Rigby, Mr. his account of a patient's
recovery after a ball had paffed through
the lungs, 423.

Richardfon, Mr. his account of the num-
ber of men in the army of Xerxes,
when he invaded Greece, controverted,
4c6.

Roman Catholics, controverfy with, 235
Rofa, Salvator, his fatires characterized,
230.

Rofcoe, Mr. his effay on the comparative
excellency of the sciences and the arts,
188.

Roy, General. See Dalby.

Roye, Count De, remarkable reverses of
fortune which attended him and his
Counters, 316, 317.

Rufh, Dr. his account of the progrefs of

population, &c. in Pennsylvania, 185.
Ruffet, Dr. his account of the Tabasheer,
16.

Rymer, Thomas, account of him, as a
poet, critic, and hiftoriographer-royal,
42. His great work, the Fœdera, ib.
Continued by Sanderson, ib.

S

Salmagundi, literary, 439.

Saturn, curious obfervations on, See
Herfcbel.

Saxons, originally a branch of the Da-
nifh and Swedish nations, 494.
Sewell, Mr. lays the foundation of a foci-
ety in London, for the improvement of
nival architecture and navigation, 191.
Liberal premiums offered, with this
laudable view, 193.

Sharp, Mr. his differtation on eloquence,
188.

Sheridan, Mr. his pronouncing dictionary

commended, 38.

Shuter, the comedian, turns methodist,

and frequents the tabernacle, &c. 173.
Silk mills at Derby, hiftory of their ori-
ginal establishment there, 32.
Some
account of one at Stockport, 34.
Slave trade, African, origin of, in Ame-
rica, 7. Introduced by the Spaniards,
8. Eftimate of the vast number of
negroe flaves employed in that country,
and in the Weft Indies, 1b. Reflec-
tions on, 224.
Poetic lines to Mr.

Wilberforce, on the rejection of his
fave-bill, 227. Poetic addrefs to
every Biton,' with a plan to abolish
the trade, 228. Report of the Lord,
&c. containing the evidence and in-
formation relative to this trade, 329.
Correfpondence with the Reviewers,
on this fubject, 480,

Smeaton, Mr. his narrative of the build.
ing of the Edy@one light-houfe, 41.
Finds a fubflitute for tarras, 45. The
Ha-
main column completed, 47.
zardous operation of fixing on the cu
pola, 48. Conductor fixed, 49. Every
thing completed, ib.

Smith, Mrs. Charlotte, her Celeftina ana-
lyfed, 287. Sonnet, from that work,

291.

Smyth, Dr. Carmichael, his account of
the different kinds of inflammation,
429, 430. Of three inftances of fudden
death, 434. Of the Aphonia Spaf
modica, ib. Of the efe of cantharides,
in dileales of the bladder, ib.
Spikenard, what, 17.
Spurn Point, light-houfe there, built
under the infpection of Mr. Sn eaton,
ST.

Stanley, Mr. his hiftory of philofophy
appreciated, 362.

Stars, nebulous, properly fo called. See
Harfobel.

Stephen, Father, his infolence, and pu-
nishment. See Miffionary.

Sugar, found in all vegetables, except the
fungi, 27. The greatest abundance,
(next to the cane,) found in maple,
542. Great advantages of making
fugar from maple, ib,

Sugar-cane, very liable to be deftroyed by
a particular kind of ant, 19.
Sutherland, Mr. his unhappy catastrophe
lamented, 103.

Sweden, general obfervations on the con-
vulfions which have agitated the ftate
of, 489.

Savine's flesh, diffuafion from eating, en-
forced by religious confiderations, 271.
Farther dehortation on account of the
unwholesomeness of fwine's flem, ib.
Switzerland, the ladies of that country
termed favagely virtuous, 168. The
towns of, defcribed, 169. Their po-
nal laws, ib.

of his dominions, 333. Not otherwife
worthy of our attention, but with the
fole view of curbing the power of a
cruel, ambitious, depredatory neigh.
bour, ib.

Tantines, remarks on, 464.

Treaties, public, hiftory of, from the
first treaty that was ever published in
this nation, by authority, 40.
Trees, method of curing the diseases of,

421.

Trinity. See Greece.

Turks, reflections on the rapid extenfion

of their power and dominion, after
they had fubverted the Mameluks, 8.
Favourable character of them, in pri-
vate life, 521. Defence of, with re-
fpect to Polygamy, 522. Their Sul-
tans not fo defpotic (by their confti-
tution of government,) as is generally
thought 523. Low ftate of literature
among them, 525. and of the medi-
cal profeffion, 526.

V.

Vergennes, M. the French minifter, du-
plicity of his conduct toward the Ame-
ricans, 537.

Volcanos, in Italy, De Salis's account of,
495.

Volney, M. bis reflections on viewing
the ruins of Palmyra, 548. His well-
fancied caufes of the rife and fall of
ftates and empires, and of political
defpotifm, 550. Predics the general
downfall of tyranny, in all parts of the
world, 553.

Voltaire, critique on his works, 292. His
tales, epiftles, and fatires, confidered as
the beft of his poetical productions,
293. Cenfored for his writings on
Revelation, but, as a philofopher,
pronounced to have been a great bene-
factor to mankind, 294.

W

Walters, Mr. his correfpondence with the
Reviewers, 240.

Water, the compofition of, philofophi-
cally afcertained, 569.

Watson, Mr. his account of a cafe of
hernia femoralis, 426. Of a contrac-
tion of the fore-arm and fingers, with
remarks on bleeding in the arm, 431.
Weiland, M. his Teylerian prize differ
tation, relative to natural and revealed
religion, 504.

Wefley, John, original letters of, as pub
lished by Dr. Priestley, 321. Me-
moirs of his life, 389. Educated at
Oxford, 390. Becomes Fellow of
Lincoln college, ib. Imbibes fanatical
notions, ib. Goes to America, in
fearch of fpiritual adventures, 391.
Returns to England, and commences
field preacher, ib. Makes a furpriz-
ing progrefs, and forms a new church-
himself the head of it, with a privy
council, &c. 392. Ordains priefts for
the American miffion, and confecrates
Methodistic bishops, ib. Is acknow-
leged to have poffeffed great virtues,
fullied by strange peculiarities, ib.
Whift, game of, extracts from a poem on
that fubject, 401.

Whitefield, Mr. his fhrewd remark on
the introduction of new tunes into bis
church-mufic, 555, the note.

Wildbare, Mr. his papers on fpherical
motion, 14.

Wilkinson, Fate, his account of his own
life, 172.
Of his connection with
the Methodist, 173. His manner of
taking off Mr. Whitefield, praised, 174.
Willan, Dr. his account of the cafe of a
young man who deftroyed himself by
extreme abftinence, 427.
Withering, Dr. his account of fome ex-

traordinary effects of lightning, 18.
Witherspoon, Dr. faid to be the author of
a notable letter from a blacksmith, to
the church of Scotland, 475.

X and Z

Xerxes, doubts relative to his famous ex-
pedition into Greece, 406. The im
menfe number of his followers quel-
tioned, 407.

Zamolxis, account of, 404. See Text
and Notes, ib.

Zollikofer, M. his moral and philofophi
cal fuggeftions, 52.