ern departments of the Russian empire, 481. At Astrachan, observed the proper cultivation of the vine, 482. Isinglass from the sturgeon fishery, 483. Botany, 484. Abassans, two Nations, the great and small, 485. Circassians, a warlike nation inhabiting Caucasus, ib. Singular manners described, 486. Nogais Tartars dwindled to insignificance as a nation, 489. Parmentier. See Milk. Pérouse, the name of that cele-
brated voyager given by Kotzebue to a pitiful drama, 223. The author severely reprehended, ib. 238. Perry, Mr. his case, under com- mitment of the House of Lords, for a paragraph in the Morn- ing Chronicle, 163. Philosophism, reflections on, 578. Pichegru, General, account of, 133. Exiled to Cayenne, 134. His escape, 135.
Pitch Stone, its natural history, 17. Plica Polonica, that horrid disease described, 389. Policy of courts and
generally depraved in respect to war and peace, 523. Ex- emplified in the conduct of France, during the reigns of Louis XIV., XV., and XVI. ib. Poor, modes of relieving and em- ploying them considered, 307. Poppies, culture of, 51. Prior, Mr. obtains the prize for
an improved and detached escapement for watches, 53. Proust, M. chemical researches concerning copper, 505.
Ramel, General, exiled to Cay- enne; whence he escapes with Barthélémy, Pichegru, &c, and writes an account of the means of their deliverance, 129-135. Roads in the county of Middlesex,
Tassaert, M. on chromate of iron, &c. 562. Thellusson, Mr. some account of, with the famous testamentary clause in his will, 158. Theophilanthropists, acc. of, 579. Tithes, warm objections to, and instances of injustice and op- pression recorded, 395. Tooke, Mr. View of the Russian empire, 361. Its vast extent, 362. Variety of climate, and of inhabitants, 362. Paradi- saical vales, 363. Prevailing social order among the Tartars and Kosacs, 367. Mongoles, 368. For more particulars, see article Pallas.
Vaillant, M. his natural history
of birds of Africa continued, 558, Vauquelin and Fourcroy, on the natural, chemical, and medical history of human urine, 566. Vegetation, new method of pre- serving seeds for, 52. Vince, Mr. his Bakerian lecture, on the unusual horizontal re- fraction of the air, &c. 142. Union with Ireland, that measure ably supported and enforced in the British House of Commons, 167-173. Strictures on the proposed measure, 231. Ob- servations unfavorable towards the measure, 447.
Voyage to China, since Lord Ma- cartney's embassy, by Cossigny, 512. Canton described, 514.
Curious observations on the effects of habitual tea-drinking, 516. Urine, human, curious chemical experiments on, 566.
Wakefield, Mr. his splendid edit. of Lucretius, 328.
Wales, curious account of the an- tient royal tribes of, 253. The family of Gruffudd, (or Gryf- fith) numbered among those of the highest distinction, 254. War, account of the operations of the, 581-585.
Washington, fœderal city of; de- scribed, 4.
General, manner of celebrating the anniversary of his birth-day at Philadelphia, 7. His amiable private character, 8. Weld, Mr. his travels in North America, 1. Cautions relative to an over-hasty inclination to emigrate to that country, ib. His account of the laudable at- tention paid by the Pennsylva- nians to the proper punishment of crimes, 2. Of the city of Washington, 4.
West, Mrs. her writings, in the class of polite literature, much approved, 262. Wilberforce, Mr. his doctrine of bereditary depravity ably con- troverted, 292.
Willorus, directions for cultivating on waste lands, 183 Work-bouses, utility of, debated, 398.
Y Yonge, Mr. observations on car- buncle, 67.
Yorke, Philip, Earl of Hardwicke, See Athenian Letters. Young, Mr. See Lincolnshire.
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