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WE had intended to abstain from all further reference to 'the Apocrypha Controversy;' but seven or eight pamphlets have since appeared, of which some brief notice shall be taken in our next.
Abraham, his deliverance from Ur, or the fire of the Chaldees, a Jewish tale, 271,
Africa, central and northern, travels in, by Major Denham and Captain Clap- perton, 404, et seq.; cause of the power- ful influence of the British consul over the Bashaw of Tripoli, 404, 5; the English government determines to make an attempt to enter Bornou, &c. from Tripoli, 405; Major Denham's interesting interviews with a young fe- male, sister of a native merchant, near Mourzouk, 406, 8; the route of the party lay through the desert between Fezzan and Bornou, 408; they pass various Oases, ib.; description of them, ib.; the great lake Tchad, ib. ; the party are met by the cavalry of the Sheikh of Bornou, 409; description of the meeting, troops, &c., ib. ; armour of the Sheikh's negroes, 410; introduction to the Sheikh, 410, 11; surprise of the people on hearing the Major's musical box, and conduct of the Sheikh, 411; his- tory of the Sheikh, and of his rise to power, 411, 12; the visit of audience, 412; Major Denham accompanies the Sheikh on a predatory attack, ib.; character and behaviour of the Negro general, Barca Gana, ib. ; the Major's religion excites the suspicion of the Sheikh's charm-writer or chaplain, 413; interview with the Sultan of Mandora, 414; unsuccessful result of the pre- datory expedition, 414, 15; Major D. is made prisoner, ib. ; `escapes with great difficulty, 416; death of the Bashaw's general, ib.; Major D.'s life preserved by the charm-writer, 417; is kindly treated by a deposed sultan, ib. ; result of an expedition against the Munga nation, 418; disgrace of Barca Gana, ib.; interesting account of his restora- tion to the Sheikh's favour, 418, 19; death of Dr. Oudney and of Mr. Toule, ib.; Captain Clapperton arrives at Kano, in Haussa, 419; its bad situa- tion, ib.; arrival at Sackatoo, 420;
his first audience with Sultan Bello, ib. ; he exhibits his astronomical apparatus lo the Sultan, ib.; is visited by Ateeko, a disgraced brother of the Sultan, ib.; and by the public executioner, 422 ; singular anecdote respecting this person- age, ib.; Captain C. returns to Tri- poli, 423.
Albigenses, the country of the, the birth-place of the Provençal muses, 314. Alexander I. of Russia, Lloyd's sketch of his life, &c. 386, et seq. Animals, Dr. Chalmers on cruelty to, 549, et seq.
Ascetic, an Indian, of the temple of Karli, description of, 59.
Attack, predatory, by the Bornouese and Arabs on the Felatah villages in central Africa, interesting account of it, 414, et seq.
Babington, a tragedy, 564, et seq. Baillie's, Marianne, Lisbon, in the years 1821, 22, and 23, 91, et seq.; 'Adam alive again' in Portugal, 91; the au- thor's description of the horrors of Lisbon, 92, 2; verses on the charms of her native country, 93, 4. Barbadoes, outrageous conduct of the gentle- men, &c. of Bridgetown in that island, and demolition of the Methodist chapel, 106,7.
Barbadoes, the most ancient colony of the British empire, 283. Barbauld's, Mrs. Legacies for young ladies, 70, et seq.; letter from Grimalkin to Selima, 80, et seq.; extract from her letters on female studies, 82; the death- bed, 82, 3; letter of a young king, an allegory of the new year, 83. Barca Gana, principal Negro general of the Sheikh of Bornou, his remarkable history, 409, et seq.
Barton's, Bernard, devotional verses, &c. 236, et seq.; design of the present work, 237, 8; Jacob's dream, 239; Daniel's vision of the hewn tree, 240; character and execution of the work, 241, 2; the office of poetry is not to teach,
but to elevate the mind, 242; a soli- loquy, written during the interruption of the composition of the volume, 242, 3. Barton's missionary memorial, &c. 560, et seq,; extract, 560, 1. Bassett's Molech, a sacred drama, 564, et seq.; extract, 567.
Bernard, account of the life and writings of, 41, et seq.
Bible society, conduct of, 352, et seq.; resolution of the parent commillee in re- ference to excluding the apocrypha, 352; the resolution declared to be unsatis- factory' by the Edinburgh committee, ib.; intolerant spirit displayed in the second statement of the Edinburgh committee, ib.; charges of Dr. Thom- son against the parent society, 353; opinion of Mr. Haldane, ib.; real ob- ject of the pamphlets written by these two gentlemen, ib.; grounds upon which the Edinburgh committee pro- nounce the resolution of the parent committee unsatisfactory,' 354; list of the members of the special committee, ib.; conduct pursued by the com- mittee, 356; Dr. Thomson's opinion of their conduct, with remarks on it, 357, 8; his charges against the committee considered, 358, et seq.; the true character, object, and prin- ciple of the British and Foreign bible society, 361; declaration of the society, in regard to its views, &c. in its first ad- vertisement, 361; objection of Mr. Hal- dane, 362; remarks on his objection, ib. et seq.; disingenuous statements of Mr. Haldane, 364, et seq.; the chosen friends of the bible society, on the continent, stated to be Arians, Soci- nians, Freethinkers, &c. 366, 7; the subject of co-operating with improper persons in the distribution of the bible considered, 367, et seq.; observations on Dr. Thomson's plan of co-opera- tion, 371, 2; the laws of the British and Foreign bible society shewn not to have been framed with the express in- tention of excluding the apocrypha from every copy distributed by it, 374; disingenuous conduct of Dr. Thomson and Mr. Gorham, 376; the charge of the Edinburgh reformers of the sin of circulating the apocrypha considered, 377, et seq.; remarks on the alleged danger of circulating it, 381; concluding remarks, 382; note to Mr. Gorham, repelling his fresh calumnies against the Eclectic re- viewer, 383, 4.
Carrington's Dartmoor; a descriptive poem, 431 et seq.; notice of the illus- trations, notes, &c. appended to the work, 431; extracts, 432 et seq. Caves of Elora, probable origin of, 66. Chalmers on cruelty to animals, 549, et seq.; on the charity of a universe, 558, 9.
-'s few thoughts on the abolition of colonial slavery, 549 et seq.; Dr. C. laments that the abolitionists and the planters have hitherto stood at so great a distance from one another, 549; remarks on his observations, ib. et seq.; he offers something like an apology for the former abettors of the slave-trade, 551; scheme proposed by Dr. C., 552; extracts from some recent tracts on the evils of the slave-trade, 553
Chamberlain, Mr. J. late missionary to
India, Yeates's memoirs of, 504 et seq. Chapel, Methodist, in Barbadoes, au- thentic report of the debate in the house of Commons relative to the demolition of, 97 et seq.
Charge, Dr. Blomfield's, to the clergy of the diocese of Chester, 273 et seq.; his lordship avows his determination to enforce the discipline of the church, 273,4; pronounces that the establishment must sink, if the clergy fail in zeal, &c. 275; advises them in regard to their mode of delivery, 276, 7; asserts that the main end of all government is the support of settled rules, 277; remarks upon this assertion, 277, 8; distin- guishes between a conformity to the rubrics and an observance of the canons, 278; observations on the rubrics and the canons, 278, 9; other subjects of the charge, 279; he cautions against en- dangering the particular church to which we belong, 280.
Chinese and Hindoos originally the same people, 67.
Christianity, Gurney's essays on the evidences, doctrines, and practical operation of, 289 et seq. Clapperton's travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, in the years 1822 23-24, 404 el seq.
Colonies, British West India, the slavery of, delineated, 97 et seq.
slave, of Great Britain, 97
present work, 520; is an improve- ment on the schemes of some prior writers, ib. ; his statement that the present crisis is an interval preceding a time of unprecedented trouble con- sidered, 521; Napoleon the king who shall do according to his will,' 522 et seq.; remarks on the author's hypothesis in reference to the want of chronological order and of the con- secutive connexion of events, 524; predictions of events by Daniel, with Mr. C's illustration of their fulfilment, 524 et seq.; objections to his explanation, 526, 7; his application of the prophecy to the character of the king examined, 527, 8; attempt to shew that the kings in Daniel's prophecy are indi- vidual kings, 528; the author's illus- tration unsatisfactory, ib.; remarks on the second part, concerning the time of trouble, and the probable des- tiny of England during that time, 529, 30.
Crisis, the, by the Rev. E. Cooper, 518, et seq.
Dartmoor, a descriptive poem, by N. T. Carrington, 431, et seq.
David's grammatical parallel of the an-
cient and modern Greek languages, translated by John Mitchell, 90, et seq. Davison's discourses on prophecy, 25 et seq.; view of the prophecies, as taken by the author in the present work, 25,6; his general object, 26; the prophetic wri- tings given in a time of great corruption and moral darkness, 28; they hold an intermediate place between the Mosaic law and the gospel, 29, 30; remarks on the Author's exposition of the Mosaic law, 30 et seq.; the subjects of prophecy varied, 33; on the reconcileableness of the contingency of human actions with the Divine foreknowledge, 34; ex- tract from Lord Bacon on the sources of heresy, 35; the author's remarks on foreknowledge and predestination considered, 35, 6; his three conditions as criteria of inspiration, 36; their ap- plication to the Scripture prophecies, ib. Denham's and Clapperton's travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 23, 24, 404 el seq.
Despatch, Lord Bathurst's, to the West India colonies; its reception, &c. at the various islands, 105 et seq. Dewar's elements of moral philosophy
and Christian ethics, 508, et seq.; real I value of Dr. Paley's principles of moral philosophy, 508; object and character of the present work, ib.; Paley's definition of moral philosophy, ib.; Mr. Groves's definition, 509; plan adopted in the present work, ib. remarks of the author on the power of God, 510; power considered as a pas- sion, 511, et seq.; definition of the will, 513; on the grounds of moral ob- ligation, 514; strictures on Dr. Paley's system, ib.; the author's views on this subject, 514,15; Hooker on the perfec- tions of God, 516; Archbishop King on the basis of virtue, ib.; three fatal objections to his scheme of morality, ib.; the eternal foundations of right and wrong, laid in the Divine charac- ter, 517; source of Dr. Paley's erro. neous views, ib.
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