Α

cure, in a state of more than

common purity, 137.
ADAIR, Mr. terible effects of a
ftorm of lightning at his houfe,
375

ADELE et Theodore, 465.
AKENSIDE, Dr. anecdotes rel. to,

120.

ALCANDER, a poetic tale, by Ma

fon, 407.
ALEMBIC, improved conftruction
of, for the diftillation of large
quantities, fo as to increase the
production, and leffen the ex-
pence, 138.
ALUM-mines, in Italy, fome ac-
count of, 500.
AMERICA, her d fpute with Great
Brit. fet in a striking light, 130.
General Table of her fhipping,
in 1769, 443.

AMIOT, M. See MISSIONARIES.
ANGLES, and angular distances.
See ROCHON.

ANTS. See ERMITES.
ARNOLD, Mr. Controve.fy rel. to
his time keepers, 355.
AZYR, M. Vicq. d. his memoir
on the 21 and 3d cervical pair
of nerves, 501.

of, 527.

BERTHELOT, M. his mechanics,
&c. 464.

BEZOUT, M. engaged with Meff.
Lavoifier and Vandermonde, in
thermomet. experiments, 499.
BIBLE. See LANGUAGE.
BORDENUE, M. his Mem. on the
neceflity of performing the Ce-
farian operation on women who
die in pregnancy, 501.
BRERETON, Mr. his acc. of the
terrible effects of lightning at
Eaftburn, 374.

BRISSON, M. his exper. on the re-
fracting power of liquors, 500.
BRISTOL, Earl of, [and Bishop]
Sketch of his character, 382.
BULL-frogs, American, ftrange
ftory of, 253.
RAMPOOTER, river, defcribed,

BURRA

367.

lity fimilar to that of the torpedo, 49, 500. CELIBACY, as impofed on the clergy, by the church of Rome, july exploded, 156. CHARLES I. circumftantial account of his imprisonment in Carifbrock cattle, 35. Of his attempt to escape, 37. CHATTERTON, acc. of him, and his publications, 208. CHEMISTRY, various obf, and experiments rel. to, 99, 134, 372, 593. CHIVALRY poetically defcribed,

312.

CHRIST, the duration of his miniltry, 16. CHRONOLOGIE physique des erup

tions eteints de la France, 467. CIBOT, M. See MISSIONARIES. CLIMATE, influence of, on the

mcral character of man, 22. COLONIES, American, in what refpects rather hurtful than advantageous to Great Britain, 425. CONNECTICUT-river, defcription of, 254.

COUNTRY, poor or rich according to its population, 423.) CROFT, Mr. his biographical anecdotes of Dr. Young, 113.

DAUBENTON, M. his methods of improving the breed of Sheep, 502. DEATH of Menteith, an ancient Scottish ballad, 292. DIMSDALE, Baron, his lat publication relative to inoculation, 172. Curious anecdote rel. to his practice in Rudia, 172. DISTILLATION. See ALEMBIC. DOBSON, Dr. his acc. of a fingu lar African wind, 365. Douglas, Sir Charles, his Letter to Mr. Thomson, 455.

DRESS of the beaus of this coun

try, in the 14th century, 57. DYFR, the poet, obferv. on his writings, 117.

EARTHQUAKES, in Wales, a re

markable circumftance relative to, 372.

EDUCATION, thoughts on, 349. ELECTRICITY, remarks and experiments rel. to, 175.

-. See also CASSINI. ELIZABETH, Q. her reign, and the age the lived in, favourable to poetry, 162. ENCYCLOPEDIE-the celebrated French Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, profpectus of a new edit. of, with a different arrangement of the materials, 514.

FARMER, American, pleafing de

fcription of the life of, before the breach with England, 402. FEAST, curious account of one, with the prices of the provifions, in the 14th century, 58. FERMEN, Dr. his hift. of Surinam, tranflated, 149.

FORSTER, J. Keinhold, defcribes, in the Philof. Tranfactions, the tyger-cat of the Cape of Good Hope, 365.

FORTIS, Abbé, his acc. of alummines in Italy, 500. FOURCROY, M. his elementary inftructions in natural hift. &c. 466.

GAMING lefs prevalent in warm

than in cold climates, 27. GANGES, river, acc. of, 366. See alfo BURRAMPOOTER. GARDEN, English, Mr. Malon's

poem on, completed, 405. GENLIS, Mad. her Adele, &c. or Letters on Education, 465. GOVERNMENT, and law, principles of difcuffed, 191-196. GRAVITATION, Kepler's theory of,

182. Other notions of, 183. GRAY, the poet, his writings criticifed, 122.

GUENEF, Abbé, author of the Jew's Letters to Voltaire, 542, A new edition of that much applauded work, ib.

3

HALLER,

HALLER, memoirs of, and eu-
logium on, that great phyfio-
logist, 508. Exemplary manner
of his death, 512.
HARLATAN, a fingular African
wind, defcribed, 365.
HENRY VIII. his talent for poe-
try, 85.

HERSCHEL, Mr. his aftronomical

obf. on the rotation of the pla-
nets round their axes, made
with a view to determine whe-
ther the earth's diurnal motion
is perfectly equable, 374
HIGHLANDS, of Scotland, ancient
and modern ftate of, with refpect
to literature and poetry, 51.
HUNTER, William, his new me-
thod of employing the Screw,

373.
HUTTON, Mr. his certificate in fa-
vour of Mr. Thompson's im-
provement in the conftruction of
a frigate, 455.

IDLENESS the vice of hot cli-
mates, 26.

JEALOUSY, lefs prevalent in
northern than in fouthern cli-

mates, 24.

JEURAT, M. his obferv. of the

moon, 505.
INFANTS, whofe mothers have
died in pregnancy, faved by the
Cefarian operation, 501.
INOCULATION for the fmall-pox,
Baron Dimfdale's prefent method
of performing, 173.
JOHNSON, Sam. remarks on a fen-
timent of his, unfavourable to
liberty, 121.
JUSTICES of the peace, remarks

rel. to their office, 45.
JUSTINIAN, Emperor, his ufeful
defign of reforming the ancient
Roman leg flation 205.

KEMPENFELT, Admiral, his let-

ter in behalf of Mr. Thomp-
fon's plan for improvements in
the conftruction of trigates, 455.
KIRWAN, Mr. his exper. on the

fpecific gravities and attractive
powers of various faline fub-
ftances, 372.

LANGUAGE, English, how in-
fluenced by the translation of
the bible, 91.

LAVOISIER, M. his VIII. Che-
mical Memoirs. See BEZOUT.
LAW, William, his last words, and
infcription on his tomb, 155.
LEÇONS elemanatires de hift. nat.
et de chymie, 466.
LEFEBVRE de Villbrune, his edit.
of Silius Italicus, 467.
LENS, burning. See Cadet. See
BRISSON.

LIQUORS, fermented, cuftomary
drinking of, its influence on the
morals and manners of men, 28.
On their health, &c. 29.
LIVER. See PORTAL.
LONGITUDE, Contraversy rel. to.
See ARNOLD.

LUXURY, carried to the highest
degrees in hot climates, 26.
LYTTELTON Ld. ftricture on his
poetry, 121.

MALLET, David, his character,

118.

MARALDI, M. his obf. on the Sa-
tellites of Jupiter, 505.
MAROT, Clement, his poetical

character, 86.-His verfion of
the palms, ib. Brings pfalm-
finging into fashion at the court
of France, 87.-Ufe made of
them by Calvin, 88.
MECHANIQUE appliquée aux arts,
&c. 464.

MEMOIRES Concern. l'hiftoire, les
fciences, &c. Vols. VII. and
Vui. By the miffionaries of
Peking, 466.

MENGS, the painter, his obfcure

explication of beauty, 527.
MESSIER, M. his obf. of a prodi
gious quantity of fmall globules
paffing before the fun's difk, 498.
on the comets of 177%

and 1772, 505.

there, 255.

ODE

De to the memory of Captain Cook, 72. OSSIAN, controversy relat. to, 48.

PENNANT, Mr. his account of the

Turkey, 366.Of feveral earthquakes in Wales, 372 PENROSE, Mr. his character, 335. His Field of Battle, a poem, 336. PERFIDY, lefs prevalent in cold than in hot climates, 24. PEROUNET, M. his memoir on the piers of bridges, 506. PHLOGISTON, exper. and rem. on, 99.

PHYSIOGNOMY confidered as a

fcience, 482, 497. PLANETS, obf. on the rotation of, round their axes. See HER

POETRY, the natural propensity of mankind to, philofophically confidered, 32.

English, obf. on the ftate of, in the age of Eliz. 162. POPE, Mr. his poetical qualifications candidly difcriminated, 270. PORTAL, M. his mem. concerning certain difeafes of the liver, 502.

POPULATION of England, rem. on the prefent ftate of, 142, 383, 423.

PSALMS,

hiftorical account of French and English tranflations of, 86.

vindicated from the charge of inculcating a malevolent fpirit, 169.

PRIDE, the vice of hot climates, 23. PROSPECTUS, of a methodical Cyclopedia, or new arrange. ment of the great Encyclopedic, in 53 4to. vols. 514.

RENNEL, Mr. his account of the Ganges and Burrampooter rivers, 365.

ROCHON, Abbé, his inventions for meafuring angular distances, and apparent diameters of objects, 506.

ROMANS, their legal polity in

veiligated, 199.-Improvements in under Conftantine, &c. 2c2. Juftinian Code, 203.-Their government under the Confuls, 244. Appointment of Sylla to the office of perpetual dictator, 245.

ROME, reflections on the fall of, 461.

ROT, in fheer, enquiry into the caufe of, 79. The CORRES

ROWLEIAN Controverfy, 206, 321,

433. RUSSIA, a complete hiftory of, published at Paris, 512. SANDWICH, Earl of, fketch of his character, 382. SAROS, or cycle of feafons, new difcovery of, 548. SCREW, new method of employing, to aftronomical and other purposes, 373.

SEJOUR, M. Dionis du, his continuation of his new analytical methods of calculating eclipfes of the fun, &c. 505• SHEEP, French memoir concern

ing the improvement of, 502. SHENSTONE, the poet, fome account of him, and his works, 119.

SHIP-building, plan for improvement in, with refpect to frigates, &c. 445. SHIPPING, of N. America, general, table of, 543. Silius Italicus, correct edit. of, 467. SMEATHMAN, Mr. his curious account of the termites, or white ants, of Africa, &c. 368. SONG of Solomon, fpecimen of a new tranflation of, by a Lady, 258. SOULAVIE, ABBé, his account of extinguished Volcanoes in the S. of France, 467. SOUNDNESS in religious matters, what, 79. What it is not, ib. SOUNDS, mufical, the philofophy of, 12. STEEL, Mrs. Anne, her excellent character, 337. Specimen of her poetry, 338. SUGARS, impolicy and injuftice of forcing the prize cargoes of out of the kingdom, 75. SURINAM, brief account of Fer

men's hift, of, 148. SURREY, Earl of, his poetical character, 81.-Memoirs of his life and death, 82.

SYPHON, fome new remarks rel. to that infrument, 180.

TACTICS, remarks rel. to 41.

TEA, its effects on those who are cuftomary drinkers of it, 31. TERMITES. See SMEATHMAN. THELYPHTHOR A criticised, 127. THEORIE des loix criminelles, 463. THERMOMETER. See BEZOUT. THISTLETHWAYTE, Mr. his letter concerning Chatterton, 328. TREE-frog, in America, defcrip. tion of, 254 TRINITY, doctrine of, contrafted with the Unitarian principles inculcated in the New Tell. 103. TURKEY Originally brought from America, 366.

VANDERMONDE. See BEZOUT. VICE philofophically confi dered, 9. UNIVERSITIES of Great Britain, anecdotes rel. to the flate of, in the 13th and 14th centuries, 56. VOLTAIRE, his merit, as a genius appretiated, 4. VOYAGE pittorefque, ou defcription de Naples, &c. 465.

WARVILLE's theory of penal laws, 463.

WATER, the cuftomary drinking of, favourable to morality 28. In what refpects conducive to health, ib.

WATTS, Dr. lefs orthodox in his later than in his earlier years,

170.

WELLS, Mr. his certificate in fa

vour of Mr. Thomfon's propofed frigate, 456.

WEST, Gilbert, fome account of,

121.

WILKES, John, his character fa

tirically sketched, 132. WINKELMANN, Abbe, anecdotes re!. to his life and chara&er, 377. Account of his unfortu nate death by affallination, 381. Farther