detail of their 'great evils and griev-

ous sins,' 381,2.
Mexico, 289, el sego; progress of the

late revolution, 290, abdication and
departure of Iturbidé to Europe, 291;

various conjectures respecting his re-
turn to Mexico in 1824, ib.; detail
of his landing, capture and execution,
293 ;' the Mexican congress grant a
pension to his widow, 29+; character
of Iturbidé, while Emperor, by Mr.

Poinsett, ib. ; character of Guadalupe
Victoria, the present president of
* Mexico, 295; he takes up arms in
the patriotic cause, ib.; bis brave ex-
ploits, his privations and sufferings, 296,
7; is proscribed by the Spanish vice-
roy and conceals himself, ib.; ap-

pears again in arms with Iturbidé,
.: 297; opposes Iturbide, and is im-

prisoned, 298; escapes, and again
conceals himself, 299; Santana appears
in arms against Iturbidé, ib. ; is joined
by Victoria, 300; abdication of the Em-
peror, ib. ; Mexico declares itself a

federal republic, 301; General Vic-
toria chosen president, ib. ; testimo-
-nies to his excellent character by Mr.

Bullock and Mr. Poinsett, ib. ; some
remarks of a Quarterly reviewer ex-
*amined and exposed, 502; Guatemala

declared an independent federal re-
public, under the title of · The Con-
• federated States of the Centre of

America,' ib. ; extract from the . Mo.
**dern Traveller,' on the stale of society in
Merico, 305; Humboldi's remarks on
the population of New Sprin, and of the
capital, 304 ; the rank of the individual
in Mexico delermined by the whiteness of
his skin, 304, 5; few negroes in Mexico,
ib. ; statement of the ranks and orders in
the Mexican society, 305; the Mexican
clergy, 306; exposition of some in-
accuracies in Mill's history of Mexi-
co, 306, 7; Juarros's history of Gu.
atemala, 307; contents of the work,
308; the author's altempt to prove thut
Guatemala was never subject to the Mer-
ican empire, 309, 10; remarks on his
statements, 310, 11; the topography
of Mexico and Guatemala little
known till the visit of Humboldt,
312 ; the errors and ignorance of for-
mer writers exposed, 313; the mines

of Mexico, 313, 14.
Miller's lectures on the philosophy of

history, 139, el seq.
Mill's bistory of Mexico, &c. 289, el seq.

Mina, General, short extract of the life

of, published by himself, 181.
Mines of Mexico, 313, 14.
Miracles asserted by Mendelsohn not to be

a distinctive mark of truth, 521.
Modern Traveller, Farts XI. and xil.,

289, el seg. see Mexico.
Morison's fashionable amusements, the

bane of youth, 182, el seg.
Morris's translation of Massillon's

thoughts on different moral and reli-

gious subjects, 454, el seq.
Munro's plea for the christian education

of youth, 98, el seg.
Murray's historical account of voyages
and travels in Asia, &c., 22, el seg.

history of the European lan-
guages, &c., 360, et seq. ; the author's
explication of the nine words, which are
the foundations of language, &c., 360,
l; his singular account of the forma-
tion of language by man, 362; in-
quiry into the prime source of the
diversity of language, 363, et seq.; tbe
Mexican MSS. the oldest method of
writion, 364 ; its progressive state,
ib.; the first alphabet the parent of
the others, ib.; inconsistency of the
author in his attempt to prove it to
be of Phenician origin, 36+, 5; the
language of Noah probably extant in
the names of places, in the country
where the ark rested, 366; the five
primary tribes of the European na-
tions, 366; the Teutonic spoken at
Babel, and was the language of para-
dise, ib. ; different opinions respect.
ing the primary languages of Europe,
307; admirable simplicity of Dr. Mura
ray's system, 367,

Petrarch, M. Sismondi's remarks on his

writings, 209, et seq.
Physic, Dawson's nosological practice
of, 458, et

seq.
Pinery, death of a gardener occasioned

by sleeping in one, 82.
Piracies, on the coast of Cuba, countenanced

by the authorities of the island, 566.
Plague, a disease sui generis, 538,
Plants, odoriferous, danger from keeping

them in bed chambers, 82.
Poetry, Provençal ; see Sismondi's his.

torical sketch.
Poinsett's notes on Mexico, 289, el seq.
Popery in 1824, &c., 177, et seq.; the

present pope formerly notorious in
Rome for his gallantries, 177; er-
tracts from the pope's bull of jubilee,” 178,
et seq. ; grant of a plenary in:/ulgence,
ib. ; its conditions, 179; his holiness de.

nounces the bible society, 180, 1.
Population, Asiatic, its multiplied ra-

rieties as contrasted with Africa and

America, 23.
Portraits, contemporary, 152, et seq.
Portugal, language and literature of,

500.
Power, ecclesiastical, an engine of mis-

chief, 66; not acknowledged by the

English constitution, ib.
Present for a Sunday School, 191.
Progress of dissent, by a Nonconformist,

371, et seq.
Psalıns, the book of, in an English me-

trical version, by Dr. Mant, 1, et seq.;
different opinions held by the Fathers
respecting the psalms, their author,
sense, titles, &c., 2 ; double sense of
the psalms, ib.; opinion of Dr. Hors-
ley, ib. ; of Calvin, 2, 3; Dr. Horsley
ill-qualified to appreciate justly the
devotional beauty of the psalms, 3;
Dr. Watts's metrical version the most
instructive cominentary on them, 4 ;
his version not mentioned by Dr.
Horne, ib.; remarks on the psalms as
a formulary of public devotion, 4, 5;
division of the psalıns into five books,
with remarks on the contents of each,
the author, &c., 5, 6; songs of
degrees, their design, 6; the three
classes of David's poetical composi-
tions, 7; the author's version of the se-
cond psalm, 8; superiority of Dr.
Watts's version of the seventeenth
psalm, 9; different versions of vari.

ous psalms, 10, et seq.
Rainbow, stanzas lo, by Campbell, 118, 9.
Religion, H. F. Burder's lectures on the

essentials of, 455.

Review, Quarterly, a nonconformist's

observations on some remarkable pas.
sages in an article on dissent, in the

sixty-first number of it, 371, et seq.
Rome, church of, Hamilton's tracts upon

some leading errors of it, 286, et seq.
Roubiliac, his excellence as an artist,

164; striking instance of his ingeng-

ousness, ib.
Russell's letters, chiefly practical and

consolatory, &c., 469, et seq.; diffi-
culties supposed to attach lo the act of

coming to Christ, 470, et seq.
Russia and Siberian Tartary, &c., Coch-

rane's narrative of a pedestrian jour.
ney through, 227, et seq.; the politie
cal and the private character of Alex.
ander at variance, 227; his peculiarly
difficult situation, 227, 8; his late
conduct influenced probably by impe-
rious circumstances, 228; liberal con-
duct of the Russian administration to
the author, 228; example of Russian
inhospitalily, 229, 30; curious adven-
ture, 230; the author is plundered,
231 ; and beaten by a mob of women,
ib. ; situation, &c. of Tobolsk, ib.;
he visits the fortress built by Yermak,
232; death of Yermak, 233; his
plans counteracted, 234; marries a
lady in Kamtchatka, 235; illiberal

conduct of the royal society, ib.
Russians, their recent attempt to dis-

cover a north-east passage from Beer-
ing's straits, 273; their discoveries in

the southern ocean, ib.
Ryan's time's telescope, 82, et seq.

Samuel's memoirs of Moses Mendelsobn,

512, el seq.; his birth-place, &c., 512;
acquires great fame from his transla-
tion of Plato's Phædo into German,
ib.; his account of the three celebrated
jeros, Manasseh ben Israel, Benedict
Spinoza, and Orobio, 513; appearance
of Mendelsohn, ib.; Spinoza main-
tained atheistic principles, 514; had
abjured judaism and embraced chris-
tianity in early life, ib. ; dissimula-
tion of Orobio, ib. ; he suffers a three
years' imprisonment in the inquisition,
ib.; professes himself a jew, ib. ; re-
ligious opinions of Mendelsohn, ib. ; his
early education, 516; his ardeni love of
literature the ruin of his health, ib.;
his rapid progress in literature, and
rise to independence, ib.; fale of his
first publication, the moral preacher,'
518, 9; writes philosophical essays
and dialogues, 519; his marriage,
üb.; his daughters and grandsons
stated by Mr. Wolf to be true chris-
tians, 519, 20; remarkable corres-
pondence between Lavater and Men-
delsohn, 520; injudicious conduct of
Lavater, ib. ; reply of Mendelsohn, with
his opinion that mirucles are not a dis-
linctive mark of truth, 521, 2; affirms
the miracles of Moses to bave been
superfluous, 523, 4; importance of
this correspondence in two respects,
524,5; other works published by this
writer, 526; account of his admirable

translation of the Pentateuch, ib.
Sandemanianism, Puller's letters on,

character and merits of, 508.
Scenes, foreign, and travelling recrea-

tions, by J. Howison, 562, el seq.
Sharpe's translation of the history of

the kings of England, and the mo-
dern history of William of Malmes-

bury, 54, el seq.
Sismondi's historical view of the litera-

ture of the south of Europe, trans-
lated by Mr. Roscoe, 193, et seq. ;
subjects treated of in the present vo.
lume, 193; Latin the origin of all the
southern dialects of Europe, 194;
gradual corruption of that language,
and cause of it, ib.; the author's re-
marks on the sudden rise and sudden er.
linclion of the Provençal language, 195;
the Provençal poetry not coeval with
the language, 196 ; chivalry and the
Provençal poetry rose at the same period,
196, 7'; essential character of chivalry,
ib. ; new character assumed by love in the
middle ages, 197; chivalry a poetic
invention, 198; must be assigned to
a period antecedent to authentic his-
tory, ib. ; the compositions of the
Troubadours entirely lyrical, ib.; the
author's remarks on the influence of
Arabian poetry and eastern manners,
198, 9; the Arabiau literature the
true parentage of the Provençal poe.
try, 199; M. Sismondi's remarks on
the laws and composition of poetry, 199,
200; specimen of Troubadour poetry,
200, 1; real grounds of the faine of
the Troubadours, 201 ; its merits ex.
amined, 201, 2; literature of Italy,
202 ; author's remarks on Dante, 203,
4 ; probable origin of the Inferno, ib. ;
remarks ou the purgatory, 205; M.
Ginguene's criticism on the paradise, ib.;
narrative of Count Ugolino, versified by
Mr. Roscoe, 206, 7; Dante the crea-
tor of his own language, 208; Pe-
trarch, ib. ; true basis of reputation,

ib.; observations on the two mea-
sures adopted by Petrarch, 209; lead-
ing characteristics of his sonnets, 210;
ertracts, 210, 11, the strong attach-
ment of some of our best poets to the
sonpet, 314, 15; cause of the low es-
timation of the sonnet in the present
day, 315; true description of the
sonnet, ib.; claim of Boccaccio, as a
reviver of ancient learning, 316; M.
Sismondi's remarks on the Decameron,
316, 7; striking coincidence between
the literary fortunes of Petrarch and.
Boccaccio, 318; poems of Uberti and
Frezzi, ib. ; of Pulci and Boiardo,
319; the author's observalions on the
Orlando Furioso of Ariosto, 219, 20;
on the Jerusalem of Tasso, 320, et seq. ;
on Francesco Berni, and his new style of
poetry, 322, 3; life of Macchiavelli,
323; his principe,' 324; the discour-
ses on Livy his best work, ib. ; inven
tion of the masks of pantaloon, harle-
quin, and Columbine, 325; characler
of Guarini's Pastor Fido, ib. ; Filacaia,
326; his sonnets addressed to Italy and
to fortune, ib.; Alfieri, 327; remarks
on his dramatic writings, ib.; objections
to his excellence as a dramatist, 328,
9; critical remarks on his Philip II.,
330, et seq. ; the improvvisalori, 482 ;
not exclusively Italian, ib. ; the art
confined to poetry, ib.; Biondi and
Syricci, the heads of their prosession,
ib. ; the improvvisatore's mode of pro-
ceeding, ib, et seq. ; they do nol all sing,
ib.; the more celebraled can conform to
the most rigid laws of versification, 483 ;
great powers of Gianni, ib.; Corilla,
and La Bandellini, ib.; superior quali-
fications of Mad. Mazzei, ib. ; on the
language and literature of Spain,
484 ; origin of the language, ib. ;
antiquity, versification, &c. of the
poem of the Cid, ib. ; character of
the poetry of Spain, up to the reign of
Charles V., 485, 6; the reign of Charles
V. falal to Spain, 487; sonnets of La
Vega, 487, 8 ; extract, 488; Cervan-
tes, ib.; the most striking feature in the
composition of Don Quixote, 488, 9;
the design and success of the work, 489;
Cervantes, the progenitor of the Spa-
nish drama, 490; his two extant
dramas, the tragedy of Numantia and
Life in Algiers ; account of the Numan-
tia, 491 ; notice of Alonzo de Er-
cilla, 492; dramas of Lope Felir de
Vega, 492, 3 ; his great fame, &c. ib.;
intrigue the character of his plays,