the finances, 487. On the army, 489. His opinion in favour of the restoration of monarchy, 493. M. D'Iver- nois's objections to the conduct of the Convention, 497. Mad. Roland's character of leading men in Revolutionary affairs, 506. Gen. Montesquieu's de- fence of the measure of iffuing affignats, 517-519. Count de Tilly's invectives against the Revolution, 552. Thinks that the King might have prevented it and ought to have done fo,553. His partial defcription of his Own country, 554. The down- fal of the Republic the great end of his labours and publications, 555. Incongruity of his plans, 556. Charges against Con- dorcet, 557 Funding, the fyftem of, condemn- ed, 305.
Gaitfkell, Mr. his cafe of Pem- phigus, 393. His obfervations on the external abforption of emetic tartar and arfenic, 394. Garret, Dr. cafe of Petechiæ,
with obfervations, 398. Gelon, undefervedly reckoned among the tyrants of Syracufe, 541.
Geneft, M. favourable reports of his character, 507. Doubted, ib. Genius and ingenuity defcriminat- - ed, 200.
men of, their charaders and general tenor of conduct invelligated, 382. Gentoos, cuftom among, of wives burning themfelves alive, with the dead body of the husband, 192. Defcription of the cere- mony, from a late inftance, ib. Germany, travels in, 243. An evening-fcene, at a village near
proper fubjects for poetry, 520. Attempted in French, 521. Parmesan cheese, how made, Mr. A. Young's account, 209.
Mr. Pryce's account, 407. Percival, Dr. experiment on the folution of lead by lime, 181. Perfecution, religious, jufly ex- ploded, 187.
Petrarch, fonnets of, with an Eng- lifh tranflation, 431. Plato, theological doctrines of, 276.
POETIC Extras in this vol. viz. from Beresford's Virgil, 3. Pitt's Virgil, 4. Taylor's Tranf lation of Cupid and Psyche from Apuleius, 54- Call to the Country, 91.
Richards's Ma. tilda, ib. Wafey's Corfica, 93. Mrs. Darwall's Poems, 95. Fa- fhion, a poem, 97. Watfor's England preferved, a play, 98. Fawcet's War, a poem, 258. Parfons's Account of Monuments and Painted Glass, 266. Acade- mical Contributions, 313. Impe- rial Epiftle from Kien Long, 337. Rutt's Sympathy of Priests, 339. Peter Pindar's Royal Tour, &c. 340. The Maviad, a poem, 419. Tranflations from Peirarch, and Metaftafio, 431. Peter Pindar's Loufiad, CantoV. 456. His Convention Bill,an ode,458. Butler's Bagatelles, 459. The Summer's Day, 461. Elegy on the Death of Mr. Tuppen, 462. Brydges's Sonnets, &c. 463. Collection of Hymns and Pfalms. by Dr. Kippis, &c. 464. Poets, ancient, difficulty of tranf lating, 1. Intanced in Virgil, Specimens of Mr. Beref- ford's verfion, 3. Poisons, mineral, 312. Poor, commendable provifion for, at Hamburgh, 66. Ufeful
hints relative to the diftreffes of the lower claffes of the people, 113. Obfervations on the ftate
Rain-gages, obfervations on, fee Garnet, Gough, Copland. Reform, parliamentary, plans of,by the Friends of the People, 224.
Rienzo, Nic. Gab. fome account of that famous patriot of modern Rome, 537:. Riouffe, M. his account of the heroic behaviour of Madame Roland, in her last moments, 511. Roland, Mad. her zd appeal, &c.
502. Her character of Louis XVI. 503. Of Le Brun, 5c6. Of Monge, ib. Of Geneft, 507. The Rev. David Williams, ib. T. Paine, 508. Charlotte Corday, 509. Collot d' Her- bois, ib. Her letter to M. Bofc, 510. Her behaviour in her last moments, 511. Her ap- peal, part 3d, 512. Charged with indelicacy in fome particu- lars, ib. Her extraordinary progrefs in ftudying the works of learned men, 513. Her pic- ture of herself, 514. Ruffia, antiquities in, 561.
Scotland, bad character of the clergy there, before the Re- formation, 401. Sea, beautiful defcription of an evening, in a voyage, 245.
Shakspeare, obfervations on feveral of his plays, 125-132. Mo- dern (fatirical) imitations of, 234.
Ships, theory and practice of rig- ging and working, 295. Writers on naval tactics, 296. Ship-timber, prefent fcarcity of, 406. Sierra-Leone, colony of, ftate of, fince its devaftation by the French, 439. Eftimate of the damage, 440.
Sims, Dr. James, on the internal ufe of filver in the epilepsy,399. Small-pox, cafes of, 395. Re- markable inftance of a fecond infection, ib.
Spain, obfervations on the fituation
of that country, 374.
Spedding, Mr. his machine for
lighting coal-mines by striking flints against fteel, 21. Stolberg, Count, his account of Tell's chapel, near Alforf, 535- Of Geneva, 536. Of Rome, ib. Of the ftatue of the Gladiator, 537. Of the Belvidere Apollo, 538. Of the Antinous, ib. Of Naples, ib. Of the Lazaroni, 539. Of Tarento, 541. Of Mellina, ib. Curious particulars relative to the earthquakes in Sicily, ib. Syracufe, ib. Cha- racter of Gelon, ib. Archi- medes, 542. Theocritus, ib. Antient condition of Sicily, ib. Remarkable ftory of a dog. 543. Account of the different kinds of wheat cultivated in Si- cily, ib.
Stones, igneous origin of discussed, See Kirwan. See Hutton. Strontionite. See Kirwan. Superftition the opprobrium of the human understanding, 187.
Taxation, obfervations relative to, Water, medicinal, fulphureous, method of preparing, 181. Useful in the cure of the chronic rheumatifm and cutaneous dif- orders, 181.
302. Plan for the abolition of all taxes raised by collectors, 441.
Turbilly, Marquis of, his agricul- tural improvements in France, All deftroyed, ib.
Turks, their government, religion, and morals, in what refpects grofsly mifreprefented, 188.
Vincent, Dr. his hypothefis of the origination of the Greek verb, 309.
Vinci, Léonardo da. See Leonardo. Virgil, fpecimens of English ver- fions of, 3. That great poet attacked by Mr. D'Ifraeli, 355. Defended, ib.
Vortigern and Rowena, a fatirical performance, 233.
Wales, travels in, 270, Character of the Welsh people, 273. The ladies, ib. Hofpitality of the gentlemen, 274. Waller, Sir William, the parlia-
mentarian general, his apology for the part he took against the crown intereft, 438. War, the first mifery of mankind, 187. Poetical Philippic against, 258. Sea-fight defcribed, 259. Civilized war indignantly re- prefented,260. Poetic inveâive against wars in general, 268. The prefent war between Eng- land and France afferted to be an aggreffion on the part of the latter, 423. Good hymn, de- precating war, 464.
Wheat, curious account of the dif ferent kinds of, cultivated in Sicily, with peculiar advantages, 543. Wieland, the celebrated writer, (German,) characterized, 522. His works collected, ib. His Agathon analyfed, 523. Williams, David, his character advantageously drawn, 507. Wimpey, Mr. gives a ftriking in- ftance of the present scarcity of fhip-timber, 406. Winterbotham, Mr. writes the Hif
tory of the North American States, in Newgate, 471. Withers, Mr. his fingular narra tive of a cafe of fuppofed fecond fmall-pox, 395.,
Woods, in the western counties, good management of, 405. Not reduced, of late years, fo much as has been generally imagined, ib. Wyttenbach, Prof. his edition of Plutarch appreciated, 529. Fol- lows the edit. of Xylander, 533. His death, ib.
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