J.

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

K.

KALUSHES, the natives of Sitka, which

see

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

Law, (see Courts)

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

L.

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.

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,

237

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

P.

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

Q.

QUACKERY, anecdote of, 368

Quacks, curious account of Greek, 103
Quarries, method of blasting rocks in, 291
Quinine, sulphat of, virtues of, 581

R.

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,

619

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

of D. Stewart, 50

Russia, relations of, with Greece, 332

S.

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

316

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,

222

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

T.

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,

592

World, calculation of its duration, 162
Wright, John, poems by, 200

Y

YEAR, Mexican mode of computing the,
272

York, Duke of, his remonstrance against
Canning, 338

Ꮓ

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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