nocence! May the integrity and generofity of the English cha- racter for ever preserve THIS NATION from all danger of being 'juftly added to the foregoing lift !
ART. XXIII. Plantes et Arbustes d'agrément, &c. i. e. Ornamental Plants and Shrubs, engraven and coloured after Nature; with Directions for their Culture. Numbers 3 and 4. 8vo. Win- terthour. 1794. London, De Boffe. Price THE favourable reception given to the first and fecond numbers of this elegant work has encouraged those who are concerned in it to proceed, and to offer to the public two more numbers, which they deem equal, and even fuperior, to the preceding, in refpect both of the felection of plants and of the engraving.
In a few introductory paragraphs to No. 3, fome useful (though well-known) directions are inferted, concerning the immediate treatment neceffary to preferve plants which have been received from a distance, and which are confequently in a weak ftate, from having been long out of the ground; and a well- founded caution is added respecting the weather most favourable for taking plants out of a green-houfe in the fpring. This fhould be performed on a mild rainy day, when the gentle fhowers will cleanse and refresh the fhrubs, and when they will not be injured by the ftrong rays of the fun, which their tender- nefs arifing from their winter's confinement prevents their being at first able to bear. Evergreens, particularly, fhould be placed in a fhady fituation, and familiarized to the heat of the fun by degrees.
fen plants occur in thefe numbers, viz. the imbricated diof- ma; the curled lilly; the fea-green kalmia; the night-flowering Egyptian marygold; the heliotrope of Peru; the nightly bas- tard jafinine; the Media, or Virginian primrose; the melia, or bead-tree; the mofs-rofe; and the rofe fcented geranium.
The defcriptions give the Latin, French, and English names, the clafs, order, generic and specific characters, the place whence first obtained, the qualities, mode of culture and propagation, &c. of each plant.-The work certainly feems to merit the en- couragement of thofe who are fond of green-house flowers, particularly ladies, either theoretically or practically; and the plates form good patterns for thofe who amufe themfelves with delineating vegetable beauties. The plant itself, indeed, may in this cafe be the best model, but may not be at every person's command.
Ten numbers are to form a volume, with an Index, No intimation is given of the intended extent of the work.
in giving the English name, it is in this work wrongly printed bend tree.
To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume.
N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.
AIR, experiments on the gene- ration of, from water, 380. Airs, different, experiments rela- tive to, 118, 301. Alexander the Great, his charac ter weighed in the balance against that of a good man, and found wanting, 498. America, circumftances of the late war between that country and Gr. Brit. 55. Surprising re- treat of the Americans from Long Island defcribed, 58. Battle at the Cowpens defcrib. ed, 60. American Red Book, 338. Philofophic Society of, their tranfactions, vol. iii, 568. Progress of population in that country, 572. Animation, vegetable, facts ref-
pecting the irritability of, 5. Arithmetic, improvement in the art of teaching, by a Dutch writer, 520.
Artois, Comte d', his high attach- ment to unlimited monarchy, 482.
Affociation at the Crown and An-
chor attacked and vindicat- ed, 83. Auguftus, the Roman Emp. his queflionable character, 566. Aurora Borealis, remarkable one, obferved in North America,573 B
Ballintubber and Buryfhool, Ire- land, noble ruins of Abbies
there, 395. Barbour, John, an ancient Scottish writer, account of, 432. Spe-
cimens of his poetry, 433. Barton, Mr. his obf. on the pro- bability of the duration of hu- man life, and the progress of population, in the United States of America, 572.
Dr. his account of the means of preventing the dele- terious confequences of the bite of the rattle fnake, 575. Berington, Rev. Mr. heavy charges against, by zealots of the Roman Catholic perfua- fion, 474. Bilborough, Mr. his verfes to Dr.
Darwin, on his Zoonomia, 13. Briot, M. his ideas refpecting the origin of the war between England and France, 455. British Empire, too far extended to be well governed, 430.
Conftitution, not the refult of fyftem, 449 Striking re-
marks on, 499. Brunfwic, Duke of, out-wits the French, at the time of his me- morable retreat from the coun- try of the latter, 230. Account of his late campaign, 525. Brutus, Marcus, character of,425. Burke, Mr. his family hiftory, go.
Not bred a papift, ib. How far to be confidered as the author of the prefent war, ib. His political conduct discussed, 91. At- tacked, 96,
Canal, for the junction of the Se- vern and the Thames, de- fcribed, 363. Caffel, in Germany, defcribed,
122. Large library there, ib. Valuable mufeum, ib. Cato, his character, 423. Celtes, the primeval inhabitants of Ireland, a timid and unwarlike race, 392. Their mode of for tification, &c. ib. Their my- thology (and themselves too) derived from Scythia, 257. Cicero, his great character, 423. Chauffard, M. his account of the duplicity of the French, in their conduct toward the Netherland- ers, 5c6. His notable con- ference and quarrel with Du- mouriez, 518.
Christianity the perfection of na- tural religion, 48. Intolerance unhappily introduced into it, 50. Syftem of, defended against T. Paine, 339, 342. Excellency of, from the Prench of M. Be- nard, 348. Not adverfe to true Patriotism, 499, Companies, mercantile, their ex- clufive principle detrimental to industry, and to themfelves,298. Conic Sections, rife and progrefs of, 385.
Conftitution Françoife, plan for, found among the papers of M. Pellenc, 481. Corporations, impediments to in- dustry, 298. See also Companies. CORRESPONDENCE with the Reviewers, viz. Mr. D'ISRA- ELI, concerning Mrs. Macau- lay, 117. MEDICUS on airs, and the decompofition of water, 118. ANONYMOUS, on the treaty of Pilnitz, 119. Mr. DIGGES, on the books that have appeared against the er- rors of the church of Rome, 120. CLERICUs, on reprint- ing the early volumes of the Monthly Review, ib.
DOU, rel. to the treaty of Pil- nitz, 240. SAINTFORT, ad- vising a translation of Scheyers on Hydraulics, 360. 480. Mr. HESSE Complaining of injuf
tice, ib. A. Z. concerning the authenticity of St. Juft's re- port, 479. Mr. Heffe anfwer- ed, 480. A friend to the Abbé Gaultier, on the Abbé's in- vention of the "Rational and Moral Game," ib. A friend, concerning British Synonomy,ib. Croup, obfervations on the nature and treatment of that difeafe, 461.
Daniel, his vifions explained, 38. Darwin, Dr. verfes to, in com-
mendation of his Zoonomia,13. David, K. of Ifrael, in what to be confidered as the man after God's heart, 530.
Death, the agonies of, ought to be leffened as much as poffible, by medical affiftance, 568. Deiman, M. his differtation on mathematical ftudies, 564. Difsafes, philofophic arrangement of, 10.
Dunbrody abbey, ruins of, defcri- bed, 395.
Dunkirk, particulars of the history and memorable fiege of, in the time of Lewis XIV. 229.
Fayette, Marquis de, his coolness in the cause of the French re- volution, 317. His imprison- ment by the Germans very unaccountable, 318. His ac- quiefcence in a proposed new French Conftitution, 482. Fever, yellow, of Philadelphia,
Dr. Rufh's account of, 161. Caufe of affigned, 162. Ex- treme virulence of the virus, ib. Different methods of treatment, 166.
in the East Indies, treat- ment of by the British phy- ficians, 188, &c.
, Jamaica fever, causes, na- ture, and hiftory of, 439. Cure of, 440. France, ftate of in May 1794, as given by the Comte de Mont- gaillard, 72. Account contro- verted, 137. Domeftic anec- dotes of the French na- tion, 153. Remarks, &c. by Petion, 198. Report by St. Just, of enormous expences on ac- count of the neutral powers, 204. Political relations between the French and the Swifs dif- cuffed, 287. More than 250,000 men faid to have fallen by the civil war in La Vendée, 335. Eftimate of the No. of troops employed in defence of the Con- ventional Government, 414. Equipment and maintenance of, 416. Plan for a peace with, 447. Briffot's opinion of the leading principle of the war, 455. Aftonishing amount of the French affignats now in cir- culation, 476. Conftitution pro- pofed for, 482. Plan for a new eftablishment of the clergy,491. Great confequences to be ap- prehended from the event of the French war, 494. The de-
ftruction of the French monar- chy owing to the badness of the Government, and the pro- fligacy of the Great,537.Hifto-
ry of the Revolution published in Holland, 546. National Af- fembly, the measures of, de- fended, 548. France fincerely defirous of peace with Eng- land, 549.
Franklin, Dr. Benjamin, his re-
markable anecdote in favour of induftry, 296. Papers left by him published in the tranfactions. of the American Society, 569. French, their afbitrary behaviour toward the Genevese, 580. Friendship, just observation and good advice relative to, 53.. G
Gallicifms, or French idioms, obf. on, 560. Inftances, ib. Gardenflone, Lord, his converfation with M. Lavater, 194. Re- marks on the route from Ratif- bon and Munich, 195. Ac- count of a fingular fect, called "The Illuminated," ib. Generation, animal, curious fyftem of, 11.
of air from water, ex- periments relative to, 380. Geneva, observations on the late revolution there, 578.
Grofe, Captain, his arrival at Dub-
lin, in order to accomplish his plan for writing the Antiquities of Ireland, 391 Prevented, by death, from profecuting the work, ib. His pleafing and wor- thy character, ib. The defign carried on by Mr. Ledwich, ib. His place of interment, and en- comium on him, 396.
of the principal rivers of Great Britain, 361.
of the rile and progrefs of Conic Sections, 385.
of Robt. Bruce, 441. of the Campaign, 1794,
of the revolution in the Netherlands, 506. Hopkinfon, Mr. See Lightning. Horace, advantageous character of, as a Man, 426.
Hudibras, the first and laft poem of its kind, 170. Nash's edition of, commended, ib.
Hunter, John, lift of his anato- mical and other labours, 178. One of the most induftrious of
men, 180. His perfonal ap-
Hurdis, Mr. his pathetic poem on the death of his filler, 312. His elegant verfes to a lady who drew the pins from her bonnet in a thunder ftorm, 315. I and J Jacob, his wrestling with God explained, 35. Jenyns, Soame, his character,428. His works collected, ib. Illuminated, a very fingular fect, in Germany, &c. fhort account of, 195. Indies,Eaft,religious circumftances of, 181. British Government and trade, 182. Mocurrery fyftem, 184. Difeafes, and their medical treatment, 187. Com- mercial advantages of, to Gr. Brit. greatly inferior to thofe arifing from our West Indian trade, 307: Debates at the
Eaft India House, 329. Indies, Weft, trade and manufac-
tures of, 60. Sugar cane, cultivated, 64. How manu- factured, 65. Cotton, vaft im- portance of, in a commercial view, 67. Indigo, curious ac. count of, ib. Coffee, ib. Co- coa, 69. Pimento, defcribed
as one of the most elegant pro- ductions of nature, ib. Remark. able fingularity in the natural hiftory of, ib. Great value of a pimento plantation, Ginger, ib. Commercial efti- mates of the value of the West Indian Iflands to Great Britain, 306. Comparative view of the Trade of the Eaft and Welt
Indies, 307. The balance greatly in favour of our intereft in the latter, and the confequent impolicy and cruelty of laying fevere reftrictions on it, 309. Infine, animal, philofophical ob- Infurre&tions,national,difpaffionate- fervations on, 5- ly confidered, 547. Different characters of infurrection, ib. Intolerance, religious impolicy and injustice of, 50.
Job, book of, tranflated into Dutch, by Prof. Schultens,521. Good obfervations on the cafe and story of Job, 522. Johnfon, Dr. Sam. his verfes on an extravagant young heir,248. Ireland, inquiry into the beft Jones, Dr. See Lightning.
means of employing the poor of that country, 291. Account of the antiquities of, begun by Capt. Grofe, and profecuted by Mr. Ledwich, 391. His ac- count of the primeval inhabit- ants of Ireland, 392. Offome particular antiquities, 395. Great fources of employment for the poor, applied to the cafe of Ireland, 400. Manners of the lower Irish, 401. Prefent fituation of Ireland, with respec to foil, fituation, and produc- tions, 403. Abfurdity of Eng- lith policy, regarding that
Ifaiah, liii. new tranflation of, 38. country, 407. Italy, laws of, radically bad, 33.
Jurifprudence of, compared with that of England, 34.
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