the moisture of, how observed, 116. The component parts of, 121. Electricity of, 126. Atterbury, bishop, his connexion with Father Courayer, 356. Noticed by the lieutenant of police, ib.
Attraction of cohesion, remark- able inftance of, 381.
BAlloons, Air, remarks on, 449.
Bards, and Druids, Irish, va- rious particulars relative to, 426-438.
Bardees, filence of history with regard to them, ib. Barometer, objections to its ufe in measuring heights, 537- Baskerville's types employed in printing the works of the late King of Pruffia, 585. Baxter, Mr. defcribes a fet of ha- los and parahelia, 347. Beccher, Mr. firft defcribed phlo- gifton, 207.
Bellenden, William, a Scotch writer, fome account of him, and of his writings, 504. Extraor- dinary preface to the new edi- tion of fome of his Tracts, 505. Bennet, Mr. defcribes a new elec- trometer, 339.
Black Eagle, a fong, by Dr. James Fordyce, 377-
Blind People, method of teaching them to write and read mufic, 465. Blood, obfervations on the circu- lation of, 327. Boethius, fome account of him and his writings, 197. His notion of happiness, ib. Bramah, Mr. the inventor of locks, on a new construction, that cannot be picked, 406. Brafs, not magnetical, 341. Brekes, Captain. See Cafricom. Brooke, Henry. See Gustavus. Brown, Dr. William Laurence, his Prize-differtation on Scep- ticifm, 571.
Brown, Sir Thomas, the pomp of
his ftyle and diction reflected in the writings of Dr. S. Johnson, 69.
Bruning, M. on the depth of ca- nals, 527 Bryant, J. F. pipe-maker and poet, fome account of, 159. Specimen of his poetry, ib. Brydone, Mr. his account of a re- markable thunder-ftorm, 344- Buchanan, the hiftorian, influ-
enced by Q Elizabeth, to mif- reprefent Mary Q. of Scots, 473.
Bugge, Profeffor, determines the place of Saturn's defcending node, 177.
Bunbury. Mr. his humorous aca-
demy for grown horsemen, 389. Button, Sir Thomas, his voyage for finding a north-weft paffage, 291. His Journal löft, 292.
CAGLIOSTRO, Count, ob-
fervations on his adventures, and fufpicious character, 247. Calonne, M. de, his address to the King of France, 363. Camphor-tree, natural hiftory of, 554-
Canals, the depth of, increased by streams, 527. Cafaux, Marquis de, his corre- fpondence with the Monthly Reviewers, 88.
Caffini, M. refuted by Dr. Maf- kelyne with respect to the longitude and latitude of Greenwich, 180.
Caftillon, M. on gnomonics, 555. Caftricom, Captain, and Brefkes,
their voyage to examine the N. E. coaft of Tartary, 297- Cavallo, Mr. his magnetical ex- periments, 341.
Celfus, a fcholar of Sextius, 60c. Chaftellux, Marquis de, his ac-
commodations, &c. in his American travels, 39. Cheefe, Mr. his machine for teaching blind people to write mufic, 465. 17
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. Christianity, its truth referred to one great argument, drawn from Isaiah, vii. 1-16. 267. See alfo Philofophy, and Revela-
Chronology, remarks on, 319. Cicero, obfervations on his firft Tufculan, 556.
Clergy, fermon preached againft 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 His imitation of Pfalm xxxix. 281. Comet, a new one, fee Herfchel. Commons, British House of, a fchool for eloquence, 233. Not an adequate reprefenta- tion of the people, 234. Compass, variation of, confidered, 343.
Commerce, internal, increases po- pulation, 130.
external, diminishes national industry, ib.
of England, estima- tion of, 237. Conftitution of the English go- vernment, a medley of other forms, 234. Comparative view of its advantages and difad- vantages, 235. Juft idea form- ed of it, by a French authorefs, 565.
APP. Rev, Vol. LXXVII.
Cook, Captain, vindicated against 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 Kome, 599. 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 translation
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, fketch 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. Discoveries, made in the northern feas, 290. The Dutch ac- counts deemed inconfiftent with each other, 297. That hypo- thefis groundless, 298. See Voyages.
Diversions of the field, as prac Tt tifed
his memory defended a- gainft 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.
--, intellectual, new plan of, 543. The fynthetic me- thod difapproved, ib. See
alfo Milton. Egan, Dr. his method of teaching boys to fpeak 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
Commons a fchool of elo- quence, 233. Their military power by fea and land, 235. Their poor, 236. Their com- merce, ib.
Elearicity of the atmosphere, 126.
Electrometer, new one described, 339. Variety of experiments on, 340. Elephanta, island 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 history 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 instances 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. Fabion, 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,
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, y land and fea, general eftimate of,235. Fordyce, Rev. Dr. poems by, 376. Specimens of, 377. Formey, M. on the firft 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 against England, 562. Franklin, Dr. Benj. teftimony to his great character, 44.
not the in- ventor of the Swimming anchor, 256.
his friend- fhip and correfpondence with Mr. Strahan, 372.
GAME, vaft damage done by, to the farmers in Nor- folk, 101. Gauden, Bishop, expressly de- clared to have been the author of Icon Bafilike, 54. Genefis, Mr. Dawfon's tranflation of fome parts of, 140. Georgium Sidus. See Herfchel. Gerard, M. on the tranfmutation of earths and ftones, 554. Giffard, Mr. his inftrumentality in caufing the act for licenfing the ftage, 60. Gleditfch, M. his natural history of the camphor-tree, 554. Globe of the earth, its age contro- verted, 183.
Guomonics, the theory and prac-
tice of, 555 Godfchal, Mr. a contributor to- ward the publication of Cla- rendon's flate-papers, 51.
Golden Rump, a play, occafions the act for licenfing the stage,
60. Goldsmith's Deferted Village cha- racterized, 30.
Goodall, Mr. the first who fuc- cefsfully attempted to clear up the hiftory of Mary Queen of Scots, 474
Goths. See Scythians. Government, nature of the Eng- lish, sentiments 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,
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- vestigated, 482. Directions to navigators for croffing it, 483.
Guillam, Capt. his voyage to Hudfon's Bay, 292. Guftavus Vaja, 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. Johnfon, 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- Tt2
men of, as tranflated 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 observation, first attempted by him, ib. Halo. See Parahelia. Hanway, Jonas, anecdotes con- cerning, 220.
Happiness, ideas of, as conceived by Boethius, 197. Harrifon, 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) discovers a new comet, 177.
Dr. his remarks on ditto,
Discovers 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 fcepticism, 576. Heffian troops, in the pay of Great Britain, their unfuccefsful at- tack on the Red Bank fort, 41. Highlands of Scotland, the western
coaft of, defcribed, 443. The miferable condition of the in- habitants, ib. The ftate of agriculture, ib. Means of im- proving, 444. Highlanders of Scotland, the wretchedness of their fituation
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.
Horsemanship, humorous inftruc- tions in, 389.
Hofpital, Westminster lying-in, account of, 408.
Hofpitals, their use 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.
Hume, 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.
miftaken 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,
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