INDEX.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z

A. Accumulation of property, its misery to all, 44. Admiralty, British, its characteristics, 9. Addington, Mr. his residence, 167. ——, political character, 280. Almanacks of prognostication, their prodigious sale, 252. Alfred the Great, his rare merits, 8. American Aloe, reflections on, 59. Anne Boleyn, her interview with Henry the Eighth, 58. Animal motion, economy of, 124. Ancestors, their number ascertained, 259. Ancestry, no ground of pride, 262. Anglican Church, its true foundation, 266. Ant-hill, like the British metropolis, 151. Antiquities, folly of the science so called, 340. Archbishops of Canterbury, their ancient residence, 303. Argument in behalf of poverty, 106. Aristocracy of trade characterized, 101. Arithmetic, its connexion with nature, 189. Articles of faith, necessity of revising, 267. Asparagus, its extensive cultivation, 55. Assembly, a subscription one described, 91. Astrology, its pretensions investigated, 234, 241. Author, his feelings on concluding his Walk, 389.

B. Barber, Alderman, his tomb and merit, 253. Battersea-bridge, reflections on its toll, 41. Ballot, choice by, its pernicious effect and erroneous principle, 91. Bakewell, Mr. his mode of riding, 125. Barnes Poor-house, libel on political economy, 193. —— Common, its geological phenomena, 197. —— Church-yard, reflections on, 215. Bastile Palace, at Kew, 379. Beggars, their habits and gains, 3 and 4. Bee-hive, its buzz that of a distant town, 152. Besborough, Lord, his seal, 177. Bells, abuse of them, 210, 282. Blenkinsop’s steam-engine, its convenient powers, 76. Black balls, a majority of, how produced, 93. Blair’s Universal Preceptor, its merits, 294. Box-trees, ancient ones, 311. Botanic Garden, at Chelsea, 37. Bolingbroke, Lord, his house at Battersea, 51. ——, recollections of, 54. Book-clubs, a test of intellectual improvement, 98. Book of Nature, described, 341. British society, its radical diseases, 161. Brunell, Mr. his workshops, 45. Bramah, Mr. his ingenuity, 21. Britain, mistress of imperial Rome, 36. Buckingham House, notice of, 20. Burke, his bigotry, 39. Burial fees, account of, 382.

C. Cæsar, his passage of the Thames, 35. Causeways, necessity of improving, 126. Cards, their absurd prognostics, 251. Cause of causes, its instruments, 188. ——, its incomprehensibleness, 272. Catechism of Social Duties, its importance, 333. Causes, physical and mental, defined, 238. Causation, original, questions upon, 343. Centinarian in Chelsea Hospital, 34. Cemeteries, ought to be open, 216. Certainty alone necessary, 237. Chorus of the eye, 149. Chaldeans, their demonology, 324. Chances, laws of, govern all prognostication, 247, &c. Church, system of attendance, 264. ——, National, grounds for its moderation, 266. Chabannes, Marquis de, his speculations, 223. Chiswick, its bells and Church, 211. Charters of Liberty, enumerated, 10. Chelsea buns, notice of, 25. Christianity, its total failure in preserving peace, 34. ——, vulgar definition of, 371. Changes, geological, their causes, 338. Civilized and savage society contrasted, 102, 364. Clerks, their ease of heart, 12. Cleanliness, an auxiliary of virtue, 231. Courtezans, cause of their turpitude, 27. Contentment, its difficult acquisition, 43. Commercial enterprise, instance of, 42. Commons, their anti-social character, 155, 161. Complaints of the poor, 106. Cost of the poor at Wandsworth, 114. Cottages, mile-stone and marine ones proposed, 127. Conch, its sound that of a distant town, 152. Cottage ornée described, 175. Covent-garden market, mode of supplying, 225. Compatibility of relative existences, 352. Common Council of London, its patriotic conduct, 282, note. Creation, its never ceasing agents, 198, &c. ——, its progress, 335. Cuvier, M. his geological discoveries, 337.

D. D’Antraigues, Count and Countess, their horrible assassination, 219. Dancing assemblies, their mistaken arrangements, 91. Death, how a source of consolation, 62. Demon of war described, 89. Devonshire, Duchess of, her amiable character, 213. Demonology, its absurdities, 269. Dead, the sympathy towards, 216. Descendants, their numbers ascertained, 257. Distilleries, the bad policy of encouraging them, 64. Dimsdale, Sir Harry, Mayor of Garrat, 80. Don Saltero, his museum, 38. Dolland’s achromatics, their misapplication, 145. Dormitories of avarice described, 127. Dreams, no prognostics, 249, 251. Dramas of real life, 117. Druids, their impostures, 172. Drunkenness, its pernicious effects, 65. ——, its cause, 66. Dundas, his baneful orgies, 192. Dunstan, Sir Jeffery, Mayor of Garrat, 79.

E. East-Sheen, its pleasant sights, 232, 278. Earth, the, its primative state, 340. Economy of a workhouse, 109. ——, political, its primary law, 139. Education, obligation to make it universal, 332. ——, —— to teach public duties, 362. Egyptians, their absurd mythology, 324. Ellenborough, Lord, his residence, 178. Electricity, illustrations of, 183 to 191. Election at Garrat, described, 81. Eloquence of Pitt, recollections of, 162. England, its exemplary road system, 122. Enclosure Bill proposed, 158. Enclosing parks, objections to, 172. Entrails of animals, no prognostics, 249. End of the world, phenomena leading to it, 354. Erasmus, his character, 39. Essex, cleanliness of its towns, 230. Eternals, what are so, 350. External species infinite in number, 353. Excise system, its mischievous effects, 255. Experience, a transcendent quality in a statesman, 165. ——, a chief test of truth, 268. Eye, concert played on it, 148.

F. Family group in a workhouse, 110. Farming out the poor, its inhumanity, 113. Fate and fatality, discussion on, 235 to 244. Family of man, its necessary co-mixture, 259. Fever of the brain, its mental hallucinations, 71, 271. Fertility, means of preserving, 314. Ferdinand, cost of his restoration, 42. Female education, discussion respecting, 292. Fear, its operation on the mind, 70. Females on fire, mode of extinguishing, 139. Ferme ornée, described, 175. Final causes, their nature, 353. Fitness in nature, the primary law, 200, 352. Fires, mode of preventing, 135, 138. Fire-house, Hartley’s, 135. ——, interesting prospect from, 145. Finance, Pitt’s absurd system, 164. Flame, when ungovernable, 139. Food of a labouring family, 105. Foot-paths, necessity for good ones, 125. Fortune-telling, its errors exposed, 369. Fox, Charles James, his patriotic character, 164. ——, his death, 218. Food distributed from religious houses, 308. French Encyclopædists, their oversight, 1. France, its improvements under Napoleon, 121, 170. Free agency demonstrated, 241, note. Fruit-trees, their general plantation recommended, 168. Franklin, Dr. his electrical rods, 189.

G. Gainsborough, his tomb and character, 383. Garrat, mock mayor of, 77. Galilean telescopes, preferred for telegraphs, 146. Gardeners, their habits and slavery, 224. Geometry, its connexion with nature, 189. Geocentric phenomena, error relative, 246. Generations, the law of their mixture, 260, &c. George III. his liberal views on education, 332. Geological changes, their causes traced, 339. Ghosts, vulgar belief in, 68, 269. Gipsies, interview with, 363. Gluttony, lesson to, 195. Goldsmid, Mr. his seat, character and history, 272. Goodbehere, Alderman, his character, 256. God, attributes of, 272. Greeks, their mythological personification, 324. Gravitation, its causes, 185. Grief, its luxury described, 216. Greatness, how best sustained, 17. Grammars of Philosophy, &c. their merits, 294. Great buildings, no standard of locality, 24. —— men, their opinions no test of truth, 40. Griffiths, Dr. anecdote of, 213. Gradation of organized beings, 346. Guelph, the Second, anecdote of, 208.

H. Happiness, its production the test of worth, 8. —— produced by employment, 174. Haunted house, anecdotes of one, 66. Harmony of relative existences, 352, 363. Harper, Sir John, mayor of Garrat, 78. Hartley, David, Esq. his fire-house described, 135. Hayley, Mr. his epitaph on Meyer, 381. Handel and Haydn compared, 149. Hamilton, Lady, her distresses, 182. Hedge-rows ought to be productive, 170. Heat, its causes, 185. Heydegger, his entertainment, 208. Herschell, Dr. his clustering power, 351. Historical justice, no atonement for suffering, 9. Hindoos, their absurd mythology, 324. Houses, method of securing them against fire, 139. Home Tourist, his expected modesty, 2. Howard, Mr. his exemplary character, 116. Horses, cruelty of tight-reining them, 123. House of Commons, character of its majorities, 163. Hoare, Mr. his residence, 201. Hogarth, Mrs. anecdote of, 213. ——, Mr. his tomb and character, 388. Horoscope, its supposed powers, 234. House of God, its inadequacy, 271.

I. Ignorance, the basis of superstition, 73. Impress, its frightful tyranny, 366. Infatuated nations characterized, 90. Ingenuity superseded by taxation, 89. Inclination of roads, determined, 121. Instructors, clerical, their errors, 265. Intellectual powers, their limited nature, 342. —— philosophy, its indestructibility, 321. Instincts of men compared, 364. Iron-foundery, description of one, 86. Isle of St. Peter’s, its ancient boundaries and modern splendor, 19.

J. Jews, their superstitious demonology, 324. Juries, Special, their disgraceful character, 255.

K. Kelvedon, its cleanliness, 230. Kew Priory, described, 376. —— Green, ditto, 378. Kit-Cat Club, its house at Barnes Elms, 201, 204. ——, pictures, 207.

L. Language, its means of improvement, 298. Land, the patrimony of man, 159. Lancaster, Mr. his system recommended, 333. Lakes of North America, their probable fate, 327. Law, its malignity and perversion, 362. Legislation, summary of its duties, 104. Life, compared to a morning’s walk, 390. Living errors, corrected too late, 28. Liberty, taught in popular elections, 84. Life of man, described, 205, 256. Lincoln, Bishop of, his attendance on Pitt, 166. Lightning, destructive effects of, 182. ——, means of security from, 189. London, its features of ingress and egress, 13. ——, reflection suggested by its distant prospect, 150. ——, its population characterized, 153. —— smoke, described, 130. —— ——, its moral suggestions, 149. Loco-motion, means of producing, 124. Loco-motive beings, their peculiar economy, 347. Lovers, the dupes of gipsies, 369. Lumber trees, unfit for a civilized country, 169. Luck and ill-luck, relative terms, 237.

M. Matron of a workhouse, her character, 109. Manners of the Londoners, 11. Mall in St. James’s Park, its ancient splendor, 15. Manufactory of pitch and turpentine, 56. Manners, effects of a change of, 16. Marsh of Westminster, reflection on, 20. Madam and Mistress, distinction between, 212. Machinery, ought not to injure workmen, 50. Maurice, Mr. his merits as a Poet, 150. Manufactory, a country one described, 85. Matter, inorganic, laws governing, 344. —— ——, whether eternal, 350. Manual labour, its economy in manufactories, 88. Maternal feelings in a workhouse, 112. Man, his false assumption, 60, 359. ——, his pride, 60, 358. ——, his unsociable character, 95. ——, his uncharitableness, 102. ——, his numerous wants, 117. ——, his vanity, 152. ——, his monopolizing spirit, 155, 360. ——, opposes himself to Providence, 158. ——, his proper employment, 159. ——, his true happiness, 174. ——, his transitory state, 205, 361. ——, his origin, progress, and decay, 205, 256. ——, his common nature, 262, 360. ——, his definite existence, 272. ——, general views of his social state, 357. ——, his cruelty to inferior creatures, 360. Mercy, an engine of priestcraft, 307. Mechanics, their relation to nature, 189. Meyer, his tomb, 381. Milk-fair, description of, 5. Military education reprobated, 32. Mile-stone and marine cottages recommended, 127. Middleton, Mr. his estimates of Middlesex, 224. Misery, dense mass of, 155. Ministers of England, their narrow views, 167. Monks, disinterment of their bones, 313. Morris, Valentine, Esq. his benevolent character, 218, 300. Moral deduced from the state of St. James’s palace, 15. —— rule against great mischiefs, 28. More, Sir Thomas, his residence and character, 38. Motion, terrestrial, its general cause, 242, note. Mortlake Church-yard, reflections on, 232, 263. Moral condition of London, 152. Mortlake Church, reflections within, 363, 280. Music, its abuse in war, 10. Mutilated Soldiers at Chelsea Hospital, 27. Mussulmen, their exemplary sobriety, 65. Mysteries, religious, their origin, 265. Mythology, its origin and progress, 320.

N. Natural feelings violated in workhouses, 110. Nature superior to art, 118, 154. ——, its operations uncomplicated, 188. ——, its governing principle, 200. Napoleon, his improvements of France, 121, 170. Nell Gwyn, founder of Chelsea Hospital, 26. Necessity, doctrine of, investigated, 235, 244. Novels, characterized, 98.

O. Obligations of the rich to the poor, 103. Oil mills, description of one, 84. Organic life, difficulty of conceiving its principle, 349. Organized beings, intricacy of the laws governing, 345. Origin of organized beings, its philosophical obscurity, 346.

P. Painting and Poetry, compared, 384. Palace of the Regent, its costly fitting, 6. Partridge, John, his tomb and errors, 233. Parks of London, their utility and capability, 17. ——, noblemen’s, their inutility, 133. Patronage, cause of war, 29. Parish allowances to the poor, 113. Panorama from Wimbledon Common, 149. Paper circulation always ruinous, 181. Parish poor-houses described, 109, 193. Peace, its security, 33. Peach, its crawling myriads, 352. Peter the Hermit, his fanaticism, 39. Perihelion point, importance of its place in producing terrestrial changes, 339. Penley, Mr. his garden at Mortlake, 310. Philosophy, modern, its divinities, 324. ——, address to, 327. Philosophical speculations on unseen powers, 185. Pilton’s fences recommended, 176. Pitt, Mr. his death and character, 162. Planetary influences, examined, 234, 252. Poetry and Painting, compared, 384. Poor, diseased, provision for, 5. Pottery, observations on its antiquity and application, 300. Pope, Mr. his parlour at Battersea, 53. Popular elections, their importance, 82. Policy, wicked, its features, 7. Poverty and wealth, contrasted, 102. Priestcraft, its origin and progress, 320. Probabilities, their connexion with fortune-telling, 247. Productive powers, their intricacy, 346. Promenades, evening ones proposed, 90. Prosperity, national, its true signs, 129. Principals in trade, their cares, 12. Promenade in St. James’s Park, its ancient splendor, 15. Pride, lessons to correct, 60, 358. Printing, its abuse, 362. Public Debt, how has it been expended, 41. Putney-Heath, objects upon it described, 137, 166. Public purse, a necessary stimulus to candidates, 81.

R. Ranelagh, its scite described, 21. Railways, proposal for extending them, 75. Religious houses turned into market-gardens, 303. Reformation of Religion, 267. Retreats of men of business, 101. Repton, Mr. his powers of arrangement, 133. Rivers, absurd worship of, 355. ——, phenomena of their banks, 63, 356. ——, agents of never-ceasing changes, 192. Richmond Park, notice of, 166. Rights of man, intrigues against, 219. Road Police, suggested, 123. Royal Family, fond of Chelsea buns, 26. Rome sunk and London exalted, 36. Roads, principle of constructing them, 121. Roehampton, its cheerless aspect, 171. Ruins, without antiquity, 23.

S. Saws, circular, their wonderful powers, 46. Self-knowledge, neglect of, 1, 362. Secondary causes, their general nature, 189. Senses, animal, their limited powers, 342. Shoe-making machinery, account of, 47. Show, policy of, among princes, 6. Shropshire girls, their industry and beauty, 226. Slavery, its protean shapes, 365. Sloane, Sir Hans, his statue, 37—tomb, 40. Smoke, improperly emitted, 21. —— of London, its remarkable phenomena, 130. —— ——, plans for consuming, 132. Soldiery, their specious character, 10. Society, state of, in England, 90. Soldiers, why and for what they are killed and wounded, 27. Soldier, who had lost both arms, 29. Spontaneous combustion, productive of superstition, 72. Spencer, Lord, his park, 133. Space, whether eternal, 350. Stage-coach horses, mismanagement of, 123. Standard of truth defined, 268. Sterility of ancient countries, cause of, 356. Statesmen, their mistaken policy, 4. St. James’s palace, its ruined state, 14. St. Paul’s Cathedral, 151. St. Lawrence, the, its probable fate, 337. Surfaces, the residence of electric power, 185. Surrey, its disgraceful wastes, 156. Supernatural appearances, referred to their causes, 70. Survivors in regiments, their small numbers, 33. Subjects for painters, 108. Superstition, instances of, 69, 222. ——, its origin and progress, 320. Symmachus, his bigotry, 39.

T. Taxes, not the sole business of governments, 18. Tart-hall, account of, 18. Taxation, its pernicious effects, 89. Telegraphs, particulars of, 141, 146. ——, their application to domestic purposes, 146. Terror, vulgar, instances of, 68, 375. Thames, its phenomena and changes, 355. Thomson, the Poet, his town and character, 388. Tides, their nature explained, 354. Time and space characterized, 201, 256, 272. Tooke, Mr. Horne, his character, 192. Tonson, Jacob, his house at Barnes Elms, 201. Trees, their importance in fertilization, 356. Treasury, British, its pernicious powers, 9. Transitory state of man, 16, 24, 52, 59, 312. Treaty-breakers, appeal to them, 31. Tragedies, in real life, 117, 140. Tybourn, its present course, 19.

V. Vegetables, their organization, 343. Vital principle, its incomprehensible nature, 349. Virtue, its worth, 350. Virtuous exertion entitled to support, 104. Village promenades, proposal for, 96. Villages round London, their want of society, 100. Villas, no signs of public wealth, 129. Village bells, cause of their peculiar effect, 209. Virtue, promoted by cleanliness, 231. Vulcan, his residence, 86.

W. Washington, the great, his character and glory, 7. War-office, British, its equivocal merit, 9. Water, the cause of change, 64. War, its improper duration, 255. ——, its horrors, associated with British grandeur, 11. Want, the seat of its empire, 155. ——, means of extinguishing, 159. Wandsworth, its population, &c. 74. —— workhouse, a visit to, 107. Wages of labour, 105. Walnut-trees, prodigious ones, 310. Waithman, Mr. his patriotic character, 256. Waste lands, a libel on political economy, 156. Wealth, its personal consequences, 12. ——, its relative nature, 103. Welding Hammer, described, 86. Westminster Abbey, characterized, 150. Webb, Mr. his benevolent character, 116. Wesley, Mr. his godlike zeal, 117. —— his mode of riding, 135. Webster, Mr. his geological discoveries, 337. Welch girls, their industry and beauty, 226, 228. Witham, its exemplary cleanliness, 230. Winchester palace, notice of, 38. Wimbledon Common, its elevation, 119. ——, its misuse, 192. Workmen, entitled to indemnity on the introduction of machinery, 49. Woollet, Mr. his skill as an engraver, 134. Workhouses, obligation to visit them, 105. World, its end explained, 354. Wood, Alderman, his patriotic character, 256. Wordsworth, Mr. his poetical merit, 270. Women, an employment worthy of them, 117.

Y. York-house, the residence of Wolsey, 57.

Z. Zoffany, Mr. his tomb and character, 386.