ETYMOLOGY, learned remarks on, par-
ticularly with respect to the corruptions
of the Greeks, 178. Union of with
history, 418.
EURIPIDES, fpecimen of Mr. Potter's
new tranflation of, 20.
Exodus, general hint of inftruction to

the readers of, 264. Criticisms on
fame paffages in, 269.
EYRE, Baron, his opinion of the injunc-
tions in Chancery, in fupport of literary
property, 204, 206.

EZRA, book of, fome account of, 266,

F

F.

ARLE of the two Bees, 99. Of the
Farmer and the Lawyer, ib.
FALKLAND's Inlands, unfavourable ac-
count of, 415. Sale of, by the French,
to the King of Spain, ib.
FERGUSON, Mr. his account of the
quantities of light afforded by the fun
to the feveral planets, -319.
FETE CHAMPETRE, introduced at Dru-
ry-Lane playhouse, 466.
FEVERS, putrid, remedy for, 43.
FINGAL'S Cave defcribed, 456.
FIRE, ancient worship of, once almoft
univerfal, 417, et feq.
FLODDEN, battle of, many circumstances
of, recorded in an old poem, 334.
FRANKLIN, Dr. Benjamin, encomium
on, 384.

G

G.

ARIANONUM, a Roman ftation,
where fituated, 309.
GENESIS, fummary view of the book of,
264. Criticism on fome paffages in,
269:

GIANT's Causeway, in Ireland, paralleled
in the Hebrides, 454.
GLASS. See MAGNESIA.
GLOVER, Mr. his reprefentation of the
fate of the linen trade in Scotland
contraverted, 152.

GOVERNORS, provincial, their natural
tendency toward tyranny, 130.
GRETRY, Mr. his mufic prailed, 384.
GUY, Earl of Warwick, his expedition
into the Soldan's camp, from the old
Metrical Chronicle, 58.

GYPSIES, a fpecies of vagrants not to
be tolerated, 47. Poetical account of,

HARRISON, Mr. his ingenious improve
ments in clock-work, 127. A publi-
cation of them recommended, as due to
the munificence of his country, ib.
Parallel between his character and that-
of Mr. Hooke, ib.

HEALTHS, origin of the custom of drink.
ing, 107.

HEBREW, of the Holy Scriptures, me-
thod of difcovering and removing the
many corruptions in, 167. State of,
in Dr. Bailey's edition, 261.
HEBRIDES, Mr. Pennant's account of,
452.

HECUBA, of Euripides, fpecimen of an
intended new tranflation of, 20.
HELLADIANS, obf. on them, and other
Grecian writers, 179.

HENLY, Mr. his electrical experiments,
373.

HENRIAD, of Voltaire, praised, 26.
HEWSON, Mr. his anatomical discove
ries refpecting the blood, 330.
HIGHLANDERS, of Scotland, their fud-
den and total change of manners and
morals, 459. Curious prayer of one of
their old plundering chieftains, ib.
HIGH-PLACES, appropriated by the an-
cients for public worthip, 421.
HOADLY, Bishop, encomiums on, 195,
197. His opinion of Berkeley and his
minute philofopher, 198. His whole
works collected, and lift of contents,
199. Akenfide's ode to the Bishop,

200.

I.

AMAICA, Curious particulars relative

H

H.

AMILTON, Sir W. his relation of

fome curious effects of a thunder-
form at Naples, 224.

AMLET, of Shakespeare, his charac
ter philofophically analyfed, 10.

how to be improved, ib.

JAMES VI, King of Scors, his arbitrary

warrant for a capital punishment, 40.
IDYLLION, to a lady, 95.

JEREMIAH, Critical comment on feveral
paffages.in, 271.

Pp 2

JONES,

Lecited for the improvement of, 16.
Axzs, and Meres, methods fug

LAMBE, Mr. his edition of an old hifto-

ric poem on the battle of Floddon, 333.
LANGUAGE, critical, obf. on the har-
mony of, 304.

LETTERS, from Lord Lyttelton to his
father, 444. To Mr. Bower, ib,
LETRA ICHTIOSIS, remedy for, 43.
LIVERPOOL, town of, its vaft increase
within the laft 200 years, 232.
Com-
parative ftate of its inhabitants, with
thofe of fome other great towns, ib.
Progress of commerce in, 233.

Society there for the en-
couragement of painting, &c. verses in
praife of, 482.
LEVITICUS, chap. xix. ver. 2. com.
1 ment on, 270.
LIME. See CLEGG.
LINEN-TRADE, its decline in Scotland,
152. Caufes of, 153, Remedies pro-
posed, ib.

LITERARY PROPERTY, law queftions
relative to, 82. Judge Willes's opi-
Dion, 83. Judge Blackftone's, ib.
Judge Afton's, 84. Judge Yates's. 85.
Lord Mansfield's, 87. Curfory obf.
on Judge Yates's opinion, 89. Lord
Kames's opinion, 90. Lord Monbod.
do's, 91. Arguments against the ex-
adiency of allowing perpetual literary

property, 93. Lord Kames's opinion,
ib. Lord Coalfton's, ib. Lord Ar-
nitton's, 94. Pleadings of the counfel
in this caufe, before the Lords, 202.
Mr. Thurlow's argument against the
common-law right, 204. Judge Per-
rot's, ib. Lord Camden's, ib. Mr.
Dunning's on the other fide, 205. Sir
John Dalrymple against the perpetuity,
b. Lord Camden again, 206. Baron
Perrot again, 207. Mr. Wedderburne,
ib. Lord Lyttelton, 208. Mr. Har-
grave's ingenious treatife on the fubject,
209. Mrs. Macaulay's Plea in defence
of, 272. Dr. Enfield's liberal argu.
ments for, 357.

LITURGY, English controversy relating
to, 294-298.

LovE of our country, in what respects
truly laudable, 16.

the philofophy of that paffion, 311.
LOUIS XV. Lord Chesterfield's account
of his character, 32.
LUDLow, defcription of, 444.
LYTTELTON, Lord, his great character,
442, 451.

M

M.

AGNESIA, Controversy concerning
the different preparations of, by
Glafs, and by Henry, 286.
MAID of the Oaks, character of that play,
Extracts from, 465.

MAINTENON, Mad, her letters charac-
terized, 32. Her duplicity of conduct
with regard to her Confeffor, and to her
private connexion with the King, 33-
MALACHI, obf, with respect to the time
of his prophecy, 267.

MANSFIELD, Lord, his opinion in fa
vour of literary property, 87.
MARMONTEL, his excellent character,
384.

MARTIAL, criticism on a passage in,
284.

MAUPERTUIS, Monf. Lord Chefter-
field's favourable opinion of, 27.
MILTON, Lord Chesterfield's cenfure of,
26.

MINSTREL, extracts from that beauti.
ful poem, 190.

MORGAN, Sir Henry, Governor of Ja-
maica, sketch of his life and adminif-
tration, 132.

MONBODDO, Lord, his arguments in de-
· fence of literary property, 91.'
MONTAGU, Mrs. poetical encomium on,

390.

MOORE, Sir Henry, Governor of Ja-

maica, sketch of his hiftory, and re-
fpectable character, 131.
Music, its connexion with poetry, 306,
Union of these arts in France, 384.
MYTHO

AKLY park, remarks on its fitua-
tion, 444-

ODE. See LEVERPOOL.
OFFICES, the great ones, of state, fala.

ries of, too enormous, 348. Ill effects
of, ib. Ought to be merely honorary,
and ferved without pecuniary emolu-

ment, 349.
ORNANO, Marshal De, his fhrewd fay-
ing, on being bribed to change his re-
ligion, 347.

P.

Ptheir attempts to improve nature, 33.

AINTERS, how far juftifiable in

PATAGONIANS, fome account of, 410.
Specimens of their language, 417.
PATRIOT, character of a true one, 299.
Falfe ones diftinguished into two claffes,
ibid.

PELHAM, late Mr. his character, 32.
PERRY, Mr. George, firft plans the hif-

tory of Leverpool, 231: The fcheme
compleated by Mr. Enfield, ib.
PERSIAN, of Plautus, criticised, 3.
PLACEMEN and Penfioners, ill effects of
their fitting in parliament, 345-349.
PLAUTUS, paffages in his comedies cri-
ticifed, 1-9.

POETRY, ancient English, curious spe-
cimens of, 45-59: Connexion be-
tween Poetry and Mufic, 306. Union
of these arts in France, 384.
POLICY, civil, original fources of ex-
plored, 382.

POPULATION, remarks on, 378, 471.

R.

AST, Dr. his objection to inocula-
tion obviated, 43.

KICHARD, King of England, his com-
bat with the Soldan, how celebrated by
Robert de Brunne, 55.

ROMAN Hiftory, obf. on, 442.

Liberty, caufes of the deftruction

of, ib.
ROSMUNDA, of Ruccellai, a tragedy,
obf. on, 281.

ROTHESAY, town and caftle of, de-
fcribed, 453.

ROWLEY, Dr. his complaint against Dr.
Hunter, 395.

letter to the Reviewers con

cerning, 488.

RUTH, book of, general account of, 266.

S.

AMUEL, book i. comments on fome

paffages in, 270.

SATURN, his ring, obf. on the disparition
of, 37I.

SAXONS. See ANGLO-SAXONS.
SEA-ANEMONY, effay on, 228.
SESSION, Lords of, their different judg-
ment on the question of literary pro-
perty, 90.
SHAKESPEARE, his principal characters
analyfed, 10.

his verses to his mistress,

482.
SLAVERY, thoughts on the inhumanity
of, 234. Our colonies vindicated on
this fubject, 324. Farther accused,
487-488.

SMALL-POX, method of treating the
confluent fort, 44.

SOCIETY, Literary, at Leyden, prize
queftion of, for 1775, with directions
to candidates, 247.

for the encouragement of Paint-
ing, &c. at Leverpool, 482.

human, neceffarily produces le-
giflation, 382.

SPAIN, purchases Falkland's Inland from
France, 415.

STAFFA, ftupendous rocky phenomenon
in that island, 454.

STANHOPE,

STANHOPE, Mrs. her apology for the
freedoms in Lord Chesterfield's letters,

33.

STATUTE VIII. of Queen Anne, re-
lating to literary property, fpirit and
operation of controverted, 83-87.
Farther arguments on, 203, 205.
STEEL, obf. on the various methods of
hardening and tempering, 125, note.
STONE, artificial, 184.

SUN, obf. refpecting the light and heat
of, 319. Spots in, fuppofed to be car
vities, 369.

worship of, very general, in times
of highest antiquity, 424. All the
gods of Greece originally one, and that
one, the fun, ib.

SWIFT, Dean, his bumorous verses on the
day of judgment, 25.

SWINTON, Mr. his account of an an.
cient Quinarius, 377.

TA

T.

Asso, Lord Chesterfield's cenfure
of, 27.
TAXATION of the colonies, arguments
against, 350.

TELESCOPES, Dr. Wilfon's improve-
ment of, 370.

THOMSON, verses refering to his poetical
character, 342.

THUNDER, Curious effects of, 224.
THURLOW, Mr. Attorney, his argument
against literary property, before the
Lords, 204-206.

TORPEDO, experiments on the electric
property of that fish, 219.

TRAGEDY, general obfervations on the
different merit of, with respect to the
different countries in which they are
produced, 282.

TREES, for timber, account of some va
luable fpecies in South America, 413-
416.

TRELAWNEY, Governor, his good cha-
xacter, 131.

TROUT, a particular fpecies of, in Ire-
land, 376.

TURTLE, remarkable inftinct of that
animal, 434.

V.

VALLIERE, Duchefs de la, her de-

votions difcriminated, 485.
VARELEZ, Licut, his obf. on the dif
parition of Saturn's ring, 374.

VERSES, to a Lady, by Mr. Richardson,
95. From Shakespeare, to his mif
tiefs, 482.

VIRGIL, in what respects preferable to
Homer, 26.

VOLCANO, prodigious eruption of one in
South America, 414.
VOLTAIRE, Lord Chesterfield's letter
to, 24. His Siecle de Louis XIV, praif-
ed, 26. His Henriade praised, ib. His
- Croisades and l'Esprit Humain com-
mended, 28.
VORTIGERN, King of Britain, his meet-
ing with the Princess Rouwena, poeti
cally described, in an old English rhym,
ing chronicle, 53.

W.

WALSH, Mr. his letter to Dr.

Franklin, concerning the elec-
tric property of the Torpedo, 219.
WEDDERBURN, Mr. his pleadings be-
fore the house of Lords, in the great
caufe of the copy-right of authors, 205.
208.
WESLEY, Mr. his letter to the Re-
viewers on the negro-trade, 488.
WILLES, Judge, his opinion relative to
WILSON, Dr. Alexander, his obf. on the
literary property, 83, 206.
folar fpots, 368. His improvement in
the cross-wires of teleícopes, 370.

Mr. his obf. on Mr. Henly's
electrical experiments, 379.

Dr. Andrew, his inquiry into the
circulation of the blood, 399.
WILTON, crit.cal obf. on fome of the
statues and busts there, 34.

WINN, Mr. his remarks on the Aurora
Borealis, 375.

WOMEN, their natural right to the ad-
vantages of a learned education afferted,

3$8.

YA

Y.

AQUARU, an extraordinary amphi-
bious animal in South America,
fome account of, 414.

YATES, Judge, his opinion against the
common law right of authors to the
copies of their own works, 85. On
the question of perpetuity, 89.
YOUNG, late Sir Wm. his character, 31.

INDEX

A

A.

ESTINENCE from food, extraordi-
nary infance of, 551.

ETHER, Marine, difcoveries relative to
the production of, 545.
AIR, its near affinity with fire, 521.

G.

LASS, Mr. Buffon's invention for

his father's difpleafure, 494. His fail-
ings, 495. Efcapes to Vienna, 497.
Returns to Mofcow, and fubmits to the
Czar, ib. Is brought to trial, and con-
demned, 498. His death, ib.
adherents punished, ib.
AMIOT, Father, bis account of the cold
in China, 552.

His

mirrors, by preffure, 531.

GLEBOW, M. accufed of intriguing with
the Empress Eudoxia, 496. His heroic
behaviour under the torture, 499. His
horrible execution, and memorable
faying to the Emperor, in his l'aft mo-
ments, ib.
GRAMMAR, Univerfal, fcheme of, by
M. de Gebelin, 510.

HEAT

H.

TEAT, its progrefs in bodies, various
exper, to afcertain the comparative
degrees of, 522.

I.

its combination with

platina, 526. Different methods of
combining with mercury, 547.
K.

K

CA

C.

AMPANI, the celebrated optician,
his excellence in grinding and po-
lihing the object-glaffes of telescopes,
553. Late attempts to equal, ib.
CATHERINE, Emprefs, her remarkable
history, 493-501. -
CHRISTIANITY, its happy influence on
mankind, 534. An enemy to flavery,
537-
CORNEILLE, his reputation defended
against Voltaire, 556.

D

D.

Ocs, fatal diforders among, 550.
DROWNING, extraordinary cafe of
a perfon's recovery from, 555.

E.

EYSER, his famous pills, conjec-
ture on the process of, 548.

L..

ANGUAGE, origin of, 508. In
what refpect it may be faid to pro-
ceed from the Deity, 509.
LAPUCHIN, Abraham, brother to the
Empress Eudoxia, his difgrace, 498.
Is condemned, 499. His horrid pu-
nishment, ib.

LE FORT, the favourite of Peter the
Great, foments the differences between
his master and the Emprefs Eudoxia,
492.

M

M.

ARCORELLI, M. his account of
an extraordinary involuntary ab-
ftinence, 551.

MENZIKOFF, Alexander, becomes the
favourite of the Czar, Peter the Great,
493. Procures his mafter a new mif-
trels in the perfon of the celebrated
Catherine Alexiewna, ib. Foments the
differences between his mafter and the
Czarewitz, 494. Is appointed Regent
in Peter's abience from Ruffa, 496.
His devotion to the Emprefs Catherine,
50. His ambitious views to raife his
family to the throne, gor. Is recon-
ciled to the enfortunate Eudoxia, and
delivers her from prifon, 502.

MERCURY,