561 Sleech 180, 269 Stonor
81, Sanxey
270, 372-3, Sarjant
470 Savary
INDEX of NAMES to Vol. LVIII. FART I,
365 Skrine 269, 319 Stock 519 Throckmon
86 Storer 273- 360 Tifdall
464 Stowe 105. 465 Tolbut
81 Small 83, 365, Stradling 206 Toller
374. Strangeways 373 Tomkinfon 276
270 Smallbones 83 Strawbenzee 464 Tomlin
270 Swallwell 278, Strickland 295. Tomlinfon 365.
Richardfon 277, Saunders
479, 563 Sawrey
535 Stringer 178. Touns
463 Stuart 85. 179. Townshend 271.
181. 364
85-6, 177,182, Sturgis 110.346. Towrneiu M. le
465, 534, 564, Sumpter
566 Surgey
464 Trimmer 364
464 Triquet
564 Snow 182, 565 Swinton
374 Scott 178, 365, Solloway
76 Turner 177-8.
76 273.340.467-
562.506
374 Symons 279. 373 Turnbull 373
178, 275
Robinson III, Seddon
174, 178, 322, Selkirk
374,467, 468, Sellon
470, 534 Selwyn
85 Spencer 85. 464 Tattum
278 Sharpe 178, 463 Sperling
273 Varnum 75
467 Taylor 81. 270. Vaughan 86.266.
374 274.363. 464.
Rofs 80. 275, Sherwin 358, 374 Stamforth 275 Terrick 110. 111 Urquhart
278, 566 Shilliot 365 Stanbridge
82 Shore 270, 365 Standert
Rowfon 455,470 Sibley
Roylance 270 Simon
Royle 178 Simpfon 86, 279 Stark 273 374 Throngbear 86 365. 464.
180, 266 Starling 85 Thoresby 470
256 Thorley 373 Wade 465.566
Runnington 109 Sinclair 84, 270 Stebbart
266 Sinzenderf 178 Stephens 85. 562 Thorn 179.374
Rufhook 310 Skeeles
81 Stevens
Ruffell 367, 463, Skeete 275 Stevenfon
532 Skegg
467 Stewart 178.533 Thorpe
Stiles 278. 563 Thoyts
INDEX to the Effays, Differtations, Tranfactions, and
Hiftorical Paffages, 1788. Part I.
See alfo the CONTENTS of each Month.
Alexandrian library, contained
700,000 volumes, 15. aug
mented by Ptolemy'the IId,
Aloes, on the preparation of,
Dr. Franklin's speech on
the conftitution, 265. · Joya-
lift petition, that they may
be paid for fupplying the
British armies with ftones
and ftorehouses, 327. de
bates on the commercial in-
tercourfe with, 418. 419.
Ruth's letter on the confti-
tution of
546
15 Amfterdam, intelligence from
****** 455
33 Andrews, founder of the obfe:-
vatory at Dublin
294
149 Anonymous papers, an encou
ragement to young writers 3.
122. 316. reply not to be
admitted to those who fign
their real names
123
Antigua, advices from 355
Antimony, experiments on 53%
Antiquarian Society, anniver
fary
361
Apelles, anecdotes of 289
Apuleius, account of the par
385
Aquatile hole, fpring of water
arifing from
Albemarle, D. letter to Sir An-
Bbeffes, not better judges of thony Aucher
195
religion and morality than Aldermen, court of, regulations
221 in
359
Academy, Royal, in Ireland, Alexander cherished the fine
inftituted, 1782 528 arts more from vanity than
As of Parliament, gloffary
tafte
291
'wanted to
52
Addifon, conjectures on his
fignatures of the Spectators
485
papers of a ferious na- Alligator bites a man when
ture, when wrote 487 fwimming
gypt, the feat of literature
in the reign of Ptolemy Phi-
Jadelphus
15
African laws, are the local
traditionary customs of the
country, 433. debtors laws,
433- women, clean and
attentive to domestic duties
434. account of that coun-
try by different authors,
433. indigo and cotton
cultivated. 433. religion
of the natives, indolent fu-
perftition, 433. their first
trade, 434 annually ex-
port 3000 llaveR
in Barbadoes
Alured family enquired after
295
Ambrefbury abbey nuns expelled
in 1177
America, intelligence from 74.
75. 265 355 454. 555.
war with the back fettle-
ment, 74- emperor of
Morocco concludes a treaty
with, 75 French edict in
favour of, 170. woman
has the laborious part of
economy upon them, 222
INDEX to the Effays, Occurrences, &c. Part I.
Arabian language, different Barge, that word explained 221
authors of, 16. manu- Barbolm church, portraits
feript tranflations of 16 there
ribmetic, an extraordinary Bark, that word explained 227
genius for
410 Barrington, John Shales, bio-
Army eftimates, 131. ar- graphical account of 468
rangement of rank, between Barrifiers, original gown is
the king's and Eaft India the time of James I. 50
Company officers 353 Bafing floke, plunder amaffed
Artery, femoral, dilated cafe
55
Artifs, who flourished in the
golden age of Grecian tafte
Arts, polite, when and where
encouraged, xv.
Arts, fociety of, advantages of
that fociety to the public,
421. premiums offered by
423-4-519
Ah, the different fpecies of,
wanted to be described 121
Affemblies, charitable, to be
promoted
315
Atbene Cantabrigienfes recom-
mended
436
Arbena Oxonienfes, continu-
ation recommended 436
Atterbury, bishop, paffage in
Cicero quoted in his letter
to Pope
32
Attornies, formerly diftinguish-
ed by their drefs
50
Aurum Muficum, of the laft
difpenfatory
116
Auftrians and Turks, battle be-
550
Authors, young, fhould not at-
tempt to enter the lifts with
literary veterans
305
Authors, living, a catalogue of
five hundred, blunders in it
537 writing the lives of
an invidious office
Ayrton, Dr. fuperintends the
publication of Dr. Nares's
works after his death 239
methodists, 27. objection
to appointing too young, 17.
on their conftant refidence
on their diocese, 105. pro
moted by merit in 1691,
286. removed from Ire-
land to England, 309. 310
311
Blackflone's writings, informa-
tion to be gained from 337.
Blencow, of his decyphering
letters
380
Blount and Grofe, dificulties
in, elucidated in 491-2
Blues take poffeffion of the
horfe-guards
46.
Board of Contronl, preced-
ings of
.259
Bath water, account of, by
Dr. Wilfon
53.
Bath, additions to the lift of
monuments in the abbey
there, fince 1782, 189.
Batb, knights, installation of,
459. ball
Battie, Dr. ftory of his burn-
ing his own wig, 4. mif- Boifragon, Catharine, account
taken in fuppofing a man of
marked with gunpowder, Bones, small rivulets called
to have a black rath, 4.
mistaken in fuppofing his Book, large, a great evil, 33.
wife to have a dropfy, when
he was with child
04 5
Beck, Catharine, biographi-
cal account of
371
abstracts of, useful, 33
new, only contain a repi-
tion, 125. publications of
great works patronized by
book fellers in England, by
the nobles in most foreign
nations,
126
Bookfellers, the patrons of li-
126
272 Booth, Daniel, account of^
505
Bidftead, curious, valued at
31
Belgrade, unfuccessful attempt
to furprize
Bellamy, Rev. Daniel, biogra-
phical account of
Bellendenus, letter from the
author of the dedications, Boroughs incorporated, effay on
94. who author of the
cento, from Cicero, in the Bos, Abbé du, remarks on
preface to his works 414
Cape
362.457
Boucher, Elizabeth, common-
ly called Protectress Joan,
Bere Regis, nearly deftroyed Botany Bay fleet arrive at the
by fire
Berkley, lord, houfe at Cole-
brook, deftroyed by fire 76
Berkley, Charles, earl of, epi-
537 taph on
Acon prattled like a child
when he invaded the
province of medicine 100
Balloons, how to make the in-
flammable air
Bank Stock, dividend raised
268
Bank of England, directors
elected
360
Bank at Dundee, broke open
266
Bankrupt, committed on fuf-
picion of giving a falfe ac-
359
Baptism, original intention
feems to have been a family
244
Barbary, intelligence from
560
Berrington's anfwer to
Lover of Truth
Bexley parfonage houfe,
fcribed
account of
344 Bourne, the word explained
the
34. IIE
124 Boutbun hofpital, feal of 210
de- Bowles, Thomas, character
406
Bible, tranflations and re-
marks on feveral texts in
141. danger to be ap-
prehended from the writ-
ings of Dr. Prieftley, 194.
obfervation on St. Luke i.
17. ii. 52. iii. 13, 385.
1 John vi. 2. and 3. new
tranflation of
Billiards, a Norman paftime
189
Boxing match at Odiham 79
Boyle, degraded his science by
commenting on the con
fection of Rayleigh
Brabant, addrefs to the coun-
cil of
78
Brachen. See Fern.
Bradshaw's friendship to Sir
208 William Pethall
43
Bradshaw, lord, prefident
buried at Wigan, 295. not
buried at Wigan, 397. in-
formation about
509
Bragge, Abraham, account
Birds, preferved in pots, found
between Giza and Saifara,
11. of prey, fingular ac-
count of
Bijbops to refide on their dio-
cele, 27: were primitive
fathers of the church, 27.
inattention of encreases
Brunck, tranflations by 387
Bread, made of the roots of
Fern in New Zealand 20
Brief in 1423, and one at this Carpenter, General, biogra- Clarkson, on the uncandid
time, 511. 512. ufe and phical account of
abuse of
Brightheimfione, an elderly
lady found there almont
512 Carronades, not a late inven-
manner in which he has
been treated
215
493 Cleaver, Dr. account of 140
Clementina, Sobiesky, anecdote
of, 200. medal explained
Caterpillar, eontemplation on
the changes
ftarved to death
Briti orators, portraits of Cecil's inftructions how the
415 papifts are to be dealt with
559
43
Brittany, tumulte in
Brunswick, duke, character of Chad pennies explained 503
426 Charing Croft, cabal houfe near
Bruffels, commiffioners of pro-
vifions arrested, 78. in-
telligence from 167.557
Brute beats, why they have
not the knowledge of God
38.
oubt of, cleared up
214
aphical account of
465
Burial etter to the Laird of
Salteatis, 487. in churches
difcouraged by the example
of feveral bishops of London
CAdill, the publisher and
proprietor of the tranfac-
tions of the Royal Society
of Edinburgh
Cefarea, our Jerfey island 115
Calidere, to Paley, on his
Charity, own families not to
be neglected for, 27. fchools
anniverfary meeting of 558
Charles I. faying of Bernine,
when he law the picture of
290. death warrant where
figned
501
Chattertonian controversy, Tyr-
whitt and Steevens con
vinced of the forgery of
Rowley's poems 187
Chemistry, premiums offered
for difcoveries in, 424.
progrefs in the fcience of
525. nomenclature, account
Clergy, error reprehended
309. of one relieved by
the liberality of the Eto-
nians, 93.
a reform of
drefs wifhed, 214 dif-
appointment of one 381.
on the aft empowering
them to build, &c. 389.
trial about the pay for duty
457. have in a great mea
fure loft that veneration
and refpect that is due to
them, 489. their duty 490
Clerke's fermons, benefit of
them to Dr. Johnfon 39
Clerke, Sir Philip Jennings,
character of
176
Clerkenwell, St. James, church,
bill for rebuilding pre-
fented, 225. particulars
of, and obfervations on
its being taken down 501.
CLIO, thofe fignatures in the
Spectators explained 485.
525
Cherbourg, prophetie with of
the ruin of the works at,
fulfilled
152
Chefs, the game of, firft found
our by Peffe, an Indian,
395 the reward he asked
for it, 395. a curious
game between king John
and Fitzwarin, 395. for
bid by Louis IX. and James
1. 395. two of king Hen-
ry 1. fons quarrel at
Chaffer, a form at
Chimney piece, Salisbury, ex- Coining, five people
plained
224 for
Clock, curious, in Italy
Coal pit, inftance of a man
living, after falling into
192
principles of Philofophy 99. Chimney-fweepers, a Sunday Coke, his writings, the center
210 fchool for them recom- of modern and ancient law
INDEX to the Ellays, Occurrences, &c, Part 1.
Cough, occafioned by iron Decyphering, patent of 1001.
a year, that that art may
be retained
ftoves
209
Counfels of the King's Bench,
letter to the earl of Manf-
field on his retiring, with
the earl's anfwer 480
Courtney's fpeech on the army
eftimates
189
Crebillon, his work has been
the foundation of many di-
391
Crefpigny, bill of indictment
against
558
Cricket, a Saxon game 189
Criminals, employment for, to
be provided by the ftate,
104. the service of labour
and folitude to
213
Criticism, hardly known till
the prefent century
284
Crafus, king of Lydia, his
love of learning and fcience
difcovered, 267. directors
360. forces in, not ade-
quate to its defence, 250
138. hints given on the
poems in that collection,
133. old, the hiftoric part
to be publifhed
139
Defamation against nobility, Edda, miftakes pointed out
worfe than against a private
man, 50. explained 50
Delany, Mrs. biographical ac-
371. 462
Denmark, king, fociety ap-
pointed by, to publish all
the Ifelandic monuments of
Danish history
Defpencer, baronefs Le, biogra-
phical account of 468
Defpencer, lord, doubt refpec-
ting the heir to that tile
561
Diffection, cafe of a man's in-
teftines being everfed, 362.
Eden, Mr. the British balla-
dor, arrives at Madrid 460
Edinburgh their manner of
197 building in old times 313
Edmonton, two new bells 460
Education, ftrictures on the
modern fyftem 25. 11.
286. 389. 49*
Egg, laid by a cock macaw
Eglington, earl of, at 90, mar-
ried dame Katarine Key,
aged 90, 1698
123
account of a man with his
inteftines all reverfed 397
Diffenting minifters dependent Egypt, pyramids, remarke
on the approbation of their on the defeription of 9
auditors
398 Elections, regulation of the
Distillers in Scotland, pro- voters
Croft, Herbert Mr. encour- ceedings refpecting 322.
aged to compile a Dictiona-
325. 417. 420. 515
ry, 7. See Oxford Dictionary. Diftrefs, account of a family
Cromwell, Oliver, original
letters of, 225. 313. 379. Divining rod of Hazell
his behaviour to the clergy
136
Electricity, Mofaic gold the
beft enciter of, 116. ex-
periments in
Elephant, in what manner the
496 nourishes her young 214
Dom:fday book, a geographie Elephants teeth, value of in
cal index wifhed for
319
Dover market-place
Drawings, grace in
Ics Elfrida, & nunnery founded
Dreams, danger of the popular Elizabeth, Q. value of prefents
belefin, 6. occafioned by
pain
286 Drefs, propriety of, to diftin-
guith different profeffions
50
Cuming, Dr. biographical ac-
Cuftom boufe officer, a robbery Drunkeness, the mifchief of
Tworn againft
360
3334
Dublin, Trinity College ob-
fervatory defcribed, 291-2.
293 4. the old courts of
juftice
Ducarel, Dr. account of Stone-
493-4 henge in Frie and 195
Duelling, obfervations in the
10 Spectator about 48
Dunbar Afa, epitaph on 366
Dundas's letter to the East in-
dia Company
258
Dying, premiums offered for
Improvements in
424
Dalton's defcription of the py-
ramids in Egypt
Dalton, General, furrounds
the boule of affembly at
Brabant, while the States
were fitting
167
Dampier's account of a water
fpout near Celebes
given to her, 219.
dote of her
Elizabeth, princefs, a man
gets into her apartment and
is taken up
558
Elliot, Sir Gilbert, fpeech on
impeaching Sir Elijah Im-
230. 235
Elliot, the publisher of Scotith
Emulation cherishes genius 17
England, national hiftory, let-
ters on the cultivation of
125. 196. 285. 404 409.
national history recm-
mended to the study of the
great, 126. abounds with
fine manuscripts, but
fhamefully neglects them,
126. hiftory of, the mot
intereffing knowledge of
had
every native, 127.
no hiftorian after Beda, who
wrote in 731, till the year
1100, 197. prelates re-
moved from Ireland to,
309. 30. 311 on the
Leinous and prefamptno is
|