Part 34

_Columbus_, C., Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of, 163. See _Irving_, Washington.

_Cosa_, Juan de la, his participation in the discoveries of South America, 166, &c.

_Croly_, Rev. George, A. M., his Life of George the Fourth, reviewed, 314, &c. See _George IV._

_Cullen_, Dr., his opinion on the use of tobacco, 153.

_Culman_, F. I., his translation of Karsten's Manuel de la Metallurgie de fer, notice of, 352, &c. See _Iron_.

D.

_Davila_, Pedro Arias, his execution of Vasco Nunez de Balboa, whom he superseded, 184.

_Dobell_, Peter, his Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia, with a narrative of a residence in China, reviewed, 52, &c. his facilities for acquiring information, 52 venality of the Chinese, 53 opium smuggling, 54 robbery of the government, 54, 55 pirates, and fate of their leader Apo-Tsy, 55 salt trade, _ib._ unblushing venality of the mandarins, 56, 57 population of China overrated, 57 productions of the climate, tea, 58, 59 mechanic arts, 59 character, mode of living, temperature, fops, amusements, 60, 61 dinners of ceremony, 62 religion, 62, 63 Mr. Dobell's arrival at St. Peter's and St. Paul's, 63 bay of Avatcha, and embankments on the river, _ib._ the Kamtchatdales poor but hospitable, 64 their dwellings, 65 hospitable reception at the cottage of Toyune of Sherrom, 66 volcano of Klootchefsky, _ib._ town of Nijna Kamtchatsk, _ib._ winter store of a Kamtchadale family, 67 perilous adventure of the Toyune of Malka, _ib._ sagacity, perseverance, and swiftness, of the Kamtchatdale dogs, 69 in the country of the Tongusees, the author deserted by the native guides, and his dangerous adventures, 70-72 town of Ochotsk, 72, 73 journey thence to Yakutsk, 73 dress and appearance of the Yakuts and Tongusees, 74 water communications of Siberia, _ib._ colony of banished persons on the banks of the river Aldan, 75 the Yakuts a pastoral people, 76 arrival at Yakutsk, _ib._ Siberian wedding, 77 town of Olekma, 78 Irkutsk the capital of eastern Siberia, 79 journey thence to St. Petersburg, 80, &c. disinterestedness of the Siberians, _ib._ Tomsk, _ib._ Tobolsk, 81.

_Dufrenoy_, MM. and Elie de Beaumont, their Voyage Metallurgique en Angleterre, notice of, 352, &c. See _Iron_.

_Dyspepsia_, Method of Curing, by O. Halsted, reviewed, 233-246.

E.

_Egyptian Hieroglyphics_. See _Hieroglyphic System_, 339, &c.

_Encisor_, Martin Fernandez de, his participation in the early adventures in South America, 171, &c.

_Ennui_, J. L. Alibert's chapter on, in his Physiology of the Passions, reviewed, 33, &c. character of the work, _ib._ Lord Byron's description of ennui, 34 literature of the day transient, with a feverish excitement for novelty, 34, 35 nature of ennui, 36 Solomon's delineation of it, 37 illustration in Achilles, 38 in Bruce the traveller, 38 in Vergniaud, _ib._ ennui conjured up the ghost of Caesar to Brutus on the eve of the battle of Phillippi, 39 its extensive influence, 40 its operation to be traced in the sanguinary amusements of ancient Rome, 41 its power over Jean Jacques Rousseau, 42 exemplified in Spinoza, 43 Aristotle, _ib._ King Saul, 45 causes the slander of the gossips, _ib._ influence on fashion, 46 in the haunts of business, _ib._ peoples the mad house, and inhabits jails, _ib._ Pyrrhus an ennuye, 47 Napoleon, 48 Leibnitz, _ib._ Lord Bolingbroke, 49, 50 cure for it, 51.

_Erskine_, Lord, notice of, 324, 325.

_Europe and America_, &c., translated from the German of Dr. C. F. Von Schmidt-Phiseldek, by Joseph Owen, reviewed, 398, &c. features which distinguish the American from other revolutions, 399 representations made to England in 1635 of disloyalty in Massachusetts, 400 deductions from the North American revolution in regard to the south, 401 the old governments of Europe, 401-403 effects of the American revolution upon Europe, 404, 405 discontents now agitating Europe, 406-408 causes that will produce emigration to America, 408, 409 Europe cannot do without America, 409, 410 in seeking new markets for her surplus manufactures, North America will be an enterprising rival, 411 the old world destined to receive its impulses in future from the new, 412 consideration of events which have occurred in Europe since Von Schmidt-Phiseldek's work was published, 413, &c. situation of France, 415 England, 415, 416 Holland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Prussia, 417 South American states, 418.

F.

_Fendall_, Josias, trouble to the colony of Maryland from, 492, 493.

_Fowler_, Dr., his opinion of the medicinal virtue of tobacco, 153.

_Fox_, Charles, notice of, 322, 325.

_France_ in 1829-30, by Lady Morgan, reviewed. See _Morgan_, Lady, 1, &c.

_Francis_, Sir Philip, his claim to the authorship of Junius, 325.

_Franklin_, Dr., anecdote of, 163.

G.

_Gallatin_, Albert, in the Convention at New-York, to form a University, 285-305.

_George IV._, Life of, &c., by the Rev. George Croly, A. M., reviewed, 314, &c. marriage to Sophia Caroline, 315 character of George III., 316 private education of the Prince of Wales, 317 income allowed him, _ib._ attempts to palliate his vices, 318-320 his debts and expenditures, 321 Pitt, Fox, and Sheridan, 322-324 Burke and Sheridan, 324, 325 investigation of the authorship of Junius, Sir Philip Francis, Edmund Burke, Horne Tooke, Wilkes, Lord George Germaine, Dunning, Gerard Hamilton, &c., 325-327 jeux d'esprit of the Prince, 328 his marriage, Mrs. Fitzherbert, 329 ascends the throne as regent, 330 his last sickness and death, 330, 331 description of an election for members of Parliament, 332-334 how republicans can usefully study the characters of kings and legitimate nobility, 335-338.

_George III._, character of, 316.

_Germaine_, Lord George, his claim to the authorship of Junius, 326.

_Greppo_, J. G. H., Vicar General of Belley, his Essay on the Hieroglyphic System of M. Champollion, Jr., reviewed, 339, &c. See _Hieroglyphic System_.

_Grimke_, Thomas S., his oration before the Connecticut Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, notice of, 283-302.

_Guerra_, Christoval, his adventure to South America, 168.

H.

_Hall_, Judge Dominick A., his arrest and imprisonment by General Jackson, 226-232.

_Halsted_, O., his Method of curing Dyspepsia, reviewed, 233-246.

_Hamilton_, Gerard, his claim to the authorship of Junius, 326.

_Hayne_, General, his attack in Congress on the New-England States, and the discussion that ensued, 448-455.

_Hearne_, (the traveller) his commendation of tobacco, 153.

_Herculaneum_ and Pompeii, ruins of, 525-527.

_Hieroglyphic System_ of Champollion, Jun., Essay on, by J. G. H. Greppo, translated by Isaac Stuart, reviewed, 339, &c. cause of Champollion's researches, 340 clew afforded by the Rosetta stone, confirmed by a monument found in the island of Philae, 341, 342 signs common to both, 342, 343 advantages of his discoveries in the prosecution of sacred criticism, 344 plan of the author's essay, _ib._ did Pharaoh perish in the Red Sea? contrary opinions of the author and Professor Stuart on, 345, 346 city of Ramses, where situated? 347 a manuscript 200 years older than the Pentateuch, 349 reason for the silence of the Scripture in regard to Sesostris, _ib._ concluding remarks of the author, 350.

_Hood_, Zachariah, the distributer of royal stamps, in Annapolis, case of, 507, 508.

_Howell_, (author of Familiar Letters), his commendation of tobacco, 149.

I.

_Ingle_, Richard, his part in the Clayborne and Ingle rebellion, 491.

_Iron_, importance of, 352 the ancients carried nearly to perfection the preparation of other metals, iron still in a state of advancement, 353 its use by the Egyptians in the time of Moses, 354 its importance gathered from Homer; used by Lycurgus for currency; in Solomon's temple, 354 art of welding; mines of Elba; steel; cast iron, 355 appearances of good and bad iron, 356 impurities in ores, 356, 357 grey and white cast iron, 358 theory of Karsten on, 359 reduction of ores, 361, 362 blooming, 363 stuckoffen, 364 flossoffen, 365 blast furnaces 365-368 casting; pig iron, 368 causes of whiteness, 369 fuel adapted to different kinds of castings, 370, 371 early preparation of iron in the British American provinces, and attempt to introduce into England, 372 refining, 373-375 cost of manufacturing iron in England, 375, 376 duty on iron in this country; its manufacture by charcoal; stone coal; capital required for a profitable competition, 377-380 how far government ought to afford protection, 385.

_Irving_, Washington, his Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus, reviewed, 163-186 why this book is not so interesting as the Life of Columbus, 164 voyage of discovery of Alonzo de Ojeda, associated with Juan de la Cosa and Amerigo Vespucci, 165 arrival on the coast of Surinam, 166 gives the name which it still bears to the town of Venezuela, 167 reception at Coquibacoa, _ib._ profitable voyage of Pedro Alonzo Nino and Christoval Guerra, 168 expedition of Vincente Yanez Pinzon, _ib._ of Diego de Lepe, 169 of Rodrigo de Bastides, assisted by Juan de la Cosa, _ib._ Ojeda and Diego de Nicuesa receive contiguous grants of territory, and quarrel about the boundary, 170 Ojeda relieved from embarrassment by Martin Fernandez de Enciso, and sails, having on board Francisco Pizarro, 171 disasters among the savages, and Ojeda's reconciliation with Nicuesa, 173 founds St. Sebastian; distress of the colony, _ib._ sails for St. Domingo with Bernardo de Talavera, 174 shipwreck, _ib._ death, 175 Vasco Nunez de Balboa proceeds with Enciso to Ojeda's new settlement, 176 events there, 177 fate of Nicuesa, _ib._ Enciso superseded by Vasco Nunez, 171 his adventures; discovery of the Pacific Ocean, and return to Darien, 178-181 Pedro Arias Davila supersedes Vasco Nunez and has him executed, 181-184 Valdivia, and Juan Ponce de Leon, 184 merits of the work, 185.

_Italy_, Notes on, by Rembrandt Peale, reviewed, 512, &c. the author's long-cherished desire to visit Italy repeatedly frustrated, 513 arrival in the Bay of Naples, 514 catacombs of Santa Maria della Vita, 515 Rome, 516 appearance, &c. of the inhabitants, 517 Tivoli, Tuscany, Florence, 518, 519 the celebrated improvisatrice Rosa Taddei, 520-521 Pisa, Carrara, Genoa, 521 Parma, Bologna, entrance into Venice, 522, 523 statue of San Carlo Borromeo, 524 return to France; and home through England, 524, 525 ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii, 525-527 workers in Mosaic, 529 statuary, 530 colouring of different artists, 531, 532.

J.

_Jackson_, Gen. Andrew, his proceedings at New-Orleans, before, during, and after the battle, 218-231 his message to Congress in relation to the Bank of the United States, 246-282.

_Jagellon_, weds Hedwiga, daughter of Lewis of Hungary, and ascends the Polish throne, 462, &c.

_James_ I., his counterblast to tobacco, 136-140 his dinner for the devil, 145 argument in his counterblast, 148.

_Johnson_, Mr., his letter on the culture of the sugar cane, 199-201.

_Journal_ of proceedings of Literary and Scientific gentleman at New-York, notice of, 283, &c.

K.

_Kamtchatka_, Travels in, 52, &c. See _Dobell_, Peter.

_Karsten_, C. I. B., his manuel de la Metallurgie de fer, translated from the German by F. I. Culman, notice of, 352, &c. See _Iron_.

_Klootchefsky_, volcano of, 66.

_Koskiusko_, count, his efforts for Polish liberty, 476, &c. See _Poland_.

L.

_Ladislaus_ I., crowned king of Poland, 461 _Ladislaus_ IV., 466.

_Leib_, James R., A. M., Lectures on Scientific education by, notice of, 283.

_Leiber_, Dr., his part in the Convention for forming a University, 290.

_Leibnitz_, Professor, a victim to ennui, 49.

_Lepe_, Diego de, his voyage of discovery, 169.

_Lewis_, king of Hungary, made king of Poland, 462.

_Livingston_, Mr., his part in the cession of Louisiana to the United States, 214.

_Louallier_, Mr., his arrest by General Jackson, 225.

_Louisiana_, History of, by Francois-Xavier Martin, reviewed, 186, &c. Barbe Marbois's history, 187 character of Judge Martin, 188 odd combinations in his work, 189 account of an earthquake in Canada, 190 Penn's purchase from the Indians, 191 government paper money, 191, 192 Marbois on this subject, 192 Louisiana in 1713, 193 introduction of negroes from Africa, 194 a female adventurer, 195 progress of New-Orleans, 195, 196 aggression on the Indians and their revenge, 197 introduction of the sugar cane, and its progress, 197, &c. Mr. Johnson's letter on, 199-201 paternal affection in an Indian, 202 removal of the Arcadians, 203 shipping off obnoxious characters, 204 cession to Spain of a portion of Louisiana, _ib._ Don Ulloa arrives to take possession, but refrains from formally doing so, 204 followed by Don Alexander O'Reilly, who commits many atrocities, 205-208 interest felt in Louisiana in our struggle for independence, 208 instance of American gallantry and enterprise, _ib._ the foundation of commercial intercourse laid with the United States by General Wilkinson, 209 Don Martin Navarro's sagacious communication to the king, 210 Baron de Carondelet's miscalculations respecting the western people, 211 retrocession of the territory to France, 212, 213 cession to the United States, 214, 215 Burr's plot, and General Wilkinson's proceedings, 216-218 General Jackson's preparations for the defence of New-Orleans, 218, 219 battle of Orleans and subsequent proceedings of Jackson, 221-232 banishing the French from New-Orleans, 224 arrest of Louallier, 225 of Judge Hall, 226, 227 of Hollander, 228 Jackson summoned before Judge Hall, 230 his sentence, 231.

M.

_Mackenzie_, Wm. Lyon, his catechism of education, notice of, 283.

_M'Mahon_, John V. L., his Historical View of Maryland, &c. reviewed, 483, &c. See _Maryland_.

_Madison_, James, his opinion upon the tariff and nullification, 453.

_Maizeaux_, M. de, his translation of Latin verses in praise of tobacco, 143.

_Marbois_, Barbe, his History of Louisiana, notice of, 186, &c. See _Louisiana_.

_Martin_, Francois-Xavier, his History of Louisiana, reviewed, 186, &c. See _Louisiana_.

_Maryland_, Historical View of the Government of, by John V. L. M'Mahon, reviewed, 483, &c. occasional remarks, 483-485 boundaries of Lord Baltimore's grant, 486 his contest with William Clayborne, _ib._ with William Penn, _ib._ settlement of boundaries to the north, 488 controversies in regard to the west, 489, 490 first settlement under Calvert, 490 Clayborne and Ingle's rebellion, 491 contest with the Parliament, _ib._ governor Stone defeated, 492 troubles from Josiah Fendall, 492, 493 condition of the colonies in 1687, 494, 495 formation of Protestant Association, which transmits to the king charges against the provincial government, who dispossesses the proprietary and appoints Sir Lionel Copley royal governor, 496 seat of government changed, 497 Annapolis, 498 Governor Nicholson, 499 view of the colonies from 1689 to 1710, 500 persecution of Catholics, 501 internal dissensions, 501, 502 resources of Maryland at the commencement of the revolution, 503 resistance of colonies to aggressions, 504 case of Zachariah Hood, the distributer of stamps in Annapolis, 507, 508 proceedings of Assembly, 508 stamp paper retained on board the vessel, 509 proceeding in relation to the tea, 511.

_Matthews_, Rev. Dr., notice of his address to the convention at New-York, 285.

_Memorial_ of the workers in iron of Philadelphia, notice of, 352, &c.

_Monroe_, James, his part in the cession of Louisiana to the United States, 214.

_Morgan_, Lady, her France in 1829-30, reviewed, 1, &c. preparations for a tour, 2 Lady Morgan's parentage, 3 marriage, 4 book-making propensity, 4,5 pernicious tendency of her works, 5 reasons for severity in regard to her, 6 her egotism, 7 arrival at Calais, 8 the Diligence, and difference between English and French stages, 9-11 arrival at Paris, 12 her horror at the prevalence of Anglomania in France, 13-15 travelling in France, 16 want of magnificent country seats, _ib._ number of mendicants, 17 facility of making acquaintance with fellow-travellers, _ib._ Lady Morgan's deductions as sapient as those of the Hon. Frederick de Roos, 18 her want of decorum, 19 vanity, 20 becomes the subject of the Parisians propensity to ridicule, 22 notice of her works in the Edinburgh and Quarterly Review, 24 romanticism and classicism in Paris, 26 interview with a romanticist, 27, 28 with a classicist, 29 Othello at the Theatre Francais, _ib._ Lady Morgan's plagiarism, 30, 31.

_Murray_, Dr., his opinion of the use of tobacco, 154.

N.

_Navarro_, Don Martin, his communication to the King of Spain in regard to the American colonies, 210.

_Nicholson_, Governor Francis, his part in the colonial government of Maryland, 499, 500.

_Nicot_, John, tobacco introduced into France by, 144.

_Nicuesa_, Diego de, his grant of territory and adventures in South America, 170, &c.

_Nino_, Pedro Alonzo, his adventure to America, 168.

_Nyssens_, Abbot, his belief that the devil first introduced tobacco into Europe, 142.

O.

_Ochotsk_, town of, 72, 73.

_Ojeda_, Alonzo de, his Voyages of Discovery, 165-175.

_Olekma_, town of, 78.

_O'Reilly_, Don Alexander, his arrival at New-Orleans to take possession for Spain, and his atrocities, 205-208.

_Owen_, Joseph, his translation of Von Schmidt-Phiseldek's Europe and America, reviewed. See _Europe and America_.

P.

_Paper currency_, government, 191, 192.

_Peale_, Rembrandt, his Notes on Italy, reviewed, 512, &c. See _Italy_.

_Penn_, William, his difficulties in settling the boundary line with Maryland, 486, 487.

_Physical Geography_, 82 density of the earth, 83 polar and equatorial diameters, _ib._ sources of heat, 84, 85 equilibrium of the particles of the earth, 85, 86 heat at the centre, 86 consolidation of the surface of the earth, 87 present appearance of its surface, 88 chain of mountains, 89 Malte Brun's arrangement of mountains into connected systems, 90 basins, rivers, and streams, 91 traces of aqueous action, 92 diluvial deposits, 93 stratified rocks, 94 third, fourth, and fifth orders of rocks, 95 organic remains, 96-102 different level of the same rocks, 103 volcanoes, 104-109 trap rocks, 105 earthquakes, 107-109 M. E. De Beaumont's researches into the age of mountains, 109-112.

_Physiology_ of the Passions, by J. L. Alibert, notice of, 33.

_Pinzon_, Vincente Yanez, his voyages of discovery, 168.

_Pitt_, Prime Minister, his followers and opponents, 322-325.

_Pizarro_, Francisco, his early adventures in America, 171, &c.

_Poland_, impending fate of, 457, 458 constitution granted it by Alexander, 458 its former importance, 459 early history, 460 Ladislaus crowned king, 461 events in the reign of Casimir the Great, _ib._-- Lewis, king of Hungary; his daughter Hedwiga, weds Jagellon, whose family filled the throne through seven reigns, 462 increasing power of the nobles, 463 with Sigismund Augustus the reign of the Jagellons ceased, and the succession became elective, 464 Henry of Anjou elected king; succeeded by Stephen Bathory, duke of Transylvania, 465 Sigismund III. declared king, in whose reign the dismemberment and woes of Poland began, 466 succeeded by Ladislaus IV., _ib._ followed by John Casimir, who, after predicting the fate of the empire, resigned the crown, 467 Michael Wisniowiecki chosen king; on his death, John Sobieski succeeded, 468 reigns of Augustus II. and III., 469 Stanislaus Poniatowski, the last Polish king; events in his reign that led to the dismemberment of Poland, 470-472 assembling of the revolutionary diet at Warsaw, 473 alliance with Prussia; second diet; constitution promulgated, 474 Catharine invades Poland, and shares with Prussia a portion of its territory, 476 final effort of the patriots under Koskiusko, 477 battle of Praga, and third division of Poland; abdication of Stanislaus, 478 summary of events in Polish history, 479-482.

_Prussia_, alliance of with Poland, 474 share in its partition, 476.

_Pyrrhus_, an ennuye, 47.

R.

_Ralegh_, Sir Walter, remarks on, 145-147.

_Rome_, appearance of the inhabitants of, &c. 516, 517.

_Rousseau_, Jean Jacques, a prey to ennui, 42.

_Rulhiere_, M. his Histoire de l'Anarchie de Pologne, notice of, 457, &c. See _Poland_.

_Rush_, Dr. Benjamin, his observations upon the influence of the habitual use of tobacco, &c. 136, &c.

_Russia_, the part of, in the dismemberment of Poland, 457, &c. See _Poland_.

S.

_San_ Carlo Borromeo, statue of, 524.

_Santa_ Maria della Vita, catacombs of, 515.

_Sartorius_, George, his continuation of Spittler's Polish revolution, notice of, 457, &c.

_Sheridan_, R. B., notice of, 322-324.

_Siamese Twins_, The, a Satirical Tale by the author of Pelham, reviewed, 385, &c. occasional remarks, 386-391 outline of the poem, with remarks, 392-397.

_Siberia_, Travels in, 52, etc. See _Dobell_, Peter, his Travels.

_Sigismund_ Augustus, the last of the Jagellon family on the throne of Poland, 64.

_Sigismund_ III., woes to Poland in the reign of, 466.

_Sobieski_, John, king of Poland, reign of, 468.

_Spanish_ Voyages of Discovery, by Washington Irving, reviewed, 163, &c. See _Irving_, Washington.

_Sparks_, Mr., in the Convention at New York on the subject of an University, 286-288-309.

_Spinoza_, his resources against ennui, 43.

_Spittler's_ Polish revolution, with a continuation by George Sartorius, notice of, 457.

_Stanislaus_ (Poniatowski) king of Poland, reign of, 470, &c. See _Poland_.

_Steel_, preparation of, &c. See _Iron_, 352-385.

_Stone_, Governor, his defeat in an insurrection in the colony of Maryland, 492.

_Stuart_, Isaac, his translation of Greppo's Hieroglyphic System of Champollion, Jr., reviewed, 339, &c. See _Hieroglyphic System_.

_Stuart_, Professor, remarks of, on the perishing of Pharaoh in the Red Sea, 346.

_Sugar-cane_, introduction and culture of in Louisiana, 197-201.

_Sylvester_, Joseph, his tobacco battered, notice of, 140.

T.

_Taddei_, Rosa, celebrated improvisatrice, description of, 520, 521.

_Talavera_, Bernardo de, his adventure to South America, 174.