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that we should not be urged to drink more deep | befallen this land, and yet hangs over it, unto of it than our forefathers were, if this cruel step- their errors or oversight, I should undergo the mother should once recover her pretended title censure (without apology or appeal) of a parasite of dominion over us. No choice would be left, or time-server. As I will not therefore speak but either torture of conscience or torment of anything against higher powers, so neither will body: we must make account to sit down with I at this time speak for them. Only give me loss either of present possessions, or of our leave to tell you, that God in his providence hopes of inheritance in the world to come.' doth never suffer higher powers to be at any gross default, of negligence, oversight, or wilful

And if, looking to the acts of our govern-ness, but for the like gross defaults in those that ors, whether in the State or in the Church- are subject and should be obedient to them. If whether as encouraging Popery directly, by is a certain sign that the whole body is either the eyes of state be at any time weak or dim, it supporting its priests, or indirectly, by en- feeble or much distempered. The best advice couraging dissent-we are inclined, in the that I can give unto you is, that every one of us, pride and presumption of our hearts, to say, so oft as we shall, though but in heart or secret Had we been, or were we in the place of thought, repine or murmur at the negligence, authority or command, the necessity of this oversight, or wilfulness of higher powers, would miserable choice had ere this time been re- presently and peremptorily inflict this penance moved, or should quietly be prevented,' the upon himself, to multiply his sorrow for his own sins past; to multiply his prayers and alms' same great man will answer in words with deeds, with all other practices of piety, that so which we will conclude; speaking, as we we may at all these our public meetings lift up have wished to speak throughout-not as of pure hearts and hands unto the Father of Spirits, ourselves, but rather to show how others have and God of all power and wisdom, that he would spoken before, whose voice may come to us so enlighten the eyes and head of our State that from the grave with all the authority of de- they may find out the special sins which have parted goodness, and tell us of peace and or-inspire their hearts with resolution and constant procured his wrath against this land, and so der, of humility and mutual love.

'If I should here take upon me so far to apologise for higher powers, as not to attribute a great part of the misery which hath lately

courage that they may crush this serpent's brood wheresoever it nestles.' [1]

[1] Jackson, b. xii. c. v. s. 13.

INDEX TO VOL.
VOL. LXIX.

A.

ADAMS, JOHN, Letters of, addressed to his wife, 130; motive for publishing them, 132; his parents, ib. ; pride of ancestry, 132, 133; education and study of the law, 133, 134; alleged infidel opinions, 134; marriage, 136; removal to Boston, ib.; attainment of eminence in his profession, 137; differences with the (British) Government, 137, 138; state of his province when it began its resistance, 133; services in Congress, 139; jealousy of Washington, ib. paucity of letters during his mission to Europe, 140; elected Vice-President, with Washington as President, 141; their first confidential intercourse, 142; elected President, ib.; inauguration, 143; conduct in office, 143, 144; remarkable coincidences connected with his death, 144; his opinion of the English Constitution, ib. America in personal feeling, the most aristocratic country in the world, 133; her community of interest with this country, 145; differences between us-the Canadian Boundary, 145, 146; the right of search question, 146; alleged indiscretions of Mr. Stevenson, 147; effect of admitting American principle, 148.

America, Central, 26. See Stephens.
Andrewes, Lancelot, sometime Bishop of Winches-
ter; new edition of his sermons, 256.
Arundines Cami, 237. See Drury.

Architecture, Evelyn's opinion of Gothic, 57; Sir C. Wren's, 58; the pointed arch, 59; successive transitions of style, 59, 60; object of architecture as an art, 62; it is essentially social, 63; effects of architecture, 64; key to the different styles, ib.; Chinese, 65; Moorish, ib.; Egyptian, 65, 66; Grecian, 66, 67; Roman, 68; Corruptions of the Roman, ib.; effect of the Christian form of worship upon architecture, 69; origin of the Gothic system, 69, 70; the Greek and Gothic styles contrasted, 70, 71; the curve and the angle, 71; effects of predominance of curves or of angles, 72; figure of the cross, 73; ornaments, 75; Glossary of Architecture,' 78.

Art defined, 74

B.

Becket, not a martyr, 274.

Billy Taylor was a brisk young fellow,' translated into Latin verse, 246.

Boccius, Gottlieb, a Treatise on the Management of Fresh-water Fish, 121; directions for making, stocking, and ordering ponds and stews, 127-129; produce, 129; weight of carp recently taken in German ponds, 130. Buch, Leopold von, 91.

C.

Canadian Boundary Question, 145, 146. See Ame

rica.

Charles VII. of France, 157, 158. See Joan of Arc, Châteaubriand, M., remarks on the locality of the crucifixion, 89, 90.

Chemistry, Organic, 277. See Liebig. Chivalry, incident and illustration of, in the fifteenth century, 167.

Christianity, its effect upon architecture, 69; upon man, ib.

Church of England, the, 255; its functions and conditions, ib.; evil to be feared and avoided in religious controversy, 256, 257; proofs of a Divine favour to the English Church, 257; considerations which entitle the judgment of her early theologians to the highest respect, 257, 258; Bishop Jewell, 259; Popery known in all its bearings to the divines of the seventeenth century, 260; their language with reference to it, 261-263; defence which they can make for their language, 263, 264; their deep affection and devotion to the Church of England, 264; picture of the Church after the Reformation, 265-267; steadiness of the adherence of the old divines to the Church throughout all its afflictions, 268; trials to which it has been subjected, 270; present strength, 270, 271; manner in which the battle of the Church should be fought, 271; the spirited independence of the Church, 272; obedience to the State, 272, 273; appointment of bishops by the Crown, 274; the clergy not to be exempted from the secular jurisdiction, 275; blessing of the interposition of the civil power in the work of the Reformation, ib.; evil of a departure from the principle of loyalty to the civil power, 276; essence of the Reformation, 277; impossibility of the union of the Church of England with that of Rome in the present state of the latter, 278, 279; essence of the papacy, 280; language of English divines on the Reformation, 282; on Reformers, ib.; Henry VIII.'s part in the Reformation, 284, 285; answers to the popish arguments as to the manner in which it was effected, the liturgy, ib.; Luther and Calvin, 287; parts taken by them in the English Reformation, 288; reasons why it is safe and good, and why another is not needed, 289; conduct of the divines with respect to Puritanism and Popery, 290; Protestants as distinguished from Puritans, 291; language of the divines respecting other reformed bodies, 293; fundamental law of the English Church, 294; caution as to private interpretations of the works of the Fathers, 296; manner in which their footsteps should be followed, 298.

286;

Copyright Question, the, 97; settlement of the ques

tion in 1774, and effect of that settlement upon other countries, 97, 98; alteration of the law in 1814, 98; the copyright law in the United States and Holland, ib.; in Prussia, Saxony, Austria, and Russia, ib. ; in France, 99; manner in which the subject has been hitherto taken up by the prominent speakers, 101; patronage rarely bestowed in this country upon eminence in literature and science, 102, 103; deficiency of writers of first-rate works at the present day, 103; arguments of the opponents of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's first measure, 103, 101; examination of the proposition, 'the author's right must be measured by the general advantage,' 105; sum and substance of the objections against the measure, 106; leading argument of the author of the Observations on the Law of Copyright,' 106, 107; assumed analogy between the mechanical inventor and the author examined, 107, 109; Mr. Macaulay's opposition, 110; critique of the Examiner' newspaper upon his speech, 110, 112; effeet of monopoly upon the production of good and cheap books, 114, 115; custom of the trade' when the works of a great English author formerly became scarce in the market, 115; causes of an alteration in the system, 116; part taken by the leading publishers in consequence of the introduction of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's measure, ib.; M. Bossange's plan in France, 178; Whig opinions as to the necessity of an alteration in the existing law in this country, 117, 118; consequences that will result from nonlegislation, 118; connection between the interests of good authors and the publishing trade, ib.; pirated English books imported into this country, 118, 119; into the colonies, 119.

D.

256.

Dampier, Bishop, specimen of his Latin verse, 252. Davidson, Margaret Miller, Biography and Poetical Remains of, by Washington Irving, 47; similarity of the incidents in the life of Margaret and of her sister Lucretia, ib.; effect of her sister's death upon Margaret, 48; her first verses, 50; amusements, 51; effects of a visit to New York, 52; visit to Canada, 53; stanzas upon taking up her abode at Ruremont, 54, 55; afflictions of her family, ib.; death, ib.; her poetry compared with her advance in years, 56, 57; moral lesson derivable from the history of the two sisters, 57. Divines, English, of the Seventeenth Century, See Church. Domremy, birth-place of Joan of Arc, 152; its exemption from taxes on that account, 168. Drury, Henricus, A. M., Arundines Cami,' 237; feelings awakened by the perusal of this volume, 237, 238; value of composition in the learned languages, 233, 239; contributors to the book, 239; its prosodial accuracy, ib.; specimens of the late Bishop of Lichfield, Dr. Butler, 240; of Lord Lyttleton, ib.; of Lord John Manners, 241; of the Editor, 242; of the Provost of Eton, 243; hopelessness of the task of translating Gray's Elégy, 213-245; the comic contents of the volume, 245; Miss Bailey,' 'Billy Tailor,' 246, 247; 'The Man of Thessaly,' 'Sing a Song of Sixpence,' 247, 248; the religious pieces, 249, 250; manner in which the Arundines' should be received, 250; English poets distinguished for their Latin verse, ib.

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Examiner' newspaper, the, critique upon Mr. Macaulay's opposition to Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's Bill for the Extension of Copyright, 110-112.

F.

Fish-markets and Fish-ponds, 121; immense productiveness of the deep seas and the shallower waters, ib.; feelings of the poor respecting fish, 121, 122; fish dinners in the reign of Henry VIII., 122; consumption of fish at the present day, 123; the demand for it is becoming more general, ib.; effects of the existing system of supply of fish to the metropolis, 123, 124; causes of the decline of the fisheries since 1815, 124. Shell-fish, 126, 127. See also Boccius.

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Halford, Sir Henry, 'Nuga Metricæ,' 250. Hawtrey, Dr., translation into Greek of Sing a Song of Sixpence,' 247, 248; versatility of talent and command of various languages displayed in his Trifoglio,' 248; specimen of his German of his Italian, 249. poetry, ib.; Hildyard, the Rev. Wm., his Latin version of Gray's 'Elegy,' 243; specimens, 215. Hobhouse, Sir John, 190.

Hope, Thomas, an Historical Essay on Architecture, 57; criticism on the pointed style, 60, 61; nature of Mr. Hope's work, 61, 62; origin of Chinese architecture, 65.

I.

Ice, consumption of, in Russia, for household purposes, 222,

Iron, an objectionable material for preventing the lateral pressure of buildings, 77.

J.

Jerusalem, 84, 85. See Robinson. Jesse, Captain, Notes of a Half-pay in Search of Health in Russia, Circassia, and the Crimea, in 1839-40, 205; progress of civilisation in Russia since the time of Peter the Great, ib.; the Russian peasant, 206; style of the Captain's book, 207; moonlight at Constantinople, ib.; Custom-house regulations on entering Russia, 208; the war in Circassia; Russian fortresses, 208, 209; Odessa, 209; the serf, 209, 210; wealthy serfs, 210, 211; considerations as to the advantage of their emancipation, 211; position of the Chinovnicks, 211, 212; a passport scene, 212; administration of the law, 213, 214; impolicy of conferring titles of nobility upon the Chinovnicks, 214; effect of the excessive accumulation of duties upon the ministers and higher public servants, 215; character of the Czar, 215, 216; his labours and journeys, 216, 217; amount of good effected by them, 217; his consort's influence upon the domestic habits of the people, 218, the ancient National Church, 219; motives and policy of the Czar's government, 219, 220; the author's anecdotes relating to Russian society, 220.

Joan of Arc, sources from which her history is obtained, 151, 152; parentage, 152; education and early habits, ib.; position of France during her youth, 153; impulses of her enthusiasm, ib.; her alleged visions, 153, 154; effect upon her of the crisis in the political state of France, 154; the siege of Orleans, 154, 155; Joan's difficulties in

M.

Macaulay, the Right Hon. T. B., speech on Mr. Talfourd's bill, 97; character of the speech, 110; critique of the 'Examiner' newspaper upon it, ib.; its facts, 112; Mr. Macaulay's destruction of his own argument, 113, 114.

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accomplishing her twofold object, 155, 156; jour-
ney from Vaucouleurs to Château Chinon, 157;
character of Charles VII., 157, 158; Joan's first
interview with the King, 159; her equipment
and advance towards Orleans, 161; effects of her
presence, 161, 162; entry into Orleans, 162; suc-
cessful attacks upon the English, 163; their re-
treat, 165; Joan's second interview with Charles,
166; the battle of Jargeau, 166, 167; Charles's
progress towards Rheims, 167, 168; coronation,
169; privileges accorded to Joan's birthplace,
168; to her family, 170; appearance at Court of
a rival to Joan, ib.; capture by the Burgundians,
171; purchased by the English, ib.; trial, 172,
conduct of her captors, 173, 174; convicted of sor-
cery and heresy, 174; cause of her resuming
male attire, ib.; execution, 174, 175; part taken
by Charles to avert her doom, 175; the interest
excited at the time of her death and at the pre-
sent day, ib.; character, 176; her fate in litera- Orleans, Siege of, 161-165; Maid of, 152. See Joan
ture, ib.; statue at Versailles by the Princess
Mary, daughter of Louis Philippe, 176, 177.

Mackenzie, Sir F. A., Bart., Practical Instruc-
tions for Breeding Salmon and other Fish artifi-
cially,' 235-236. See Salmon.
Manures, 180. See Liebig.

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N.

Nicaragua, Lake of, 37.
Nicholas 1., 215, 216. See Jesse.
Neva, breaking up of the ice, 221.

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O.

P.

Palestine, 78. See Robinson.
Panama, Isthmus of, projected canal across, 37.
Papencordt, Dr.F., Cola di Rienzo und seine Zeit,
bezonders nach ungedruckten Quellen darges-
tellt,' 186; original documents produced in the
work, 188; extract, 202, 203; its merits, 204,
205.

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Kohl, J. G., Petersburg in Bildern und Skizzen, 205; character of the work, 221; breaking up of the ice on the Neva, ib.; its bridges, 222; consump-Petersburgh, 222. See Kohl. tion of ice for household purposes in Russia, ib.; Petitot, M., Collection complète des Mémoires redangerous position of Petersburg, ib.; the inun- latives à l'Histoire de France, 151. dation of November, 1824, 223; perpetual sucPetrarch's description of Rienzi's arrival at Avigcession of inhabitants in Russian cities, ib.; the non, 202. Istvostchicks, 224; ready wit of the lower orders, 225; laws for the protection of pedestrians, ib.; the Istvostchick's horse, ib.; longevity of the people, 225, 226; dexterity, ib."

L.

Lens, Mr. Serjeant, his verses' ad Amicam,' 252. Liebig, Justus; Organic Chemistry in its application to Agriculture and Physiology, 177; object of the work, ib.; components of vegetables, ib.; the carbon of plants-humus, ib.; sources of carbon, 178; manner in which the oxygen and carbonic acid of the atmosphere preserve a fixed relation to each other, 178, 179; connection of the life of plants with that of animals, 179; sources of oxygen, ib.; reasons why the doctrine that the carbonic acid of the atmosphere serves for the nutriment of plants has not been universally received, 179, 180; sources of the nitrogen in plants and animals, 180; manures-value of liquid as compared with solid, ib.; manner in which they act, 180, 181; the inorganic constituents of plants, 181, 182; conclusions derived from a consideration of them, 182; causes of exhaustion of land, ib.; rotation of crops and manures, 183; principle of the action of bone-manure, 183, 184; importance of chemistry to agriculture, 184; value of common sewers, 185; extensive círculation of Dr. Liebig's work, 186.

Loch, James, Esq., an account of the improvements on the estates of the Marquis of Stafford, in the counties of Stafford and Salop, and on the estate of Sutherland, 226; description of Sutherlandshire in 1630, 237; property of the Sutherland family in the county, ib.; consequence of the connection of this property with the command of English capital, ib.; difficulties in the task of improvement, 228; progress made towards accomplishing that object, 229; results in 1840, 229, 230; contrast between the conditions of the holders of large and small lots of land, 230; modern and old habitations of the small tenants of the Reay country, 231.

or

Pike perch, its character and qualities, 237.
Popery. See Church of England.
Pugin, A. W., the true principles of pointed
Christian architecture, 57; Mr. Pugin's mistake
in nomenclature, and true character of St. Peter's
and the Jesuits' churches at Rome, 73.
Punishment by death, 20. See Wordsworth.

R.

Renourd, A. C., 'Traité des Droits d'Auteurs,' 97; contents of the work, 98; opinion of M. Bossange's proposition for a copyright law in France, 117.

Rickman, Thomas, an attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the Conquest to the Reformation, 57.

Rienzi, Nicholas, state of Rome at his appearance
in public life, 186, 187; feelings of the people to-
wards the Pope and the clergy, 187, 188; Rienzi's
parentage, 188, 189; profession and studies, 190;
first public function, ib.; return to Rome, 191;
means adopted by him for the attainment of his po-
litical purposes, 191, 192; character of his rise to
power, 192; effect of his sudden advancement, 193;
his feelings towards religion, ib.; fall of the tri-
bune, 194; pusillanimity in power, 195; causes of
his downfall, 196; his retreat to the mountains,
197; interview with the Emperor Charles IV.,
198; correspondence with the emperor and the
Archbishop of Prague, 199-201; imprisonment,
201; delivered to the Pope, 202; release, 203; his
re-appearance in Rome, 204; death, ib.; charac-
ter, ib.

Right of Search, 146. See America.
Robinson, Edward, D. D., Biblical Researches in
Palestine, Mount Sinai, and Arabia Petrea, 78;
character of the English travellers in Palestine, 78,
79; value of Dr.Robinson's work, 79; the passage
of the Red Sea, 80; Sinai and Horeb, 80, 81; the
plain for the encampment of the children of Is-
rael, 82, 83; journey to Akabah, 84; Jerusalem,
84, 85; position and dimensions of the fortress

of Antonia, 85; substructures of the Temple Mount, 87; alleged scene of the Lord's sepulchre, 89; antiquity of the church of the Holy Sepulchre, 90; the early Christian history of Jerusalem, 91; the Dead Sea, 92, 93; its depression and extension towards the south, 94; connection of the slime-pits with the general formation of the district, ib.; Petra, necessity of its being visited by an authority in the history of architecture, 95; state of Petra at the first period of Christianity, 96. Royal Household, Expenditure of, in the Lord Steward's department, in 1810, 123. Russia, 205. See Jesse and Kohl.

S.

Salmon Fisheries, Scotland, Report from the Select Committee upon, in 1836, 226; nature of their inquiry, 232; their recommendations upon the close season,233; the 'Saturday's slap,' or weekly close, fixed engines, cruives, 333, 234; milldams, 234; admission into rivers frequented by salmon of deleterious matters from manufactories or gas-works, ib.; rod-fishing after the ordinary season, 235; instruction of the committee to their chairman, and its result, ib.; Sir F. A. Mackenzie's instructions for breeding salmon and other fish artificially, 235-237.

Scotland, the New Statistical Account of, 230; population and herring-fishing of Wick, ib.; general excellence and specimens of the work, 231; the return and departure of the herring-fishers of Latheron, 231, 232; character of the Scotch Highlander, in the last and present century, 232. Sing a Song of Sixpence' translated into Aristophanic trochaics, 217, 248.

Slave-trade, the, 147.

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Smith, John, LL.D., extract from his petition to parliament upon the copyright question, 115. Smith, Robert, Cartesii Principia,' 255. Stephens, John L., 'Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan,' 26; the author in his diplomatic character at Balize, 27; Rio Dolce, 28; journey from Yzabal to Zacapa, 28, 29; reception in the house of a great man, 29; the diplomatist in danger, 30; the ruined city of Copan, 30, 31; negotiation for its purchase, 32; character of the Sculptures found in it, 33; antiquity, 33, 34; state of Guatimala, 34; visit to the volcano near the city of Cartago, and combined view of the Atlantic and Pacific, 35, 36; earthquake, 36; projected ship canal between the two oceans, 37; the two proposed lines, ib.; harbour of St. Juan, 38; calculated cost of the canal, ib.; refutation of the opinion that a saving of distance

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Wellesley, Marquis Brougham, 253. Whewell, Rev. W., Notes on German Architecture, 57; effect of the introduction of the arch into Grecian architecture, 68; nature of the change caused by the Christian form of Worship, 69. Wordsworth, William, the Sonnets of, 1; contrast between the Sonnets and the Excursion,' 1, 2; his doctrinal poems examined, 2; the necessity of obedience, 2,3; temperance in grief, 4; Wordsworth's intimacy with Scott, Southey, and Coleridge, 6; causes of his pre-eminence as a philosophic poet, 7; neglect of his poems during the first quarter of the present century, 7, 8; sonnets on the River Duddon, 8, 9; Mr. Wordsworth's diction, 9; sonnets to Liberty, 11, 12; liberty must rest on a moral basis, 12; components of the worth and gloriousness of liberty, ib.; quences of political liberty, 13; riches, 14; social equality, 14, 15; 'Itinerary' poems, 15; mastery of science over the elements, 18; manners, 19: ecclesiastical sonnets, ib.; punishment by death; present state of this question, 20; operation of the act of 1837, 20, 21; the act of 1841, 21; the part of the question dealt with by Mr. Wordsworth, ib.; his sixteen new sonnets, ib.; consideration of the subject, in reference to religious viws, 22; punishments in proportion to moral turpitude, 23; secondary punishments, 24. Willis, R., Remarks on the Architecture of the Middle Ages, 57,

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