JANUARY, Mexican festivals in, 269 James II., 495, 497
Jasper Wilson, a work by Dr. Currie, 418 Jewels, precious in Sinde, 583
Jordan, Mrs., life of, 28-birth of, 29- her appearance at York, 30-first ap- pearance in London, 31-declared admi- ration of the Duke of Clarence for, 33- letter from, 34-anecdote of, 35-her separation from the Duke, 40-a letter from, 41-settlement on her, and letter, 43-her melancholy death, 45-reflec- tions on, 46
Journal of a Nobleman, 499 Judges in ancient France, 171-modern, 172—English, under the local jurisdic- tion bill, 174-in America, 183 Juges de paix, jurisdiction of, 172 July, ancient Mexican festival in, 266 June, ancient Mexican festival in, ib. Justice, administration of, in ancient Mexico, 264-in France, 168
KALUSHES, the natives of Sitka, which
Kangaroo, anatomy of, 147
Karatch, or Greek capitation tax, 464 Keepsake, the, for 1831, account of, 48 Le, Français, 61
Keith, Rev. A., his Evidence of Christia- nity, 476
Kennedy, W., poetry of, 18-character of, 19, 27
Kenrick, Rev. J., his Abridgment of Zumpt's Latin Grammar, 156 Khans of India, 576
Kingsborough, Lord, his assistance in the Antiquities of Mexico, 257
Knowles, J., his Life of Fuseli, 619
Kotree, site of, 570
Kotzebue, O. Von, new Voyage round the World, 79
Laura, the, of Petrarch, account of, 297 Laurel, the, 159
Lawrence, Sir T., Lord Byron's opinion of, 233
Lays from the East, by R. C. Campbell, 316 Leeches, 322
Lenses, account of those used in light- houses, 242
Letters from Lord Bolingbroke, 569-Pope, 572-Duchess of Marlborough, 573 Leopold, Prince, effect of the announce- ment of his appointment as King of Greece, 108-abdication of, 111 Libel, curious mode of compensating, 77 Life, remarks on, 519
Light, refraction of, 287
Light-houses, the illumination of, 240– ancient method of, 241-French method of, 242
Lingard, Dr. J., his History of England, 483-his merits as a historian, 484-his character of Cromwell, 490 Literature, Calmuc, 195
LABOUR, remarks on, 312
Lagoon Island, inhabitants of, 610 Lamp, the safety of, Davy, 380 Landscape, Annual, the, for 1831, 56 Landlords and tenants, advice to, 617 Languages, some of those into which the Bible has been translated, 13- the English, Pinkerton's proposed alterations in, 64-Walpole's letter on, 66-miracle in the speaking of unknown, 209 Language, 614
Lungs, cure for disease of, 626
M'DONALD, J., a miracle worker in Scot- land, 208
Machinery, praying by, 194
Mackintosh, Sir James, his History of Eng. land, 484
Madonnas, those painted by Raphael, 357 Madrid, coffee-houses of, 447-peculiar inhabitants of, 451-lodgings in, 536—a scene in, 537-social pleasures of, 541- the prado of, 542 Malmaison, story of, 513 Malt Liquor Test, 478
Malthus, anecdote of his essay, 423 Man, thoughts on, 515-observations on, 524-6
Manley, Mr., poems by, 202
Maouna, inhabitants of, cannibals, 85 Marchmont Papers, the, 563-Earls of, ib. Marlborough, Duchess of, letters from, 573
Marriages, number of, in Paris, 285-in Great Britain, 286, customs at, in Mexico, 261
Martignac, Mon., anecdote of, 161 Massaniello, a grand opera, 314 Masters, advice to, 617
Mauritius, Recollections of the, by a Lady, 385-manners of the Creoles of, 387- account of a tragical event in, 388 Martyndale, Rev. H., his calender of the Church of England, 317 Mathematics, use of, 289 Maxwell, a novel, 113
Meals, ancient Mexican custom at, 260 Meals in Madrid, 540
Meals in Pitcairn Island, 607
Mechanics, gross mistake respecting the laws of, 142
Medici, Lorenzo de, account of, 301 Medicine, curious condition on the exhibi- tion of, 580
Medicines, observations on, 622 Melodies, British, by T. H. Cornish, 319 Memoirs of the affairs of Greece, 92 Mendoza, an ancient collection so called, 255
Metastasio, birth and parentage of, 301-
character and genius of, 302
Metal, a new one, 628
Mexico, antiquities of, 253-custom at the birth of a child in, 257-marriages, 261 -festivals, 266-9-various traditions in, 270-mode of computing time in, 272 Michell, N., his Siege of Constantinople,
558 Millingen, Julius, his Memoirs of Greece, 92-his account of the habits, illness, and death of Lord Byron, 93-100 Mill-stones, mode of making, 291 Milton, compared with Dante, 297 Mineral springs, Dr. Daubeny on, Miniature painting on ivory, 315 Miracles, modern, 205-account of one 207-another, 209-reflections on, 214 Mirage, account of, 191 Missions of San Francisco, 613 Missionaries, Christian, in America, 2- French, 3-in China and the East, 4, 5 -the London Missionary Society, 6- treatment of a missionary in China, 7- failure of our missionaries, and causes, 9, 10-anecdote illustrative of those causes, 11-effect of, in Otaheite, 81, 83, 84— Danish, 315
Mitford, Miss, her American stories, 468
Monastery, that of the hermitage in Spain, described, 549
Monument, inscription on the, 163
Moore, T., his life of Byron, (2d vol.) 217 -objections to, 218-account of a visit by, to Lord Byron, 229
Morehead, Rev. R., his tour of the Holy Land, 614
Morning Watch, the, 205
Mortality, comparative rate of, in London and Paris, 284
Mount Duff, in the Pacific, 609 Mourad Ali, appearance of, 581 Mundy, General, his life of Lord Rodney, 274-his character of the Admiral, 281 Murray, J., his invention for preserving from shipwreck, 620
Musical instruments, new plan of acquiring facility on, 473
PACIFIC Ocean, discovery of, 248- Beechey's voyage to, 601 Painting, backward state of, in England, 363-miniature, on ivory, 315
Paley's theory of morals vindicated, 318 Palos, the birth-place of Columbus, de- scribed, 251
Paolo Fra, his maxims for the government of Greece, by Venice, 462 Paramatta, observatory of, 146
Paris, Dr., his Lite of Sir H. Davy, 364 Paris, mortality of, 284-number of mar- riages, 285
Parkinson, Rev. R., his poetry, 560 Parnell, Sir H., on financial reform, 468 Parry, Mr., conduct of, in Greece, 97 Parsey, A., his art of miniature painting on ivory, 315
Paseo, the, 542-3
Patent Laws, French, 628
Paul and Virginia, the tombs of, in the Mauritius, 393
Peiresk, N., 530
People, sovereignty of, 428
Perch Rock, light-house of, 241 Percy, Dr., anecdote of, 79
Perouse, La, his visit to Easter Island, 602 Persian adventurer, 113
Peter, St., figure of, in one of Raphael's Cartoons, 359
Petrarch, account of, 297-his residence and occupations at Vaucluse, 298 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 237-imperfect plan of, 151 Philosophy, Natural, 1. F. Herschel on, 286 Pictures, account of some of those of Ra- phael, 356
Pictures, giving entertainment of, 507 Pinkerton, John, correspondence of, 62- account of his life, 63-his failure as a dramatist, 64-his reform of the English language, 65-his lives of saints, 70- letters from, 70-2-disputes with his publisher, 76
Pious Minstrel, 623 Pipe (see bagpipe) Pitcairn, Island of, 607 Plate-rail, 593
Pletenburgh, Count, curious anecdote of 506
Poets, Italian, lives of the, 295-humble,
199-curious description of one, 19 Polar Regions (see Beechey) discovery in the, 624
Polignac, Prince de, his appointment as Minister of France, 341 Political Economy, Cotterill on, 620 Polynesian Islands, population of, 611 Pope, the, calculation respecting, 323 Pope, Lord Byron's remarks on, 227- letter from, 572
Population of Paris and London, 284-of Great Britain, 286-excess of, 476 Population, the, of Easter Island, 606 Portugal, policy of England towards, 339 Prado, the, of Madrid, 542
Prater, the, of Vienna, 505
Praying, mode of, by machinery, 194 Pretender, the, 564
Printer, the King's, remarks on, 312 Pyrometer, a register, by Mr. Daniel, 239
QUACKERY, anecdote of, 368
Quacks, curious account of Greek, 103 Quarries, method of blasting rocks in, 291 Quinine, sulphat of, virtues of, 581
RADACK islands, manners of the inhabitants of, 86 (see Otdia)
Rail-roads, treatise on, 592-history of, 593-object of them, 594-comparison between and other modes of conveyance, 598
Raines, W., letter of, to Lord Tenterden, 167
Raphael, cartoons of, 353-great excel-
lence of, 356-account of his cartoon of the Adoration of the Magi, 358-other cartoons, 359-362
Recollections of the Mauritius, 385 Reece, Dr., observations on, 157 Reece, Dr., his Annual, 622
Reflections on the decline of science, 135 Reform, parliamentary, observations on, 425-443-financial, 468
Reformers in the days of Cromwell, 486 Refraction, phenomena of, described, 287 -double, 288
Register, Pyrometer, description of a new one, 239 Religion, doubt on,
Remedies, account of certain new ones, 622 Remembrance for 1831, 59
Reptiles, peculiarities marking their species, 405-circulation of blood in the, 406- other peculiarities, 407
Respiration, theory concerning, 365-in reptiles, 406
Revenue, public, nett proceeds of, at differ- ent periods, 440
Rey, M., his Institutions Judiciares, 169 Reynolds, F. M., poetry by, 54 Richelieu, Cardinal, story of, 513 Ritchie, L., his Romance of History, 305 Roads, ancient state of, 592-history of rail-roads, 593
Rock, crystal, singular property of, 288 Rodney, admiral, life and correspondence of, 274-birth, 275-early success, 276 -letters from, 277-great victory over
the French fleet, 279-his death,-281 anecdotes of, 282-eulogy of, by King William IV., 283
Romans, roads of the, 592
Roscoe, T., his Landscape Annual for 1831, 56-Mr. Roscoe, sen., lines by, 60, Rose and Arrow, a poem, 18
Rose, Sir G., editor of the Marchmont papers, 563
Royal Society, 135-good performed by, 153-council of, 161 (see Babbage) Rumford, Count, anecdote of, 369 Russell, Lord J., lines by, to the memory
Russia, relations of, with Greece, 332
SAFETY Lamp, account of, 380-2 Sails, cotton, 478
Salamander, natural history of, 415 Salmasius, 530
Salutation, mode of, in Gambier's Group of
Islands, 608
Sand Cloth, 626
Satan in search of a Wife, 159 Saturday Night, a poem, 204 Science, reflections on the decline of, in England, 135-state of, in France, 137 -suggestions for the advancement of, 151-physical effects of, on mankind, 291-definition of the word, 293 Scott, Sir Walter, 627
Scotland, conduct of Lords of, in 1749; 565-7-union of, with England, 574 Scotland (see Gael)
Scott, Sir W., remarks on,
Sea Kings, a novel, 113
Sematology, outline of, 614
Senior, N. W., his three lectures on the rate of wages, 311
September, ancient Mexican feast of, 267 Seringapatam, method of blasting rocks in, 129
Sermon, Bulteel's, at Oxford, 587 Sermons on practical subjects, 320 Serpents, natural history of, 412 Shall and Will, use of, 318
Shelley Percy, B., his first acquaintance
with Lord Byron, 222
Shelley, Mrs., a Story by, 50
Sheppard, C., his account of St. Vincent, 621
Ships, bottoms of, protection for, 479-plan of controlling the fire of, 163
Shipwreck, apparatus for protection in, 620 Siam, state of Christianity in, 4 Siamese Twins, a poem, 396 Siddons, Henry, letter from, 77 Sinde, narrative of a visit to, 575 Sinde, government of, 582
Sitka, account of the natives of, 90 Sketches of Venetian History, 624
Skin, blue colour of the, 479
Slaves, the treatment of, in the Mauritius, 391
Slave Trade advocated by Lord Rodney, 284 Slidell, Lieut., his Year in Spain, 533 Small-pox, ravages of, 285
Smelting of iron, how performed, 290 Snell, W., his discovery of a rule respecting refraction, 287
Snowden, Miss E., her poetry, 562 Snuff, partiality of the Highlanders for, 349 Societies for diffusing Christianity, 1
Missionary, 2-the London Bible So- ciety, 6
Society, Royal, 626-Geographical, ib. Society, Royal, transactions of, 237 the Tepidarian, 370
Solids, account of a pyrometer for register- ing the expansion of, 239 Sound, march of, 627
Sounding boards, 478
South Seas (see Kotzebue)
Spain, revolution of, 329 Spain, a Year in, 533
Spanish Commission, 330-manners of, 443 Speech, phenomena of, 524
Springs, saline, of England, 237
St. Alban's, Duchess of, anecdote of, 34 St. Pierre, site of his Tale of Paul and Virginia, 393
Stael, Mad. de, her lecture to Lord Byron,
Stafford, Lord, his meanness, 495
Stapleton, A. G., his life of Canning, 325 Statistics of Great Britain, 286 Steam-engine, marine, account of a, 481 Stebbing, Rev. H., his lives of the Italian Poets, 295
Stephenson, Mr., his new locomotive en- gine, 597
Steppes of Astrachan, account of, 191 Stewart, Dugald, lines to his memory by Lord J. Russell, 50
Stewart, Rev. Mr., pious proposal of, 206 Storm, account of one, 91
Story, a strange one, 513 St. Vincent, account of, 621 Suits at law, calculation respecting, 177 Sun, a midnight one, 613
Sunday, manner of spending it at Otaheite 18-remarks on, 469
Superstition, power of, over Lord Byron, 99 Sussex, Duke of, fit president of the Royal Society, 136
Swain, Charles, his poetical sketch, 470 Sydney, Algernon, objects of, 493-merits of, 496
TAHAITI, Costume of, 81-population and missions of, 83
Talba, a romance, 113
Tales of a Grandfather, 316
Talisman for 1831, 62
Tallow, use of against attrition, 596 Tattooing, as practised in Easter Island, 604-8
Tax, the Greek capitation, 464-on glass, 145
Taylor, Jeremy, remarks on, 314
Temple of Melekartha, a rhapsody, 317 Tenants, advice to, 617 Tepidarians, society of, 370
Test Act, attempt to repeal, 498 Theatre, anecdote of the French, 161 Theory in opposition to Practice, 142 Thoughts on Man, 515
Time, Mexican mode of computing, 272— see Calendar
Waverley Novels, illustrations of, 472 Wellington, Duke of, his policy as minis- ter, 340
Whale-fishing, 321, 322
Whale-fishery, disasters of the fleet engag- ed in, 624
Wheat Plant, uses of, 163
Wheels, account of iron ones, 595 Whitfield, Mr., his poetry, 561
Will and Shall, use of, 318
William IV., speech of, on the death of Rodney, 283
Wind, the soughing of, 324
Winter, account of one in California, 91 Witchcraft, 480
Wollaston, Dr., gift of, to the Royal So-
ciety, 160-benefactions of, to Science. 148, 149, 152-temperament of, 374 Women, as painted by Raphael and Guido, 357
Wood, Nicholas, his History of Rail-roads,
World, calculation of its duration, 162 Wright, John, poems by, 200
YEAR, Mexican mode of computing the, 272
York, Duke of, his remonstrance against Canning, 338
ZAGARIOTS, Greek quacks, curious account of, 103 Zoological Society, 321
Zumpt, Abridgment of his Latin Gram- mar, 156
Zwick, H. A., his Journey to Calmuc Tar- tary, 190
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