AIRNE, Mr. his electrical experi- ments, 372. His invention of a machine for ditto, ib. NAMES, radical, from whence thofe in the ancient mythology were compound- ed, 170. Farther obf, on, 418-430. NATURAL Hiftory, study of, recom- mended, 250. Method of, ib. Au-
thore diftinguished, on this fubject, RAT, Dr. his objection to inocula-
NEGROES. See SLAVERY. See WES,
AINTERS, how far juftifiable in their attempts to improve nature, 33. 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 scheme 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 fpe- cimens of, 49-59: Connexion be- tween Poetry and Mufic, 306. Union of thefe arts in France, 384. POLICY, civil, original fources of ex- plored, 382.
POPULATION, remarks on, 378, 471.
RICHARD, 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
his verses to his mistress,
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 Island from France, 415.
STAFFA, ftupendous rocky phenomenon in that ifland, 454.
STANHOPE, Mrs. her apology for the freedoms in Lord Chefterfield'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, vole. STONE, artificial, 184.
SUN, obf. refpecting the light and heat of, 319. Spots in, supposed to be ca- vities, 369.
worship of, very general, in times of higheft 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, 35,
SWINTON, Mr. his account of an an cient Quinarius, 377.
Asso, Lord Chesterfield's cenfure of, 27. TAXATION of the colonies, arguments against, 350.
TELESCOPES, Dr. Wilson's improve- ment of, 370.
THOMSON, verfes 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 refpect to the different countries in which they are produced, 282,
TREES, for timber, account of fome va luable fpecies in South America, 413- 416.
TRELAWNEY, Governor, his good cha racter, 131.
TROUT, a particular fpecies of, in Ire- land, 376.
TURTLE, remarkable inftinct of that animal, 434.
ALLIERE, Duchefs de la, her de- votions difcriminated, 485 VARELEZ, Lieut. bis obf. on the dif- Farition of Saturn's ring, 371.
VERSES, to a Lady, by Mr. Richardson, 95. From Shakespeare, to his mif- trefs, 482.
VIRGIL, in what refpects 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'Efprit Humain com- mended, 28. VORTIGERN, King of Britain, his meet- ing with the Princefs Rouwena, poeti cally defcribed, in an old English rhyme ing chronicle, 53.
WFranklin, concerning the elec-
ALSH, Mr. his letter to Dr.
tric property of the Torpedo, 219. WEDDERBURN, Mr. his pleadings be- fore the house of Lords, in the great cause of the copy-right of authors, 2051 208. WESLEY, Mr. his letter to the Re- viewers on the negro-trade, 488. WILLES, Judge, his opinion relative to literary property, 83, 206
WILSON, Dr. Alexander, his obf, on the folar spots, 368. His improvement in the cross-wires of telescopes, 370.
Mr. his ebf, on Mr. Henly's electrical experiments, 379.
Dr. Andrew, his inquiry into the circulation of the blood, 399. WILTON, critical obf. on fome of the ftatues and bufts there, 34.
WINN, Mr. his remarks on the Aurora Borealis, 375.
WOMEN, their natural right to the ad- vantages of a learned education afferted, 388.
YARUARU, 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 queftion of perpetuity, 89. YOUNG, late Sir Wm. his character, 31.
ARTICLES Contained in the APPENDIX.
BSTINENCE from food, extraordi.
A Bary infance of, 551.
ETHER, Marine, difcoveries relative to the production of, 545. AIR, its near affinity with fire, 521. ALEXIS, fon to Peter the Great, incurs his father's difpleasure, 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. His adberents punished, ib. AMIOT, Father, his account of the cold in China, 552.
ANTHEAULME, M. his obf. on the me- thod of grinding and polishing object- glaffes of telescopes, 553. AURORA BOREALIS, found emitted by, 552.
AUME, M. his experiments on the
B decompofition of vitriolated tartar,
by the nitrous acid alone, 549. BORMES, Baron de, his improvements in the production of æther, 546. BUFFON, Mr. his vifionary theories in philofophy, 519-521. His fanciful fpeculation on air, ib. His experiments to ascertain the progrefs of heat in bo- dies, 522. His obf, and exper. on pla- tina, 524. His improvements in the construction of burning glasses, 527— 533.
BURNING Glaffes. See MIRRORS. BUTTER FLY. See MULLER.
ANGUAGE, origin of, 508. In what refpect it may be faid to pro- ceed from the Deity, 509. LAPUCHIN, Abraham, brother to the Emprefs 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 mafter and the Emprefs Eudoxia,
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- trefs 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 abfence from Ruffia, 496. His devotion te the Emprefs Catherine, 500. His ambitious views to raise his family to the throne, 501. Is recon- ciled to the unfortunate Eudoxia, and delivers her from prifon, 502.
MERCURY, different methods of com- bining with iron, and of rendering it foluble in water, 547. MESSIER, M. his account of the found emitted by an Aurora Borealis, 552. MIRRORS, burning, and LENSES, CU- rious improvement in the conftruction and use of, 528.
MOENSEN, Ann, becomes miftrefs to Pe- ter the Great, 490. Refuses to marry him, and he abandons her, 492.. MONTAIGNE, Michael de, his charac- ter, 504. His journal of his travels into Italy, 506.
Moon, experiments to try whether it
tranfmits heat or cold to the earth, 532. MORVEAU, M. his experiments on platina, 525.
MULLER, Mr. his account of a non- defcript butterfly, 55%. N.
ALAIE, M. de, begins the Hiftory of the Troubadours, which M. Millot finishes, 558.
PEKIN, experiments on the degree of cold there, 552.
PETER, the Great, Emperor of Ruffia,
marries Eudoxia Faderowna, 490. Falls in love with another lady and refolves on a divorce, 491. Marries Catherine Alexiewna, 493. Difinherits and condemns his fon Prince Alexis, 497. His great improvements of his empire, 539. His difpute with the Q of England, 540. Firft ftiled Emperor, by the English, ib. His campaign on
ERRAT A, &c. in this VOLUME.
P. 79, omitted the price of Tomlinfon's Medical Mifcellany, viz. 4 s. 6 d. boards.
P. 144, for conflituent, read component principles.
Ibid. par. 2, 1. 2, place a comma after combined.
last line of the paragraph, after lime, add, into a neutral falt! 1. penult. for be enabled, read, enable him.'
P. 147, par. 3, 1. 1, for subject, read subjects.
P. 397, par. 2, 1. penult. for two, read too.
P. 485, in the account of The Cobler, for worthy of imitation,' read, worthy of the imitation,'
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