Parliamentary candidate, Cowper's de-
scription of one, i. 423.
Parliaments, better depositaries of the
national faith, than arbitrary monarchs,
iii. 174, 175.

"Parties, remarks on the state of, at the
close of the Year 1809." Review of,
iii. 258. State of parties at this period,
258. Increase of extreme parties, 259.
Fewer neutrals now than formerly,
260. The extremes of party farther
than ever apart, 261. Causes, in recent
history, of exasperation between parties,
262, 263. Relative strength of ex-
treme parties, 264. Both parties too
strong for safety, 265. Evidences of
increase of both extremes, 266. Dan-
ger to be apprehended from their col-
lision, 267. Necessity of reverting to
the foundations of the constitution,
268. The duty of Whig royalists,
269.

Reform far safer than resistance,
270. Whigs too stern and fastidious,
271. Parliamentary reform both safe
and practicable, 272. Legitimate au-
thority in a state must be seconded by
the affection of the people, 273.
Party, its necessity and its dangers, iii.
176. Has been productive of much
good and little mischief, 177. Avowed
parties never dangerous, 178.
Pascal, notice of, i. 87.

Patriot, the, his trials, triumph, and re-
tirement, ii. 399, 400.
"Patron, The," by George Crabbe, notice
of, ii. 332.

Peace of 1814, considered in relation to
the general affairs of Europe, iii. 180.
Peace, its influence in diminishing pa-
tronage, and removing pretexts for de-
laying reform, iii. 226, 227.
Peasantry, Irish, Miss Edgeworth's de-
lightful accounts of, iii. 26, &c.
Penn, William. Review of "Memoirs
of the Private and Public Life of Wil-
liam Penn. By Thomas Clarkson,
M. A.," iii. 394. General remarks on
the work, and on the author's qua-
lifications, 395. Penn's early qua-
kerism, 396. History of his youth,
and earliest writings, 397.
His con-
troversial mania, 398. Disputation
with a Presbyterian, 399. Atrocities
attending his trial, 400. Noble con-
duct of his jury, 401. His long perse-
cutions, 402. His wealth, journeyings,
and marriage, 403. His admirable
plea for toleration, 404. First con-
nection with Pennsylvania, 405. Liber-
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he founded his great settlement, 406,
407. His letters to his family, 408.
His charges to his successors in the go-
vernment, 409. His memorable treaty
with the Indians, 410. Interesting and
simple solemnity, 411. Faithful ob-
servance of his treaty, 412. Protracted
and prosperous administration, 413.
Remarks on Penn's general character,
414.

Pennsylvania. See Penn, William.
Pepys, Samuel, Esq., F. R. S., Secretary
to the Admiralty in the Reigns of
Charles II, and James II. Review of
the Memoirs of, i. 476. Singular traits
in his private character, 480, &c. His
inordinate love of dress, 481. A
Roundhead in early life, 481. Devoid
of political principle, 482. His sordid
anxiety respecting his money, 483.
Extracts from his Journal, 483, &c.
His habitual twaddle, 485. His judg-
ment in plays, 484. His meanness,
487. His base timidities, 488. Keeps
loose company, 489. His irregulari-
ties. 490, &c. His great single speech
in parliament, 492. View of private
life, and public spectacles in 1663, 493.
His occasional extravagance, 494. His
general political profligacy, 495. His
unconcern about executions of regi-
cides, 497. Cromwell and Vane, 498.
Contrast of Cavaliers with old Repub-
licans, 499, Anecdotes of Cromwell,
Court scandals, 501. Political
results of the court's profligacy, 502.
Projects for dispensing with parlia-
ments, 503. Royal beggary and ex-
travagance, 504. Pepys (and not the
Duke of York) the reformer of the
Navy, 505. Comparison of Pepys
with Evelyn, 506. Trait of Lord Cla-
rendon, 507. Paucity of literary in-
terest in the Memoirs, 507. Stories of
second sight, 508. Estimate of the
book, 510, &c. Extracts, 483-510.
Pequigni, some account of, by Mad. du
Deffand, i. 245.

500.

Perception in relation to metaphysics,
ii. 599. 604. 612. Considered in its
relation to sensation, 625. No abso-
lute proof of external existences, 627.
See Stewart.

Perfectibility, doctrine of, i. 85. Grounds
of, 86, &c. Reasons for distrusting,
88, &c. Hopelessness of its attain-
ment, 92. The stationary or retro-
grade condition of Asia and Africa, an
argument against, i. 722, &c.
Pericles, age of, the era of the tragedians,

3 A

the orators, and the first ethical philo-
sophers, i. 106.

Peris, description of, ii. 488. See Moore.
Philosophers, French, apology for the
part they took in the French revolu-
tion, i. 550.

"Philosophical Essays. By Dugald Stew-
art, Esq., F. R. S., &c." Review of, ii.
644. See Stewart.

Philosophical history, great value of, iii.
672, &c.

Philosophy of the Mind, Metaphysics,
and Jurisprudence, Review of works
in these departments of literature, ii.
572.

Phoebe, Byron's, iii. 547.

Pilkington, Mrs., her correspondence
with Richardson, i. 316.
"Pirates, The," of Sir Walter Scott, re-
marks upon,.iii. 94.

Plato, his theory of Beauty, i. 14. No-
tice of, 112.

Playfair, Professor, notice and character
of, iii. 684. His intellectual endow-
ments, 685. Excellence of his style,

686. His habits of composition, 687.
His constant command of his faculties,
688. His personal character and man-
ners, 689.
His amiableness in society,
690. Benefits of good manners in the
learned, 691. Playfair an improver of
Edinburgh society, 692.

Pleasure and pain, Bentham's erroneous
mode of estimating, ii. 575.

"Pleiad, The Lost," By Mrs. Hemans,
notice of, ii. 567.

"Poems. By the Rev. George Crabbe,"
reviewed, ii. 3. See Crabbe.
Poetic fame, its perishable nature, ii. 13.
Poetry, French school of, ii. 46.
Poetry, in connexion with Beauty, i. 44.
Great range of English poetry, ii. 10.
Great interest of its history, 11. No-
tice of Campbell's Essay on English
Poetry, 16. Very popular poetry not
always the very best, 238. Elements of
excellence may be trite and hackneyed,
240. History and fate of poetical
diction, and of common-place subjects
for poetry, 243. Advantages of lowly
themes for poetry, 297. Most pro-
lific of emotion, 298. Poetry founded
on the analogy of matter and mind,
556. Poetry, modern, doubtful dura-
bility of, 567.

Poetry, early Greek, excellencies of, i.
108. Its defects, 109.
"Poets, British, Specimens of the; with
Biographical and Critical Notices, and
an Essay on English Poetry. By

Thomas Campbell." Review of, ii. 3.
Its great use to ordinary readers of
poetry, 8. Notice of several similar
works, 9. Disadvantages of modern
poets, 244.

Poland and Norway-their condition
considered in relation to the general
welfare of Europe, iii. 228-230.
Poland, the fate of, ominous of the ruin
of all independence, iii. 230.
"Polite Conversation," Dean Swift's no-
tice of, i. 214.

Political occupations, effects of, on so-
ciety, i. 231.

Politics, general, reviews of works on,
iii. 145.

Pope, i. 166. Campbell's critique upon
Pope, ii. 22. Bishop Warburton's
treatment of, iii. 481.

Popery and Protestantism, i. 537.
Popularity, insecurity of, illustrated by
the circumstances of the French revo-
lution, i. 564.

Portugal, Prince Henry of, his encou-
ragement of the spirit of maritime en-
terprise, i. 695.

Posting, Irish, Miss Edgeworth's de-
scription of, iii. 12.

Power, political, safe only when com-
bined with individual influence, i. 557.
Metaphysically considered, iii. 378.
The measure of power that should be
allowed to kings, 152. Necessary
limits of all power, 153. The great
problem of making the virtual power
possessed by the people act readily on
the executive authorities, considered,
15. The real powers possessed by the
sovereign under the British constitu-
tion far above those possessed by any
minister, 169. The present degree of
power possessed by the people, not the
result of wealth, but intelligence, 246,
247. The power of the people should
be increased in the ratio of their im-
provement, 254, 255.
"Preceptor Husband, The," by George
Crabbe, notice of, ii. 365.
Prelate, review of "Letters from a late
eminent Prelate to one of his Friends,"
iii. 479. See Warburton.
Prerogative, the, notice of, iii. 298.
Presbyterians, the, and William Penn, iii.
399.

Presbyterians and bishops, iii. 437.
“Priestley, Dr. Joseph, Memoirs of,

written by Himself: With a Continua-
tion to the Time of his Death, by his
Son, Joseph Priestley; and Observa-
tions on his Writings. By Thomas

Cooper, President Judge of the Fourth
District of Pennsylvania, and the Rev.
William Christie." Review of the
work, ii. 609. General remarks on
the Memoirs, and on Mr. Cooper's ob-
servations on Dr. Priestley's writings,
609. Mr. Cooper's zeal and confidence
in the cause of Materialism, 610. The
doctrine of materialism, as propounded
by Dr. Priestley, 611. Exposition of
its fallacy, 612. Thought, or percep-
tion, not a quality of the thing per-
ceived, 613. Not perceived by the
senses, 614. Absurdities connected
with Dr. Priestley's doctrine of Ma-
terialism, 615. The acts or functions
of mind not one, but various, 616.
Dr. Priestley's notions of Materialism
unintelligible, 617. Remarks on the
assertion of Dr. Priestley, that thought
is nothing else than motion, 618.
Absurdity of such a doctrine, 619.
Reasons for rejecting the doctrines of
Materialism, 620. Dr. Priestley's theo-
logical fancies, 621.

Priestley, Dr., and Bishop Warburton,
iii. 500.

Princes, absolute, natural vulgarity of, i.
659. Dangers of personal popularity
of, 686.

Prison Discipline. Review of " An in-
quiry whether Crime and Misery are
produced or prevented by our present
System of Prison Discipline. By
Thomas Fowell Buxton," iii. 526.
Party politics-and civil or domestic
administration, 526. Public functions
either polemic or administrative, 527.
The polemic most seducing, and also
most popular, 528, 529. Indications

of a change in public opinion on this
subject, 530. Dangers attendant upon
even necessary remedies, 531. Go-
verments habitually apologists for
abuses, 532. Magical virtues of pub-
licity, 533. Necessity and uses of im-
prisonment, 534. Actually unjust for
half the sufferers, 535. All inflictions,
beyond the mere act of detention, are
illegal, 536. Old established abuses in
Newgate, 537. Mrs. Fry undertakes
to visit Newgate, 538. Her miraculous
success, 539. Her regeneration of
Newgate, 540. The result of her
efforts tested and certified, 541. Mrs.
Fry a great public benefactress, 542.
Her unwearied labours and triumphs,
543.

Private life and public amusements in
1663, i. 493.

723

"Procrastination," by George Crabbe,
notice of, ii. 330.

Property, natural influence of, in a state
inevitable, but not injurious, iii. 233.
Often salutary, 234.
Protestant ascendancy in Ireland, remarks
upon, iii. 282.

"Provost, The, By the Author of 'An-
nals of the Parish,
," &c. Review of,
iii. 103.

1

Prussia, "Memoires de Frederique
Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave
de Bareith, &c." Review of, i. 658.
General character of the work, 660.
Impression it leaves of the author, 661.
Her portrait of her parents, 662. Her
brother-her early betrothing, 663.
Plots against Frederick William, 664.
The Czar Peter's visit to Berlin, 665.
Madame de Bareith, her sufferings
in youth, 666. Visit of the King of
England, 667. Family and matri-
monial arrangements, 668. More dis-
appointments, 669. Domestic pastimes
of Frederick William, 670. Disci-
pline of his houshold, 671. English
diplomacy, 672. New matrimonial
projects, 673. Marriage festivities,
674. Progress to the court of Bareith,
674. Reception in her new capital,
676. Her family party, 677. Return
to Berlin-Court gossip, 678. Plea-
sures of Court life, 679. Return to
Bareith, 680. Death of the old king,
681. Journeys and presentations, 682.
Interview with the empress, 683. Al-
lowance to be made for defects in
royalty, but necessary they should be
known, 684. Dangers of personal po-
pularity of princes, 686.

Public events, the effects of, not generally
felt, iii. 60.

Public opinion, supremacy of, asserted,
iii. 215.

Punishments, Bentham's theory of, ii.

591.

Puritans, The, prevailing errors respect-
ing, 438. And as to the condition
of their women, 439.

Q.

Quakerism- Review of "A Portraiture
of Quakerism, as taken from a View
of the Moral Education, Discipline,
Peculiar Customs, Religious Princi-
ples, Political and Civil Economy, and
Character of the Society of Friends.
By Thomas Clarkson, M. A." Review

of, iii. 371. General remarks and stric-
tures on the work, 371,372. The Qua-
kers' aversion to gaiety, 373. Funda-
mental duty of sedateness, 374. Quaker
boy-Quakers' reasons against the culti-
vation of music, 375. The professed
rupudiation of self-gratification on the
part of the Quakers not consistent with
their ardent pursuit of wealth, 377.
Proscription of the Drama, 378. Pro-
hibition of dancing and of novels, 379.
Their peculiarity in dress, 380.
dities of language, 381. Preposterous-
ness of their rejection of the usual
designations of civil society, 382, 383.
Equally absurd objection to the com-
mon names of the days and months,

384.

385.
386.

Od-

Hat-worship-private manners,
Quaker marriages and burials,
Maxims of trade-mode of set-
tling differences by arbitration, 387.
Quaker objections to oaths-and war,
388. To a paid clergy, 389. Quaker
discipline and church government, 390.
Business of their several meetings, 391.
Remarks upon their religious tenets,
and general character, 392, 393.
"Quarterly Review," notice respecting,
iii. 296. Vindicated from the charges
of Mr. Walsh, 313. 323.

R.

Racine, his Phædre, i. 109. 260.
Rainbow, Campbell's stanzas to the, ii.

210.

Refinement, social results of, i. 103.
Reform and Liberty — struggle of, with
Legitimacy or Tyranny, iii. 319.
Reform, Parliamentary, and the Reform

Bill, iii. 231. Immediate and prospec-
tive advantages of reform, 252. 253.
Reform safer than resistance, 270. No
real danger in parliamentary reform,

272.
Reformation, The, i. 165. Its connection

with, and influence upon, the progress
of literature in England, ii. 39.
Reformers, thorough, and Whigs, their
respective spheres defined, in relation
to the constitution, iii. 305.

fect defence of, 601. Notice of his
"Inquiry into the Human Mind,"
636.

"Rejected Addresses; or, the New The-
atrum Poetarum," Review of, iii. 612,
Eulogium on the work, 612. Popu-
larity of all mimiery, 613. Imitation,
even of manner, interesting, 614. But
of intellectual peculiarities, admirable,
615. Lessons to be learned from good
imitations, 616. Imitations of Fitz-
gerald and Wordsworth, 617. Of
Moore, 618. Of Southey, 619. Of
Scott, 620, &c. Of the Honourable
W. Spencer, 622. Of Monk Lewis
and Coleridge. 623. Of Busby, or
Darwin, 624. Of Crabbe, 625. Of
Samuel Johnson, 627.
Religion-the pretext for the basest

cupidity and the most unprincipled
cruelty towards Ireland, iii. 277.
"Resentment," by George Crabbe, no-
tice of, ii. 341.

Restoration, the, its influence in forming
the national taste, ii, 39.
Retz, De, i. 133.

Revolution, the French, its influence on
English literature, i. 167. General
effects of, 521. 549. Its tendency to
check all reform, 522. Part of the Phi-
losophers in, 550. Apology for them,
and for the well-meaning members of
the Constituent Assembly, 551. Points
in which they were culpable, 552. Their
menaces and violence, 553. Their pre-
cipitation, 554. All moral changes
must be gradual to be permanent, 555.
Political power, to be safe, must be
combined with individual influence,
556. Illustrated by the case of the
Long Parliament in England, 557.
Theory of a perfect parliament, 558.
Natural aristocracy, what, 559. Mem-
bers of Constituent Assembly did not
possess individual influence, 560, &c.
Insecurity of mere popularity, 562.
Eulogium on the character of Jean
Sylvain Bailly, 564.

Revolution, the French, the true cause
of, stated, iii. 162. Results of, 209.
Testimony of M. Simond to the general
benefits arising from, 609.

Sylvain Bailly's Memoirs of, i. 548.
See Bailly.

Revolution, Review of Madame de Staël's
"Considerations upon the Principal
Events of the French Revolution," i.
565. See Staël, Madame de.
Revolutions-their causes traced, iii. 161.

Rewards, future, opinion of Bishop
Warburton as to their necessity for
furnishing an incentive to the practice
of virtue, iii. 484.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, his theory of
Beauty considered, i. 21, &c.

66

Rhapsody of Poetry, The," of Swift,
noticed, i. 216.

Rich, Mr., the traveller, letter of Sir
James Macintosh to, iii. 652.
"Richard the Third," Shakespeare's,

compared with his " Macbeth," ii. 77.
Richardson, Samuel, his Correspondence,

&c. Notice of, i. 302. Some account
of his early life, &c., 304, &c. Origin
of "Pamela," 306. Its success, 307.
His "Clarissa," 308. Mrs. Barbauld's
observations on, 309, &c. His "Sir
Charles Grandison," 310. Mrs. Bar-
bauld's critique of, 311. His personal
character, 311. His extreme partiality
for female society, 312. General bad-
ness of the correspondence, 313. His
illiberal prejudice against the writings
of Fielding, 317. Character of his
writings, 321. His genius, 322.
Richelieu, Cardinal, and the French no-
bility, i. 578.

Right and wrong, the true doctrine of,
in opposition to Bentham, ii. 578,

"Roderick: The Last of the Goths.

By Robert Southey, Esq., Poet-Lau-
reate, &c." Review of, ii. 404. See
Southey.

Rogers, Samuel. Review of his "Human
Life," ii. 391. Character of the poem
-contemplative and indulgent, 392.
The poet a gentle moralist and teacher
of true wisdom, 393, 394. His Four
Ages, 395, 396. Parental affection,
397. Soldier's return-domestic rural
life, 398. Patriot trials, triumph, and
retirement, 399, 400. Serene close of
life, 401. Temples of Pæstum, notice
of the poet's verses written at, 402.
"The Boy of Egremont,” 403.

725

Roland, Madame, comparison of Mrs.
Lucy Hutchinson with, i. 441.
Roman literature began with philosophy
i. 115.

Roman literature, third school of, i.

117.

"Romance, An Hour of By Mrs.
Hemans." Notice of, and extract
from, ii. 564.

Romans, their poetry, character of, i.

116.

Rome, republican, literature of, i. 114.
Under Augustus, 116.

Rousseau, i. 120. No Frenchman in his
character, 338. Bishop Warburton's
observations upon Mr. Hume's treat-
ment of Rousseau, iii. 495. Anecdotes
of, 513. His Confessions, 545. Si-
mond's notices and anecdotes of, 610.
Royal defects, great allowance to be
made for, i. 684. But necessary and
useful they should be known, 685.
Royalty considered as merely a human
institution, iii. 148. Real use and
end of checks on, 170.-

Russell and Sydney, Fox's opinions on
the subject of their condemnation, i.
535.

Russell, Lord, interesting scene at his
trial, ii. 399.

Rye-house plot, notice of the, i. 534.
"Rylstone, the White Doe of."
Southey.

S.

See

San Salvador, discovery of, by Columbus,
i. 169.

"Sandy Foundation Shaken, The," of
William Penn, notice of, iii. 399.
"Sardanapalus," Lord Byron's tragedy
of. Review of, i. 543. See Byron.
Saussure, Madame Necker. See Staël,
Madame de.

Savings Banks, i. 105.
Scholarship, regular, the want of, favour-
able to poetical daring, ii. 14.
Scindiah and the Deccan, notice of, iii.
465.

Scotland, example of, applied to the case
of Ireland, iii. 279.

Scott, Sir Walter, Review of his "Wa-
verley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years since,"
ii. 32. See Waverley. Secret of his
success as an author, 33.
priate path marked out, 87.

66

His appro-
See

Waverley," "Tales of My Land-
lord," "Rob Roy," &c. &c.
Scott and Shakespeare, iii, 51. 73.