-lunar theory, 336 et seqq.-plane- tary motions, 338 et seqq.-newly discovered planets, 343 et seqq.— Jupiter's satellites, 345-comets, 347 et seqq.-figure of the earth,350 -precession of the equinoxes, 356 et seqq.-theory of the tides, 357- eminent astronomical writers, 358. Atala, an Indian story, 210. Athens, government of, its anomalous
and uncertain character, 434-not probably the cause of its high state of literature and refinement, ib.— reasons of M. de Stael, why its citi- zens engaged in the study of the polite arts, 435. Auction system, pamphlet relating to the, noticed, 229-contains argu- ments against this system, 230.
Bailly, the astronomer, 328-his fate, ib.-his astronomical labors no- ticed, 345.
Ballimore, city of, several works re- lating to the, reviewed, 99—its rapid growth in population and import- ance, 100-compared with Odessa and Liverpool, ib.-its first settle- ment, 102-its slow increase till the revolution, 103-its trade in to- bacco, 103, 104-in flour, corn, and fish, 105-its shipping in 1790, 106 -emigrants from St Domingo, 106, 107-its carrying trade, 107, 108 -to the East Indies, 108-effects of commercial embarrassments up- on it, 109, 110-of the war with Great Britain, 111, 112-state of its commerce after the peace of 1815, 114 embarrassments occasioned by management of the banks, 106, et seqq. decline of its prosperity, 115 to 118-tables of exports for 1822, 1823, 119 to 123-its flour market and mills, 122, 123-a- mount of articles inspected, 124— its manufacturing interest, ib.-ad- vantages of its situation for manu- factures, 125-its water power, 126 -its cotton factories, 127, 128-its manufactures of iron, copper, glass, &c. 129, 130-its future prospects, 130 et seqq.-its Athenæum, 137– corrected table of water power in the vicinity of, 414.
Banks, their suspension of specie pay-
ments, 112-consequent evils, 113, 114, 116 course pursued by the United States Bank, &c. 117-its consequences, 118.
Beach, Samuel B. his Escalala, an American Tale, reviewed, 210-his poetical license, 214.
Belknap, Dr, his History of Newhamp- shire, 449-grant to by the state, ib. Bentham, Mr, his proposals to write Codes of Law for different nations, 414.
Bessel, F. W. his Fundamenta Astrono- miæ, 309-astronomer royal at Konigsberg, reduces the observa- tions of Bradley, 311-account of this work, 312 et seqq.
Bigelow, Dr, second edition of his Fiorula Bostoniensis noticed, 221 -its numerous additions and im- provements, 222, 223. Blackstone, his remark on the Law of Insurance, 51-cited, 414-value of his Commentaries, 415.
Bliss, astronomer royal, unworthy of the office, 322.
Bolivar, his address to the Congress of Venezuela, 78. Bollmann, Dr, his attempt to rescue Lafayette, 165 to 167—is taken by the Austrians, 167-trial and es- cape, 168. Bonaparte, Lucien, his exertions in the Chamber of Representatives,
after the battle of Waterloo, 176. Bonaparte, Napoleon. See Napoleon. Bouvard, his Nouvelles Tables de la
Jupiter et de Saturne, 309 to 342. Boyer, President of Hayti, his con- duct respecting emigration com- mended, 204-his instructions to the Haytian agent, 205-letter to Mr Dewey, 206-other proofs of his good intentions, ib. et seqq. Bradley, indefatigable as an astrono mer, 310-his discoveries, his skill and accuracy as an observer, ib.— delay in the publication of his ob- servations, 310, 311-advantages of this delay, ib.-reduced and pub- lished by Bessel, ib. et seqq.-Brad- ley's chief excellence, his great ac- curacy, 313-examples, 314-dis- covers the apparent motion of the fixed stars, 315-astronomer royal 1742, 322-perfect model of an ob- serving astronomer, ib.
Buenos Ayres, or Rio de la Plata, separated from Peru, 1778, 284- contains five great provinces, 285 -implicated in the insurrection of Tupac Amaru, 285.
Burckhardt's Tables de la Lune, 309. Butler, Charles, his Reminiscences re- viewed and recommended, 272- character of the author, ib. et seqq. -his economy of time, 272-his chapter on the letters of Junius, 275-accounts of distinguished Bri- tish statesmen and orators, most interesting part of the work, 275 et seqq. of Lord Erskine, 276— Chatham,ib.-parallel between Fox and Pitt, 278, 279-Lord Thurlow, 279-remarks on the care bestowed by some eminent writers on their compositions, 281-chapter on ju- risprudence, 282--of his other works and opinions, 282. Byron, Lord, his works reviewed, 1—
sketch of his life and literary ca- reer,3 et seqq.-causes of his expe- dition to Greece, 8-his death, 11 -excellence as a poet, 12-as a prose writer, ib.-defects of his writings, 12, 13-quotations from his poems, 15 et seqq.-particular excellence of his lyric poetry, 7, 19-moral tendency of his writings decidedly bad, 39, 40-many of them disfigured by grossness, 40— looseness of his notions in morals and religion, ib.-character of his poetry such as to render it unfit for general perusal, 43, 44-details with regard to his person and so- cial habits, 44 et seqq.
Composition, care bestowed upon it by eminent writers, 281-by New- ton,Burke,Bossuet,and Rousseau,ib. Cambeceres, his attempt to establish
a code of law in France after the revolution, 399.
Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming, 210. Catalogue of Stars of Dr Maskelyne,
324 of the French astronomers, 325 et seqq. of Mayer, Zach, Pi- azzi and Bessel, 326. Catari, Tomas, protests against the oppressions of the corregidor Aloz to the viceroy of Buenos Ayres, 292-fails of redress, ib.-is im- prisoned by Aloz, but released by
force, ib.-made prisoner by Alva- rez and executed, 293. Catari, Tupa, name assumed by Juan Apasa, 297-assumes the state of viceroy of the Inca, ib.-his char- acter, ib.-operations before the city of La Paz, and defeat of the Spaniards, 298-invests Puno, 300 -concentrates his forces in La Paz, ib.-his court, excesses, im- piety, &c. ib.-joined by Andres Tupac Amaru, 303-defeated by Reseguin, 304--taken and exe- cuted, 305.
Charcas, audience of, its corruption, 292-dismay at the defeat of Aloz, ib.-censure the slowness of Flores, 293.
Chatham, Lord, account of, by Butler, 276-bis eloquence described, 276, 277.
Chayanta, a province of Peru, adheres to Tupac Amaru, 292-previous commotions there, occasioned by Tomas Catari, ib.-insurrection of the Indian inhabitants, 292, 293- revenge the death of Tomas Catari, 293-Flores marches against them, ib.-his victory and cruelty, 293, 294.
Chesapeake Bay, blockaded by the
British, 111, 112-advantages of its trade to Baltimore, 131.
Choisy, Abbé, anecdote of him, 141. Cholula, city of, its Teocalli descri- bed, 85-account of the ancient town, 86.
Christianity, proof of its truth, from its success at its origin, 369-ob- stacles to its success from the Jews, ib.-from the Gentiles, 371-from the manner of Christ's death, ib.-- means by which they were over- come, 372 et seqq.
Clairaut, his solution of difficulties in the lunar theory, 331-calculation of the comet of 1759, 348. Cochabamba, in Peru, excesses com- mitted there by the Indians, 295- routed by the Spaniards, ib. Code Napoleon, object of peculiar complacency to its author, 395- his agency in its formation, 396— its discussion and adoption, 400- its division into five parts, ib.- introduction throughout the French empire, ib. et seqq.-retained in France after the downfal of Na-
Codification, lately engaged much at- tention, 413-its expediency ques- tionable, ib. et seqq.-will not destroy litigation, 415-would facilitate the study of law, ib. et seqq.-forms in which a code might appear, 416— its value, ib.
Colombia, its present system of go- vernment, 78, 79-Hall on the present state of, noticed, 441- stability of its government, ib.— administration of justice, 442-ab- olition of distinctions of color, ib.- regulations of commerce, ib.-emi- gration, 443-religion, ib. Colonisation Society, seventh annual report reviewed, 191-Gen. Harp- er's letter on the objects of the society, 194-proved to be practi- cable, 195 to 197-to be promoted principally by the education of the young, and plan for this purpose, 197 to 200.
Coke, Lord, his Institutes, 414. Comet, Halley's, its return discover-
ed by Messier, 327-twenty dis- covered by the same atronomer, ib.-twentyfive by Pons, 328- Encke's, 339-method of calcula- ting their orbits simplified since Newton, 347-superiority of the method of Olbers, 348-facilitated by the modern tables, ib.-number whose orbits are calculated, 349- and elliptical, ib.-that pass within the earth's orbit, 349-consequen- ces of contact of one with the earth, 349, et seqq.-history of, by Pingré, 361. Commerce, its surprising progress in modern times, 47-state of, in Hol- land, Russia, Italy, France, and Great Britain, 47, 48-British, the
great extent it acquired during the eighteenth century, 48. Commercial Law, its improvement in Great Britain, not correspondent to the advancement of its commerce, 48-had made little progress at the commencement of the reign of George Third, ib.-historical re- view, 49-Malyne's Lex Mercatoria not confined to England, ib.-refers to no English adjudications, 50- great deficiencies of all the earlier works, 51-state of, in France, 53 -solution of this state of things found in the exclusive nature of the common law, 54-its principles slowly recognised by the common law, 54, 57-its improvements by Lord Mansfield, 58-stationary in the hands of his successors on the bench, 58, 59-foreign, little studi- ed by English lawyers, 60 et seqq.— change in this respect taking place, 14-its progress in America since the Revolution, 70. Conference on the Civil Code, 404— account of this work, 405-extract from it, 405 et seqq.
Confucius, the Chinese philosopher, 432.
Congress, American, pass resolutions commendatory of Lafayette, 152— their expressions of respect on his departure in 1784-resolutions in memory of Count Pulaski, 388. Copernicus, his discovery of the mo- tion of the planets, 309.
Cortes, founder of the colony of Vera Cruz, 80-his cruelty at Cholula, 86, 87. Cubi's Spanish Grammar, commend- ed 450-his other works, 451.
D. D'Alembert explains the physical cause of the apparent motion of the fixed stars, 315-of the pre- cession of the equinoxes, 356- character and works, 362 et seqq. Davis, Daniel, his edition of Russell on Crimes and Misdemeanors, no- ticed, 224. Deffand, Madam du, extract from her
letter to H. Walpole, relating to Lafayette, 150, note.
Degree of the meridian, measurement of, at several times, 355.
Delambre's tables ecliptiques, &c, 309 -tables of the motions of Jupiter and Saturn, 342-tables of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, 346 et seqq.-his work on Astronomy, 359-histories of Astronomy, 361. Digest, Metcalf's, of cases decided in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 458.
Dorpat observatory, its high latitude, 313, note.
Duponceau, Mr, his translation of the Code Penal of Napoleon, 411-of the Code de Commerce, 412.
Earth, its figure conjectured by New- ton, 350-demonstrations by Mac Laurin, &c. ib. et seqq.-its greater density towards the centre, 351— theories and calculations relating to its oblateness, 352, et seqq.- consequence of a supposed de- crease in its temperature, 354. Edgeworth, Miss, her use of the com- mon artifices of novelists, 269. Edinburgh Reviewers, their predic- tions of the instability of the go- vernment of the United States, 421-how verified, ib.-always un- fortunate in their prophecies, 422. Ecliptic, its decreasing obliquity, 340. Eldon, Lord, his remark of Lord Erskine, 276.
Emigration of free people of color to Hayti, correspondence relative to, 191-not inconsistent with African colonisation, 192, 201-recom- mended, 202-liberally encour- aged by President Boyer, 204 to 206-emigration of twentyfour persons from Illinois, 209. Encke's comet, 339. Equinoxes, precession of the, causes
discovered by Newton, 356-re- searches of D'Alembert, ib. et seqq. Erskine, Lord, account of, by Butler, 276.
Escalala, a poem, by Samuel B. Beach, reviewed, 210—subject of the poem, 212-founded on a tra- dition of the planting of a Nor- wegian colony in America, ib.- the plot, ib.-extracts, 213. Eschevarri, his residence at Jalapa, 81-refusal to submit to the federal government of Mexico, 82. Euler, notices of his labors, 329, 331,
338, 356-his writings and char acter, 363.
Evenings in New England, noticed
Everett, Edward, his oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, re- viewed, 417-subject the peculiar motives to intellectual exertion in America, 418-extract on the pure- ly elective and representative sys- tem established in America, 423- his opinion, that there is no undue tendency of talents to politics, ob- jected to, 427-his discussion of the probable effect of this novel political organisation on literature, 429-repels the objection to free governments, that they do not pa- tronise learning, 430-his argu- ment objected to, 431, et seqq.— his opinion of the favorable effect of a community of language in the United States on literature, &c. commented on, 436, et seqq.-his closing remarks, 439-his oration at Plymouth, ib.-its merits, 440- faults of these discourses, ib.-their value, ib.
F. Federal constitution, adoption of, its salutary effect on the commerce of United States, 106.
Fichte, his rank as a metaphysician, 141, note-his extravagant notions on education, ib.-his treatise on the end of man, ib. Fitzpatrick, General, his motion for an inquiry into the imprisonment of Lafayette, 169. Flamsteed, astronomer royal in 1675,
Flower, Mr, his interest in the free people of color in Illinois, 208- sends an agent to Hayti, ib.- assists twentyfour emigrants to reach Hayti, 209.
Fox compared with Pitt, 278, 279. France, originally inhabited by Gauls, 396-introduction of the Roman laws, ib.-sketch of the history of the law in France, 396 et seqq.— effects of the revolution upon it, 398-Code Napoleon formed, 399 et seqq.-retained after the down- fal of the emperor, 402. Friends, or Quakers, their benevolent
activity in Philadelphia, 218, 219. Funes, Dr D. G. his history of the in-
surrection in Peru, 383-quoted, 290-his description of Tupa Ca- tari, 297.
Gage, Thomas, a Dominican Friar, his account of Mexico quoted, 89,
Garnell, James M. his seven lectures
on female education noticed, 444— recommended by Judge Marshall, Bishop Moore, aud De Witt Clin- ton, 445-their subjects and me- rits, ib.
Gauss' method of finding the elements of an orbit, 344-its important ap- plication, ib.
Gospels, Miss Adams' Letters on the, reviewed, 366-object and outline of the work, 367, et seqq.-recom- mended, 369. Governments, free, their influence up- on the condition of mankind, 423– formed by confederacies of small states, their tendency, ib. et seqq. -furnish motives of emulation, 425 -tendency to direct talents to the exclusive cultivation of politics, 427 et seqq-objection that they do not afford patronage to learning repel- led by Professor Everett, 430-his arguments answered, 431, et seqq. Graham, Robert, agent of Mr Flower to President Boyer, 208-his recep- tion, 209-opinion of the state of society, &c. ib.
Gravity, Newton's theory of, 309- unimproved till the time of Euler, D'Alembert, &c. 329.
Greece, the confederacy of its repub- lics different from that of the United States, 423-their government in Homer's time, 433.
Griffith, Thomas W. his Annals of Baltimore, reviewed, 99. Guanaxuato, value and present state of its mines, 97. H.
Hadley's quadrant, its origin, 318. Hale, Sir Matthew, an example of wonders wrought by a methodical use of time, 275.
Hall, Col. Francis, his present state
of Colombia noticed, 441-the au- thor's character, ib.-quoted, 442,
et seqq. Halley, astronomer royal in 1719,
320-extenisve labors 321-disin terestedness, 322-return of his comet, 347. Harper, General, his speech on the ex- pediency of a canal from Pittsburg to Baltimore, 99.-Letter to Dr Woods on the education of free blacks, 194-objects and success of the Colonisation Society stated, 195, 197-principal dependence to be placed on the education of the rising generation, 197—plan of a seminary formed for this purpose, 197, 199-its advantages 200. Hayti, emigration to, 203—its go- vernment and prosperity, 203, 204 -aspect of society, administration of its government, 209-state of education and schools, ib.- its le- gislature, executive, and army, 210. Herder, John G. his works reviewed, 138 character of his mind, his excellence as a translator, his other works, 138, 140-kindness and hu- manity of his character and feel- ings, 140-his birth and education, 140, 141-his early works, pru- dence in the expression of his opi- nions, 141-their reception, 142— extent of his acquirements, ib.- his writings in theology, ib.-his election to a professorship at Gōt- tingen, negatived by George III. 143-invited by the Duke of Wei- mar to his court, ib-his labors there and death, ib-character of his prose writings, 144-his influ- ence on the age, ib-his collection and translation of the popular songs of all nations, ib-insertion of two of them, 145, 146. Herschel, his astronomical instru- ments, 319-observations on the surfaces of the heavenly bodies, double stars, &c. 326, et seqq. Hindoos, mental advancement of, 433. Hinkley, Mr, his remark on laying the corner stone of the Baltimore Athe- næum, 138. Historical Society, New Hampshire, collections of the, noticed, 448. Hobart, Lord Chief Justice, his opi- nion on a point of commercial law, quoted, 57.
Holt, Lord, his denial of the negotia-
bility of promisory notes, 49. Hornsby, publishes a table of fixed stars deduced from the observations
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