Napoleon. See Buonaparte.

N.

Nares, Archdeacon, review of his Sermon of Thanks-
giving for Plenty, and Warning against Avarice, 13, 14.
National funds, project for supporting the poor from, 285.
Natural children in Denmark, 56.

Nature, Darwin's Law of, 41.

Necker, M., review of his Dernières Vues de Politique
et de Finance, 17-26; his Plan of a Republic, 21.
Nelson, Lord, notice of Dr. Rennel's Sermon on his Vic-
tory, 8.

New Holland, pamphlet by the Hon. Grey Bennet upon,
263; anticipations of, as a colony, 28; paucity of num-
bers in, 29.

New South Wales, review of Collins's Account of, 26-
34; experiment upon human nature in, 28; its climate,
253; its progress, 254; its schools and public lands, 256;
courtly appellations given to new discoveries in, 258;
diminution of its resources by subordinate settlements,
259; ignorance and tyranny of its governors, 259; sale
of spirits in, 260; its import and export duties, 260;
its restrictions on navigation, 261; its cost as a school
for criminals, 263; no dread inspired by it, 263; profli-
gacy of its morals, 264; advantages of emigrating thither,
265; Wentworth's Description of, reviewed, 253-265;
Bennet's account of the colonies in, 263-265; O'Hara's
History of, 265; Mr. Bigge's Report on the Colony of,
367-379; value of distilleries in, 376; trial by jury un-
fitted for, 378.

New York, its increase, 234.

Nicol, Mr., on the Poor-Laws, review of, 285.

Nobility-of Denmark, classes of, 53; of Norway, 53; of
Holstein, 54.

Non-residence of clergy, 48.

Noodle's Oration, 425.

Norfolk Island, its condition, 31. 33.

North America, review of Hodgson's Letters from, 402-
406.

Norway, description of, 52-62; Its nobility, 53; Jews
prohibited from entering it, 60.
Norwegians, their longevity, 58.

Nugent, Lord, review of his Statement in support of the
Catholic claims, 473–480.

Nundydroog, mutiny at, 100.

Nunneries, Protestant, in Denmark, 53, 54.

0.

Oath, continuity of laws by, 417, 418; coronation, its
binding nature, 417; scruples to Catholic emancipation
on account of it, 417; royal scruples upon it, 489. 504.
606.

Obstinacy in a Juryman, illustration of, 558.

O'Connell, Daniel, 580. 585. 628; his conduct about Re-
peal, 680; his trial and release, 680; much virtue and
good meaning in him, 681; appeal to him, 681; his
readiness to provoke national war, 682.

Old age, not a good plea for poor-law relief, 292; import-
ance communicated to it by knowledge, 180.
Opinion, public, its powers, 53; its versatility in France,
24; execution of laws must in great measure depend
upon it, 459.

Options, property in, held by the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, 611.

Orangemen in Ireland, 499; their position, 520. 585.
Ordeal, trial by, among native Africans, 73.

Order displayed in Lancaster's schools, 78.

Ordination, Bishop Marsh's questions to candidates, 357;

recommendations of Archbishop Wake regarding, 361;
Lambeth Articles of Archbishop Laud upon, 361.
Ornithorhynchus, description of, 254.

Orthodoxy, sacrifices to the genius of, 358; inconve-
niences of different standards of, 358.

Overseers, office of, 291, 292.

Owen, Rev. Mr., quotation from, on reducing Providence
to an alternative, 117.

Oxford University, Dr. Parr's defence of, 4; its impu-
tation against the Catholics, 506.

Oysters, Linnæus's secret of infecting, 42; pearl, account
of, 41; lotteries in, 41.

P.

Palestine, Travels from, review of, 83-86.

Palmer, Mr., review of the Travels of, in America, 233-244.
Panegyrics, review of, on C. J. Fox, 150-162.
Paper money in Denmark, 57.

Papists, their treatment in Ireland, 296. 411, 412; their
disabilities, 297.

Parliament, clergy unrepresented in, 23; a colonial, 262.
Parnell, Henry, review of his History of the Penal Laws
against the Irish Catholics, 124-128.

Parnell, William, review of his Historical Apology for
the Irish Catholics, 79-83.

Parr, Dr., review of his Spital Sermon, 1-3; his learn-
ing and character, 4; reason of the neglect of, 5; his
eulogomania, 4; his panegyric on Fox, 145; review of
his Characters" of Fox, 145–150.

Partington, Mrs., illustrative of the Lords' attempt to
stop the Reform Bill, 564.

Patronage, government cannot be carried on without it, 626.
Paul, St., his answer to Felix, 125.

Peace Societies deserving every encouragement, 222.
Pearl fishery, account of it, 41.

Peasantry of Ireland, demoralised, 320.

Peel, Sir R., encomium on, 459. 573; approval of his
course against O'Connell, 680; must attempt the pay-
ment of the Catholic priests, 684.

Peers, House of, suggestions regarding it, 23.
Penal laws against the Catholics, 126, 127.
Pennsylvania, her refusal to pay her debts, 672; no con-
duct ever more profligate than hers, 673; her debt and
finances, 674; position abroad of her citizens, 675; final
appeal to her, 676; reply to excuses for her non-pay-
ment, 677.

Penny-post scheme nonsensical, 557.

Perceval, Rt. Hon. Spencer, review of a letter to, on the
Curates' Salary Bill, 118-124; his zeal for the Protes
tant interest, 487; his abilities, 491; his fears, 492;
his character, 494; his government, 495; his bigotry,
499. 505; his intolerance, 506. 509. 514-518. 525. 528.
533, 534.

Percival, Robert, review of his Account of Ceylon, 37-44.
Persecuting Bishops, 356-367.

Persecution, nature of, 493. 549. 583; by Henry VIII.,
Mary, and Elizabeth, 586; how exercised against the
Catholics, 214; of Catholics by Protestants, 587, 588.
Pessimism, Fievée's approach to, 35.
Peter Plymley's Letters, 487-534.
Peterborough, Bishop of, his Ordination Questions, 356—
367; his good intentions, 357; inconveniences of his
adopting a different standard from other bishops, 358;
danger to the Church of his proceedings, 359; Mr.
Thurtell's letter to him, 360; his unequal bearing upon
curates and upon rectors, 362; his boast of the paucity
of the curates he had excluded, 363; his style, 363; his
complaints, 366; his indiscretion, 367.
Pétion, M., his knowledge of our law, 35.

Petition-in favour of the Catholics, 550; to Congress,
672.

Petrie, Wm., review of his Statement of Facts delivered
to Lord Minto, 187-196.
Philadelphia, its progress, 234.

Phillips, Richard, review of his Public Characters (1801,
1802), 12.

Philopatris Varvicensis, review of his work on C. J. Fox,
145-150.

Piety, what kind of, the world hates, 138.

Pilgrims, conduct of the Saracens to them, 84.
Pitt, Mr., defect in his administration, 26.

Plague, description of the, 310; its symptoms and cure,
65; curious fact regarding it, 65.

Plays, defence of, 144.

Ploughing, picture of, in Ireland, 305.
Ploughman, description of a, 294, 305.
Plurality and Residence Bill, 634, 635. 644.

Poaching, 248-252; remarks on the punishment of, 316.

320.

Poets, the greatest not educated at public schools, 184;
bounty of nature in the supply of, 219.
Poisoning at Jaffa, evidence of, examined, 65.
Police of the Metropolis, Mr. Colquhoun's, 47.
Poor (the), education of, 99; interference with their amuse-
ments, 133. 137; what respect due to, 136; their un-
equal treatment for damages to property, 319; project
of supporting them from the national funds, 285; over-
seers of, 285; merit as a test of relief to, 285; project
for separating their children, 285; their resort to ale-
houses, 285; their treatment in removals under the law
of settlement, 291; relief of, 292; description of the agri-
cultural, 294; stupid character of writings intended
for them, 349.

Poor-law Bill of Sir J. Scarlett reviewed, 338-344.
Poor-law relief, old age not a good plea for, 292.
Poor-Laws (the), 285-296; the nucleus of Chartism,
287; Mr. Davison's Considerations on them, 292; free-
dom from in America, 399; increase of population
under the old, 285. 287; review of Mr. Nicol on, 285;
encourage beggary, 339; absurd projects for amending
them, 285; their extension to personal property, 285;
Mr. Nicol's objections to them, 285; their ultimate but
very gradual abolition, 287; law expenses of, 290;
true reason for abolishing, 296; amendment of, 338;
maximum rate of, 338; cannot be abolished in less than
two centuries, 342; their great evils, 343. 399.
Poor-rate, Mr. Davison's plan for its limitation, 292; the
fixing of a maximum of, 338; litigation arising out of,
341; its gradual extinction, 342, 343.

Pope (the), delusion respecting his power and influence,
487; his alleged right to interfere in temporal concerns,
491; his power to dethrone kings denied, 218; terror of,
530; no law to prevent our entering into diplomatic
engagements with him, 684.

Pope of Ireland, Dr. Doyle the, 483.

Population, its increase under erroneous administration
of Poor-Laws, 285. 287; excess of, 294; of Australia, 31;
of America, 234. 278; of Ashantee, 276; of Denmark,

57.

Population tumours, 289.

Port Jackson described, 253.

Portuguese in India, their character, 39.

Post-office of the United States, 280; of England, 282.
Potatoes, one cause of the wretched condition of Ireland
303, 304.

Poverty infamous in England, 606.

Power, tendency of those entrusted with, 284.
Prayer on the birth of the Duke of Cornwall, 602.
Prebendaries, how they should have been reformed, 604;
new ones created, 607. 633. 646; patronage belonging

to, should be compensated for, 609; tyranny and op.
pression towards, 610. 612. 614. 616. 630; distinction
between resident and non-resident, 623. 637. 646; ma-
nagement of their estates, 623. 631; considered in a
politico-economical view, 623. 631. 639, 640; no public
feeling calling for their destruction, 625; their incomes,
647.

Prejudices of the English, 6.

Presentations can be sold by laymen or by ecclesiastical
corporations, 612.

Preserving of game, 246.

Press (the), its liberty and licentiousness, 424; its
power would be lessened by the reform of parliament,
568.

Priests, Catholic, in Ireland, their dependence on their
flocks, 297.

Prison Discipline, Society for its Improvement, 344. 351
376; may be over-estimated, 395; note on Mr. Ros-
coe's opinions on, 396.

Prison labour, review of Mr. Headlam's work on, 389–
396.

Prisons, Buxton's efforts for their improvement, 321;
his book on this subject, 328; review of Mr. Halford's
work on, 328; Mr. Gurney on, 327; review of Mr.
Western's work on, 346-355; the small number of
recommitments to, no test of amelioration, 344; prin-
cipal objects of, 344; solitary confinement in them, 345;
too great indulgence in them, 346; what life in them
should be, 348, diet in them, 323. 350; corporal punish-
ment in, 351; improvement in, on the Continent, 351;
persons detained in, after acquittal, 354; the greatest
improvement in them would be a jail delivery four
times a year, 354; private, 409; their state in England,
321-331; of Demerara, 430.

Prisoners, treatment of before and after trial, 322; their
classification, 323; their solitary coufinement, 323; gra.
dations of their punishment, 324; their reformation,
325; their earnings, 325; comforts allowed to them,
327; female, 329; injustice of preventing their defence
by counsel, 330; charitable aid to them for expenses
of procuring their witnesses, 330; their cruel treat-
ment before trial, 387; cruelty and tyranny in-
volved in their labour, 393. 400; cruelty and absurdity
of denying them counsel, 351-354; should be liberated
immediately after acquittal, 354; not to be treated be-
fore trial as paupers, 395; prevalent feeling concerning
them, 396; petition from jurymen for allowing coun-
sel to them, 458; obstacles to their obtaining evidence
in defence, 460; often convicted when innocent, 461.
469; authorities for allowing counsel to them when ac.
cused of felony, 462; plan for giving them an option
of having counsel, 470.

Proclamation relative to the mutiny at Vellore, 100.
Procrastinator, fallacy of his argument, 423.
Property, rights of, when abused, 652; personal, proposed
to be subjected to poor-rates, 285; of every man in the
game upon his land, 245.

Proselytism, the great object of the Methodists, 95.
Protestant Church benefited by Catholic emancipation,
529. 576. 579; upon what security founded, 216.
Protestant nunneries in Denmark, 53, 54.
Protestants in Ireland, their bigotry and party spirit,
296; their proportion to the Catholics, 297, 298.
Providence, Archdeacon Nares's erroneous reasoning
on, 14; the notion of its immediate interference natu-
ral, 73; Methodistical reasoning on its interference,
87-100; charged by the Rev. Mr. Owen with being
reduced to an alternative, 117; on the special inter-
ference of, 136.

Public Characters of 1801-1802, review of Phillips's book
on the, 12.

Public opinion. See Opinion.

Public principle, importance of, 543, 544. 546.
Public schools. See Schools.

Pulpit eloquence, remarks on, 5.

Punishment, the philosophy of, 316. 320; its gradations,
324; its first object, 325. 376; its duration should be
lessened and severity increased, 330; its proper maxi-
mum, 334; capital, 397; boast of the Emperor of Hayti |
on, 363.

Punishments, tyrannical, for infringement of the game
laws, 252.

Purra Society in Africa, 73.

Quakers, review of Tuke's Description of an Institution
for Insane, 222-227; in Denmark, 60.

Qualifications for shooting game, their abolition recom-
mended, 245-247.

Quantities, false, 45.

Queen, Sermon on the Duties of the, 597-602; antici-
pated happiness of her reign, 602; scene at her corona-
tion, 626.

Quietist, his fallacy, 423.

R.

Radicals, their admission of the lawful influence of wealth
and power, 654; the two varieties of them, 654; their
advocacy of the ballot, 657-663; their desire for uni-
versal suffrage, 662.

Railways, Letters on "locking in" upon, 667-671.
Randolph, John, his opinion of the ballot, 660.
Rapp, founder of the Harmonites, 405.

Rate, labour. See Labour-rate.

Rate, poor. See Poor-rate.

Rectors, incomes of, 121.

Redesdale, Lord, his mistakes about the Catholics, 532.
Refinement among barbarous tribes, 72.

Reform of the Church, absolutely necessary, 604; should
be accompanied by compensation for existing interests,
609; terror it had inspired, 610. 616. 620. 622. 625. 641;
might have been effected in a less revolutionary manner,
620.634. 645; unwise course of the Radicals regarding
it, 624. 626; declaration of Viscount Melbourne upon,
625; opportunity for, through the Cathedral Chapters,
268; government plan of, 630.
Reform in the processes of law, 237.
Reform of the game laws, 432.

Reform, parliamentary, speech upon, at Taunton, 557;
subsequent note upon, 557; considered the cure of every
evil, 559. 569; would destroy the trade of agitation, 559.
570; would lessen the power of the press, 568; danger
of delaying it, 563, 564. 568, 569, 570; impossibility of
ultimately defeating it, 564, 565. 569; precedents for it,
564. 565; practical improvements anticipated from it,
567. 569; foolish expectations entertained from it, 569.
Reform Bill, state of England previous to it, 566; Mrs.
Partington illustrative of the Lords' attempt to stop it,
564; not final, but should allow time for breathing
after it, 657; rapid and incautious legislation since the
passing of it, 292.

Reformation, the Protestant, 564, 591.

Regicides, French and English, contrasted, 157.
Regulators," described, 403.

Religion, the first scaffolding of, 75; sentiment of, has
always a tendency to moderation, 79; familiarity on the
subjects of, 145; effect of Mammon on, 606. 639; in
America, 240; of the Hindoos, 115, 116.

Religious toleration in Denmark, 60.

Removals, hardship of, under the Settlement Laws, 291.
Rennel, Dr., review of his Discourses on Various Sub-
jects, 5-7; faults of, 8, 9; allusion to, 13.

Rent, when too high the ruin of the land and the tenant,
301, 302.

Repeal, civil war would be preferable to it, 680, 681.
Republic, review of M. Necker's plan of a, 21; unsuited
for France, 24.

Residence of the aristocracy on their estates, 383; of the
clergy, review of Dr. Sturge's Thoughts on, 47-49;
may be too hardly exacted, 124.

Restoration, conduct of Monk at the, 157.

Retribution, arguments for a future state of, 96.
Revenue of Denmark, 56; of the United States, 280.
Reviews, one great use of, 414.

Revolution-created by the Ecclesiastical Commission,
604. 620; of 1688, 564; Danish, 52.55; French, reference
to, 7; emulates the English, 157.

Rewards and punishments in Lancaster's institution, 77.
Rich, their amusements, 245–248. 252.

Ridicule, use of the fear of, in education, 77; use of, as a

weapon excusable, 136.

Rock, Captain, Memoirs of, reviewed, 407-413.
Roman Catholics. See Catholics.

Roscoe, Mr., note on his opinions on prison discipline, 396.
Rose, Rt. Hon. George, review of his observations on
the historical work of C. J. Fox, 150-162; his animad-
versions on it, 202-213.

Roundsman, description of a, 294.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, anecdotes of, 230, 231.
Russell, Lord John, Letter to, 644-648; his complaint
against the Chapters, 620; his conduct towards cathe-
dral property, 624; the Lycurgus of the Lower House,
625; his importance in the administration, 628; his
conduct towards the Ecclesiastical Commission, 630.
633; his character, 633. 648; his language on the ballot,
661; unjust opinion held of him, 661; his line of duty
clearly marked out, 661.

Russia, Emperor of, Madame de Staël's compliment to,
419.

Russian ambassador, anecdote of the, 523.

Scarlett, Sir James, review of his Poor-law Bill, 338-
344; encomium on, 343.
Schoolmasters, being ministers, should be exempt from
residence, 49.

Schools, public, system of education in, 181-187; no
cure for the insolence of the youthful aristocracy, 182;
unimportance of athletic exercises in, 183; the most
eminent men in science, the arts, literature, or belles
lettres, have not been educated at, 184; not favourable
to the cultivation of knowledge, 185; morality at, 186;
in New South Wales, 256.
Scindia, character of, 220.

Scotland, conduct and example of, 500.

Scott, Sir William, his speech on the non-residence of
clergy, 48.

Secretary, Colonial, excuse for his misconduct, 253.

Sect, impossible to arrive at a knowledge of a, through
merely their articles of belief, 87.
Self-trumpeting, fallacy of, 419.

Sermons, preached at Bristol, 591-597; at St. Paul's, 598
-602; before the Judges at York, 535-540, 541—546;
modern, characteristics of, 5.

Serpent, anecdote of a, 43.

Settlement, law of, 339; its evils, 288; an inexhaustible
source of litigation, 290; hardship of removals under
it, 291.

Shopkeepers, combinations against them by their custom-
ers on account of political opinions, 652, 653; greater
hardship which they would endure, if suspected, under
the ballot system, 659.

Sidmouth, Lord, his proceedings in regard to the To-
leration Act, 196-202; his opposition to change, 519.
521.

Seybert's work on America, review of, 278–282.

Shooter's Guide, by Johnson, 313.

Sierra Leone, review of Dr. Winterbottom's Account of,
70-74.

Singleton, Archdeacon, letters to, 603-644.

Slavery, compensation for abolishing, 609; in America,
241, 242. 406; in Ashantee, 274; in Denmark, 55.
Slaves, their increase in the United States, 278; their
proportion to the free, 284.

Slave trade (the), the foulest blot in the morality of
Europe, 59; in Ashantee, 277; the Danes the first to
abolish it, 59.

Sleswick, nature of its soil, 52; its nobility, 53.
Sloth, habits of the, 433.

Smith, Rev. Sydney, his promotion in the Church, 621.643;
his political career, 621; his treatment by the Whigs,
621; attacked by the Bishop of Gloucester, 642; his re-
views, 643; his consistency, 647; his last as well as
earliest efforts exerted for the promotion of religious
freedom, 679.

Smuggling, 251; in Jersey, reason why it was so long in
being put down, 568.

Snakes, habits of, 431. 434; of Ceylon, 43.

Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline, en-
comium on, 344. 351. 376; for superseding the Necessity
of Climbing Boys, its proceedings, 265-272; for the
Suppression of Vice, 495; its proceedings, 128-135.
Societies for Converting the Heathen, 102; Peace, de-
serving encouragement, 222.
Solitary confinement, 323. 346.

Somerville, Mrs., allusion to, 176.

South America, review of Waterton's Wanderings in, 427
-437.

Sovereigns, power of the Pope to dethrone, denied, 218.
Speeches, 547-571.

Spirits, sale of, in New South Wales, 260, 261; duty on
in America, 280.

Spital Sermon, review of Dr. Parr's, 1-5.
Spring-guns, illegality of their use argued, 313-321.
331-338.

Staël, Madame de, review of her Delphine, 44-47; her
compliment to the Emperor of Russia, 419; Napoleon's
treatment of her, 44; her description of Talleyrand, 45.
Stafford, Lord, his conviction, 471.

Statistical annals of the United States, by Seybert, 278-
282.

Stockton, review of his work on allowing Counsel for
Prisoners, 458.

Strafford, Lord, on the execution of, 155.

Struensee, notice of, 50.

Sturges, Dr., review of his work on the Residence of the
Clergy, 47-49.

Styles, Mr., review of his work in defence of Methodism,
135-142.

Suffering not a merit of itself, 139.

Suffrage, universal. See Universal Suffrage.

Sunday, its observance not to be effected by main force |

131.

Supremacy of the king, a mere name, 484; oath of, dis
pensed with, 528.

Surprise the essence of wit, 69.

Surveys, elaborate, their importance, 62.

Sweden, notice of, 50.

Sydney, New South Wales, 255; oversight in the building |
of, 258; folly of ornamental architecture in, 367.

T.

Tabernacle (the), its relation to the Church, 98.
Tableau des États Danois, by Catteau, review of, 49–63.
Talipot tree of Ceylon, 43.

Talleyrand, Madame de Staël's description of, 45.
Taunton, speech at, on the Reform Bill, 557-571.
Taxation in New South Wales, 261.

Taxes, freedom from, in America, 404; on furniture in
America, 280; enumeration of, in England, 283.
Taylor, Jeremy, his eloquence, 5.
Tenants, dismissal of, on account of their votes at elec-
tions, 652; their general indifference to politics, 653. 654;
ballot would be no protection to them against an op-
pressive landlord, 658; their rejection for their opinions,
659, 660.

Thanksgiving Sermon of Archdeacon Nares, review of,
13, 14.

Theocracy, doctrine of, among the Methodists, 95.
Theological errors not cognisable by Government, 488.
Theory, fallacy of the imputation of, 425.

Thurtell, Mr., his letter to the Bishop of Peterborough,

360.

Tithes, their operation in Ireland, 298, 299; must be
relaxed in Ireland, 503. 526.

Titles, love of the Americans for, 238.
Tippoo, his religious persecution of the Hindoos, 141.
"Times," letter to the Editor of the, 629.
Toleration, religious, 196–203. 519; security afforded to
the Church by, 577; in America, 398; in Denmark,

60.

Tomlin, Bishop. See Lincoln, Bishop of.
Tortoise, habits of the, 434.

Torture, the application of, 211.

Tory Lords, appeal to them, 474; their excuses, 474.
Toucan, account of the, 431.

Transportation, objections to, 27, 28; cruelty and neglect
in the first conduct of, 263; injustice towards persons
sentenced to for limited periods, 263; difference of
offences under, 370; scanty limits allowed to convicts
during, 376; its enormous expense when efficiently con-
ducted, 379.

Travel, value of books of, 34.
Travellers, faults of, 35.
Travels in Turkey, Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt, by
Dr. Wittman, review of, 63-67; of Bertrandon de la
Brocquière, review of, 83-86; of Waterton in South
America, review of, 427-437.

Tread-mill, irksome and disgusting labour of it, 390;
its consequences as a punishment, 392; its expensive-
ness, 395.

Treaty of Limerick, 126; violation of it, 478.

Trial by jury in New South Wales, 262; unfitted for
that colony, 378.

Tribunals of conciliation in Denmark, 54.

Trimmer, Mrs., review of her book on Lancaster's new
Plan of Education, 74-78.

Tropical climates, insects the great curse in, 434.

Trust, all government is a, 421.
Tuke, Samuel, review of his work on the Treatment of
the Insane, 222-227.

Turgot, M., his objections to all charitable institutions
combated, 3.

Turkey, Dr. Wittman's Travels in, 63-67; Janissaries
of, 66; indiscipline of its army, 66; reforms in, 67;
its Grand Vizier, 67; condition of, 307; custom in,
towards fraudulent bakers, 466.

Turkish camp, horrors of, 65; contrast of, in 1800 and in
the 16th century, 66.

Turks (the) represented by Bertrandon as a gay laughing
people, 85.

U.

Ultimatum, no other in government than perfect justice,

125.

Union with Ireland, opposition to, 501.

Unitarians, no expense to the state, 481; their opinions,
482.484.

Universal benevolence, a principle of ethics, 3.
Universal suffrage the inevitable consequence of the
ballot, 662; great and dangerous changes it would
introduce, 664; its inexpediency, 664.

Universities of Copenhagen, 61; their reputation always
shortlived, 61; English, defective system of education
at, 168-170.

University of Oxford, Dr. Parr's defence of, 4; its impu-
tation on the Irish Catholics, 506.

Wanderings in South America, &c., by Waterton, review
of, 427-437.

War, picture of its horrors, 222. 600; Englishmen who

almost as natural to mankind as peace, 479. 552. 581;
its effects on American commerce, 279-283.
Warburton, Mr., 557.

Watches, licences for using, in America, 280; number that
would be required in England, 281.

Waterton, Chas., review of his Wanderings in South
America, 427-437; his style, 429; his frontispiece
picture, 433; his feats, 435; his adventures with a
crocodile, 436; customs' dues exacted on his collection,
436.

Wellington, Duke of, 628; his sagacity in choosing a good
position, 665.

Wesley, John, his conduct, 98.

Western, Mr., review of his work on Prisons, 346-355.
"What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" 541-546.
Whigs, merit due to them for the patronage bestowed on
Catholics, 306; encomium on them, 557; their faults,
557; their measures, 622.

Whitelaw's History of Dublin, 296.

Whitfield, notice of, 98.

Wilberforce, Mr., head of the patent Christians of Clap-
ham, 499. 531.

Wentworth's description of New South Wales, review of,
253-265.

William IV. saved England from a revolution, 558. 568;
his honourable conduct, 562. 571. 598; his popularity,
570; sermon on his death, 598.

Winds (the), the unsubsidised allies of England, 501. 509.

516.

Winterbottom, Dr., review of his Account of Sierra Leone,
70-74.

"Wisdom of our ancestors," mischievousness of the cry,
414; much of it mere jealousy and envy, 451. 508;
the usual topic in defending the folly of their descen-
dants, 82.

Wit, the pleasure arising from, compared with that aris-
ing from bulls, 68; surprise the essence of, 69; impaired
or destroyed when mingled with much thought or pas-
sion, 69.

Witchcraft in Ashantee, 274.

Wittman, Dr., review of his Travels, 63-67; his heroism,
65.

Women, alleged disadvantages of knowledge in, 172
-181; may be trained to reason and imagine as well
as men, 179; their education very defective, 171–181;
dotation of, in New South Wales, 256; French, their
love of intrigue, 228.

Workhouses, English, allusion to, 84.

World, proper method of preparing the young for it, 96.
Wourali poison, 421.

Y.