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troversy between Mr. Fox and Mr. Rose re-

specting his conduct, 163.

Janissaries, their original constitution, i. 67.
Jephson, Mr. and Mrs., mention of, i. 234.

note.

Jersey, reason why smuggling could not be
suppressed in, ii. 219.

Jews prohibited from entering Norway, i. 61.
note; equality of their treatment in America,
ii. 43.

Johnson's Shooter's Guide, i. 322.
Joinville, Prince, ii. 337.

Judges, their removability under Charles I.
and II., i. 162; policy of the law towards, as
compared with bishops, ii. 260; idiosyncra-
sies of, 117; differences among, 118; inade-
quate number of, 118; that smite contrary
to law, 183-189; jealousy with which
juries should watch them, i. 239; not to be
trusted as counsel for prisoners, 363; absur-
dity of considering them as counsel for
prisoners, ii. 110. 114.

Juries, jealousy with which they should watch
judges, i. 239.

Jurisprudence of a country not to be learned
merely by perusing its statutes, i. 89.
Juryman, obstinacy in a, ii. 209.

Justice, importance of the tribunal of, ii. 185 -
189; how best promoted, 192; value of the
impression of, i. 256; its cheapness in Den-
mark, i. 55; in America, ii. 48.

Justices. See Magistrates.
Jutland, description of, i. 52.

K.

Kangaroo, described, i. 261.

"Kimes," Mr. Styles's blunder about, i. 141.
King, his supremacy merely nominal, i. 260.
Knowledge, importance communicated to old
age by, i. 184; its alleged disadvantages in
women, 177-185.

Knox, Robert, his account of Ceylon, i. 38.

L.

Labour, objections to a fixed rate of, i. 32, 33;
compulsory, of prisoners before trial, ii. 32;
rates of, in New South Wales, i. 266.
Lancaster, Joseph, review of Mrs. Trimmer's
book on his New Plan of Education, i. 75-
80; protected by George III. against the
Church, 75; rewards and punishments in his
institution, 78; order displayed in his school
astonishing, 79; his system may be combined
with that of Hamilton, ii. 95.
Land, property of every man in the game upon
his, I. 252.

Landlords Irish, their folly and rapacity, i. 311.
Langford, Dr., review of his Anniversary
Sermon for the Humane Society, i. 12.
Laplanders, remark on their condition, i. 63.
Latin and Greek, too much of them in English
education, i. 167-173; Hamilton's method
of teaching, ii. 92-106.

Law, want of reform in its processes, i. 243.
Lawrence, General, notice of, i. 38.
Laws, on the promulgation of, i. 153; obso-
leteness of many, ii. 124; their proper exe-
cution must depend upon public opinion, 106;
difficulties of obtaining any improvement in
them, 109; boasted lenity of the English, i.
362-364; their operation in civil cases, 243;
their caprice in disallowing counsel to pri-
soners, 244; fallacy of declaring them irre-
vocable, ii. 62; their continuity by oath, 63,

64; folly of holding any to be unalterable,
148; great improvement in the English. 207;
requisites for making those of England de-
serving the eulogium they obtain, 119; diffi-
cult execution of, in Ireland, i. 313; for the
preservation of game, not favourable to the
morals of the poor, 252.

Lawyer that tempted Christ, ii. 189-196.
Learning, classical, its abuse in England, fi.
37-45.

Leeches of Ceylon, i. 44.

Legislation, incautious, since the passing of the
Reform Bill, i. 300. notc.

Letters to the Electors on the Catholic Ques-
tion, ii. 223-241.

Letters on the Catholics by Peter Plymley, ii.
135-183; on the Ecclesiastical Cominission,
254-297; on American Debts, 325-332;
on "Locking in upon Railways," 321.
Lettres sur l'Angleterre, review of M. Fievée's,
i. 34-37.
Lewis, Matthew, review of his tragedy of
Alfonso, i. 15.

Lewis XIV., anecdote of, i. 69.

Lewis XVI., on the execution of, i. 160; Fox's
declarations on the execution of, 209, 210.
Liberty and licentiousness of the press, ii. 70.
Licenses for watches in America, i. 288;
number that would be required in England,

289.

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Literature, advantages to women of cultivating,
i. 177-185; among the Americans, 247.
London, Bishop of, his government, ii. 266.
286; his injustice to the Chapter of St.
Paul's, 267. 273; his power with the Ecclesi-
astical Commission, 269. 296; his sharp say-
ings, 279; his industry, 270; his real motives
and wishes, 276; his large income, 296; his
charge; his Eschylus, 296; his character,
303.

Longevity of the Norwegians, i. 59.
Lords, House of. See House of Lords,
Lotteries in pearl oysters, 1. 42.
Lovat, Lord, his appeal to be allowed counsel,
ii. 112.

Lunatic asylums, improved method in their
management, i. 22s; classification of their
patients, 231; how managed by the Society
of Friends, 233.

Lynch-law, excuse for it, ii. 48.
Lyndhurst, Lord, ii. 281.'

M.

Macdowal, General, his treatment and character,
i. 123201.

Mackintosh, Sir James, his panegyric on
Charles James Fox, i. 149; letter on his cha-
racter, ii. 302-305.

Macquarrie, Governor, charges against, ii. 12,
13. 24.

Mad Quakers, i, 228 — 233.

Madras, review of Narrative of the Distur
bances at, i. 191-201.

Magistrates, large powers entrusted to them
under the Poor Laws, i. 300; their power to
order relief under the Poor Laws should be
abolished, 300.

Mahometaus in India, not converts from Hin-
doolsm, i. 117.

Mahratta Camp, Letters from a, i. 225 — 228.
Mahrattas, devastation caused by, i. 226; their
barbarous justice, 227, anecdote of a female
soldier of, 227.

Malays, their character, i. 39.

Malthus, Mr., tribute to his memory, i. 8. note.
Mammon, its effect upon religion, ii. 258.
Manners, French, sketch of, 1. 234.
Manufactures of America, i. 240; Ashantee,
284; Australia, i. 31; Denmark, 60.
Map of England, ecclesiastical, i. 133.
Margaret, founder of the monarchy of Den-
mark, i. 51.

Marriage in Denmark, i. 57.

Marriage Bill, opposition to the Dissenters', ii.

43.

Marsden. Rev. Mr., ii. 14; his bearing towards
convicts, 16.

Marsh, Bishop. See Peterborough, Bishop of.
Martineau, Miss, allusion, to, i. 180.
Mary, Queen, her persecutions, ii. 237.

Munro, Colonel, his conduct at Madras, i. 192
-201.

Murray, Lady, review of her Narrative of the
Adventures of Sir P. Hume, i. 165, 166.

Murray, C. K., his letter to the "Times," ii.
281.

Musk-rat, account of the, i. 44.

Mussulmans of India not converts from the
Hindoo faith, i. 117.

Mutiny at Vellore, i. 102; at Nundydrook, 102.

N.

Napoleon. See Buonaparte.

Nares, Archdeacon, review of his Sermon of
Thanksgiving for Plenty, and warning against
Avarice, i. 13-16.

National funds, project for supporting the poor
from, i. 293.

Natural children in Denmark, i. 57.

Massacre at Jaffa, evidence of, examined, i. 64, Nature, Darwin's Law of, i. 42.
63.

Medical men, their courage, i. 66.

Melbourne, Viscount, his character, ii. 278.
Metayers in Denmark, i 56.

Methodism drives many to insanity, i. 99; re-
view of Mr. Ingram's book on the Causes of
the Increase of, 87-101; review of Mr. Styles's
defence of, 138-146.

Methodistical reasoning on the interference of
Providence, i. 89. 101.

Methodists, terms by which they designate
themselves, i. 93; their influence and activity,
95; magnitude of their collections, 95; their
missionaries, 96; party for them in the House
of Commons and the India House, 97; prose.
lytism their great object, 97; their objections
to amusements. 98; their difference from the
Established Church, 99; their religious lan-
guage, 99; their doctrine of theocracy, 99;
proofs of miracles claimed by them, 89-101;
their perversion of miracles, 144; their war
against the orthodox clergy, 140; their com-
plaint of intolerance, 143; their pillage of the
earnings of the poor, 140.

Metropolis, Police of the, reference to, i. 48.
Middlemen, the standing grievance of Ireland,
i. 309, 310. 314.

Milbank Penitentiary, i. 337.

Ministers, their duty towards an obstinate
monarch, ii. 151.

Minorities almost always in the right, i. 360.
Miracles, improper reasoning upon them, i.
14; proofs of, claimed by the Methodists, 89-
101; Methodists' perversion of them, 144.
Misanthropy, warning against, ii. 194.
Misgovernment of Ireland, i. 304. 313.
Mission to the Ashantees, i. 280.
Missionaries, opposed by the Brahmans, i. 114;
in Ceylon, their success, 117.
Missionary proceedings in Bengal, i. 106-120.
Missionary Society, its missions, i. 104-114.
Missions among the Methodists, i. 96; in India,
102-120.

Modern Changes, Letter on, ii. 332.
Modern sermons, their character, i. 5.
Monarch, an obstinate, duty of ministers to-
wards, ii. 151.

Monk, Bishop. See Gloucester, Bishop of.
Monk, Gen., his conduct at the Restoration, i.
161; his character, 210. 212.

Moore, Thomas, review of his Memoirs of Cap-
tain Rock, 11, 52-52.

Moral sense, its effects on governments, i. 11.
More, Mrs. Hannah, review of her work on
Colebs in search of a Wife, i. 146-149.
Motives of Men, how influenced, i. 223.

Necker, M., review of his Dernières Vues de
Politique et de Finance, i. 17-26; his plan
of a Republic, 21.

Nelson, Lord, notice of Dr. Rennel's Sermon
on his Victory, i. 8.

New Holland, pamphlet by the Hon. Grey
Bennet upon, i. 270; anticipations of, as a
colony, 28; paucity of numbers in, 29.
New South Wales, review of Collins's Account
of, i. 26-34; experiment upon human nature
in, 29; its climate, 260; its progress, 261; its
schools and public lands, 263; courtly appel-
lations given to new discoveries in, 265;
diminution of its resources by subordinate
settlements, 266; ignorance and tyranny of
its governors, 266; sale of spirits in, 267; its
import and export duties, 268; its restric-
tions on navigation, 269; its cost as a school
for criminals, 270; no dread inspired by it,
270; profligacy of its morals, 271; advantages
of emigrating thither, 271; Wentworth's De-
scription of, reviewed, 260-271; Bennet's
account of the colonies in, 270, 271; O'Hara's
History of, 272; Mr. Bigge's Report on the
Colony of. ii. 12-24; value of distilleries in,
21; trial by jury, unfitted for, 24.
New York, its increase, i. 240.

Nicol, Mr., on the Poor-Laws, review of, i.
293.

Nobility of Denmark, classes of, i. 54; of
Norway, 55; of Holstein, 55.
Non-residence of clergy, i. 49.
Noodle's Oration, ii. 72.

Norfolk Island, its condition, i. 31. 33.

North America, review of Hodgson's Letters
from, ii 42-52.

Norway, description of, i. 53-62; its nobility,
55; Jews prohibited from entering it, 61.
note.

Norwegians, their longevity, 59.

Nugent, Lord, review of his Statement in sup-
port of the Catholic claims, ii. 120—128.
Nundydroog, mutiny at, i. 102.

Nunneries, Protestant, in Deumark, i. 54, 55.

0.

Oath, continuity of laws by, ii. 63; coronation,
its binding nature, 64; scruples to Catholic
emancipation on account of it, 64; royal
scruples upon it, i. 152.

Obstinacy in a juryman, illustration of, ii. 209.
O'Connell, Daniel, ií. 231. 237; his conduct
about Repeal, 334; his trial and release, 334;
much virtue and good meaning in him, 335;

appeal to him, 335; his readiness to provoke
a national war, 336.

Old age, not a good plea for poor-law relief, i.
300: importance communicated to it by know.
ledge, 184.

Opinion, public, its powers, i. 54; its versatility
in France, 24; execution of laws must in
great measure depend upon it, îí, 107.
Options, property in, held by the Archbishop
of Canterbury, ii. 263.

Orangemen in Ireland, ii. 147; their position,

168.

Ordeal, trial by, among native Africans, i.
74.

Order displaved in Lancaster's schools, i. 79.
Ordination, Bishop Marsh's questions to candi-
dates, ii. 2; recommendations of Archbishop
Wake regarding. 6; Lambeth Articles of
Archbishop Laud upon, 5.
Ornithorhynchus, description of, i. 261.
Orthodoxy, sacrifices to the genius of, ii. 3;
inconveniences of different standards of, 3.
Overseers, office of, i. 299.

Owen, Rev. Mr., quotation from, on reducing
Providence to an alternative, i. 120.
Oxford University, Dr. Parr's defence of, i. 4;
its imputation against the Catholics, ii. 155.
Oysters, Linnæus's secret of infecting, i. 42;
pearl, account of, 42; lotteries in, 42.

P.

Palestine, Travels from, review of, i. 85-87.
Palmer, Mr., review of the Travels of, in Ame-
rica, í. 239-250.

his zeal for the Protestant interest, fi. 135;
his fears, 140; his character, 142; his govern-
ment, 143.

Perciva', Robert, review of his Account of
Ceylon, í. 37-44.

Persecuting Bishops, ii. 1—12.
Persecution, nature of, ii. 141; by Henry VIII.
Mary, and Elizabeth, 237; how exercised
against the Catholics, i. 220, of Catholics by
Protestants, it. 238, 239.

Pessimism, Fievée's approach to, i. 36.
Peter Plymley's Letters, ii. 135-183.
Peterborough, Bishop of, his Ordination Ques.
tions, ii. 2; his good intentions, 2; incon-
veniences of his adopting a different standard
from other bishops, 2; danger to the Church
of his proceedings, 3; Mr. Thurtell's letter to
him, 4; his unequal bearing upon curates and
upon rectors, 6; his boast of the paucity of
the curates he had excluded, 7; his style, 7;
his complaints, 11; his indiscretion, 11.
Pétion, M., his knowledge of our law, i. 35.
Petition in favour of the Catholics, ii. 201;
to Congress, 198.

Petrie, Wm., review of his Statement of Facts
delivered to Lord Minto, i. 191-201.
Philadelphia, its progress, i. 240.
Phillips, Richard, review of his Public Cha-
racters (1801, 1802), i. 13.

Philopatris Varvicensis, review of his work on
C. J. Fox, i. 149–154.

Piety, what kind of, the world hates, i. 141.
Pilgrims, conduct of the Saracens to them, i.

85.

Pitt, Mr., defect in his administration, i. 26.
Plague, description of the, i. 319; its symptoms
and cure, 66; curious fact regarding it, 66.

Panegyrics, review of, on C. J. Fox, i. 154-Plays, defence of, i. 147.
166.

Paper money in Denmark, i. 58.

Papists, their treatment in Ireland, i. 305., ii.
57, 58; their disabilities, i. 305.
Parliament, clergy unrepresented in, i. 231; a
colonial, 269.

Parnel, Henry, review of his History of the
Penal Laws against the Irish Catholics, i.
127-131.

Parnell, William, review of his Historical
Apology for the Irish Catholics, i. 80-84.
Parr, Dr., review of his Spital Sermon, i. 1-5;
his learning and character, 4; reason of the
neglect of, 5; his eulogomania, 4; his pane-
gyric on Fox, 149; review of his "Cha-
racters" of Fox, 149-153.

Partington, Mrs., illustrative of the Lords'
attempt to stop the Reform Bill, ii. 214.
Patronage, government cannot be carried on
without it, ii. 277.

Paul, St., his answer to Felix, i. 128.
Peace Societies deserving every encouragement,
i. 223.

Pearl fishery, account of it, i. 42.
Peasantry of Ireland, demoralised, i. 329.
Peel, Sir R, encomium on. ii. 105; approval of
his course against O'Connell, 334; must
attempt the payment of the Catholic priests,
338.

Peers, House of, suggestions regarding it, ii. 23.
Penal laws against the Catholics, i, 129, 130.
Pennsylvania, her refusal to pay her debts, ii.
326; no conduct ever more profligate than
hers, 327; her debt and finances, 328; posi-
tion abroad of her citizens, 329; final appeal
to her, 330: reply to excuses, for her non-
payment, 332.

Penny-pos scheme nonsensical, ii. 207.
Perceval, Rt. Hon. Spencer, review of a letter
to, on the Curates' Salary Bill, i. 121-127;

Ploughing, picture of, in Ireland, i. 313.
Ploughman, description of a, i, 302. 313.
Plurality and Residence Bill, ii, 287. et seq.
Poaching, i. 255-259; remarks on the punish-
ment of, 325. 329.

Poets, the greatest, not educated at public
schools, i 188; bounty of nature in the sup-
ply of, 225.

Poisoning at Jaffa, evidence of, examined, i.
66.

Police of the Metropolis, Mr. Colquhoun's, i.

48.

Poor (the), education of, 1. 101; interference
with their amusements, 136. 140; what re-
spect due to, 140; their unequal treatment
for damages to property, 93; project of sup-
porting them from the national funds, 293;
overseers of, 293; merit as a test of relief to,
293; project for separating their children,
293; their resort to alehouses, 293; their
treatment in removals under the law of
settlement, 299; relief of, 299; description
of the agricultural. 302; stupid character of
writings intended for them, 359.

Poor Law Bill of Sir J. Scarlett reviewed, i.
348-353.

Poor-Law relief, old age not a good plea for,
i. 300.

Poor-Laws (the), i. 293-304; the nucleus of
Chartism, 296; Mr. Davison's Considerations
on them, 300; freedom from, in America, i'.
45; increase of population under the old, 293.
295; review of Mr. Nicol on, 293; en-
courage beggary. 349; absurd projects for
amending them, 293; their extension to per-
sonal property, 293; Mr. Nicol's objections
to them, 293; their ultimate but very gradual
abolition, 295; law expenses of, 298; true
reason for abolishing, 304; amendment of,
348; maximum rate of, 348; cannot be abo-

lished in less than two centuries, 352; their
great evils, 353.
Poor-rate, Mr. Davison's plan for its limita-
tion, i. 300; the fixing of a maximum of, 348;
litigation arising out of, 350; its gradual
extinction, 352.

Pope (the), delusion respecting his power
and induence, ii. 135; his alleged right to
interfere in temporal concerns, 139; his
power to dethrone kings denied, ii. 95;
terror of, 179; no law to prevent our enter-
ing into diplomatic engagements with him,
538.

Pope of Ireland, Dr. Doyle the, i. 259.
Population, its increase under erroneous ad-
ministration of Poor-Laws, i. 293. 295; excess
of, 302; of Australia, 31; of America, 240.
246; of Ashantee, 283; of Denmark, 58.
Population tumours, i. 297.

Port Jackson described, i. 260.

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Prayer on the birth of the Duke of Cornwall,
ii. 254.

Prebendaries, how they should have been re-
formed, ii. 256; new ones created, 259. 284.
300; patronage belonging to, should be com.
pensated for, 262; distinction between resi-
dent and non-resident, 275, 276, 277; manage-
ment of their estates, 276. 284; considered in
a politico-economical view, 275. 284. 292; no
public feeling calling for their destruction,
277; their incomes, 300.

Presentations can be sold by laymen or by
ecclesiastical corporations, 264.
Preserving of game, i. 253.

Press (the), its liberty and licentiousness, ii.
70; its power would be lessened by the
reform of parliament, 219.

Priests, Catholic, in Ireland, their dependence
on their flocks, i. 306.

Prison Discipline, Society for its Improvement,
i. 353.361., ii. 21; may be over estimated, 40;
note on Mr. Roscoe's opinions on, 41, 42.
Prison labour, review of Mr. Headlam's work
on, ii. 34-41.

Prisons, Buxton's efforts for their improve-
ment, i. 330; his book on this subject, 337;
review of Mr. Holford's work on, 337; Mr.
Gurney on, 336; review of Mr. Western's
work on, 356-365; the small number of
recommitments to, no test of amelioration,
354; principal objects of, 354; solitary con-
finement in them, 356; too great indul-
gence in them, 356; what life in them should
be, 358; diet in them, 332. 360; corporal
punishment in, 361; improvement in, on the
Continent, 361; persons detained in, after
acquittal, 364; the greatest improvement in
them would be a jail delivery four times a
year, 365; private, ii. 55; their state in Eng-
land, 330-340.

Prisoners, treatment of, before and after trial,
331; their classification, 332; their solitary
confinement, 332. 356; gradations of their
punishment, 334; their reformation, 334;
their earnings, 335; comforts allowed to
them. 336; female, 338; injustice of prevent-
ing their defence by counsel, 339; charitable
aid to them for expenses of procuring their
witnesses, 339; their cruel treatment before
trial, ii. 32; cruelty and tyranny involved in

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their labour, 38. 45; cruelty and absurdity of
denying them counsel, 43-46; should be
liberated immediately after acquittal, i. 361;
not to be treated before trial as paupers, 395;
prevalent feeling concerning them, ii. 41;
petition from jurymen for allowing counsel
to them, 106; obstacles to their obtaining
evidence in defence, 107; often convicted
when innocent, 108. 122; authorities for al-
lowing counsel to them when accused of
felony, 109; plan for giving them an option
of having counsel, 118.

Proclamation relative to the mutiny at Vellore,
í. 102.

Procrastinator, fallacy of his argument, ii. 69.
Property, rights of, when abused, ii. 305; per-
sonal, proposed to be subjected to poor-
rates, i. 293; of every man in the game upon
his land, 252.

Proselytism the great object of the Methodists,
i. 97.

Protestant Church benefited by Catholic e nan-
cipation, ii. 177. 227. 230; upon what security
founded, i. 222.

Protestant nunneries in Denmark, i. 54.
Protestants in Ireland, their bigotry and party
spirit, i. 304; their proportion to the Ca-
tholics, 305, 306.

Providence, Archdeacon Nares's erroneous rea-
soning on, i. 14; the notion of its immediate
interference natural, 74; Methodistical rea-
soning on its interference, 88-101; charged
by the Rev. Mr. Owen with being reduced to
an alternative, 123; on the special interfer-
ence of, 140.

Public Characters of 1801, 1802, review of Phil-
lips's book on the, i. 13.
Public opinion. See Opinion.
Public principle, importance of, i. 190, 191.
Public schools. See Schools.
Pulpit eloquence, remarks on, i. 5.
Punishment, the philosophy of, i. 325. 329; its
gradations, 334; its first object, 334. 339; its
duration should be lessened and severity in-
creased, 339; its proper maximum, ii. 29;
capital, 42; boast of the Emperor of Hasti
on, 7.

Punishments, tyrannical, for infringement of
the game laws, i. 259.
Purra Society in Africa, i. 35.

Q.

Quakers in Denmark, i. 61; review of Tuke's
Description of an Institution for Insane, 128
-234
Qualifications for shooting game, their ab› i-
tion recommended, i. 252-254.
Quantities, false, i. 280.
Queen, Sermon on the Duties of the, i. 24 -
253; anticipated happiness of her reign, 2 3;
scene at her coronation, 279.
Quietist, his fallacy, ii. 69.

R.

Radicals, their admission of the lawful influ-
ence of wealth and power, ii. 307; the two
varieties of them, 307; their advocacy of the
ballot, 310-316; their desire for universal
suffrage, 315.

Railways, Letters on "locking in" upon, ii. 321.
Randolph, John, his opinion of the ballot, ii. 314.
Rapp, founder of the Harmonites, ii. 51.
Rite, labour. See Labour-rate.
Rate, poor. See Poor-rate.
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Rectors, incomes of, i. 124.
Redesdale, Lord, his mistakes about the Catho-
lics, ii. 180.

Refinement among barbarous tribes, i. 73.
Reform of the Church, absolutely necessary,
ii. 256; should be accompanied by compensa-
tion for existing interests, 261; terror it had
inspired, 258. 268. 273. 275. 277.294; might
have been effected in a less revolutionary
manner, 273. 287. 298; unwise course of the
radicals regarding it, 277. 279; declaration of
Viscount Melbourne upon, 277: opportunity
for, through the Cathedral Chapters, 231;
government plan of, 283.

Reform in the processes of law, i. 243.
Reform of the game laws, ii. 79.
Reform, parliamentary, speech upon, at Taun-
ton, ii. 207; subsequent note upon, 208; con-
sidered the cure of every evil, 210; would
destroy the trade of agitation, 210; would
lessen the power of the press, 219; danger of
delaying it, 213, 214. 219; impossibility of
ultimately defeating it, 214, 215. 228; prece-
dents for it, 215; practical improvements
anticipated from it, 218; foolish expectations
entertained from it, 228.
Reform Bill, state of England previous to it,
ii. 216; Mrs. Partington illustrative of the
Lords' attempt to stop it, 214; not final, but
should allow time for breathing after it, 310;
rapid and incautious legislation since the
passing of it, i. 300. note.

Reformation, the Protestant, ii. 215. 242.
Regicides, French and English, contrasted, i.

161.

Regulators," described, ii. 48.

Religion, the first scaffolding of, i. 77: senti-
ment of, has always a tendency to moderation,
88; of the Hindoos, 118; familiarity on the
subjects of, 148; effect of Mammon on, 606.
639; in America, 247.

Religious toleration in Denmark, i, 61.
Removals, hardship of, under the Settlement
Laws, i. 299.

Rennel, Dr., review of his Discourses on
Various Subjects, i. 5-10; faults of, 8; allu-
sion to, 9. 13.

Rent, when too high, the ruin of the land and
the tenant, i. 309, 310.

Repeal, civil war would be preferable to it, ii.
334, 335.

Republic, review of M. Necker's plan of a, i. 21;
unsuited for France, 24.

Residence of the clergy, review of Dr. Sturge's
Thoughts on, i. 48-50; may be too hardly
exacted, 127; of the aristocracy on their
estates, fi. 28.

Restoration, conduct of Monk at the, I. 161.
Retribution, arguments for a future state of, i.
98.

Revenue of Denmark; of the United States, i.
288.

Reviews, one great use of, ii. 59.
Revolution, French, i. 8; Danish, 53-56;
French, emulates the English, 160; created
by the Ecclesiastical Commission, ii. 256; of
1688, 215.

Rewards and punishments in Lancaster's in-
stitution, I. 78.

Rich, their amusements, i. 252–255.
Ridicule, use of the fear of, in education, i. 78;
use of, as a weapon excusable, 139.
Rock, Captain, Memoirs of, reviewed, ii. 52–59.
Roman Catholics. See Catholics.
Roscoe, Mr., note on his opinions on prison
discipline, ii. 42.

Rose, Rt. Hon. George, review of his observa-
tions on the historical work of C. J. Fox, i.

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154-166; his animadversions on it, 207—
218.

Roundsman, description of a, 309.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, anecdotes of, i. 237.
Russell, Lord John, Letter to. ii. 297-301; his
complaint against the Chapters, 272; his cou-
duct towards cathedral property. 276; the
Lycurgus of the Lower House, 278; his im-
portance in the administration, 281; his con-
duct towards the Ecclesiastical Commission,
283. 286; his character, 286. 301; his language
on the ballot, 314; unjust opinion held of
him, 315; his line of duty clearly marked out,

315.

Russia, Emperor of, Madame de Staël's com-
pliment to, ii. 65.

Russian ambassador, anecdote of the, ii. 171.

S.

Saadi, the Persian poet, ii. 248.
Sacrifices to the Genius of Orthodoxy, ii, 3;
human, in Ashantee, 283.
Sale of game, i. 252. 255–259.
Salic law, note on, i. 23.
Sand, plants which grow in, i. 52.
Saracens, their conduct to pilgrims, i. 85.
Saturday Night, the Bishops', ii. 284.
Savage life, evils of, i. 27.

Scarlett, Sir James, review of his Poor-law
Bill, i. 348-353; encomium on, 353.
Schoolmasters, being ministers, should be ex-
empt from residence, i. 50.

Schools, public, system of education in, i. 186
-191; no cure for the insolence of the youth-
ful aristocracy, 186; unimportance of athletic
exercises in, 187; the most eminent men in
science, the arts, literature, or belles lettres,
have not been educated at, 188; not favour.
able to the cultivation of knowledge, 190;
morality at, 190; in New South Wales, 262.
Scindia, character of, i. 225.

Scotland, conduct and example of, ii. 148.
Scott, Sir William, his speech on the non-
residence of clergy, i. 49.

Secretary, Colonial, excuse for his misconduct,
i. 260.

Sect, impossible to arrive at a knowledge of a,
through merely their articles of belief, i. 88.
Self-trumpeting, fallacy of, ii. 65.

Sermons, modern characteristics of, i. 5;
preached at Bristol, ii. 242-248; at St.
Paul's, 249-253; before the Judges at York,
184-189. 191-196.

Serpent, anecdote of a, i. 44.

Settlement, law of, i. 348; its evils, 296; an
inexhaustible source of litigation, 298; hard-
ship of removals of it, 299.

Seybert's work on America, review of, i. 286-
290.

Shooter's Guide, by Johnson, i. 323.
Shopkeepers, combinations against them by
their customers on account of political opi-
nions, ii. 305. 312; greater hardship which
they would endure, if suspected, under the
ballot system, 313.

Sidmouth, Lord, his proceedings in regard to
the Toleration Act, i. 201-207.

Sierra Leone, review of Dr. Winterbottom's
Account of, i. 71–75.

Singleton, Archdeacon, letters to, li. 255.
Slavery, in Denmark, 1. 56; compensation for
abolishing, ii. 261; in America, i. 248, 249.
ii. 52; in Ashantee, 282.

Slaves, their increase in the United States, i.
248, 249; their proportion to the free, 292,
Slave trade (the), the foulest blot in the

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