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time, such a reduction was actually made, without any change of circumstances abroad or at home.

We have, however, now done all that is necessary, in announcing this semi-translation of a pamphlet that has fulfilled its purpose, accomplished its ephemeral destiny, and is gone to "the tomb of all the Capulets."

ART. XVI. Souvenirs de la Belgique, &c.; i. e. Recollections of Belgium, One Hundred Days of Misfortune, &c. By Mile. M. A. LE NORMAND. 8vo. pp. 416. Paris. 1822. Imported by Treuttel and Co. Price 10s.

E learn that Mademoiselle LE NORMAND was once atWE tached as a sort of companion to Josephine, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, and published a memoir concerning her late mistress, in which some living persons of consequence were mentioned in a manner that was to them unwelcome. She also wrote "Souvenirs Prophétiques," "La Sibylle aux Congrés d'Aix-la-Chapelle et de Carlobad," and some works which treat of fortune-telling; for this lady is a phrenologist, professing a great variety of occult arts and sciences, and has been consulted about futurity by people of high rank and fashion. Brussels has been a principal scene of her machinations; and some suspicions seem to have been entertained that she was secretly employed by the French government, to facilitate meetings and communications between persons disposed to re-annex the Netherlands to France. These apprehensions probably led to her detention in prison: but, as nothing criminative appeared against her, except that she had told fortunes, interpreted dreams, laid claim to a familiar spirit, and practised other such witchcraft, she was released after about a hundred days of confinement; it being no longer the fashion to punish a superstitious credulity. Of this lady's history and imprisonment, the volume before us gives a detailed, declamatory, and pompous account, naming many agents of police, and many conspicuous persons. We do not conceive, however, that any part of the book can be interesting to persons resident in this country; although we readily believe that it may attain a certain popularity amid the scenes of her adventures, and among the persons of her acquaintance. Trials for sorcery, it seems, are still practicable in Flanders as well as in Somersetshire.-Notes without number illustrate the obscurities of the text.

* The title is "Mémoires Historiques et Secrets de L'Impératrice Joséphine, première Épouse de Napoléon.

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume.

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

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Belus, Temple of, account of
its supposed ruins, 142.
Berber, visit to the capital of
375. The country, 377..
Bertholletia Excelsa,which yields
Brazil chestnuts, account or,
272. 276.

Berthollet, M., anecdote of, and
of Napoleon, 314.
Birds, observations on preserv-
ing them stuffed, 210. From
Java and Sumatra, description
of, 229. 360.
Birs-Nimrood supposed to be
the tower of Babel, 142.
Blind person taught to convey
her thoughts by printing, 517.
Bonaparte, Napoleon, See Na-
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Louis, account of
his reign in Holland, and
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anecdotes of his court, 484
-495.
Booth, Mr., his correction of an
error in Mr. Place's book on
Population, 448.

Born, Bertrand de, Servente by,
460.

Boué, Dr., on the geognosy of
Germany, 57.
Brazil, anticipated improvement
of, 262.
See also Cattle,

Sheep, Aqueduct.
British adminstration, French
pamphlet on the system of,
542.

constitution, M. Neck-
er's eulogy on, 541.
Brother's Grave, verses on, 164.
Brown, Mr., on the Rafflesia,
.230.

Bruang, See Bear.

Bruch, near Montserrat, pillar
erected there by the Span-
iards, 477.

Bryant, Mr., an American poet,
extract from his "Ages," 30.
Buckingham, Duke of, (temp.
Charles II.) his entertainment
of the Grand Duke of Tus-
cany, 39. His levee deline-
--ated, 199.

Burckhardt, Mr., estimate of the
valuable results of his travels,
338.

Burdens, public, and taxable in-
come, view of, 124. 131. 134.
Burton, Mr., on the Pelecanus
Aquilus, 225.

C

Cabrit, a species of antelope,
account of, 226.
Cæsar, Julius, view of his cha-
racter, 523.

Octavius, unfavorably

represented, 528.
Cæsarea Philippi, account of,
341.

Cairel, Elias, his lines to the

Marquis of Montferrat, 455.
Calyptomena viridis, description
of, 361.

Canada, Upper, advice and

plans for settlers there, 251.
Cannon, remarks on very quick
firing from, 477.
Caoutchouc, obtained in large
quantities in the missions of
the Oroonoko, 270.
Capital employed on land, ob-
servations on, 214.

Cappe, Mrs., particulars of her
life, 392.

Caravansera, Turkish, picture
of, 14.

Carduus, on some species of, 367.
Carlos, Prince of Spain, a tra-

gedy, account of, and extracts
from, 66-79.

Cast Iron, See Iron.
Catalonia, its great power and
efforts in the war with Bona-
parte, 473.

Cathleen and Kevin, story of,

the basis of one of Moore's
melodies, 332.

Catiline, a tragedy, extracts
from, 384.

Cattle, mode of drilling them,
at Brazil, 260.
Caves, sepulchral, in Syria, 345.
Charades, mode of acting, by

theatrical representation, 491.
Charles II., sketch of, as walking
in St. James's Park, 198.
Chestnut-tree, its bark said to
have more tanning principle
than the oak, 518.
Chestnuts, Brazil, from the Ber-

tholetia excelsa, 276.
Chrysanthemum Indicum, ob-
servations on, 366.
Cicadiada, on two new genera
of, 226.

Clergy, of Spain, character of,

4.23.

Cnicus, on some species of, 367.
Colebrooke, Mr., on the Indian

species of Menispermum, 227.
Coleridge, Mr., essay on his
poetry, 168.

Columbe, account of new spe-
cies of, 229.
Commerce, observations on the
principles

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their proceedings, 440.
Copper, fine, and in great quan-
tities, found near Lake Supe-
rior, in America, 514.
Corn, on the importation of, 216.
Cosmo, Duke of Tuscany, his
unfortunate marriage, 34. His
travels in England, 36.
Cotton-plant, observations on,
366.

Council of State, in France, ac-

count of, 309.
Courdistan, account of the peo-

ple of, 148. See also Kirkook.
Crania, on two species of, 364.
Crocodile, curious battle with,
279.

D

Dead Sea, described, 247.
Debt, national, of England, its
amount at various periods, 121.
Derby, Charlotte, Countess of,
her character drawn, 192.
D'Israeli, Mr., his correction
of the mis-statement that he
compiled the Varieties of Li-
terature, 224.
Dog, wild, of Sumatra, account
of, 230. Dogs of Rosetta,
their number and voracity,
243.

Don, Mr., on the genus Saxi-
fraga, 362.

Drummond, Mr., on the germi-

nation of mosses, 226.
Druses, their manners and cus-
toms, 350.
Duhesme, General, blamed for
his conduct during the war in
Spain in 1808, 476.
Dunster Hermitage, sonnet on,
163.

Dwarf, female, deaf and dumb,
portrait of, 195.

E

Earth, argillaceous, eaten for
food without injury, 278.
Ecbatana, See Hamadan.
Edmonston, Mr., on the Snowy
Owl, 59. On a species of
Larus, 61. On the Immer
goose, 63.

Eisleben, account of, 223.
Elephant, fossil parts of, found
in Scotland, 55.
Emigrants, French, observations
on the present attempts to in-
demnify them, 502.
Enthusiasm, essay on, 154.
Epworth, account of, 223.
Equality, social, observations on
that principle, 500.
Ezra, in Syria, durability of the
antient dwellings there, 342.

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Fenella, See Dwarf.
Fever, yellow, at Barcelona, ac-
count of, 503. Theory and
treatment of, 509.
Forteguerri, Niccolo, some ac

count of, 354. Specimen of
his Ricciardetto, translated,
356.

Fothergill, Mr., on the economy
of the Toad, 368.
Foula, account of, 64.
France, statement of the efforts
to cause a counter-revolution
in, 495. On the principles
attacked, 500. On the com-
merce of, in 1820 and 1821,
and on the principles of com-
merce, 534. On represent-
ative rights in, 541.
French, and English, their na-
tional character contrasted,
103. French soldiers, anec-
dotes of their bravery and
humanity, 220.

Fumigation said to cure syphilis,
517.

Fungi, on new species of, 56.

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Geognosy of Germany, memoir

on, 57.
Geological notices, 54.
George IV., lines on the acces-
sion of, 436.
Gerona, preparations for the
siege of, 479. Its situation
and defences, 480. Its me-
morable siege, 481.
Glareola, on new species of,

229.

Glen, great, of Scotland, geog-
nostical sketch of, 62.
Glendalough, valley and abbey,
account of, 332.
Gold, sonnet to, 433.
Gooseberry, method of destroy-
ing insects that infest that
bush, 212.
Gossypium, remarks on, 366.
Granite, veins of, in the great
Glen of Scotland, 62.
Greville, Mr., on new Scotish
fungi, 56. On a new Grim-
mia, ib.

(and Mr. Arnott,) on
a new arrangement of Mosses,
58. On two new Algæ, 64.
Grierson, Dr., on the mole, 64.
Griffith, Captain, called Honor
and Glory Griffith, anecdote
of, 219.

Grimmia, on a new species of, 56.
Griper, Mr. and Mrs., deline-
ation of, 183.

Guaco, or climbing willow, its
juice a remedy against the
poison of snakes, 513.
Guilding, Mr., on Lamia am-
putator, 367.

Gulls, Arctic, and Skua, ac-
count of, 65.

H

Haidinger, Mr., on the crystal-

lizations of copper pyrites, 53.
Hamadan, valley of, depicted, 8.
Hamilton, Dr., on the Hortus
Malabaricus, 364.

Harrison, Miss, life of, and cha-
racter of her aunt and mother,
392, &c.
Hieroglyphics, observations on
the origin and meaning of,

529.

Hill, Mr., on the Ornithorhyn-
chus paradoxus, 369.
Hop, its fine qualities contained
in the powder of the cones, not
in the cones themselves, 515.
Horses, Persian, account of,150.
Horsfield, Dr., on birds from
Java, 229.

Hortus Malabaricus, commen-
tary on, 364.

Howe, Earl, punning anecdote
of, 221.

Howl, Irish, traced to a very
remote origin, 331.
Hunter, Dr. Wm., anecdote of,
397.

Hypnum recognitum, remarks
on, 364.

I and J
Jerusalem, modern, observations
on, 246.

Jews, defence of, 104.
Illinois, favorable picture of,

254. Constitution of that
state, 255.

Immer Goose, observations on,
63.

Ink, made from chestnut-bark,

518. Receipt to destroy the
mouldiness of, ib.

Insects, See Kirby, See Leach.
Ireland, remarks on the state of,

44. On the rebellion of 1796,
45. On employing and edu-
cating the poor, 51.
Iron, its great importance and
increased use in buildings,
&c., 398. On the strength
of, 400.

Ismaylys, a religious sect in Sy-
ria, account of, 346.

K

Hardwicke, General, on the wild Kanchil, its great cunning, 232.

dog of Sumatra, 230.

Kangavar, ruins of, 10.

Kasr,

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