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An account of all the public debts, at the receipt of his majesty's exchequer,
Atanding out Fan. 5, 1767 (being old Christmas-day) with the annual
intereft or other charges payable for the fame

Supplies granted by parliament, for the year 1767

Ways and means for raifing the above fupply

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His majesty's most gracious speech to both houses of parliament, on Thursday
the 2d day of July, 1767

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His majefty's most gracious speech to both houfes of parliament, on Tuesday the
24th of November, 1767; with the bumble addreffes of both Houses upon
the occafion, and his majesty's most gracious answers
The bumble addrefs to his majefty, of the right hon. the lord mayor, aldermen,
(ibid.
and commons of the city of London, in common council affembled, prefented
the 11th of November, 1767, on the happy occafion of the birth of a prince;
together with their condolence on the death of his royal highness the duke of
York; and his majesty's most gracious anfwer
His excellency George lord viscount Townshend, lord lieutenant-general, and
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general governor of Ireland, his Speech to both houses of parliament at
Dublin, on Tuesday the 20th day of October, 1767, with their addresses on
the occafion, c.

CHARACTERS.

General character of the Welsh, as it was in the time of Henry the Second
Character of the English and Normans

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of Harold

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of William the Firft

ibid.

of William Rufus

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of Louis le Gros

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and death of prince Euftace, fon to king Stephen

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of king Stephen

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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

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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

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NATURAL

Anecdotes of Monf. de Voltaire in his prefent fituation at Fernex in Burgundy,

near Geneva

NATURAL HISTORY.

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Some account of the horns, called mammon's horns; and the ftrange opinions
the Tartars bold of the kind of animal to which they imagine they belonged

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Extract from the Theatro Critico Univerfal. Para Defenganno De Errores

Communes, the voluminous work of the famous Spanish Benedictine Monk,

Father Feyjoo

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Memoirs of Richard Plantagenet, (a natural son of King Richard III.) whe
died 22 Dec. 1550 (4 Edw. VI.)

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ibid.

LITERARY and MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

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POETRY.

The remains of the twenty-fifth Idyllium of Theocritus. Tranflated from
the Greek; by Francis Fawkes, M. A.

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The Story of Godiva. From Edge-hill, a poem; by Richard Jago,

A.M.

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Of Birmingham-its_manufactures-iron-ore-process of it.-Panegyric
upon iron. From the fame

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Prologue at the opening of the theatre royal in Edinburgh. Written by
James Bofwell, Efq; Spoken by Mifs Rofs

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

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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
The Rookery

Prologue to the English Merchant. Spoken by Mr. King

Epitaph

To Sir Godfrey Kneller. By the late Dr. Geakie
On the Circus at Bath. By a person of quality
Ode for his majesty's birth-day, June 4, 1767

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On Mr. Garrick's picture by a bust of Shakespear. By Dr. H-rr-gt-n of

Bath

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ibid.

The Lover and the Friend. Taken from the Bagatelles
Prologue to the Taylors. Spoken by Samuel Foote, Efq; and fuppofed to be
written by D-- G——, Esq;

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The Acceptable Sacrifice; a fragment of Meander: Tranflated by Francis
Fawkes, M. A.

A tranflatioa of a little fonnet wrote by Plato, in his younger time
and preferved by Diogenes Laertius

Epitaph on Claudius Philips. By Dr. Johnson

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of life,

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ibid.

Verjes infcribed on a jmall cottage, in ruftic taste, intended as a place
of retirement, built by- Powis, Efq; in a grove by the river

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An occafional prologue Spoken by Mr. Powell, at the opening of the theatre
royal in Covent-garden, on Monday the 14th of September
On the right hon. the earl of Chesterfield's recovery from a late indispo-
fition. By Michael Clancy, M. D.

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Prologue to the Oxonian in Town. Spoken by Mr. Woodward, in the cha
racter of a gentleman commoner, dreffed in his academical habit

Epilogue. Spoken by Mrs. Mattocks

Prologue to a Peep behind the Curtain; or, the new Rehearsal

Epilogue

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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

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An ironical eulogium on Ignorance. By Dr. Clancy, of Durrow in Ire-

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The Winter's Walk. By Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.

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ACCOUNT of BOOK S for 1767.

The hiftory of the life of king Henry the Second, and of the age in which he
lived, in five books: to which is prefixed, a hiftory of the revolution of
England from the death of Edward the Confeffor to the birth of Henry the

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Second
Commentaries on the laws of England

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An effay on the history of civil fociety
An effay on crimes and punishments; tranflated from the Italian: avith
commentary attributed to Monf. de Voltaire; refited from the Fox &

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