Chemistry, general divifion of,
469.
Chefs, hiftory of the game of,
312. Account of the various
treatifes written concerning it,
ib.

Chesterfield, Earl of, his writings
compared with thofe of Dr.
S. Johnfon, 458. His oppo-
fition to the act for licenfing
dramatic compofitions, 60.
Chriftianity, its truth referred to
one great argument, drawn from
Ifaiah, vii. 1-16. 267. See
alfo Philofophy, and Revela-

tion.

Chronology, remarks on, 319.
Cicero, obfervations on his firft
Tufculan, 556.

Clergy, fermon preached against

fuch of them as are of blame-
able conduct, 421.
Clouds, formation of, 126.
Collins, Mr. his Oriental Eclogues
praised, 29.
Colman, Mr. his thoughts on
public education, 275. Pro-
feffedly written in answer to
Mr. Locke, ib. Extracts from,
ib. His ode relative to Dr.
Johnfon, 279. His imitation
of Pfalm xxxix. 281.
Comet, a new one, see Herschel.
Commons, British Houfe of, a
school for eloquence, 233.
Not an adequate reprefenta-
tion of the people, 234
Compass, variation of, confidered,

Cook, Captain, vindicated againft
Dr. Forfter, 293.

Cooke, Mr. his new edition of
Ariftotle's Poetics, 1. His
Greek tranflation of Gray's
Elegy, 9.

Counties, English, utility of their
divifion into tythings and hun-
dreds, 113.

Courayer, Father, his intimacy
with Bishop Atterbury, 356.
Craffitius, a famous teacher at
Rome, $99.
Criminals, the public punish-
ments of, their defign, 153.
Effects of, inefficacious, 154
Plan for reforming, ib.
Crokat, James, a great literary
projector, 31.

Crown lands, two kinds of, 259.
At prefent confounded, ib.
Cullum, Sir Thos. on a remark-
able exfoliation, 360.
Curfe of the earth, on the fall,
hypothefis concerning, 182.

DAVY, Major, his tranflation

of the Inftitutes of Tamer-
lane, compared with that of
M. Langlès, 578.
Deafness. See Sims.
Debt, national, method for dif

charging, 302. Its magnitude
at the beginning of 1786,
304.
Dedications, how they ought to
be written, 461.

De Foe, Daniel, sketch of his
life, 459. His character as a
writer, 460.

Denham, Sir John, his claim to
reputation as a poet queftioned,

26.
Dieman, Dr. on the nature of dif-
ferent aeriform fluids, 528.
Difcoveries, made in the northern
feas, 290.
The Dutch ac-
counts deemed inconfiftent with
each other, 297. That hypo-
thefis groundless, 298. See
Voyages.
Diverfions of the field, as prac-
Tt
tifed

tifed by our ancestors, verfes
on, 491.
Douglas, Dr. affifts in the publi-
cation of Clarendon's ftate-

papers, 51.
Dogmatifm, its abfurdity, 574.
Proper medium between it and
fcepticifm, 575.

Donop, Col. affecting account of
his death, in the attack of the
fort at Red Bank, in America,
42.
Draining of mines. See Mines.
Duelling. See Rawdon.
Dung for manure, the beft forts
pointed out, 99:

Dyer, the poet, his Grongar Hill
criticifed, 28.

-, his memory defended a-
gainst the afperfions of Sir John
Hawkins, 62.

EARTH, propofals for afcer-
taining the figure of, 181.

,

ftrata of, in Lincoln-
fhire, 347. Change of the
earth immediately after the
Fall, fuppofed to have been
total, 182. See alfo Curfe,
and Globe.
Earthquake, account of one in

the north of England, 346.
Earths, the tranfmutations of,
554.
Education, public, arguments in
favour of, 275. Hints for the
improvement of, ib.

See

intellectual, new plan
of, 543:
The fynthetic me-
thod difapproved, ib.
alfo Milton.
Egan, Dr. his method of teaching
boys to speak Latin, 463.
Obtains a premium for it, 464.
Egypt, Volney's travels into,
589. Hot and dreadful fouth-
erly winds there, 590.
Ter-
rible effects of, 591.
Englishmen, their liberty, whence
derived, 231. In what re-
fpects inferior to German free-
dom, 232.
Their House of

Elearometer, new one described,
339 Variety of experiments
on, 340.
Elephanta, ifland of, wonderful
caverns in, defcribed, 207.
Elizabeth, Queen, her duplicity
with refpect to Mary Queen
of Scots, 477. Her project
with Murray for the deftruction
of Mary, 480. Her hiftory
written by a French lady,
561.

Elocution, new method of teach-
ing, 202.

Ethics better understood by the
moderns than by the ancients,
13.
Exfoliation, remarkable inftances
of, 360. 362.

FABIANUS ftudies under Sex-
tius, 589.

Faith, implicit, in the opinions
of our forefathers, inexcufa-
ble, and injurious to truth,
149.

Farmers, in Norfolk, peculiar
advantages poffeffed by them,
96. Excellent character of
their labourers, 97.
Fashion, the followers of, fatir-
ized, 375.

Feuds, or feudal power, prior to
the Norman Conqueft, 110.
When introduced into Eng-
land, ib.

Fielding, Henry, his writings
arraigned, and vindicated,
66.
Fire, falted with fire, &c.

Mark, ix. 49, 50. Meaning
of that expreffion, 511.
Fisheries, British, plan for im-
proving, 73.

the propriety of efta-
blishing

blishing them on the coaft of
Scotland and the Hebrides,
444. Their prefent ftate im-
perfect, 445.
Fisheries, Newfoundland, efti-

mate of the value of, 405.
Forces of Great Britain, oy land

and fea, general estimate of,235.
Fordyce, Rev. Dr. poems by,
376. Specimens of, 377-
Formey, M. on the first Tufculan
of Cicero, 556.

Forfter, Dr. his abufe of the me-
mory of Capt. Cook repre-
hended, 293:

France, on the eve of fome revo-
lution in government, favour-
able to liberty, 561. Her im-
policy in affifting America
againft England, 562.
Franklin, Dr. Benj. reftimony to
his great character, 44.

not the in-

ventor of the swimming anchor,
256.

-, his friend-
fhip and correspondence with
Mr. Strahan, 372.

GAME, vaft damage done

by, to the farmers in Nor-
folk, 101.
Gauden, Bishop, exprefsly de-
clared to have been the author
of Icon Bafilike, 54.
Genefes, Mr. Dawson's tranflation

of fome parts of, 140.
Georgium Sidus. See Herfchel.
Gerard, M. on the tranfmutation

of earths and stones, 554.
Giffard, Mr. his instrumentality
in caufing the act for licensing
the stage, 60.
Gleditfch, M. his natural history
of the camphor-tree, 554.
Globe of the earth, its age contro-
verted, 183.

Gnomonics, the theory and prac-

tice of, 555.
Godfchal, Mr. a contributor to-
ward the publication of Cla-
rendon's ftate-papers, 51.

Goldsmith's Deferted Village cha-
racterized, 30.

Goodall, Mr. the firft who fuc-
ceísfully attempted to clear up
the hiftory of Mary Queen of
Scots, 474

Goths. See Scythians.
Government, nature of the Eng-
lifh, fentiments of different
writers relative to the changes
which it has undergone, 107.
Grand, M. le, publishes Lobo's
voyage to Abyffinia, 132.
Tranflation of that work. by
Dr. Johnfon, ib.

Grange, M. de la, on the varia-
tions of the motions of the
primary planets, 555.
Gray, Mr. his Elegy tranflated
into Greek, 9. That poem
defended against Mr. Knox,

29.

Greenland (Mifs) on the Grecian
method of painting in wax,
463.
Greenwich, the latitude of, 179.
distance of, from

Paris. See Roy.
Gulph Stream, particularly de
fcribed, 481. Caufes of, in-
veftigated, 482. Directions
to navigators for crofing it,
483.

Guillam, Capt. his voyage to
Hudfon's Bay, 292.
Gustavus Vafa, a play; citations
from, to evince its political
tendency, 65.
Guthrie, Mr. the real author of
Milton's Apotheofis, generally
fuppofed to have been written
by Dr. S. Johnson, 69.

HAAFF, M. his cure of the
incarcerated entero-epiplo-
hydrocele, 526.

Hafez, the Perfian poet, a vo-
luptuous writer, 184. His
Odes tranflated, 185. Speci-
T12

men

men of, as translated by Sir W.
Jones, ib. The fame by Mr.
Nott, 186. Critical remarks
on, 188. Farther fpecimens,
and obfervations, 189.
Hall, James, his voyage to Weft
Greenland, 291. Finding the
longitude by obfervation, firft
attempted by him, ib.
Halo. See Parabelia.
Hanway, Jonas, anecdotes con-
cerning, 220.
Happiness, ideas of, as conceived
by Boethius, 197.
Harrison, John, diffolves a ftone
in the bladder by fixed air,
360.
Hawkins, Sir John, characterized
as a biographer, 56. As an
egotift, 57. As a relater of
facts, 58. As a book-maker,
-59. As a politician, 63. As
a moralift, 64. As a critic,
67. As an editor, 69. Lift
of the pieces given by him, in
his edition of Johnson's works,
70.
Herschel (Mifs) difcovers a new
comet, 177:

ib.

2

Dr. his remarks on ditto,

Difcovers two fatellites
belonging to the Georgium
Sidus, 179.

Difcovers three volcanos

in the moon, 346.
Hertzberg, Count de, his decla-
ration refpecting the intended
edition of the late King of
Pruffia's works, 584.
Heffelink, M. his prize differtation
on the folly of fcepticifm, 576.
Hiflian troops, in the pay of Great
Britain, their unfuccefsful at-
tack on the Red Bank fort, 41.
Highlands of Scotland, the weftern

coaft of, defcribed, 443. The

poetically reprefented, 439.
England pathetically exhorted
to affift them, 441.
Hiftory, compilers of the univer-
fal, 32. Who the first pro-
jectors of that work, 31.
Hiftory of Mary Queen of Scots
obfcure, 472. Reasons why,
473. First elucidated by Mr.
Goodall, 474.

Holland, ftate of parties in that
republic, for feven years paft,
364. Encomium on the Stadt-
holder, 367.

Hooper, Mr. on the hydrocepha-
lus, 359:

Horfemanship, humorous inftruc-
tions in, 389.

Hofpital, Westminster lying-in,
account of, 408.

Hofpitals, their ufe as fchools of
medicine, 542.
Hudson's Bay, relation of a voyage
to, in 1611 and 1612, 291.
Remarks on the Hudson's Bay
Company, 292.

Hame, David, his hiftory of our

conftitution deficient with re-
gard to the earlier periods, 107.
cenfured for his partial
account of Mary Queen of
Scots, 475.

mistaken in his idea of the
literary abilities of women, 563.
Humility, Chriftian, defined and
explained, 147.

Hurry, Mr. tried for perjury, 322.
Obtains a verdict, with 3,000l.
damages, 323..

Hydrocele, a remarkable one cured,
526.
Hydrodynamics, the principles of,
555-

Hypocrite, character of, compared
with that of the libertine, 452.

habitants, ib. The ftate of
agriculture, ib. Means of im-
proving, 444

Highlanders of Scotland, the
wretchedness of their fituation

his tyranny, 214.
Icon Bafilike, the author of, de-

termined, 54.

Jebb, Dr. John, his life, 348.
Particulars of his conduct while
at Cambridge, 349. Refigns