Aaron, tomb of, 29.

Absentees, English, at Geneva, M. Simond's
representation of, 325, et seq.
Adam's, the Rev. Thomas, works, and
private thoughts on religion, 182, et
seq.; his first religious impressions,
182; his earnest desire to acquire a
correct knowledge of evangelical truth,
ib.; works published during his life,
183; remarks on expository preach-
ing, 183, 4; specimens of the author's
expository remarks, 185, 6; character
of his private thoughts, 187.
Album, the climbing boy's, 588, et seq.
Andrew's Hebrew Grammar and Dic-
tionary, without points, 261, et seq.;
author's opinion of the origin of cer-
tain Hebrew letters, 262; design of
building the tower of Babel, ib.; his
opinion of the age of the Septuagint,
263; Adam proved to have lived
fifteen years a naturalist, before the
formation of Eve, ib.; author's curi-
ous definition of some Hebrew words,
263; specimens of amended transla-
tions of the authorized version of the
Bible, 264.

April, an ode to, by Sir Aubrey de Vere
Hunt, 167, S.

Arabat Matfooner, temple at, 10, 11.
Aristides's picture of a besieged town,
description of, 452.

Armade, temple of, interior of its sanctuary,
4.

Ash, large one, in Lochaber church-

yard, 181; see Phillips's Sylva.
Assouan, (Syene) granitic quarries at, 9.

Baker's history and antiquities of
Northamptonshire, 125, et seq.; au-
thor's outline of his plan, 125, 6; inci-
dents illustrative of ancient customs,
127, 8; quakers begin to bury in
gardens, &c. 128; the Rev. L. Free-
man's remarkable orders respecting
the disposal of his dead body, ib.;
Holdenby house, the residence of
Charles I., after the battle of Naseby,
ib,; order for the king's household, ser

vants and expenses, 129, 30; his recep-
tion at Holdenby, 130, 1; Major Bos-
ville detected in attempting to convey
letters to the king, 131; subsequent
failure of Mrs. Cave to deliver a letter
in cipher, 131,2; abduction of the king
by Cornet Joyce, 132, &c.
Bakewell's travels in the Tarentaise,
among the Grecian and Pennine Alps,
&c. 306, et seq.; description of the
city of Geneva, 316, et seq.; singular
circumstance in the early life of Rousseau,
317; morals of the Genevese, 318; so-
ciétés des Dimanches, 319, 20; defence
of the Genevese against the charge of
parsimony, 321; prevalence of suicide
among the Genevese, ib.; pride the
prevailing cause of it, 321, 2; gross
misrepresentation in regard to ecele-
siastical affairs at Geneva, 323.
Berne, account of its government, state of
morals, &c. 309.

Bible association at Jaffna, consisting wholly
of natives, 248.

Bicêtre, dungeons of the, 42.

Bichuana tribe, description of, 505; their
religion, 506; singular custom prevail-
ing among them, ib.
Biography and obituary, annual, for
1824, 366, et seq. ; principal subjects
of the present volume, 367; detail of
the principal circumstances in the life.
of Robert Bloomfield, ib. et seq.
Birt's summary of the principles and
history of popery, 408, et seq.; al-
tered feeling of the public in regard
to popery, 408, 9; probable causes
of it, 409, 10; active zeal of the pa-
pists in the present day, 411; absur-
dity of the claim of the Romish church to
the appellation of catholic exposed, 412;
the church of Rome a political establish-
ment, 413; its revenue, and mode of
raising it, ib.

Bivouac, lively description of one, 148,
153.

Bloomfield, detail of the principal circum-
stances of his life, 367, el seq.

a

Bones of St. Ursula, and of her eleven
thousand British virgins, 468.
Botany, first steps to, 379, et seq.
Bowring's Batavian Anthology, 272, et
seq.; specimen from Anna Byns, in the
sixteenth century, 273, 4; jeu d'esprit,
by Jacob Cats, 274; poems by Gerbrand
Brederode, ib. et seg.; the hundred and
thirty-third psalm, by Rafael Kamphuy-
zen, 277, 8; chorus from a tragedy of
Joost Van den Vondel, 278, 9; poem of
Jeremias de Decker, 279.

specimens of the Russian
poets, 59, et seq.; remarks on the poetry
of Russia, 59, 60; specimens of Russian
national songs, 61, 2; Moskva rescued,
63, &c.; song of the good Tsar, 66, 7;
the farewell, 67, 8; love in a boat, 68, 9.
Boyd, massacre of its crew, at New

Zealand, probable cause of, 159.
Brown's memoirs of the public and pri
vate life of John Howard, the philan-
thropist, 414, et seq.; Dr. Aikin's de-
fence of Howard's conduct to his fa-
mily, 415; early life of Howard,
415, 16; quits England for France, &c.
416; his taste for the fine arts, ib. ; his
noble sacrifice of taste to Christian
benevolence, 417; his attachment to the
pleasures of home, 418; description of
his house and grounds at Cardington, ib.;
- his favourite writers, 420; his ill state
of health on his return from the con-
tinent, ib.; his marriage, death of
his wife, ib; embarks for Lisbon, but
is captured, and imprisoned at Brest,
421; returns to England and resides
at Cardington, ib.; his second mar-
riage, birth of his son, and death of
his wife, ib.; his devoted attachment to
his wife, 421, 2; revisits the continent
with the intention of spending the
winter in Italy, 422; his pious reasons
for allering his plan, ib.; again returns
to Cardington, and employs himself in
meliorating the state of the poor, 424;
is appointed high sheriff of Bedford.
shire, 426; his consequent interview
with Lord Chancellor Bathurst, ib.; rise
of his exertions in behalf of misery
and wretchednes, 427; countries
visited by him, 428; his extreme
diffidence on publishing his papers, ib;
curious incident attending his visit to
a convent in Prague, 430; remark-
able instances of his influence over the
minds of convicted persons visited by
him, 431, 2; his character as a fa-
ther, and remarks on the state of his
sen, 432; his death, ib.; his tablet

in Cardington Church, prepared by
his orders, prior to quitting the king-
dom on his last journey, 432.
Buchannan, his name revered by the
Syrian clergy, 253.

Budhuism, its comparatively inoffensive
nature, 438, 9; its probable corrup-
tion from a purer faith, ib. ; last in-
carnation of Budhu, 439, 40; progress
and corruption of Budhuism, 441;
Wihárees or Budhu temples, ib. ; image
of Budhu, ib. ; his tooth the palladium
of the kingdom, 442; taken by the Bri-
tish army, ib.
Burchell's travels in the interior of
Southern Africa, 493, et seq.; his bos-
tility to the missionaries, 493; large
ostrich nest, 493, 4; mode of dressing
the eggs, 494; treatment of the women
among the bushmen, 495, 6; their mode
of dancing, 496; two rhinoceroses
shot, ib.; author crosses the Snow
Mountains, ib.; is kindly attended by
Mr. and Mrs. Kicherer, while suffering
from fever, ib.; unexpectedly en-
counters two lious, 497, 8; angry at
his cool reception by the missionaries at
Klaarwater, 499; Sibilo, a mineral
powder used for ornamenting the per-
sons of the natives, 501; author
passes the Kamhanni mountains,
which separate the Hottentot and
Kaffer races, ib. ; arrives at Littakun,
(Lattakoo, 501; his interview with Mat-
tivi and other chiefs of the Bachapins, 502,
el seq.; turns portrait painter, ib.;
surprise of the natives, on seeing the
drawing, 505; extent, population,
&c. of Litakun, ib.; Bichuana tribe,
505, 6; their religion, 506; singular
custom prevalent among them, ib.
Burder's, (H.F.) lectures on the pleasures

of religion, 54, et seq. ; subjects of the
lectures 56; plan of the first lecture,
56, 7; on the spirit of benevolence, ib.;
support in the prospect of death, 57, 8.

mental discipline, 446,

et seq.; design and plan of the work,
446.7; maxims, 467; amplification of
the eighteenth maxim, on the cultivation.
of Christian zeal for the general interegis
of true religion, 447, 8.
Burgos, disastrous siege of, 153, 4; retreat
from it, 154, 5.

Burns's plurality of offices in the church
of Scotland examined, 463, et seq.; all
secular engagements of a pastor con-
sidered by the author as a sort of
pluralities, ib. ; case of St. Paul working

· as a tent-maker considered, 464, 5; re-
marks on the mode of supporting
dissenting ministers, 465; hard case
of the episcopal curate, 465, 6; pas-
tors of churches should dedicate their
talents and time exclusively to the
work for which they receive remune-
ration, 466.

Bushmen, their treatment of their women,

495, 6; their mode of dancing, 496.

Calvin, estimate of his character by M. Si-
mond, 324, 5; some circumstances at-
tending his last illness, ib.

Camel, its importance in the East, 553.
Candour, Christian, true nature of, 143.
Capernaum, real site of, not yet ascer-
tained, 259, 60.

Carriage, elephant, of the Rajah of the My-
sore, description of it, 257.
Cataract, the second, of the Nile, description
▾ of, 3.

Catholic, absurdity of the claim of the Ro-
mish church to the appellation of, exposed,

412.

Cedars of Libanus described, 14; remarks
on, by various travellers, 14, 15.
Chalmers on the pauperism of Glasgow,
95.

Child's companion, or sunday scholar's
reward, 476, 478.

Chimney-sweeper's friend, &c. 588, et

seq.

Christianity, professional, by a medical

practitioner, 372, el seq.; author's at-
templs to account for the prevailing infi
delity among medical men, 373; asserts
that anatomical studies tend to produce,
on an unconverted man, a brutish insen-
sibility of mind, 374, 5; crude notions
of the author exposed, ib. et seq.
Clarkson on the necessity of improving

the condition of the slaves in the Bri-
tish colonies, &c. 97, et seq.
Coke, (Dr.) the founder of the West
India and Singhalese missions, 435;
his generous and ardent zeal for the
missionary cause, ib.

Conder's Star in the East, with other
poems, 563, et seq.; song of the angels
at Messiah's advent, 563, 4; indignant
strains, on account of the asserted inno-
cence of the Hindoos, 564; reference to
Persia, China, and Taheite, 565; apas-
trophe to the Star of Bethlehem, 566;
part of the hundred and forty-fifth
psalm, 566,7; the hundred and forty-
eighth psalm, 567, 8; thought on the
sea shore, 568; extracts from the poems
on spring and summer, 569, 70; extract
from a poem to the nightingale, 670.

Confinement, secret, in France, its hor-
rible nature, as at present practised,
393, 4.
Conversations on the bible, by a lady,
562.

Correggio and Parmegiano, sketches of
the lives of, 216, et seq.; birth and
early life of Antonio d'Allegri, 218;
masters under whom he studied, 218, 9;
curious circumstances attending the
loss of his picture of the Virgin and
infant Saviour, 219; description of
his marriage of St. Catharine, 220;
his engagement to paint the church of St.
John, at Parma, ib.; his celebrated pic-
ture of the nativity, called the Notté,
221; undertakes to paint the cathe-
dral at Parma, ib.; testimony of Ti.
tian to his superior talents as an artist,
222; peculiar style of Correggio, 222, S;
his particular attention to the quality
of his colours, ib.; criticism of Fuseli
on the style of Parmegiano, 223, 4;
name and family, &c. of Parmegiano,
224.

Corunna, retreat of the British army to,
149; battle of, 152.

Cóttů, (M.) on the administration of
criminal justice in England, &c. 385,
et seq.; causes which tended to ren-
der the present work popular in Eng-
land and in France, 386, 7; great
advantages received by the author in
England, ib.; defects of the work,
387; author's remarks on the earliest
stage of criminal proceedings in England,
387, 8; deficiencies of this statement,
388; powers of the procureur de roi,
and the juge d'instruction, as contrasted
with those of the English magistrate,
389; vigour of age, the only qualifi-
cations requisite in these French ma-
gistrates, 390, 1; power of the man-
dat d'amener, 391; state of the pri-
sons, 392; horrible nature of the
mise au secret, or secret confinement,
as at present inflicted in France, 393,
4; cruelty of the mode of conducting
the interrogatories, ib.; instance given
from M. Béranger's work, 394; the
interrogatory of the ancient regime
more mild than the present mode, ib.;
mode of examining witnesses, 395;
constitution and proceedings of the
chamber of council, ib.; first hearing
of the prisoner, 396, 7; the procés
verbal, 397; oath of the jury, 398;
acte d'accusation, ib.; public examina-
tion of the prisoner by the president
of the court, 400; extract, ib,; ren-
a 2

seignements, their mischievous ten-
dency, 401; author's testimony of the
sophistical reasoning and extravagant
language of the French counsel, 402, 3;
his statement of the summing up by the
president, 403; mode of determining
the verdict, 404; question whether
trial by jury exists in France, ib.;
author's remarks on unanimity of decision,
as established in France in 1798, 405,
6; on particular points of a case, 406,
7; circumstances tending to exclude
compassion from the bosom of the
French juror, 407.

Colyam, Major Mackworth's visit to it,
253; religious rites of the Syrian churches,
ib.

Cowper, rural walks of, in a series of

views near Olney, 171, 2.
Cowry tree, description and rise of, 158,
Cruise's journal of a ten months' resi-
dence in New Zealand, 158. et seq.;
object of the author's residence in
the island, 158; description and
use of the cowry tree, ib.; proba-
ble cause of the massacre of the
crew of the Boyd, 159; Kroko's ac-
count of the massacre of a part of the
crew of Morion's ship, ib.; confidential
intercourse between the soldiers and the
natives, 159, 60; friendly disposition
of the natives generally, 160; their dis-
position to pilfer, when on shipboard,
161; the great power of the Tabboo ex-
perienced by the Prince Regent schooner,
ib.; excursion of the Rev. Mr. Mars-
den, up the Wydematta river, ib.;
state of the mission at New Zealand,
161, 2; admirable prudence and fidelity
of a native servant girl, 162.

Crystal, large pillars of, in a natural cave,

9.

Culture, religious, in early life, important
advantage of, 170.

Daventry, academy at, Mr. Robert

Hall's remarks on it, 135.
Deity, omnipresence of the, 225, 6.
Desert, in Egypt, description of it, 552.
Dick's Christian philosopher, 432, et
seg.; subjects treated of, 433; the
^ essential altribules of God, and their il-
lustrations derived from the material
world, too often neglected by some reli-
gious instructers, 434.
Dispensations, Jewish and Christian, re-
marks on their agreements and differences
523, 4.
Divinity of the religion of Christ, ne-
cessarily connected with the integrity
of its written records, 328, 9.

Drew's attempt to demonstrate from
reason and revelation, the necessary
existence, essential perfections, &c.
of an eternal Being, 289, et seq. §. re-
marks on the arguments that are
adduced to prove the being of a God,
289; impossibility of conceiving that
there is no God, ib.; the cause of all
things must be antecedent to all
things eternal, 290; remark of Dr.
Clarke, ib.; the self-existence of God,
as certain as his existence, 291 ; ex-
tract from Howe, 291, 2; argument
for the perfection of God, ib. : infidel
objection to the wisdom and goodness
of God, examined and exposed, 292,
3; cause for which the author wrote
the present essay, 294; the success-
ful candidates, their premiums, &c.
ib.; character of their essays, 294,
15; general estimate of the present
work, &c. ib.; subjects of the first
two arguments of the first part of the
work, ib.; objection to the mode of
argument, that the divine existence
can be demonstrated from the exist-
ence of space, 296; author's remarks
on the import of the term space, ib. ;
Dr. Clarke's definition of space, ib.;
the author's first position, that a ma-
terial world exists, ib.; that in which
it exists, viz. space, is either an entity,
or a nonentity, 297; subjects of the
author's subsequent sections, ib.;
simple statement of the author's argu-
ment, and its consequence, 297, 8;
further remarks upon the term space,
298; Dr. Clarke on space and dura-
tion, ib.; the author's argument, that
an infinite perfection cannot exist
without an infinite substance, exami-
ned, 299; his argument, as founded
on the nature of duration, 299, 300;
examination of his position, that if an
Eternal Being be possible, he must
really exist, 300, 1; his application of
his argument, 301; objectionable na-
ture of his reasoning in proof that
only one necessarily existent being or
essence can be possible, 302; extract,
ib.; remark of Dr. Clarke on the di-
versity of persons in the Trinity, ib. ;
the unity of God considered, 304;
heads of the remaining parts of the
present work, 305; the assertion that
what is infinite may be constituted by
an accumulation of finites, examined,
305, 6.
Drummond's first steps to botany, 379,
et seq.; plan of the work, ib. 4 view
of the bottom of the ocean, 319; lines on

the same subject, by an American poet,

380.

Dwight, beauties of, 92, et seq.; on the
Adivine benevolence, 934.

Ebionites 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 utter
heartlessness, ib.; his mode of govern-
ment in accordance with the views of the
Holy Alliance, 366.

Freeman, the Rev. Langton, his remark-
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,
dvindication 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-
Mineness 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-

༢༠༡1༡༣༣

́ ́ite, and ancient Hebrew Christians, con-
founded by the Editors of the new version,
332; Ebionites first mentioned by Ire-
næus, ib.; consisted of ico 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
wriler, 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.
Grotius, 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.

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,