cerning, 123. Bonaparte accused of poisoning his own sick troops, and of murdering the Turkish gar- rison of Jaffa, 286.
portrait of, 381. Ac- count of his consular dinners, 383.
Borda, M. account of, 498. Bouchard, M. on the laws of Ala-
ric. 509.. Bouchaud, M. on the morals of Cicero and Seneca, 511. Bournon, count de, on the Corun- dum stone, 419.
Bray, vicar of, account of, 395. Buache, M. on the island of Juan
de Lisboa, 509. On the islands of Dina and Marsaveen, 511. Bull, that species of blunder in phraseology discussed, 236. Instances of, ib. et seq. Bunting-cirl described, 140. Burton's vindication of the study of antiquities, 68.
Cairo, memoirs relative to, 459, 460.
Canals, preferable to rivers for inland communications, 449. Account of the famous canal of Languedoc, with instruc- tions for forming canals, ib. et seq.
Cancer supposed to be a formi- dable disease only in cold cli- mates, 60. See Hydatids. Caravans of Egypt, account of, 458.
Cardinal, an honest, learned, and
merry one, account of that phænomenon, 338. Cassini, M. on the greatest de- gree of heat, 501.
Cattle, hints respecting, 293, Cave, Theophilus, punning epi taph on, 73.
Cayenne, account of that settle- ment, 484. et seq.
Ceylon, some account of, and its connection with the British in- terests in the Carnatic, 357. Chactaws, those Indians said to have medical and surgical knowlege, 342.
Champagne, M. account of M. Latouche, 507.
Chart, trignometrical, memoirs on, 503.
Chenevix, M. his analysis of the Corundum stone, 420. Christianity, the advantages of,
Church of England, articles of, and True Churchmen, contro versy concerning, 408-412. 435-440.
Cicero, morals of, memoir on, 511.
Cicindela Campestris described, 134.
Cirl Bunting account of, 140. Citron, poetic description of, 32. Clupea, that genus of birds de scribed, 249. Colours. See Young. Colymbus Troile described, 219.
Conic sections. See Helins. Convents in France before the re- volution, anecdote respecting, 181.
Conway, Marshal, honorable tes-
timony to his character, 394. Corundum stone, description of, 419. Analysis of, 420. Cotele house, in Cornwall, account of, 396.
Cottager should be enabled to keep a cow, 292.
Cotte, M. his meteorological ob- servations, 501.
Coulomb, M. on the magnetic needle, 505. Cousin, M. on the rise and fall of the Seine, 502.
Crow, anecdote of one having built its nest in a singular situ ation, 47. Crystals, Iceland, on the refrac- tion of, 415.
Cuvier, M. historical notice of M. L'Heritier, 497. Of M. Gilbert, 497. Of M. Darcet, 498.
Damascus, old woman of, her charitable wish, 305. Darcet, M. biographical account of, 498.
Daunou, M. on the origin of print- ing, 512. D'Aussy, M. historical account of, 507. Dem-ei-monia, a disease in Egypt equally fatal with the plague,
Desgenettes, M. his necrological tables, 460. Destutt-Tracy, M. on the meta- physics of Kant, 513. Dina and Marsaveen, remarks on those islands, 511. Dogs, remarkable anecdotes of, 163, 154.
Domingo, St. the nature of a war in that island, between the na- tives and the whites, 74. Re- marks on that island. 490. Donnington castle, described, 390. Dreams, practical inferences to be drawn from, 171. Druid's temple, removed from Jersey to Marshal Conway's seat in Berks, 394. Du Bois, Cardinal, account of,
118. Curious anecdote of the
mode by which he obtained the archbishopric of Cambray, 119. Dunstan, a supposed miracle in his life explained, 277.
Egypt, detail of the action of the
Frank, M. on the trade in negroes Highwayman, curious story of
Kant. See Destutt-Tracy. Koch, M. on the venereal disease, 510. On a literary society at Strasburgh, 511.
La Chapelle, M. on the solstitial distance of the sun from the Zenith, and on the summer solstice of 1801, 501. Lady's Bedstraw, that flower poetically described, 30. La Lande, M. edits Montucla's. history of the mathematics, 478. Account of M. Beau-
champ, 506. Languedoc, canal of, history of,
Lapancue, M. on the caravans of Egypt and Sennaar, 458. Las Casas, Bishop of Chiappa, apology for, 508. Latouche, M. biographical ac- count of, 597. L'Heritier, M. biographical no- tice of, 497. Lescalier, M. memoir relative to Madagascar, and fragments of travels in India, 508. Lettres de cachet, another anccdote
of their abuse, 387. Leveque, M. on a trigonometrical
chart, 503. Levesque, M.ace. of M. D'Aussy, 507. On the Athenian con- stitution, 509.
on the return of the Argo-
nauts, 509. Lion, his treacherous disposition
asserted, 253. Literary Fund, account of, 33. Lizard of Sardinia, account of,
Louvre, gallery of, account of, 179. 184, 379.
Luther, particulars respecting, 259, et seq.
Luxury of the opulent classes in Paris, 380.
Madagascar, memoir relating to, 508.
Maignon, M. on a trigonometrical chart, 503. Malplaquet, a soldier who was in that battle discovered at a very advanced age in Guiana, 486. Malta, various particulars con- cerning, 460.
Man, the dignity of, morally re- presented. 189.
Mansfield, Lord, anecdote of, not credited, 521. Manufactures better carried on in the country than in towns, as instanced in Ireland, 80. See also, 403.
Marseilles, scene at a coffee-house there humorously described, 364.
Merinos, of Spain, account of the diffusion of that race of sheep,
513- Messier, M. his meteorological observations, 501. 505. Meteorology. See Cotte, Messier, Nouet.
Milton, poetically introduced in a vision, 29.
Mind, the philosophy of, discus- sed, 167.
Money, both in paper and in metal, should be left to find its own level, 316.
use of, 512. Montesquieu, anecdote of, 310. Montpellier, interesting adventure of an English traveller in that neighbourhood, 363.
Longevity, rules for promoting, Moon, theory of, remarks rela
Music of the Welsh Bards, obs. Partridge, female, asstimes the
horse-shoe mark on the breast, like that of the male, 49. Peake's hole, in Derbyshire, de- scribed, 161.
Pentilly Castle described, 399. Perception, nature and seat of, 169.
Persius, imitation of, 371. Petrarch, one of his sonnets tran- slated, 372.
Pheasants, observations concern. ing, 139:
Pitt, Mr. his intercourse with and separation from Mr. Wy- vill, 198, 199.
Plague, memoir on, 459, 547 Planets, two, newly discovered, obs. on, 413
Plantain-Eater, description of that bird, 46. Pleasures, temperately enjoyed, both rational and religious,
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