An account of all the public debts, at the receipt of his majesty's exchequer, Supplies granted by parliament, for the year 1767 Ways and means for raifing the above fupply [214 [216 His majesty's most gracious speech to both houses of parliament, on Thursday [330 His majefty's most gracious speech to both houfes of parliament, on Tuesday the CHARACTERS. General character of the Welsh, as it was in the time of Henry the Second [235 I 5 of Harold 7 of William the Firft ibid. of William Rufus IQ. of Louis le Gros 13 and death of prince Euftace, fon to king Stephen 14 of king Stephen 15 of Henry the Second of the empress Matilda of Siward, earl of Northumberland of Sir Philip Sidney, with a comparison between him and the cele- brated chevalier Bayard Curious particulars of fome remote nations and tribes of Tartars Character of the duke of Shrewsbury of John duke of Argyle of the duke of Berwick of the duke of Ormond of Cardinal de Fleury Some account of Mrs. Thomas, the celebrated Corinna 46 47 50 51 52 NATURAL Anecdotes of Monf. de Voltaire in his prefent fituation at Fernex in Burgundy, near Geneva NATURAL HISTORY. A letter from James Parfons, M. D. F. R. S. to the right honourable the earl of Morton, prefident of the royal fociety, on the double horns of the A letter to the prefident of the royal fociety; containing a new manner of measuring the velocity of wind, and an experiment to ascertain to what Some curious particulars relative to the growth of rhubarb; how an animal called the marmot contributes to its propagation, and how the natives dry the Some account of the horns, called mammon's horns; and the ftrange opinions 85 Extract from the Theatro Critico Univerfal. Para Defenganno De Errores Communes, the voluminous work of the famous Spanish Benedictine Monk, Of Spirits prepared by the force of fire, with fome obfervations for guarding against and remedying the noxious vapours of charcoal, &c. Experiments on a hog's bladder. Obfervations on fome extraordinary symptoms occafioned by nutmeg taken in too An account of a dwarf kept in the palace of the late King of Poland 108 New experiments concerning the putrefaction of the juices and bumours of Account of a petrified beehive, difcovered on the mountains of Siout, in the An extract from Ambrofe Beurer's differtation on the ofteocolla An uncommon inftance of a catalepfis (a kind of apoplexy) in a lady On a fifk of the river of Surinam, which produces very fingular effects Of different bones which have been difcovered within a rock near Aix ANTIQUITIES. A letter from Edward Wortley Montague, Efq; F. R. S. to William Wat- fon, M. D. F. R. S. containing an account of his journey to Cairo, in Some account of the ruins of Poeftum, or Poffidonia, an ancient city of Magna Græcia, in the kingdom of Naples, which have been lately A foort account of the Sedmy Palaty, or Seven Palaces; a remarkable building and veftige of antiquity ftill remaining on the banks of the river Irtifh, in the country of the Kaimucks, being in the wilds of the great Of fome ancient monuments in the fame country Same account of a remarkable monument in the ifle of Purbec; known by the names of Agglefton, Stone Barrow, the Devil's Night-Cap, &c. A charter of King Henry the Third, in the old English of that time; Memoirs of Richard Plantagenet, (a natural son of King Richard III.) whe ibid. The teftimony of Clement Maydeftone, that the body of King Henry IV. wàs thrown into the Thames, and not buried at Canterbury Of mufical founds; and of the origin of the names of the days of the ibid. LITERARY and MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. POETRY. The remains of the twenty-fifth Idyllium of Theocritus. Tranflated from - 225 The Story of Godiva. From Edge-hill, a poem; by Richard Jago, A.M. - 232 Of Birmingham-its_manufactures-iron-ore-process of it.-Panegyric 235 Prologue at the opening of the theatre royal in Edinburgh. Written by On the ruch lamented death of the marquis of Tavistock Tranflation of a Greek epigram on a Grecian beauty Ode for the new year, Jan. 1, 1767 Letter to Dean Swift, when in England, in 1726. Poem ibid. An ode to Spring. Supposed to have been written by the celebrated Vanessa, in confequence of her paffion for Dean Savift An ode to Wisdom. By the fame A reflection on the death of the marquis of Tavistock Prologue to the English Merchant. Spoken by Mr. King Epitaph To Sir Godfrey Kneller. By the late Dr. Geakie On Mr. Garrick's picture by a bust of Shakespear. By Dr. H-rr-gt-n of Bath 249 ibid. The Lover and the Friend. Taken from the Bagatelles The Acceptable Sacrifice; a fragment of Meander: Tranflated by Francis A tranflatioa of a little fonnet wrote by Plato, in his younger time Epitaph on Claudius Philips. By Dr. Johnson 251 of life, 252 Verjes infcribed on a jmall cottage, in ruftic taste, intended as a place An occafional prologue Spoken by Mr. Powell, at the opening of the theatre 254 Prologue to the Oxonian in Town. Spoken by Mr. Woodward, in the cha Epilogue. Spoken by Mrs. Mattocks Prologue to a Peep behind the Curtain; or, the new Rehearsal Epilogue Prologue to the new comedy of the Widow'd Wife. Spoken by Mr. Hol- land Epilogue. Spoken by Mrs. Clive A paftoral. In the modern style 259 260 201 An ironical eulogium on Ignorance. By Dr. Clancy, of Durrow in Ire- - -- land 263 ACCOUNT of BOOK S for 1767. The hiftory of the life of king Henry the Second, and of the age in which he - Second 266 286 307 An effay on the history of civil fociety E IN IS, 1 216 |