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Suhm, M. de, his correfpondence
with the late K. of Pruffia, 595.
Death-bed letter from, 596.
Sun, its nature falfely invefti-
gated, 310. Supposed to be
like a great kitchen fire, 311.
Its light neceffary for producing
dephlogisticated air, 338.
Superftition, one means of fub-
jecting and enslaving mankind,
332.
Surgeons, military and naval, their
qualifications, 218.

in the navy, their fitua-
tion compaffionately reprefent-
ed, 412.

Surgery, the prefent ftate of, 306.

Bad ftate of, in the navy, 412.
Swallows, their torpid ftate dur-

ing winter, 540.
Swayne, Mr. objects to Mifs
Rhodes's management of filk-
worms, 467.
Swinging, its effects in curing
confumptions, 327. Cafes of
cures by, ib. Deemed empi-
ricism, 328.

Syria, Volney's travels into, 592.

His account of the Druzes
there, ib. Extent and popu-
lation of that country, 593.
Ruins of Palmira, ib. Prefent
ftate of commerce there, 594.
Great privileges of the Franks,
ib.

TAMERLANE the Great, his

Political and Military Infti-
tutes tranflated into French,
577.

Templars, Knights, account of
their diffolution, 285.
Theatre, act for licensing, origin
of, 60.
Thompson, Sir Benj. experiments
on the production of dephlo-
gifticated air, 337. Refutes Dr.
Ingenhoufz's fyftem, 338.
Thomjon's Seafons, ftricture on, 30.
Thunder form, a remarkable one
defcribed, 344. Obfervations
on it, 345.

Toleration afferted and recom-
mended, 453-

Tongues, the gift of, as spoken of
in Scripture, not speaking in
languages, but in tones, 510.
Trials, remarkable, in Scotland,

213.

Trinity, doctrine of, abfurdly in-
troduced into a Preface to Ari-
ftotle's Poetics, 3.
Troostwyk, M. on the nature of
different aeriform fluids, 528.
Turnips, how cultivated in Nor-
folk, 93.
Tythings, hundreds, and counties,
their first inftitution, 112. The
utility of the divifion, 113.
Tytler, Mr. his historical re-
fearches in favour of Mary
Q. of Scots, commended, 475.

VANITY of Human Wishes, a

poem, by Dr. S. Johnson,
fhort account of, 135.
Vapour, how converted into rain,

117. Produces different kinds
of aeriform fluids, 121. Is the
cause of heat in the lower re-
gions of the atmosphere, 125.
Vegetables, obfcurity of their dif

tinguishing characteristics, 469.
Endowed with perception, ib.
Venereal disease, its hiftory, 317.
First cured by quickfilver, ib.
Different methods of treating
it examined, 318.
Verfes to Mira, on her wedding-
day, 446. See also Reviewers.

on a young divine, who was
made the fport of fome frolic-
fome ladies, 494.
Verftap, M. his prize differtation,

fhewing that true philofophy
has no tendency to undermine
revelation, 523.
Vineyards, recommended for cul-
ture in England, 503.
Virtue, philofophically confider-

ed, Dr. S. Johnfon's idea of, 65.
Virtue and Ornament, an ode, by

Dr. James Fordyce, 371.
Univerfity, hints for the improve-

ment

ment of, in refpect of educa-
tion, 277.

Volcano in the moon defcribed,
346.
Volney, M. fets out for Egypt in
1782, and arrives at Cairo, 589.
Refides fix months among the
Druzes, ib. Proceeds through
Syria, &c. 590. His curious
account of the hot winds of the
defart, ib. Detail of occur-
Re-
rences in Egypt, 591.
markable hofpitality of the
Druzes, 592. His account of
the ftupendous ruins of Pal-
myra, 593. Of the present
commerce of Syria, 594. Pe-
culiar advantages allowed to
the Franks, ib.

Vofmaer, M. defcription of the
mermaid of Haarlem, 527.
Voyages in the Northern Seas,
Forster's account of, 290. See
alfo Discoveries.

WARING, Profeffor, on infi-
nite feries, 178..
Water, transformable into air,
126. Heat of, when boiling,
altered by the mixture of dif-
ferent fubftances, 554. See alfo
Vapour.
Wax, Grecian method of paint-
ing in, 463.

Webb, Mr. his reafons for think-
ing that the Greek language
was borrowed from the Chi-
nefe, 330.

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his verses to Mira on
her wedding-day, 446.
Wheat, method of fetting, inftead

of fowing, 98.
White, Dr. confecrated Bishop of
Pennsylvania, 86.

White, Profeffor, concerned in the

publication of the Institutes
of Timur, 578.
Willis, Mr. method to prevent
retorts from breaking, 462.
Winds, bot and poisonous, in Egypt,
defcribed, 590.

Wine, remarks relative to the
Portugal wine trade, 405.

, English, the growth of, re-
commended, 503.

Wines, imported, late act relative
to, dangerous to the liberties
of Englishmen, 83.
Witch, the expence of burning
one in Scotland fpecified, 216.
Wollaston, Mr. his obfervations

on a comet, 177.

Wood, Mr. account of the differ-
ent editions of his Hiftory of
Oxford, 287. The fum paid
to him by the university for his
original copy, ib.

Wool, obfervations relative to
the illicit exportation of, 71.
Coarfer in warm than in cold
climates, 206. How diftin-
guished from hair, 207.
Wounds, their treatment in gene-
ral, 218. Different kinds of,
219.

YEARSLEY, Mrs. the poetical

milk-woman, her character
and conduct vindicated, 485.
Specimens of her zd volume
of poems, 486.
York, James Duke of, Morley's
Expoftulation with, on account
of his bigotted attachment to
Popery, 53.

Young, Mr. attacks Sir Ifaac New-
ton's doctrine of vis inertia,
Remarks on his Letter

239.

to the Reviewers, 422.

Correspondence,

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JAN. 31, 1788. E are now happy to oblige our " Conftant Reader" (whose letter was briefly acknowledged on the laft page of our Review for Auguft laft), by informing him, that the third volume of MONTUCLA's Hiftory of the Mathematics has not yet appeared; that SULZER'S Dictionary of the Fine Arts, in 2 vols. 4to. has not yet been tranflated into French; and that although this work is not fo completely finished, as the Author propofed, we think it well deserves an English tranflation.-The fame correfpondent is also informed, that it is true, that Michaelis has published a new and much improved edition of his Introductory Lectures to the Study of the New Teftament, fince they were tranflated into Englifh; affo, that another edition, ftill more improved, is to be expected, as foon as he has finished his Lectures introductory to the Study of the Old Testament.-Our answer to another article of this correfpondent's inquiry, muft be deferred to a future opportunity, as we are not yet poffeffed of certain information on that head, though we believe we shall obtain it very foon.

M.

The ftrictures of J. T. and P. C-1, on our account of Dr. Butler's " Juftification of the Roman Catholic Religion," are kindly taken. But we ftill apprehend, we were juftified in adverting to the convenient agency of the civil power in religious perfecution: because it is notorious, that the holy tribunal employs the civil power to put heretics to death, and then difclaims the odioufnefs of the act. The difcipline within the very walls of the Inquifition, is not of the moft merciful kind; yet its jurifdiction is fanctioned by the courts of ROME, Spain, and Portugal: and where else are we to feek for the spirit of religion there profefled? Not furely in private opinions here! We do not defcend to reproach perfonal characters, well knowing that principles on either fide, are warped to private purposes by human paffions; the regular operation of principles is therefore the only criterion of their tendency. If intolerance be the object of any principles, let those look to it who profefs them. We are happy to find that those who, under British government, call themselves Roman Catholics, difavow all coercion in religion: and in our humble opinion, when any means beyond argumentative perfuafion are employed in offering principles to our affent, either those principles are not truths, or the teachers of them are not the minifters of truth, but aim at fomething elfe. As France is pointed out particularly to our imitation, it may fuffice to obferve, that when all political diftinction between Catholics and Proteftants is an

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nihilated in that country, it will be time enough to confider, whether toleration in all cafes ought to have fo extensive an operation here. Till then, we fee a clear diftinction between perfonal liberty, and political truft.

We wish not to embark in any theological difputes; and should we ever be inadvertently betrayed into the flightest appearance of "illiberality in matters of religion," we hope there will never be wanting judicious and difpaffionate friends, who, like our present correfpondents, may remind us of our cenforial dignity, and of what the world expects from the candor of the Monthly Reviewers, the old and ftaunch advocates for religious liberty, in the most catholic and unconfined sense of the words.

+ The letter figned B. is refpectfully acknowledged. Every well intended admonition will always be thankfully received by us. Such intimations are, no doubt, friendly; and may prove useful, in guarding against inadvertencies. But, with refpect to our correfpondent's charge of inconfiftency, we here enter our ftanding proteft against any comparison of the fentiments of a critic who wrote in remote periods of our journal, with those of the prefent writers. To fuppofe that a living Reviewer is obliged to maintain, or to be, in any meafure, cramped by, the opinions of his predeceffors, would be placing him in a ftate of flavery, the most abject that can be imagined-the SLAVERY OF THE MIND! that very ftate from which it has ever been the great endeavour of the Monthly Reviewers, as far as the influence of their publications might extend, to fet mankind free: and of this, their FAVOURITE OBJECT, it is hoped they will never lofe fight.

1st The new royal folio edition of Smellie's original plates, with additions by Dr. Hamilton, has not, to our knowledge, been advertised in London; confequently we have not yet feen it. Our Edinburgh correfpondent however may depend on its being noticed in our Journal when we have procured the book.

S+S We have perufed the monitory reflexions' of HUMA NUS, with fatisfaction. The plan of our Review would not permit our infertion of them; but we have endeavoured to extend their circulation, through the channel of a refpectable Evening Paper.

*We have, alas! been too often reminded, that the office of a Reviewer (whatever may become of his works) is by no means an exemption from Mortality.

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