Langworthy, Mr. his invention of prepared anti-corrofive or blanch- ed iron, 295. Importance of this discovery, 296. Lauderdale, Earl of, obfervations refpecting his oratory and writ- ing, 159:
La Vendée, curious account of the war in that part of France, on the fide of the royalifts, 508. Their amazing fuccefs, for a time, against the republicans, 509. Difappointed in their hopes of fuccours from England, 510. Immenfe loffes of both parties, 512. Account of the Chouans, 513. Lever, Sir Afhton, account of the present state of the museum ori- ginally formed by him, 47.
Coloured prints engraved from, defcribed by Dr. Shaw, ib. Lever, observations on the funda- mental property of that engine, with a proof of the principle affumed by Archimedes, 59. Light, curious experiments for meafuring the comparative in- tenfities of, 135.
Lille, Abbé de, his poetic talents highly commended, 536. Lindsay, Mr. account of the ger- mination and raising of ferns from the feed, 267. Of his cultivation, from the farina, of Lycopodium cernuum, &c. 270. Linné, Sir Charles, his birth and education, 2. His early im- provements in botany, 4. His travels, ib. His opponents and literary contefts, 6. Obtains a profefforship at Upfal, 7. His moft capital writings, 9. Ho- nours paid to his memory, 11. Lushington, Mr. extract from his impreffive fpeech at the India Houfe, on the formidable power of France, 91.
Map of England, a valuable one, from actual furvey, recom- mended, 177.
Marius, Caius, poetical picture of, 14. Markwick, Mr. account of a grub
mischievous to the wheat, 266. Martin, Mr. account of the prin- cipal dies used by the North
American Indians, 194. Mary, Queen of Scots, her cha- racter defended, 278. Matter, nature and powers of, confidered, 251. Medway, river, picturefque views on, 65.
Milton, his private character in- veftigated, 122. Apology for, in anfwer to Johnson's objec-
tions, 124: Beautiful edition of his poetical works, 125. Mirabeau, fome particulars rela-
tive to the life and death of that extraordinary person, 527. Mocking thruth defcribed, 48. Monarchies and ariftocracies fa-
vourable to men of letters, and why, 550. The reafon not ho- nourable to the latter, ib. Montgaillard, Count de, his opi-
nions relative to the affairs of France, and the war, 98. Moore, Mr. his improvement on the idea of ftandards for weights and meatures, 53.
Necker, M his abilities uncandidly reprefented, 537: Nella Rajah, a Hindoo tale, 569. Neuwied, principality of, under the government which excludes the inhuman principle of war, 556.
Newton, Rev. T. his own account of his treatife on the conic fec- tions, 390. Numa Pompilius, poetical portrait of, 13.
Opium, its nature and properties, 69.
Pagoda, remarkable one in the country of the Gentoos de- fcribed, 26. Pallas, Prof. his account of the
different kinds of sheep in Ruffia, 40. His travels tranf- lated into French, 482. De- scription of the white crane, ib. Of the people named Tudes, 483. Of the Oftiacs and Sa-
Pitt, Mr. confidered as holding in his hands the fate of Europe,
541. POETICAL EXTRACTS in this vol. viz. from Jephfon's Ro- man Portraits, 13. Lady Bur- rell's Thymbriad, 38. Dr. Armstrong's works, 73. The Ilero, a poem, 106. War, a poem, 107. Three Pindaric Efays, 108, The Volunteer Laureate, 109. Elphinften's Literary Correfpondence, 152. Prefton's Poems, 166. Thel- wall's Poems, 226. Bidlake's Poems, 256. Sketch from the Landfcape,318. Colman's Moun- taineers, a play, 442. Llan gunnor Hill, a poem, 461. Sonnets, by a lady, 463. Che- renfi's
renfi's Ode fur la Guerre, 464. Walks in a foreft, 583. Polyanus, fame account of that antient writer, and of his work entitled Stratagems of War, 573.
Priestley, Dr. fome parts of his Philofophical Lectures criti- cifed, 274. Defended, by a
Correfpondent, 358. His dif- courfes on the Evidences of Religion, 383.
Prophecy, modern, 219 344. 467. Pruning. See Bucknal.
fpecies of Paffiflora, 265. Spring, early appearances of, ia foreft-fcenery, 583.
Rats, account of an extraordinary kind, in Ruffia, which inhabit the fields, and are extremely numerous, 485. Their won- derful induitry and, fagacity, 486. Raynal, Abbé, his history of the Indies depreciated, 536. Repartees, inftances of farcaftic
among the antients, 581. Reprefentation, parliamentary, just remarks on, 549. Revelation of St. John, comments on, 149. Outline of a com- mentary on, 456. Rittenhoufe, Dr. method of find- ing the fum of the feveral powers of the fines, &c. 192.
Raf, Dr. cafe of tetanus, fuc- cefsfully treated, 532. gular cafe of fmall-pox, 533.
Salt-fprings and lakes, in the neighbourhood of the Cafpian, 491. Some of them inex- hauftible of falt, ib. Savage, heroic fpeech of an old one to his fon poetically exhi- bited, 168.
Timber, for thip-building, gloomy profpect of the want of, in this country, 173. Propofal for preventing, 174. Method of curing timber, 176.
Venice, account of the manner in which the Gondolieri there fing the flanzas of Taffo, 419. Vince, Mr. on the fundamental property of the lever, 59.
Vine, methods of cultivating in
Italy, &c. 502. Voyages of difcovery in America, enumeration of, 19.
War, horrible effects of, 554. Contrafted with the happy condition of a German prin- cipality in which the arts of peace are alone cukinated, 556. The folly as well as inhumanity of war expofed, 573. Stratá- gems in, no better than cheat- ing and treachery, ib. Warburton, Bp. his birth and edu-
cation, 323. Obtains the rec- tory of Brand- Broughton, 324. Commencement of his literary career, ib. His marriage, 325. His learned labours, 326. His death, 327. His character, ib. Watt, Mr. his pneumatic appa- ratus, with directions, &c. 220. Windham, Hon. W. charged with
want of temperance in his pub- lic conduct, 204. Defended, 340. Woodward, Mr. account of two new British Fuci, 265.. Of British ftellated Lycoperdons, 266. Wyvill, Mr. his refpectable cha- racter as a political reformer, 262. His collection of politi- cal tracts commended, 263.
Xenophon, ftory of the Thymbriad, from his Cyropadia, 37. Spee cimen of Lady Burrell's tranfla tion, 38.
---, defence of the Athenian democracy, 403.
Yellow bark, inquiry into the me dical efficacy of, 181.
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