payment to it would be the heaviest blow to | Chartism, formed by the Poor Laws, i. 295. agitation, 342. Children, natural, in Denmark, i. 57. Catholics, their emancipation, i. 9; review of Chimney sweepers, i. 272-279; their miseries, Parnell's History of the Penal Laws against 273, 274; their peculiar diseases, 274; their them, 127-131 Dissenters' opposition to peculiar dangers, 275; their inhuman treat- their emancipation, 207. 224; persecution ment, 277, 278. how exercised against them, 219; unreason. Christian Charity, Sermon on the rules of, ii. able apprehensions entertained from their 8. 15. emancipation, 220, et seq.; statement of their Christian Observer, reprobation of the, i. 121. disabilities, 305., ii. 169; their proportion Christianity, the greatest ornament and greatest to Protestants, i. 306. 306; their early mar- blessing, i. 77; difficulty attending its pro- riages, 306; their rooted antipathy to Eng- gress in the East, 108; its introduction into land, 308. 310; their superstition, 314; meri- India, 142. torious patronage of, by the Whigs, 315; Chronology among the Greenlanders dated question of their emancipation will perhaps from their conversion to Christianity, i. 61. be settled by the navies of France and Church of England (the), state of endowment America, 51; never be settled but from fear, in, i. 49; how affected by Lancaster's system 58; notice of Archbishop of Cashel's charge of education, 75; relaxation of its articles, 101; in favour of their claims, 120; their earnest. privileges of Dissenters over its members, ness in the cause of emancipation, 130; their 101; its income, 122; its disadvantages as alliance with the democratic party, 127; re- compared with dissent, 203. 206., ii. 257. 293; view of Lord Nugent's statement in their hardship and injustice caused by, in Ireland, support, 120-128; imputation on them by 178. 186; a gregarious profession, 237; charity University of Oxford, 154; their divided and wisdom of its policy, 241; its neutrality allegiance, 130, 234; discrepancies of opinion between Arminians and Calvinists, 242; its in their church, 132; small diversity from, in pacific spirit, 243; right mode of defending it, many Protestant sects, 133; advice to, 134; 193; encomium on, 230; improvements in it, delusions respecting the power and influence 252; its respectability preserved by the un- of the Pope over them, 135; their persecu- equal division of its revenues, 257. 282. 292. tions compared with those of Protestants, 300; unjust reasoning of laymen concerning 138; their alleged want of regard to an oath, it, 257. 290; evil of extinguishing its Cathe- 139; easy to obtain the nomination of their dral preferments, 276. 279; its emoluments dignitaries. 140; date of their exclusion from open to the lowest ranks, 276; inexpediency the Irish House of Commons, 148; treatment of lessening its power, 279 290; treatment of, of, by Mr. Perceval, 151; Catholics not op. by the Whig government, 28; by Lord John posed to liberty, 155: indulgences granted Russell, 286; by the public, 289. 301; fatal them, 157; their increase of wealth, 172; consequences to, should the government mea- proposal for payment of their clergy, 173, 174; sures pass into law, 297. 300; its improve- no hope for their emancipation if the peace of ment as an institution, 300. Europe be restored, 185; alleged unchange- ableness of their religion, 198. et seq.; pro. gress of arguments used against them, 203. 226; oath prescribed to them in 1793, 224; complaints of their importunity, 229. 231; precedents in their favour, 232; policy to be pursued towards them, 233, their intolerance, 234; causes of the clamour against them, 235. See also Emancipation, Catholic.
Catteau, review of his Tableau des Etats Dan- ois, i. 50. 63.
Caucus in America, i. 239. Cayenne, the forest of, ii. 78. Census in Denmark, i. 58. Ceylon, review of Percival's account of, i. 37- 44; snakes of, 44; leeches of, 44; cocoa-nut tree of, 44; talipot tree of, 44; success of the missionaries in. 117.
Chancery, one of the great uncorrected evils of the country, i. 243; Court of, compared to a boa constrictor, ii. 80.
Changes, modern, Letter on, ii. 332. Character of-Dr. Bell, ii. 98; Lord Brougham, i 247; the Archbishop of Canterbury, ii. 273; Lord Eldon, 191; Earl Grey, 218. 221; Mr. Grote, 309; Lord Hawkesbury, 149. et seq.; Francis Horner, 319; the Bishop of London, 297; Sir James Mackintosh, 302- 305; Lord Melbourne, 278. 281; Gen. Monk, 306; Dr. Parr, i. 4; Rt. Hon. Spencer Perceval, ii. 142; William IV., 212, 222; Lord John Russell, 286. 301; the Bishop of Gloucester, 295, 296. note.
Character of the English in matters of charity,
Charitable institutions, M. Turgot's objections to, combated, i. 3.
Charles I., conduct of Cromwell to, i. 209; remarks on his execution, 159.
Church establishment, its nature and object ii. 137; real danger to, in Ireland, 140; cir- cumscription of, 275.
Church establishments, their fatal disease, i. 205.
Church-rates, argument in support of, ii. 54; ministerial error about, 73. Cingalese, notice of the, i. 40. Cinnamon wood, remarks on, i. 43. Civilisation, on what it depends, ii. 43, 44. Clapham, patent Christians of, ii. 147. Clarence, Duke of, expectations from him, ii. 129.
Classical learning, its abuse in England, i. 167. 174.
Classification of patients in lunatic asylums, i. 231; of prisoners, 332.
Clergy, English, their want of eloquence, i. 5; parochial, unrepresented in Parliament, 23; evangelical, notice of, 88; their education, 101; their subjection to the bishops, 122; residence of, may be too hardly exacted, 127; Orthodox, Methodists' war against. 140; in Ireland allowed to have private prisons, ii. 55; their difficult position, 57; unfairly treated by ministers, 269, 271. 281; by the bishops, 271, 272. 281; how affected by the Plurality and Residence Bill, 287. 298; by the Dean and Chapter Bill, 292; picture of a poor member, 294; of cathedrals compared with parochial clergy, 288; speech at the meeting of, at Cleveland, 197. 201; at Be- verley, 201. 207; remarks on their political meetings, 200, 201.
Cleveland, speech at, on the Catholic Question, ii. 154. 201.
Climate of New South Wales, i. 260. Climbing-boys, Society for superseding the Necessity for, its proceedings, i. 272–279.
Clive, his genius, i. 37.
Clubs, operation of the ballot in voting at, ii. 313.
Coal, want of, in Ireland, i. 315, Cocoa-nut tree of Ceylon, i. 44.
Celebs in Search of a Wife, review of, i. 145- 149.
Collings, Lieut-Col., review of his Account of New South Wales, 1. 26-34.
Colonial secretaries, excuse for their miscon- duct, i. 260.
Colonies, English, folly of keeping up some of them, i. 289; Danish, 60.
Colony of New Holland, i. 28-30; New South Wales, 26–34., ii. 143; Norfolk Island, 31. 33.
Colquhoun, Mr., his Police of the Metropolis, i. 48.
Combination, danger of the practice of, i. 133. Commerce of America, i. 287; Denmark, 60. Commission, Ecclesiastical. See Ecclesiastical Commission.
Common informer likened to the honeybird, i.
helpless situation, 271; their expectations, 276; how affected by the Plurality and Re sidence Bill, 288. 298; Salary Bill, review of, i. 121-127; lay curates, 127.
Curwen's Observations on Ireland, i. 304. Customs. greater expense of collecting in Eng- land than in America, i. 288; dues exacted on Waterton's collection, ii. 83.
Danes, their character, i. 62; no literati among them, 63; robbery of their fleet by England, ii. 160.
Darwin, Dr., on the law of nature, i. 42. Davison, Mr., his considerations on the Poor- Laws, i. 300; his style, 302. Death, punishment of, ii. 42. Debt, Danish, i. 58; American, 291. Delphine, De Staël's review of, i. 44–48. Demerara, animals of, ii. 75; Indian tribes in, 75 poisons used in, 77. Denmark, review of Catteau's Tableau of, i. 50-63; founder of its monarchy, 51; Bern- stoff, its great minister, 51; revolution of, 53-56; mildness of its government, 54; Protestant nunneries in, 54, 55; its tribunals of conciliation, 55; its cheap justice 55; slavery in, 56; its general statistics, 56-59; its religious toleration, 61; its colonies, 60 ; its universities, 61; conduct of the English Government in taking the fleet of. 319. D'Epinay, Madame, review of her Mémoires et Correspondance, i. 234-239.
Derwent, description of its port, i. 260. Despotism opposed to credit. i, 26.
De Staël, Madame. See Staël, Madame de. Diderot, his dislike of Rosseau, i. 237. Diet of prisoners, i. 332. 360.
Dinner, a triumph of civilised life, i. 272. Discipline of prisons may be over estimated, ii.
Discourses on Various Subjects, by Dr. Rennel, review of, i. 5. 9.
Discovery, who entitled to the merit of, ii. 318.
laws, arguments against, i. 48.
Disfranchisement of the Irish voters, ii. 211; of rotten boroughs, 212; right of, must reside somewhere, 211.
Corn, combinations to raise the price of, i. 14. Discretionary power in the administration of Corn Law Bill of 1825, ii. 207. Cornwall, Duke of, prayer for, ii. 254. Coronation oath, its binding nature, ii. 63; royal scruples upon it, 152. Corporal punishments in prisons, i. 361. Corporation and Test Acts, ii. 152; their spirit contrasted with religious toleration in Den- mark, i. 7.
Costume, unimportance of, in administering justice, i. 243.
Cotton-spinners, their activity and enterprise, ii. 203.
Counsel, Lord Lovat's appeal to be allowed, ii. 112; Lord Stafford's conviction from want of, 119.
Counsel for prisoners, review of Stockton's work on allowing, ii. 106. 119; cruelty of deny- ing, i. 362-364; judges not to be trusted as, 364; petition of jurymen for allowing, ii. 106; authorities in favour of the practice, 110; probable effect of allowing, 116; absurdity of allowing judges as, 110. 113. Credit, despotism opposed to, i. 26. Crocodile, Waterton's adventures with a, ii. 83.
Cromwell, his conduct towards Charles I., i. 209; his conduct in Ireland, ii. 55. Cromwell, Henry, his conduct in Ireland, ii. 241.
Cruelty to animals, i. 135.
Curates, their hard position ii. 8, 9. 11; their
Dissent, disadvantages of the Church compared with, i. 121. 203. 206.
Dissent and Methodism, review of Mr. Ingram's book on the Causes of their Increase, i. 87— 101.
Dissenters, their privileges over members of the Church, 1. 121; charges of Jacobinism against, 88; exploded clamours against. 88; Lord Sidmouth's intentions towards, 201- 205; their treatment, ii. 43. 150. 152 177; dangers from, to the Church, 206; their con- duct in reference to the Catholic claims, 124; style of preaching among, 124; their inex. pensiveness to the state, 129; wide difference of their opinions, 130. 132. Dissenters' Marriage Bill, opposition to, fi. 43. Dissenting ministers, want of wealth among, ii. 129.
Distilleries in America, i. 288; prohibited in New South Wales, 268; their value in New South Wales, ii. 253. Distrust, political fallacy of, ii. 67. Disturbances at Madras, i. 192-201. Dordrecht, anecdote of the conduct of the clergy at, ii. 268,
Dotation of women in New South Wales, t. 263.
Doyle, Dr., the Pope of Ireland, ii. 131. Dress, common error about female, i. 148. Dublin, Whitelaw's History of, i. 304. Duelling, a civilised institution among a bar- barous people, 1. 30.
Duncan, Mr. John, review of his Travels in the United States, ii. 42. 51. Dundas, the tyrant of Scotland, ii. 319. Dupleix, notice of, i. 38.
Dutchman, Ceylonese, his character, i. 39. Duties levied in New South Wales, i. 267.
Ecclesiastical Commission, its constitution, il. 255. 261. 265. 269. 281. 291; has done too much, 256. 259. 263. 273. 275. 295; encourages the enemies of the Church, 257. 269. 272. 284; its love of patronage, 259; its injustice, 259. 262. 264. 265. 267. 272, 274. 281. 291; omission in its report of the options of the sees of Canterbury and York, 263; its fre- quent changes of policy, 267; how it has been worked, 281; rapidity of its proceedings, 268; its original plan of taxation, 281; its injustice to St. Paul's, 267, 268. 299; its confiscations, illustration of, in the proceedings of the clergy at Dordrecht, 268; treatment of by Lord J. Russell, 283. 299.
Economy, American, an object for our imita- tion, ii. 43.
Edgeworth, on Bulls, review of, i. 69-71; on Professional Education, review of, 166–174. Edmonton, history of the ecclesiastical division of, 266. 294.
Education, review of Mrs. Trimmer's book on Lancaster's plan of, i. 75-80. Education, defects in, i. 6; Professional, re- view of Edgeworth's work on, 166-174; Fe- male, review of Broadhurst's work on, 174- 185; system of, in public schools, 186-191; use of ridicule in, 78; of the clergy, 101; of the poor, 101 too much Latin and Greek in, 167-173; defective system of, at the English universities, 172-174; Hamiltonian system of, ii. 317; combined with that of Lancaster, 320; unnecessary difficulties created in, 321, 322; foolish saying of Dr. Bell upon, 321; the anomaly in, as regards religion, 147; of the people, duty of, 250; attention to, in America, 46.
Egede, John, a Norwegian priest, converts the Greenlanders to Christianity, i. 61. Eldon, Lord, his character, ii. 217. Elections, political, modes of, i. 18-20; dis- gusting scenes at, ii. 215. 219.
Elizabeth, Queen, her conduct towards Ireland, i. 83; statute of, relating to the poor, 303; persecutions by, ii. 237.
Eloquence, neglect of, in British education, i. 6. Emancipation, Catholic, bigotry of the English in reference to it, i. 83; once deemed hope- less, 128; relaxation in seeking it not justi- fiable, 12; madness of opposing it, 80. 83, 84. 131; review of the question, ii. 120. 134; must be ultimately carried, 121. 229; view history will take of the question, 123; speech at Cleveland on, 197-201; letter to the electors on, 223. 241; its probable effect, 175. See also Catholics.
Emigration to Botany Bay, advantages offered for, i. 272; to America, 250. Emulation, absurdity of banishing it from schools, ii. 321.
Emu, description of, i. 260.
Encomium on-the Church of England, ii. 230;
the Whigs, 207; Charles James Fox, i. 149; Hope's Anastasius, 317. 322; Sir James Scarlett, 353; the Society for Improving Prison Discipline, 353. 361; Sir Robert Peel, ii. 106; Mr. Sturges Bourne, 154; Earl Grey, 220; Lord John Russell, 301.
Encyclopédists, M. Fievée's charge of Anglo- mania against them, i. 37.
Endowment, state of, in the English Church, i. 49. England, the condition of Ireland a reproach to her, i. 304., ii. 52; likened to Turkey, 316; uncertain basis of her prosperity, ii. 123; ex- travagance of her government, 123; her in- consistent humanity, 126; democratic party in, 127; her danger from Irish_disconten', 134; her state previous to the Reform Bill, 217; considers poverty infamous, 258; has made an enormous revolution within ten years, 310; wants a little breathing time, 311; equal division of parties in, 307; happiness enjoyed in, 318; danger of anarchy in, 318; envy and ill-will of the Americans on account of her superior civilization, 329; her past in- justice towards Ireland, 335; the best statutes for her have been made since the Union, 336.
English, their prejudices, i. 6; their reserve, 35; M. Fievée's charges against them, 36; their character in matters of charity, 121; their character, 176., ii. 210; improvement among, 215; their love of labour, 97; their conduct during the revolutionary war, 143, 144; their unacquaintance with war, 153; their feel- ings towards Dissenters, 154; their bigotry towards the Irish, 15. 167; their excessive loyalty towards the king, 176; their preju- dices regarding Catholics, 181; their ex- cellent but misdirected spirit, 182; causes of their stability, 188, 189.
English Church. See Church of England and Ecclesiastical Commission.
Epinay, Madame d', review of her Mémoires et Correspondance, i. 234. 239.
Episcopacy,exclusion of, from the Upper House,
"Erin go bragh!" suggestion for a better an- them, ii. 335. Establishments, i. 205. Eulogomania of Dr. Parr, i. 4. Evangelical Clergy, notice of, i. 88. Evangelicals, their proceedings in the East, i. 113; their anticipated proceedings, ii, 298. Execution of Strafford, i. 159; Charles I., 160; Lewis XVI., 160.
Exercise, athletic, in public schools, its unim- portance, i. 187.
Expenditure in the United States, i. 290; evil effects of a large, 291.
Fagging, system of, i. 186, 187. Fairs, their effect in filling prisons, i. 366. Fallacies, review of Beutham's Book of, ii. 59 -74.
Fallacy of self-trumpeting, ii. 65; imputations as an answer to expedient measures, 66; po- litical distrust, 67; the cry against innovation, 67 political consolation, 68; the argument of Procrastinator, 69; the quietist, 69; gene- ralities in political argument, 70; the impu- tation of theory, 71.
Fanaticism, its cause in all ages, i. 99; mis- taken for religion, ii. 252.
Farmers, unjust charges upon them, i. 14; how affected by the game laws, i. 253. Fear, difference between personal and political, ii. 211. 214.
Fearon, Mr., review of his Journey in America, i. 240, 250.
Female dress, common error about, i. 1. 48. Female Education, review of Broadhurst's work on, i. 174-185.
Ferocity, the natural weapon of the common people, i. 329.
Fiction, danger of varnishing characters in works of, i. 47.
Fievée, J., review of his Lettres sur l'Angle- terre, i. 34-37; his approach to pessimism, 36; his charges against the English, 36; his charge of Anglomania against the Encyclo- pédists, 37.
Finance, Necker's Observations on, reviewed, i. 26. See also Taxes. Fishery, pearl, account of, i. 42. Foolahs, progress among, i. 73. Foolometer, use of a, ii. 285. Fops, clerical, illustration of, i. 9. Forests of Cayenne, ii. 78.
Fox, Charles James, review of Dr. Parr's "Characters" of, i. 149. 153; review of his historical work 154-166; review of Hey- wood's Vindication of his History, 207-218; anecdote of, ii. 285.
Fragment on the Irish Roman Catholic Church, i1. 333. 342.
France, versatility of public opinion in, i. 24 ; its power. 17, price of revolutionary lands in, 24; its difficulties, 25; apprehensions of its power, ii. 136. 140. 143, 144. 151. 153. 157.
French aristocracy, its probable restoration, i.
French revolution emulates the English revo- lution, i. 160.
Fry, Mrs., and her friends, exaggeration of their efforts, i. 355. 367., ii. 21. Furniture, tax on, in America, i. 288.
Ghosts, belief in, has left the drawing-room for the kitchen, ii. 123.
Gibraltar, a useless and extravagant possession. i. 289.
Glory, consequences of the national love of, i. 291.
Gloucester, Bishop of, his attack on the author, ii. 295; his character, 296. Government, rights of. i. 11; no other ulti- matum in, than perfect justice, 125; what the first object should be. ii. 30; constitutional, 65; absolute, 68; kingly, origin of, 79; has nothing to do with theological errors, 136; cannot be carried on without patronage, 278; its conduct to the Church, 278: English, its extreme timidity and consequent violence, 1. 239; its extravagance, ii. 123; its cheapness in America, i. 241; its mildness in Deomark, Governments, effects of the moral sense on, i.
Godly and ungodly, dangerous division of man- kind into, i. 101.
Godwin, Mr., his principle of universal bene- volence, i. 3; refuted by Malthus, 8. Grammar should be taught after some know- ledge of a language is obtained, il. 105. Granby, review of, ii. 84-92. Grand Vizier, instances of his ignorance, i. 68. Grattan, his character, i. 316; his sense and moderation, ii. 230; his want of habits of business, 303.
Greatness of mind, common notion of. i. 47. Greek, importance attached to, in English edu- cation, i. 170. See also Latin.
Green General Duff, reply to his letter to the Morning Chronicle, ii. 330.
Greenland, its inhabitants converted to Chris- tianity by John Egede, a Norwegian priest, 1. 61; its chronology dated from its conversion to Christianity, 61.
Grey, Earl, his character, ii. 218-221. Grote, Mr., his dagger ballot-box, ii. 305; its effect if adopted, 308. 317; his character and political conduct, 309; his expectation of the effect of the ballot upon landlords, 311. Guiana, trees of, ii. 74.
Guldberg, Ove, notice of, i. 51.
Gunpowder Plot, sermon on the anniversary of, ii. 242249.
Galileo, his saying on the loss of his sight, ii. Gurney, Mr., on Prisons, i. 336. 321.
Gamble's Travels in Ireland, i. 304. Game, Mr. Bankes's Act against buying, ii. 28; sale of, i. 252. 255-259; advantages of legal- ising the sale of, ii. 31, 32.
Game Laws, i. 250. 259; review of the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert's Letter on, ii. 25; their scandal and disgrace, i. 354., ii. 15. 32; their amendment recommended, i. 322; fu- tility of severe laws against them, 322 330. 345-348; review of report of the House of Commons on, 348., ii. 42; one fourth of com- mitments, for offences against them, 30; ab- sence of, in America, 44; reform of, 78; cruelties of, 217.
Gaming, extract from Dr. Rennel's Sermon on, i. 6.
Gazi Hassan, notice of, i. 68.
Genealogy of nations, embarrassing circum- stances in the speculations, concerning it, i. 30.
Generalities, fallacy of dealing in, in political argument, il. 70.
George 111., protects Joseph Lancaster against the Church, i. 75. note.
George IV., his speech to the Hanoverians, ii.
Habeas Corpus Act, its suspension, i. 239. Habits of the honeybird, i. 44; musk-rat, 44; kangaroo, 261; ornithorhynchus, 261; the snake, ii. 77.82; the campanero, 77; the tou- can, 78; the sloth, 79; the ant-bear, 79; the vampire, 80; the tortoise, 80; the vulture, 79.82.
Hall, Lieut., review of his Travels in America, i. 239-2 0.
Hamilton's method of teaching languages, ii. 317-327; its errors, 321; testimony to its efficiency, 325.
Hanging, curious circumstance relating to the punishment of, i. 57.
Hanoverians, speech of George IV, to the, ii. 207.
Harmonites in America, ii, 51. Hatchard, Mr., persons meeting at his shop, i. 186.
Hawkesbury, Lord, his character, ii. 148. 156.
Hayti, boast of the Emperor of, regarding punishment, ii. 7.
Headlam, John, review of his Letter on Prison Labour, ii. 35-41. 45. Heathen, societies for converting the, i. 106. Heligoland, notice of, i. 62.
Helots, the Irish Catholics treated as, i. 304. Henry VIII., persecutions by, ii. 237.
Herbert, Hon. and Rev. William, review of his Letter on the Game Laws, ii. 25. Heresy, treatment of, i, 202.
Heretics, Arians burnt as, in 1612, i. 215. Herrnhuters, or Northern Quakers, i. 61. Heroism of Dr. Wittman, i. 66.
Heywood, Samuel, review of his Vindication of Fox's History, í. 207-218.
Hindoo faith, the Mussulmans of India not converts from it, i. 117.
Hindoos, anecdote of their feelings relative to caste, i. 117; their religion, 117-119; their persecution by Tippoo, 144. Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics, Parnell's review of, i. 80-84.
Hodgson, Adam, review of his Letters from North America, ii. 42-52.
Holford, George, review of his work on Prisons i. 337.
Holstein, exportation of horses from, i. 51; its soil, 53; canal, advantages of its, 60. Homer, morality of, i. 8.
Honeybird, its habits, i. 44; common informer likened to, 44.
Hope, Mr., eulogium on his Anastasius, i. 316.
Horner Francis, his character, ii. 318-321. Horner Leonard, Letter to, ii. 318. Horses, exportation of, from Holstein, i. 51. House of Commons, expectations from, when reformed, ii. 211.
House of Lords, suggestions regarding it, i. 23; likened to Mrs. Partington, ii. 214.
Human Nature, experiment upon it in New South Wales, i. 28.
Humane Society, review of Dr. Langford's Anniversary Sermon for it, i. 12. Humanity, on the ridicule cast upon, i. 278; its operation, under the Poor Laws, 299. Hume, David, anecdote of, at Paris, i. 238. Hume, Sir P., review of Lady Murray's Narra- tive of the Adventures of, i. 154-166. Hungary, parallel with Ireland, ii. 177. Hunting description of, i. 135. Huskisson, Mr., ii. 170.
India, our empire in, i. 37; missions in, 102- 121; consequences of the loss of caste in, 107; difficulty attending the progress of Chris- tianity in, 108; proceedings of the evan- gelical party in, 114; Mahometans of, not converts from Hindooism, 117; duty of con- version in, questionable, 117-119; intro- duction of Christianity into, 142; difference of officers serving in, from those on European service, 192.
Impropriators, lay, i. 125.
Imputations, fallacy of, as an answer to expe- dient measures, îì. 66. Informers, odious nature of their trade, i. 131; deterred by public indignation, ii. 30. Ingram, Mr., review of his Causes of the In- crease of Methodism and Dissent, i. 87-102. Innovation, source of the dislike of, i. 331; fallacy of the cry against, ii. 67. Insanity caused by Methodism, i. 99; Quaker treatment of it, 228-234; no dependence on medicine for its cure, 232; curious case of, 233.
Insects the curse of tropical climates, ii. 81. Inspectors of prisons, i. 338. Institutions, good, are indispensable, ii. 65; must be defensible, 222; number marked for destruction in 1837, 279; much easier to des- troy when associated with mean ideas, 285. Instruction, religious, in early life should be confined to general principles, i. 79. Interference of Providence, instances of, cited by Methodists, i. 89. et seq.
Intimidation of tenants by their landlords, and of shopkeepers by their customers, ií. 174; not confined to the aristocracy, 307; ballot would afford no protection against it, 312. Intolerance, its lasting spirit, i. 203; Metho- dists' complaint of, 303.
Inundation in Denmark, i. 53.
Ireland, her conduct in the American war, ii. 141. 230; our proper policy towards her, 145; her forfeited lands, 146; danger of tyrannis- ing over her, 147. 202; opposition to the Union in, 149; nearly lost during the Ameri- can war, 149; conduct of England towards, 150; anticipated conduct of France towards her, 157; a mill-stone about the neck of England, 159; concealment of arms in, 163, probable invasion of, 163; exploits of the invading force in 1796, 164; her statistics, 166 practical evils in, 170; parallel with Hungary, 177; premium offered to invade her, 202 payment of the clergy in, 205. 228; fruits of English government in, 206; antici- pated effects of emancipation in, 206; Inqui- sition never existed in, 226; review of Par- nell's Survey of the History of, i. 80-84; never subdued till the reign of Elizabeth, 83; conduct of Elizabeth towards, 83; Brehon law of property in, 82; review of the state of, 304-316; remedies for, 315, operation of tithes in, 306, 307; tithes must be relaxed in, ii. 151. 174; Gamble's Travels in, 171; foll" and rapacity of the landlords of, 182; bigotry and party spirit of the Protestants of, 176; absenteeism in, 180; middlemen the standing grievance of, 181. 186; injustice of the En- glish Church in, 178. 184. 187; potatoes one cause of her wretched condition, 184; misgo- vernment of, 176. 185; difficulty of executing the laws in, 104; want of coal in, 185; picture of ploughing in, 185; her demoralised peasantry, 200; baseness of her treatment by England, 283; expenses of the wars in, 286; Catholic disabilities in, 286; Protestant Church in, 288; Cromwell's conduct in, 286; natives of, in America, 308; quiet of, under Queen Anne, 130; Dr. Doyle the Pope of, 131; power of the priests in, 134, 136; power of the government to obtain the nomination of the Catholic dignitaries in, 140; Orange- men of, 147. 168; disfranchisement of voters in, 211; prevented only by Grattan from sepa- rating from England, 230; increase in her wealth and power, 233: forfeited estates in, 234; conduct of Henry Cromwell in, 241; in- justice to her in the present state of the Ca- tholic Church, 337.
Irish in America, it. 83.
Irreligion, stigma of the charge of, i. 78.
Jacobinism condemned, i. 11; charged against Dissenters, 188; detestable, ii. 176.
Jaffa, massacre and poisoning at, i. 64, 65. James II., Fox's view of his conduct in regard to the Catholic religion, i. 213-215; con
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