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 her 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- Jand, 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
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
Richter, Otto von, the tra- Selkirk, Lord, account of 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 manners in,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
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 Steamboats, observations on, 21-Destruction of one by fire, 81-On the useful- ness of, in France, 156
engines, persons whe 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, 12
Sweden, anti- commercial decrees of the government, 77-rendered ineffectual by the evasions of the people, 174
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 Tornado, account of one at 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, 887
Turkey, execution of pirates
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 Watson, John, on the em- 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 bridge over 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
Ender to Appointments, Promotions, &c.
PROMOTIONS,&c. Eglinton, Earl, 391
Mayne, 390
Meldrum, 286, 287 Milne, 186, 390
Monteith, 287
Murray, 186, 286,
287 Niven, 391
Northumberland, Duke, 186
Oxford, Bishop, 88
Parnell, 186
Tod, 287, 490 Walker, 287
Wallace, 391
White, 286, 391 Wilson, 286
Wright, 287
Vansittart, 88
Vereker, 88 Vincent, St. 390
Errol, Countess of, Modena, Duchess of, Wishart, 396
Macdonald, 294 Macknight, 97 Maclean, 497
Maxwell, 396
Meikleham, 396
Tytler, 497 Undy, 97 Vere, 497
Vernon, 97 Vernor, 97
Youngson, 192
Yuile, 497
Waldegrave, 293
Walker, 397
Wauchope, 497, ib. Webb, 97
Douglas, 98
Downie, 298
Dunlop, 193, ib. 294
Durham, 397
Ebrington, 98
Ferguson, 98 Findlay, 294 Ford, 194 Fullarton, 98 Fullerton, 294
Galbraith, 397
Giddy, 97
Gillespie, 398
Gourlay, 97
Hamilton, 97
Handyside, 98
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