medy, 222. Farther report of proceedings in cases of high treason, 356. Bp. of Ossory's sermon, alluding to the un- happy circumstances of the times with respect to that kingdom, 476.
Irwin, Mr. his Nilus, an elegy on Nelson's victory, praised, 456. Italy, Buonaparte's conquest is promoted by magnificent pro- mises of liberty, which have been very imperfectly kept,500.
Kenyon, Lord, his liberal ideas- with respect to literary property, delivered on the case of Beck- ford v. Hood, for printing a book without leave, 310. See also Abburst. Kippis, Dr. his conduct as editor of the Biographia Britannica commended, 13.
Land-tax, sale of, pamphlets re-
lative to, 345. Le Lievre, and Pelletier, Messrs. report on extracting mineral alkali from dea-salt, 362. On the manufacture of soap, ib.: Loadstone, account of a prodigious one, which sustained the weight of zoz pounds and 7 ounces, 553.
Malvern hills and spring, poeti-
cally celebrated, 419. Mann, Isle of, cheap living there, on fine mutton and pork, but no good fat beef, 383. Martin, Henry, one of K. Charles's Judges, anecdote relative to the life and character of this re- markable man, 267. Acros- tic epitaph on his tomb-stone in Chepstow Church, written by himself, 268.
New South Wales, colony of, its origin, establishment, and po- litical regulations, &c. 242. Hardships endured by the earlier colonists, 247. Mis- understanding with the Natives, 252. The colony acquires (1796) a degree of strength, 255. Norfolk Island described and well settled, 373. Its cal- ture and produce, 374. Bo- tany Bay savages described, and their characteristic manners discriminated, 375. Discover no traces of any religion, 376, Their horridly barbarous modes of courtship and matrimony, and other peculiarities, and horrors, 378. The diseases prevalent in their country, 380. Nicholas, M. on salt-springs in France, 564.
Nitre-beds, artificial. See Chaptal.
Paintings, Grecian, on antient vases, &c. illustrated, 505. Ele- gance in the drapery of human figures on, ib. Picturesque folds of the cloak, &c. in the manner of putting it on, ib. Their punctilio in dress inte- resting to admirers of the an- tique, 506.
Peace, at the present juncture, recommended, 101. Pearson, Dr. his experiments, &c.
on urinary concretions, 75. Penshurst, sonnet written at, 320. Pérouse, M. de la, acc. of his voy-
age round the world continued, from vol. xxvi-Leaves the coast of Chili, and steers for Easter Island, 292. Stricture en Mr. Hodges's drawing of the monuments at that island, 293. Sandwich Islands; with a remark on the death of Capt. Cook, ib. Arrival at Mount St. Elias, and description, 294. Unfortunate occurrence, 296. Proceeds to Monterey Bay, 301. Amusing description, 302. Sails for China, and arrives in Macao Road, 303. Visits to Kamt- schatka, 404. Arrives at Ma- onna, 407. Dreadful accident and great loss sustained there, through the treachery of the 1. natives, 409. Persius, well translated into Eng-
lish, 91. Specimen of, 92. Philo Judæus supposed to be a believer in Christ, 440. contrary opinion suggested,441. Pindar, Peter, his boast of the fa- vours of his Muse, 228. Poor, observations on the best me. thod of maintaining them, 77. Construction of a work-house, 79. Proper diet, 80. Employ- Excitements to in-
dustry, &c. 83. Pope, Mr. his Windsor Forest trans- lated into French, and specimen
Population, various systems rel. to, 2. Checks to, 3. Condor- cet's ideas on this subject, 5. Godwin's system, ib. Their notions controverted, 6.
Quoters, in conversation, satirized, 331
Ritz, Mademoiselle de, biograph- ical sketch of, 501. Distin- guished by royal favour, 502. Her downfall, ib. Robertson, Dr. his History of A- merica preferred to all others on the same subject, 155. Rousseau, J. J. some anecdotes, &c. rel. to him, in his later years, originally published in France, 471. Rumford, Count, his experiments to shew that water, oil, &c. are non-conductors of heat, 168. Russia, empire of, actual state of, at the close of the 18th centu- ry, 503. Its want of population accounted for, 504. Unna- tural barbarity of parents a- mong the common people to their children, in Russia, one cause of their scanty popula- tion, ib.
St. Domingo, Baron Wimpffen's account of his voyage to that island, 39. Of the country and its inhabitants, &c. 41. Of the treatment of the negroes, 43. Salt-petre, prodigious quantities of, obtained in France, by ex- traordinary efforts, 554. Seguin, M. on the new methods of tanning leather, 563. Shakspeare, curious remarks on his play of Hamlet by a cele- brated German writer, 544. Shields, Robt. not the sole author of the Lives of the Poets, pub- lished by Cibber, 10. Shuck-
Stout, Capt. commander of the Hercules, his narrative of the loss of that ship, 236. Switzerland,
Miss Williams's Tour in, 134. Lake of Lucerne described, ib. Valley of Schel. lenen and Devil's Bridge, 137. Mount St. Gothard, 138. Le- vantine Valley, 110. Abbey of Engelberg, 143. Lavater's se- vere remonstrance to the French Directory, on account of the French invasion of Switzerland, 351. Pleasing description of the simplicity of manners pre- vailing among the rustic inha- bitants of the Canton of Appen- zell, 481. Wonderful delight taken by them in the care and management of their cows, 482. Their culture of snails, and con- siderable trade in that commo- dity, ib. Simplicity of their dress, food, &c. 485. Strangers to taxation, and every kind of oppressive government, ib. To- tally illiterate and superstitious, yet happy in their ignorance and innocence, 486. Their in- dustry, linen manufactures, and Trade, 487. Remarkable fond- ness for their own Country, 489. Remarks on Switzerland, in general, 540. Patriotism of the inhabitants, 542. Origin of the name Swiss, ib, Revo- lution in the Cantons, 543. Simplicity of manners among
the antient inhabitants, 544. Their municipal government, 546. Sydneia, analysis of that substance, 76.
Taxation. See Finance. Time, historical, uncertainty of our knowlege of, from the unsettled state of chronology, 257.
Times, the present, remark's on the signs of, 335. Tree of Liberty, origin of that po litical emblem, 154-
Turks, obs. on their government, 159. On their religion, 160. Their want of mental energy, 162. Their ignorance of sci- ence and history, ib. Their language, 163. The art of printing unknown to them, 164.
Vaillant, M. his very valuable
Museum of Natural History, in danger of being dispersed, 532. Recommended to the at- tention of the British public, ib. His Histoire Naturelle des Oi- scaux d'Afrique" commended,
Vandelli, Professor, his observa-
tions on Natural History and Chemistry, as published in the Mem. of the R. Acad. Lisbon, 551. His acc. of curious sub- jects of Natural History in the Brazils, ib. Of some extraor- dinary fossil bones, ib. Of an astonishing large mass of na- tive copper, found in a valley, two leagues from Cachoeira, weight 2666 pounds! 552.- On increasing the strength of gunpowder, ib. Vandermonde, M. his Memoir on the fabrication of steel, 562, On bright arms, ib. Variola Kaccina, acc. of that dis- case, 447. Vauquelin
at Strawberry-Hill, 272. Sar- castic reflections on the peace of 1748, and the fireworks, 273. On the impressions made, on some minds, by the earthquakes, 274. Letters to General Con- way, 275. Letters to Mr. Bent- ley, 278. Correspondence with Mr. Gray, the Poet, 281. Let- ters from Paris, 286. 111- boding of the French revolu- tion, 288.
Ware, Mr. his successful practice in treating the fistula lachryma- lis, 431
Watson, Bishop, his opinion re- specting the British constitu- tion, 203.
Weights and measures. See Shuck- burgh.
Weft-Indies. See St. Domingo. Wilberforce, Mr. vigorously at-
tacked by Mr. Belsham, re- specting ais ideas of the Chris- tian religion, &c. 145. Wilkie, the poet,, his Epigoniad estimated, 14.
Williams, Miss Helen Maria, her travels in Switzerland, 131. Her Hymn to the Supreme Being, written among the Alps, noticed, ,139. Her address from the Glacier goddess to Dr. Darwin, ib. Her acc. of the political state of the Levantine valley, 140. Windmills, comparative advan- tages between the vertical and horizontal kinds, 269. Wye, river, picturesque beauties of, 264.
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