rious periods from 1776 to
1815, 35-necessity and
practicability of the reform
of, 37
Porter, quantity brewed in
London, 81-Ingredients
necessary in the composition
of, 468
Portugal, mutiny of a regi-
ment in, 275-Execution
of conspirators in, 378
Post-Horse Duty, letting of
in Britain, 486
Princess Charlotte of Wales,
lamented death of ber and
her infant son, 387-Ac-
count of the funeral of, 482
Prizes proposed by the So-
ciety in Paris for the en-
couragement of the arts, 470
Prussia, Council of State in,
reject plan of finance propo-
sed by the Minister, 75-
Destruction of the theatre
at Berlin by fire, 76-King
of, visits Paris as a private
gentleman, 173
Public Institutions, expence
of board, clothing, and edu-
cation of children in, 331
Publications, monthly lists
of new ones, 70, 167, 271,
374, 474
New French ones,
171, 377
Queen Elizabeth, remark-
able audience of a Polish
ambassador at her Court,
29-Account of some origi-
nal letters of, and fac-simile
of her hand-writing, 106
Rask, M. notice of his re-
searches into the ancient
northern language and my-
thology, 269
Railway, proposed one from
Edinburgh to Leith, 83
Regalia of Scotland, remarks
on the fate of the, 444
Remarkable incident in Edin-
burgh, 180
Review of Kirkton's History
of the Church of Scotland,
44-Of Lord Byron's La-
ment of Tasso, 48-Of Fer-
guson's Decisions of the
Consistorial Court of Scot-
land, 50-Of Leyden and
Murray's account of disco-
veries in Africa, 52-Of
Lady Morgan's France, 141
-Of Miss Edgeworth's Co-
mic Dramas, 145-Of Shil-
liber's voyage to Pitcairn's
island, 148-Of Coleridge's
Sibylline Leaves, 245-Of
Lord Binning's plan for Lu-
natic Asylums in Scotland,
250-Of Keats's poems, 254
-Of Six Mois a Londre, en
1816, 258-Of the Round
Table, and Characters of
Shakespeare, 352-Of Six
Week in Paris, 361-Of the
markable case of Miss M'A-
voy, 362-Of the Border
Antiquities of England and
Scotland, 450-Of Cole-
ridge's Zapolya, a Christ-
mas Tale, 455-Of Loddi-
ges' Botanical Cabinet, 459
Ritchie, David, the supposed
original of the Black Dwarf,
account of, 207
Richter, Otto von, the tra-
veller, death of, 270
Robbery of the Belfast mail-
coach, 481
Round Table, a collection of
Essays, review of, 352
Russia, attempt to raise coal
near Tula, in, 77-Rapid
renovation of Moscow, 479
-Progress of vaccination in,
472
Sadler, Mr, crosses the Irish
Channel in his balloon, 82
Science, present state of, in
Edinburgh, 417
Scientific and literary intelli-
gence, 66,164,265,367,467
-France, 68,164,267,370,
470-Germany, 69, 166,
268, 369, 472-Italy, 69,
166,370,471-America, 70,
371-Russia, 167, 269, 472
Prussia, 269-Denmark, 269
-East Indies, 270, 371
Scoresby, Captain, his obser.
vations on the polar ice, 414
Scotland, view of the change
of mannersin, during the last
century, 10, 111-Review
of Kirkton's history of the
church of, 44-A great pro-
portion of its gentry take
to the study of the law,
235-Popular belief in the
existence of fairies remain-
ing in, 237-Number of
Lunatics in, 280-Remarks
on the history of painting
in, 326-Decline of mathe-
matical learning in, 418-
Remarks on the fate of the
Regalia of, 444
Scottish Burghs, Chief Ma-
trates of, 286, 391
Scottish Burgh Reform, pro-
ceedings connected with,
384, 486
Army, state of that
under General Leslie in
1641, 213
Bar proverbial for the
talent it displays, 235
Criminal Courts, ex-
traordinary number of cases
in, 281
Church, on the in-
troduction of the organ in-
to the, 324
Scots Review, a Specimen of
the, account of a satirical
tract bearing that title, 9
Scriptures, notice of Bella-
my's translation of, from the
Hebrew, 164
Selkirk, Lord, account of
the plunder of his house by
Paul Jones, 14
Slave Trade, abolished in
America, 80-Strictures on
Miss H. M. Williams' poem
on the, by Burns, 109
Smugglers, curious devices
of, 187
Songs, 162, 163-from the
Gaelic, 263-Highland one,
ib.
Sonnets, 163, 264, 366
Spain, Execution of General
Lacy, 75-Sanguinary de-
cree of Ferdinand against
the South American Inde-
pendents, 174-Govern-
ment of, purchase six sail
of the line from Russia,
378-Hurricane at Ali-
cant, 479
Spence, William, tortured
with the thumbikins, in
1654, 6
Stanzas, 264
Steam-boats, observations
on, 21-Destruction of one
by fire, 81-On the useful-
ness of, in France, 156
- engines, persons who
have obtained patents for
them, 267
Stone, method of curing the,
Stones, ancient circles of.
discovered in Fifeshire, 423
Stuart family, notice of a
collection of papers belong-
ing to, 165
Stuart, Sir James, account
of his marriage in the be-
ginning of the last century,
Sweden, anti - commercial
decrees of the government,
77-rendered ineffectual by
the evasions of the people,
Switzerland, dreadful inun-
dations in, 75-French
exiles ordered to quit it,
174 Licence of the press
of, complained against by
the allied Sovereigns, 478
Talbot, Lord, his arrival in
Ireland as Viceroy, 381
Tea-tables in Edinburgh in
1745, account of the a-
musements of, 113
Thomson's fund for selling
Oatmeal at a reduced price
to the poor, 413
Thumbikens, instruments of
torture, observations on
their introduction into
Scotland, 5
Thunder storms, 84, 481
in, 77-Conflagrations in
the capital of, 175-Great
earthquake in, 479
University of Edinburgh, in-
debted for its first celebrity
to the excellence of its me-
dical school, 231
Vaccination, notice of its
progress in Russia, 472
Vesuvius, notice relative to
the eruptions of, 166
Vienna, notice of periodical
works published in, 268
Viper, notice of the great
one of Martinique, 267
Voltaire, anecdote of, 145
Wales, Princess Charlotte
of, her lamented death,
387-Account of her fu-
neral, 482
Waterloo fund, amount and
distribution of, 83
Waterspout, account of one
in Cumberland, 178
Tornado, account of one at Watson, John, on the em-
Aberfeldy, 178
Torture, account of an in-
strument of, called Thum-
bikins, 5
Tragical event in a Highland
glen, verses on, 161
Treason, High, trials and
executions for, at Derby,
Turkey, execution of pirates
ployment of the money left
by him for erecting a found-
ling hospital in Edinburgh,
413
Wedding clothes in 1701,
curious account of, 124
Wellington, Duke of, prose-
cutes a Flemish editor for
a libel, and is cast with ex-
pences, 174
Werner, the late celebrated
mineralogist, notice of, 461
West, Mr. remarks on his
picture of Death on the
Pale Horse, 403
Whales, a number of them
cast ashore in Britain, 282
Wieland, analytical notice of
his letters to his friends, 157
Williams, Helen Maria, let-
ter from, to Robert Burns,
199-Strictures by Burns
on her poem on the slave
trade, ib.
Wire bridgeover the Tweed,
account of, 182
Witches, account of those of
Pittenweem, in Fife, in the
last century, 199-Act of
the Scottish Privy Council
anent, 203-Report of a
committee on the murder
of one, 206
Wood, on the making of
bread from, 313
Works, preparing for pub-
lication, 72, 171, 273, 372,
472
Writing, on the proper use
of terms in, 31
Wurtemberg, difference be
tween the king and the
people of, 75
York, Margaret of, anec.
dotes of, 412
Endex to Appointments, Promotions, &c.
PROMOTIONS,&c. Eglinton, Earl, 391 Manderston, 286
Ferreir, 391
Forbes, 88
Ford, 287
Forsyth, 287
Fowler, 286
Freeland, 391
Meldrum, 286, 287 Wellington, 88
Murray, 186, 286, Wright, 287
Gifford, 88, 390
Gilbert, 390
Glasgow, 490
Gordon, 286, 287
Gray, 287
Campbell, 287, 390 Grierson, 391
Carlile, 287
Chalmers, 286
Cheape, 286
Chetwynd, 286
Colby, 390
Cole, 286
Colquhoun, 490
Cowan, 286
Dalrympie, 391
Dawson, 287, ib.
Deas, 286
Denovan, 891
Dering, 490
Dixon, 286, 287
Duft, 390
Dundas, 490
Darham, 286
Hall, 490
Hamilton, 287, ib.
Hammond, 186
Henderson, 286
Hope, 490
Hume, 286
Husband, 186
Hutchison, 287
Jackson, 287
Johnson, 186, 390
Kerr, 287
King, 287
Reekie, 287
Richardson, 287
Riddoch, 286, 391
Robertson. 287, ib.
Robinson, 88
Rodger, 286
Anderson, 391
Atkinson, 187
Bisset, 187
Blomfield, 391
Blyth, 187
Brocklebank, 391
Brown, 88
Bruce, 287
Campbell, 187
ABERCROMBIE, 193 Forbes, 294, 396, Mylne, 192
Abingdon, 497
Adams, 497
Alexander, 97, 497
Anderson, 192, 396
Alston, 396
Arnage, 294
Austria, Archduch-
ess of, 192
Balfour, 497
Barclay, 97
Baugh, 192
Bell, 294
Beresford, 193
Berry, 294
Bird, 193
Burnett, 192, 396
Calder, 97
Campbell, 97, 497
Carmichael, 397
Casara, 497
Castlestuart, Coun-
tess of, 293
Christie, 192
Cocks, 97
Cole, 192
Craigie, 93
Ogilvy, 396
Ogle, 293
Otway, 396
Parker, 397
Patrick, 293
Polignac, 192
Ainslie, 193
Alston, 193
Antrobus, 397
Ballinghal, 97
Bannatyne, 97
Bethune, 498
Black, 294, 397
Bridges, 139
Brotherstone, 294
Prussia, Princess of, Brown, 397
Pym, 192
Ramsay, 396
Riddell, 497
Robertson, 97, 396, Cadenhead, 98
Kinloch, 396
Lambert, 294
Sinclair, 293, 497
Spain, Queen of,
Carlile, 294
Clephane, 193, 194
Cobourg, Duke of,
Dunlop, 193, ib. 294
Durham, 397
Ebrington, 98
Ferguson, 98
Elgin, Countess of, Mein, 97
Krrol, Countess of, Modena, Duchess of, Wishart, 396
Wauchope, 497, ib. Galbraith, 397
Grant, 98, 100, 195, Maclachlan, 501, ib.
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