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Conquerors, benefits derived from them, 278.
Conquest, its advantages to science, 38.
Conscience, plea of, in a monarch, 504. 523.
Consolation, political, fallacy of, 422.

Constantinople, custom at, towards fraudulent bakers, 466.
Constitution in France, 18; in England, 21. 23.

Continent (the), improvement in the prisons of, 351.
Conversation, the pleasures of, 179.

Conversion, duty of in India questionable, 115, 116.
Convicts, their morals and condition at Botany Bay, 264,
265; Rev. Mr. Marsden's bearing towards them, 371.
Coomassie, description of, 273.

Corn, combinations to raise the price of, 14.
Corn Law Bill of 1825, 557.

Cornwall, Duke of, prayer for, 602.

Coronation oath, its binding nature, 417; royal scruples
upon it, 489. 504, 606.

Corporal punishments in prisons, 351.

Corporation and Test Acts, 504. 528. 574. 592; their spirit
contrasted with religious toleration in Denmark, 60.
Costume, unimportance of, in administering justice, 236.
Cotton-spinners, their activity and enterprise, 552.
Counsel, Lord Lovat's appeal to be allowed, 464; Lord
Stafford's conviction from want of, 471.
Counsel for prisoners, review of Stockton's work on al-
owing, 458-472; cruelty of denying, 351-354; judges
not to be trusted as, 353; petition of jurymen for
allowing, 458; authorities in favour of the practice, 462;
probable effect of allownig, 468; absurdity of allowing
judges as, 463. 466.

Credit, despotism opposed to, 26.

Crocodile, Waterton's adventure with a, 436.

Cromwell, his conduct towards Charles I., 204; his con-
duct in Ireland, 410.

Cromwell, Henry, his conduct in Ireland, 589.
Cruelty to animals, 132.

Curates, their hard position, 363. 365, 366; their helpless
situation, 619; their expectations, 624; how affected by
the Plurality and Residence Bill, 635. 645; Salary Bill,
review of, 118-124; lay curates, 124.

Curwen's Observations on Ireland, 296.

Customs, greater expense of collecting in England than
in America, 280; dues exacted on Waterton's collection,
436.

D.

Danes, their character, 61; no literati among them, 62;
robbery of their fleet by England, 512.
Darwin, Dr., on the law of nature, 41.

Davison, Mr., his considerations on the Poor-Laws, 292;
his style, 294.

Death, punishment of, 397.

Debt, Danish, 57; American, 283.

Delphine, De Staël's, review of, 44-47.

Demerara, animals of, 428; Indian tribes in, 429; poisons
used in, 430.

Denmark, review of Catteau's Tableau of, 49-63. Founder
of its monarchy, 50; Bernstoff, its great minister, 50;
revolution of, 52-55; mildness of its government, 53;
Protestant nunneries in, 53, 54; its tribunals of con-
ciliation, 54; its cheap justice, 54; slavery in, 55; its
general statistics, 55-59; its religious toleration, 60;
its colonies, 59; its universities, 61; conduct of the
English government in taking the fleet of, 666.
D'Epinay, Madame, review of her Mémoires et Corré-
spondance, 228-233.

Derwent, description of its port, 253.

Despotism opposed to credit, 26.

De Staël, Madame. See Staël, Madame de.

Diderot, his dislike of Rousseau, 231.

Diet of prisoners, 323. 350.

Dinner, a triumph of civilised life, 265,

Discipline of prisons may be over-estimated, 395.
Discourses on Various Subjects, by Dr. Rennel, review
of, 5-9.

Discovery, who entitled to the merit of, 445.

Discretionary power in the administration of laws, argu-
ments against, 48.

Disfranchisement of the Irish voters, 561; of rotten bo-
roughs, 561; right of, must reside somewhere, 560.
Dissent, disadvantages of the Church compared with,
99. 198-201.

Dissent and Methodism, review of Mr. Ingram's book on
the Causes of their Increase, 86-100.
Dissenters, their privileges over members of the Church,
99; charges of Jacobinism against, 86; exploded clamours
against, 86; Lord Sidmouth's intentions towards, 196
-202; their treatment, 398. 502, 504, 528, 601; dangers
from, to the Church, 556; their conduct in reference to
the Catholic claims, 476; style of preaching among.
476; their inexpensiveness to the state, 481; wide dif-
ference of their opinions, 482. 484.

Dissenters' Marriage Bill, opposition to, 398.
Dissenting ministers, want of wealth among, 639.
Distilleries in America, 280; prohibited in New South
Wales, 261; their value In New South Wales, 376.
Distrust, political fallacy of, 421.
Disturbances at Madras, 187-196.

Dordrecht, anecdote of the conduct of the clergy at, 616.
Dotation of women in New South Wales, 256.
Doyle, Dr., the Pope of Ireland, 483.

Dress, common error about female, 144.
Dublin, Whitelaw's History of, 296.

Duelling, a civilised institution among barbarous people,

29.

Duncan, Mr. John, review of his Travels in the United
States, 398-405.

Dundas, the tyrant of Scotland, 665.
Dupleix, notice of, 37.

Dutchman, Ceylonese, his character, 38.
Duties levied in New South Wales, 260.

E.

Ecclesiastical Commission, its constitution, 603. 09. 613.
617.628. 638; has done too much, 604. 607.610. 620. 634.
641; encourages the enemies of the Church, 605, 610.
620. 632; its love of patronage, 607, 608. 610; its injustice,
609, 610. 612, 613. 616. 620. 622, 628. 638; omission in
its report of the options of the sees of Canterbury and
York, 611; its frequent changes of policy, 615; how it has
been worked, 629; rapidity of its proceedings, 615; its
original plan of taxation, 628; its injustice to St. Paul's,
615. 621. 647; its confiscations, 629; illustration of, in
the proceedings of the clergy at Dordrecht, 616; treat-
ment of by Lord J. Russell, 630. 646.

Economy, American, an object for our imitation, 397.
Edgeworth, on Bulls, review of, 67-70; on Professional
Education, review of, 162-170.

Edinburgh Review, contributions to, 1-486.
Edmonton, history of the ecclesiastical division of, 614. 641.
Education, review of Mrs. Trimmer's book on Lancaster's
Plan of, 74-78.

Education, Professional, review of Edgeworth's work on,
162-170; Female, review of Broadhurst's work on,
171-181; system of, in public schools, 181-187; use
of ridicule in, 77; of the clergy, 99; of the poor, 99;
too much Latin and Greek in, 163-170; defective
system of, at the English universities, 168-170; Hamil-
tonian system of, 446, combined with that of Lancaster,

448; unnecessary difficulties created in, 450. 452; foolish
saying of Dr. Bell upon, 451; defects in, 6; the ano-
maly in, as regards religion, 499; of the people, duty
of, 599; attention to, in America, 400.

Egede, John, a Norwegian priest, converts the Green-
landers to Christianity, 60.

Eldon, Lord, his character, 542. 567.

Elections, political, modes of, 18-20; disgusting scenes
at, 565, 568.

Elizabeth, Queen, her conduct towards Ireland, 82; statute
of, relating to the poor, 295; persecutions by, 585.
Eloquence, neglect of, in British education, 6.
Emancipation, Catholic, once deemed hopeless, 124;
relaxation in seeking it not justifiable, 125; madness
of opposing it, 79. 82, 83. 128. 473. 478-481. 496. 526.
552, 553. 555. 590; bigotry of the English in reference
to it, 82; review of the question, 472 486; must be
ultimately carried, 473. 578. 581; view history will take
of the question, 475; speech at Cleveland on, 547-551;
letter to the electors on, 572-590; its probable effect, 526.
See also Catholics.

Emigration to Botany Bay, advantages offered for, 265;
to America, 243.

Emulation, absurdity of banishing it from schools, 449.
Emu, description of, 254.

Encomium on-the Church of England, 579; the Whigs,
557; Charles James Fox, 145; Hope's Anastasius, 308.
313; Sir James Scarlett, 343; the Society for Improving
Prison Discipline, 344. 351. 376; George Lamb, 458;
Sir Robert Peel, 459. 573; Mr. Sturges Bourne, 506.
515; Earl Grey, 567. 570; Lord John Russell, 648.
Encyclopédists, M. Fieve's charge of Anglomania against
them, 36.

Endowment, state of, in the English Church, 48.
England, the condition of Ireland a reproach to her, 296.
407; likened to Turkey, 307; uncertain basis of her
prosperity, 475; extravagance of her government, 475;
her inconsistent humanity, 478; democratic party in,
479; her danger from Irish discontent, 485; her state
previous to the Reform Bill, 566; considers poverty in-
famous, 606; has made an enormous revolution within
ten years, 657; wants a little breathing time, 657;
equal division of parties in, 653; happiness enjoyed in,
664; danger of anarchy in, 665; envy and ill-will of the
Americans on account of her superior civilisation, 675;
her past injustice towards Ireland, 681; the best statutes
for her have been made since the Union, 681.
English, their prejudices, 6; their reserve, 34; M. Fievée's
charges against them, 36; their character in matters of
charity, 345; their character, 402. 560. 628; improvement
among, 565; their love of labour, 450; their conduct
during the revolutionary war, 495, 496. 502; their un-
acquaintance with war, 505; their feelings towards Dis-
senters, 506; their bigotry towards the Irish, 512. 518;
their excessive loyalty towards the king, 527; their pre-
judices regarding Catholics, 532; their excellent but
misdirected spirit, 534; causes of their stability, 539, 540.
English Church. See Church of England and Ecclesi-
astical Commission.

Epinay, Madame d', review of her Mémoires et Corré-
spondance, 228-233.

Episcopacy, exclusion of from the Upper House, 23.
"Erin go bragh!" suggestion for a better anthem, 681.
Establishments, 200.

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Ferocity, the natural weapon of the common people, 320.
Fiction, danger of varnishing characters in works of, 46.
Fievée, J., review of his Lettres sur l'Angleterre, 34-37;
his approach to pessimism, 35; his charges against the
English, 36; his charge of Anglomania against the
Encyclopédists, 36.

Finance, Necker's Observations on, reviewed, 25. See
also Taxes.

Fishery, pearl, account of, 41.
Foolahs, progress among, 72.
Foolometer, use of a, 632.
Fops, clerical, illustration of, 9.
Forests of Cayenne, 431.

Fox, Charles James, review of Dr. Parr's "Characters"
of, 145-150; review of his historical work, 150-162;
review of Heywood's Vindication of his History, 202-
213; anecdote of, 632.

Fragment on the Irish Roman Catholic Church, 679-688.
France, versatility of public opinion in, 24; its power, 17;
price of revolutionary lands in, 24; its difficulties, 25;
apprehensions of its power, 488. 492. 495. 496. 498. 503.
505. 508. 512, 513. 515, 516. 534.

French aristocracy, its probable restoration, 23, 24.
French revolution emulates the English revolution, 157.
Fry, Mrs., and her friends, exaggeration of their efforts
345. 356. 376.

Furniture, tax on, in America, 280.

G.

Galileo, his saying on the loss of his sight, 667.
Gamble's Travels in Ireland, 296.

Game, Mr. Bankes's Act against buying, 382; sale of, 215.
248-252; advantages of legalising the sale of, 385-387.
Game Laws, 244-252; review of the Hon. and Rev. W.
Herbert's Letter on, 379; their scandal and disgrace,
344. 370. 387; their amendment recommended, 313;
futility of severe laws against them, 314. 321. 331-338;
review of report of the House of Commons on, 379-
387; one fourth of commitments, for offences against
them, 384; absence of, in America, 399; reform of, 432;
cruelties of, 566.

Gaming, extract from Dr. Rennel's Sermon on, 6.
Gazi Hassan, notice of, 67.

Genealogy of nations, embarrassing circumstances in the
speculations concerning it, 30.

Generalities, fallacy of dealing in, in political argument,

423.

George III., protects Joseph Lancaster against the Church,
74.

George IV., his speech to the Hanoverians, 556.
Ghosts, belief in, has left the drawing-room for the
kitchen, 475.

Gibraltar, a useless and extravagant possession, 281.
Glory, consequences of the national love of, 283.

Gloucester, Bishop of, his attack on the author, 642; his
character, 643.

Government, rights of, 11; no other ultimatum in, than
perfect justice, 125; what the first object should be, 385;
constitutional, 419; absolute, 421; kingly, origin of, 432;
has nothing to do with theological errors, 488; what
it should be, 525, 549. 579, 580; cannot be carried on
without patronage, 626; its conduct to the Church, 631;
English, its extreme timidity and consequent violence,
235; its extravagance, 475; its cheapness in America,
234; its mildness in Denmark, 53.

Governments, effects of the moral sense on, 11.
Godly and ungodly, dangerous division of mankind into,

99.

Godwin, Mr., his principle of universal benevolence, 3;
refuted by Malthus, 8.

Grammar, should be taught after some knowledge of a
language is obtained, 457.

Granby, review of, 438-445.

Grand Vizier, instances of his ignorance, 67.

Grattan, his character, 307; his sense and moderation,
579; his want of habits of business, 650.
Greatness of mind, common notion of, 47.

Greek, importance attached to in English education, 166.
See also Latin.

Green, General Duff, reply to his letter to the Morning
Chronicle, 676.

Greenland, its inhabitants converted to Christianity by
John Egede, a Norwegian priest, 60; its chronology
dated from its conversion to Christianity, 61.
Grey, Earl, his character, 567. 570.

Grote, Mr., his dagger ballot-box, 652; its effect if adopted,
655. 663; his character and political conduct, 656; his
expectation of the effect of the ballot upon landlords,
658.

Guiana, trees of, 428.

Guldberg Ove, notice of, 50.

Gunpowder Plot, sermon on the anniversary of, 591-597.
Gurney, Mr., on Prisons, 327.

H.

Habeas Corpus Act, its suspension, 235.

Habits of the-honeybird, 43; musk-rat, 43; kangaroo,
254; ornithorhynchus, 254; the snake, 431. 434; the
campanero, 431; the toucan, 431; the sloth, 433; the
ant-bear, 433; the vampire, 433; the tortoise, 434; the
vulture, 432. 435.

Hall, Lieut., review of his Travels in America, 233-244.
Hamilton's method of teaching languages, 445-458; its
errors, 449. 453; testimony to its efficiency, 455.
Hanging, curious circumstance relating to the punish-
ment of, 56.

Hanoverians, speech of George IV. to the, 556.
Harmonites in America, 405.

Hatchard, Mr., persons meeting at his shop, 181.
Hawkesbury, Lord, his character, 500. 508. 513. 522. 527.
530.

Hayti, boast of the Emperor of, regarding punishment,
363.

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House of Lords, suggestions regarding it, 23; likened to
Mrs. Partington, 564.

Human nature, experiment upon it in New South Wales,
28.

Humane Society, review of Dr. Langford's Anniversary
Sermon for it, 12.

Humanity, on the ridicule cast upon, 271; its operation,
under the Poor-Laws, 291.

Hume, David, anecdote of, at Paris, 231.

Hume, Sir P., review of Lady Murray's Narrative of the
Adventures of, 150-162.

Hungary, parallel with Ireland, 529.

Hunting, description of, 132.
Huskisson, Mr., 522.

I.

India, our empire in, 37; missions in, 100-117; conse-
quences of the loss of caste in, 105; difficulty attending
the progress of Christianity in, 106; proceedings of the
evangelical party in, 111; Mahometans of, not converts
from Hindooism, 114; duty of conversion in, question-
able, 115, 116; introduction of Christianity into, 138;
difference of officers serving in, from those on European
service, 188.

Impropriators, lay, 122.

Imputations, fallacy of, as an answer to expedient mea-
sures, 420.

Informers, odious nature of their trade, 128; deterred
by public indignation, 384.

Ingram, Mr., review of his Causes of the Increase of Me-
thodism and Dissent, 86-100.

Innovation, source of the dislike of, 321; fallacy of the
cry against, 421.

Insanity, caused by Methodism, 97; Quaker treatment of

it, 222-227; no dependence on medicine for its cure,
226; curious case of, 227.

Insects, the curse of tropical climates, 434.
Inspectors of prisous, 329.

Institutions, good, are indispensable, 419; must be defen-

sible, 571; number marked for destruction in 1837, 626;
much easier to destroy when associated with mean
ideas, 632. 641.

Instruction, religious, in early life should be confined to
general principles, 78.

Interference of Providence, instances of, cited by Me-
thodists, 87-99.

Intimidation, of tenants by their landlords, and of shop-
keepers by their customers, 652; not confined to the
aristocracy, 654; ballot would afford no protection
against it, 658, 659.

Janissaries, their original constitution, 66, 67.
Jephson, Mr. and Mrs., mention of, 227.

Jersey, reason why smuggling could not be suppressed in,
568.

Jews prohibited from entering Norway, 60; equality of
their treatment in America, 397.
Johnson's Shooter's Guide, 313.
Joinville, Prince, 683.

Judges, their removability under Charles I. and II., 158;
policy of the law towards, as compared with bishops,
608; idiosyncrasies of, 469; differences among, 470;
inadequate number of, 470; that smite contrary to law,
535-540; jealousy with which juries should watch
them, 235; not to be trusted as counsel for prisoners,
353; absurdity of considering them as counsel for pri-
soners, 463. 466.

Intolerance, its lasting spirit, 198; Methodists' complaint Juries, jealousy with which they should watch judges,
of, 139.

Inundation in Denmark, 52.

Ireland, her conduct in the American war, 493. 578; our
proper policy towards her, 497; her forfeited lands, 498.
555; danger of tyrannising over her, 499. 552. 578. 581;
opposition to the Union in, 501; nearly lost during the
American war, 501; conduct of England towards, 502;
anticipated conduct of France towards her, 508; a mill-
stone about the neck of England, 511; concealment of
arms in, 514; probable invasion of, 515; exploits of
the invading force in 1796, 516; her statistics, 517;
practical evils in, 521; parallel with Hungary, 529; pre.
mium offered to invade her, 552; payment of the clergy
in, 555. 577; fruits of English government in, 556;
anticipated effects of emancipation in, 557. 574. 577;
Inquisition never existed in, 575; review of Parnell's
Survey of the History of, 80-82; never subdued till
the reign of Elizabeth, 81; conduct of Elizabeth to-
wards, 82; Brehon law of property in, 81; review of
the state of, 296-307; remedies for, 306; operation of
tithes in, 298, 299; tithes must be relaxed in, 503. 526;
Gamble's Travels in, 296; folly and rapacity of the
landlords of, 302; bigotry and party spirit of the Pro-
testants of, 296; absenteeism in, 300; middlemen the
standing grievance of, 300, 301. 366; injustice of the Eng-
lish Church in, 298, 299. 306; potatoes one cause of her
wretched condition, 303, 304; misgovernment of, 296.
305; difficulty of executing the laws in, 304; want of
coal in, 305; picture of ploughing in, 305; her de-
moralised peasantry, 320; baseness of her treatment
by England, 407; expenses of the wars in, 409; Ca-
tholic disabilities in, 411; Protestant Church in, 413;
Cromwell's conduct in, 410; natives of, in America,
437; quiet of, under Queen Anne, 482; Dr. Doyle the
Pope of, 483; power of the priests in, 485. 488; power
of the government to obtain the nomination of the
Catholic dignitaries in, 492; Orangemen of, 499. 520.
585; disfranchisement of voters in, 561; prevented only
by Grattan from separating from England, 579; increase
in her wealth and power, 581; forfeited estates in, 583;
conduct of Henry Cromwell in, 589; injustice to her in
the present state of the Catholic Church, 683.
Irish in America, 437.

Irreligion, stigma of the charge of, 76.

J.

Jacobinism, condemned, 11; detestable, 527; charged
against Dissenters, 86.

Jaffa, massacre and poisoning at, 63, 64.

James II., Fox's view of his conduct in regard to the
Catholic religion, 208-210; controversy between Mr.
Fox and Mr. Rose respecting his conduct, 159.

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Labour, objections to a fixed rate of, 32; compulsory, of
prisoners before trial, 387. 400; rates of, in New South
Wales, 259.

Lamb, George, encomium on, 458.

Lancaster, Joseph, review of Mrs. Trimmer's book on
his New Plan of Education, 74-78; his system may be
combined with that of Hamilton, 448; protected by
George III. against the Church, 74; rewards and pun-
ishments in his institution, 77; order displayed in his
school astonishing, 78.

Land, property of every man in the game upon his, 245.
Landlords, Irish, their folly and rapacity, 302.
Langford, Dr., review of his Anniversary Sermon for the
Humane Society, 12.

Laplanders, remark on their condition, 62.

Latin and Greek, too much of them in English education,
163-170; Hamilton's method of teaching, 447–458.
Law, want of reform in its processes, 237.
Lawrence, General, notice of, 37.

Laws, on the promulgation of, 149; obsoleteness of many,
476; their proper execution must depend upon public
opinion, 459; difficulties of obtaining any improvement
in them, 462; boasted lenity of the English, 351-354.
465; their operation in civil cases, 467; their caprice in
disallowing counsel to prisoners, 468. 470; fallacy of de-
claring them irrevocable, 416; their continuity by oath,
417, 418; folly of holding any to be unalterable, 500;
great improvement in the English, 556; requisites for
making those of England deserving the eulogium they

obtain, 471; difficult execution of, in Ireland, 304; for
the preservation of game, not favourable to the morals
of the poor, 245.

Lawyer that tempted Christ, 541–546.

Learning, classical, its abuse in England, 163–170.
Leeches of Ceylon, 43.

Legislation, incautious, since the passing of the Reform
Bill, 292.

Letter to the Electors on the Catholic Question, 572-590;
on the Character of Sir James Mackintosh, 188-196;
on Modern Changes, 678.

Letters on the Catholics by Peter Plymley, 487-534; on
the Ecclesiastical Commission, 603-644; on American
Debts, 672-679; on "Locking in upon Railways, 667-
671.

Lettres sur l'Angleterre, review of M. Fievée's, 34-37.
Lewis, Matthew, review of his tragedy of Alphonso, 15, 16.
Liberty and licentiousness of the press, 424.

Licences for watches in America, 280; number that would
be required in England, 281.

Limerick, treaty of, 126; violated, 478.

Lincoln, Bishop of, review of the charge delivered by
(1812), 213–219; his pamphlet on the church question,
628.633.

Linnæus, his secret of infecting oysters, 42.
Lister, Mr., review of his novel of Granby, 438-445.
Literature, advantages to women of cultivating, 172-181;
among the Americans, 240.

London, Bishop of, his government, 614. 633; his in-
justice to the Chapter of St. Paul's, 615. 621; his power
with the Ecclesiastical Commission, 617. 643; his sharp
sayings, 618; his industry, 618. 621; his real motives
and wishes, 623. 627.642; his large income, 630. 638. 647;
his charge, 634-643; his Eschylus, 643; his character,
643.

Longevity of the Norwegians, 58.

Lords, House of. See House of Lords.

Lottery, religious, in America, 241.

Lotteries in pearl oysters, 41.

Louis XIV., anecdote of, 68.

Louis XVI., on the execution of, 156; Fox's declarations

on the execution of, 204, 205.

Lovat, Lord, his appeal to be allowed counsel, 464.
Lunatic asylums, improved method in their management,
222; classification of their patients, 225; how managed
by the Society of Friends, 227.

Lynch-law, excuse for it, 403.
Lyndhurst, Lord, 628.

M.

Macdowall, General, his treatment and character, 188-
196.

Mackintosh, Sir James, letter on his character, 649–651;
his panegyric on Charles James Fox, 145.
Macquarrie, Governor, charges against, 367, 368–379.
Mad Quakers, 222-227.

Madras, review of Narrative of the Disturbances at, 187-
196.

Magistrates, large powers entrusted to them under the
Poor-Laws, 291; their power to order relief under the
Poor-Laws should be abolished, 292.

Mahometans in India, not converts from Hindooism, 114.
Mahratta Camp, Letters from a, 219–222.
Mahrattas, devastation caused by, 220; their barbarous
justice, 221; anecdote of a female soldier of, 221.

Malays, their character, 39.

Malthus, Mr., tribute to his memory, 8. note.

Mammon, its effect upon religion, 606. 639.

Manners, French, sketch of, 228.

Manufactures of America, 234. 275; Ashantee, 276;
Australia, 31; Denmark, 59. 259.

Map of England, ecclesiastical, 358.

Margaret, founder of the monarchy of Denmark, 50.
Marriage in Denmark, 55,

Marriage Bill, opposition to the Dissenters', 398.

Marsden, Rev. Mr., 369; his bearing towards convicts.
371.

Marsh, Bishop. See Peterborough, Bishop of.
Martineau, Miss, allusion to, 176.

Mary, Queen, her persecutions, 586.
Massacre at Jaffa, evidence of, examined, 63, 64.
Maximum of poor-rate, 338. 341–343.
Medical men, their courage, 65.

Melbourne, Viscount, his character, 625. 628.
Metayers in Denmark, 55.

Methodism, drives many to insanity, 97; review of Mr.
Ingram's book on the Causes of the Increase of, 86-
100; review of Mr. Styles's defence of, 135–142.
Methodistical reasoning on the interference of Providence,
87-100.

Methodists, terms by which they designate themselves, 92;
their influence and activity, 93; magnitude of their
collections, 94; their missionaries, 94; party for them
in the House of Commons and the India House, 95;
proselytism their great object, 95; their objections to
amusements, 96; their difference from the Established
Church, 96; their religious language, 97; their doc.
trine of theocracy, 95; proofs of miracles claimed by
them, 87-99; their perversion of miracles, 141; their
war against the orthodox clergy, 137; their complaint
of intolerance, 139; their pillage of the earnings of the
poor, 100.

Metropolis, Police of the, reference to, 47.

Middlemen, the standing grievance of Ireland, 300, 301.
306.

Milbank Penitentiary, 328.

Ministers, their duty towards an obstinate monarch, 503.
Minorities, almost always in the right, 350.

Miracles, improper reasoning upon them, 13; proofs of,
claimed by the Methodists, 87-99; Methodists' per-
version of them, 141.

Misanthropy, warning against, 545.

Misgovernment of Ireland, 296. 305.

Mission to the Ashantees, 272.

Missionaries, opposed by the Brahmans, 111; in Ceylon,
their success, 115.

Missionary proceedings in Bengal, 104-117.

Missionary Society, its missions, 101-111.

Missions among the Methodists, 94; in India, 100–117.

Modern Changes, Letter on, 678.

Modern sermons, their character, 5.

Monarch, an obstinate, duty of ministers towards, 503.
Monk, Bishop. See Gloucester, Bishop of.

Monk, Gen., his conduct at the Restoration, 157; his cha-
racter, 205, 206.

Moore, Thomas, review of his Memoirs of Captain Rock,
407-413.

Moral sense, its effects on governments, 11.

More, Mrs. Hannah, review of her work of Cœlebs in
Search of a Wife, 142-145.

Motives of men, how influenced, 217.

Munro, Colonel, his conduct at Madras, 187-196.

Murray, Lady, review of her Narrative of the Adventures
of Sir P. Hume, 161, 162.

Murray, C. K., his letter to the " Times," 629.

Musk-rat, account of the, 43.

Mussulmans of India not converts from the Hindoo faith,

114.

Mutiny at Vellore, 100; at Nundydroog, 100.

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