Lovis II. King of Hungary and Bohemia, his remarkable birth 163 Levy, Mrs. Judith, the rich Jewels Levy, Samuel David, of Amfterdam 397 223 Percy, Earl, curious military anecdote of 549 Putnam, General, and a wolf, remarkable inftance of courage 73 Peter, Count of Savoy Premilaus, King of Bohemia, his good fortune 117 - Paxton, Captain, difcovered to be a murderer Parachute, a full account of Garnerin's Pompey's Pillar, in Alexandria Prices of various articles in the reign of Edward I1. Queen Anne, wife of Henry VIII. wonderful courage of Refiftance, his Majesty's fhip, a remarkable account of Kavillac, Francis, an account of his remarkable trial for the murder of Waddy, Dr. R. an astonishing attempt upon his life Woman fpeaking well without a tongue Warehouse, the dirty, remarkable in Leadenhall Street 12 41 78 99 402-532 414 445 453 455 464 163 Zoroafter, King of the Bactrians, his wonderful birth DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER, *Sheet 4 E (page 577 to 584) published in No. 13, is the latter End of Volume 1 which fheet is to be taken therefrom, and the Number carefully reftitched and preferved for the commencement of Vol. 2. This INDEX to be placed at the Beginning, immediately after the Preface. +++ It is recommended that the Volumes of this Work as they occur, may for the prefent be done up in boards, in order that the Whole at the Conclufion may be bound complete and uniform. In future an Index will be given at the end of each refpective Volume. AUTHENTIC PARTICULARS OF DANIEL DANCER, Esq. LATE OF PINNER, MIDDLESEX, Who died in a Sack, and is a moft Remarkable Example of UNACCOUNTABLE AVARICE, Content is wealth, the riches of the mind, ·} DRYDEN. THE aftonishing mifery which attends avarice, affords a most admirable leffon to all those both in affluent and indigent circumstances: it teaches the former that wealth is not always the fource of happiness, and the latter may fee that, though poor, they are richer in content than fome poffeffed of thousands; who, through their unaccountable penury, render themselves base and unhappy; for a MISER, according to the true meaning of the word, (being derived from the Latin) is a perfon mean and miferable! • Mr. DANIEL DANCER, a most remarkable inftance of extraordinary parfimony, was born in the year 1716, and was the eldest of four children, three fons and a daughter. His father lived on Harrow-Weald Common, near Harrow on the Hill, where he poffeffed property to a very confiderable amount, and which this his fon, by the most whimfical abftemioufnefs increased to upwards of 3000l. per Mifs Dancer, who fupplied the place of a fervant to her brother, was equally avaricious and faving: a mix annum. Vol. I. No. I. B ture |