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Academy, Royal, the, 301, 316, 798 Actors and Actresses, 139
Africa, travels in, 63, 946, 480, 589 Aikin, Dr., memoir of. 453 Alchemy, 343, 675 Alexandria described, 17
Algiers, bombardment of, 69
American Reprints, 13-Antiquities, 298 -Statesmen, 620-Puffing, 60, 89- Revolution, 89
Anatomy, subjects for, 266, 284 Angerstein, J. J., memoirs of, 91 Animalentes in the Arctic Sea, 791 Antiquaries, society of, 271 Armies, tactics of ancient, 24 Armour, history of, 673, 693, 748 Aristocracy of learning, 125
Artists, society of British, 332, 365, 383 in Sweden, 303
Arts, society of, list of prizes, 350 Augereau, Marshal, account of, 725 Bags and Breeches, a tale, 74 Ballads, ancient, 465
Ballooning, on, 619, 668, 749 Barometer, horsekeeper's, 652 Beard, a week's, 651
Beckford's Critiques, 602 Bedlam, scenes in, 536
BEE, see the last leaf of every number Beer, historical notice of, 205
Belzoni's Expedition, 463, 814. Benevolence, metropolitan, 368 Bernadotte, character of, 6 Berthier, Marshal, account of, 725 Benieres, General, notice of, 725 BIOGRAPHY. 75, 77, 91, 171, 172, 236, 255, 300, 396, 403, 425, 453, 476, 524, 525, 574, 575, 587, 609, 650, 718, 765,
Bloomfield, R., memoir of, 574 Book of Death, the, 56 Booksellers, London, in 1823, 811 Bonaparte, Lucien, character of, 327 Bonaparte, memoirs and anecdotes of, 2, 23, 38, 56, 106, 133, 139, 147, 167, 294, 309, 325, 402, 424, 441, 487, 506, 563, 583, 600, 628, 647, 708, 724
Joseph, 141, 148 Family of, 148 Borlasse, Col., life of, 195 Boswell, Sir A, poem by, 14 Brazils, account of the, 85 Britain, names of cities of, 283 British Institution, the, 93 Brockhaus, memoir of, 718 Buffalo Pound, the, 242 Burns, the poet, 130, 510
Byron, Lord. Moore's poem on, 290 Cairo, Grand, account of, 36 Caual Navigation, 623
through Isthmus of Darien, 347 Carmen, Joculare, 332 Carnot, memoir of, 167, 524
Cartwright, Dr., memoir of, 765 Casanoviana, 509, 585
Chantrey, Mr., memoir of, 609
Chapel in Stamford Street, 669
Chelsea Hospital, 183
Cherbourg Harbour, 294
Chinese Jugglers, 421-Antiquities, 221 Christmas Carols, 345 Christianity in India, 498 Church, Dr., on Printing, 461 Church of England, state of, 131 Churches, Sir C. Wren ou, 183 Cicesbeo, the, 778 Coals, waste of, 140
Cobbett's Petition versified, 381 Cockloft, Miss Charity, 791 Coleridge, Mr., account of, 257 Colombia, account of, 197, 215 Coombe, W. Esq. memoir of, 396 Copper Indians, 263
Courtships, short, 16, 405
Council of 500 dissolved, 7
Crosses, ancient, 201 Crossing the Line, 81
Currant Tree, cultivation of the. 803 Daudies, ancient and moderu, 349 Davison, Mr., Gallery of, 430 Dead and not Dead, 185 Denmark, literature of, 658, 679, 796. Diorama, the 221, 637, 781 Disastrous Friday, 203 Disasters in Retirenient, 87 Disappointments, dramatic, 604 Discoveries of Secluded Men, 620 Diving Bell, the, 511
Dog-rib Indians, 242
Dominie Sampson, the origin of, 293 DRAMA, a notice of the acting drama in every number.
Drawings and Engravings, exhibition of, 14,397
Duelling, history of, 156, 170 Dumouriez, memoir of, 236, 727 Duncan, Lady M. letter of, 254 Earth, new theory of the, 14, 205 Atmosphere of the, 627 Easter Customs, 221, 250 Eccentricity, anecdotes of, 10? Editorship, rules for, 45 Edystone Lighthouse, anecdote of, 325 Edwards, Charles, last words of, 717 Egyptians, arts of the, 33
Egypt Napoleon's campaign in, 401 Elbow Chair, the, 156 Embalming, Egyptian, 520 Empecinado, life of the, 459 Encaustic Pavement, 201 Enfield, history of, 513, 537 Engineers, Institution of, 108 Engravings by Landseer, 607 French, 316
Eon, Chevalier d', 119 Erskine, Lord, memoir of, 770 Execution in Sweden, 372 Fairies, Scotch, 226 Fantees, account of the, 418 Feasting, ancient, 379 Female Legislators, 357
Ferdinand VII., anecdotes of, 403 Fetes on Napoleon's Marriage, 424 FINE ARTS, see the respective sub. jects
Fire Arms and Holy Water, 237 Fonthill Abbey, account of, 577, 605, 715, 732
Foote, Samuel, anecdotes of, 195 FOREIGN LITERATURE, 74, 185, 203, 218, 236, 250, 264, 282, 297, 330, 347, 363, 376, 393, 414, 508, 617, 713 Foundling Hospital in Paris, 750 Franklin, Dr., poem by, 428 Frederick the Great, battles of, 720 French Manufactures, on, 29
Poets, critique on the, 85,275 Charter, a poem, ib. Censorship, 247
and English character, 261 Morality, 378 Newspapers, 703
Gallery, British, 333 Gaming, laws against, 563 Garnerin, M. Life of, 575 Garrick, anecdotes of, 34
picture of, 414 Gaslights, report on, 511 George IV., portraits of, 426, 670
picture of visit to Ireland, 420 Ghent, exhibition at, 637 Ghost Stories, 12, 45, 226, 406 Girl of Provence, the, 245 Gladiators, Literary, 571 Glenbervie, Lord, life of, 300 Glover's Exhibition, 287 Gog and Magog, 346 Good old Times, the, 410 Gooseberry Tree, the, 803 Graham, Mr. ascents of, 590, 608 Greek Sculpture, 249
Greenland East, account of, 789 Guatemala, account of, 229 Gunpowder Treason, 713 Guns, repeating, 570 Hallowe'n, customs at, 227 Hatiana, 252
Haydon, Mr., and his pictures, 415 Herculaneum, antiquities of, 121
Heriot's Hospital, account of, 65 Highbury, history of, 468 Highlands, trip to the, 602, 619, 635 Hindoo Widows, state of the, 641, C64,
Hippocras explained, 379 Holy Alliance, the, 289 Holberg, account of, 707 Horticulture, Dutch, 136 House removed, 463
Hughes's Beauties of Cambria, 511 Hurricane, West Indian, 450 Hutton, Dr., memoirs of, 77 Hydraulic Machine, new, 768 Iceberg, an, 541
Icehill in Russia, 179 Iudexes, utility of 520 India, central, 578, 598, 613 Indians, speed of the, 157
adventures among the, 281 Institution, new Literary, 111, 335 Interviews of Princes, 548 Ireland, account of, 591 Islington, poetical account of, 349 anecdotes of, 467, 492 Iron Mines of Presberg, 357 Jamaica, account of, 449, 472 Jenner, Dr, memoir of, 75 Jerusalem described, 18 John, costume of King, 764
Johnson, Dr., on a Royal Library, 299 Joubert, General, notice of, 310 Kemble, J. P. memoir of, 173, 189 Kibitz, a tale, 471
Konza Indiaus, account of the, 169 Ladies' Privileges, 357 La Vendee, war in, 480 La Vilaine Tete, a tale, 145 Lambton, Col., memoir of, 476 Larrey, Baron, anecdote of, 327 Latitude, instrument for the, 735 Legion of Honour, the, 402 Lima, description of, 701 Linnæus, anecdote of, 571 Linwood's, Miss, exhibition, 445 Lisbon, description of, 517
in the Spring of 1823, 555 Literary Fund, the, 318
Prophecies, 454 Property, 522 Legislation, 95 Institution, 314
Literature, curious relics of, 116 -, periodical. 366 Italian, 504
-, Royal Society of, 415, 730, 754 LITERATURE and SCIENCE, varieties of, in every number London, improvements in, 521, 666, 702 -, plan for rebuilding, 165 Streets and Lanes, 265, 276, 541
Lord Mayor's Show, 346 Louis XI., anecdote of, 581
Love and Innocence, an allegory, 286
Mahaw Indians, the, 461
Malays, account of the, 105
Oranges, drama of the Three, 505
Orkneys in Pawn, the, 116
Painting, historical, in America, 621
Paintings at Waterloo Bridge, 369
Paper, bad qualites of, 526
Park, Mungo, account of, 69
Paris in October, 685
Parker, the Mutineer, 517 Parody on Lord Byron, 125
Parry, Capt., second voyage of, 683, 697
Pawnees, human sacrifices of the, 534 Paul, Emperor, anecdotes of 391
Panl's, St rebuilding of, 166 Penuie, Mr., memoir of, 403
PERIPATETIC, the, 186, 219, 250, 265, 312, 848
Peristrephic Views, 429 Peninsula, war of the, 615
Philosopher's Stone discovered, 527 Pilchard Fishery, 325
Plants, geography of, 475
sexual properties of, 143
Playfair, Mr. W., memoir of, 171
Pococurante Society, song for the, 291
POETRY, ORIGINAL, in every num.
Pompey's Pillar, account of the, 18 Porter, Miss, maxims by, 714
Presentiment, 571
Prison Illustrations, 611
-Recollections, 613
Prisons in Spain, state of the, 100- -, a visit to the, 123 Pride and Ignorance, 508 Publications, on juvenile, 509 , anonymous, 474 Puff, sentimental, 304 Pyramid of Ghizeh, 36 Pyrennees, sketches in the, 213 Queen's Trial, picture of the, 221 Quin, Mr., memoir of, 714
Raising of Lazarus, picture of, 174 Raleigh, Sir W.. his house, 493
Malte Brun, M, on the passage to the Regent's Park, the, 394
North Pole, 728, 763
Manorial Customs, 237
Manuscripts, ancient, 668
Marie Antoinette, memoir of, 97, 118, 137, Rhymes to the Eye, 258
Massena, Marshal, account of, 725
Matrimony, opinions on, 130
Materials for Public Buildings, 796
Mausoleum to Queen of Wirtemberg, 331 Mechanics' Tour in France. 379, 427 Institute, 696, 731
Memorabilia of the Year 1822, 14 Metamorphosis of the Seasons, 556 Mexican Magnificence, 228 Milan, works of art in, 333 Miners, laws of the, 631
Miracle, new, of Prince Hoheuloe, 824 Misery of too many Presents, 762 Missouri Indians, the, 582 Monastery of Pestcherskey, 501 Monks in Spain, 212 Monopoly, evils of, 200 Moreau, General, character of, 5 Morland, George, anecdote of, 492 M'Quin, Abbe, memoir of, 476
Richard Coeur de Lion, 466
Richardson, Dr., narrative of, 280 Richmond Hill, 276
Rings, historical account of, 473
Rio de Janeiro, description of, 538 Rossini, anecdotes of, 159
Royal Library, the, 63, 110, 192, 270,
Shaw House described, 203 Sheridan, T. Stanzas by, 324 Shakers of America, the, 60 Ships, ancient, 773
Sketches from Spain, 410, 443, 540 Slave Trade, 55, 519
Smolensko, battle of, 506 Snakes. West Indian, 451
Snow Houses, Esquimaux, 259 Southeogony, 258
Spilling the Salt, on, 89
Spring, seven symptons of, 237, 284 Spy, the, 168
Stone Indians, the, 242 Straw-plat Manufactory, 297
St. Bernard, passage of the, 56 Statesmen, American, 28
Steam Navigation, origin of, 15 Sunday Market at Moscow, 179 Surnames, a lyric, 765 Swallow, return of the, 303
Sweden, customs, &c., in, 374, 390, 661 literature in, 347, 363, 376
Table Cloth, origin of the, 774 Tam O'Shanter, memoir of, 587 Taylor, Watson, Esq., pictures of, 397 Temple Bar, mock procession to, 375 Terni, cataract of, 232
Theatrical Amusements, 108
THEATRES, critical notices of the, in every uumber.
Toper, the, a tale, 315
Topham, the strong man, 467, 468 Topographer, the, 700 Torch of Liberty, the, 289 Transparency Painting, 779 Troubadours, account of the, 466 Troubles of a Night, the, 313 Tread-Mill, on the, 489, 509, 526 Twelfth Night, 14
Turner the Painter, 202 Tyrolese, anecdotes of the, 246 Ugly Wife, poems on an, 30 Umbrella, introduction of the, 775
United States, ecclesiastical history of,90 customs in, 434, 456
Usury, historical notice of, 278 Valencia, description of, 410 Van Os's Exhibition, 287
Varssala, wretchedness of, 391 Vase Mantuan, the, 383 Vauxhall, account of, 426 Venetian Horses, on the, 717 Vienna, account of, 246
Villemains, M., on Milton, 377
, works of art in, 797
Wake not the Dead, a tale, 469
Bramsen on the North of Spain, 593 Brenton's Naval History, 517 Brittou's Illustrations of London, 291, 410
Brooke's Travels through Sweden, 660 Burns's Songs and Ballads, 692 Butler's Remains, 659
Byron's Island, a Poem, 385 Barnett's Memoirs, 458
-Reply to Reed, ib. Belfrage's Mouitor to Families, 757 Benger's, Miss, Life of Mary Queen of Scots, 361
Bicknell on Reform, 7×8
Blaquiere on the Greek Confederation,
Bond's History of Looe, 325 Boone's Men and Things, 389 Bristed on Churches, 130 Buckland's Reliquiæ Diluvianæ, 794 Burges's Son of Erin, 329 Burnaby's School Hours, 649 Burrow's Summary of Faith, 149 Caius Gracchus, 741
Campan's Memoirs of Queen of France, 97, 118, 136, 149 Carbonari, the, 236 Characteristics, 503 Chateaubriand's Speech, 297 Chemical Recreations, 695. China, Picture of, 420 Churchill's Grammar, 460 Clarke's Travels, 353, 371, 390 Clara Chester, 744
Coles's Discarded Son, 408 Collet's Relics of Literature, 116 Colombia, Description of, 197, 214 Colombian Loan, ou the, 373 Combe's Letters to Marianne, 616 Comines's Memoirs, 547, 581
Cornwall's Flood of Thessaly, 213, 245 Cottle's Dartmoor, 795
Crabb's Technological Dictionary, 243 Credit Pernicious, 123 Critica Biblica, 509
Cruise's New Zealand, 775 Daniel on the Lord's Prayer, 346 Daniel's Meteorological Essays, 026 Deacon's Innkeeper's Album, 66 December Tales, 102-
Delabarre on Dentition, 250 Deumark Delineated, 657, 678, 706 De Pinna's Music, 709
Details of the Arrest of an Englishman,
Dibdin's Sea Songs, 689
Dictionary of Quotations, 709 Don Juan, 451, 552, 769
Douglas's Fall of Constantinople, 329 Dubois's Letters on India, 498 Dake of Mantna, a Tragedy, 419 Elmes's Life of Wren, 164, 182 Empecinado, Life of the, 458 Entail, the, a Novel, 19, 39 Erskine, Lord, Letter of, 282 Esprit de Madame de Stael, 250 Essays on Scenes in Italy, 232
-on Liberalism, 529 Essay on Dancing, 748 Ewing's Geography, 443
Fables for the Holy Alliance, 289, 309 Fain's Manuscript, 628, 647 Falearo, 810
Faux's Days in America, 433, 456 Ferdinand VII, life of, 817
Hannay on Usury Laws, 277 Harding's Stenography, 168 Harmonicou, the, 57 Harrison on Fruit Trees, 802 Hauberk Hall, 757 Hawkins's Anecdotes, 34 Hayley's Life, 369
Haynes's Durazzo, 273, 293 Heman's Vespers of Palermo, 801 Henniker's Visit to Egypt, 17, 36, 51 Heraldic Anomalies, 311, 357 Hermit of Dumpton Cave, 54
-Abroad, the, 439
-in Prison, 610 Herriot, George, Memoirs of, 65 Herwald de Wake, 771 Highlanders' Superstitions, 225 Highways and Byways, 145 Hill's, Mrs., Zaphna, 710
Hindoo Widows, Papers concerning, 641, 664, 680
Hippesley, Sir J., on Tread Mill, 489 Hofland, Mrs., Tale of Integrity, 235 Hogg's Perils of Women, 615 Holderness's Journey from Riga, 500 Hone's Ancient Mysteries, 345 Horne's Study of the Scriptures, 89 Hora Momenta Cravens, 762 Horticultural Journal, 136 Howitt's Forest Minstrel, 327 Hughes on the Greek Revolution, 203 Hudson on Sweeping Chimnies, 409 Hulbert's Museum Africanum, 69 Hunter's Memoirs, 281
Illustrations of Scotch Novels, 292 Quentin Durward, 45
Influence and Example, 584 Inside out, 710
Ipsiboe, by Comte d'Arlincourt, 74 Irving's Orations, 483 Isabel de Barsas, 409 Isabella, a Novel, 373 Italiaa Wife, the, 247
Jacobs's Fall of Constantinople, 755 James's Expedition, 533, 560 Jennings's Lecture, 282 Jones's Blackstone, 761 Joplin's Political Economy, 328 Knowles's Discourses, 185 Kolli's Memoirs, 549, 567
Las Cases's Journal of St. Helena, Vol. I. 1, 23, 38, 106; Vol. II. 133, 147, 166; Vol. III. 294, 309, 326; Vol. IV. 563, 583, 600.-
Leibnitz, Exposition de, 250 Lewis's Zelinda, 460 Liber Amoris, 409
Liberal, the, No. II. 8, 26; III. 257; IV.
Fischer's Considerations on Germany, M'Diarmid's Vicar of Wakefield, 184
First Affections, 519
Footman's Directory, 460 Forman on the Tides, 374 Porget me not, 691
Fosbroke's Encyclopedia of Antiquities, 33, 120, 200, 773.
Franklin, Captain, Narrative of, 241, 259, 278, 296
Friendship's Offering, 724
Fulvius Valens, a Tragedy, 590
Gazetteer, General, 666
Geulis's Memoirs of M. de Bonchamps,
Ghost Stories,405
Gordon's American Revolution, 89
Memoirs of a Greek Lady, 393, 545 -Allied Armies, 743 Meyrick on Ancient Armour, 673, 693, 745
Milton's Apiarian Guide, 602 Mitford, Miss, her Julian, 177
, John, on Madhouses, 597 Monopoly Unmasked, 200 Montalvyn, a Drama, 281 Montholon's Historical Miscellanies, 5, 401, 424, 441, 708, 725 Napoleon's Memoirs, Vol. I. 5, 25, 56 Nash's Views in Paris, 490 Naval and Military Anecdotes, 168 Neale's Views of Noblemen's Seats, 308 Westminster Abbey, 753, 806, 825
Gourgaud's Memoirs of Napoleon, I. 5; Neeles's Poems, 193, 234
vol. II. 401, 424, 441, 708 Gray's Elements of Pharmacy, 342 Guizot on Conspiracies, 297
Gurney's Lectures on Chemistry, 675 Guzmau d'Alfarache, 649 Gwenllean, a Tale, 139 Gymnastic Exercise, 455
Hammond's Travels in Rotherhithe, 695
Nelson's History of Islington, 465, 491 No Fiction, a Tale, 458 Note Book, the, 421 O'Driscoll's Views of Ireland, 431 Other Times, a Novel, 216, 232 Papworth on Gardening, 437 Pamphleteer, No. XLII. 184; XLIII 374; XLIV, 694.
Praed's Lillian, 326
Prison Discipline Reports, 100 Proud Shepherd's Tragedy, 762 Public Characters of all Nations, 294 Quentin Durward, 321, 362 Quin's Visit to Spaiu, 643, 662 Rapp's Memoirs, 486, 506 Rasselas in Italiau, 203
Raymond's Village Schoolmaster, 795 Reed's Martha, 458
Reginald Dalton, 387, 407
Reid's Travels in Ireland, 530 Renou's Ionian, 810
Rhodes's Peak Scenery, 609, 630 Rich and Poor, 497
Ringan Gilhaize, 305, 339.
Reply to Rostopchin's Pamphlet, 712 Robins's Enfield, 513, 537
Rogers's Italy, 307
Rose's Orlando Inamorato, 263
Rouge et Noir, 562
Royal Exile, the, 361
Russia, Picture of, 178
Sabbath among the Mountains, 203 Salmagundi, 791
Salmons's Logic, 393 Savary's Memoirs, 721 Scientia Biblica, 712 Scoresby's Whale Fishery, 780 Segur's Maxims, 425 Serratea's Ferdinand VII., 728 Seventy-Six, a Novel, 409 Sextuple Alliance, the, 361 Shamrock Leaves, 712 Shortt's Visit to Milan, 632
Sismondi on European Literature, 465,
Simpson's Histories, 728
Introduction to Schools, 795
Sketches in Bedlam, 535
Smiles for all Seasons, 424
Soliguy's Letters on England, 261, 275 Spaewife, the, 785, 807
St. Aubyn's Phantoms, 460
St. Ronan's Well, 820
Stewart's Collections and Recollections, 129
St. Johnstoun, a Romance, 737, 758 Student's Manual, the, 296 Sweet's British Warblers, 727 Tales of my Father and Friends, 86 of Old Mr. Jefferson, 358 of Humour, 754 Temple of Truth, 757 Tennant's, Cardinal Beaton, 442 Thiers's Tour to the Pyrenees, 211 Ticheburn's Maid's Revenge, 282 Tilloch on the Apocalypse, 437 Times' Telescope, 761
Tour through the upper Provinces of of Hindostan, 819
Trial of Rev. Mr. Irving, 561 Trials of Margaret Lyndsay, 161, 180 Underwood's Diary, 712 Vallance on Caloric, 533 Valperga, 113
Villiers's France and Italy, 617, 650 Villemain's Miscellanies, 330
Young Countess, 602-
Walton's Angler, 459 Warner's Illustrations, 514 Waterloo, a Poem, 712
Watts's Poetical Sketches, 677 Week's Amusements, 810
Wensley's Four Songs, 709
White, H. Kirke, MSS. 138. Wieland's Graces, 406
Wright's Guide to the Giant's Causeway,
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Memorial de Sainte Helene. Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena. By the COUNT DE LAS CASES. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1823. WHEN we consider with what avidity every catch-penny publication relating to Bonaparte has been seized, we cannot be surprised that the publication of me- moirs, dictated and corrected by him- self, and a journal of his private life and conversations, recorded by one of the most faithful of his followers, should
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