A.

Aborigines of America, traits of the, a
Poem, 211.

Adams, Hannah, her character as an
author, 366-her Dictionary of Re-
ligions, ib.-her History of the
Jews, 367-her History of New-
England, ib.-her Letters on the
Gospels, ib.-commended, 369.
Address, Mr Wheaton's, at the opening
the New York Athenæum, 453.
Africa, colonisation of free people of
color in, 191-project not chimeri-
cal, 192-not inconsistent with
emigration to Hayti,--preferred
to it, ib.--first step to the abo-
lition of the slave trade, 193-its
success ultimately dependent on
the general and state governments,
195.

America, United States of, the rapid
growth of their back country, 99

of their commercial towns, 100
-deplorable state of their affairs
at the time of the application of
Lafayette to the American minis-
ters, 149-ominous predictions of
the Edinburgh Reviewers with re-
lation to the duration of their go-
vernment, 421-how verified, ib.-
peculiar motives to intellectual ex-

ertion in, 418-found in the new
form of civil society, 423-in the
peculiar nature of their confedera-
cy, ib.-differs from all other con-
federacies, ib.-advantages of their
constitution in various ways, 423
et seqq.-tendency of their institus
tions to give talents a direction to
political pursuits, 427-effect of
their novel political organisation
on literature, 429-of their com-
munity of language, 436-general
outline of, noticed, 446.
Amphictyonic league, 424.
Astronomers royal, 320-Flamsteed,
ib.-Halley, ib.-Bradley, 322-
Bliss, ib.-Maskelyne, 323-Pond,

325.

Astronomy, modern, way to its im-
provements opened by Copernicus,
Kepler, and Newton, 309-its great
progress in the last hundred years,
ib.-Dr Bradley's observations, 310
to 315-instruments, 315 et seqq.-
advancement of astronomy by ob-
servations at Greenwich, 319-as-
tronomers royal, 320 et seqq.-ob-
servations of Herschel and Schroe-
ter, 326—of Messier, 327-Pons,
&c. 328-physical astronomy, 329
-problem of the three bodies, ib.

-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.

B.

Bailly, the astronomer, 328-his fate,
ib.-his astronomical labors no-
ticed, 345.

Baltimore, 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
Florula 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.

C.

Composition, care bestowed upon it
by eminent writers, 281-by New-
ton,Burke,Bossuet,and Rousseau,ib.
Cambecéres, 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-his 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-

poleon, 402-modifications, ib.-
account of the subdivisions of the
Code, 402, et seqq.

Code de Procedure Civile, described,
410.

Code Civile, called by eminence,
Code Napoleon, 410-its great val-
ue, 402-analysed, 403 et seqq.—
conference on it, 404.

Code de Commerce, 412-analysed,
ib. et seqq.

Code Criminelle, 412.

Code Penal, 411-briefly analysed,
ib.

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.

́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.

E.

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 twenty four
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,

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,

320.

Flower, Mr, his interest in the free
people of color in Illinois, 208-
sends an agent to Hayti, ib.—
assists twenty four 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-