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accompanies the trumpet, every age of human agility, every attitude, every feature of alarm, haste, hurry, exertion, eagerness, burst into so many rays, like sparks flying from the hammer. Many have reached, some boldly step, some have leaped on the rocky shore; here two arms emerging from the water grapple with the rock, there two hands cry for help, and their companions bend over or rush on to assist them; often imitated, but inimitable is the ardent feature of the grim veteran whose every sinew labours to force over the dripping limbs, his cloaths, whilst gnashing, he pushes the foot through the rending garment. He is contrasted by the slender elegance of a half-averted youth, who, though eagerly buckling the armour to his thigh, methodizes haste; another swings the high-raised hauberk on his shoulder, whilst one who seems a leader, mindless of dress, ready for combat, and with brandished spear, overturns a third, who crouched to grasp a one naked himself buckles on the mail of his companion, weapon and he, turned toward the enemy, seems to stamp impatiently the ground. Experience and rage, old vigour, young velocity, expanded or contracted, vie in exertions of energy. Yet in this scene of tumult one motive animates the whole, eagerness to engage with subordination to command; this preserves the dignity of action, and from a straggling rabble changes the figures to men whose legitimate contest interests our wishes."

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ART. XVI. Contes à mes Fils, &c.; i. e. Tales for my Sons, by KOTZEBUE. Translated from the German into French by Friéville. 12mo. 2 Vols. Paris. Imported by Treuttel and Würtz. Price 138.

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THE HE morality of these tales is very unequal. More evil than good seems likely to be taught by L'Espiègle,' 'Le Sournois, and some others: but several in the collection are excellent, exposing the bad consequences of youthful follies, and the good resulting from self-controul and honourable principles, with a variety and interest which are worthy of the celebrated writer whose name appears in the title-page.

INDEX

INDEX

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume,

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

ACHELOUS, poetic license

B

taken by Hesiod in his de-Bailiff, taken in to pay for his
nomination of that river, 262.

Acropolis of Corinth, modern
visit to, and fine prospect
from, 351.

Eschines, his great qualities, 17.
His contest with Demos-
thenes, 157.
Africa, observations on the en-
couragement given to dis-
coveries in, and on the con-
duct of the Committee of
African Merchants, 68-73.
Alcinous, island of, conjectures
respecting, 260.
Alexander the Great, early con-
duct of, in his disputes with
Athens, 164. His visit to
the site of Troy, 167.
Arago, M., his remarkable diffi-
culties and dangers, 520.
Arconville, Mad. d', her writ-
ings, 536.

Armies, English and French,
comparative losses of, 456.
Discipline of the former, 460,
461.

Athenians, manners of, after the

battle of Mantinea, 12, 13.
Athens, recent and minute sur-
vey of, 269. View of the
habits and manners of the
modern Athenians, 336, &c.
Population of, 347.
Atterbury, Bishop, remarks on
supposed letters of, 536.
Attraction, magnetic, important

observations on, 23, 24.
Autumn, poetically described,
309.

APP. REV. VOL. XCII.

dinner at a French hotel in
London, poetically related,

213.
Ball, or

Country-Assembly,

fashionable conversation after
one, 378.

Barra, account of that island,
358.

Beasts, Court and Parliament
of, specimens of that poem,
322.
Begging, society for the pre-
vention of, 420.

Bernadotte, John Baptist Julius,
his military career, and ac-
cession to the Swedish throne,
509-512. His high cha-
racter, 513.
Berwick, Lord, cause of his ab-
sence from the armies during
the Spanish war, 469.
Biot, M., on rotations of axes of
polarization of luminous rays,
516. His report of the geo-
detic operations, 519. His
account of M. Arago's diffi-
culties and dangers, 520. His
unhandsome treatment of his
English scientific companions,
494.522.524.
On the laws
of refraction and polarization,
524.
Bishop, modern Greek, his pri-
mitive style of living, 265.
Bitterns, particulars concerning,
145.
Bonaparte, poetic musings on
his exile at Elba, 207. Spe-
cimens of his official corre-
spondence while in Egypt,

Nn

497

497-499.

His character of

Sir Sidney Smith, 499. Let-
ter to him, from La Fayette,
500.

Bramin, of Bengal, his prefer-
ence of the doctrines of
Christ, 173..
Bravery, English and French,
compared, 458.
Brewster, Dr., unhandsomely
treated by the French philo-
sophers, 494. 522. 534.
Bridges, military, on the con-
struction of, 274.
Brunet's hotel, supposed dinner
at, given by a debtor to a
bailiff and his follower, poeti-
cally narrated, 213.
Bustards, account of, 142.
Bute, Lord, observations on his
political ministry, 194.
On
his accuracy of political as-
sertion, 197. His private
good qualities, 198.

C

Cambray, league of, its effects,
481. Wars consequent on,
483.

Canna, island, account of, 370.
Cape of Good Hope, its value to
England, 454.

Carlos, Don, son of Philip II. of
Spain, remarks on his case
and treatment, 479.
Caspian Sea, fishery of, 126.
People on the borders of, 127.
Catechism, or summary of doc-
trines of the Vedant, 175.
Catherine, of Russia, observations
on her conduct respecting the
Princess of Wirtemberg, 187.
Cavalry of England, observations
on, by a Frenchman, 454.
Cave, near Vicenza,
smothered in, 482.
Charles II., King of Spain, See
Spain.

people

V., his letter to the In-

quisitors, 477.
Chatelet, Marquis and Marchio-

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Chlorophæite, a substance found
in the Western Islands of
Scotland, 371.

Climate, of Persia, 149. Of
Greece, 339.

Climax, in oratory or writing,
observations on, 106.
Coke, Mr., his uncommon liber-
ality of view in his agricul-
tural pursuits, 444..

Coll, account of that island, 358.
Collier, Jeremy, strictures on
his view of the English stage,

66.
Colonies, policy of England re-
specting, 454.

Colonna, Marcian, a poem, ac-
count and specimens of, 311
-317.
Comanians, a people near the

Caspian, account of, 127.

Comedy, observations on, 59.66.
Commons, House of, bribed to

approve the peace of 1763,
196.

Comó, beautiful situation of, 206.
Compass, mariner's, origin of, 19.
Its defects at the present day,

20.

Bad quality of the com-
passes in the British navy, 28.
See Magnet.
Contrast, verses on the death of
George III., 447:
Corfu, recent visit to, 259.
Strange superstition prevail-
ing there, 345..
Corinth, recent description of,
351.
Crystals, See Biot.

D

Dalmatia, account of islands on
the coast of, 257.
Dancing, anecdote of, 401.
Dandy, that equivocal being
poetically described, 105.
Day, Mr., anecdotes of, 391---

393.

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Earth, on the figure of, 517.
525. Measurement of, Re-
port of the operations for,
519.
Edgeworth, Mr., biographical
particulars of, 388-402.
Education, classical, advantages
of, 283.

Egg, island of, geology of, 372.
Egypt, investigations respecting
itsmythology, 227–242. Ob-
servations on the valley of, 517.
Einarson, Halfdan, memoir of,
530.
Elba, poetical reflections on con-

templating that island, 207.
Eliza's ring, verses on, 407.
Epaminondas, his death prejudi-
cial to the Athenians as well
as to the Thebans, 12.
Equations, linear, on the inte-
gration of, 523.

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Fairest, Sweetest, Dearest, à
song, 387.

Fairies, speech and chorus of,
404.

Fairy Queen, strictures on that
poem, 63.
Fitzclarence, Lieut.-Col., his high
character of Rammohun Roy,
a Bengal Bramin, 176,
Fixmilner, Placidus, account of,
53I.

Flodda, island, account of, 366,
Flogging, in the English army,
remarks on, 460.

Fluids, elastic, on the motions
of, 518.

Foix, Gaston de, character of,
483.

Forster's Gallery of Engravings,
account of, 541.
Fox and Pitt, comparison of the
eloquence of those statesmen,
191. The former accused of
personal insult to the King,
and defended, 192, 193. Ob-
servations on his coalition with
Lord North, 199. Remarks
on Mr. Fox's India-Bill, 202.
France, troops of, their beha-
viour in Italy in the 16th cen-
tury, 485.

Fratta, Giovanni, biography of,
531.
Frogs, in Greece, their note re-

sembling the chorus in Aris-
tophanes, 347. note.
Fuseli, Mr., his commentary on
Michel Angelo's Cartoon of
Pisa, 543.

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turesque beauties of that
island, 369.

Gavirol, Soliman Ben, memoir
of, 531.

Gay's chair, account of the dis-
covery of, 101. Supposed new
poems by Gay, found in it, 102.
Geology of the western islands of
Scotland, 355-375.
George III., anecdotes of, 445.
Verses on his death, 447.
Georgia, remarks on that pro-
vince, 125. 128.
Gerania, Mount, passage of, in
the road to Corinth, 349.
Germany, soldiers of, their cha-
racter as invaders of Italy in
the 16th century, 485.
Germination, remarks on, 440.
Gibbs, Colonel, on increasing the

power of gun-powder, 495.
·Ginguené, M., memoir of, 537.
Gjoeranson, John, account of,
532.

Girard, M., on the valley of
Egypt, 517. On inundations
at Paris, 523.

Gladiolus cardinalis, made to
grow in the open air in Ireland,
441.
Gneiss islands, on the western
coast of Scotland, geological
particulars of, 355:
Gooseberry, observations on the
seeds of, 440.
Greece, difficulties of writing a
history of, 1. Account and
specimens of Mr. Mitford's
history, 6-18. 155—172.

, modern, recent parti-
culars relative to, and to the
habits and manners of the peo-
ple, 265. 268. 338. 348. See
Athens.

-, Drama of, see Drama.
Gregory, Dr., remarks on his
conduct towards Dr. Crombie,
78-87.

1

Guadet, M., memoir of, 532.
Gun-powder, on increasing the
strength of, 495.

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H
Hamlet, his character discussed,
as exhibited by Shakspeare,
54. 56.
Harris, account of that island,
362.

Haym, Nicholas Francis, ac-
count of, 533.

Heat, in Persia, excessive, 149.
Hindus, remarks on the mytho-
logy of, 238.
Hippolitus, Death of, a picture
said to be painted by Rubens,
the real work of Diepenbeke,
542.

History, general, of modern

Europe, specimen of dialo-
gues on, 108.
Hornemann, Frederic Conrad,
memoir of, 534.

Hume, Mr., observations on his
theory that polytheism was the
primary religion of mankind,

228.

Hymn on the falling of the Tem-
ple at Jerusalem, 430.
Hyperion, a poem by Mr. Keats,
specimens of, 307.

I and J

Iceland, number of writers and
books in, 530.

India-Bill, of Mr. Fox, defend-
ed, 202.

Indians, a play, extracts from,
35.

Inquisition, in Spain, its ravages.
in the sixteenth century, 473
-480.
Inundations, at Paris, Memoir
on, 523.
Iona, geological and statistical
particulars of that island, 356.
Its population, ib.
Islands, Western, of Scotland,
difficulty of passing from one
to another, from the want of
boat-accommodation, 360.
Italy, state of, in the sixteenth
century, 481-490. Hopes
of her yet future greatness,
490.

Ithaca,

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