of her brother, 548. Is falfly charged with poifoning prince Alexis, 553. And of poifoning her husband, 554.
doctrine of fire and brimftone, and the eternity of hell-tor- ments, 311. DOWNING, Sir George, his fervile speech in defence of preroga- tive, 259. DUNCOMBE, Sir John, recom- mends the punishment of abfen- tees from the houfe of commons, 125. His moderate fentiments with regard to the duke of Lau- derdale's removal, 130.
E.
D.
DANBY, lord treafurer, his FAST-Indies, fome account of,
four principal tribes of the Indians, ib. The Hallachores, 475. EDUCATION, ftrangely perfonified, and poetically celebrated, 104. ELOQUENCE, its influence in par-
motive for caufing Mr. Montagu's papers to be feized, 263. His evil conduct difco- vered, 265. Pleads the king's pardon, 332. Refentment of the commons thereupon, ib. DAVID, King, his meaning, by the expreffion, workers of ini- quity, 268. His Pfalms, No. 109 and 110, tranflated by Mr. Green, 269, 272. Meaning of his, fuppofed, imprecations, a- gainst his enemies, 271. Criti cifms on the comparison of the dew, in Pfalm 110, &c. On the words, Thou art my fon, this day have I begotten thee, 273. DIDATES, Parliamentary, thofe
liamentary affairs, 124. ENTHUSIASM, not the most noble or effential characteristic of poe- tic genius, 146. Poetical ana- lyfis of its operation, 309. ERNLY, Sir John, 331. ERSKINE, Mr. his humourous let-
ter to Capt. Bofwell, 477. EVIL Counsellors, debate on the removal of, 129. EUDOCIA, first wife of Czar Peter, her fcandalous intrigue with Glebo, and Doritheus bishop of Rotou, 556. 556 FAITH
F.
FAITH and Works, felf-exami
314.
nation concerning, FALKLAND, Lord, his fpeech for limitting the regal power, 413. On the fovereign's attachment to foreigners, 418. FANCY, poetical addrefs to, 377. FAST on the 30th of January, ob- fervation of, difapproved in the houfe of commons, 415. FASTING, its power and efficacy,
314.
FATIMA, a beautiful Turkish lady,
defcribed, 470, feq." FINCH, Mr. attorney, his fpeech. in the house of commons, on the non attendance of members, 125.
FIRE-eater, humourous account of, 482. FOREST-Lands, propofals for fell- ing them, 178, 182. Fox, Sir Stephen, a difpenfer of fecret-fervice-money, 332, feq. Proceeding relating to, in the houfe of commons, 333. His remark on the neceffities of go. vernment, 417.
FRANCE, debate in the British par- liament on her growing great- nefs, 195. Police of, 425. Ex- cellent regulations for prevent- ing robberies, &C. 426. FRANKLIN, the printer, his re- venge on David Mailet, 167. FREE - Holders and Freemen, whence their right of electing reprefentatives in parliament, 142. Neceflity of inveiting the trading interest with the fame privilege, ib. feq. FRENCH, treachery of, to the Nat- chez, 448. G.
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GA
ARROWAY, Mr. his fpeech ou the recall of British subjects in French fervice, 190. On the growing greatnefs of France, 195. His free expreffion in a debate concerning war, 197. Qualifies the audacious behavi- VOL, XXVIII.
our of Titus Oats, 332. On king James's abdication, and for limitting the power of his fuc-. ceffor, 411, 414. GENOA, the famous emerald cup fhewn there, an impofition, 216. GEORGE II. King of Great Bri- tain his character, 362. Princi- pal events of his reign, 363. GOD, mirepresented as a dreadful and vengeful Being, 311 Goop-Nature, with refpect to re- ligion, confidered, 42. GOVERNMENT, naturally tends to defpotifm, 210 GRANVILLE, Col. his motion for a temporary tax on place - men, 4:17. H.
Η
AMPDEN, junr, his fpeech in the houfe of commons, on king James's abdication, 415. HARBORD, Mr. William, his re- flections in the houfe of com. mons, against the speaker, 128. Employed in the enquiry con- cerning Montagu's papers, 264. Oa bribery, 266. Gn king James's abdication, 415. HARCOURT, Sir Philip, his warm remark in the house of com- mons on a breach of privilege,
260.
province, 30. His difadvant- ages in recording recent events, 250. HISTORY, general uncertainty of its evidence, 10-249.
af France, in what man- ner faid to have been compofed by the dauphin, 325. HOBBES, cenfured by Lord Shaftf- bury, for the immorality of his. principles, 41-2. HOWARD, Sir Robert, his fpeech on an address for removing the duke of Lauderdale, 193. Howe, Mr. his opinion in parlia- ment on placemen and penfion- ers, 417. HUNGERFORD, Sir George, his oppofition in the houfe of com- mons to the demand of a fup- ply, 21, feq. Begs pardon of the houfe, 263. HURD, Mr. his criticifm on the Chinele drama, where preferv ed, 177. HURDY-Gurdy, verfes adapted to, 481.
I.
J
AMES II. his anfwer to an ad- drefs of the commons, 337. debates in parliament on his ab- dication, 411. JENKINS, Sir Leoline, his flavish and abfurd fpeech in the houfe of commons, on the bill for ex- cluding the duke of York, 335. JEWS Harp, verfes adapted to, 480.-
JESUITS, hardly dealt by in France, 539. Their kill in cafuitry, 540. Hold dangerous tenets, ib. et feq. for toleration in religion, 542. Inflances of abominable doctrine held by them, 546. IMPRESSING of famen, debate on,
in the house of commons, 132. The practice of, flavith and in- human, 133. INDUSTRY, improvements of, in in this country, ought to be fol- lowed by improvements in the
conftitution of the government,
142.
INSULTS, perfonal, by whom to be revenged, 13. INVASIONS, policy of carrying them on with humanity, 254. A French commander praised on this account, ib. INVOCATION, to the ghost of Trenmor, an admirable passage in Temora, 279. Of Hervor, from the Runic, 283. JOKES, how commonly spoiled by dull ftory-tellers, 325. JONES, Mr. his poem on the birth of a prince of the Wales, 20. Mr. Hugh, his Welsh poem on the fame occafion, 18. -, Serjeant, his speech in the houfe of commons, on an ad- diefs for removing the duke of Lauderdale, 193.
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Sir William, his fenfible freech on the bill for excluding the duke of York, 336. JULIAN the apoftate, neither fo good or bad a man as ufually re- prefented, 559. Voltaire's mif- take concerning, ib.
K.
K
ING of Great Britain may ap- point his own fervants, but not fupport them in office againft the general fenfe of his people, 132. Not obliged, however, to regard the artful clamours of a party against his minifters, ib. L.
LAWRENCE, Mr. his verfes on the birth of the prince of Wales, 20. LAWS of England, their rude and imperfect flate in the early peri- ods of our history, 62. Whether the obfolete ftatutes ought to be annihilated, 63. Inconvenience of the multiplicity of penal laws, ib. and 65. The indifcriminate feverity of our ftatute laws com- plained of, 64. Laws against irreligion, &c. deftructive to co- lonies, 403. How far pernici- ous to fociety in general, ib. LEE, Sir Thomas, his fpeech in the house of commons, on the non attendance of members, 125. On bribery and corrup- tion, 134. His remark on the ftate of the navy, 189. motion on fome diforderly pro-
His
wrangling debate on a fupply,
252.
LONGITUDE, new method of find◄ ing, 406.
Love, the effence of true religion; and Hatred the practice of reli- gious parties, 44. LOWTHER, Sir John, his fpeech on the feizure of Montagu's papers, 264. On place-men in parlia- ment, 417. On the mal-admini- ftration of public affairs, 421. Lucy, Sir Kingfmill, his fpeech on an addrefs for removing the duke of Lauderdale, 192. LUNATION, Mean, exact length of, 435.
Goddefs of, her wor- fhip among the Romans, 510. Cap of, manner of giv it to Roman flaves, 513. LICENSE, of plays, a fatal ftroke to the Liberty of the Prefs, 363. Actual ill confequence thereof, 364. LITERARY Reputation, the right of attacking it. 503. LITTLETON, Sir Thomas, his speech in the houfe of commons, relating to the fpeaker's being a courtier, 126. Speaks in the
LYTTLETON, Hon. Mr. his verfes on the birth of the prince of Wales, 20.
ceedings at a grand committee, MAD-Houses, abuses in the
On
192. His relating polygamy, 195. Remark, on a breach of privilege, 260. the abdication of James II. 415. LE ROY, Monf. his Ruins of Á- thens compared with Mr. Stu. art's Antiquit es of that famous city, 306. The blunders of the French artift, 307. LIBERTIES of the people, in most danger in times of the greatest fecurity, 210. LIBERTY illuftrated and defended, 115. Of the Prefs afferted, 117, and vindicated, in oppofition to an Oxford Writer, 118.
management of, 242. MAGISTRATE, civil, how far his power extends over confcience, 507. In what cafe not to be obeyed, 508. MALLET, Mr. moves for a bill for making polygamy felony, 194 His remark in a debate on the growing greatness of France, 197. On a breach of privilege,
250.
MANUFACTURES of this king dom, prefent difadvantages of, 371. Hints for improving, ib. MARROW Bones and Clevers,
verfes humourfly adapted to, 480. MARVEL, Andrew, the lait mem- ber of parliament who received a ftipend from his conftituents, 125.
MASKELYNE, Mr. his method for finding the longitude, 406. MASORETIC Hebrew text uncor
rupted, 441.
MAYNARD, ferjeant, his fpeech on the abdication of James II. : 412.
MEDICINE, its profeffors ill-ufed by officious managers in public hofpitals, 247...
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MERCHANTS and opulent traders, neceflity of their being privi- leged to elect reprefentatives in parliament, in common with landholders, &c. 143. MERES, Sir Thomas, his remark on a thin houfe of commons, 126. His fpeech on the removal of evil couafellors, 129. MERIDIAN, 216, 221, 223. METHODISM, bithop of Gloucef- ter's ftriking account of its birth, &c. 395. MINISTERS, bad ones only averfe to impartial examination, 210. Mock-Patriots, fatirically difplay. ed, 214. MONKSHOOD, its medicinal ufe, 454, feq. MONTAGU, lady Mary Wortley, the letters published under her name, genuine, 385. Her de- fcription of Vienna, 387. Her account of a nun there, 389. Of the countefs Cozelle, 390. Her journey to Adrianople, 391. Account of the ladies baths there, 392. And of the ladies, 393. Her account of the Ma- hommedan religion, 461. Of the Arnouts, 462. Of the Turk- ifh gardeners, 454. Of the Turkish poetry, 46. Of a vi fit to the vizier's lady, 469. To the kahya's lady, 470.
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Mr. his papers feizs ed, 263. His relation of that affair in the house of commons,
N. ASH, Beau, bons mots of his, 325
NATCHEZ, account of them, 445. NATIONAL Debt, an alarming fubject, 178. Judicious propo- fal for difcharging it, ib. NATURAL Religion, of two kinds, 560.
NEGROE Slaves, propofal for fet- ting them at liberty, and em- ploying them by voluntary hire, 403.
Nissa, plains of, their extraordi-
nary fertility, 392. NORTH, Mr. attorney, his opinion in debate on impreffing feamen, 132.
NOSTRUM, method of establish- ing, 401. NUMBERS, Trigonal, their fruc- ture and afes, 231. Nux, at Vienna, affecting account of, 389.
P.
264.
MUSEUM, British, founded by SirAGE, Mr. his publication of
receipts for Ward's medi- cines, 486.
Hans Sloane, 55. Sum raised by act of parliament for pur- chafing his rarities and the Har- leian MSS. lb. Note: MUSGRAVE, Sir Chriftopher, his fpeech on king James's abdica- tion, 416. Againit placemen in: parliament, 417. Music, or Song, coæval with fo- ciety', 14.5.
PAGGET, Mr. informed against for abufing the votes of the house of commons, 334 Taken into cuftody, 335: PALMES, Mr. his opinion in the heufe of commons, in the de- bate about placemen, 417. PARADOXES, a pallion for, as bad
as a passion for hopotheses, 5. PARLIAMENT, debate on non at- tendance of the members, 125. Atten
O.
O
ATS, Titus, a daring and in- trepid Informer, 330. A necdotes of him, ib. His be- haviour to the house of com- mons, 331, feq. be OECONOMY, National, may ill timed, 215. ORIGINAL Sin, account of, 313. OSSIAN, the Erfe poet, his merit eftablished by the rules of criti- cifm, 144. Doubts as to the authenticity of his writings, 151. OXFORD, the prefs there more: friendly to liberty than formerly, 464
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