Cryolite, obs. on, 56.
Cupid and Psyche, the loves of,
poetically related, 140-152.
Cyclical poets, obs. on the system
of chronology deduced from,
450.

Cypraapediculus, remarks on that
shell-fish, 245.

D

Daniel's Seventy Weeks, chap. ix.
24. &c. new version of, 161.
Darwin, Dr., obs. on his Loves
of the Plants, by Miss Seward,

124.

Debtors, privileges of, in the Isle
of Man, 68.

Despotism, its real imbecility, 351.
Directory, French, account of,
483. 495.

Discretion, account of that virtue,
421.

Dissenters, obs. on Lord Sid-
mouth's late bill for regulating
the licensing of preachers, 439
Domingo. See St. Domingo.
Dragonet, account of that fish, 58
Dryden's translation of Ovid, re-
marks on, 433.
Dublin, description of, 165.
Duguay-Trouin, biog. sketch of,
516.

Dupont de Nemours, M., his report

on the Bank of France, 8c.
Dye, purple, like the Tyrian dye,

E

obtained from the Buccinum
Capillus, 245- Also from the
Turbo Clathrus, 249.
Economy, Scotch, remarkable in-
stance of, 388. Compared with
that of Dr. Johnson, ib.
Editions, true, explanation of that
term among Bibliomaniacs, 274
Edmonston, Dr., ou the Zetland
sheep, 50.

Essays, periodical See Papers.
Evangelicals. See Calvinists.
Exchange, table of the intrinsic
par of, between London and
other cities, 267.

Exchanges. See Bullion.
Ezekiel, obs. on the prophecies
of, 16c.

F

Fair in Ireland, at Palmerston,
description of, 167. At Beau-
caire, in the south of France,
492.

Farmers, English, eligibility of
their settling in France dis
cussed, 10.
Fellowes, Mr., letter to, from

Miss Seward, 232.

Felspar, compact, analysis of, 60
Females, proper qualities of, finely

displayed in a character of
Ruth, 314 315
Ferrand, General, his conciliating
conduct, when commanding
in St. Domingo, 530. His
defeat and suicide, 531.
Fin-whale, account of, 49.
Fishes, British, account of five
rare species, 44.

Fistula lachrymalis, obs. on the
various modes of treating that
complaint, 442.

Fleming, Mr., on a Small-beaded
Narwal, 47. On one of the
Zetland islands, ib.
Floetz trap, See Ogilby.
Fluor spar, analysis of, 43.
Folly, frailty, and vice, discrimi
nated, 420.

Fortification, instructions in, for
young officers, 486.
Fox, Mr., his death poetically
lamented, 253-

his retirement at St.
Anne's Hill described, 295,
Anecdotes of, while at Paris.
296, 297. His interview with
Bonaparte, 297.
France, statistical particulars re-
lative to, 1-21. Description
of the Southern Departments,
486-498.

Bank of, account of, 81.
Freret, M., obs. on his system
with regard to Grecian chrono-

logy, 454

G

Gallipoli, description of that town,
its splendid shops, and fine
fountain, 461.
Galvanism, remarks on, 34.
Gannet, obs. on the structure of
that bird, 48.

Gapes, in Poultry, obs. on and
cure for, 49.

George III., his completion of a
reign of 50 years made the sub-
ject of a prize-poem, 110.
Gillius, Peter, his account of the
Cistern of a thousand columns con-
firmed and extended, 465.
Gout, Husson's remedy for, 97.
The Hop a safer prescription,
98.
Graminea, obs. on the germina-
tion of, 60.

Greece, Antient, obs. on the chro-
nology of, 451.

"" modern, parts of described,
461.
Greeks, their practice of the art

of war, 500- 504.
Greenstone, transition, of Fassney,
remarks on, 46.
Gunpowder, its introduction and
effects in the art of war, 506.

H
Hardinge, Mr., letters to, from

Miss Seward, 228 — 230.
Hatheway, Ann, supposed verses
of to Shakspeare, and from him
to her, 188-190.
Hauy, M., obs. on his system of
mineralogical arrangement, 256.
Hawkesworth, Dr., obs. on his
literary life, 371.
Hebrew text, in the Pentateuch,
remarks on, and on the use of
points, 28.
Hebrews, poetry of, remarks on
its metrical arrangement, 25.
-, on their antient laws and
system of warfare, 38, 39.
Henry IV. of France, his im-
provements in military arrange-
ments and warfare, 508.

Herring, obs. on the food of that
fish, 59.

-fishery, in the Isle of
Man, account of, 65.
Highlands of Scotland, obs. on
the mineralogy of, 51.
Hoghton, General, his fall at the
Battle of Albuera poetically
lamented; 323.

Hop, cases of the efficacy of that
Plant in Gout and Rheuma-
tism, 98.

Horace, Ode vii Book iv. newly
translated, 91.

Hospitals, military, first estab-
lished by Henry IV. of France,
508. Obs. on British and
French hospitals, ib.
House-keeping, See Living.
Hydrogen, account of, 36.

-

and Carbon, on the
gaseous combinations of, 57.

Inoculation for the small-pox, re-
marks on the opposition to its
introduction, 368.
Inscription, supposed antient, found
in Wales, account of, 183.
Insect, non-descript, a resident in

the skin, of the Gannet, 48.
Insects, list of, near Edinburgh,
59.

John, Pope, his insubordination to
Theodoric, King of the Goths,
and punishment by him, 472.
Johnson, Dr., obs. on his death
and character, by Miss Seward,
with his conversation with Mrs.
Knowles, the quaker, 118. 119

land, 10. In the Isle of Man,
62.

Langollen Vale, description of,

234.

La Reveillère, one of the French
Directory, character of, 482.
Large-paper copies, of books, the
lovers of, satirically described,
284.

Laskey, Capt., on the Pinna ingens
of Pennant, 46. On North
British Testacea, 53.

Law, criminal, of England, obs.
on the necessity of a revision
of that code, 374, &c.

Lay Monastery, a periodical paper,
account of, 367.
Lead. See Jameson.

Leibnitz, character of, and of his
writings, 514.

Letourneur, member of the Direc

tory, account of, 484.

Licenses to trade with the Northern
Powers, obs. on, and on their
consequences, 409-412.
Literature, of our own times, eu-

logized by a specification of a
number of celebrated writers,
226.

Liverpool, remarks on, 164.
Living, price of, in France, 2,

11, 12. In the Isle of Man, 66.
Logic, elementary remarks on, 318.
Loire, beauties of that river and
its neighbourhood, 6, 496.
London, poetically described, 215.

-, port of, general descrip-
tion of, and of its markets, &c.
310.

Louis XIV., view of the military
history of his reign, 509–510.
Louvois, that minister charac
terized, 510.

Lycidas, Milton's monody on, its
beauties warmly maintained,
227.

M

Maughan, Mr., on rare plants
near Edinburgh, 49.
Measures, various, in different

countries, comparison of, 258.
Mercantile terms, explanation of,
269.
Meteorological journals, 50, 60.
Metre, of Hebrew poetry, re-
marks on, 25.

Mexico, obs. on its position, po-
pulation, agriculture, mines,
&c 357-360. See Indians.
Militia, of Great Britain, obs. on
the system of, and proposals
for altering, 74-

in France, the com
mencement of, 507.
Mineralogy. See Jameson, Head-
rick, Chenevix, Fleming, Mack.
night, &c.

Mines of Mexico, some account

of, 359.
Mirror, authors of that periodical
work, 373.
Missionary, among the Cochin
Chinese, letter from, 133. See
also Jeffrison.
Montagu, Mr., on
rare British
fishes, 44. On the gannet, 48.
On the gapes in poultry, 49.
Moses, obs. on the laws of, 38.
Moulins, account of, 17.
Muscles, human, new description
and nomenclature of, 538.
Properties of, 539. Theory
of the action of, 540.

Navy, British, obs. on the admi.
nistration of, and on the quali-
fications of a naval commander,
193-198.

Neill, Mr., on a fin-whale, 49.
On fishes found near Edin-
burgh, 58.

Nevers, description of, 10.
North of Europe, obs. on our
political situation with the
powers of, and on the state of
commerce with, 407–412.

Observer, by Mr. Cumberland,
character of, 374-

Officers, military, ohs. on the edu-

cation of, 70. Proposed regu-
lations respecting commissions,
73.202.

Ogilby, Dr., on transition Green-
stone, 46. On Veins of Floetz-
trap formation, 56.
Oleron, laws of, the prevailing idea
refuted that they were the
production of Richard I., 430.
Ophthalmia, obs. on, 79.
Orleans, situation and description
of, 9.

Osteology, new treatise on, 537-
Otoo, king of Uliteeah, unpropi-
tious attempt to convert him to
Christianity, 305.

P

Papa-Stour, in Zetland, account
of, 47.
Papers, periodical, of the 18th
century, various particulars re-
specting, 367-374-
Paris, in the year 1762, de-
scribed, 251.

Park, Mungo, his fate poetically
deplored, 252.

Parr,

Parr, Dr., character of, by Miss
Seward, 123.
Pay, military, among the Greeks
and Romans. 501.
Peasantry, in France, their situa.

tion described, 14.
Philip the Fair, that monarch the
first imposer of taxes on a large
scale, 505.

Pinna ingens, remarks on that
shell, 46.

Pity, obs. on that affection of

the mind, 89.

Plain Dealer, a periodical paper,
observations on, 368.
Plants, rare, near Edinburgh, cata-
logue of, 49.

See Brown.
Population, of the Isle of Man, 62.
-, of England and Wales,

308.
Poverty, the evils of, surmounted
by literary industry and econo-
my, 328.
Poultry, diseases of. See Gapes.
Provisions, in France. prices of,

2, 11. In the Isle of Man, 66.
Prudence, and imprudence, well dee
fined and contrasted, 418 419.
Psalm xlix., new translation of,
proposed, 221.
Pudding-rock. See Imrie,
Punishment, corporeal, in the Bri-
tish army, obs. on, 200.
Punishments, in a national code of
laws, general principles of, and
discussion of the various pro-
visions, 380-386.

Rousseau, Jean Jaques, antitheti
cal character of,, 26.
Roxburgh, Duke of,

his pur-
chase of the first edition of
Shakspeare, 282,

Ruth, character of, displayed, 314,

S

Sabella, ought to be excluded
from the Testacea, 248.
Saint Domingo, account of, and of
the war in, between the French
and the Blacks, 528-536.
Starvation of the French, 533.
Pernicious influence of the
Monks, 534

Samana, a fertile district of St.
Domingo, capable of great
improvement, 533.

Sands, Pactolean, in the south
of France, ludicrous anecdote
respecting, 489.

Saumur, price of living at, 12.
Saxe, Marshal, biog.sketch of, 516.
Scoresby, Mr., his Meteorological
Journals, 50. 60. On the
Greenland Whale, 59.
Scott, Mr. Walter, account of,
by Miss Seward, 239.
Seventy-Weeks, Daniel, ix. 24.
newly translated, 161.
Shakspeare, supposed MSS. of,
187-191.

first edition of, being
bought by the Duke of Rox
burgh, 282.

-, character of his plays,
by a French Writer, 544.
Sheep, of Zetland, obs. on, 50.

-, in the Isle of Man, wool!
and diseases of, 63.

Shells, account of, and of their
inhabitants, 241–249.
Shiloh, remarks on the interpret
ation of that word, 32.
Slave-trade, still carried on by
British merchants, 446.
Song of the Desert, Isaiah, xxxv.
2. new translation of, 156.
Star, Evening, address to, in
Shetland, 452.

Stewart