nant, on Tuesday March 21, on presenting the money-bills at the bar of the boufe of lords

[257

The Speech of the lord lieutenant of Ireland to both houses of parliament, on clofing the feffion, May 8, 1786

[258

His Majesty's fpeech to both houses of parliament, on clofing the feffion of par liament July 11, 1786

[259

The addrefs of the lord mayor, &c. of the city of London, August 11, 1786, on his Majesty's happy escape from assassination; with his Majesty's anfwer [259 Treaty of alliance and commerce between Frederick III. King of Pruffia and the United States of America, ratified by congrefs, May 7, 1786 [260 Convention between his Britannic Majefty and the King of Spain, figned at London, July 14, 1786 [262 Treaty of commerce and navigation between his Britannic Majefty and the Moft Chriftian King, figned at Versailles, September 26, 1786 [266 The Prince of Orange's letter to the States of the Province of Holland, fent September 26, 1786, in answer to their notification of his fufpenfion from the office of captain general

[282 The King of Pruffia's letter to the States General of the United Provinces, delivered September 18, 1786, by the Count de Goertz, his majefty's envoy extraordinary

[284

The memorial of the general meeting of Weft India planters and merchants, delivered December 26, 1786 [286 Tranflation of the Emperor of Morocco's letter to the States of North America, relative to a treaty lately entered into by that emperor with the States [288 Fifth report of the commiffioners of public accounts, relative to the balance in the hands of the paymaster general of the forces in office [288 Heads of the principal acts of parliament which paffed in the feffion of parlia ment commencing January 24, 1786

CHARACTER S.

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Character of Dr. Samuel Johnson; from Mrs. Piozzi's anecdotes concerning

him

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Short account of the perfon and character of Peter II. Emperor of Rufia; and of his fifter the princess Nathalia; from Mrs. Vigor's additional Letters from Ruffia, written during that emperor's reign Character of the Mogul Emperor, Shaw Aulum, eldeft fon and fucceffor to the famous Aulumgeer Aurengzebe; from a tranflation of the memoirs of Eradut Khan, a nobleman of Indoftan, by Captain Jonathan Scott Characters of the four fons of Shaw Aulum; from the fame work Account of the behaviour and conduct of Jebaundaur Shaw, after be became emperor

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Hiftory and character of Lord Digby, by the Earl of Clarendon, from the Supplement to the third volume of his State Papers

VOL. XXVIII.

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NATURAL

NATURAL HISTORY.

Natural hiftory of the different ferpents in the East Indies; from Monf
F. d'Obfonville's effays on the nature of various foreign animals, translated
by Mr. T. Holcroft

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49

Natural history of the Ichneumon; from the fame work
Natural hiftory of the Thevangua, or Tatonneur, from the fame work 50
Particulars relative to the nature and cuftoms of the Indians of North Ame-
rica, by Mr. Richard M'Caufland
52
Some particulars of the prefent ftate of Mount Vefuvius; from a letter from
Sir William Hamilton, K. B. F. R. S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart.

P. R. S.

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55
Account of a new electrical fish; in a letter from Lieutenant William Pater-
fon, to Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart. P. R. S.
Advertisement of the expected return of the comet of 1532 and 1661 in the
year 1788; by the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, D. D. F. R. S. and aftronomer
royal
Obfervations on longevity, in a letter from Anthony Fothergill, M. D. F. R. S.
to Dr. Percival

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Refult of fome obfervations relative to army difeafes, made by Benjamin Rush,
M. D. profeffor of chemistry in the univerfity of Philadelphia, during his
attendance as phyfician general of the military hofpitals of the United States
of America, in the late war

USEFUL PROJECT S.

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Obfervations on the use of acids in bleaching of linen, by Dr. Eafon
Experiments and obfervations on ferments and fermentations, by which a mode
of exciting fermentation in malt liquors, without the aid of yeast, is pointed
out, with an attempt to form a new theory of that process; by Thomas Henry,
F. R. S.
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A fyftem of Kentish agriculture, by the Rev. Mr. Hill, of Eaft Malling,
Kent; being his anfwers to the queries proposed to him by the Bath Agri-
culture Society
83
Culture, expences, and produce of fix acres of potatoes, being a fair part of
near seventy acres, raised by John Billing fley, Efq;
Account of the origin, progress, and regulations, with a defcription of the
newly-eftablished bride-well or penitentiary-house at Wymondham; by Sir
Thomas Beevor, Bart.

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87

On the use of steeping feed-barley in a dry feafon; by Mr. James Chapple 93
Account of a new kind of cement, peculiarly hard and lafting, made from fome
red earth or puzzolana, found in Jamaica

94

ANTIQUITIES.

Defcription of Thebes; ftate of that city under the Perfian, Roman, and
Turkish emperors; the porticos, &c. of the great temple near Garnac; the
plain of Carnac, leading to Luxor; remains of the temple of Luxor ;
the magnificent obelisks, Sc. described. From the tranflation of Monf.
Savary's Letters on Egypt, vol. ii.

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A vifit to the tombs of the kings of Thebes; farcophagi, &c. defcribed; ob-
fervations on the grand temple; parts of a prodigious coloffal figure found
among these ruins; the ruins of Memnonium, denoted by heaps of marble,
c. either mutilated or funk in the earth; from the fame work
Dr. Glass's letter to William Marjden, Efq; on the affinity of certain words
in the language of the Sandwich and Friendly Ifles in the Pacific Ocean,
with the Hebrew,

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107

Obfervations on a picture by Zuccaro, from Lord Falkland's collection, fup-
posed to reprefent the game of Primero; by the Hon. Daines Barrington 109
Obfervations on the antiquity of card-playing in England; by the fame 110

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

The hot baths ufed all over Egypt, and the manner of bathing described, with
obfervations on the benefits arifing from them; on the women who bathe
once or twice a week; and comparisons between these baths and thofe of the
ancient Greeks. From Monf. Savary's Letters on Egypt

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121

An account of the Almai, or Egyptian Improvisatore, their education, dan-
cing, mufic, and the paffionate delight the natives take in these actresses;
from the fame work
Some account of the private life of the Egyptian women, their inclinations,
&c.; the manner in which they educate their children; and their custom of
weeping over their kindred; from the fame work

Curious account of the chicken-ovens in Egypt ; from the same work
Account of the Krimea ; from the Gentleman's Magazine

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129

Taciturnity, an apologue, tranflated from the French of Abbé Blanchet 134

POETRY.

Ode for the new year 1786, by the Rev. T. Warton

136

Ode for his Majesty's birth-day, June 4, 1786, by the fame

138

Verjes fuppofed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during his solitary abode
in the island of Juan Fernandez; by W. Cowper, Esq;
Report of an adjudged cafe, not to be found in any of the books; by the fame

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141

Ode to Edmund Malone, Efq; from the Gentleman's Magazine
Prologue to the Heirefs, by the Right Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick

Epilogue to the fame

Pathetic apalogy for all laureats, past, prefent, and to come; by W. Whitehead,

Efq; late poet laureat

Sonnet from Petrarch; by Charlotte Smith

Another; by the fame

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146

149

149

A parody on "Bleft as th' immortal Gods is he;" faid to be written by the Hon. Henry Erfkine

Lines to Edmund Hopkins, Efq; by David Garrick, Efq;
Epigram on the phrafe" Killing Time;" by Voltaire

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Epitaph on Sir William Draper, K. B. by C. Anstey, Esq;
Anacreontique, addressed, in a far country, to a once new year
Portrait of a provincial poet, drawn from the life, above forty years ago 153

AccoUNT of BOOK S for 1786.

152

The Hiftory of Ancient Greece, its colonies, and conquefts, from the earliest accounts till the divifion of the Macedonian empire in the Eaft; including the biftory of literature, philofophy, and the fine arts, in 2 vols. By John Gillies, LL. D.

154 An account of State Papers, collected by Edward Earl of Clarendon, vol. iii. folio 159 Sixth Report of the Commiffioners of Public Accounts; omitted by mistake in the State Papers

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FINI S.