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quiry into the conduct of the navy; motion withdrawn. Loan
bill oppofed by the Marquis of Rockingham. Proteft against it.
Report from the felect committee on India affairs. Debates on the
minifter's motion for a fecret committee to enquire into the causes
of the war in the Carnatic. Motion for an amendment, that the
committee might be open, rejected on a divifion. Great debates on
Sir George Saville's motion, for referring the petition from the
delegated counties for a redress of grievances, to a committee of the
whole houfe. The motion rejected upon a divifion. Debate an
Mr. Burke's motion for papers, tending to an enquiry into the
feizure and confifcation of private property in the island of St.
Euftatius. Motion rejected on a divifion. Bill for new-modelling
the fupreme court of judicature in Bengal. Various propofitions,
motions, and debates, relative to the affairs of the Eaf-India
company. Debates on the minifter's bill, for fecuring to the public
a certain participation in the profits of the Eaft-India company.
Great debates on Mr. Fox's motion, that the houfe do refolve itfelf
into a committee, to confider of the American war. Motion re-
jected on a divifion. Lord Beauchamp's bill, for affording relief
in certain cafes of difficulty produced by the marriage act. Mr.
Fox's bill for amending the marriage act. Mr. Fox's mar-
riage bill loft in the house of lords. Speech from the throne. [*179

don, for high treason, at the bar of the Court of King's Bench,

on Monday, Feb. 5, 1781

Particulars of the trial of M. De la Motte, on a charge of high

treason

Copy of Lord George Gordon's correspondence with Lord North and

Lord Southampton, Sept. 3, 1781

Remarkable actions at fea, viz.

[239

[244

Extract of a letter from Lieut. Ingles, of his majefty's floop Ze-

phyr, to Mr. Stephens, dated Spithead, March 11, 1781 [246

Tranfactions on board the Nonfuch, in an engagement between the

14th and 15th of May, 1781

[248

Extract

Extract of a letter from Capt. Wm. Pere Williams, of his majefty's
fhip Flora, to Mr. Stephens, dated Spithead, June 27, 1781

[249

Extract of a letter from Captain Curtis to Mr. Stephens, dated
Brilliant, Gibraltar, August 7, 1781
[250

Account of the action betwixt the Savage floop of war, of 16 guns,

Capt. Stirling, and the Congress, an American frigate of 20

[251

guns

Account of an action between his majefty's floops the Atalanta and

Trepaffey, and a large American fhip called the Alliance 253

Extract of a letter from Lord George Germain, to the commiffioners
appointed to restore peace to America, dated Whitehall, March
7, 1781
[254
Extrait of a letter from IVm. Knox, Efq. fecretary to Lord George
Germain, to James Simpfon, Efq. dated Whitehall, March 7,
1781

Copy of a letter written by Mr. Meyrick to Gen. Arnold [255

Letter from Gen. Washington to the Hon. Benjamin Harrison, Efq.

Speaker of the house of delegates, Richmond, Virginia [256

Letter from Mr. Adams, ambassador from the American Congress at

Amfterdam, to Thomas Cushing, Efq. lieutenant-governor of Maf-

fachufets

[255

[258

An account of the quantities of all corn and grain exported from, and

imported into England and Scotland, with the bounties and draw-

backs paid, and the duties received thereon, for one year, ended

the 5th of January, 1782

[262

An account of all the men raifed for his majesty's navy, marines in-

cluded, from the 29th of September, 1774, to the 29th of Septem-

ber, 1780, diftinguishing each year
[263

An account of all the number of the men who have died in actual

fervice in his majesty's navy fince the first day of January, 1776,

diftinguishing (as far as may be) those who have been killed by the

enemy; and alfo of the number of fuch men as have deferted the

faid fervice in the fame period, as far as the feveral accounts can

be made up, diftinguishing each year
[263

State of his majesty's British regular land forces, officers included,

in North America and the Weft-Indies, as they were at the end

of the year 1779
[264

Account of the men loft and difabled in his majesty's British land forces,
including two battalions of marines ferving on shore, by death,
captivity, defertion, wounds or fickness, in North America and the
Weft Indies, from Nov. 1st, 1774, to the date of the last return

[264

Embarkation returns of all the British corps and recruits, which

have been fent from Great Britain or Ireland, to any part of

North America or the West Indies, in 1778, 1779, 1780 [265

Account

Account of all the men raised in Great Britain and Ireland, for his

majefty's land forces on the British establishment, militia, and

fencible men in North Britain not included, from 29th Sept. 1774,

to 29th Sept. 1780

Prices of flocks for the year 1781

Supplies granted by parliament for the year 1781

Ways and means for raising the above Jupplies

STATE PAPER S.

His majesty's most gracious speech to both houses of parliament, Nov.
1, 1780
[282

The humble addrefs of the lords fpiritual and temporal, in parlia-

ment affembled, with his majesty's most gracious anfwer [283

The humble addrefs of the House of Commons to his majefty; with

his majesty's most gracious anfwer
[284

Addrefs of the archbishop, bishops, and clergy of the province of Can-
terbury, in convocation affembled, prefented to his majesty on the
17th of November, 1780; with his majesty's most gracious an-

fwer
[285

Meffage from his majesty, delivered to the House of Lords by Lord

Viscount Stormont, Thursday, January 25, 1781

[287

Proteft of the Lords, 25th January, 1781

[287

Second proteft of ditto

[289

Proteft of the Lords, 21ft March, 1781

[290

Anfwer of the States General to the manifefto of the King of Great

Britain

[292

Copy of the maritime treaty between the Empress of Ruffia and the

King of Denmark, acceded to by the King of Sweden and the

States General of the United Provinces
[300

The humble petition of the British fubjects refiding in the provinces

of Bengal, Babar, and Oriffa, and their feveral dependencies, ta

the Hon. the House of Commons of Great Britain

Petition of the Jews of St. Eustatius to Admiral Rodney and General

Vaughan

[303

[308

Memorial of the Empress of Ruffia to the States General [310

Memorial of the States General to the court of Stockholm [311

His majesty's Speech on closing the feffion of parliament, July 18,
1781
[314

Anfwer given by Lord Stormont to Monf. Simolin, the Ruffian mi-

nifter, with refpect to the mediation offered by the Empress between

Great Britain and the United Provinces

[316

Paper

Paper prefented by Baron Nolken, the Swedish minifter refident in

London, concerning the mediation of that court between this

country and the States General of the United Provinces [317

Copy of the answer given to the foregoing paper by Lord Stormont,

on the 18th of September, to the Baron de Nolken, the Swedish

[318

The humble address and petition of fundry Weft-India planters and

merchants, to the King, on behalf of themfelves and others inte-

refted in the British Weft-India islands

envoy

[319

To the King's most excellent Majefty: The humble addrefs, remon

ftrance, and petition of the lord-mayor, aldermen, and livery of the

city of London, in common hall affembled
[320

Petition of Henry Laurens, Efq. to the House of Commons [322

The fecond report of the commiffioners appointed to examine, take,

and flate the public accounts of the kingdom.

[323

The third report of ditto

328

July 18, 1781

Heads of the principal acts of parliament, from Nov. 1, 1780, to

CHARACTERS.

[337

Character of the Emperor Conftantine; from Gibbons's History of
the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

I

An account of the pastoral manners and of the government of the

Scythians or Tartars; from the fame

3

An account of the life and literary character of Henry Howard,

Earl of Surrey, extracted from Warton's History of English

Poetry

Character of Thomas Sackville, the firft Lord Buckhurft; from the

fame

--

Character of the late Dr. Fothergill

9

14

15

An account of the Indians of Porto de la Trinidad, in lat. 41. on

the north-west coast of America

20

An account of John Law, and of the. Mississipi scheme projected by

bim in 1717

An account of the Chevalier d'Eon

Character of the French; from Sherlock's Letters.

Character of the French ladies, compared with that of the English;

from the fame

Character of the Italians; from the fame

Sketch of the life and character of the famous Poet Lope de Vega 33

NATURAL

NATURAL HISTORY.

Natural History and defcription of the Tiger-Cat of the Cape of

Good Hope; from the Philofophical Transactions

37

An account of the Ganges and Barampooter rivers from the fame 39

Of the air that has been fuppofed to come through the pores of the

fkin, and of the effects of the perfpiration of the body; from

Priestley's Experiments in Natural Philofophy

Of the refpiration of fishes; from the fame.

Of the Rein-Deer; from Barrington's Mifcellanies

Of the Bat, or Rere-Moufe; from the fame

On the torpidity of the Swallow tribe, when they disappear; from

the fame

An account of the island of Corfica

65

75

The prefatory introduction to Scheele's Chemical Obfervations on

USEFUL PROJECTS.

Obfervations on the Dyfentery of the West Indies; with a new and

fuccefsful manner of treating it

Defcription of a newly invented machine for raking fummer corn-

fubbles; from the Letters of the Bath Agriculture Society 97

Inftructions for the prevention and cure of the Epizooty, or conta-

gious diffemper among horned cattle from the fame

Thoughts on the Rot in Sheep; from the fame

Extract from a propofal for the improvement of agriculture; from

the fame

Additional obfervations to a treatife, entitled, The prefent Method
of Inoculation for the Small-Pox, &c. published by the author
Jame years ago; from Baron Dimfdale's tracts on inoculation

ANTIQUITIE S.

104

112

Hiftory and antiquities of the fortreffes and caffles in the Ifle of

Wight; from Sir Richard Worley's Hiftory of that ifland 118

Hiftory and antiquities of the Oratory of Burton in the Ile of

Wight; from the fame.

126

127

Punic infcriptions in the western boundaries of Canada

Account of a fingular custom kept up for many years, and ftill pre-

vailing in Picardy

129

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