Gaelic and Hebrew lan-
guages, affinity between
them, 233

Gale, severe one felt over
Scotland, 177
Gaming-houses in Paris,
notice of a work on, 561
Gas light introduced into
Edinburgh, 486
Geological Society, proceed-
ings of, 268

notices, 520
Germany, people of, petition
for representative consti-
tutions, 80-Present state
of the universities of, 272
--Review of travels in, 342
-Dispute between the
Grand Duke of Baden
and the King of Bavaria,
478
Girardelli, Signora, the in-
combustible lady, expe-
riments by, of her power
of resisting the action of
fire, 437-Various in-
stances of a similar facul-
ty possessed by others,
439- Observations on
Signora Girardelli's exhi-
bition, 444
Glasgow, mortality bill of,
178 Review of report on
the management of the
poor of, 455, 507
Godwin, Mr, review of his

novel of Mandeville, 57
-Letter of advice to a
young American by, 209
Granite, blocks of in the

mountains of Jura, 334
Halifax and St Johns, in
British America, declared
free ports, 579
Hamilton, Lord Archibald,

his motion in the House
of Commons, on the state
prosecutions in Scotland,
279

the late Mrs Eli-
zabeth, review of Me-
moirs of, 558
Hebrew and Gaelic lan-
guages, affinity between
the, 233
Herculaneum, Dr Sickler's
mode of unrolling the
manuscripts of, 470,
Highland superstitions, cu-

rious facts concerning, 104
Hogg, James, the Ettrick
Shepherd, account of his
life and writings, 35
Observations on his poem
of the Mountain Bard,
123 The Forest Min-
strel, 125-Essays in the

Spy, a periodical work,
126 Description of a
Mountain Funeral, 127-
The Queen's Wake, 129
Pilgrims of the Sun, and
Mador of the Moor, 215
Holland, journal of a visit
to, 234, 540
Hone, Mr, trials and ac-
quittal of, on a charge of
publishing blasphemous
libels, 84

Hudson, Henry, account of
his discoveries in the
northern seas, 514-Left
to perish by his mutinous
crew, 516

Hume, Lady Grizzel, par-
ticulars respecting, 325,
431-Songs written by,

435

- Sir Patrick, account
of his remarkable con-
cealment and escape from
Scotland, 325-His man-
ner of life in Holland,
431

nalian festivals at Flo-
rence, 309
Justiciary, High Court of,
trial in for celebrating un-
lawful marriages, 379-
Trial of several boys for
housebreaking, 380-Of
several persons for reset-
ting stolen goods, 585
Kilda, St, specimens of the
poetry of, 240
Kosciusko, Ode to the spirit
of, 70

Lamp without flame, ac-
count of a, 366
Landed property near Edin-
burgh, great rise in the
value of, 584
Lawrie, Deacon, of Edin-
burgh, succeeds in setting
aside the election of Ma-
gistrates, 585

Legend of the Rose, a poem,

566

Leith, singular incident
there, 583

dies, 82

Iceland, state of the weather
there in spring 1817, 269
Jews, intolerant proceedings
regarding them, in Poland
and Saxony, 577
Indies, East, treaty with
the Peishwa, 80, 172—
Monument at Bengal to
the late Governor Duncan,
81-New war with the
Mahratta powers in, 372
--Accounts of its progress,
478-Treaty of peace with
Holkar and the Berar ra-
jah, 577

West, destructive
hurricane in the Leeward
Islands, 82-Christmas
racket among the negroes
of Jamaica, 213-State
of St Domingo, 373-
Death of President Pe-
tion, 579
Infirmary, Royal, of Edin-

burgh, inquiry into the
management of, 381
Inverness, improvements in
the harbour of, 177
Journal of a visit to Holland

and Flanders, 234, 540
Ireland, revenue of, in 1816

and 1817, 281-Exports
from Britain to, 580
Italy, letters from a travel-
ler in, 9-Description of
Mont Blanc, ib.-Pas-
sage of the Simplon, 10
-Milan, 12-Florence,

ligence, 73, 167, 269,
365, 468, 569
Literature, desultory essays
connected with, No. I.
-On the moral constitu-
tion of Childe Harold,
223--No. II. On the
Darwinian School of
Poetry, 313

Llewellyn, a novel, review
of, 457

London, bill of mortality
in, 83
Longitude, magnetical in-
strument for determining
the, 334
Lords, House of, proceed-
ings in, 174-Speech of
the Prince Regent on o-
pening Parliament, ib.-
Repeal of Habeas Corpus
suspension bill, 175-Re-
port of Committee on the
state of the country, 278

-Ministers' indemnity
bill passed, 374-Mes-
sage of the Regent relat-
ing to the marriage of
his royal brothers, 480
Lunatic asylums, on the
proposed erection of in
Scotland, 410
Luther, on his merits in re-

gard to psalmody, &c.
303, 418
Macgregors, singular story
of a chief of the, 132
Mandeville, a novel, review
of, 57

Marriages, register of, 94,
192, 294, 394, 498, 596
Mechanical inventions, ac-
count of some curious
ones, by John Spence, in
Linlithgow, 408, 528
Mediterranean, hot spring
rising through the sea in
the, 16

Merceron, J. a magistrate,
convicted of embezzling
the poor's money, &c. 584
Meteorological Reports, 88,
185, 287, 387, 492, 590
Observations,

hints for the extension of,
226

Notices, 336
Mexico, geographical sketch
of, 5

Milan, observations of a
traveller there, 12
Monster, notice of a shaved

bear, exhibited in Edin-
burgh, under the name
of Peruvian monster, 448
Mont Blanc, description of,

by a traveller, 9
Montolieu, Madame la Ba-
ronne, remarks on four
tales published by, 359
Mortality bill for London,
83-for Glasgow, 178
Murder, shocking one at
Dunning, 282
Murray, Lady, her narra-
tive of the sufferings of
the families of Polwarth
and Jerviswood, 322, 430
-Specimen of her mo-
ther's talents in song writ
ing, 435
Music, on the want of pa
tronage of, in Edinburgh,
&c. 118

Natural History, notices in,
16-Birds and marine
animals of Shetland, ib.
-Hot spring in the Me-
diterranean, 17-Vapour
rising from the sea at Ha-
lifax, ib.-Gulf-stream in
Mexico, 18-On birds,
110-Curious facts in,
111, 320-Miscellane-
ous notices in, 138, 332,
507
Neale, Dr Adam, his tra-
vels through Germany,
&c. review of, 342
Negroes in Jamaica, ac-
Christmas
count of a

racket among the, 213
Newhaven, affecting inci-
dent at, 178
New Zealand, massacre of
the crew of a British ship

observations

made with Horner's, 571
Pichegru, General, circum-
stances attending his
death, 134
Pilgrimage to Canterbury,
an engraving by Heath,
&c. account of, 531
Plants, notice respecting the
geography of, 140, 168
Poetry Original-Song and
fragment by Burns, 70-
To the spirit of Koscius-
ko, ib. On the death of
the Princess Charlotte,
71-The poor man's la-
bour, 72-Melancholy,
160
Disappointment,
ib.--From the Song of
Solomon, 162--Sonnets,
ib.--The Evening Land-
scape, 266- A Night
Piece, ib. To a Lady,
267--Sonnet on the grave
of a young Lady, ib.-
The Soldier's Grave-
The November Garden,

-

Verses to a Friend,
362-Laye of ane aun-
cient Mynstrell - Son-
nete on a Grete Capitaine,
367-The Dirge of Tip-
poo Sultaun, 464-The
Confession, 465-The

Thorn of Preston-Song,
565 The Legend of the

Rose Sonnets from Pe-
trarch, 566-To Octavia,
567
Poets, remarks on the early
English,-No. I. Chau-
cer, 327
Polar Seas, on Captain
Scoresby's observations
on the, 333-Ice, notice
respecting the, ib.
Polwarth and Jerviswood,
families of, account of
their sufferings previous
to the Revolution of
1688, 323, 430
Poor in Scotland, report of
the General Assembly, re-
specting a provision for,
503

Pope, Mr, on the question
whether he was a poet,
99
Porteous mob at Edinburgh.
remarks on the, 543
Preston, the Thorn of, a
poem, 565
Prince Henry, poems on
the death of, 421
Princess Elizabeth, married
to the hereditary Prince
of Hesse Hombourg,383
Princess Charlotte, lines on
the death of, 71, 423
Promotions, appointments,
&c. 88, 183, 285, 384,
489, 587
Prussia, effects of a storm

there, 172-Answer of
the king of, to his sub-
jects' petition for a re-
presentative government,
577
Prussian blue, discovered
in England, 470
Pseudo-volcano in Stafford-
shire, account of, 570
Publications, monthly list
of, 77, 170, 273, 369,
474, 573
Racine's Phedre, defence of,

534

Railways, proposed ones, in
the neighbourhood of
Edinburgh, 484
Regalia of Scotland, pearls
in the, supposed to be
Scottish, 139-Discovery
of the, in Edinburgh Cas
tle, 179
Remarkable preservation
from death in a coal pit,
579

Revenge, the, of Tirinie, a
Highland legend, 532
Revenue of Britain, com-
parative statement of, in
1816 and 1817, 181—Of

of, 485
Watson

and Thomson,
Messrs, on the employ-
ment of money left by
them for charitable pur-
poses in Edinburgh, 121
Watson, Richard, bishop of
Llandaff, review of the
life of, 142
Wellington, Duke of, at-
tempt to assassinate him
at Paris, 276
Werner, the German mi-
neralogist, funeral of, 15

of the 2d Vol. of their
Memoirs, 73-Proceed-
ings of, 164, 364
Whales, a large one caught
on the west coast of Scot-
land, 486

White bears, desperate ren-
contre with one in Nova
Zembla, 509
Wild duck, curious anec-
dote of a, 111
Women; or Pour et Con-
tre, a novel, review of,
337

Works preparing for publi-
cation, 75, 169, 272,
367, 473, 572
York Hospital, medical
practice there under Sir
William Adams, 269
Zealand, New, account of
the destruction of a Bri-
tish vessel there, 403-
Account of Tippahee, a
chief of that country,
407
Zoology, Scottish, No. I.
105 No. II. 423