Berdeen infirmary, num-
ber of patients in 112
Ats, abstracts of: New re-
:eipt-act 87. Tea and win-
dow at 393.
Game-act

396. Forfeited eftates act
425. Bricks and tiles 488.
Hackney coaches 489. Raw
and thrown filk and lead ib.
Starch and foap ib. Horfes
490. Hats ib. Linens and
cottons 491.
Licences ib.
Distillery 529.
Gold and
filver plate 533
Addreffes on the difmiffion of
ministry 108. Of the high.
land clans to King George I.
114. Of the county of Ediu-
burgh on the change of mi-
nistry 182.
Advocates on the privileges of
the college of justice 669
Epinus, Mr, his letter con-
cerning volcanoes in the
moon 454
Acroftatic experiments 57. Mr
Montgolfier's great balloon
at Lyons 58. Blanchard's
firft balloon 59. Mr Mor-
veau's and Bertrand's 283.
Mr Gherli's 285. Thefe ex.
periments prohibited by the
King of Pruffia 286 Lift of
acroftatic voyages 560
Agues, receipt for their cure

570

Air, differtation on it 449.
How it purifies itfelt ib. Its
gravity 450. Elafticity 451.
Different ingredients in its
compofition 513. Diflerta
tion on fixed or fixable air 570
Air-balloons, of their antiqui-
tỷ 141

Allan Ramfay, the Scots poet,
letter from him giving fome
account of his family 397
America: Treaty with Bri-
tain ratified 157. Refolu
tions concerning the reftitu-
tion of British property ib.
Governor Clinton's fpeech to
the Affembly of New York
on the British restrictions on
the West-India trade 216.
Refolves of the Virginians
concerning the payment of
debts due to Britain 216.
Law concerning military of-
ficers, &c. 217. Severe froft
at Philadelphia ib. Refolu-
tions of the State of Mary
land concerning British pro-
perty 327. Pictures of the

King and Queen of France ment of the parish of Cath-
arrive at Philadelphia ib. cart 279

New England on the British Athol East Indiaman, accounts
infraction of treaties 435, of her being burnt 49
Mr Carnes afcends with a Ayder Ali Khan, his history
fire-balloon at Philadelphia 415

496. Javention of a water- Bagnio, a Turkish one defcri-
float rowed by two horfes ib. bed 32
Advertisement of emigrants Ballad-maker's character 573
to be fold ib. Dreadful Balloons, difference between
earthquake at Arequiba 648. fire and gas balloons 57.
Preamble to the Pennsylva- See Aeroftatic experiments.
nian act for abolishing flave- Baltic fea, computation of the
ry ib. Sketch of the national quantity of fhipping on it 212
debt 649
Barbadoes; Speech of the Go-
Anderson,
vernor on the regulation of
trade 47. Addrefs of the
General Affembly 48
Barbary; account of the Spa-
nifh expedition against Als
giers 433

Dr James, ap-
pointed to farvey the Weft-
ern iflands 390
Anecdotes: Of Dr John Tho-
mas Bishop of Salisbury 8.
Melancholy one of an affec-
tionate fon ib. Of a dying
proftitute 45. Of a young
girl in love with a foldier 47.
Of the King of Spain 64. Of
a young lawyer ib. Of the
King of Pruília 87. Of an
Arabian Sheik 89.

the

Barley, extraordinary increase
of a grain 488
Baflora; horrid behaviour of
the Perfian governor of that
city 88. Its gloomy appear-

ancc 90

Of Bat of Madagascar defcribed

Of a
Of

Ruffian empire 91, 174
146. Of Count Munich 91. Batteries; floating ones at Gib
Of a noted mifer 176.
raltar defcribed 37. Prin-
female lieutenant 350. ciples on which they were
Sir Philip Cravenleigh 456. conftructed 41. Experiment
Of Dr Donne 564.
in confirmation of them 42
Animal Magnetifm, report of Beattie, Dr, on memory 679
the commiflioners appointed Beccaria, Profeffor, his con-
by the King of France to in- jectures concerning lunar vol.
quire into it 557
canoes 454
Anftrather, Sir John, his fuc-
cefs in agriculture on Mr
Tull's principles 210
Arabia, lefs defert than com-
monly reprefented 146
Arabs and Turks, how a tra-
velier may avoid their infults
31. Caufe of their animofity
against the Perfians 88
Archytas's wooden dove fup-
pofed to be an air-balloon

141

Bed chambers, on the bad ef
fects of keeping nofegays in
them 412
Blanchard's aerial voyage in
England $37. See Acroftatic
experiments.
Blood of a calf transfufed into
a fheep 512
Books:

Swinburne's travels through
Spain 6
-Capper's obfervations on
the paffage to India 30. 88.
144

-Hiftory of the flagellants 33
-Stair on the national debt 36
-Thomfon's univerfal calcu-
lator 36

Arran, Earl of, his account of
the death of the Duke of
Buckingham 169
Affembly, General, meets 275.
Dr Henry's fpeech against Dr
Dryfdale ib. Who is never-
thelefs chofen moderator 276.
Addrefs the King ib. On the
fynod of Rofs and Mr James
Dallas 277. On the patro-Wight's
nage laws ib. On Mr Mac- hufbandry 36
intoh and Dr Bryden for
fcandal 278. On licences for
marriage ib. On the fettle-
U 2

A

—Runnamede 36. 245
Poetical remains of James I.
36. 248

-

37

prefent ftate of

Elements of navigation ib
Horace's epistles tranflated

-Knox's view of the British tion on India affairs ib. On
empire 475 526
-Effay on medals 477
layley's plays of three acts

-lection 291.

On

At

Ordnance fup- Drugs, committee on illicit
ply 295. Army voted 296. trade concerning them 369
Mr Burke on the King's
fpeech ib.
Navy extraor
dinaries 298. On the receipt.
tax and the evasions of it ib.
Alteration of the tea-duty
299. Mr Dempster on the
finances, fisheries, &c. 351.
Servants tax 353. Eaft in-
dia dividend, budget, loan,
&c. ib. Navy-bills funded
354. New taxes 355. Pitt's
India bill 357. Debate on
its commitment 360.
the famine in Shetland 364.
On the India regulating bill
405. King's meflage concern-
ing the civil-lift debt 407.
On the new taxes ib. On
the India relief.bill 408.
On the state of the jails, and
tranfporting convicts 410
Burke on the death of Aimas
Ali Cawn, and the cruelties in
India 411. On restoring the
- forfeited eftates 461. On
reducing the duties on fpirits.
467. On abolishing vaffalages
in Scotland 468. On the du-
ties on cottons, linens, foap
and starch 468 469. On the
new window-duties 515. On
the arreft of Sir J. Burgoyne.
565. On the American trade
569
Converfation, how to be a-
greeable in it
Copper ore, account of that
fold in Cornwall 161
Criminal gallantry, Horatius

Dundonald, Lord, his letter
to the Peers of Scotland on
the approaching election 175.
His method of manufacturing
salt, &c. 242
Earthquakes in Italy 101.
Rochelle in France ib.
Eaft-India affairs: Limits of
the government's interfe-
rence with them 151. Fleet
fuffers feverely in a storm 159.
Return of it from Madras 160.
Gov. Hafting's letter to the
Directors 286
Eaft Indies: General Stewart
arrested 102. Afrafiab Khan
murdered by Mamod Beg
218. Cannanore taken 168.
Peace with Tippoo Saib 381.
435. Hard fate of the Bri-
tith prifoners 497 595. 651.
Account of various tranfac
tions at Madras ib. Major
East - Indiaman burnt 595.
Letters relative to the arrest
of Sir J. Burgoyne 596. Pat-
gautcherry taken by the Bri-
tish 651. Letters between
the officers of the Hannibal
and M. Suffrein on the treat-
ment of prifoners 693
Education of youth, its im-
portance
Egyptian government defcri-

-on 174 237

307

his

Cruickshank, Mr, his terrible
death 545
Dantzick, addrefs of the inha-
bitants to the K. of Pruflia
with his anfwer 99. Articles
- of convention with him 541
David, King of Ifrael,
character compared with that
of George 11. 4
Deluge, various hypothefes
concerning it 617
Denmark. Account of the
-Eaft-India trade 645. State
of population in the kingdom
ib. Damage done by a form
to the shipping at Elfincur

645
Distillery: Report of the com-
mittee on illicit trade concer-
ning it 366
Dogs have no natural enmity
to hares 323

bed 32
Election reform, Dr Price's
letter on it 179
England. Meeting of fome
members of the Houfe of
Commons to conciliate the
Pitt and Portland factions
52. 104. Riot at Westmin-
fter hall, where a bag of poi-
fon was thrown at Mr Fox
105
Mr Hodgfon's corref-
pondence with Lord Gran-
tham concerning the clerks
fees of office 106.
His ac-
tion against him, in which
Lord Grantham is caft 107.
Addrefles on the difmiflion
of miniftry 108. Lord Chat-
ham's monument opened 218.
Capt. Wall arrested for whip-
ping three foldiers to death
219. Escapes ib. Capital
undertaking for fupplying
the city of London with flour
ib. Royal Academy opened,
and the pieces therein de-
fcribed ib. Two men appre-
hended for taking up dead

bodies 220. A crew of con-
victs rife and commit many
depredations near Exeter ib.
Two painters in Staffordshire
apprehended for intending to
leave the kingdom ib. Weft-
minger election 268. Defi-
nitive treaty of peace with
Holland 269. Extraordinary
mufical entertainment in ho-
nour of Handel ib. Trial of
Mr Robertfon for forgery
383. Westminster fcrutiny
384. Mr Fox's addrefs on
the occafion ib. Extraordi-
nary storm 327. Com. John-
ftone caft in 5oool. for ar-
refting Capt. Sutton 328.
Peace with Holland and A-
merica proclaimed ib. Pro-
clamation for a general
thanksgiving 385. Prince of
Wales bruifed between two
carriages ib. Correfpond-
ence between Lord George
Gordon and Mr Pitt on the
new taxes ib. Advertisement
concerning the poftage of let-
ters ib. India Houfe on the
regulating bill 436. Altera-
tion in the conduct of the
mails 437. Lord George
Gordon's correfpondence with
Lord Sydney on the bill for
restoring the forfeited eftates
437. Proclamation concern-
ing fmugglers ib. Letter
with 300l. to Mr Pitt from
one who had defrauded the
revenue 438. Postages of
letters regulated 439. Ships
from the Levant ordered to
perform quarantine 498. Re-
mains of Sir Eyre Coore in-
terred with great pomp at
Portsmouth ib. Eaft. India
Company's tea bought up at
an high price by fmugglers ib.
Trial of Col. Cofmo Gordon
for killing Col. Thomas in a
duel ib. Medal in honour
of Capt. Cook 546. Refolu-
tions of the Eaft-India Com-
pany 598. A Young Lady
hoots herself on a disappoint-
ment in love 599. Mr Pitt's
new fervice of plate folen
599. Ld. G. Gordon's cor-
refpondence with the Dutch
ambassador ib. With Mr
Pitt 600. Proclamation for
preventing feamen from go-
ing into foreign fervice 6or.
Col. Debbieg's fentence for

difrefpect

ces 184. 169

Heath, Dr Fothergill's max-
ims of 588

difcefpect to the Duke of France: Births, Marriages, &c. Hares, their properties when
Richmond ib. Extraordina at Paris 101. Earthquake domesticated 321
ay inftance of murder and
fuicide 602. Trial of fmug
glers for firing into a King's
cutter 603 Patience Elfom
executed for burning a wag-
goa house ib Jonathan Reid
hot in the act of ftealing
dead bodies 604. Brentford
balloon ib. Mr Arkinfon's
fentence for perjury 605. Mr
Smith's action for recovery
of an annuity 654. Premi-
ms given at the anniversary
of the Royal Academy ib.
Sutton's action again Com.
Johnstone 654. Trial of
Wood and Brown for rob-
.bing Sir T. Davenport 656.
Dreadful form at Newcaftie
658, Extraordinary medical
cafe at Carlile 660. Mr Todd
falls into a lead mine near
Newcastle 661 People loft
among fnow ib. Curious
Rate-bed prefented to the
Queen ib. Directors of the
India company prefent Col.
Cathcart with a twoid 693.
Profecution for breach of a
promife of marriage 964.
Number of convict, fenten-
ced at the Old Bailey ib.
Errors, a lift of vulgar ones

and dreadful ftorm at Ro- Haftings, Gov his letter to the
chelle ib. Two 74 gun fhips East-India Directors 286
lost 238
Hawkers and pediars, report
Freeholders, ferious advice to of the committee on illicit
them on life-rents or wadfets trade concerning their licen-
of fuperiority 115 177
Froft, account of a very fe-
vere one in Siberia 19. Ac-
counts of its feverity in dif- Hearne, Mr, his journey
ferent places 52 -54
through the north-west parts
Furneaux, Capt. account of the of America 311
maflacre of his people by the Herrings, method of falting
New Zealanders 374
and curing them 244
Gao! fever, its caufes 639 640 Herfchell, Mr, difcovers a vol-
Germany: Reduction of ec- cano in the moon 454
clefiaftical revenues 100. Bi- Highland elans, their addreis
shop of Treves, tolerates the to George I 114
Proteftant religionib. Inun- Highland society 697
dations in Hungary, &c. 101. Horatius on criminal gallant-
Population of the empire 156. гy 174. 237
imperial authority difregard- Human facrifice in the South-
ed by the Dutch 214. Re- fea islands described 575
quifition by the Emperor in Hummum or Turkish bagnio
confequence ib. Medal ftruck defcribed 32
at Nuremberg in memory of
of the inundations ib. Em-

peror's ultimate demand on
the States 431. His memo-
rial 543.
His circular let-
ter 594- Edict against bri-
bery 646. Revolt in Wal-
lachia 647
Gibraltar, extracts from a
journal of the fiege 613. 673
Godin, Madam, account of
her fufferings 117
Grain, account of that arrived
at the weft end of the great
canal 167
Grantham, Lord, his corre-
fpondence and fuit with Mr
Hodgson for extortion 106
Grafs-feeds, on the fowing of

them 210

Great Seal of G. Britain ftolen
161. A new one made ib.
Grenada evacuated by the
French, to the great joy of the
inhabitants 159. Powder
magazine fet on fire by light-
ning 647

Hunting match: Curious at-
count of a ceremony per
formed by the King after

one 35

Hydrophobia, two cafes of it
at Glafgow 166. Cure for
it 590

Jamaica; dreadful hurricane
there $44. Infurrection of
the negroes there 545
Iceland, new inland near it
increases 47 Totally difap-
pears 431. Great devastation
by fubterraneous fires 431
Illicit trade, reports of the
committee appointed to in-
quire into the state of it 24.
See Smuggling.
Impofture, a fingular one 165
India; shorteft paffage to it
by the Ifhmus of Sucz ze.
A trade by this ifthmus op-
pofed by the Grand Signior,
and why ib. Advantage of
fending packets this way ib
Indians commit a most cruel
maflacre on the Esquimaux

Guile, Duke of, his affaffina- 311

tion 254

Gypfies, account of them 6
H, humorous petition of that
letter 427
Haig, Mr, diftiller, his affi-
davit concerning the materi-
als he uses 333
Handel, extraordinary mufi-
eal entertainment in memory
of him a69

Inteription on a tomb in Lan-
cafhire 564
Infects extracted from a wo
man's cheek-bone 660
Inundations in different places
53. 1o. 156
Joanna, one of the Comorta
iflands, defcribed 171
Johnson, Dr, sketch of his life
and writings 609. 683
Ireland:

INDEX to the Effays, Extracts, Books, Hiftory, &c. 1784.

Ireland: Parliament on the
trade of that country 257.
Riots in the gallery of the
House of Commons 258. On
inflammatory paragraphs in
a news-paper ib. On the li-
berty of the prefs 25.9. Pro-
ceedings against Lord Strang-
ford 260. On the number
of emigrants 261. On ad-
drefling the Lord Lieutenant
387. inhabitants of Dublin
meet to confider of a more
equal representation in par-
liament 388. Alexander
Clarke tarred and feathered

440.

addrefs of the Commons for
a new ministry ib. This an-
fwer verfified 196. Speech
on proroguing the parliament
202. On meeting the new
On proroguing it

one 228.

438,
Law, an ancient one for pre-
venting the waste of town-re-

venues 502

Lee, John, executed for for-
gery; fome account of him
184.
His letter to a friend
the night before his execution
Letters, on the postage and
185
franking of them sos
Liberty, political, its nature
Hiftory of it in Eng-

141.
land 143

Logography, or the art of ar-
ranging and compoung words
for printing 250
Lords on the refolutions of
the House of Commons 79.
Their addrefs to the King 82.
On the conduct of the lower
Houfe 134

Petition of the inba-
bitants for a more equal re-
prefentation ib. Ld Lieute-
nant's anfwer ib. Diftur-
bance in the theatre on ac- Licences, report of the com-
count of the Lieutenant's pre-mittee on illicit trade con-
fence 441. Refolutions of cerning them 85
the volunteers to ufe no fo- Lime, whence its properties
reign manufactures ib A as a manure 209
number of people tarred and
feathered for breaking this
agreement 442. Scofile be-
tween fome officers of the ar-
my and a publican ib. P.
Dignam whipped for tarring
and feathering a journeyman
butcher 546. Frechoiders of
King's county refufe to fend
delegates to Congiefs, ib.
High fheriffs of Dublin dif-
placed for calling a meeting
of the freeholders 547. Their
fucceflors refufe to call a
meeting of the kind ib. Re-456
folutions of the delegates 548.
661. Scots fishery in the Irish
bays prevented 662. Three
justices of the peace of Lei-
trim profecuted for affembling
the gentlemen of the county,
to chufe delegates to congrefs
694

Italy; Earthquakes there 101.
327. Difference between the
Republic of Venice and Tu-

nis 215.

Misfortunes of the
fhip Duchefs of Tufcany ib.
Earth opens and fwallows up
50 houfes ib
Kempelen, M. account of his
machine that plays at chefs
150. Ilis articulating ma-

chine 151
King of Pruffia, a fingular fen-
tence of his 86
King's anfwer to the new year
address so. To the addrefs
of the Lords 84. To the

Lunar Iris defcribed 139
Lunardi's aerial expedition
where he defcended 622
534 Infeription on the fpot
Lunatic, extraordinary in
stance of the recovery of one

count of not finding a north-
Military merit, abftract from
weft paffage 314
a plan for an order of knight-
hood 60

Mackenzie, Capt. tried and
condemned for blowing K.
Mackenzie from the mouth of
frica 688. Refpited 691
a cannon on the coalt of A-
Madagafcar bat defcribed 174
Maid of Orleans, account of

her 613
Majorca,

Comte de Lefauda's femina-
account of the
ry for education there 460
Malays peopled the South-Sea
iflands 316

Male animals more easily kil-
led than females 371
Malt; report of the committee
on illicit trade concerning it
84 367

Matrimonial advertisement587
Meikle Tarrel, a farm, how
Memory, Dr Beattie on 670
managed 37
Middleton, Capt. Christopher,
amefully treated on ac-

Moon, volcanoes discovered
Mufical entertainment, extra-
in it 454
ordinary one in commemora-
Nancy, Eaft-India packet, loft
tion of Handel 269
off Scilly 160
National debt, Lord Stair's ac-
count of it 36. Price on it
Conclufion of the ele-

422.

venth report of the commif-
fioners of accounts concern-
ing it 124

Navy of Britain, means of
putting it on a respectable

footing 181

Negro, extraordinary eleva
New difcoveries in geography
tion of mind in one 320
Normandy, account of a wild
advantageous to mankind 315
youth tound in the woods of
North-west paffage to the Paci
that country 584
Nofegays, on the bad effects
fic Ocean has no existence 310
of them in close chambers 412
Oak tree, dimenfions of a
Offian's grave and monument
huge
one in Warwickshire 370
difcovered 306. Epitaph on

Ottoman empire, military force
him by the Earl of Buchan 307
of it 561
Paper, report of the committee
on illicit trade concerning it
Parliament, Dean Tucker's o
85. 368
pinion of the difputes in it.
63

Diffolved by proclama-
tion 161. New one meets
225. Prorogued 439
Paffes, law-fuit concerning
them 107
the extortion of money for
Peers of Scotiand; Lord Dun-
Peerage, ftate of the British 429

approaching election 175
donald's letter to them on the
Permits, how abused by smug-
Perfia: Account of that empire.
glers 28
ib.
90. Ruined by Khouli Khan
Petersburg, diftribution of
prizes there 93
Pierfon, Major, monument e-
rected to his memory 561
Pins and fish bones, effectual
method