Mississippi, expedition to explore, 76. Montague, 265 succeeds Coke as chief justice of king's bench, 270. Moore, Governor of Carolina, his ex- pedition against Florida, 93. Moore, the poet, remarks on his ver- sification, 241.
Morgan, Botta's description of his bat- tle at Cowpens, 194.
Moscoso, his voyage to Florida under Soto, 67.
Moscow, travelling between St Peters- burg and, 206 et seq. Moyne Le, his narrative of the French expedition to Florida, 70. M'Queen, James, his work on Africa and the course of the Niger, review- ed, 440 et seq.
Muhlenberg, account of him and his botanical works, 112.
Munich, Marshall, his kindness to St Pierre, 206.
Mustel, editor of the French Gazette
at Amsterdam, account of, 204- his kindness to St Pierre, ib.
Narvaez Pamphilo, his voyage to Florida, 64 et seq. National vanity, remarks on, 40. New London Monthly Magazine, es- say of, respecting the complaints in America against the British press, reviewed, 20-extract from, on American vanity, 37-the ex- tract parodied, 38.
New Orleans, settled, 77-ceded by France to Spain, 84.
New York, historical society, Whea- ton's discourse before, 154-her cession of territory to the United States, 322.
Niger, M'Queen's work on the course of, reviewed, 440 et seq.-hypothe- sis of M'Queen and Reichard, 440 et seq.-other hypotheses, 444- Ptolemy and the Arabian authors, 445-course of, described, ib.- rivers which join the sea in the Delta of Benin, 446 et seq.-Delta of, 449-termination of, ascertain- ed, ib.
North, Lord, his conciliation act, 183, 186.
Novels, remarks on those by the au- thor of Waverly, 393-Valerius, reviewed, ib.
Pandects, of Justinian, character of, 3-remodelled by Pothier, ib.-pre- face to, by M. de Guienne, 4-ma- rine law of, 15. Papinian, 160.
Pardo, convention of, 75.
Park Mungo, his opinion of the course of the Niger, 443. Pascal, 365.
Paul St, his use of the word barba rian, 157.
Pearson captain, Botta's description of his sea fight with Paul Jones, 192.
Penitentiary system defended, 418 et seq.- -causes why its utility has been doubted, 418 et seq.-too much expected from it, ib.- our establishments improperly con- founded with those of other coun- tries, ib.-ours not the true peni- tentiary system, 419-State prisons in the United States, 420-trans- portation 422-labouring in chains, 423-corporal punishments, ib. et seq.-capital punishments, 425 et seq.-hard labor, 421, 430, 433- capital punishments in Massachu- setts, 431-instances of reformed criminals, 432-expenses of State prisons, 433-solitary confinement, 434-whether State prisons are a sufficient punishment for criminals, 435-law of Massachusetts respect- ing convicts, 436-prevention of crimes, 437-requisites in building prisons and managing prisoners, 438-pamphlet on, reviewed, 417, 439-valuable works on this sub- ject, 440.
Penn William, his criminal code, 429. Pennsylvania, penitentiary system of, 419, 420, 430,
Perdidos, river, why so named, 96. Petersburg, travelling between Mos- cow and, 206 et seq.
Petrarch, Byron's remarks on, 461. Philip II. of Spain, his marine regu- lations, 19.
Phillips, the Irish orator, 5. Pindar, quoted, 157. Pitkin's statistics, 51. Plato, 364.
Plautus, quoted, 157.
Plebs and populus, signification of, 159. Poetry and poetical, what is meant by the terms, 451-whether images from nature, or from art, are most poetical, ib. et seq.-remarks of Byron on this subject, 454, 458,— Athens, 458,460-lake Thrasymene, 460-Byron's remarks on the clas-" sification of poets, 461-Byron's praise of ethical poetry, 462, 465, 466-strictures on Byron's remarks, 456, 460, 463-rank of tragedy, 464 -decline of English poetry, 466 et
Ponce De, discovered Florida, 63— account of his life and voyages, ib. Pope, quoted, 28-regularity of his verse remarked on, 240, 471-con- test respecting, between Bowles, Byron, and others, 450-defended by Byron, 461, 462 et seq.-By- ron's panegyric on, 465-remarks on his poems, 468 et seq. Portalis assists in drawing up the Pro- jet de Code Civil, 10. Pothier, translation of his treatise on Maritime Contracts, reviewed, 1- his writings introduced into Eng- land by Sir William Jones, ib.- imitated by Jones in his Law of Bailments, ib.--translations of some of his treatises desirable, 2-his life and character, ib. et seq.-remod- cls the Pandects, 3-patronised by M. de Guienne and chancellor D' Aguesseau, 4his edition of the Coutume of Orleans, 5-his Traité des Obligations translated, ib.-best editions of his works, 6-inscrip- tion on his tomb, 12-his writings contributed to the reform of the laws of France, ib.-an authority at Westminster and at Washington,
ib.-personal anecdotes of, 13. Purchas, quotation from, respecting Florida, 73.
Pursh, account of him and his botan- ical works, 113.
Raleigh Sir Walter, account of his trial, 258.
Reasoning, definition of, 385. Rennel, his opinion respecting the Niger, 441.
Reports, of judicial decisions in Eng- land, 278 et seq.
Review North American, vindicated from the censures and misrepresen- tations of the New London Month. ly Magazine, 22 et seq. Review Quarterly, quoted respecting Fearon, 28.
Reviewing, laws of, compared to those of war, 20-a departure from those laws justified, 21.
Ribault, his voyages to Florida, 68, 70-fate of him and his followers, 72.
Rhodes, marine laws of, 14. Rogers, the poet, 450. Rome, her constitution, 158-society of, 159-public and private life dis- played in the novel of Valerius, 395 et seq.-description of the bus- tle round the amphitheatre, ib.-
persecution of christians, 397, 400, 403, 405, 411-sacrifice to Jupiter in the amphitheatre, 403-incanta- tions, 406 et seq.-pageant of Cy. bele, 412 et seq.
Romilly Sir Samuel, his attempts to soften the penal code of England,
Saint Pierre, notice of an edition of all his works, 200-his Paul and Virginia, 201-Martin's life of, re- viewed, ib. et seq.-his early life, ib.-his distress, 202-proposes to found a state on the shores of lake Aral, 203- -goes to Amsterdam, ib.-meets with kindness from Mus- tel, editor of the French Gazette, 204- -refuses to marry Mustel's sister, 204-arrives at Lubeck and embarks for St Petersburg, ib. -arrives at St Petersburg, 205— presented to marshall Munich, 206
his journ journey b his recept made a in the Ru duced by empress C plant Orlo with cour sents his -his cha mestic, ib captain, 2 service in 216-temp in the Rus to marry niece, ib. Russians, saw with t ib.-repair ment, and fault, 218- -denouer
et seq.-g his service
ny, 219- and goes
marry the 220-retur Utopian e ib.-quits the Isle of France, i voluminou Arcadia, il lished, ib.- and Paul a reads his manuscrip rati at Ma depression different r the painter tage, 223- sex, 224 old age a erased by of senator als to the theory of Samanus, de Florida, 6 Sanson, the 93.
Schoepf, his
his journey to Moscow, ib.-his journey back to St Petersburg, 208. his reception at Moscow, 210- made a lieutenant of engineers in in the Russian service, ib.-intro- duced by M. de Ville-Bois to the empress Catharine, in order to sup- plant Orloff, ib. et seq.-interview with count Orloff, to whom he pre- sents his scheme of a republic, 214 -his chagrin, ib.-his military do- mestic, ib.-attains to the rank of captain, 215quits the Russian service in order to join the Poles, 216-tempting offers to retain him in the Russian service, ib.-refuses to marry general de Bosquet's niece, ib.-taken prisoner by the Russians, 217-his amour at War- saw with the princess Mary M—, ib.-repairs to Vienna for employ- ment, and fails through his own fault, 218-returns to Warsaw, 219 -denouement of his amour, 218 et seq.-goes to Dresden to offer his services to the elector of Saxo- ny, 219-quits Dresden in disgust and goes to Berlin ib.-refuses to marry the daughter of Taubenheim, 220-returns to France and sails on a Utopian expedition for Madagascar, ib.-quits the concern and lands at the Isle of France, 221-returns to France, ib.-forms the plan of a voluminous romance, to be called Arcadia, ib.-first book of it pub- lished, ib.-his Studies of Nature, and Paul and Virginia, ib. et seq.- reads his Paul and Virginia, in manuscript to a company of lite- rati at Madame Necker's, ib.-his depression at its reception, 222- different reception of it by Vernet, the painter, ib.-his Indian Cot- tage, 223-a favorite with the fair sex, 224 twice married, 225-his old age and death, ib.-his name erased by Bonaparte from the list of senators, ib.-his report on mor- als to the Institute, ib. et seq.-his theory of the tides, 227. Samanus, denied permission to go to Florida, 68.
Sanson, the geographer, quoted, 74,
Schoepf, his botanical writings, 111,
Schools, reports on the appropriation of public lands for the support of, 310 et seq.
Sevelinges, M. de, his translation of Botta reviewed, 190-mistakes in his preface, ib.
Seybert's statistics, 51, 58.
Shakspeare, Byron's remarks on, 466, 467.
Silliman, professor, his American Journal of Science and Arts, re- commended to public patronage 247-extract from the preface to third volume, 248.
Slavery, state of England and Ameri- ca in regard to, 43 et seq.-among the Greeks and Romans, 158-ori- gin of the slave trade, and whether favored by Las Casas, 161 et seq. Small-pox, necessary to be on our guard against, 287-differs in some respects from the new variolous disease, ib.-its protecting power, 288-second attacks of, 288, 292- its identity with the new disease, 291-Dr Thomson's opinion of its identity with chicken-pox examin- ed, 295 et seq.-may be modified by circumstances, 297 et seq.-va- riolous inoculation less efficacious than vaccination, 304-baneful consequences of the practice of inoculation, ib. et seq.-mortality from, during different periods, 306 -exterminated by vaccination,
Smith, his elementary treatise on botany, 112-his favorable notice of American botanists, 124. Somerset, Earl of, 262, 270. Somerset, the negro, case of, 44. Soto Ferdinand de, his expedition to Florida, 66.
Southampton, Earl of, his trial, 258. Spanish claimants, 90.
Spelman, his remark on Coke's neg- lect of feudal law, 283. Sprengel, his elementary treatise on botany, 112.
State prisons and the Penitentiary sys-
tem, pamphlet on, reviewed, 417, 439-remarks on, 418 et seq. Statistics, a science of recent origin, 48-distinguished from geography, ib.-earliest works of this nature, ib.-Achenwail the father of the science, ib.
Steam boats and team boats, 149 et Valerius, a Roman Story, reviewed,
Stewart Dugald, 365. Strabo quoted, 155.
Stuart, his Hebrew Grammar review- ed, 473 et seq.-his own account of his work, 474-strictures on his classification of the vowels, 475- his Grammar commended, 476. Symmes Col. John C. his discoveries in the interior of the globe, 138 et seq.-benefits from his discoveries, 139 et seq.-jealousy of the geolo- gists, 142.
Symzonia reviewed, 134.
Talbot Lord, his opinion on the law of slavery in England, 45. Talon Denis, his remark on D'Agu- esseau, 4.
Tarleton, Botta's description of his battle at Cowpens, 194. Thomson, his account of the Vario- loid epidemic in Edinburgh re- viewed, 286 et seq.-his remarks on the deterioration of vaccine matter, 293-his opinion of the identity of small-pox with chicken- pox examined, 295 et seq. Thrasymene, lake, 460. Thucydides quoted, 156. Tragedy, French, decline of, 227- one of the highest kinds of poetry,
Vaca Gabeca de, sailed with Narvaez to Florida, 66. Vaccination, its protecting power against the new variolous disease, 288 et seq.-remarks on the best mode of, 292-Dr Thomson's re- marks on the deterioration of the vaccine matter, 293-whether its protecting power is weakened by time, 294-its efficacy asserted and demonstrated, 300 et seq.-investi- gation into the causes of failure in Silesia, 303-superior to variolous inoculation, 304-its power of ex- terminating the small-pox, 307— encouragement of the practice in different countries, 306 et seq.
393-the hero of, 394-the author's general plan, and how executed, ib.-description of the bustle round the amphitheatre, 395-Athanasia, 397 et seq.-412-Thraso, a Chris- tian, 400, 403, 405-music of the Jews, 401-persecution of Chris- tians, 397, 400, 403, 405, 411- sacrifice to Jupiter in the amphi- theatre, 403-incantations of Pona, 406 et seq.-Cotilius, 411-pageant of Cybele, 412 et seq. Valin, 10. Variolous disease, in some respects different from the small-pox, 287- history of, in Scotland, 288 et seq. -history of, in Norwich, and in other places in England and the rest of Europe, 290-its identity with the small-pox, 291-phenom- ena of, and how to be explained, ib. et seq.-mortality of, 297. Vasques Luke, his voyages to St Helena in South Carolina, 64. Verplanck, his report on colleges, &c. 310 et seq.-his remarks justifying the appropriations of public lands by Congress, 327-other remarks on this subject answered, 330 et seq.
Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, ex- asperated against Coke, 270 et seq. -extolled by Coke, 275-denounc- ed by Coke, 276.
Virgil's Georgics and Eneid, 462. Virginia, her ancient charters, boun-
daries, and claims of territory, 312 et seq. cession of territory to the United States, 319. Voltaire, quoted, 471. W. Walpole, Horace, extolled by Lord Byron, 246. Walter's Flora Caroliniana, 107. Walter, Sir John, 265-refuses to prosecute Coke, 274. Wangenheim's work on botany, 107. War, improper views of, 166. Warden, D. B. his account of the
United States reviewed, 47-his introduction commended, 49 et seq.-division of his work, 52- contradictions arising from his ar rangement, ib.-mistakes in his work, 57 et seq.-remarks on the
general Washington count of Washington the indep colonies, descripti
comman
about ge
the Unite Wheaton, h York His 154-his
general character of his work, 62. Washington, city of, Warden's ac- count of, 61.
Washington, his sentiments respecting the independence of the American colonies, 182, 185, 189-Botta's description of his resigning the command, 198-his admonition about geographical distinctions in the United States, 335. Wheaton, his discourse before the New York Historical Society reviewed, 154-his remarks on the Athenian
character, 158-on the Roman con- stitution, ib.-on Roman society, 159-on Las Casas, 161-his praise of Grotius, 165-his remarks on war and military glory noticed, 166 et seq.
Wisbuy, ordinances of, 17.
Yelverton, Sir Henry, 265-interested in Coke's disgrace, 270-Coke's se- verity towards him, 273-of counsel in opposition to Coke, 274. Yorkshire, its elections, 356.
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