A

Abbas, the Great, of Persia, 346. Adelgitha, a tragedy, reviewed, 104. Advertisement for a wife, 131. Africans, character of, 330. Agriculture, communication to the board of-see Sheep Merino. Agricultural Society of Philadelphia, memoirs of, reviewed, 253. Society formed 1785, 254. Merino Sheep, ib. Account of butter from a dairy of 20 cows, 255. Manures, 256. Compost heap, 257. Diseases of wheat, ib. Live fences, 258. Statistical account of the Schuylkill permanent bridge, 259. Outlines of a plan for forming the society, 259. Alligator, etymology of, 110. Alphabetical sounds, plan for recording,

57.

Army, the French, how numerous, 386,

note.

Ann of Russia, anecdote of, 153.
Anecdotes, 131, 207, 352, 424.
Animals, Dr. Gall's method of ascertaining
the dispositions of, 274.

Ancient Times, a drama, reviewed, 185.
Antiochus, the Great, death of, 177.
Archeus, the genius of the stomach, ac-
count of, 224.

Ash mountain, bearing pears, 432.

B

Bagration, Prince Peter Ivonitch, memoirs of, 60. His early education, 61. Makes Suworoff his model, ib. Enrolled under his command, ib. Accompanies him to Bender, Belgrade, Ismael, Warsaw and Italy, 62, 63. To Switzerland, 66. Appointed general, 63. Campaign in Italy, ib. In Switzerland, 66. Returns to St. Petersburgh, 67. Affected by Suworoff's death, 68. Retires to Moscow, ib. Accompanies the emperour Alexander to

VOL. P.

His return to and re

Austerlitz, ib.
ception at Moscow, ib.

Baku, city of, and place of fire, 275. Barrow and lord Rochester, anecdote of, 353.

Banneker, Benjamin, death of, 138.
Barrington, Sir Jonah, anecdote of, 132.
Bay of Bengal, water spouts in, 2.
Beau Nasty, ridiculed by Cook, 416.
Bees, natural history of see Huber.
Bencoolen, unhealthy climate of, 4. Cure
of fevers by repeated effusions of cold
water, ib.

Bottineau, Mons. account of his art of discovering ships at a great distance, 410.

Bridge, Schuylkill permanent, 259. Brotherton, John, death of, 138. Buchanan's, Francis, journey from Madras, through Mysore, Canano and Malabar, reviewed. Character of the work, 81, 82. Establishment of the Christian religion in India, 83. Tippoo Saib's palace and military character, 83, 84. Account of the pepper trade, 84. Objects of the journey, 85. Account of the Brahmans, 86, 87. Division of produce in Hindoostan, 87. Account of the Niadis, 89. Of Garuda-giri, 145. Of the Goalas, ib. Of the elephant, 147. Of the cochineal, 148. Pepper plant, 149. Betel leaf, ib. Rice, 150 Palm, ib. Buffon, anecdote of, 354. Burns, his Tam O'Shanter, 347. An original song by, 351.

C

Calder, sir Robert, treated with great li

berality by lord Nelson, 406. Calomel, new process of producing, 355. Carter, Mrs. Elizabeth, memoirs of, reviewed, 91. Her restraint upon Punch at a puppet-show, ib. Her excursion to Spa

Gibbon, anecdote of, 428.

Glasses, how to restore the lustre of, 432. Glazing for Pottery, 357.

Gordon, George, poetry by, 209. Grant's, Mrs. letters from the Mountains, reviewed, 217.

Grant, Mr. account of his death, 219. Gravity, the law of, explained by Le Sage, on the principle of impulse, 247. Gretna Green, marriage manufactory at, 116. Language, ib. The priest, 117. His fees, ib. De officiis et beneficiis, &c. 118. Of certain prejudices, &c. 119. Grotto, a new; mephitick, discovery of, 284.

H

Hamilton, lady, instigated lord Nelson to take the command of the expedition off Trafalgar, 405.

Harriott's struggles through life,reviewed,

1. His adventurès at New York, ib. In India, 2, 12. At Acheen, 3. In England, 4. Originates the Thames police, 9.

Harrison's life of lord Nelson, reviewed, 399. See Nelson.

Henley, orator, anecdote of, 207.

swarm led by the old queen, 237. Young queens conducting the swarms leave the hive in a virgin state, 237. Instinct of bees, 238. Effects of mutilating the bodies of queens, ib. On the economical treatment of bees, 238, 239. The author blind, 239.

Hutchinson, colonel, memoirs of, reviewed, 299. Character of landed proprie. tors in England, ib. Of women, 301. Character of Mrs. Hutchinson, ib. His courtship of her, 304. Changes which took place on the accession of James and Charles, 306. Burghers and private gentlemen of Nottingham, 307. Oliver Cromwell, 309. Marriage of colonel Hutchinson, 306. Made governour of the castle at Nottingham, 312. Member of parliament, 313. His speech there, ib. Pardoned, 314. Committed to the tower, ib. His death, ib. Hutchinson, Mrs. her memoirs of colonel Hutchinson, reviewed, 299.

Hutchinson, Rev. Julius, editor of the memoirs of colonel Hutchinson, 299. Hydrocephalus, 158. Cure of it, 158.

I

tem of cookery, reviewed, 220.

Hodgdon, John, poetry by, 209. Holt, lord chief justice, anecdote of, 134. Home, Henry, lord Kames, memoirs of and early studies, reviewed, 164. His correspondence with Baxter, ib. Controversy with Dr. Clark, ib. Called to the bar, ib. His publications, 165, 166. domestick life, 165. Appointed a judge of the court of sessions, 166. Letter to him from Dr. Franklin, 167. death, 169.

His

Horse, directions for the purchase of a, 366.

Horse racing in Italy, 347.

Huber's natural history of bees, reviewed, 225. Queen bee, office of, 226. Impregnation of the queen, opinions on the subject, 227, 228. Huber's proof that it takes place in the upper regions of the air, 228. Singular consequences of retarding the impregnation, 228, 229. Working bees not neuter, but female, 230. Queens formed from the larvæ of workers, 230. Mode of accomplishing it, 231. Common working bees capable of laying eggs, 232. Rendered fertile by partaking of the food intended for the queen, 233. Combats of queens, ib. Conduct of the workers upon perceiving two queens in a hive, 234. Upon the loss of their queen, ib. Massacre of drones, 235. Formation of swarms, 236. Led by a single queen, ib. First

Ignotus's Culina Famulatrix Medicinæ, reviewed, 220.

Impressment, British, compared with
French conscription, 377.
Indian customs, remarks on, 82.
Infidelity, not the result of admiration of
heathen philosophers, 95.
Instinct of sheep, 195.

Intelligence, philosophical and economical, 216, 355, 430.

Iron, extracted from the eye by a magnet,

431.

J

Jervis, sir John, his private letter respect: ing the battle off St. Vincent's, 403. Johnson, Dr. anecdote of, 354. His character of Robert Levett, 414. Jones's, sir William, translation of a Persian ode, 430.

K

Kotzbue's Leontine de Blondheim reviewed, 397.

L

Lamb, Honourable G. comick opera by,

185.

Lancaster, Joseph, his plan of education,

reviewed. The method of, 73. Number of pupils, 74. Prizes, the reward of merit, 75. Monitors, their number and employment, 75. Cheapness of his system, 76. Rapidity of teaching, 77. Benefits of education to the poor, 78, 79.

Lapland manners and courtship, 127. Leontine de Blondheim, by Kotzbue, reviewed, 397.

Le Sage, life of, reviewed, 241. Defective memory, ib. His experiment to ascertain whether the Author of Nature rests upon the Sabbath, 242. Devotes himself to the study of mathematicks, and Philosophy, 242, 3. Account of his writings, 245. His death, and a sketch of his intellectual character, 246. His ingenious system to explain the law of gravity by the principle of impulse, 247, 8. Objections to it, 249. Teleology, or system of final causes, 251. Lessons for young persons, reviewed, 407. Letters from the Mountains, reviewed, 217. Account of the death of Mac Pherson, 218. Of Mr. Grant's death, 219. poem written at Bristol, ib. Levett Robert, memoir of, 413. Dr. Johnson's character of, 414.

A

Magnet, singular application of, 431. Malays, a ferocious people, 3. Their punishment, ib.

Manners, Lapland, account of, 127. Marmion, reviewed, 13. 37. Story of, 15. 38. Objections to it, 18. Improbability of its incidents, 19. Characters of it worthless, 20. Discrepancy between the title and substance of it, 21. Extracts from, 32 to 39. Poetical beauties of it 33. Poetical defects, ib. Marshals of the empire of France, account of their origin, 384--Note. Memory, uncommon strength of Dr. Porson's, 268.

Mirror dramatick, reviewed, 263. Moore, Sir John, memoirs of, 342. Born at Glasgow, ib. Accompanies his father on a tour through Europe, ib. Enters the army, ib. Rapid promotion, ib. At the evacuation of Tulon, ib. At the capture of Corsica, ib. Goes to the West Indies, 343. Gocs into parliament, ib. Campaign in Holland, ib. Goes to Jaffa, ib. To Egypt, ib. Battle of Aboukir, ib. Sicge of Cairo, ib.

Of Alexandria, ib. Return to England, 344. Commands the Kentish district, ib. Goes to Sweden, ib. Goes to Spain, ib. Commander in chief, ib. His retreat, 345. His death at Corunna, ib. Mordaunt, lieutenant colonel John, memoirs of, 186. His early life ib. Goes to India, 188. Appointed aid-de-camp to Azoph ul Dowlah, 189. Anecdotes of, 190, 1. Skill at cards 191. Metaphysical duel, 193. His death, 195. Morland George, life of, reviewed, 40. His education, ib. His extravagancies, 41. 43. Copies Dutch and Flemish artists, 42. Goes to France, 43. Demand for his pictures, ib. Anecdote of, 44. His habits and irregularities, 45. His mode of painting, 45. 46. Mountain, magnetick, 431. Mountain Ash bearing pears, 432. Munnich, Count de, memoirs of, reviewed, 151. Intrusted with the direction of the Ladoga Canal, 152. Effects a revolution in Russia, 153. Exiled to Siberia, 155. Employment there, ib. Recalled, ib. Devoted to Peter III. ib. Acquiesces in the authority of Catharine, 156. His death, ib.

N

Nanscopy, account of, 410.

Nelson, lord, the Life of, by Harrison, reviewed, 399. His disposition and character, ib. Hatred of the French, 400. Liberality, 400. Political discernment, 401. Domestick character faulty, 402. His adopted daughter, ib. Innocent of the charge of gaming, ib. His conduct in the battle off St. Vincents, 403.

Letter from the mouth of the Nile, ib. Inscribed his name in a parochial bible, 404. Singular interview with a wine merchant at Hamburgh, ib. Treatment of Dumourier, 405, Interview with major Semple, the noted swindler, ib. Persuaded by lady Hamilton to take the command of the expedition which terminated in the battle of Trafalgar and his own death, ib. His liberality to sir Robert Calder, 406. Presentiment of his death, 406. Newton, Sir Isaac, anecdotes of, 424. His wind-mill, ib. Water clock 425. Habits at school, ib. Kites, lanterns, and sun-dials, ib. His drawings, 426. His dislike to and neglect of agricultural business, 426, 7.

Newtonian theory of gravitation opposed by Le Sage, 247 et seq.

Niadis, an outcast tribe in Malabar, 89. Nocturnal aërial ascension by Garnerin, 124.

Nosegay, a poem, 429.

Oil, mountain, near Baku, 275. Ornithology, Wilson's American, reviewed, 48. Blue jay, 50. Baltimore bird, 51. Wood thrush, ib. Robin, 52. Woodpecker, 52. Blue bird, 110. Orchard oriole, 111. The great American shrike, or butcher bird, 111. The wren, 112. Woodpeckers, 114.

Osborn's method of proving swords, 71. Otaheite, letters from the king of, 417. Owenson, Miss, her Woman, or Ida of Athens reviewed, 394. Rapidity of her composition, 396.

Ode of Jami, in the Persian form and measure, 430.

Peters Richard, his outlines of a plan for establishing the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, 259.

Pigeons, remarkable instinct of, 278. Picture of the coronation of Napoleon, by David, 418.

Pitt, William opposes the slave trade, 323.

Platina, its superiority for making the pendulum spring of watches, 355. Poetry, 70, 136, 20, 285, 354, 429. Poland, travels through by a Livonian, reviewed, 361. Account of a noble family of Warsaw, 361. Account of Dresden, 363. Description of the salt mines of Saltzburgh, 363.

Pomare, king of Otaheite, letters from,

417.

Pombal, Marquis de, Memoirs of, 201. His studies, ib. Sent on a secret mission to Vienna, ib. Appointed secretary of foreign affairs, ib. His power and influence, ib. His avarice and wealth, 203. His disgrace and retirement, 205. Death and character, ib. Pollock's patent stove, description of, 123.

Pollen, Colonel death of, 138

Porson, Memoirs of, 264. Progress in learning, 265. Elected Greek professor at Cambridge, 266. Marriage, ib. Uncommon memory, 268. Method of acquiring it, 260, Anecdote of, 353. Pretender the, anecdote of, 132. Pully M. discovered a new mephitick grotto near Naples, 284.

Q Quail-fighting, account of, 109. Queen Hoo-Hall, a romance, 185.

R

Raphael, a painting by, discovered, 427.
Raynal, abbé de, sketch of, 162.
Religion, Christian, establishment of in
India, 82.

· and Morality, the duties of, reviewed, 261. Rhodolph, emperour of Germany, anecdote of, 352.

Rifle-shooting by the Swiss, 273.
Rifle-corps of France, account of the, 278.
Ryeland Sheep crossed with the Merino,
392.

S

Sabbath, not a day of rest to the Author of nature, or a curious experiment by Le Sage, 242.

Salt mines of Saltzburgh, described, 363. School for Authors, a new drama, 422. Scripture, investigation of certain passages of, 198, 279.

Sellacia, battle of, 176. Semple, major, the noted swindler, relieved by lord Nelson, 405.

Shakspeare, Douce's illustrations of, 105. Sheep, diseases of, 159. Instinct of, 195. Sheep Merino, an essay on the nature of,

produce, &c. reviewed, 387. Quantity of Spanish wool imported into England, ib. Description of the Merino sheep, 388. Spanish mode of treating the flocks, 389. Different kinds of wool, 390. Origin of the breed, 391. Breed improved in France, 392. Mixture of the Merino with the English Rycland, 392.

Sheridan, anecdote of, 354.
Ships, built of fir, 356.

the art of discovering at a great distance, 410.

Simile for reviewers, a poem by Sterne, 429.

Skarlotz, anecdote of, 352.

Slave trade, history of the abolition of the, reviewed, 315. Character of, 315, et seq. Abolitionists, 320. Character of the work, 332.

Smith, Charlotte, a poem by, 137. Poetry by, 285.

Soap, manufacture of, 357.
Sporting Tour, reviewed, 99.
Stair, lord, singular account of, 408.
Steel, remarkable property of, 357.
Steele, sir Richard, anecdote of, 133.
Steevens, George, his memoir of Robert
Levett the inmate of Dr. Johnson, 413.
Stings cured by salt, 432.