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.
Court of Session, proceedings there relative to the North Bridge buildings, 594, 595. Craig, Sir Thomas, of Riccarton, life of, 383.
Criminal conversation, account of a trial for,
in the Edinburgh Jury Court, 462. Criticism, periodical, of England, remarks on the, 670.
Crystallography, important discovery in,
Crookston Castle, lines to, 515.
Elegy on the death of an idiot girl, 533 — on the death of an infant, 620. England, remarks on the periodical criti- cism of, 670.
English dramatists, essays on the early, No II. 21. No III. 260.-No IV. 656. English poets, Hazlitt's lectures on, No I. 556. On Chaucer and Spencer, 558.- On Shakspeare and Milton, 560. Engraving on stone, progress of the art of, 44.9.
Cuttle-fish, supposed to be the same with Epitaph on Prince Charles Stuart, 318.
the kraken of the ancients, 651. Dalkeith, letter from, 310.
Dampers, description of the fraternity of, 528. Farther particulars of, 628. Dead, on some calumnies against the, 400. Death, remarkable preservation from, at sea, 490.
Deaths, lists of, 119, 245, 358, 473, 607, 724.
Decker's Gull's Horn-book, notices of the reprint of, 214.
Defence of Women, an ancient poem, ex- tracts from, 375.
Dejeuné, the, a Pindaric ode, 394. Depravity among animals, curious instan- ces of, 82.
Dinmont, Dandie, his letter to the Lord
Divorce, on the Scots law of, 176.-Account
of the case of Elizabeth Utterton, v. Fre- derick Tewsh, 178. Of that of Jane Duntze or Levett, v. Philip Stimpson Levett, 181.-Of Mrs Lucy Kibblewhite, v. Daniel Rowland, 183.-Opinion of a celebrated Judge on the divorce law, 539. Drama, acted, in London, notices of the, 426, 567, 664.
Dramatists, essays on the early English ones, No II. 21,-No III. 260.-No IV. 656. Drummond of Hawthornden, vindication of, against the attack of Mr Gifford,
Dundee, resolution of the Provost, in fa- vour of a reform of the burgh, 234. Early popular poetry, select sketches of,
Earthquake, shocks of, felt in Inverness, 111.
Eclipse of the sun in India, account of, 563. Edinburgh, medical report of, 48, 450.- Election of the magistrates of, 116.-Re- ceipt and expenditure of the police estab- lishment of, 230.-Fire in the College of, 343.-Meetings in, to promote burgh reform, 344.-Reduction of the city guard of, 345.-Proceedings of the Royal Society of, 444, 579, 697.-Of the Wer- nerian Natural History Society, 446.- Meeting of the inhabitants of, regarding the North Bridge buildings, 458.-Ac- count of, by a traveller, in 1704, 517. Proceedings in the Court of Session in the case of the buildings on the North Bridge, 594, 595.-Proposed new build- ings on the Regent Bridge, 708, 709.- Correspondence relating to buildings on the North Bridge, 712.
Erroneous verdicts, considerations on, 210. F kine, the Honourable Henry, memoir of, 87.
Explosion of a coal mine in Durham, 582. Fatal event, narrative of a, 630. Fauna Britannica, or British zoology, 381. Ferguson, James, observations on his re-
ports of divorce cases in Scotland, 176. Fever, its prevalence in Edinburgh in 1816 and 1817, 48.-Number of cases of, 550. Fife gypsies, anecdotes of the, No I. 282. -No II. 523.
Finlay, the late John, account of, with spe- cimens of his poetry, 186.-Unpublished pieces by, 490.
Fire in Edinburgh College, 343.—In the West Bow, Edinburgh, 460.-In Aber- deen, ib.
Fish, a non-descript one discovered in Shet- land, 333.
Flower, animal, account of a plant in St Lucia, so denominated, 701. Flowers, effects of hot water on, 447. Fox-chase, tragical one, 342. Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus, a novel, review of, 613.
French criticism, remarks on, 486. Geddes, Dr, remarks on a passage in Good's life of, 376.
German universities, present state of the, 700. Germany, on the present state of animal
magnetism in, 36.-On the gypsies of Hesse-Darmstadt in, 409.
Glasgow, on the management of the uni- versity library there, 421.-Account of, by a traveller, in 1704, 519.
Godwin, Mr, review of his new novel Mandeville," 268.
Gold coinage, on the new, 169. Graphite discovered in Scotland, 582. Greek Fragment of Simonides, 516. Gypsies, anecdotes of the Fife ones, 282,
523. On those of Hesse-Darmstadt in Germany, 409.
Hall, Captain Bazil, account of his voyage to Loo-Choo, 576. Hawthornden, Drummond of, vindicated from the attacks of Mr Gifford, 497. Hazlitt's Lectures on English Poetry, No I. 556.-On Chaucer and Spencer, 558.- On Shakspeare and Milton, 560.—No II. On Dryden and Pope, 679.-On Thom- son and Cowper, 681. Highlands, state of the, after the Rebellion in Forty-five, 155.
the North, verses on leaving
Hills, altitude of some remarkable ones in England, 451.
Hints to the Ladies, by an Old Fellow, 377. -Reply to them by a Young Fellow, 513. Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd, elegy by, 47.-A Hebrew melody by, 400.- Letters to, from Timothy Tickler, 501, 654. Holyroodhouse, account of Bothwell's at- tempt upon it, in 1591, 30. Hora Historicæ, No I. 170. Juridicæ, No I. 176. - Scandicæ, No I. 570.
Hunt, Leigh, criticism on his poem of Rimini, 38, 194.-Letter from Z. to 414.
Hunter, Mr, account of his ingenious in-
strument for nautical observations, 331. Hygrometer, description of a self-register- ing one, 643.
James VI. documents respecting the pecu- niary distresses of, 312.-Letter from, to the Laird of Balmouto, 313.-Letter of, to the Laird of Caldwell, 628. Jarvie, Nicol, tertius, letter of, to the au- thor of Rob Roy, 662.
Java, account of the boiling springs of, 448. Ice, optical structure of, 219.
Polar, Captain Scoresby's observations on the, 363.
Icelandic poem, notice of one, 570. Innocent men, remarkable instances of the condemnation of, 213.
Inverness, severe shocks of an earthquake felt there, 111.
Italy, on the scenery of the north of, 544. Jumpers, the, a new school of poetry, 555. Jury Court of Scotland, report concerning
the, 457.-Trial for crim. con. in, 462. -For breach of bargain, 711. Justiciar, or Justice-general, antiquity of the office of, 391.
Justiciary, High Court of, trial of three Irishmen for rape and robbery, 108.- Of Janet Douglas for child-stealing, 109. -Of Robert Reid, a chimney sweeper, for murder, 110.-Of John Jeffray, for murder, ib.-Of Robert Tenant, for theft, 592.-Of R. Dingwall, for murder, 594 Kean, Mr, criticism on his acting, 664. Kemble and Kean, their acting of Hamlet compared, $10.
Knights Errant, the, No I. 169. Kraken, remarks on the history of the, 645. -Proofs of its existence, 650.-Is the same with the animal known among mo- derns by the name of the cuttle-fish, 651. Ladies, hints to the, from an Old Fellow, 377. -Observations of an Old Indian Officer, addressed to them, 396.-Reply to the Old Fellow's hints to the, 513.-Reply to the Old Indian, 539.
Lakes of Italy, description of the, 547. Lamp, account of one without flame, 699. Learning, the progress of, a poem, 81. Leith, completion of the second wet dock there, 234, 342.
Leslie, Bishop, account of a manuscript his
tory of Scotland by, 52.-Extracts from it, 54.
Letter from an Old Fellow, 377.
from an Old Indian Officer, 396.- Reply to it, 539.
Lettsom, the late Dr, extracts from his cor- from a Young Fellow, 513. respondence, 636.
Life Boats, new invented one, 98.-Expe- riments at Bristol with a new one, 111. Lines written in a burial-ground in the Highlands, 295.
Literary and Scientific Intelligence, 9%, Literary Gleanings, 237. 218, 330, 447, 582, 699. Lithography, progress of, 449. Liverpool, remarks on the Royal Institution of, 534.
Loo-Choo, account of Captain Hall's voy- age to, 576.
M'Avoy, Miss, a lady pretending to be blind, and to tell colours by the touch, 219. and the German somnam-
a Portuguese one, 496. Macgregor, Rob Roy, memoir of, 74, 149. -His treatment of a factor of the Duke of Montrose, 77.-And of a messenger sent from Edinburgh to apprehend him, 79.-Instances of his generosity, 150.- Encounter of, with the Earl of Athol, 152. His uncommon strength of arm, 154.-Memoir of some branches of his family, 288.-Escape of James Macgre- gor from Edinburgh Castle, ib.-Letter of James to Prince Charles Stuart, 289, Mad dogs, remedy for the bite of, 97. -Letters to the chief of the clan, 290. Magic Lanthern, Time's, No I. Machiavel's Magnetism, Animal, state of in Germany, death-bed, 689. 36.-Extraordinary power of, 343.-Ex- Mammoth, account of one found in Ame- traordinary cure of a boy by means of, 439. Mandeville, review of Godwin's novel of, rica, 333. Marble, beautiful mass of, discovered in 268.-Remarks on review, 402. Fife, 342.
Marlow, essay on his drama of Edward II. 21.-On his Jew of Malta, 260. Marriages, lists of, 118, 244, 358, 472, 606, 724.
Mary Queen of Scotland, curious facts re- lative to her abdication, 31.-Account of a diamond ring belonging to, 115. Medical Report of Edinburgh, 48, 550. Meteor, account of a brilliant one at Ips wich, 449.
observed by Dr Clark at Cam bridge, 516.
Meteoric stone, new variety of, 332. Meteorological phenomena seen in Argyll- shire, 18.
observations in 1817, ab.
reports, 113, 242, 354, 469
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,
Stone, progress of the art of engraving on,
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,
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.
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