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Remonstrance made to the Count de Sievers, the Russian Ambassador, on the Part of the King and the States of Poland, by the Chancellor of the Crown, and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

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Note delivered to M. de Sievers to the same Purport Answer of the Russian Ambassador to the above Decree of the Diet, passed on the 2d of September, at Grodno, empowering the Deputation to treat with the Prussian Minister Declaration of the Diet, King, and Republic of Poland, assembled at Grodno, protesting against the forcible Partition of Poland

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Anecdotes of Dr. Franklin, extracted from the Memoirs of his Life, written by himself

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Letter from the late Dr. Price to a Gentleman in Philadelphia, on the Death of Dr. Franklin

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Character of Dr. Franklin, by one of his intimate Friends

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Account of Mr. John Smeaton, by Mr. John Holmes

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An Account of the late Earl of Mansfield

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Character of John Mounsey, Esq. of Patterdale-hall

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Reception of B. Columbus in St. Domingo

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Account of the wretched condition of the Sub-tenants in the Hebrides
Account of an African Tribe of Robbers

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Description of a Species of Chaetodon, called by the Malays Ecan Bonna
Description of a Grotto at Swatara, by the Rev. Peter Miller

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The African Society's Report

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Account of an extraordinary Change, not hitherto described, which, under cer

tain circumstances, takes place in the Human Body after Death

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Fairy-rings accounted for

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Description of the Tarantula, and Method taken to cure those bit by it

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Description of the Sugar-cane, and conjectures respecting its Antiquity and In

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Paper issued by the Commissioners of the Board of Agriculture

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Letter to Michael Hillegras, Esq. respecting the covering of Houses with Copper. From Dr. Franklin.

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Letter from the same to Samuel Rhodes, Esq. on the same Subject

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Explanation of a new Invention for stopping the Progress of Fire on board of Ships

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An Improvement on Metallic Conductors, or Lightning Rods

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Effects of Mud, as a Manure

An easy and expeditions Method of dissipating the noxious Vapours commonly found in Wells and other subterraneous Places

A Method of draining Ponds in level Grounds

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Account

Account of the Inventor and Invention of the Art of hardening and polishing Leather

Observations on the Treatment of Gun-shot Wounds

ANTIQUITIES.

Lawrence Hide's Speech to the King of Poland

Directions in what Part of Greece to search for Statues and Antiquities
Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Camp at Tilbury

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Ditto to both Houses of Parliament

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Extracts from Alleyn's Journal

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Account of the taking of King James, and bringing him to Faversham

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An Account of some of the Antiquities of Babylon found in the Neighbourhood of Bagdad, &c.

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Copy of a Letter from Mr. Wilmot to Joseph Planta, Esq. Secretary to the British Museum

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Copy of Oliver Cromwell's Letter, presented by J. Wilmot, Esq. to the British
Museum

A Dissertation on the ancient carved Stone Monuments in Scotland, &c.
Anecdotes of Dress

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

On the Art of Swimming

The Way to make Money plenty in every Man's Pocket

Hints

Necessary Hints to those who would be rich

On early Marriage

On the Painting of the Ancients

Cow-keepers of Middlesex

London Brick Fields

House and Grass Lambs

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Chanson de Mons. Delille, pendant le Ministere de Mons. de Turgott, 1755 407 Free Imitation of the above

Prologue to "Every One has his Fault"

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Stanzas, written by Lord Capel, when he was a Prisoner in the Tower Prophetic Verses written by a Protestant Advocate of the Parliament of Paris 415

Account of Books for 1793.

A Catalogue of engraved British Portraits, from Egbert the Great to the present Time, &c.

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Historical View of Plans for the Government of British India, &c.
The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 417

LONDON: Printed by JOHN NICHOLS and SON, 25, Parliament Street.

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