EGYPT, one of the first countries settled, 20.-- Its fertility, &c. 21.-- Its surplus industry appears to have belonged to the sovereign, 22.-- Shared in the commerce to India at an early period, 51, 52.-- Became the chief channel for the trade to India after the founding of Alexandria, 54.
ELIZABETH, queen, Spanish armada in her reign not equal to the privateers of our merchants now, 8.-- Endeavoured to enrich the country, 118.
EMIGRANT ladies, astonishment shewn by them at the little progress made in female education at public schools in this country, 228.
ENERGY of those who attack greater than that of they =sic= who defend, 17.-- Occasioned by poverty, and necessity the cause of changes and revolution, 19.
ENGLAND began to see the advantages of manufactures and commerce very late, 48, 74.-- Its form of government a great advantage, 191.-- Manners likely to change, 193.-- Increase of its trade since 1791, owing to temporary causes, 195.-- The American and Russian markets great and increasing, 204.-- Envy and enmity excited by its conquests in India, 206.-- Effects of taxation on it, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233.-- Its national debt, 234 to 246.-- Causes of decline peculiar to it, 257 to 260.-- Circumstances peculiarly favourable to it, 261 to 270.-- Ought not to be envied for its possessions in India 291.-- Owes its wealth chiefly to internal industry, 293.
ENVY leads to rivalship in peace and brings on war, 14.-- One of the external causes of the fall of nations, 175.-- Occasioned the fall of Jerusalem after the death of Solomon, 177.-- Excited by the wealth of England, and particularly by its possessions in the east, 206.
ESPRIT DE CORPS. See Bodies public and corporate.
EUPHRATES. See Syria.
EUROPE, wealth and power unequally divided in it, 13.-- Division of states, with the population and revenues, illustrated by a statistical chart,190.
EXCISE, established long after the customs, 107.