origin of the Scotifh language, 157-Mr Davies's theory of the
formation of language, 398.

Lava, inquiry into the diverfities of, 33-opinion of Werner with re-
gard to the formation of, 34-of Breiflac and Thomson, ib.—of M.
Patrin, 35-of Dolomieu, 36..

Lauderdale (Lord) Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public
Wealth, by, 343-good confequences refulting from men of high
rank turning their attention to literary pursuits, ib.-what the fub-
jects profeffed to be difcuffed in the prefent treatife, 344-plan of,
345-value of a commodity how estimated, 347-definition of pub-
lic wealth, 350-wealth of an individual, how to be eftimated, 35
-A fundamental error in Lord Lauderdale's fpeculations expofed,
353-leading opinions which divide political inquirers upon the
fources of national wealth, 354-objections to, ib.-inferences with
refpect to the nature and fources of national wealth, 362-fources
of wealth alleged to be threefold, 365-definition of capital, ib.—
juftnefs, &c. of Lord Lauderdale's difcoveries in political economy
difcuffed, 371-means of increafing wealth according to him, ib.-
effects of fubdivifion of labour and machinery compared, ib.-poffi-
bility of augmenting national opulence by any other than the means
of its production examined, 372-general obfervations, 374.
Law, Agrarian, oppofed by the people of Normandy, 103.
Leucites frequently found in lavas, 40.

Lift, Quarterly, of New Publications, 242. 487.
Logan-ftones, not the work of art, 397.

Lydgate, extract from his Booke of Troy, 158.

M

McKinnen (Mr) Tour through the British Weft Indies, by, 419—
fcarcity of books on that fubject, ib.-sketch of the Antigua land-
fcape, 420-account of the wreckers, 421-Anecdote of a fifher-
man, 422-account of Teach the pirate, 423-remarks on the
treatment of the flaves, 424-reflections on the fate of the original
inhabitants, 426.

Medicine, hiftory of, little elfe than a fucceffion of fanciful fyftems,
185-whence the opinion that all theory in, is ufelefs, 184.
Mineralogy, philofophical definition of, 289.

Minerals ejected unaltered by Vefuvius, 40.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, ftatement of facts respecting the first
publication of her Letters, 254.

Morgan's Comparative View of the Public Finances, &c. 75-general
pofitions maintained in, ib.-objections to, 76-average amount of
the expences of the war establishment during feveral periods, ib.-
permanent taxes, &c. 77-general table of the relative expences of
the three laft wars, 78-means employed by miniftry for raifing mo-
ney, 79-objections to Mr Morgan's arguments against the profufion
of miniftry, 81.

N

Names, primitive, origin of, 399.

Nations, remarks on the progrefs of, from weaknefs to maturity, 47.
Neergaard, the biographer of Dolomieu, 286-verfatility of his genius,
287-fpecimen of the information he furnishes, ib.

Negroes, heats of tropical climates better supported by, than by white
people, 405-caufe of, explained, 407.

Newton, Sir Ifaac, remarks on Dr Horfley's edition of the works of,
258.

Noah, geographical knowledge of, 189.

Oak, veneration of the Druids for, 397.

Objects, inanimate, varieties in the fenfations excited by, 174-exter-
nal, circumftances which occafion the fenfation of beauty in, 175.
Odin, Richards', a drama, ftory of and extracts from, 339.

P

Palladium, examination of the properties of, 164-remarkable circum-
ftances in its compofition, 167.

Phænicians, acquainted with the British ifles, 392.

Principles, of legiflation and morality, inquiry into the difference be-
tween, 8.

Piety, recommended, 385.

Pleafures, Mr Bentham's enumeration of thofe of which man is fuf-
ceptible, 5.

Poetical extracts-from Lydgate, 158-from Carew, 163-from Chat-
terton, 216-from a poem entitled Univerfal Beauty,' 239-from
Cowper, 283-from Sotheby's tranflation of Virgil's Georgics, 297
-from Richards, 339-

Preacher, Chriftian, character he fhould endeavour to maintain, 191.
Prepofitions, Latin, remarks on Dr Hill's philofophy of, 473.
Procraftination, dangers of, exemplified, 331.

Puiffaye, M. caufes to which he afcribes the French revolution, Ico-
fome account of him, 104-part he acted in the debates of the cham-
ber of nobles, 106-takes the conftitutional oath, 107-confequences
of the king's flight to Varennes, 108-examination of the policy of
the other European powers at the time of the French revolution, 109
-conduct of the emigrants, 110- Puisfaye raises a body of royalifts,
ib.-is feconded by Baron Wimpffen, 111-marches to oppofe the
troops of the convention, 112-defeats them, 113-his troops feized
with a panic, ib.-retires into Brittany, 114-reflections on courage,
ib.-He fets out for England, 116.

Q

Quefnai, what fort of labour really productive, according to, 358-
argument of his followers concerning the value of labour answered,
361.

R

Rafbleigh, Mr, his laudable difpofition to diffufe information, 117.

Religion,

Religion, Chriftian, importance of the doctrines peculiar to, 192-in-
fluence of, favourable to the enjoyment of life, 193.
Revolution, French, caufes which produced it, 100.

Richards, George, his poems, 337-expectations raifed by his earlier
performances, ib.-not fully gratified in the prefent work, 338-
general eftimate of its merits, ib. contents of the first volume, ib.-
ftory of, and extracts from his Odin, 339-contents, &c. of the fe
cond volume, 342.
Rumford, Count, Inquiry concerning the nature of heat, &c. by, 399
fervice rendered to fcience by his experiments, ib.-original expe-
riments of, 400-account of the apparatus employed by him in his
investigations of the nature of heat, ib.-defeription of a thermofcope,
402 method of employing it, 404-beneficial effects refulting to
the natives of cold climates from fmearing themfelves with oil, 406-
of a fimilar practice of the Hottentats, 407-how the negroes are
enabled to fupport the heats of tropical climates, 407-examination
of fome of the general inferences deduced by the Count from his ex-
periments, 409-practical remarks, 414-diftinguishing features of
the author's ftyle of writing, 415-curious phenomenon obferved by
him in the glaciers of Chamouny, 415—his explanation of, 416—ob-
jections to, ib.

Ruffia, in what degree her interefts are connected with thofe of other
nations, 59.

S

Salmon, their manner of depofiting their spawn, 72-enemies of, 73.
Senfibility, circumstances by which it is affected, 6.

Sermons, remarks on the compofition, &c. of, 190.

Sketches on the intrinfic ftrength, &c. of France and Ruffia, a fingular
performance, 43. Remarks on the talents of the author, ib. On the
progrefs of nations from weakness to maturity, 47. His opinion of
the immenfe natural resources of France examined, 48. His defici-
ency in general views, 49 Confequences prognofticated from the
French revolution, 50. Obfervations on the ftate of St Domingo,
52. Military refources of France confidered, 55. Line of condu&t
which he will probably pursue towards Ruffia and Eugland, 57. Of
the connexion between Ruffia and other nations, 59. Confequences
which may refult to Great Britain from an alliance between France
and Ruffia, 61. Meafures of direct hoftility to be apprehended from
thence, ib. How to be guarded againft, 64.

Slave trade, great importance of the question regarding its abolition,
476. Unparalleled fufferings occalioned by, 478. Pleas of the
traders for its continuance confidered, 479.

Slaves, remarks on the treatment of, in the Weft Indies, 424.
Smith, Dr, a theory of, refuted by Lord Lauderdale, - 348. His divi
fion of labourers into productive and unproductive, 354. No folid
diftinétion between the effective powers of the two claffes, 355. De-
finition of capital, 366.

Spacer, fome account of, 161. Short critique upon his style of poetry,

дог.

State

State, future, remarks on, 174.

Sulphur, fuppofed an agent in the fusion of lavas, 36.
Synonymous, definition of the word, 460.

T

Table, general, of the relative expences of the three last wars, 78.
Tafte, obfervations on the influence of cuftom in matters of, 177.
Teach, John, the famous pirate, account of, 423.

Theory of the formation of language, 399.
Thermfcope, defcription of, 402.

Divifion of

Thomson, Dr, his fyftem of chemistry, 120. Remarks on the preface
to, 121. What the profeffed object of the work, ib.
the fubject, 122. Divifion of fimple fubitances, 124. Of compounds,
125. Subdivifions of the primary compounds, 126. Definition of
chemistry, 127. Manner of treating of the fimple bodies, ib. Of
the fimple combuftibles, 128. Of caloric, 129. Of the equal dif-
tribution of temperature, 131. Effects of heat, ib. Capacity of
bodies for heat, 132. Tables of the difference of specific caloric in
bodies, &c. 133. Of cold, 134. Of the fources of caloric, 135.
Tables of the constituent parts of water, 136. Divifion of acids, ib.
Table of the conftituent parts of oil, 137. Of falts, 138. Of affi-
nity, 140. Contiguous attraction, 141, Cohefion, ib. Of hetero-
geneous affinity, 142. Confideration of the methods propofed to
exprefs the ftrength of every affinity in numbers, 144. Of compound
affinity, 145. Chemical examination of nature, 146. Of the at-
mofphere, i. Definition of mineralogy, 147. Claffification of mi-
nerals, 147.

Torre del Greco, cffects of an eruption of lava on, 37.
Tranfactions of the Highland Society, of Scotland, 63.

What the ob.
jects of the Society, ib. Walker on peat, 66. On the cattle and
corn of the Highlands, 68. Macnab, &c, on black cattle, 69. So-
merville on the growth, &c. of corns, ib. On heath, 70. Mac-
donald on manufactures, ib. Rennie's plan of an inland village, ib.
Walker on the natural history of the herring, 71. On the natural
hiftory of the falmon, 72. Melville on the fisheries of Scotland, 73.
Headrick on improvements in the Highlands, ib. General remarks
on the preceding papers, 74.

Triftrem, Sir, a romance, by Thomas the Rhymer, 427. Outline of
the ftory of, 428. Some account of the author, 437. Inquiry in-
to the antiquity, &c. of the poem, 438. Hiftory of, 439.

U

Value of a commodity, how conftituted, according to Lord Lauderdale,
347. As confidered by former writers, ib.

Vefuvius, account of an eruption of, 30.

Virgil, curious commentary on a paffage of, 390.

Univerfe, inference drawn from the marks of defign in, placed on its true
foundation, 171.

Volcanoes, caufes of the erroneous defcriptions of the eruptions of, 28.
Suppofed formerly to be eructations of a central fire, 32. Objec-
tions to that bypothefis, ib.

W

Wealth, how diftinguished from riches by Lord Lauderdale, 345. Pub.
lic, definition of, 350. Of an individual, how to be estimated, 351.
Wreckers, account of, 421.

Y

Yeoman, English, fituation of during the middle ages, 159.

Ꮓ

Zemindary in the neighbourhood of Benares, account of, 322.

END OF VOLUME FOURTH.

No. IX. will be published on Thursday 18th October 1804.

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