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obferved in 1786, 614. On the fecond comet of the fame year, 615. On the tranfit of Mercury over the fun's disk, May 4, fame year, ib. Meteorological journal, kept at the apartments of the Royal Society, 454. Table of the weather, extracted from it, for the year 1788, 455. Farther particulars of ditto, ib. Mind, its faculties philofophically investigated, 596. Monge, M. on the effect

of

the electric fpark tranfmitted through fixed air, 607. Montefpan, Mad. de, fupplants Mad. de la Valliere, the French king's mistress, 682. Moor-land, how improved and cultivated. See Stephenfon. Moravians, their religious tenets generally confidered, 264. Good effects of their missions in America, Greenland, &c. 265. Morgan, Mr. his method of determining, from the real probabilities of life, the value of a contingent reverfion in which three lives are involved in the furvivorship, 452.

Motteville, her memoirs of Ann of Auftria characterized, 670.

429. Cathedral mufic overthrown by the zeal of the puritans, ib. Church mufic revives at the Reftoration, 433. State of Italian mufic in the church and chamber, during the 17th century, 438. In Germany, 441. In France, ib. Opera, in its complete ftate, introduced, 539. Its progrefs, 541. Hiftory of, continued, 543Oratorio, rife and progress of, 544. Comic opera, 547. Cantatas, 549.

NATURE, the infinitude of life diffufed throughout, ftrikingly displayed, 534. Navailles, duchefs de, her firm and laudable oppofition to the licentious amours of Louis XIV. 677.

Nice, in Afia Minor, its prefent ftate and remains of antiquity there, 622.

Nigritia, that part of the coaft of Africa defcribed, 626. Natives of, characterized,627. Account of the Slave-trade, 629. Normandy, the cyders of that country, how far affected by preparations of lead, ufed in clarifying the liquor, 609.

Music, progrefs of, in England, OLYMPUS, mount, journey to

from the time of Henry VIII. to that of Queen Elizabeth, 291. Great masters of that science in the last mentioned reign, 296. State of in Italy at that time, 298. State of in France, Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands, at that period, 301. Progress of mufic, from the reign of Elizabeth to the end of the 17th century, 426, Opera, in its rudiments, 427. Chamber mufic, vocal and inftrumental, ib. Curious account of the Fantafias, 428. Mafques, ik. Sacred mufic,

the fummit of, 622. Soil and vegetable produce of,described, ib.

Ovarium. See Baillie.
Ouranos, the name given to

Herschel's new planet, by the aftronomers of Berlin, 659. Ozier, the bark of that tree used in the manufacture of coarse paper, 531.

PALLAS, M. publishes the fe

cond part of his Flora Roffica, 625. Juft compliment to the Czarina, the patroness of this fplendid work, ib. Patella,

Patella, inquiry into the various circumstances attending the accidental fractures of, 687. Patten, parfon, his bon mot on the orthodoxy of his religious creed, 179. Patterdale, in Cumberland, ruined, in a moral view, by the introduction of profligate workmen in the lead-mines, 499.

Peacey, Mr. his experiment to prove the advantage of keeping a he-goat in his ftables, to preferve his horses from the ftaggers, 396.

Philanthropic Society, defign of
that inftitution, 466.
Phlogifton. See Priestley. See
Higgins.

Phyfician, his melancholy teftimony to the healthfulness of the country in the neighbourhood of Kelwick, 499.

Piazzi, M. his obfervation on the folar eclipfe, June 3, 1788, with calculations, &c. 452. Pig and Magpie, a fable, by Peter Pindar, 343. Place, M. de la, on the theory of Jupiter and Saturn, 615. on the fecular equation

of the moon, 616. Poftum, animated reflections of an antiquary on visiting the ruins of that place, 128. Poetic Extracts in this volume,

viz. From Abelard to Eloifa, 79. From an Epistle to the Duke of Portland, 80. From Cary's Sonnets and Odes, 81. From Mijerio's Vifion, 83. From Sufannah's Poems, ib. From The Expoftulation, &c. 84. From Mrs. Rowfon's Poems, 85 From James's Poems, 137. From Alfred, a Tragedy, 179. From The Village Curate, 214. From Simpkin's Letters, 219. From the Son of Ethelwolf,

240. From Gallic Liberty, 275.
From Stanfield's Guinea Voyage,
277. From Dr. W. Smith's
Works, 279.
From Prudence,

a moral Ejay, ib. From LeiteHill, a Poem, 280. From Peetry, by Camifis, 281. From The Grove of Fancy, 282. From Beft's Matilda, 283. From Dr. Burney's Hiftory of Mufic, 293. From Potter's SOPHOCLES, 303. From Simpkin's Letters, 341From Peter Pindar's Expoftu latory Odes, 342. From As Epiftle from Somersetshire, 365. From Sonnets, 366. From Otway's Poems, 367. From Leadon's Glory, 368. From Poems on the Siege of Derry, ib. From an Efay on Senfibility, 418. From Maurice's Panthea, a tragedy, 461. From Dr. Barney's Hiftory of Mufic, 551. From Villiers's Chaubert, a tragic drama, 558. Poison-tres, of Thibet, fome account of, 525.

Pope, of Rome, the temporal government of his ftate, politically investigated, 115. Sub ject continued, 205. Portal, M. on the treatment of the hydrophobia, 619. Portlock, Captain, his voyage round the world, 319. His account compared with that of Captain Dixon, 322. The dif ferences of both, with refpect to Captain Cook's accounts of Crofs Sound, &c. confidered, ib. Potatoes, method of preventing the disease of curled tops in that vegetable, 398. Prevoft, M. his memoir on the pleasure excited in us by the fine arts, 595.. Priestley, Dr. vindicated, as a philofopher, theologian, &c. 159.

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Robbery, not deemed fhameful among the Arabs, 495. Rochefoucault, Duc de la, his analyfis of a green cupreous fand, from Peru, 638. Baume, and Fourcroy. Roman Catholics, their right to a full and free toleration, as English diffenters, 147. Their prefent prevailing liberality of fentiments, in religious matters, afferted, 148. Caution recommended to Proteftants on this head, 153. Rofenftein, Count, his mafterly oration on the flourishing ftate of polite literature in Sweden, 642. Rudbeck, profeffor, his valuable botanical work, 111. Great lofs of his materials by the fire at Upfal, in 1702, ib.

Rudder, fubftitute for, in case of accidents at fea, 533. Rule's (or St. Rule's) chapel, antiquities of, 309:

Rundle, Bishop, his letter, characterifing Thomson's Seafons, 503. His character of Mr. Richard Talbot, 504. His declaration against the political diftinctions of Whig and Tory, 505. His excellent character, ib.

SAINT Germain, Count de, his peculiar character, 623. His death, 624.

Saint Pierre, Abbé de, his po. litical annals praised, 671. St. Simon, Duc de, fome account of him, and of his celebrated memoirs, 667.

Sal Ammoniac, decompofition of,

64.

Salvator Rofa, a poet, as well as painter and musician, 550. Specimen of his poetry, 551. Sand. See Rochefoucault. Saunders, Mr. his account of the vegetables and minerals in Thibet, &c. 525. Of the diseases there, 526.

Scab in fheep. See Sheep. Schifp, a Swedish weight, reduced to its proportion in English quantity, 479.

Schwab, M. his effay on the faculties of the mind, 596.

on the univerfality of the French language, 600. Scotland, the ancient regalia of the crown of, not now to be found, 310. The mufic of that country poetically celebrated, 365. Selborne, natural history and antiquities of, 34. Unufual birds obferved there, ib. Bats, 35. Antiquities of, well drawn up by Mr. White, 40. Senfibility, morbid, poetically deícribed, 418. Serpents,

Serpents, how to diftinguish the venomous from those which are innoxious, 523. The venomous kinds much lefs numerous than those which are harmless, 524.

Sévigné, Marchionefs de, her letters highly praised, 669. Sheep, receipt for curing the dif eafe in these animals called the Scab, 530. Silk-worms, their proper food, 510. The breeding of them not an unwholesome employment, 511. Farther obfervations relative to the management of this ufeful infect, 531. Skiddaw, that mountain an object of terror to Mr. Gray, 498. Smeaton, Mr. his air-pump charged with defects, 316. His improvement in the application of the quadrant of altitude to a celeftial globe, for the refolution of problems, dependant on azimuth and altitude, 450. Song, written by Mary Queen of Scots, in failing from Calais to London, 293.

Sonnet on parting from a mother, 366.

on Handel, ib. Staal, Baronefs de, her memoirs commended, 671.

Stack, Dr. his effay on the fub

limity of writing, 42. State of the nation politically confidered, 359. Stephenfon, Mr. his improvement

of a large quantity of moor land in the north of Engl. 529. Stradella, the celebrated compofer of mufic, anecdote relative to the fingularly unfortunate part of his life, 546. Stuart (Athenian), portrait of him given in rudiments of ancient architecture, 493.

Style, and diction, remarks on, with refpect to English writing and writers, 229.

Swaine, Mr. his ufeful obfervations on the management of filk-worms, 531.

Swedish literature, its prefent improved ftate, 642. High encomium on, ib. Language and poetry of, productive of great beauties, 543.

Sydenham, Dr. his works, as tranflated by Dr. Swan, revised and republished by Dr. Wallis, 167.

Syrtes. See Mann.

TAYLOR, Mr. Thomas, undertakes to restore the theology of the ancients, 326. His views and hopes difplayed, 327. His mean opinion of fome great literary characters of later times, 328. His tranflation of the commentaries of Proclus examined, 330. His hiftory of the restoration of the Platonic theology by the later Platonifts, 333. The criticisms of the Monthly Reviewers on his tranflation of the Hymns of Orpheus defended, 335

Teft-act, arguments relative to, with refpect to the application of the diffenters for a repeal, 566. Thorild, M. a Swedish poet,

praised for his poem on the pleafures of the imagination, 644 Thorkelin, Dr. his fragments re

lating to ancient Danish inva

fions of Northumberland, 311. Tories, their principles explained, 505.

Tragedy, defined by Ariftotle, 425. Trees and plants, newgenus of,614. Tuscany, Grand Duke of, his wife

regulations of the criminal law in his dominions, 121.

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VALLIERE, Mademoiselle de

la, her unfortunate connection with Louis XIV. 678. Dies in a convent, after 36 years' rigorous pennance, 681. Valois, M. de, his obfervations on the northern inclination of the magnetic needle, 603. Van Troof-wyk, M. and Dr. Deiman, their letter to M. de la Metherie, on the new method of decompofing water, 630. Vendome, Duc de, his character

and military fervices, 401. Virgil, his Georgics, criticisms relating to, 306. Ulrica, Queen of Sweden, beautiful panegyric on, 643. Volcanos, extinguished, in Germany, 662.

WARBURTON, Bishop, tracts

His

by him, and by A Warburtonian (Bishop Hurd), republished, 153. Their republication cenfured, 154. works, in 7 vols. 4to, publifhed by the Bishop of Worcester, 352. The new pieces given in a feparate volume in 8vo, 354. His thoughts on fcepticism, 355, His remarks on the degree of indulgence to be allowed to human reason, in religious inveftigations, 357. On the formation of Eve from Adam's rib, 444. On the paradifaical ftate, ib. On redemption, 445. On vicarious facrifices, 446. On the English populace, 449. On the clergy, ib. On pulpit oratory, 450. Warwickshire, brief defcription of

that county, 142. Water, reflections on the decompofition of, by vegetable and

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Withers, Dr. author of Alfred's

apology, &c. 373. A brief glance at his literary character, 374. Witry, Abbé, his continuation of the history of foffils found in the diftrict of Tournay, 162.

YARN, woollen, aftonishing im

provement, by a young lady, in the art of spinning, 523. Young, Dr. M. his account of ancient Gaelic poems, 41.

ZACH, M. de, his hiftorical

view of the observations and calculations that have been made relative to the Georgium Sidus, 659.

Zoology, a younger fcience than botany, 636. Its vaft progress, ib.

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