Henry VIII. his government in Ireland con-
fidered, 14.

Herder, his opinion of the epiftle of St. Paul

to James, 382.
Hermit, Dutch, interesting particulars rela-
live to, 53.

Highlanders in Scotland, causes of their emi-
gration confidered, 60; miftakes from
which the prejudices of the Highland
proprietors again: emigration arife, 61;
impol.cy of the Chiefs of Clans, 63.
Highlands, obfervations on the monopoli-
zation of the fmall farms in them, 64; re-
marks on the wafte lands, ib.
Hirfch-holm, the refidence of the ill-fated
Queen Matilda, 32.

Hood, Commodore, afperfions against him
thrown out by Mr. McCallum, 400.
Ho'pitality, Ruffian, pleafing inftance of, 56.
Hame, the first author who treated caufa-
tion in a philofophical manner, 130.

I.

Ice, important difcoveries relative to its for-
mation and durability, 176; uses pointed
out by this part of the economy of nature,

178.

Induftry, its importance to nations, 267.
Ireland, the invafion of, concerted between
the Irish Catholics and the French, 3.
Irland, when firft peopled, 10; the obfer-
vations on the reformation in Ireland,
15; erroneous affertion of Mr. Plowden
relative to its certain and remote antiquity
refuted, 304; the vernacular language of
the prefent day pretended to have existed
above 3000 years, 305; letters firft intra-
.duced by St. Patrick, 306; hiftorical re-
marks on its ancient kings, 307; incor-
rect picture of their early refinement and
cultivation, 308; the inhabitants proved
to have been more unpolished, and bar-
barous than the ancient Britons, 309;
fource of moft of the abfurd and fa-
bulous relations concerning its ftate in an-
tiquity, 312; the annals of Cluain, or
Tigermach's annals, &c. &c. examined,
314: object in publishing the numerous
ancient annals, 316; the fource of the
rebellions in that country falfely attri-
buted to the English government and
the Irish Proteftants, 325; confidera-
tion of the different caufes of rebel-
lion in Ireland, 327 et feq.; review
of tithes, being the cause of popular dif-
content, 331; erroneous opinion relative
to the degraded ftate of the peasantry re-
fut d, 332; the influence of a republican
party examined, 333; account of the
dreadful rebellion in 164, and the refult,
ib.; effect of the Union, 336.
Irith, their claim to remote history fubvert

ed by the moft refpectable authors, 312.

Jewel, meaning of that word in ancient
writers, 128.

Johnstone, Commodore, particulars of his
engagement with M. de Suffrein, 265.
Johnstone, Dr. reprehended for his reply to
Dr. Smyth, 414.

Jones, Sir W. remarks on his ideas of poli-
tical harmony. 338; account of his ex-
curfion to Forest-hill, the refidence of Mil-
ton, 339; obfervations relative to Vol-
taire, ib.; account of feveral of his lite
rary productions, 342; remarks on the
learned H. Schultens, 344; his political
principles, ib.; publication on the law of
bailments, 345; his appointment as judge
in Bengal, and departure for India, 346;
his conduct in that fituation, 347; ac
count of his indifpofition, 348; particu-
lars of his death, 349; recapitulation of
his character, 350; his tranflation of a
fong from the Perfian, 352.
Juftification, error of the Jews and Jewish
Chriftions on, 374.

K.

Kimchi, David, eftimation of his writings
among the Jews, 376.

Kingdoms, ancient, brief view of their rife,
progrefs, and fall, 388.

L.

Laing, Mr. his unjust affertion respecting
Mary's participating in the murder of her
hufband, 101.

+

Lance-prezado, meaning of that ancient mi-
litary term, 127.

Language, the introduction of the French
and foreign terms into the English, repre-
hended, 394.

Languages, obfervations on the influence
and genius of certain languages, particu-
larly the French, 487.

Latin, the English pronounciation of it prov-
ed to be anomalous and inconfiftent, 294;
remarks on the exclufion of Latin terms
and forms of construction, 295..
Lavolta, explanation of the nature of that
'dance, 127.

Lawyers, obfervations on the impropriety o

their poffeffing the adminiftration of pub
lic juftice in their own cafes, 249.
Lepers, account of two found in the Socie
ty Inlands, 222

Leflie, M. falfely accused of propagating the
atheiftical principles of Hume, 130; able
refutation of the charge, 132.

Libel,

McCallum, Mr. account of his interview
with Governor Picton, 345; his reply upon
the illegality of the Governor's proclama-
tion refuted, 399.

Magnats, confidered as a public or political
robbery on public credit, 363.
Malays, their mode of clearing the land of
wood, 65.

Man, his independence in a ftate of nature
confidered, 157; the doctrines of Hobbes,
Montesquieu, and Roffean refuted, ib. ; ne-
ceffity of his primordial feparation proved
from feripture, 158; confidered according to
nature, 162; obfervations on his powers
for the increase of his own happiness, 247-
Manduit, Chevalier, account of his affafiina-
tion at St. Domingo, 237..

Manufactures, British, preferred all over the
continent, 39; confidered as conducive to the
happiness of man, 252.

Maps, plan recommended for their improve-
ment, 296.

Marth, Mr. the illiberality of his conduct to

Mr. Bingham, expofed, 193; his own vin.
dication, 426.

Mary, queen, her policy miftated by Mr.
Plowden, 16.

Mary, queen of Scots, ftated to be convicted

of murder and adultery, by the difcovery of
a casket, 102; refutation of the charge,
103; great peril in which her life was,
104; profligacy of the revels to this unfor
tunate queen, 106; her defperate fituation
on putting herself into the power of Eliza-
beth, 110; her accufation against Murray
and his faction of rebellion, 112; motives
of her commiffioners for breaking up the
conference fatisfactorily explained, 114;
examination of fome papers relating to her,
16 proof of their being forged, 119–

122.

Maffinger, fuperiority of that author in the
management of his preparatory hints, 125
Matilda, queen, interefting fketch of her
fate, 32.

Maton, D. cenfured for his attempt to ac-

count for the origin and progress of the
"Diary of Linnæus," 272 et feq.
Medicines, incongruity of afcribing their qua-
lities to their taste and fmell, 282.
Michaelis, Dr. ftrictures on his quotations,
368; remarks on his analyfis of the epiftles
of St. Paul, ib.

Mind, human, effect of knowledge on the,
419.

Miniftry, the British, talents and vigour of the
prefent, 212.

Millionaries at Otaheite, obfervations on their
manner of preaching religion, 231; eulogy
on their moral conduct, 232.

Mobs, ideas on their conftitution, and the
mode of fuppreffing them, 85.

Monopoly of corn-factors, remarks on it, 83
Mutiny of the 8th West India Regiments,
allufion to the, 397.

Murray, object of his vifit to Mary, 104;
circumstances on his giving in his charge,
114; the opening of his cafket, as accufa
tion against Mary, unproductive of any
light, the paper being forged, 115; re-
marks on the examination of his papers be
fore the privy council, 116; injustice on
that occafion, 118,

-N.

Nations, reflections on their viciffitudes, 244.
et feq.; causes of their deeline, 247.
Nature, the state of anterior to fociety, proved
to be an atheistical doctrine, 162.
Negroes, in Saint Domingo, motives for their
barbarity explained, 239.

Nelfon, Lord, ode on his death, 322; an ad-
drefs to England on his death, 323*
New Holland, remarks on the aboriginal in
inhabitants of that diftant region, 149;
inquiry into their capacity, character, man-
ners, &c. their jealoufy of their new vifi-
tors, 151; excellence in mimicry not a
proof of excellent natural talents, 151;
inftances of their apathy to improvement,
152.

Night-fignals, ftrictures on the fystem of
*them, 264.

Norfolk, the duke of, motives for executing
that nobleman, 119.

Norfolk-ifland, particulars relating to it, 153.
Norway, why denominated the Switzerland of
the North, 38.

Economists, general remarks on them, 356;

inftance

inftance of their artful fchemes, 359; their
rife, princi; les, and progrefs, 365, finances,
judicious remarks on, 358.,
Oefterby, remarkable for its great iron mines
and furnaces, 42.

Oge, a black infurgent, his confeffion of the

revolutionary plot in St Domingo, 240.
Orff, Count Alexey, anecdote of him prov-
ing the treachery and unfeelinglefs of his.
character, 5.

Otaheite, obfervations on the royal family in
that ifland, the.r mode of fucceffion, &c.
154; the paffionate fondness of the inha-
bitants for munic, 155.

remarks on the nature of the govern-
ment in thofe ifands, 221.
Otaheitans, instance of their propenfity to pil-
fering, 226; remarks, on the royal family,
general avidity of thef iflanders, &c. ib.
inftances of their fuperftition, 229; de-
feription of their general character, 231;
their motives for oppofing the introduction
of Christianity, 232; lummary of their.
character, 232.

68.3

Patrick, St. chriftianity first preached in Ire-
land by him, 317; dignities conferred on
him on acaount of his fuccefs, 318; fabu-
lous chronicles of him, 320; proof of his
not. preaching what is now called the Ro-
man Catholic religion, 370.
Paul, the emperor, detailed account of his
aflaffination, 135; his character, perfon,
manners, &c. ib. his afcenfion to the throne,
137; his removal of his father's afhes, and
fingular conduct on that occafion, ib,;
fymptoms of his distraction, ib.; his disgust
to the last favourite of his mother, ib.; in-
troduction of a French actress by a political
intrigue, 138; plan formed for his affaffi-
nation, 139; manner of its being put into
execution, 141; fenfations of the people on
receiving the intelligence, 142; events im-
mediately fubfequent to his death, ib.
Paul, St. his epiftle to the Galatians his
first addrefs to any fociety of Chriftians,
369; his fecond epiftle addreffed to the
Theffalonians, probably written at Athens,
370; doubts relative to the order of time in
writing the epiltle of Titus, 371; remarks
on his epiftle to the Corinthians, 372;
opinion relative to the epiftle to the Ro
mans, 374; occafion of his epistle to Phi-

lemon, 376; object of his epistle to Co-
luffe, 377; remarks on that addrefled to
the Ephesians, 378; on the one written to
Timothy, 379

Paul, St. controverfy on his epifle to the He-
brews, 379.

Peace of Fontainbleau, remarks on that me
morable event, 268.

Peopling of countries, ingenious fuggeftions
relative to the hiftory of that important
point, 224

Peter, St. obfervations on the two Catholic
epiftles to, 386.

Petersburgh, defcription of that city; cuftoms
and manners of its inhabitants, 56
Picton, Governor, his proclamation for the
fuppreffion of difloyalty in Trinidad com-
mended, 398

Plants, edible, obfervations on the general
utility, 281.

Playfair, Mr. his object in republishing Adam
Smith's Inquiry analyfed, 353-

Plowden, Mr. an avowed champion in the
caufe of popery, 3; rewards received by him
in Ireland and England, 4, 5; his historical
review of Ireland confidered, 7; his falle
statement of the faith preached by St. Pa
trick to the Irish, 12; his inconfiftency in
commenting on the conciliation of the Irish
to the union, exposed, 13.

Poets, in France, their mechanical proceed-
ing, 489.

Police in Ruffia, the, its fuperiority to the
English, 134.

Pomarrie, account of his death, his character,
&c. 229.

Pomerania, Swedish, its population, nature of
the foil, &c. 45.

Poor, attention to that clafs an exclufe duty

of government, 251.

Popes, ftrictures on their lives, and general
character, 491.

Popery, its influence on politics confidered, 32
Port Jackfon, defcription of that new fettle-

ment, its improvement, &c. 233
Potemkin, Prince, defcription of the unparal
leled grand fete given to the emprefs Ca-
tharine, 144; origin of his elevation, 146.
Power of a nation, means of acquiring it, 246;
its tendency, 248.

Prifts, proofs of their treafon in Ireland, 331.
Prince Edward's ifland, account of a fettle-

ment of highlanders there, 63.
Prince of Wales's ifland, its advantageous fitu-
ation for a marine eftablishment as well as
for trade, 290.

Printing first introduced into Denmark, 34
Prifoners, the French, new plan propofed

for

their confinement and accommodation, 192.
Probofcis of an elephant, remarks on the

remarks on the nature of them, 214; in
what manner to be interpreted, ib.; diffi
culties in explaining them, 215.
Peace, final, arguments for effecting it, 465.
Prejudices, national, their injurious confe-
quences, 483.

Prophecies, comparison, drawn between them
and the oracular refponfes of heathen anti-

Saints, remarks on the manner of compaffing
their lives, 319.

Sandwich-iflanders, their aftonishing progress
in civilization, 223; their dexterity in dive
ing, 225

manners, regulations, &c. 159.

Pruffia, the king of, not yet recognized as an
European monarch by the church of Rome,
187; importance of his union to the grand
confederacy against France, 210.
Puifaye, Count de, his juftification for quitting
his native country, 450; his entrance on
his military career, 454; attempt to furprise
him with fome other royalift leaders, 457;
his paffage to Britain, 458.

Pultenay, Dr. biographical sketches of, 274.

Rainsford, Major, fentenced to death in St.

Domingo, and relieved by Touiffant, 405.
Reform, moderated, gradation pointed out,
367.
Reformation, its advantages to man proved,

181; effects of the moral impulfe commu-
nicated to it, 182; its influence on the li-
berty of thought, ib.; erroneoufly affimi-
lated to the late revolution in France, 185.
'Religion, remarks on its introduction into our
amufement, 168.

the Chriftian, remarks on the na-

ture of its bafis, 189.
Refumption, the gregarian, the general fpecies

of it, mifreprefented by Mr. Plowden, 11.
Reviczki, Count, particulars relative to him,
337; confideration of the advantages of tra-
velling, 341.

Revolution, the French, origin of its ruinous
confequences, 449; inquiry into the caufes,
451, 453 crroneoufly affimilated to the
reformation, 185.

Riland, the Rev. queries put to his friend, 99.
Rochambeau, capitulated with Deffalines,

Schimmelpenninck, biographical sketch of

415.

Schools, inquiry into the effects produced by
them, 256.

parochial, the legislative establishment
of them recommended, 419.
Schultens, H. letter of this learned man tə
Sir W. Jones, 343.

Scripture, the beft means for confoling the
weak and humble chriftian, 301.
Sea-bathing, ftrictures on the prefent inde
cency of promifcuously performing this
practice, 196.

Sedition, fingular but effective mode of check-
ing it devised by the empress Catharine
146.

Selkirk, Lord, his addrefs in managing a fet-
tlement of highlanders in Nova Scotia, 63:
his tract on emigration from the Highlands
approved of, 66.
Sherlock, his admirable reafoning on

the na

ture of the prophecies, 216.
Signals at Sea, general remarks on them, 264.
Sin, its dangerous confequences, and magni-

tude of punishments confidered, 418; ani
madverfions on national, 419.

Singers on the ftage reprehended for facri-
ficing fenfe, propriety, and truth, to found,

174.

Singing, judicious obfervations on the effect of
a bad articulation, 174.

Slaves in the Weft Indies, their fituation and
conduct before and after the revolution,
236.

Slave-trade, its policy confidered, 236.
Smith, Dr. account of the tendency and fcope
of his Inquiry, &c. 354; biographical sketch,
356; value of his inquiry, 358.
Smith, M. his affertion refpecting the level in
commerce cenfured, 21.

Smyth, Dr. C. unjustly attacked for his disco-
very to deftroy contagion, 413.

Sir Sidney, rema kable anecdote of,

55.
Society, civil, inquiry into its origin, 157:
its neceffity proved from feripture, 158.
Songs, general remarks on their influence in
fociety, 167; tendency of thofe of a profli-
gate nature, 160; qualities requifite in pro-
per ones, 176.

Sonnet addreffed to the village children o

Sovereignty, the rights of, erroneous opinions
relative to their bafis refuted, 164.
Sound, number of veffels annually paffing
through it, 32.

Spenfer, his obfervations on the fstate of the
Irish in the 16th century, 310.
Stage, inftances of its poverty in ancient times,
125; the late juvenile performances repro-
bated, ib.judicious animadverfions on the in-
troduction of children on it, 393.
Statistics, general remarks on the elements of
ftatistics, 467; definition of the term, ib.
Stewart, M. his able defence of M. Leflie,
131.

Stockholm, its population stated to exceed that
of Copenhagen, 41.

Studies, deficiency of publications so called, in
France, 486.

Sutton Coldfield, historical account of the liv-
ing of, 426.

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Talleyrand, fummary of that mifereant's cha
racter, 67.

Tamahama, wife policy of that prince, 222.
Taxation, neceffity of avoiding all obnoxiouf-
nefs in its collections, 248.

Teignmouth, Lord, fummary of his life of Sir
W. Jones, 353.

Thefée, the, manner in which that ship was
loft, 263.

Torture, its exiftence in England in the time
of Queen Elizabeth proved, 127.
Touiffaint L'Ouverture, his first appearance in
public affairs, 243,

Trade, the freedom of, remarks relative to it,
250.

Trolhatta, a grand canal in Sweden, nearly
finished, 37

Trinidad, the rife of, its ftate at the time it
came into poffeffion of the English, 397.
Trinity, the, blafphemous ridicule of, 301.
Troy againft Symonds, obfervations on the trial
for a libel, 87-97.

Turnbull, Mr. motives for his engaging in a
voyage of discovery, 148; his remarks on
the difficulty in keeping the ship's crews to-
gether in South Seas, 156; fummary re-"
marks on the merits of his voyage, 234

V.

Vaccination, doubts refpecting the lafting ef
fects of it to destroy variolous infection,
197; the idea of its producing various other
diforders ably refuted, 198; its fatisfactory
progrefs in Bengal, 199.

Vice, the inftigation of it proved to fall within
the sphere of the novelift, 73.
Virgil, illuftration on a paffage in, 98.
Volunteers, importance of them confidered,
70.

Ulitea, hoftilities between the natives of that
ifland and the English, 156.
Unitarianifm, its infufficiency to afford com-
fort on a death-bed proved, 300.
Unitarians, their endeavours to diffiminate
their tenets, 3oz.

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