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VOL. XXVII. NEW SERIES.

Abosharon, description of the temple of the

fire worshippers there, 402, et seq.
Advent, the Redeemer's, the Rev. J. H.

Stewart's practical view of it, 185,

314.
Advocate, the female missionary, 439,

452.
Aged, duties and consolations of the,

Belfrage's discourses on the, 374, et
- seq.
Alexandria, ils present wretched stale, 133.
Apocalypse, on the general structure of

the, by J. H. Prere, 186, 314.
April, poem on, by John Clare, 511, et seq.
Army, British, narrative of the cam-

paigns of the, at Washington and New
Orleans, in the years 1814 and 1815,
142, et seq. ; claims of the Americans
on the score of naval and military su-
periority excessive, 142; merits of
Mr. James's 'Full and Correct Ac-
count," 143; character of the present
work, ib.; the author embarks for
America, 144 ; sketch of the Bermudas,
ib.; landing of the troops on the banks
of the Patuxent, ib.; march upon
Washington, 145; its capture, 146;
march upon Baltimore, 147; the au-
thor's feelings previous to landing, ib. ;
death of Gen, Ross, ib. ; his character,
148; defeat of the American troops, ib.;
the enterprise against Baltimore aban-
doned, 149; dangerous . excursion of
some of the officers, 149, 50; the au-
thor lands at Jamaica, and moralizes
upon slavery, 151; expedition against
New Orleans, ib.; night attack of the
Americans upon the bivouac of General
Keane, 152, 3.

naries, 231; reflections on certain
mysterious events in the annals of
missionary enterprise, 232, 3; stanzas
on the glory usually depicted round the
head of the Saviour, 234; on the passion

flower, 234, 5; lines on the dead, 236, 7.
Bathing, cold, warm, and sea, observa-

tions on, in regard to obviating dys-

pepsia, 420, et seq.
Belcher's poetical sketches of biblical

subjects, &c., 377, et seq.; the last

plague of Egypt, 378, 9.
Beldam's summary of the laws pecu-

liarly affecting Protestant Dissenters,
&c., 521, el seq; the case of the Dis-
senters invidiously mixed up with that
of the Roajan Catholics, 521, 2; Mr.
Burke's hatred of abstract principles,
522 ; rise of the Test act, 523, 4; va-
rious attempts to relieve the Dissen-
ters, 524, 5; the annual indemnity
bill, 526; the Dissenters should not
petition on the ground of abstract
principles of right, 528; the most
important point of the Catholic ques-
tion considered, 529, et seq.; reasons,
exclusive of the claims of the Dissen-
ters, why the Test act should be re-
pealed, 531; on taking the sacrament
as a qualification for office, 532, 3;
remarks on the reply,' This is not the

time,' 534.
Belfrage's discourses on the duties and

consolations of the aged, 374, el seg. ;
subjects treated of, 375; duties of win-
ter, 376; unsuitableness of sloth to the

prospect of an aged saint, 376, 7.
Bermudas, sketch of the, 144.
Bible, cottage, and family expositor,

337, et seq.
Blackburn's reflections on the moral aud

spiritual claims of the metropolis,
&c., 465, et seq. ; modern London, an-
cieni cities and villages included in it,
465; list of ils various places of Worship,
466 ; proportion of the population not at-
tending any place of worship, ib.; num-
ber of the persons committed to Newgate
in 1826, ib. ; increase above the prior
year, ib. ; calculation as to the num-
ber of communicants west of Temple
Bar, 467; increase of the Roman Ca-

at Windsor, ib. ; their departure for
Owhyhee, ib.; a revoll in the island
suppressed, 294; landing of the bodies
of the late King and Queen, ib.;
Lord Byron visits the crater of the
great burning mountain, 295; cou-
rageous behaviour of a female chief, scho
had embraced Christianity, 296, 7;.c.
rious anecdote relaled by an old priest
concerning himself, 297; departure of
the frigate for England, ib.; strange
conduct of Mr. Bingham and his
fellow missionaries, ib. ; the officers
land in a solitary but christianised
island, 298; arrival at Conception,
ib.; grand review by the Araucarian
chiefs, &c. 298, 9; singular account of
a wreck, and of the rescue of six
wretched seamen, 299.

tholics, and list of their places of wor.
ship, 468; cause of the origin of the
sociely for promoting christian instruc-
tion in London, 468, 9; reflections on
the increasing extension of the me-

tropolis, 469, 70.
Blonde, Loril Byron's account of the

voyage of the, to the Sandwich Is-

lands, 289, et seg.
Bloomfield's recensio synoptica annota-

tionis sacræ, &c. 348, et seq. ; origin
of Dr. Campbell's work on the gos.
pels, 349; the author's difficulty in
forming the present work, ib.; his au.
thorities, 350 ; the theological critics
of Germany, 351; the author's remarks
on various passages in Malther's gos.
pel, 352, et seq. ; on the exclamation
of the Centurion, 357; remarks on
various passages in Luke's gospel, 358,
9; cerlain passages in John's gospel
considered, 360, et seg.; character and

execution of the work, 366, 7.
Boyer unites the whole island of Hayti

under his government, 573.
Brandenburg, the Marquis of, his noble

firmness at the diet of Augsburgh, 541,
Bread, as an article of food, Mr. Thack

rah's observations on it, 279.
Burder's, John, final state of the hea.

then, 163, et seq. ; difficulty of the
subject, ib. ; it is not created by re-
velation, 164 ; two distinct penalties
denounced against the heathen for their
idolatry and immorality, 165, 6; be-
nignant aspect of the gospel in regard
to the heathen, 167; on the state of
the children of the heathen, ib.; lhe case
of competent intellect and imbecillity con-
sidered, 167, 8 ; God regards the dispo-
silion of the heart more than mere accu.

racy of knowledge, 168.
Burmese, character of the, 182.
Bussorah, description of the city of, &c.

387.
Byron's, Lord, voyage of the Blonde to

the Sandwich Islands, 289, et seq. ;
succession of the Owhyhee kings
from the time of Captain Cook, 290 ;
character of Tamehameha, ib. ; ac-
cession and character of Riho Riho,
ib. ; his design in visiting England,
290, 1; embarks with an American
captain, 291; dishonourable conduct of
the Captain, 291; excellent conduct
of the royal party while in England,
291, 2; illness and dealk of the Queen,
292; grief and death of the King, 293;
reception of the chiefs by the King

Cadiot, M., authentie narrative of his

conversion to the Protestant faith,
and of his death, 456, et seq.; he be-
comes dissatisfied with the doctrines, &
of the Romish church, 463; is deprived
of his cure, ib. ; sellles at Ardusa, as a

private tutor, 464.
Calendar, Clare's shepherd's, 509, et

seg.
Campaign of the British army at Wash-

ington and New Orleans, in 1814 and

1815, narrative of it, 142, et seq.
Cane, the gold-headed, 453, el seq. ; Dr.

Baillie's gold-headed cane presented,
by his widow, to the council of the
college of physicians, 453; list of the
former proprietors of the cane, ib. ;
the present work the ' Tales of the
Cane,' ib.; account of Dr. Radcliffe,
ib. ; high estimation in which he was
held, ib. ; his death hastened by his
dread of the populace, ib.; he enter-
tains Prince Eugene, ib. ; his order
respecting the dinner, 453, 4; descrip.
lion and behaviour of the prince, ibi;
Dr. Radcliffe entitled to rank anoog
the benefactors of mankind, 454;
character of Dr. Mead, ib. ; notice
of Dr. Askew, ib. ; of Dr. Pitcairn,
ib. ; of Dr. Baillie, 454, 5; anecdote

of him, 455, 6.
Carpenter's popular introduction to the

study of the Holy Scriptures, 254, et
seg.
Catholics, Roman, in London, increase of,

and list of their places of Worship, 468.
Champollion le jeune, Lettres à M. le

Duc de Blacas D'Aulps, &c. par M.,
124, et seq. ; history of the collection
of Egyptian antiquities treated of in

the present work, 124 ; tbe collection the text, 556; strictures on the ser-
is purchased by the king of Sardinia, mon on the Trinity, 556,7; his ob-
ib.; account of some of the rare servations on the leil, “ Take heed to
and valuable objects contained in the your doctrines,” 558,9; on the duty of
Turin museum, 125; the name of servent prayer for the establishment of
Osymandyas said to be found on one Messiah's kingdom, 559, 60; extract,
of the papyri, ib. ; design of the au from the discourse on the day of judge-
thor in the present letters, ib. ; vani. ment, 561; four parliculars in which the
ty and candour of the author, 126; laws and opinions of men are nol agree-
judicious reply of Canova to Napole able to the revealed will of God, 561, et
on, ib. ; Dr. Richardson's reinarks seq.; adultery, ib. ; self-murder, ib. et
on the inexhaustible wonders of E seq.; duelling, 562; man-slealing, ib.
gypt, ib. ; Babylon, not Egypt, the el seg,
tirst link in the chain of ancient art, Contrasi, a, by T. K. Hervey, 93, 4.
ib. ; the author's account of the roya Corinthians, St. Paul's first epistle to
al legends contained on the pillars in the, Tolley's para phrase of, 54, el seg.
the l'urin Museum, 127; the genea. Covenanters, the, a sonnel, 69.
logical tablet of Abydos, ib.; the Cowslips, 155, 6.
early chronology of Egypt involved Cry, the Suttee's, to Britain, by J. Pegys,
in great obscurity,-cause of it, ib.; 550, el seq.
difficulties occasioned by the loss of Cuninghame's scheme of prophetic ar-
otber valuable documents, 127, 8; rangement of the Rey. E. Irving, &c.
attempt of the author and his brother critically examined, 186, 314.
to discover the name, era, &c. of Osy-
mandyas, 128,9; conquest of Egypt, Dead, lines on the, by Bernard Barton,
by the Shepherd Kings, in the reigo 236, 7.
of the last king of the 16th dynasty, Dessalines crowned emperor of Hayti,
129, 30; no name of the Shepherd 566.
Kings yet discovered on any monu Devotedness, christian, 169, et seq. ; the
ment, 130; names of some of the author's slalement of the principle lo which
collateral dynasty, ib.; account of primitive christianity owed much of its
Ramses VI. in the 19th dynasty, ib. ; üresistible energy, 170; his motto,
cartouches of the 20th, 21st, and with remarks on his mode of treating
22nd dynasties, 131.

it, 171 ; the language of the motto
Charity of the gospel, its tendency, 66. not to be understood literally, 172;
Characteristics, Lewis's christian, 64, et the author's reasons for concluding that
seq.

our Saviour spoke literal truth, 173;
Christian devotedness, 169, et seq.

his reasons examined, ib. el seq. ; case
- - Evidence Society, answer to of the church at Jerusalem, 174; on

the manifesto of the, 379, el seg. ; laying up for children, 176; poverty and
purport of this tract, 379; on the dependence best for them, ib, ; the au-
nature of the various readings and infe thor's strange misrepresentation of the

rences lo be drawn from them, 380, 1. conduct of our Saviour, 177.
Christophe proclaimed king of Hayti, Diet, Dr. Paris's treatise on, 97, el seg,
567 ; bis tragical death, 578.

Digestion and diet, Thackrah's lectures
Cbrist, Scott's history of the church of, on, 97, et seq.
536, et seq.

Dissenters, Protestant, Beldam's sum-
Circles, modern Roman, character of, mary of laws peculiarly affecting

them, 521, et seq.
Clare's Shepherd's Calendar, 509, et Domingo's, M. de Santo, Roman tablets,

seq. s progress of pastoral poetry, 33, et seq.
510; poem on April, 511, et seq. ; on Donne, Dr., his version of the 1371h psalm,
July, 515, et seq. ; death of Sally Grey, 75, 6.
519, 20.

Donnegan's new Greek and English lexi-
Coleman's sermons, doctrinal and prac con, 427, et seq.

tical, 553, et seq. ; remarks on the Douglas's advancement of society in
sermon on the duty of studying the knowledge and religion, 185, 314.
Apocalypse, 554 ; the author's selec. Duelling, remarks on, 562.
tion of writers on this subject injudi- Economy, political, Mr. Malthus on a
cious 554, 5; his misapplication of much disputed point in, 229, el seg,

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