Barn-floors, Glocefterfhire, me- thod of preparing, 395.. Barometer, improvement in, by boiling the mercury, 316. Barret, Mr. his account of the Greek MS. of St. Matthew's gofpel, in the library of Tri- nity College, Dublin, 41. Bat, account of a tame one, 35. Baume, M. on a green cupreous fand, from Peru, 608. Beaufort, Mr. his account of an- cient coins found in Ireland, 42. Beunie, M. de, his experiments on fome precipitates of metals, and femi-metals, 664. His table of folvents, precipitates, and colours, 665. Birmingham, brief defcript. of, 143. Bitumen, account of a lake or plain of, in Trinidad, 524. Bromley, Mr. his invention of a machine, or memorandum- book, for the use of those who want their eye-fight, 530. Brook, Mr. his experiments, &c. relative to electricity, 313. His improvement of the barometer, 316. His detection of fallacies in Smeaton's air-pump, ib. Bruffa, formerly Prufa ad Olym- pum, prefent ftate of, 621. Burrowes, Mr. his obfervat. on the ftyle of Dr. Johnson, 46, Butier, Bishop, the charge against him, of being popishly inclin- ed, confidered, 50.
CADET, M. experiments made
by him, and other learned chemifts, on the cyders of Nor- mandy, to afcertain how far thofe liquors were affected by lead, 609.
Calomel. See Cornette. Chaptal, M. on the carbonic acid yielded by the fermentation of grapes, and the acetous acid produced by combining it with water, 613.
Chatterton, the poet, his real me-
rit inveftigated, 345. His mo- ral character impeached, 349- Cheefe, in Glocefterfhire, faid to be declining in its goodness,
Chemistry, fyftematically divided and fubdivided, 413.
Choify, Abbé de, short account of him, and of his memoirs, 668.
Chreighton, Capt. a wild, fana- tical perfecutor of the presbyte- rians, inconfiftently commend- ed by Dean Swift, 178. Swift juftly cenfured for his partiality to this man, ib. Chriftianity, its fpirit of meekness compared, in its effects, with that of ancient heroism, and the dignity of philofophy, 334- Cicero, his philofophical notions of pain controverted, 594 Cinamon-tree, faid to flourish, in
high perfection, at Jamaica,533. Clewer, Dr. William, vicar of Croydon, his vexatious treat- ment of his parishioners, 308. Coins, ancient, found in Ireland,
Comedy defined by Ariftotle, 244. Conductors, for lightning, their
utility, for the fecurity of buildings, &e. ftrongly en- forced, recommended, and il- luftrated, 317.
Cook, Capt. James, his narratives vindicated, in oppofition to fome particulars in the accounts of later circumnavigators, 323. Cornette, M. on the decompofi- tion of fal ammoniac, 61. on calomel, ib. Coulomb, M. his fourth mem. on electricity, 604.
County Courts, enormous abufes of, 555. Remedy for, pro- pofed, 556.
Crebillon, his Lettres Atheniennes, wherein different from the Athe- nian Letters written by a learn- ed fociety at Cambridge, 593.
Croydon, cafe of the inhabitants of, under the violent and un- warrantable prosecutions of Dr. W. Clewer, vicar of the faid parish,' 308. Cudworth, Dr. his Intellectual Syf- tem attacked, 329. Cyder, of Normandy, how far affected by preparations of lead, 609. Experiments relating to this fubject, 610. Cyzicum, remains of that ancient city ftill visible, 621. Turk- ifh and Greek villages there, described, ib.
DAHOMETS, an African na- tion, defcribed, 628. Hor- rid effeminacy and barbarity of their king, ib.
Danes, fragments of ancient ac- counts relating to their inter- courfe with England and Ire- land, 311.
Davies, Mr. obtains a prize me- dal, for making marbled pa- per, fuperior to the foreign
fort, 531. D'Argenfon, M. his effays in the ftyle of Montaigne, commend- ed, 670.
Delphos, ceremonial of the famous
oracle there defcribed, 584. Deluges, thofe of Ogyges and Deucalion, not the fame with that recorded by Mofes, 660. Denina, Abbé, fupplement to his memoir on the diverfity of lan- guages, 601.
on the character of lan-
guages, ib. Desfontaines, M. on a new genus of trees, 614. Dialogue between an unfuccefsful
author and his bookseller, 477. Dixon, Capt. his letter to the Re- viewers, with their acknowlege-
ments, 575. Dramatic amufements, the prefent prevailing tafte for, on private theatres, cenfured, 624.
Education, scientific and elegant, recommended, 144. Electricity, experiments, and re- marks relat. to, 313.604.607. Electrometer, fome account of one on a new construction, 414. Elizabeth, Q. of England, her public progreffes, &c. 131. Her vifit to Cambridge, 132. Anec- dote of her attendance at St. Paul's, London, ib. Her vifit to Sir N. Bacon, at Gorham- bury, 133. Her rough taste in mufic, 297.
HALSTAFF, Sir John, his cha-
racter, as drawn by Shake- fpeare, inveftigated, 55. Fare, Marquis de la, fhort ac- count of him, and of his me- moirs, 668.
Fluids, of organized bodies, phi- lofophically investigated, 682. Formey, M. his confiderations on the fecond Tufculan of Cicero, concerning pain, 594. Foils, of Cornwall, anal. of, 67. Fougeroux de Bondaroy, M. his
defcription of a new genus of plants, 614.
Fouquet, M. fome account of that famous minifter, 676. Fourcroy, M. de, his effay on the formation and properties of in- flammable gas, 605. On a green cupreous fand, found in a river in Peru, 608. On a newly-dif- covered method of obtaining the elastic fluid, known by the name of atmospheric moffette, 224 611.
611. His 3d and 4th memoirs on the anatomical history of the tendons, &c. 614. Fragments of original letters, by the princefs of Bavaria, widow of Monfieur, brother to Louis XIV. their authenticity afferted, 671. France, remarks on the general national character of, 226. French failors and mechanics inferior to those of England, ib. French language, inquiry concerning its univerfality, 600.
GALLITZIN, Prince, his account of extinguished volcanos in Germany, 663. Gas. See Fourcroy. Gates, Mr. his account of a furprizing improvement in fpinning fine woollen yarn, 532. Gendre, M. le, on the manner of diftinguishing maxima from minima, in the calculation of variable quantities, 619.
on integrations by elliptic arcs, ib. Georgium Sidus, obfervations on, in oppofition, 617. New name given to that planet, by the aftronomers of Berlin, 659. Glaffe, Mr. his Greek verfion of Milton's Samfon Agonistes criticifed, 2-19. Farther criticifms on, 97-111. Subject concluded, 241. Letter from Mr. Glaffe to the Reviewers, 474. Acknowlegement of ditto, with obfervations, 475: Glocefter fhire, ftate of tillage, agriculture, &c. in that county, 386. Management of cattle, &c. 389. Cheese, 391. Rural operations, 393. Orchards, 394. Culture of potatoes, 397. Goats, kept in ftables, faid to have a favourable influence on the health of horses, 396. Gray, Mr. afraid of viewing the
precipices at the back of Skid. daw, 498.
Gray, Dr. his obfervation on the clafs of animals called Ampbibia, 522.
Greaves, Mr. his manufacture of coarfe paper from the bark of oziers, 531.
Gregory, Dr. John, his medical
works, &c. collected, 162. His life and excellent character, 163.
HAMMON, Mr. William, pub
lishes a declaration of his atheifm, 325. Handel, fonnet on, 366. Some account of that great master of mufical science, 438. Harriot, Thomas, faid to have discovered the spots in the fun, and Jupiter's fatellites, before they had been seen by Galileo, 659. Haftings, Mr. his fpeech in Weftminster-hall, July 9, verfified, 341. Hertzberg, Count de, his memoir of the last year of Frederic II. king of Pruffia,
of the first year of the reign of Frederic William, king of Pruffia, ib. Higgins, Dr. his notions of the phlogistic and antiphlogistic theories, 197.
Highland poems. See Young. Horfes, the expence of maintaining, compared with that of men-fervants, &c. 21.
their health faid to be preferved by the company of he-goats, in the ftables, &c. 396. The staggers prevented by that means, ib. Remarkable experiment on this head, ib. Humour, in what respects different from wit, 55.
Hurd, bishop, his conduct, as editor of bishop Warburton's works, attacked and defended, 153-158. His advertisement relative to that edition, 353. Hutchinfon, Mr. his obfervations on the dryness of the year 1788, 454- Hutton, Dr. James, his answers to the objections of M. de Luc, with regard to rain, &c. printed in the Tranfactions of the royal Society of Edinburgh, 695. M. de Luc's reply to Dr. Hut- ton, originally, and only, printed in the Appendix to the Monthly Review, ib. Hydrophobia, obfervations on the treatment of, 619.
JEWS, their perfecution and ill
treatment from the bigotry of other nations, pathetically dif played, 645. Benevolent fug- geftions in their favour, 646. The Chriftians earnestly ex- horted to mitigate the fuffer- ings of the defcendants of A- braham, ib.
Indians, of North America, their fondness for foppery in drefs, 64.
ber of them, to free themselves from flavery, 628. Jones, Sir William, inftitutes a learned fociety at Bengal, and is elected prefident, 649. His preliminary difcourfe to the members, in which he points out the intended objects of their inquiries, 650. His fe- cond fpeech to the fociety, in which he particularly recom- mends attentive refearches in- to the hiftory, antiquities, and literature of the East, 651. Iron, oblervation on its feveral metallic forms, 606.
On the smelting of iron
ore, 608. Irritability, faid to be a princi- ple poffeffed by feveral kinds of plants, 682. Ives, Mifs, her aftonishing ef- forts in fpinning fine woollen yarn, 532.
KELGREN, M. a Swedish po-
et, praised for the gaiety and humour of his manner, 644- Keralio, Mademoiselle de, her Journal d'Etat et du Citoyen recommended, 384.
Kefwick, neighbourhood of that place remarkably healthy, 499.
M. de la, his 5th memoir on the theory of mercury, 617.
Indies, Eaft, account of vegeta- ble and mineral productions in fome parts of, particularly Bou-ANDE, tan and Thibet, 525. The poifon tree not of fo deadly a nature as generally reported, ib. Johnson, Dr. S. his ftyle formed
on the model of Sir Thomas Browne, 47. His mind con- fidered as wretchedly darkened and debafed for want of the cheering light of fcience and philofophy, 329. His piety reprefented as unavailing to the comfort of his life, ib. Jolofs, an African nation describ- ed, 627. Affecting ftory of the fruitless efforts of a num-
on an equation of Jupi- ter's fatellites, the period of which is 437 days, ib.
on the fecular equation of the fun and moon, 618..
- on the mass of Venus, and the value of the equations of the fun and moon, produced by Venus and the moon, ib.
on the equation and mean motion of Mars, ib.
obfervation on Mars in quadrature, with a view to af- certain
certain its diftance from the fun, ib. His letter on the progress of aftronomy, 625. His handfome compliment to the King of Great Britain, ib. Languages. See Schwab. See
Denina. Landscapes, and views of lakes, &c. critical remarks on, 497. Larch, this tree largely cultivated by the bishop of Landaff, 528. Dimensions of a very large one, planted about fifty years ago, in Scotland, ib. The enlarged culture of this fpecies warmly recommended, ib. Launay, M. de, his obfervations on cryftallizations of water, 661. On the phenomena of cryftallization by retraction, obferved in fome mineral fub- ftances, 663. His fyftematic arrangement of the productions of the mineral kingdom, 665. Lavoifier, M. his reflections on the decompofition of water by vegetable and animal fub- ftances, 611. Lawes, Henry, the celebrated
compofer of mufic, account of him and of his works, &c. 430. Lefbos, particulars relative to its
ancient ftate and hiftory, 580. Le Tellier, one of the minifters of Louis XIV. fome account of, 676.
Levi, Mr. his defence of a paf-
fage in his Lingua Sacra, 383, Correfpondence, art. +st. Libels, remarkable mildnefs of the punishment provided for offences of that kind in Tuf- cany, 125. Lightning. See Conductors. Linné, the proper name of the ce- lebrated botanift ufually called Linnæus, 382, Correspondence,
Lifhon, ftri&tures on the ftyle of building, &c. in that capital, 227.
Locke, Mr. his character as a phi- lofopher attacked by the tranf- lator of Procles, 318. Longinus defended against the cri- ticifms of Dr. Blair, 43. Lord's Prayer, remarks on, 382, Correfpondence, art. tet Louis XIV. characterized, 672. His education, ib. His mar- riage with the infanta of Spain, 673. Curious feftivities on that occafion, ib. His infidelity to his queen, and intrigues with various ladies, 675-682-
MADRAS, climate there de-
fcribed, 409. Manners of the European ladies there, 410. Of our fine gentlemen there,
411. Maintenon, Mad. de, her letters characterized and commended, 668.
Mann, Abbé, his difcourfe to the royal academy at Bruffels, 659. His differtation on the deleges recorded by the ancients, 660. His memoir concerning the fyrtes, and the tides, in the Mediterranean, 661. On the prefervation of vegetables for food, and of fresh water at fea, 664. His tables of the coins, weights, and measures of vari ous nations, ancient and mo- dern, 665.
Mary queen of Scots, her beau- tiful Chanfon en partant de Ca- lais pour Londres, 292. The fame tranflated by Dr. Burney, 293.
Mazarin, cardinal, his enormous wealth, 674.
Medals, improved edition of Mr. Pinkerton's learned effay on, 139.
Memorandum book for the ufe of blind perfons, 530. Mercator, a character, poetically defcribed, 419. Meier, M. on the first comet obferved
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