The humble Petition of feveral Proprietors of the Eaft-India Company, pof- Seffed of 5001. or more, but less than 1000l. of the Capital Stock of the Authentic Letters relative to the intended Tax upon Irish Absentees, viz. From Account of the Honours paid by the Affembly and Council of Jamaica, to the [221 Addrefs of the Council of Jamaica to Lady Trelawney State of the Export Linen and Linen Yarn Trade of Ireland for the laft Seventy Account of the total Quantities of British and Irish Linens exported from England, from the Commencement of the Bounty, to January 1772, diftin- guishing the Quantities and Bounties paid each Year Account of the Quantity of Linens ftamped in Scotland in the Years 1727. [ibid. Account of the total Quantities of Foreign Linens imported into England, and the Duties paid thereon from 1762 to 1771, both inclufive Account of the progreffive Increase of the Revenue of the Poft-Office. [ibid. STATE PAPERS. His Excellency Earl Harcourt's Speech to the Parliament of Ireland, on Tuef- The Addreffes of both Houses of Parliament in Ireland to his Majefty [234 His Majesty's Anfwers to the Addresses of both Houses of Parliament in Ireland. [ibid. [237 The Thanks of both Houses of Parliament in Ireland for his Majefty's most (ibid. The Lords Proteft against the Eaft-India regulating Bill Second Proteft of the Lords, upon the Rejection of the Duke of Richmond's A Defcription of the Island of Otaheite; with many Particulars of its Produce and Inhabitants, their Drefs, Habitations, Food, Domeftic Life, Amuse- Some Account of the Inhabitants of Batavia and the adjacent Country, their Some Particulars relative to the Arabs. Hofpitality and Politeness of Choudar Aga, the Governor of Hilla, a Turkish 45 Character of Mrs. Bridget Bendifh, Grand-daughter to Oliver Cromwell. 77 Character of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord High Chancellor of England, by Some Account of the celebrated Sir John Tradefcant. Some Account of Mac-Murchard, an Irish Chieftain in the Reign of Henry Of the Cuftoms, Manners, and Language of the Northern Indians of America. 85 NATURAL HISTOR Y. An Account of the Cavern of Dunmore Park, near Kilkenny, in Ireland. 94 Of the dreadful Effects of Cold in the Streights of Le Maire. Some Particulars of the Natural History of New Zealand. Surprizing Sea Weed in the Neighbourhood of the Streights of Le Maire. 104 Obfervations on the milky Appearance of fome Spots of Water in the Sea. ibid. Of the Climate of Naples, and of the Sirocc, or South-east Wind. Of the prodigious Chefnut Trees on Mount Etna, with fome other curious Obfervations with the Barometer, to ofcertain the Height of Mount Etna. 118 Account of a furprising Diver at Melfina. USEFUL PROJECTS, &c. 129 An Account of the Discovery of the Manner of making inglass in Ruffia; with a particular Defcription of its Manufacture in England from the Of the Preparation, Culture, and Ufe of the Orchis-Rout. Abstract Abftract of a Memoir on the Caufes of fudden and violent Death, wherein it is proved, that those who fall Victims to it be recovered. may 132 Of the Effects of Elder, in preferving growing Plants from Infects and Flies. 134 An approved Method of washing old Paintings, and giving them a good Glofs. ANTIQUITIES. 136 Of the Saxon and Norman Architecture; from Groffe's Antiquities of England and Wales. On the Suppreffion of Religious Houfes; from the fame. Of Doomsday-Book; from the fame. Obfervations on Bolton-Caftle, in Yorkshire; from the fame. 137 146 147 151 The Voyages of Obthere and Wulfftan; from the Anglo-Saxon Verfion of Orofius, by Alfred the Great. 152 Ancient Epitaph on Sir John Mason, who lies buried under St. Paul's 158 MISCELLANEOUS ESSAY S. 160 Extracts from a Difcourfe delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, on the Diftribution of Prizes, Dec. 10, 1772, by the Prefident. Curious Extracts from Mr. Burney's Journal of bis Voyage down the Ifer and the Danube, from Munich to Vienna. 166 173 177 Of the Carillons, or Chimes, in the Low Countries; from the fame. Of the Approaches to Berlin; from the fame. Defcription of Potsdam. 177 180 181 Some Inftances of the inordinate Passion for Mufic which prevails in the Ger man Courts; from the fame. Of the prefent State of Drefden, and of Saxony; from the fame. Some curious Particulars of the land of Malta. Rebuke to an English Gentleman, by a Sicilian Nobleman. Inftances of the Oppreffiveness of the prefent Government in Sicily. ibid. Letter from the late Dutchefs-Dowager of Somerfet to Mrs. ibid. 198 Account of two Fournies into Wales, in two Letters from Bishop Herring to Mr. Duncombe. 200 Curious Letter from the Lord Mountnorris to the Earl of Strafford, the Day before his Execution; from the Second Volume of Clarendon's State Papers. 203 Letter Letter from Mr. Edward Hyde to his Majefty; from the fame. 204 205 A Letter to Sir Ralph Hopton, supposed to have been written by the Earl of Effex. Letter from Sir Edward Hyde to Lady Dalkeith. 206 ibid. Extracts from a Letter of Sir Edward Hyde to Mr. Secretary Nicholas, which ftrongly mark the Writer's Principles and Love for his Country. 207 Extract from another Letter, which fhews Lord Clarendon's Opinion of the Political Religion of Princes and States. 209 Letter from Sir Edward Hyde to the Lord.Digby, which places the Writer in a very exalted Point of View. from Sir Edward Hyde to the Duke of Richmond. - from Sir Edward Hyde to the Earl of Southampton. Singular Anecdote relative to Ventriloquifm. 210 211 212 213 214 A Letter faid to have been written by M. de Voltaire, laft Year, to the late Earl of Chesterfield. 217 POETRY. The Invitation; to Miss B ; by Mifs Aikin. The Origin of Song-writing; by the fame. Verfes written in an Alcove; by the fame. Night; by the fame. 219 223 225 The Moufe's Petition; found in the Trap where he had been confined all The Groans of the Tankard; by the fame. Tranflation from Dante, Canto xxxiii, by the Earl of Carlisle. 227 228 230 232 Three Pieces taken from a Paftoral Drama, written by Miss More, of Bristol, Ode for the New Year, 1773; written by William Whitehead, Efq; The Nymph of Tauris, an Elegy, on the Death of Mifs Anne Trelawney, who died in Jamaica. 238 239 240 Prologue to the New Comedy called She Stoops to Conquer, or the Miftakes of a Night, written by David Garrick, Efq;, 241 Epilogue to the fame, by Dr. Goldsmith. 242 New Year Ode, to his most excellent Majefty King Bladud, of Bath. 243 Song, written about 250 Years ago. 244 The Traveller and Statue of Opportunity, a Dialogue. 245 Character of the late Mr. Robert Lloyd, when a Prifoner in the Fleet. 246 An bumble Prayer. 246 Epitaph on Mr. Thomas Hammond, Parish-Clerk of Ashford in Kent. Verfes prefented by Sir Henry Lea, the brave Ancestor of the prefent Litchfield Family, to Queen Elizabeth. 247 ibid. 248 Ode for his Majefty's Birth-Day, June 4, 1773. 249 Epilogue, written by R. Cumberland, Efq; and spoken after the Comedy of the Jealous Wife, performed for the Ufe of the Society for the Relief and Difcharge of Perfons imprisoned for fmall Debts. ibid. To the Parret, a Rivulet near Sherborne. 251 The Triumph of Ceres, or the Harveft-Home. 252 On feeing the Figure of Death in a Dream. By Dr. Harington. 253 254 ACCOUNT of BOOKS for 1773. 255 The Hiftory of Ireland from the Invafion of Henry the Second. With a Preliminary Difcourfe on the ancient State of that Kingdom. By Thomas Leland, D. D. Senior Fellow of Trinity College, and Prebendary of St. Patrick's, Dublin. 3 vols. quarto. An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the Order of his prefent Majefty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and fucceffively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Cartaret, and Captain Cooke, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the feveral Commanders, and from the Papers of Jofeph Banks, Efq; By John Hawkefworth, L. L. D. 3 vols. quarto. 266 The prefent State of Mufic in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Provinces; or the Journal of a Tour through thofe Countries, undertaken to collect Materials for a general Hiftory of Mufic. By Charles Burney, Muf. D. 2 vols. octavo. 274 THE EN D. |