A

AGRICULTURE, its tendency to the

happiness of man, 252.

Alexander, the Emperor, defcription of his
character, 58; his afcenfion to the throne,
142; magnanimous exertions of, against
France, 429.

Algebra, its importance to commercial
men, 299.

America, the United States of, picture of

the country and its inhabitants, 22; ac-
count of the liberty and equality enjoyed
there, 25; fentiments on the independ-
ence of that country, 28; fituation of
thofe who emigrate to the back fettle-
ments; heavy taxes, &c. 28.

Amis des Noirs, les, their fuccefsful efforts
in effecting the revolution in St. Domin-
go, 927.

Annalift, confideration of his duties, 477.
Arithmetic, lineal, its importance pointed
out, 259,

Arts, the fine, not much encouraged in
Denmark, 34.

Affignats, effect of their depreciation in
France, 359.

Attahoura, account of the preparations for
an expedition to, 228.

Attowaie, account of the unfortunate king
of that island, 223–225.
Aufterlitz, reflections on the memorable
battle of, 430.

Bookmakers, defcription of them, 478.
Botany in England, view of its origin and
progrefs, 279.

Botany Bay, the only fettlement unchanged
by the arrival and refidence of Europeans,

148.
Boxing, difgraceful countenance of the
practice by young men of family, 392.
Boys, white, their origin in ireland, 2.
Bride, ftrange appearance of one, in Den-
mark, 50.

Britain, Great, a lofer in the trade to the
northern countries, 18; new channels of
trade pointed out to her, ib.; objects ne-
ceffary to its permanent pofterity, 21;
remarks on her commerce, 252; remarks
on her infular fituation, 261; her politi
cal conduct; importance of her com-
merce, &c. &c. 270.

Brown, M. lively sketch of, 493.
Buckingham, the Marquis of, remarks on
his political conduct, 88.

Balama Society formed in England, with a
view of trying to abolish the Slave Trade,
46; caufes of its failure, 47; its code,
48.
Buonaparte, his dangerous views to Eng
land expofed, 191; his plan in conduct-
ing the war, 211; proof of his narrow
policy in commercial matters, 464; in-
tance related of his tyranny, 466; his
scheme of public education expofed,

488.

C.

Canada, danger to which it was once ex-
posed by neglect of the Governor, 270.-
Garlicrona, remarks on the navy there sta-
tioned, 45.

Cafte, compared with public credit, 364.
Catharine 11. her deep-rooted prejudices
'against her fon never divulged, 135; her
prognoftication of his fhort reign, 136;
her with of his being paffed over in the
fucceflion difappointed, 137; new mode
devised by her for checking the circula-
tion of revolutionary principles, 146.
Catholics in Ireland, their oppofition to the
English government, 1; their patrogage
M m 2

of

of Popish banditti, 2; formation of a
committee; their office, &c.; ib. their
practice, 5; proved to be lefs under re-
ftrictions than in England, 326; dif
tinction between them and the Irish
Proteftants, 328; on their attempt to ex-
cite the Prefbyterians to difcontent, 329.
Cavalry, inftructions for the, 86.
Celts, their total defect of any typography,

306.

Charles, the Archduke, his skill and bra-
very, 431.

Chevalier, Mad. motives of the French go-
vernment in introducing her at Peterf-
burgh, 138; her influence with the Em-
peror Paul, ib.

Chreft, the folemnity of his advent confi-
dered, 220.

Chriftianity, fermon on its prevalence, 200.
Chrift ans, perverfion of that term, 30 1.
Church of England, abfurd propofition of
Dr. Aikin relative to it, 203; its fuppofed
danger from Methodism difcuffed, 203;
the idea of its being a political machine
denied, 205; remarks on its effence,

206.

Church, of England, its members stigmati-

zed as idolaters, 299.

Church, the Irish, remarks on it, 307; con-
federacy against France, the obfervations
on its imperioufnels, 209.
Church-yard, veries on a, 50.

Civilization, at the time of Adam and Eve
confidered, 158.

Clerc, Le, ftrictures on his atrocity to the
blacks, 405; his death, 407.

Clergy of the established church, the great
want of legifative provifion for that de-
ferving body, 200; abfurd proposition of
Dr. Ailkin ralative to that important ef
tablishment, 202.

Colonies, the neceflity of adapting their
conftitution to that of the northern coun-
tries, 48.

Commerce, the hiftory of its progress con-
fidered, 17; its introduction into the North
of Germany, and the fhores of the Bal.
tic, &c. 19; remarks on its finding a
level, 21; obfervations on its influence on
mankind, 252; why the caufe of nation-
al rivalship, 253.

Committee, Secret, of the Irish House of
Lords, sketch of their report, 2...
Company, the Eaft India, obfervations ad-
dreffed to, 21.

Contagion, moral, obfervations on differ-
ent kinds of, 486.

Cooper, Mr. the champion of liberty, impri-
foned in America, 30.
Copenhagen, defcription of the obfervatory
there, 32; the royal library, 34; the ly-.
ing-in hofpital, 35; population, 36; the
battle of, eginmemorated by a ¡mall mo..

Elizabeth, Queen, her difgraceful revolution
refpecting Queen Mary, 110; her artful
conduct in not giving any open broad af-
furance, 112; additional proof of her
treacherous conduct, 114.
Emancipation, Catholic, confideration of
that question, 187.

Emigration to America, obfervations on
the, 24.

Emigration, the regulation bill of, cenfured

on account of its injustice, 63; means'
recommended for its remedy, 64; reflec-
tions on its confequences to the French
Government, 449.

England, neceffity of a formidable navy to
this country, 191; judicious remarks on
its conftitution, 338.

Erafinus, his examples recommended, 420.
Eskilstuna, in Sweden, celebrated for its
fteel manufactures, 39.

Europe, remarks on the changes in the po-
litical fyftem of, 192.

F.

Fables, fpecimen of, calculated for chil-
dren, 421.

Fahlun, interefting defcript on of the cop-
per mine at, its antiquity, produce, &c.
44.

Fanatic, the reverend, expofed, 435.
Ferriar, Dr.his opinion of Maflinger's Plays,
124

Fifheries, their increase hitherto made upon
wrong principles, 21.

Folly, the expofure of, a duty of the novelist,
73.
Foote, S. in his day the fubject of univerfal
converfation and curiofity, 287; his life,
chequered with extraordinary viciffitudes
of fortune, 289.
Forfayeth, Dr. account of his death, 496;
plan of his excellent bill for the relief of
the widows and orphans of the clergy, ib
France, importance of its eulture, 253; the
revolutionary war of, its character de
fcribed, 363; the dying struggles of the
monarchy in that country depicted, 451;
account of the Conftituent Affembly,452;
picture of the emigrant nobleffe, 454; the
increase of vice accounted for, 463.
France, ftatistical calculations of the actual
quantity of its agricultural territory, 467 ;
ftatement of the prefent extent of terr.to-
ry of that empire, 468; remarks on the
different taxes, their preffure, &c. ib.;
neglected state of education, 469; com-
ments on the estimate of its population,
470; difproportion of legitimate to ille-
gitimate children, 473; the proportion of
deaths to births inveftigated, ib.; the dif-
parity between the births of males and
females, 474; remarks on the general ftate
of the manufactories, 476; difcuffion of
its imperial foundation, 481.

France, reflexions upon the conduct of the
three dynaftics which have occupied the
throne of, 482.

Francois, Cape, account of the city and its
inhabitants, 400.

French, difgraceful conduct of the military
in St. Domingo, 238.

Frenchmen, their arrogance in mifrepre-
fenting fa&s, 469; treachery and cun-
ning inherent in them, and in the very
genius of their language, 488.
Friendship, pleafing poetical lines on, 78.
Fugitive, remarkable account of one, difco-
vered on an uninhabited island, 153.
Funct onaries, public, abfurd remarks rela-
tive to a new manner propofed for elec
ting them, 298.

Fund, Pa ristic, the Committee of the, re-
prehended for their manner of addreffing
the body of the clergy, 434.
Funding-fyftem, its influence on the pro-
perty of Europe, 363.

G.

Generals, the French republican, proved.
to have been deficient in military fcience;

461.

Gifford, M. his ftrictures on the former edi-

tors of Maffinger's Plays, 123.
Giraldus Cambrenfis, obfervations on the
ftate of the Irish in the 12th century, 310.
Glar, Martha, character of that Swifs he-
roine, 489; her addrefs to her country-
women and girls of the parish, their cou-
rageous defence, &c. ib.

Gleaning, ftricture on the right of men to,
175.

Gnoftics, explanatory remarks relative to
the, 377.

Government, in its various forms briefly

confidered, 166; general remarks on the
fuperiority of the English, 299.
Grammar, general remarks on the numer
ous authors on this subject, 293.
Grenville, Lord, obfervations of, on realon
and truth, 87.

Guthrie, Dr. fhort account of that venera-
ble man, 143.

H.

Hawke, Sir E. account of the engagement
between him and M. de Conflans, 262.
Hayti, remarks on that extraordinary em
pire, 404; military abilities of its inhabi
tants, 406; government of the ifland after
the peace, 406; lofs of the French in ten
months, 407; remarks on the future def
tiny of this empire, 408.
Heathenifm, obfervati as on its afcendancy
in churches and other public places in
general, 171; fpee men o. its being con-
verted to Chriftiarpoles by Dr. Watts,
173.

Henry