INDEX. 
Obelisk of red granite, from the Island 
of Philoe, on the borders of Nubia, 
account of the . . 540 
Occurrences, Provincial 87, 182, 278, 
... 374, 460, 508 
Others, Dr. on the lunar volcano . J 57 
Oldfield, Mr. on the reduced state of 
landed property and produce in the 
Western counties . .512 
Oldham, Mr. J. n. w application of the 
. air-pump by . .65 
Ophthalmia, on the species of the disease 357 
O’Rourke, Count, letter of, to Lord 
George Gordon . . 428 
Otes, Mr. Locke’s residence at . 1 
Otley, Mr. on Mr. Forster’s work on 
the Northern strata . . 504 
Overseer of the poor, on the duties of . 200 
Pain ia the side, Mr. Graham on disorders 
of the digestive organs, attended by .115 
Paine, Mr. Thomas, lines by . 525 
Paper, modem printing, deterioration of, 
and causes explained . . 420 
-on the colour of, and hotpressing 
and glazing . . .493 
Parnassus, News from . 33, 124, 220 , 
414 502 
Paramatta, New South Wales, descrip’ 
tion of - . 644 
Parson’s Green, description of Richard¬ 
son’s house at . 280 
Partridge, Mr. Mr. Farey on his account 
of the divining rod . .18 
*-— his* reply to Mr. Farey . 407 
Patents, new List of 57, 149, 244, 342, 
_ 437,533 
Patoun, Burmhan empire, description of 000 
Paulding, Mr. J. K. review of his Back¬ 
woodsman, a poem . . 220 
Pegaam, Burmhan empire, description 
of • - 597 
Pegu, 
on the soil of 579 
Penhurst Castle, account of . 493 
Penn, William, on his penal code . 606 
Pennant, extract from, on the customs of 
a Welsh funeral . .315 
Pentateuch, MS. one lately presented to 
the Athenaeum, Liverpool . 350 
Persia, letter Irom an English officer in 
the service of . . .481 
Persian literature, extracts from, on 
marriage . . .133 
- poets, Mr. Jackson on .180 
- verse, translated into English 
Prose . . .520 
Persians, remarks on Gibbon’s eulogy of 
the religion of the • .201 
Petrarch, the conclusion of his letter to 
posterity . . .218 
Phenomena, material. Sir Richard Phil¬ 
lips on the proximate causes of . 548 
Philadelphia, state of quakerism at . 005 
—--description of , 606 
Philanthropy, an example of genuine . 444 
Philharmonic Society, remarks on the , 4 
Piano, “ bridges of reverberation” in¬ 
troduced in the . . 342 
Pictures, Marchioness of Thomond’s, re¬ 
mark 5 on . , 38 
B 
Pictures, on the price of . . 149 
Pilnitz, letter of Lord Grenville, on the 
treaty of . . .42.5 
Pinkerton’s geography, remarks on . 211 
Plagiarisms, exposition of Lord Byron’s 
wholesale . . .19 
--—-fifty other examples of his 105 
Platina, enquiry in regard to .511 
Plato, his observations on the soul . 420 
Playfair, Mr. on the advantages of spade 
cultivation . . . 196 
Pliny, naturalist, account of his death . 0 
Poetic talent, remarks on . .415 
Poetry, original . 37, 131, 421,517 
-— on the essential characteris¬ 
tics of true . . . 322 
-Mr. Bamford’s Miscellaneous, 
reviewed - . . 502 
Political Affairs . 81, 172, 270, 367 
460, 559 
-——— economy, observations on . 198 
Poliziano, Angelo, memoir of .112 
---— extract from his resi¬ 
dence of Venus . . 405 
----his Orpheus .512 
Pompeii, progress of discoveries at 5,97,392 
Poor, Mr. Reid on the productive em¬ 
ployment of the . . 200 
-and poor-laws, report of the House 
of Commons on the present state of . 240 
-account of the monies assessed 
and levied in England and Wales, for 
the relief of the . .559 
Pope, his house at Binfield . . 97 
■-— Mr. Chas. Lloyd on the poetical 
and moral character of . . 250 
-and Boileau, on the comparative 
pretensions of .' . . 489 
Portland, the Duchess of, her letter to 
Mr. Speaker Onslow, on the Bulstrode 
Papers . . . 526 
Portugal, progress of affairs in . 84, 175, 
369, 559 
Portugueze monarchy, possessions of the 156 
-, on their giving the first im¬ 
pulse to foreign discoveries . 23-7 
Posterity, conclusion of Petrarch’s letter 
to . . .218 
Potatoes, Mr. Aspray on a machine for 
grinding . . .515 
Powis Castle, anecdoles of . 397 
Prayer, excellent one, by Miss Carter . 521 
-another by Miss Talbot . 522 
Press, extraordinary abuse of the liberty 
of the . . . 538 
Pretender, account of the . . 334 
Prone, Burmhan empire, Prince of . 599 
Protestants, on the recent persecutions 
of, in the South of France . 257 
Prisons, on the state of . . 408 
Publications, List of new .71, 100, 
257, 355, 440, 546 
Public confidence and liberality, on the 
abuses of, by empirical and specious 
societies , ^ . 123 
-— ways, instance of stopping, with 
enquiries . . . 488 
Quaker, fair, enquiry relative to a second 41 1 
Quakers, J, Wilkinson’s account of a 
private 
