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INDEX TO VOLUME III.

ABERDEEN, proceedings respecting the late

election of magistrates there, 106, 352.
Accidents, melancholy one, near Dumfries,
104.-Distressing one at Airdrie, 349.—
Melancholy one at South Queensferry,
351.-and at a coal-pit near Glasgow, ib.
Acted Drama in London, notices of, No IV.
77.-No V. 207.-No VI. 329.
Alkali, discovery of a new one, 95.
Alpina and the Old Indian, 282.
Altham and his Wife, a tale, remarks on,
542.

Anecdotes of the Fife gypsies, 14, 393.-

Of Philoxenus of Cythera, 652.
Antara, remarks on Menil's edition of, 513.
Apparition, story of one, 705.

Appointments, Promotions, &c. 109, 236,
361, 488, 621, 730.

Aquinas, Thomas, Hume charged with
plagiarism from, 655.

Aristophanic comedy, remarks on the, 152.
Assembly, General, of Scotland, proceedings
of, 352.

Athenæus, selections from, No I. 650.
Bacon, Lord, observations on Mr Macvey
Napier's essay on his writings, 657.
Baird, Principal, report by, on the manage-
ment of the poor in Scotland, 320.
Banker, the mad, of Amsterdam, 402, 530.
Bankrupts, alphabetical list of English and
Scotch, 114, 241, 358, 485, 625, 734.
Banks for savings in Scotland, abstract of
the proposed bill for protecting, 68.
Beet-root, result of the experiments in
France, to produce sugar from, 611.
Beggar's Opera, proposed reform of the,
575.

Bellamira, a tragedy, notice of, 207.
Beppo, letter to the author of, 323.
Bernacle, or Tree-goose, strange fictions re-
corded in the early history of this bird,
671.

Biographical notices of William Russell,
LL.D. 398.

Biot, M., his observations to determine the
figure of the earth, 463.

Births, list of, 118, 244, 363, 492, 629,
737.

Blue stocking, an ancient one, 546.
Boyd, Zacharie, notice of his "Last Battel
of the Soule," 283.

Brande and Kidd, remarks on their writings,
277.

Brewster, Dr, description of his invention
of the kaleidoscope, 121.--History of
the kaleidoscope, with remarks on its sup-
posed resemblance to other inventions,
331.
Brownrigg, Sir R., Sanscrit ode in honour
of, 460.

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Buchan, Earl of, remarks on his anonymous
and fugitive essays, 515.
Buchanan, George, observations on the writ-
ings of, 251.

Burgh reform, Scottish, lists of burghs who
have or have not stirred in the cause of,
with their relative populations, 107.
Byron, Lord, criticism on his fourth canto
of Childe Harold, 216.

Byron, Scott, and Wordsworth, on the poe-
tical talents of, 369.

Caithness, iron and copper discovered in,
472-3.--Singular account, by an old
writer, of the inhabitants and productions
of, 674.

Calumnies against the living, remarks on,
388.

Canals, commencement of one to connect
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 105.

Cassandra, (from the German of Schiller)
153.

Cathedral church of St Giles, Dilettanti
committee's report on the plans for its re-
pair, 408.-Letter occasioned by the re-
port, 524.

Cavern, discovery of an extensive one in
Persia, 340.

Chalmers, Rev. Dr, letter to, on his writ-
ings in the Edinburgh Review, 155.
Charles I. of England, and Louis XVI. of
France, comparison of their characters by
Madame de Stael, 638.

Charlotte, Princess, verses on the death of,

5.

Childe Harold, fragment of a fifth canto of,
201.-Notes to, 202.-Review of the
fourth canto of, 216.

Christian Wolf, a German freebooter, in-
teresting account of, 679.
Chromate of iron discovered in Shetland,
463.

Circuit court, Stirling, distressing case of
murder in, 232.-Dumfries, trial of a
juvenile pick-pocket, 233.--Trial and
condemnation of John Lissens, for high-
way robbery, ib.

Clubs, account of some curious ones in Lon
don, 552.-I. The Virtuoso's club, 553.
-II. The Order of the Golden Fleece.-
III. The No Nose club, 554.-IV. The
Surly club.-V. The club of Ugly Faces,
555.

Clyde, trade of, 481.
Coal-gas, improvement in the purification
of, *220.Cities lighted with, in Bri
tain, 724-Portable apparatus, ib.

Cockney School of Poetry, No III. 453.-

No IV. 519.

Coleridge, Mr, remarks on some passages in
his Biographia Literaria, 653.
Comet, a new one discovered at Marseilles,
96.

of 1811, account of the, 338.
Commercial Reports, 112, 238, 356, 480,
622, 732.

Confession, remarkable one of a murder,
596.

Court of Session, proceedings in, respecting
the Edinburgh election of magistrates,
105, 106.-Regarding the elections at
Inverness and Aberdeen, 106.
Cow-tree, account of a tree so called by
Humboldt, 724.

Craniologist's Review, the, No I. Napoleon's
head, 146.-No II. Greek heads, 298.-
No III. Oliver Cromwell, 300.-No IV.
Franklin, ib.-No V. Voltaire, ib.
Crim. Con. trial for, in the Edinburgh jury
court, 106.

Crimes, hints to speculators on the increase
of, 176.

Cromwell, Oliver, craniological view of his
head, 300.

Crystallized tin, a new discovery in art, 341.
Currents, remarks on, 579.

Cuttle-fish, colossal, on W.'s account of
the, 204.

Deaf and Dumb Institution, Edinburgh, re-
port of, for 1818, 425.

Deaths, lists of, 119, 245, 364, 493, 629,
738.

Dilettanti, report of their committee on Mr
Elliott's plans for repairing St Giles's
church, Edinburgh, 408.-Letter occa-
sioned by the report, &c. 524.
Drama, acted, in London, notices of, No

IV. 77.-No V. 207.-No VI. 329.
Dramatists, essays on the early English
ones, No V. 556.

Dresden, on the great Madonna of, 562.
Dress, remarks on, 301.-On that of the
days of Queen Elizabeth, 534.
Dunfermline, tomb of Robert the Bruce
discovered there, 104.

Earth, the, Biot's observations to determine
the figure of, 463.

Earthquakes on the continent, and in Eng-
land, 37.

Echo, in two poetical dialogues, 55.
Edinburgh, proceedings respecting a chal-
lenged election of magistrates of, 105,
106.-Commencement of a canal to con-
nect it and Glasgow, ib.-Resolutions of
the guildry of, on the subject of the Lord
Advocate's bill for regulating Scotch
burghs, 235.-On the late musical festi-
val in, and its consequences, 268.-Dilet-
tanti committee's report on the plans for
the repair of St Giles'-church, 408.-Re-
port of the Deaf and Dumb Institution in,
425.-Letter occasioned by the Dilettanti
committee's report on the repair of St
Giles's church, 524.-On the state of mu-
sic in, 538.

Edinburgh Review, letters to the supporters
of the, 155-No. I. to the Rev. Dr Chal-
mers, ib.

Elliston, Mr, remarks on his acting, 329.
English Poets, Hazlitt's lectures on, No
III. Burns and the old ballads, 71.
English in Paris, the, 446.

English Dramatists, essays on the early, 556.
Escape, remarkable one, of a soldier from
the Black-feet Indians, 45.

Essays, fugitive and anonymous, of the Earl
of Buchan, 515.-On the early English
Dramatists, 556.

Eye, newly discovered membrane in the,
473.

Fairies, the, a dreamlike remembrance of a
dream, 30.

Fame, on the influence of the love of, on
Genius, 701.

Farming, moral effects of overseers on farm
servants, 83.

Fiction, on the use of the preternatural in
works of, 648.

Fife gypsies, anecdotes of the, 14, 393.
Fire, destruction of a ship by, 105.
Fluids, on the boiling point of, 611.
Fortune-telling, instance of swindling under
pretence of, 236.

Fox and Pitt, sketch of, by Baron Von
Lauerwinkel, 456.

France, history of a six weeks' tour through,
review of, 412.

Franklin's head, craniological view of, 300.
Fudge Family in Paris, the, review of a
publication so entitled, 129.

Gas, cities lighted with by authority of Par-

liament, 724.-Portable gas apparatus, ib.
General Assembly, meeting of the commis-
sion of the, 230.-Proceedings of the as-
sembly, 352.

Genius, on the influence of the love of
fame on, 701.

Germany, letters on the present state of,
Letter I., 24-Ferment in the national
mind of the Germans, ib.-Every liberty
enjoyed of thought and writing except on
politics, 25.-Effects of the late wars in
illuminating the minds of the Germans,
27.-Privileges of the nobility of, galling
to the people, 28.-Probability of a re-
volution being effected without outrage or
resistance, 29.
Glasgow, letter from, 56.

manufactures of, 481.

. Chronicle, remarks on its treat-
ment of Mrs Grant, 57, 187.
Gosschen's diary, extracts from, 596.
Grant, Mrs, on the liberties taken with her
literary character in the Glasgow Chroni-
cle, 57, 187.

Greek heads, craniological view of, 299.
Gwyn, letter from the celebrated Nell, 547.
Gypsies of Fife, anecdotes of the, 14, 393.
Harvest, the, neither retarded nor accelerat-
ed by an early or late spring, 229.
Hauyne, description of a mineral nearly re-
sembling, found in the island of Tiree,
583.

Hazlitt's lectures on English Poetry-On
Burns and the old ballads, 71.
Hazlitt and Jeffrey, on the literary and cri-
tical talents of, 303.

cross-questioned, 550.

Heat, on the measure of temperatures, and
the laws of the communication of, 724.
Hogg, James, the Ettrick shepherd, a He-
brew melody, by, 90.

Hora Cambricæ, No I. 448.

Horæ Cantabrigienses, No I. 548.
Hospital scene, dreadful one in Portugal, 87.
Hume, David, and Samuel Johnson, com-
pared, 511.

charged with plagiarism from
Aquinas, 655.

Hunt, Leigh, letter from Z. to, 196.
Huttonian and Wernerian disputants, a
word to the rival, 583.

Jardine, Professor, review of his Outlines of
Philosophical Education, 420.

Jarvie, Nicol, letter to, from Andrew Fair-
service, 185.

Jeffrey, Francis, Esq. letter of Timothy
Tickler to, 75.

Jeffrey and Hazlitt, on the literary and cri-
tical talents of, 303.

Jew of Malta, remarks on Marlow's play of,
208.

Increase of crimes, hints to speculators on
the, 176.

Interesting narrative of the taking of the
island of Timor in 1811, 306.
Inverness election of magistrates, process in
the Court of Session regarding, 106.
Johnson, Samuel, and David Hume, com-
pared, 511.

Iron, chromate of, discovery of extensive
veins of, in Shetland, 463.
Ivan, the tale of, (translated from the Cor-
nish) 169.

Justiciary, High Court of, trial of a clergy-
man for celebrating clandestine marriage,
108. Of a juvenile gang of thieves in
Edinburgh, ib.

Kaleidoscope, description of the, 121.-His-
tory of, and remarks on its resemblance
to other inventions, 331.

Kean, Mr, remarks on his acting, 77.
Kidd and Brande, remarks on their writ-
ings, 277.

Klopstock, translation from the German of,
416.

Knights Errant, the, No II. 32.-No III.
33.

Körner, translation from the German of,
417.

Kraken, remarks on W.'s account of the,
204.

Lake School of Poetry, Essays on the, No I.
369.

Lamb, Charles, review of the works of, 599.
Lauerwinkel, Baron Von, description by,
of Fox and Pitt, 456.-His remarks on
the Great Madonna of Dresden, 562.-
His letter to Professor Laugner, 689.
Laugner, Professor, letter to, from Baron
Von Lauerwinkel, on his writings in the
Köningsberg Review, 689.

Letter second, from an Old Indian Officer,
42.

from Glasgow, in reply to that from
Nicol Jarvie, 56.

- from the celebrated Colin M'Laurin,
127.

from Andrew Fairservice to Dr Nicol
Jarvie, 185.

from a friend of Mrs Grant, with
note by the Editor, 187.

from Z. to Leigh Hunt, King of
the Cockneys, 196.

to the veiled conductor of Black-
wood's Magazine, 211.

of Petrarch to Posterity, 313.
to the author of Beppo, 323.
to a Politician, written after the
conclusion of the war, 381.

to Sir H. Steuart of Allanton, from
the author of the "Vindication of the
Memory of the Somervilles," 438.-Re-
marks on the letter, 709.

from the celebrated Nell Gwyn, 547.
from an English Officer to a friend
in Liverpool, 565.

to Professor Laugner, from Von
Lauerwinkel, 689.

s of Timothy Tickler, to various lite-
rary characters, 75, 461, 527.
Literary and Scientific Intelligence, 95,
*219, 338, 471, 611, 723.
Literature, remarks on Schlegel's History
of, 497.

of a national character in, 707.
Lithography, on the art of, report of a Com-
mittee of the French Academy of Fine

Arts, 725.

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Madonna, the Great, of Dresden, remarks
on, by Von Lauerwinkel, 562.
Magic Lanthern, Time's, No II.-Galile
in the Inquisition, 3.-No III. Rem-
brandt's work shop, 4-No IV. Bun-
yanus Obsessus, or a tift with Apollyon,
137. No V. Dialogue between Lord
Bacon and Shakspeare, 270.-No VI.
Johnson's Midnight Walk, 274.-No
VII. Adam Smith and a Highland Laird,
419.

Margaret, Queen of Navarre, comparison
between her and a modern Blue Stocking,
546.

Market Tables, 115, 242, 359, 486, 625,
734.
Marlow's Jew of Malta, remarks on, 208.
Marriage, a novel, review of, 286.

Marriages, lists of, 118, 245, 364, 492, 628,
737.

Index.

Menil's edition of Antara, remarks on, 513.
Metal, a new one discovered, called seleni-
um, 95.

Meteorological establishment at St Bernard,
description of, 97.

626, 735.

Reports, 116, 243, 359, 487,

Metrical versions of the Psalms, remarks on,
63, 178.

notices to correspondents, 248.
Minerals, discovery of new ones, 472, 473.
Minstrel, the, of Bruges, version of the old
French story of, 661.

Montagu, Mr, Horace Walpole's letters to,
162.

Mountains, method of ascertaining the
heights of, 473.

Murderer, remarkable confession of a, 596.
Music, on the state of in Scotland, 255.-

On the state of in Edinburgh, 538.
Napier, Macvey, Esq. observations on his
essay on the writings of Bacon, 657.
Napoleon's Head, the craniologist's review
of, 146.

National monument for Scotland, proceed-
ings respecting one, 234.
National Character in Literature, remarks
on, 707.

Natural and revealed religon, dialogues on,
No I. 90.-No II. 170.

Observations of M. Biot, to determine the
figure of the earth, 463.-On Mr Macvey
Napier's essay on the writings of Bacon,
657. On the state of Parties, and the
Edinburgh Review, 715.-On a National
Character in Literature, 707.
Odoherty, Adjutant, account of the life and
writings of, continued, 51.
Olive Trees, on the raising of, *219.
Optics, new discovery in, 614.
Othello, remarks on a disputed passage in
the tragedy of, 8.

Overseers, effects of, on the morals of farm
servants, 83.

Oxford examination, poetical account of an,
280.

Pacific Ocean, view of the commerce of the
principal shores of, 695.
Paris, the English in, 446.
Parties, state of, remarks on, 715.-On an
article on this subject in the Edinburgh
Review, 719.

Party spirit, remarks on, 129.
Petrarch, letter of, to posterity, 313.
Peudemots, M de, extract from the works
of, 46.

Phantasmagoria, No I. 213.

Phantasmagoriana, or tales of the dead, 580.
Philippine Islands, details respecting the,

576.-Review of Captain M Konochie's
statistics of the principal shores of, 695.
Philosophical education, review of Jardine's
Outlines of, 420.

Photometer, a new invented one, 36.
Pit and Fox, sketch of, by Baron Von
Lauerwinkel, 456.
VOL. III.

Platinum, mass of, found in South Ameri-
ca, 723.

Poetry, verses on the death of the Princess
Charlotte, 5.-The Fairies, 30.-Sonnet
to John Carnegy, Esq. 58.-On Carmel's
Brow, a Hebrew melody, 90.-Humo-
rous description of shipwreck by drink,
141.--Fragment of a fifth canto of Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage, 201.-The Herald,
211.-Notices to Correspondents, 248.-
Account of an Oxford Examination, 280.
-The Mad Banker of Amsterdam, 402,
530. From the German of Klopstock,
416.-Of Körner, 417.-And of Schiller,
418.-Sanscrit Ode, 460.

on the Lake School of, No I. 369.
on the Cockney School of, No III.
No IV. 519.

453.
Poor Laws of England, remarks on, 9.

in Scotland, answers to queries respect-
ing the maintenance of, 11.-Report by
Principal Baird, on the management of,
320.

Popular superstitions in Wales, account of,
188.Witch stories, ib.-Stories of
ghosts, evil spirits, demons, &c. 189.-
Stories of fairies, 190.-Dogs of hell, 192.
-Corpse-candles, 193.-The kyhirraeth,

195.

Portugal, horrid hospital scene in, 87.
Preternatural, on the use of the, in works
of fiction, 640.

Princess Charlotte, verses on the death of, 5.
Psalms, remarks on various metrical versions
of, 63, 178.

Public Feeling, a few thoughts on, 294.
Publications, Monthly Lists of new ones,
101, 225, 344, 476, 617, 728.
Queen Elizabeth, on the fashion of dress in
the reign of, 534.

Railways, premium offered by the High-
land Society for the improvement and
extension of, 726.

Ready Reckoner, the British, review of, 317.
Red earth, shower of, in Italy, 338.

Redness of the sea, remarks on the, 339.
Religion, natural and revealed, dialogues on,
No I. 90.-No II. 170.

Remarks on the "Petit Volume" of Mons.
Say, 58.-On various metrical versions of
the Psalms, 63, 178.-On a publication
called "the Fudge Family in Paris," 129.
-On the Aristophanic comedy, 152.-
On Horace Walpole's letters to Mr Mon-
tagu, 162.-On the writings of George
Buchanan, 251.-On the writings of Kidd
and Brande, 277.-On dress, 301.-On
Schlegel's history of literature, 497.-On
Menil's edition of Antara, 513.-On the
anonymous essays of the Earl of Buchan,
515.-On Currents, 579.-On the Pos
thumous Works of Madame de Stael,
633.-On some passages of Mr Cole-
ridge's Biographia Literaria, 653.-On
the state of parties, and the Edinburgh
Review, 715-On a letter to Sir Henry
Steuart of Allanton, 709.
Review of "The Fudge Family of Paris,"
5 B

129. Of the fourth canto of Childe Har-
old, 216.-Of Marriage, a novel, 286.-
Of Stenhouse's British Ready Reckoner,
317.-Of Wordsworth's White Doe of
Rylstone, 372.-Of a Six Weeks Tour
through France, 412.-Of Outlines of
Philosophical Education, 420.-Of Let-
ters from the North Highlands, by E. J.
Spence, 428.-Of letters of an English
commercial traveller in Scotland, 431.-
Of Altham and his wife, a tale, 542.-
Of Tales of my Landlord, 567.-Of the
works of Charles Lamb, 599.-Of M'Kon-
ochie's Statistics, &c. of the principal
Shores of the Pacific Ocean, 695.
Review, Edinburgh, letters to the supporters
of, 155.-State of Parties and the, 715,
Rhinoceros, experiments to make a mus-
ket ball pierce the hide of, 724.
Robertson, Rev. Joseph, trial of, for cele-
brating unlawful marriages, 108.
Rome," One Night in," translated from
the French of M. de Peudemots, 47.
Russell, William, LL. D. biographical
notice of, 398,

Mr, his reception at Haymarket
Theatre, 588.
Salt, method of making it in the Great Loo
Choo Island, 612.

Savings Banks in Scotland, abstract of a
proposed bill for the protection of, 68.
Say, Monsieur, remarks on the "Petit
Volume" of, 58,

Schiller, translations from the German of,
418.

Schlegel's History of Literature, remarks
on, 497.

Scientific and Literary Intelligence, 95,
*219, 338, 471, 611, 723.

Scotch Burghs, bill of the Lord Advocate
for regulating the, 231.-Resolutions of
the guildry of Edinburgh respecting it,

235.

Scotland, Poor in, answers to queries re-
specting the maintenance of the, 11.-
Burghs in, who have stirred in the cause
of reform, and those who have not, with
the relative populations, 107.-Answers
to queries respecting the tythe system of
Scotland, 149.-Proceedings of the com-
mission of the General Assembly of the
Church of, 230.-Proceedings of the com-
mittee on the proposed national monu-
ment for, 234.-On the state of music in,
265.-Principal Baird's report on the
management of the poor in, 320.-Pro-
ceedings of the General Assembly of,

352.

Scott, Wordsworth, and Byron, on their se-
veral merits as poets, 369.
Sebastians, St, account of the storming of,
by an English officer, 565.
Second Sight, remarkable instance of, 18.
Selections from Athenæus, No 1. 650.
Serpent, great sea one, on the history of the,
33.-Accounts of some seen on the coast
of Norway, 34.-Of one on the coast of
Scotland, 37.-Of one seen near Ply-

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Shakspeare's Sonnets, remarks on, 585.
Shipwreck, melancholy one near Slains Cas-
tle, 107.-Humorous description of one
by drink, 141.

Speaker of the House of Commons, a whig's
thoughts on the qualifications of a, 141.
Spence, Miss, and the Bagman, 428.
Spring, its earliness or lateness, neither
hastens nor retards the harvest, 229.
Stael, Madame de, one of the brightest or-
naments of European literature, 633.-
Observations on her Posthumous Works,
ib.-Comparative characters of Charles
I. and Louis XVI. by, 638.-Her re-
marks on the manners of the English, 645.
Staffordshire, account of a pseudo-volcano
there, 340.

Steuart, Sir Henry, of Allanton, letter to
him, from the author of the "Vindica-
tion of the Memorie of the Somervilles,"
438.

Sugar, experiment in France to produce it
from beet root, 611.

Swindling, in a female fortune-teller, 230.
Tales of my Landlord, review of, 567.
Tales of the Dead, 580.

Taste, fragment of an essay on, 21.
Thoughts on Public Feeling, 294.
Tickler, Timothy, letters of, to various lite-
rary characters, No III. to Francis Jef-
frey, Esq. 75.-No IV. to the Editor of
Blackwood's Magazine, 461-No V. to
the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, 527.
Time's Magic Lanthern, No II. 3.—No

III. 4.-No IV. 137.-No V. 270.-
No VI. 274.-No VII. 419.
Timor, narrative of the taking of, in 1811,
by the ship Hesper, 306.
Tree Goose, or Bernacle, singular credulity
respecting the history of this bird, 671.
Truth, the reverie of an enthusiast on, 123.
Tythes, thoughts concerning, 147.-An-

swers to queries respecting the tythe sys-
tem in Scotland, 149.

Violet Rays, on the magnetising power of,
*219.

Voltaire's Head, craniological view of, 300.
Wales, account of some popular supersti-
tions in, 188.

Wales, New South, discovery of a river in
the interior of, 613.

Walpole, Horace, his letters to Mr Mon-
tagu, 162.-His account of Lord Ferrers'
murdering his own stewart, and of his
trial, &c. 165.

War, letter to a politician on the policy and
termination of the late one in Europe,

381.

Water Spouts, observations on, "220.
Wernerian and Huttonian disputants, the
rival, a word to, 583.

Whigs and Tories, choice between a stupid
young Tory and a clever young Whig,

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