a shop-lifter, 85.

of a highwayman's horse, 85.
illustrative of the state of the
Highlands after Forty-five, 155.

of the Fife gypsies, 282, 523.
of the late Dr Witherspoon in

1745, 433.
Animal Magnetism, on its present state in
Germany, 36.

Flower, account of a plant so called
in St Lucia, 701.
Animals, large ones the least prolific, 647.
Ape, account.of the species of, called Titi,
699.

Appointments, Promotions, &c. 115, 240,
356, 466, 602, 713.

Argyllshire, curious meteorological pheno-
mena there, 18.

Arragonite, discoveries on the optical pro-
perties of, 218.

Artists of Scotland, letters on the living
ones, No I. Allan, 315.
Autobiography of Bishop Watson, review
of, 499.

Balls and routs, remarks of an Old Indian
Officer on, 396.

Balmouto, laird of, letter of James VI. to,
313.

Bankrupts, lists of English and Scotch,
113, 239, 353, 466, 600, 719.
Barbadoes, remarks on the reasonings of
the Edinburgh Review on the insurrec-
tion in, 44.

Bargain, breach of, trail for, 711.
Bachelor, letter of an old, 192.
Battle of Pentland Hills, account of, 635.
Benefit societies, case relating to, 592.
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, a poem, 165.
Biographia Literaria of Coleridge, review of,
3.-Letter to the reviewer, 285.
Biography of Bishop Watson, review of, 479.
Birds, change in the plumage of, 635.
Births, lists of, 117, 214, 356, 472, 606,
723.
VOL. II.

Blacklock, Dr T. notices of, 495.
Blind, restoration to sight of a person born
so, 223.

Bloody Garland, the maiden's, a poem, 266.
Boiling springs of Java, account of the, 448.
Bonaparte's military carriage exhibited in
Edinburgh, 711.

Books, notices of reprints of old ones, No I.
214. No II. 370.

Bothwell, Earl of, account of his attempt
on, Holyroodhouse in 1591, 30.
Boxing match at Wimbledon, Latin verses
on, 669.

Breslaw, account of a riot there, 103.
Brewster, Dr, on the optical properties of
mother-of-pearl, &c. 33, 140.-Expe-
riments of, on the optical properties of
arragonite, 218.-and on the optical struc
ture of ice, 219.

Buckhaven, queries respecting the colony
of Danish fishermen established there,
626.

Burgh Reform, meetings in Edinburgh in

favour of, 344.-In Dysart, 707.-In
Wigton, 789.

Burns, the shade of, to its tormentors, 205.
Burns' Works, vindication of a letter of
Wordsworth, on a new edition of, 65.-
Letter occasioned by the vindication, 201.
Byron, Lord, review of his poem,
"The
Lament of Tasso," 142.

Caldwell, laird of, letter to, from James VI.
628.

Calumnies against the dead, observations on
some, 400.

Cameleon mineral, curious experiments on
the, 218.

Carr rock beacon, destroyed by the sea, 343.
Catullus, observations on, 486.
Chalmers, Rev. Dr, on the pulpit eloquence
of, 131.

Church history, on the original mode of
editing, 305.

Circuit Intelligence, 229.
Child-stealing, trial of Janet Douglas for,
109.

Coleridge, Mr, review of his " Biographia
Literaria," 3.-His self-importance con-
trasted with the unostentatious writings
of Scott, Campbell, Moore, &c. 6, 7.-
Letter to the reviewer, 285.
Comet, discovery of a new one, 447.
Commercial Reports, 118, 237, 348, 463,
596, 715.

Common speech, improprieties in, 514.
Cornwall, notice of the steam engines in,
448.

Constable, the Lord High, letter to him
from Mr Dinmont, 35.

Cookery, remarks on, 300.
Correspondence of Dr Lettsom, extracts
from, 636.

5 B

Mineral, description of a new one, 549.
Minerals, a new arrangement of, 299.
Mont Rigi, in Switzerland, account of an
ascent of, 255-A night's residence on
its summit, 259.

Montrose, warrant of the king in council
for a poll election of magistrates for, 231.
Mother-of-pearl, on the optical properties
of, 33. On communicating its colours
to other substances, 34, 140.-On the
incommunicable colours of, 141.
Murder, trial of a father, two brothers, and
a son, for, 111.

Narrative of a fatal event, 630.

National calamity, occasioned by the death

of the Princess Charlotte and her infant,
reflections on the, 250.
Natural history, notices in, No I. 378.

Proofs of the increasing taste for, 380.-
No II. 640.-Changes in the plumage of
birds, 641.-Tenuity of the spider's web,
642.

North Pole, notice of an expedition to the,
700.

Ode on the breaking of a china quart mug,
317.

Odoherty, Adjutant, account of the life and
writings of, 562, 685.

O'Neil, Miss, criticism on her acting, 567.
Opinion of a late celebrated Judge on the
Scots law of divorce, 539.

Othello, conjectural emendation of a passage
in, 267.-Answer to it, 431.
Paris, table of deaths and births there in
1816, 105.-Prizes proposed by the So-
ciety for Encouragement of the Arts in,
334.

Pargasite, a new mineral, description of, 549.
Paterson, Walter, verses by, 74.
Peace, a poem, 620.

Pecuniary distress of James VI. curious
documents respecting the, 312.-Letter
of James to the Laird of Balmouto, 313.
-To the Laird of Caldwell, 628.
Pentland Hills, battle of, 635,
Petrarch, translation from, 296.
Platinum, curious compound of, 219.
Poetry, on the Cockney School of, 38, 194.
-Elegy by the Ettrick Shepherd, 47.-
Lines written in a Lady's Album, by
W. Paterson, 74.--The Progress of
Learning, 81.-Verses written in Killar-
ney, 87.-Bessy Bell and Mary Gray,
165. Waking Dreams, a fragment,
174.-On leaving the North Highlands,
by a Lady, 185.-Specimens of that of
the late John Finlay, 188.-The Shade
of Burns to its Tormentors, 205.-The
Maiden's Bloody Garland, 266.-Lines
written in a lonely Burial-ground, 295.
Translation from Petrarch, 296.-On the
Death of a Brother, ib.-Ode on the
Breaking of a China Quart Mug, 317.-
Prince's Street Sketches, No I. 369.-
To my Dog, 378.-Unpublished Verses
of Allan Ramsay, 383.-The Dejeuné, a
Pindaric Ode, 394.-Sonnet to Walter
Scott, Esq. 399.-Verses written on the

5th November 1817, 400.-A Hebrew
Melody, ib.-To a Lady reading Romeo
and Juliet, 424.-On seeing the place
where the Maid of Orleans suffered, 425.
Unpublished Pieces of the late John
Finlay, 490.-Sonnets to Mr Words-
worth, 512.-Lines to Crookston Castle,
515.-On a Dying Sister, ib.-The Bat-
tle of Sempach, 530.-The Passion, 533.
-Elegy on an Idiot Girl, ib.-Elegy on
the Death of an Infant, 620.-Peace, ib.
-Sonnet, 621.-The Roses, ib.-Horæ
Sinicæ, 639.-Boxing Match at Wim-
bledon, 669.-On the discovery of the
Regalia of Scotland, 691.

Polar Ice, Captain Scoresby's observations
on the, 363.

Poll election at Montrose, royal warrant
for, 231.

Potatoes, discovery of a new product from,
221.

Preservation from death at sea, remarkable
case of, 490.

Prince's Street Sketches, a poem, No I. 369.
Prizes proposed by the Society in Paris for
encouraging the arts, 334.

Prussia, lines by the late Prince Louis of,

533.
Publications, Monthly Lists of new ones,
99, 225, 338, 453, 586, 705.

new French ones, 101, 227,
341,456,590.-New American ones, 590.
Fulpit Eloquence of Scotland, on the, 131.
Queen Mary, curious facts relative to her

abdication, 31.-Account of a diamond
ring belonging to, 115.

Ramsay, Allan, unpublished verses by, 383.
Rape and robbery, trials for, in the Justi❤
ciary Court, Edinburgh, 108.

Regalia of Scotland, verses on the, 691.
Remarks on Godwin's " Mandeville," 402.
-On the history of the kraken and great
sea serpent, 645.-On the periodical cri-
ticism of England, 670.

Revenue of Britain, produce of it in the
years 1816 and 1817, 117.
Review of Coleridge's "Biographia Litera-

ria," 3.—Of Byron's "Lament of Tas-
so," 142.-Of Godwin's "Mandeville,"
268. Of the Autobiography of Bishop
Watson, 479, 692.-Of Roscoe's Dis-
course at the Liverpool Institution, 534.
-Of Frankenstein, or the Modern Pro-
metheus, a novel, 613.

Edinburgh, on an article in it en-
titled, "Present State of West India'
Affairs," 41.

Quarterly, on the review of Stewart's
Dissertation in, 57, 159.
Roscoe, Mr, remarks on his discourse at the
Royal Liverpool Institution, 534.
Roses, The, a poetical piece, 621.
Roy, Rob, Macgregor. See Macgregor.
letter to the author of, 662.
Royal Society of Edinburgh, proceedings
of, 444, 579, 697.

Royal Burghs, Convention of, their power
to alter and regulate the sets of burghs,
709.

Safety lamp, improvements on the, 97, 447.
Sagacity of a shepherd's dog, 417.
Salt, use of, in agriculture, 702.
Scientific and Literary Intelligence, 97, 218,
330, 447, 582, 699.

Scoresby, Mr, account of some experiments
by, on impregnating wood with sea-wa-
ter, 20.-Letter of Von Buch regarding
Mr S. 185.-Account of his observations
on the polar ice, 363.

Scotland, account of a manuscript history
of, by Bishop Leslie, 52.-Extracts from
it, 54-On the pulpit eloquence of, 131,
318.-Account of, in 1679, 280.-On
the living artists of, 315.-Mineral riches
of, 448.-Report of the Jury Court of,
457.-Extract from an old tour in, 517.
-Verses on the regalia of, 691.—Debate
in the House of Commons on the state
trials in, 710.

Scott, Walter, Esq. Wilkie's picture of,
331.-Sonnet to, 399.

Scriptures, state of the versions of the, at
Serampore, 223.

Seal, account of a domesticated one, 461.
Sempach, the battle of, a Swiss ballad,
530.

Serpent, great sea one, remarks on, 645.
Shakspeare, letters on, No I. Hamlet, 504.
Sharpe, Kirkpatrick, letter to, on his mode
of editing church history, 305.
Shepherd's dog, anecdotes of the, 84, 417,
621.

Shipwrecks, melancholy ones, 348, 459,
460, 591.

Sir Goughter, an ancient romantic ballad,
extracts from, 370.

Soldier in Egypt, a poem, by the late John
Finlay, 490.

Somnambulists, the German, and Miss
M'Avoy, 437.

Sonnet to Walter Scott, Esq. 399.--To Mr
Wordsworth, 512.

Speech, common, improprieties in, 514.
Spider, remarkable tenuity of its web, 642.
Stael, Madame de, essay of, on the useful-
ness of translation, 145.

State trials in Scotland, debate in the House
of Commons on the, 710.
Steam engines in Cornwall, notice of, 448,
583.

Stewart's Dissertation, remarks on the re-
view of it in the Quarterly Review, 57,
159.

Stirling Castle, remarks on the publication
of engravings from the carved work for-
merly decorating the King's Room in,

205.

Stone, progress of the art of engraving on,

449.

Storm, account of a violent one in Scotland,
592, 595, 596.

Strasburg, curious theatrical representation
there, 166.

Stuart, Prince Charles, epitaph on, 318.

Sun, account of an eclipse of, at Madras,
583.

Swiss, address to the, by the late John Fin-
lay, 490.
Switzerland, desolations occasioned there by
the melting of the snow on the Alps, 103.
-Ascent of Mont Rigi in, 255.
Theatrical representation, account of a cu-
rious one in Strasburg, 166.
Tickler, Timothy, letters of, to various li-

terary characters, No I. 501.-No II. 654.
Timber, to prevent dry-rot in, 701.
Time's Magic Lanthern, No I. Machiavel's
Death-bed, 689.

Tour in Scotland, extract from an old one,
517.
Translation, on the manner and usefulness
of, by M. de Stael Holstein, 145.
of a Greek fragment of Simo-
nides, 516.
Tritschler, Dr, astonishing cure by animal
magnetism, performed by, 439.
Troy, topography of, 494.
Universities, German, present state of, 700.
Verdicts, erroneous ones, considerations on,
210.

Verses written on Oak Island, Killarney,
87.-On leaving the North Highlands,
by a Lady, 185.-Written on the 15th
of November 1817, 400.-From the Ger-
man, 424.

Viper, particulars respecting the great one
of Martinique, 221.

Von Buch, letter from, regarding Mr
Scoresby's paper on the polar ice, 185.
Wager, curious one, 343.

Waking Dreams, a poetical fragment, 174.
Wales, Princess Charlotte of, reflections on
her death, 250.-Particulars of her death,
346. And funeral, 347.
Watson, Bishop, review of the autobiogra-
graphy of, 479, 692.
Weasles, ferocity of, 595.
Webster, essay on his drama, "Duchess of
Malfy," 656.

Wernerian Natural History Society of Edin-
burgh, proceedings of, 446.

West India affairs, strictures on an article
on the present state of, in the Edinburgh
Review, 41.

Whale, a large one driven ashore at Wick,

115.

Wilberforce and Foster, defence of, 574.
Wilkie, Mr, his picture of Mr Walter Scott
and his family, 331.

Wimbledon, boxing match at, 669.
Wine, quantity of spirit in the different
kinds of, 450.

Wischeart, George, Bishop of Edinburgh,
his account of the battle of Pentland
Hills, 635.
Witherspoon, the late Dr, anecdote of, 433.
Wordsworth, Mr, vindication of his letter
on a new edition of Burns, 65.-Letter
occasioned by it, 201.-Sonnets to, 512.
Works preparing for publication, 98, 223
234, 451, 584, 702.

Zoology, British, remarks on, 381.