1 Jinally passed by the British House of Commons, in twenty Rcfolations, (150) (1571 Joint Address of both Houses of Parliament to his Majesty, relative to the Proceedings on the Irisb commercial Business, July 28, 1785; with his (160) A Table of the total annual Amount of the French Taxes and Expences of the State, annual Importation and Exportation, Interest of their national Debr, (161) A Letter from the Right Honourable John Hely Hutchinson, Secretary of State, io the Mayor of Cork, on the Subjea of the Bill presented by Mr. (163) Address of the Merchants of Cork, presented to his Grace the Duke of Rutianh on ihe 28th of Odober, chen his Grace condescended to accept of an Invia tation to Dinner from ihe Merchants of Cork, (179) Petition présented June 29, 1785, to the House of Commons, from the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, againf the Attorney General's Bill for regnlating the Police, &'c. (180) Authentic Account of the Bill alluded to in the foregoing Petition ; in a Letter to the Printer of the General Advertiser, Fuly 2, 1785. ibiu, A Decree of the King's Council of France, respecting the Imortation of cere tain foreiga Goods, therein specified, dated July the 10th, 1785. Taken from the Regiflers of the Council of State, (186) Å focond Decree of the King's Council of France, dared 17th of July 19856 Taken from the Council's Rrgifters, (189) Declaration of the King of Prusia, Auguß 23, 1785, delivered by the Count de Lufi to ihe Marquis of Carmarthen, (191) Anfrver delivered by the Marquis of Carmarthen to Count Lufi, in consequence of the preceding Communication. (194) Letters bereveen Captain Stanhopes of the Mercury Man of War, and Goverior Bowdoin of Bostor, (195) Adress of the Justices of the City and County of Philadelphia, to the Honourable Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. (196) Letter from the King of Prufia to the States-General, Sept. 17, 1785. (197) Anfver of the States of Holland and Wif Friesland to the foregoing 198) Resolutions of the City of London, in Common Hall, respecting the Shop Tax, Nov. 4, 1785, (200) Trraty of Alliance between his most Christian Majesty and the States General, Nov. 8, 1785, (203) Memorial delivered, after the foregoing Treaties avere figned, by Sir James Harris, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of London, in a Conférence evith ibe Hebdomadary President of ile States-General, (206) Proceedings Proceedings of the Congress of America, on tbe Arrival of a British Consul (207) Letter from the Hon. Warren Haflings, late Governor General of Bengal, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated July 9, and read Dec. 21, 1785, at a General Quarterly Court of the Proprietors, (208) Extraordinary Petition addressed to the Queen of Portugal by the Chevalier Brunzi d'Entrecasteaux, formerly President of the Parliament of Provence, who fled from France to Portugal on Account of having murdered his Wife, ibid. Letter from Mr. Raikes, of Gloucester, to a Gentleman of Bradford, int Yorkshire, giving an Account of the firf Institution of Sunday Schools, (212) The Ninth Report of the Commissioners appointed to examine, take, and ftate the Public Accounts of the Kingdom, (214) Supplies granted by Parliament for the year 1985, (232) and Means for raising the Supplies granted to his Majesty for the Year 1785, (236) Public Acts passed in the Second Sefion of the Sixteenth Parliament of Great Britain, (237) Prices of Stock for the Year 1785, (240) Ways A N D BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES CHARACTER S. The principal Circumfiances of the Life of Boethius, [3] Anecdotes concerning the celebrated Euler, 181 Sume Account of Sir John Fortescue, [14] Literary Character of James the Fir/t, King of Scotland, (161 Account of John Tiptofi, Earl of Worcester, [17 Account of ihe Death and Character of Dr. Arthur Ashley Sykes, [19] Some Account of the Life and Writings of the late Professor Gregory, M.D. F.R.S. By Dr. Johnstone, of orcester, [23] Memoirs of the late Dr. Bell, M. D. add eled to the Presidents and Members of the Literary and Philosophicai Society of Mancheier. By Dr. Currie, of izerpool [29] Some Acount of the late Dr. Randolph, 134] Anecdotes of Handel, [37] MANNERS OF NATION S. Manners of the People of Great Britain, from the Accrfion of Henry IV. [43. Account of the softer.tots, [49] The Manner in suhich tire Hindioos treat their Women, [62] The Superftition of the Hininos, [64] Contempt of Deats among the Hindoos, and their Dofrine of Transmigration, [66] Account of the Polugars, (67 A jhort dicount of Commire and its Inhabitants, (69) Immoderate Attachment of the urks to Opium, (71) Acount of the Dervises ille urkry, [72] Defcription Defiription of the Hot Baths in Turkey, Various Particulars concerning the Noguais Tartars, The present State of Egypt, CLASSICAL AND POLITE CRITICISM. Of the Originality of Homer's Epic, and of his Translator, Mr. Pope, [98] Of Tastle in General, [] Extract from Dr. Barnes's Flay on the Nature and effential Characters of Poetry, as distinguished from Profe, On the Pleasure woich the Mind in many cases receives from contemplating Scenes of Distress. By T. Barnes, D.D. Difcuffion of the Question, “ In what Quality does the universal and perpe- petual Excellence of Writing confif?" Observations on Milton's Latin Poetry, Whence Milton drew fome Hints for his Comus, Chara&ter of Comus, [:23] General Character of the Poems of the late John Scott, Eja. [124] Remarks on Dyer's Grongar Hill, Account of the Camelopardalis, Ar Account of an Artificial Spring of Water. By Erasmus Darwin, M. D. Extract from Mr. Herschel's Paper on the Construction of the Heavens, [153] Extrae from the Rev. Mr. Morgan's Obfervations and Experiments on the Light of Bodies in a State of Combustion, Description of a New Marine Animal. In a Letter from Mr. Everard Home, Surgcon, to Jobn Hunter, Esq. F. R. S. An Account of the Sensitive Quality of the Tree Averrhoa Carambola. By An Account of some Experiments on the Loss of Weight in Bodies, on being melted or heated. By George Fordyce, M. D. FR... Some Remarks on the Opinion that the Animal Body pollelles the Power of generating Cold. By George Bell, M. D. An Elay on the Ascent of Vapour. By Alcxander Eason, M. D. (168] Extrait from Mr. Strutt's Elay on the Origin and Progress of the Art of Rise and Progress of the firft Commemoration of Handel, (2011 An impartial Inquiry into the Reasonableness of Suicide, 7 ragic Story of a Portuguese Gentleman who died by the Rack, [211] Dr. Johnson and Lord Monboddo, 215) (218) (2 9] Dr. Johnson's Visit to the Duke of Argyle, PO E T R Y. What kind of Composition a Newspaper is, and the Amusement it affords, 1237 Allurels to Friendship, [240] Address to the Putil of Eloquence, ibid. Ode on his Majesty's Birth-Day, Hitchin Convent. A Tale, [247] [250] Confilatory Ode, (252) To Cynthia, [274] Peror Pindar's most wholefome Advice to Landscape Painters, [255] The South Sea Islanders compassionated, but chiefly Omai, Ditefiation of Slaviry, [27] Domeftici ife in obe Country, 12591 Morning, or the Complaint. An American Eclogui, vening, or the Fugitive. An American Eclogue, From the ACCESSION of King Henry the Fourth, to the Ac CESSION of King HENRY the Seventh. I fome considerable improvements with regard to the state of knowledge, literature, and taste, in Great Britain. Wickliffe had boldly advanced to an uncommon enlargement of thinking in religious matters, and Chaucer had displayed a vein of poetry rich and new in this country. From such beginnings important consequences might have been expected; and the writings of these eminent men must have had no finall effect on the minds of many individuals. The opinions of Wickliffe appear to have been embraced by a larger number of persons than dared to avow them; and the admirers of Chaucer could not avoid having their understandings and their taste improved by a perufal of his various works. Still, however, the progress of knowledge was far inferior to what, from auspices so favourable to the cultivation and refinement of the human faculties, might ration1785. ally 2 |
