Spanish duty for French wine, is found more beneficial The oath how"to the revenue than the rigour of the law. "ever must be taken, that the wine, we import, is Spanish, to "entitle us to the ease of the Spanish duty. Such oaths, at "first, were highly criminal, because directly a fraud against "the public; but now, that the oath is only exacted for form's "fake, without any faith intended to be given or received, it "becomes very little different from faying, in the way of civility, I am, Sir, your friend, or your obedient fervant. And "in fact, we every day fee merchants, dealing in fuch oaths, “whom no man fcruples to rely upon, in the most material "affairs." Such Machiavelian fentiments, offered by a learned judge, muft furprize and fhock every well-informed and well-principled mind. But I fhall make no other comment on them, than that they irrefragably evince the corrupting influence of the present multiplication of oaths, on the moral opinions as well as practices. of mankind. Additional Note, page 19, line 16. TURPITUDE MARKED BY THE GROSS DEFECT OF GOOD PRINCIPLES, &c. The distinction of pofitive and negative turpitude is of confiderable importance in ethics. Yet there may fubfift great apathy, or defect of good principle, in a mind virtuous, as to its general constitution. The people of Hindoftan are remarkable for the gentleness of their difpofitions, the foftnefs of their manners, and the force of their attachments in love. Yet they feem to be devoid of compaffion and generofity. They are faid to be unaffected by the diftreffes, the dangers, or even the death of a fellow-creature. "An English Gentleman was ftanding by a "Hindoo, when a fierce and ravenous tiger leaped from a " thicket, Tt 4 "thicket, and carried off a fcreaming boy, who was the son of "one of his neighbours. The Englishman expreffed symptoms "of the most extreme horror; whilft the Hindoo remained un"moved. What! faid the former, are you unaffected by fo "dreadful a scene? The great God, replied the other, would " have it fo."* • See Annual Regifter, for 1752, p. 36, INDEX. INDEX TO THE THIRD VO LU ME. AGRIPPA, account of his occult philosophy, 42. Air-bubbles, experiments with, 120. Alchemifts, account of, 447. Allegiance, the origin of, 2. the juft limits of defined, 5. Amulets, effects afcribed to, 72. Anglezark, mine of, containing Aerated Barytes, 600. Attraction and Repulfion, letter upon, by Mr. BENNET, 116. B. BANKS, Mr. on the floating of cork balls, 178. BARRITT, Mr. on Druidical Remains, 292. Barytes Aerated, account of a mine containing, by Mr. J. WATT, Bafes, the principles of their application in dying, 394. C. CARDAN, the medical aftrologer noticed, 29. Cafe of a perfon becoming fhort-fighted in advanced age, by Mr. HENRY, 182. Chiaro-fcuro, knowledge of the ancient painters with refpect to, 547. CLAYTON, Sir RICHARD, on the Cretins of the Vallais, 261. Colours, more than four used by the ancient painters, 513. Colouring, carried to a confiderable degree of excellence by the ancients, 529. COOPER, THOMAS Efq. on phyfiognomy, 408. on the foundation of civil govern ment, 481. on the art of painting among the ancients, 510. Cork Balls, on the floating of, by Mr. BANKS, 178. Corks floating, experiments with, 121. Cotton, confidered as an object of dying, 351. preparation of for dying, 361. Coutume, knowledge of the ancient painters refpecting, p. 559. Crown, on the influence of, 625. D. Defign, the excellence of the ancient painters with respect to, 519. Difcafes, fuperftitious ideas and practices refpecting, 39. Divination, different species of it, 34. Dogs, experiments on, 210. Druidical Remains, Mr. BARRITT upon, 292. Dye, black, obfervations relative to, 404. Dying, confiderations on different materials as objects of, by Mr. HENRY, 343. and Printing, the arts of, known to the Egyptians, 345. colouring fubftances used in, 363. Elafticity, E. Elafticity, an hypothefis to account for, 122. Electricity, on the knowledge of the ancients refpecting, by Dr. FALCONER, 278. probably drawn from the clouds by the ancients, 284. conjecture concerning the method of drawing it from the clouds among the ancients, 289. Eloquence, on the nature and utility of, by Mr. SHARP, 307. various definitions of, 313. Dr. BROWN and Dr. LELAND quoted upon, with remarks, 317. Excife Laws, their severity, 28. Excife, Statutes of, 644. Expreffion, excellence of the ancient painters with refpect to, 522. F. FALCONER, Dr. on the knowledge of the ancients respecting electricity, 278. FERRIAR, Dr. on popular illufions, 31. on the dramatic writings of Maflinger, 123. on the vital principle, 216. account of a monument in Huln Abbey, 302. Fore-fhortening, understood by the ancient painters, 521. G. Geometrical Series, on fome properties of, by Dr. ROTHERAM, 330. GLANVILLE, his treatife on witchcraft noticed, 54. British, the advantages of, 637. Grouping, knowledge of the ancient painters with refpect to, 553. H. Halos, confidered, by the Rev. Mr. WOOD, 336. HAYGARTH, |