Prendergast, the Pope's vicar,
towards schools for the poor, ib.; au
thor's visit to Coyam, 253; religious
rites of the Syrian church at Cotyam, ib. ;
great veneration of the Syrian churches
for the name of Buchanan, ib.; unaf-
fected humility and kindness of the
Metropolitan, 254; author's estimate
of the Syrian Christians, 255; Nil-
gherree mountains described, 255, 6;
dress, manners, &c. of the natives, ib. ;-
produce of the country, 256, 7; elephant
carriage of the rajah of the Mysore, 257;«
the author's interview with the Abbé
Dubois, 258; independent rajah of
Coorga, ib.; author's journey to
Egypt, ib.; his pilgrimage to the holy
city, ib.; absurdity of the legends of

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the monks, respecting the localities
connected with the history of the holy
city, 259; remarks on the supposed
ruins of Capernaum, 259, 60; uni-
versal desire among the Syrians to be
under the protection of a European
Christian power, 260; lady Hester
Stanhope, ib.; uame of the author of
the present work, ib.
Irby and Mangles' travels in Nubia,
Syria, and Asia Minor, during the
years 1817 and 1818, 1, et seq.;
ascent up the Nile to Elpha, ib.;
description of the second cataract, ib. ;
įvarious temples visited by the authors,
4; some formerly used for Christian
churches, ib.; interior of the sanctuary
of the temple at Armada, ib.; state of
agriculture in Nubia, &c. 5; character,
Bc. of the Nubians, 6; dress of the
women, ib.; granite quarries at As-
souan, 9; mode by which the ancients
detached large masses of granite, 9, 10;
temple at Arabat Matfooner, 10, 11;
remarks on the three descriptions of
monuments found in Egypt, 11; ab-
original Egyptians incapable of cut-
ting and polishing large blocks of
stone, having no iron tools, ib.; no
visible remains of gates or walls at
Thebes, 12; lunar system discovered in
the temple of Isis, at Tentyra, ib.; cause
of the superior interest excited by Egyp
tian antiquities, 13; the authors quit
Cairo for Syria, ib.; visit Eden and
the Cedars, 14; remarks on the Ce-
dars, by Volney, Maundrell, and
Pococke, &c. 14, 15; description of,
by Burckhardt, 17; by Dr. Richardson,
16, 17; beauty of the banks of the Oron-
tes, 18; girls of Georgia exposed to
sale, 19; ruins and tombs of Palmyra,
19, 20; tombs of Om Keis, 20, 21;
the supposed site of Gadara, or Ga-
mala, ib. note; walers of the Dead Sea,
bitter and buoyant, 23; authors' route
to Petra, round the Dead Sea, de-
scribed, ib. &c.; Necropolis of Petra,
26; lomb, interior of, ib. ; approach to
Petra, 27; valley, &c. of Petra, de-
scribed, 27, &c.; Mount Hor, and the
tomb of Aaron, 29; fruit of the Dead
Sea, 31.

Jamaica,recent conduct of the local authorities

in, Robert Hall's remarks on, 283, 4.
Jerram's tribute of parental affection to
the memory of a beloved daughter,
169, et seq.; great advantages of early
religious culture, 170; on confirmation,
170, 1; exercise of his daughter's

mind during her last illness, 179, 3.
Jerusalem, lines on, from a drawing,
169.

Jet, fossil wood passing into, 46, 7.
Johnson's, Dr., private correspondence
of William Cowper, Esq. 193, et seq.;
the present letters submitted to Hay-
ley, and rejected by him, ib. ; remarks
of the author on the motive and the ill
eject of the rejection, 194; attempt to
conceal Cowper's malady, injudicious
and injurious, ib. et seq.; letter of
Cowper, on the case of Simon Browne,
as supposed analogous to his own, 198;
other letters, exhibiting the gloomy state
of his mind, 199, et seq.; his sufferings
occasioned by his dreams, 202; his de
fence of his conduct from the charge of
inconsistency, 203; remarks on his
not attending public worship, 204,
and extract; on his spending his time
in translating Homer, 205; his own
reasons for undertaking the translation
205, 6; extracts from letters alluding
to the some subject, and the varying state
of his mind, 206, et seq.; remarks on
the charge of impropriety in reference to
his domestication with Mrs. Unwin, 209,
et seq.; the author's apology for publish-
ing the desponding letters, 213; letter
from an owl to a bird of paradise, 215,
16.

Jones's Greek and English Lexicon, 114,
el seq.; extent and general design of
the work, 115, 16; author's remarks on
the origin of the Greek language and the
elymology of Greek words, 116, 17;
objection to the author's etymology,
117, &c.; real utility of the work,
121; extract, illustrative of the author's
method, 121, 2; objections to certain
renderings of the author, 123, 4.
Joyce, cornet, circumstances attending
his abduction of King Charles I. from
Holdenby house, 132, et seq.
Jury, trial by, in France, how managed,
35.

Kamhanni, mountains, the natural line
of separation between the Hottentot
and Kaffer races, 501.

Kolli, Baron de, memoirs of, 78, &c.
Kroko, a New Zealander, his account of
the massacre of a part of the crew of
Morion's ship, 159.

Lausanne, the spirit of persecution_now
raging there, 473.

Learning, classical, decline of, in this

country, with the causes of it, 230.
Lee's, Professor, remarks on Dr. Hen-

derson's appeal to the Bible Society,
on the subjects of the Turkish version
of the New Testament, 530, et seq.;
remarks on the preface to Dr. Hen-
derson's appeal, 531; Dr. H. not a
Turkish scholar, 532; detail of the
cautious proceedings of the com- .
mittee of the Bible Society, and sus-
pension of the circulation of the
Turkish New Testament, during near-
ly three years, in deference to Dr.
H.'s objections, 553; Dr. H.'s call
for inquiry and a special committee
of translations, 533, et seq.; he ques-
tions the real qualifications of the Orien-
talists consulted in reference to the Turk-
| ish version, 534, 5; list of the persons
to whom the question on the subject
of the alleged errors of this version
were submitted, 535, 6; remarks on
Dr. H.'s unwarrantable aspersion of
the institution, 537; his criticisms ex-
posed, 537, 8; his opinion that mis-
sionaries are the only proper persons
to prepare modern translations ex-
amined, 539; Burckhardt's objection
to the Arabic version, 540; objection
of the Rev. Mr. Connor, 541; con-
sequent proceedings of the Bible So-
ciety, ib.; the Bible an oriental work,
and can be adequately translated only
by a native, 542; Dr. H.'s charge of
the Mahommedanism of Ali Bey's
version, ib.; new ideas must be con-
veyed by phrases previously in use,
but employed in a new sense, 543;
chief objects of the biblical trans-
lators are, to make themselves intel-
ligible, and to give the spirit of the
original, 544; cause of the deformi-
ties of the authorised version, ib.;
verbal correctness not strictly adher-
ed to by the sacred writers, 545; a
genuine unexceptionable text of the
sacred Scriptures does not exist, 546.
Les Hermites en Prison: par E. Jouy et
A. Jay, 33, et seq. ; reviewer's remarks
on prosecutions for libels, 33, 4; on
the French mode of conducting trial
by jury, 34, 5; legal process against
libels, in France, 35; circumstances
connected with the prosecution of the
authors, for a libel, ib. &c.; pleading
of M. Jay, 37, 8; case of M. Jouy,
38; origin of the present work, 39;
prison of St. Pelagie, 41; kindness of
the women towards the prisoners, 41, &c.
escape of Grotius from prison by the con-
trivance of his wife, 41; dungeons of
the Bicêtre, 42.

Letters from an absent brother, on a

tour through the Netherlands, Switz-
erland, &c. 467, et seq.; author's
apology, &c. for the publication, 467;
his picture of popery, as exhibited at
Courtray, 468; relics shewn to him at
Brussels, ib.; inscription under an image
at Bergheim, ib.; real heads of the
three wise men who visited our Lord,
with the name inscribed over each,
468; the state of true religion improving
in Switzerland and some parts of Ger-
many, 469; the Holy Alliance is thought
to favour the Pope and the Jesuits, ib.;
author's remarks upon the policy and
conduct of Bonaparte, 469, 70; the re-
vival of popery accompanied with all its
former folly, 470, 1; Leander Von Ess,
471; conversion of Henhöfer, a catholic
priest, 471, 2; he turns to the Lutheran
church, with the lord of the village, and
forty families, ib.; author's description
of continental protestantism, 473; the
spirit of persecution openly raging
at Lausanne, ib.; author's remarks
on the present state of the Genevese
church, 474; notices of Lyon and
Paris, ib.; a Parisian Sunday, ib.
Libels, prosecutions for, remarks on,
33, et seq.

Lily encrinite, great number of its bones,
51, 2.

Litakun (Lattakoo) extent, population,
&c. of, 505.

Lowell's brief statement of the reasons
for dissent from the Church of Eng-
land, 188, et seq.; subject of dissent
rarely brought forward in dissenting con-
gregations, 188; author's apology for
speaking on the subject of dissent, ib. ;
his remarks on the nature and duly of
Christian candour, ib.

Manna of the Pharmacopeia, produced by
two foreign varieties of the ask, 180.
Mendham's clavis apostolica, 521, et seq.;
the work designed as an answer to
Dr. Taylor's key to the apostolical
writings, 521; character and ten-
dency of Dr. Taylor's system, ib.;
on the real import of certain scriptu-
ral expressions, 521,2; author's re-
marks on some of the errors, &c. of Dr.
Taylor's work, 522; on the agreements
and differences of the Jewish and Chris-
tian dispensations, 523, 4; on the mean-
ing of the terms saved, purchased, re-
deemed, 525; author's exposure of the
inconsistencies and tendencies of the prin-
ciples he opposes, 525, 6.

Millar's inquiry into the present state
of the statute and criminal law of

England, 481, et seq.; evils arising
from the accumulation of statutes
and law reports, 481; progressive in-
crease of the statutes at large, 482;
causes of it, ib.; example of prolix
phraseology, 483, 4; penal laws ought
to be remedial, 485; our penal laws
attended with positive evil, ib.; evil
inherent in a system of indiscriminate
severity, 486; repeated but unsuc-
cessful exertions of Sir Samuel Ro-
milly to remove some of the penal
anomalies of the statute book, ib. ;
the author's strong attachment to the
black act, ib.; hardship occasioned by
calling into activity penal laws that
have been long disused, 487; present
state of the statute book invests the
judge with a power the law did not
intend to confer on him, 488; case of
Potter, in Essex, ib.; important con-
cessions of the author in regard to the
indiscriminate severity of the penal code,
489, et seq.; sentiments of the committee
upon the capital punishment of forgery,
490; author's animadversion on it, ib.;
admits the tendency of the frequent
exhibition of death, to brutalize the
spectators of it, 491; etfect of the
present state of the criminal law on
jurors and prosecutors, ib.

Missions, Roman catholic, their declin-
ing state, 436.

Montgomery's chimney sweeper's friend,

and climbing boy's album, 588, et
seq.; plan and design of the work,
558; list of contributors, ib.; verses
entitled the climbing boy's album, by Ber-
nard Barton, 558, 9; the chimney sweep-
er, 559, 60; a word with myself, by the
present editor, 560, 1.

Moor's Suffolk words and phrases, 89,
et scq.; specimens, ib. &c.
Morier's Hajji Baba, 341, et seq.
Mosaic painting, rise, progress, and decay
of, 457, el seq.

Narrative, personal, of a private soldier

in the forty-second highlanders, dur-
ing the late war in Spain, 146, et seq.;
retreat to Corunna, 149; wretched state
of the army, 150, 1; battle of Corunna,
152, et seq.; death of Sir John Moore,

53; the bivouac, ib.; disastrous siege
of Burgos, 153,4; miseries of the re-
treat from Burgas, 154, 5; murderous
battle of Toulouse, 156, 7.
Negro slavery, 97, el seg; temper of

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the colonial legislatures, 99, 100; re-
1 marks on an article in the Quarterly
Jeview, 101; charge of ignorance

against the abolitionists examined,
102, et seq.; number of Negro mar-
riages declared by Mr. Bridges to
have been solemnized by him, 103;
singular disclosure explanatory of this
statement, ib; remarks on the returns
to the House of Commons, of the legal
marriages of slaves in Jamaica, 104;
opinions of various clergymen, &c. in the
West Indies, in regard to the marriages
of slaves, 104, 5; query as to the le-
galily of the Negro marriages reported
to have been solemnized, 106; indignant
remarks by a Quarterly reviewer, on
American negro slavery, 108, 9; the
West India system assumed to be a
payment of labour by maintenance,
110, et seq.

Nidwalden, district of, bravely but unsuc-
cessfully defended against the French,
313, 14.

Nilgherree mountains, description of,
254; dress, manners, &c. of the natives,
ib.; productions of the country, ib.
Northampton, county of, Baker's his-
tory and antiquities of, 125, et seq.
Notté, the celebrated picture of the Nativity
by Correggio, description of it, 221.
Nubians, character, &c. of, 6; dress of the
women, ib.

Oak, Shelton, history and description of it,
176, 7.

Obituary, annual, for 1824, 366, et seq.
Ocean, the, view of the bottom of, 379;

lines on the same subject by an American
poet, 380.

Orloff's essai sur l'histoire de la pein-
ture en Italie, &c. 448, et seq.; ori-
gin of the fine arts obscure, 448;
poetry prior to painting, ib.; remarks
on the question of the effect of patro-
nage on the fine arts, and of their as-
serted connexion with civil liberty,
449; on the moral causes that influ-
ence the growth of the fine arts, 450;
no satisfactory records of the state
of painting in early Greece, ib.;
Greece the earliest school of painting,
451; estimate of the merits of the
early Greek painters, ib. ; contest of
Xeuxis and Parrhasius, ib.; Timan-
thes' picture of the sacrifice of Iphi-
genia, ib.; the best works of Par-
rhasius, 452; Aristides's picture of a
besieged town, b.; subjects and
grouping of the Greek painters, ib.;
perfection of the art under Apelles,
b. anecdote of Protogenes, 453;
Greek painters in the Flemish style,
ib.; ancient Romans had no school,

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