their dominions, already have fhackled the courts of Vienna and Petersburgh) will enflave all Europe.' And to mark the mean and rapacious character of the Pruffians. they clear every obftacle to over-run a new country, only because the oppofitions thrown in their way are found weak, and incapable to refift them.'
After recapitulating the grievous treatment his country has fuffered, he concludes the firft volume in the language of a Chriftian philofopher. In fo melancholy a fituation, nothing remains (fays he) but to fubmit the juftice of our caufe to the Almighty King; who, at this time, is arbitrator between us and our enemies, and who has fignified his judgment in dividing the people who delight in war. However, there still continues with us a king moft worthy of a crown, upon whom the all- powerful hand of God was manifefted in a vifible manner upon that horrid night, the 3d Nov. 1771, to make known to the world a power that can and will, one day or other, reftore to perfect happiness a nation now funk into ruin; or, in other words, annihilated.'
He then rouses, and with patriotic fire, challenges his coun- trymen to shine out in fpite of the cloud that overshadows them, that the world may view the Poles in their diftinguishable character, Let us (fays he) give a striking proof to all Europe what this nation, by nature brave and free, is capable of atchiev- ing under the auspices of a prince, wife in himself, and beloved by his people; then mark the difference between the ardour of martial generofity, facrificing their lives and fortunes in fighting for the liberty of their country; and those low, vile, and merce nary wretches who have fo wantonly and fo unworthily oppreffedit.
The fecond volume is intended to prove the invalidity of thofe claims fet up by the three powerful copartners with re- spect to many provinces belonging to the republick. In his endeavours to refute the pretended rights of the court of Vienna, he has recqurfe, as before, to hiftory; in which many anecdotes appear, that may be interefting to those particular people who have, from fympathy or attachment, made themselves parties in their unnatural broils. This volume throughout runs into thofe kinds of evidences or proofs which treaties, confede- racies, &c. authorife. Our hiftoriographer, in his inquiries into the state of the different districts of Halicz, Wlodzimirz, Owiet- zim, Zator, Podolia, and Leffer Ruffia, &c. muft afford inform- ation, more particularly as thofe countries are not generally known; and may perhaps make an opening, through which fome important fecrets may be difcovered, not before perfectly understood by our minifterial guardians.
For a more extended idea of the present ftate of Poland, we muft refer the reader not only to the work before us at large, but to the fpirited and affecting letters on that fubject; of which ample accounts are given in our 47th and 48th volumes.
INDEX
To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this
N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.
For the remarkable Paffages in the Foreign Articles, fee the Second Alphabet of this Index, in the latter Part of the Sheet.
AIR, fixed, its nature and qualities, 138. Nitrous, its properties, 141. Cu- rious experiments on the different kinds of air, 147. Factitious, or alcaline air, new species of, 361. Experiments on, ib.367. Difcourfe on, by Sir John Pringle, 400.
ALBEMARLE, late Ld. his character, 30. AMERICA, North, contefts with Gr.
Britain, Bp. of St. Afaph's fentiments relating to, 70. Various tracts rela- tive to the controverfy, 71, 148, 390. Mr. Dickenfon's effay on the conftitu- tional power of Gr. Britain over the colonies, ib. More tracts on the fub- ject, 474, et feq.
-South, little known to the Europeans, 409. Obf. on the maps of, 410-412. Defcriptions of fome parts of, and par- ticular productions, 413, et seq. AMERICANS, their ingratitude to Gr. Britain, 441.
ANACREONTIC, to a lady, 95. ANGLO-SAXONS, their great attention to the ladies, 106. Severity of their laws against adultery, ib. Their great mo- deity of behaviour toward women, 107. ANNE, Queen. See STATUTE. ANTA, a Patagonian deer, described, 416. ANTIMONY, dangers attending the me-
dicinal ufe of, 397- ARABIAN elegy, in Latin and Engl. 22. ARMY, ftanding, arguments against, 353. The great inftrument foe enflaving a people, ib.
ARTHUR'S feat, a poem, extract from, 340. ARTISTS, comparative view of their ge- neral merit, with that of authors, in the eftimation of the public, 277. APP. Rev. Vol, li.
ASTON, Judge, his defence of the com- mon-law right of literary property, 84. On the perpetuity, 89. ASTRONOMY, fcepticiim in, 319. ATLAS, what is meant by his fupporting the globe on his shoulders, 427. AURORA, Borealis, remarks on, 375.
ACCHIDES, of Plautus, paffages in, criticised, I. BALAMBANGAN, in the Eaft Indies, fome account of, 481.
BANKS, Mr. his defcript, of Staffa, 454. BARRINGTON, Hon. Daines, his exper.
on the finging of birds, 226. His cor- rection of fome mistakes made in orni thology, 230. His account of the Gil. laroo trout, 376.
BASALTES. See STAFFA.
BATH, late Earl of, his character, 32. BIRDS, new exper, and obf. on their fing- ing, 226.
BLACK-LEAD, its nature and properties, and whence procured, 110. BLACKSTONE, Judge, his opinion in fupport of the common-law right of literary copies, 83. On the question of perpetuity, 88. His opinion of the fufficiency of the King's revenue, 347. BLOOD, obf, and difcoveries relating to the compofition and figure of its glo bules, 230.
inquiry into the moving powers employed in the circulation of, 399. BOUGAINVILLE, Monf. his policy, with refpect to Falkland's Ilands, 415. BOUNTIES, public advantages of, 113. BRIBERY, fenatorial, fatal effects of, 345. BRITAIN, her great natural and com- mercial advantages not yet exhausted,
112. Great room fill left for farther improvements, ib. The greatness of her empire a proof of the excellence of her conftitution, 117.
BRITONS, ancient, lefs rude and igno- rant than they are generally supposed, 103. BRUNNE, Robert de, extracts from his Metrical Chronicle, 53-58. BURGH-CASTLE, the icite of the ancient Garianonum, 309. BUTZ, Isle of, defcribed, 452. Its pro- ductions, 453.
Earl of, charged with borrowing his politics from Bolingbroke, 479. Art. 18.
AMPBELL, Dr. his Political Survey
of Britain commended, 14, 119. CAPE Nichola, great progrefs in trade made by the French there, 438. -CAVE, wonderful one, in the life of Staf- fa defcribed, 456.
CAVERNS, fuperftitious regard paid to by the ancients, 420. CAYMANA, Iles, account of, 434. CEMENT, that used in the Greek and
Roman buildings, re-discovered, 185. CHATELLUR, Monf. de, his advanta- geous character, as a « riter, and a man, 381. CHESTERFIELD, Lord, his letter to Voltaire, 24. To his for, at Berlin, commending him to Voltaire, 26. Another letter to the fame, on the fame abject, 28. His Lordship's maxims, ib. His character of Lord Albemarle, 30. Of the D. of Newcastle, 31. Of Sir Wm. Young, ib. Of Mr. Pelham, 32. Of Lord Bath, ib. Of Louis XV.
COLUMNS, natural, of the Giant's Caute way and Staffa defcribed, 454-458. CORDILLERA, in South America, fome account of, 413.
COURT, corrupt influence of, its fatal tendency, 345-350. CYCLOPES, explained, 430.
ALRYMPLE, Sir John, his pleads ings before the Lords against lite rary Property, 205.
DANES, ancient, in Britain, their favage and brutal manners, 108. DANIEL, chap. x. ver. 13. comment on, 271.
DAVID II. King of Scotland, his extra- ordinary proposal to his parliament for fettling his kingdom on a fon of Ed- ward III. of England, 39.
Dr Luc, Mr. his account of a new hy. grometer, 224. His rule for measuring heights by the barometer, 377. DEVIL, Frinter's, droll poetical picture of, 65.
DEUTERONOMY, reflections on the ge- neral defign of that book, 265. DIALOGUE, between a father and his daughter, 99.
DIALOGUES, of the dead, by Lord Lyt- telton, poft bumous, 442. DIEQUEMARE, Ablê, his natural hif tory of the fea-anemony, 228. D'OYLEY, Governor, his wife conduct, and bravery, 132.
DRAMA, rude and fimple beginnings of, in England, 59.
DRUIDS, of Britain, conjectures relative to their temples, 104.
AST-INDIES, British, fettlements
36. Of Madame Maintenon, ib. Apo- Ein, the moft probable methods for
logy for his letters, 33.
CHINESE, their methods of improving
their lakes and meres, 16. CLEGG, Mr. his experiments on lime and lime-water, 378. CLERGY, plan for the ftudies of; 317. CLOCK WORK, Marine, obfervations on, 119. Mr. Berthoud's Improvements in, fimilar to Mr. Harrifon's, 120. COLONIES (See AMERICA) Dr. John-
fon's cenfure of the claims of the colo nies, refpecting liberty, &c. 301. De- fended with respect to their enflaving the negroes, 324. Taxa ion of, un- justifiable, 350. Brief retrofpective view of our parliamentary claims of power over the colonies, 390. Thofe claims impracticable, 393. right of reprefentation in the Brin parliament sanvailed, 476.
retaining and improving them, 116, 481.
EAST INDIA-COMPANY, general view of its prefent fituation, 156. EDUCATION, English, uncommon plar of, 255, 406,
EGYPT, one of the first or earliest of the great kingdoms of antiquity, 181. ELECTRIC-RODS, whether pointed or blunt, to be preferred, 373. Experi ments relative to, ib. Farther obí. on,
ETYMOLOGY, learned remarks on, par- ticularly with respect to the corruptions of the Greeks, 178. Union of with hiftory, 418.
EURIPIDES, fpecimen of Mr. Potter's new tranflation of, 20, EXODUS, general hint of instruction to the readers of, 264. Criticisms on fome paffages in, 269.
EYRE, Baron, his opinion of the injunc- tions in Chancery, in support of literary property, 204, 206.
EZRA, book of, fome account of, 266.
FABLE of two
ABLE of the two Bees, 99. Of the
FALKLAND'S lflands, 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.
ARIANONUM, a Roman ftation, where fituated, 309. GENESIS, fummary view of the book of, 264. Criticifm on fome paffages in, 269.
GIANT's Causeway, in Ireland, paralleled
in the Hebrides, 454. GLASS. See MAGNESIA. GLOVER, Mr. his reprefentation of the ftate of the linen trade in Scotland contraverted, 152.
GOVERNORS, provincial, their natural tendency toward tyranny, 130. GRETRY, Mr. his mufic praised, 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, 48. Their pernicious arts to impose on the credulity of the ruftic laffes, &c. ib.
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 cuftom 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. HEERIDES, 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,
HENRIAD, of Voltaire, praised, 26. HEWSON, Mr. his anatomical difcove 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 worship, 421. HOADLY, Bifhop, 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,
HOLINESS, general definition of, 270. HOOKE, Mr. his mechanical character and conduct compared with Mr. Harri- fon's, 127. HOOPING-COUGH. See KINKCOUGH, HORACE, criticism on a paffage in, 284. HORSLEY, his paper in the Phil. Tranf actions, on meafuring heights by the barometer, 379.
HORTUS MALABARICUS, great merit of that work, 244.
HOSEA, comment on fome paffages in, 271.
HUNTER, Dr. charged with ill treating Dr. Rowley, 395. HYGROMETER, new-invented one, 224.
Jones, Mr. his commentaries on the Afiatic poetry commended, 21. Spe- cimens of his tranflations of, into La- tin, 22. English verfion of, 23. ISAIAH, book of, critical obf. on fome parts of, 267, 270.
ISLAND, natural fituation of, why pre- ferable to that of a continent, 15. ISLES, Scottish, our national inattention to them cenfured, 18. Their natural importance to Great Britain, 19. JURIES, eftablishment of, in England, derived from the Danes, 109. JUSTICE of the Peace, first appointment of, poetically recited, 45. Juftice's Hall defcribed, 46. Moral cha- racter of a country justice, 47.
AMES, Lord, his arguments against literary property, 93. KINKCOUGH, Dr. Burton's method of curing, 44 Confirmed, 45. Dr. Butter's theory of, and method of cure, animadverted on, 398.
KINGS, book ii. chap. xiv. ver. 26. Shut up, &c. comment on, 270.
'AKES, and Meres, methods fug-
gefted for the improvement of, 16. LAMBE, Mr. his edition of an old hitto- 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. Power, ib. LEPRA ICHTIOsis, remedy for, 43. LEVERPOOL, town of, its vaft increase within the last 200 years, 232. Com- parative state of its inhabitants, with thote of fome other great towns, ib. Progrets of commerce in, 233.
Society there for the en- couragement of painting, &c. verfes in praife of, 482.
LEVITICUS, chap. xix. ver. 2. com.
ment on, 270. LIME. See CLEGG. LINEN-TRADE,
its decline in Scotland, 152. Caules of, 153, Remecies pro- pofed, ib. LITERARY PROPERTY, law queflions relative to, 82. Judge Willes's opi- mon, 83. Judge Blackstone'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- pediency 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, ib. Lord Camden again, 206. Baron Perrot again, 207. Mr. Wedderburne, ib.
Lord Lyttelton, 208. Mr. Har grave's ingenious treatise on the subject, 209. Mrs. Macaulay's Plea in defence of, 272. Dr. Enfield's liberal argu. men's for, 357.
LITURGY, English controverfy relating to, 294-298.
Love of our country, in what respects truly laudable, 16.
the philofophy of that passion, 311. Louis XV. Lord Chesterfield's account of his character, 32. LunLow, defcription of, 444. LYTTELTON, Lord, his great character, 442, 451.
AGNESIA, controverfy 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 Confeller, 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 paffage in, 284.
MAUPERTUIs, Monf. Lord Chefter- field's favourable opinion of, 27. MILTON, Lord Chefterfield's centure of, 26.
MINSTREL, extras 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 oną 390.
MOORE, Sir Henry, Governor of Ja- maica, fketch of his hiftory, and re fpectable character, 131. Music, its connexion with poetry, 306, Union of thefe arts in France, 384.
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