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

Supplies granted by parliament, for the year 1767
Ways and means for raising the above supply

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His majesty's most gracious fpeech to both houses of parliament, on Thursday the 2nd day of July, 1767 His majesty's most gracious fpeech to both houses of parliament, on Tuesday the 24th of November, 1767; with the humble addresses of both houfes upon the occafion, and his majefty's most gracious anfwers fibid. The humble addrefs to his majesty, of the right bon. the lord mayor, aldermen, 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 [234 His excellency George lord viscount Tornbend, lord lieutenant-general, and general governor of Ireland, his fpeech to both houses of parliament at Dublin, on Tuesday the 20th day of October, 1767, with their addresses on the occafion, Sr.

CHARACTER S.

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

of Harold

of William the First

of William Rufus

of Louis le Gros

and death of prince Euftace, Jon to king Stephen

of king Stephen

of Sirvard, earl of Northumberland

of Henry the Second

of the empress Matilda

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of Sir Philip Sidney, with a comparison between him and the celt

brated chevalier Bayard

Curicus particulars of some remote nations and tribes of Tartars

Character of the duke of Shredvfbury

of John duke of Argyle

of the duke of Berwicks

of the duke of Ormind

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 Fernez in Burgundy, Near Geneva

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Obfervations upon animals, commonly called amphibious, by authors 74 A letter from James Parfons, M. D, F. R. S. to the right boncurable the earl of Morton, prefident of the royal fociety, on the double horns of the

rhinoceros.

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A letter to the prefident of the royal feciety; containing a new manner of measuring the velocity of wind, and an experiment to ascertain to what quantity of water a fall of fnow is equal Some curious particulars relative to the growth of 1bubarb; bow an animal - called the marmot contributes to its propagation, and how the natives dry the

Frost

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

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Extract from the Theatrico Critico Univerfal. Para Defenganno De Errores Communes, the voluminous work of the famous Spanish Benedictine Monk, Father Feyjoo·

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Of Spirits prepared by the force of fire, with fome obfervations for guarding again, and remedying the noxious vapours of charcoal, Se. On the effect of the imagination on a different body

Of the common fensory affected by poisons

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Of the effect of rains, of marshes and bogs, fubterraneans wood, and fubterra

neous waters,

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Obfervations on the cicada, or locuft of America, which appears periodically once in 16 or 17 years

Experiments on a bog's bladder

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Obfervations on fome extraordinary fymptoms occafioned by nutmeg taken in too great a quantity. 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 humours of animal bodies

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Experiment on the heat that may be caused by the rays of the fun reflected from the moon

On a fingular bone, found in the lower belly

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Account of a petrified bee-hive, difcovered on the mountains of Siout, in the
Upper Egypt

An extract from Ambrofe Beurer's dissertation on the ofteocolla
An uncommon inftance of a catalepfis (a kind of apoplexy) in a lady
A fimilar cafe, ftill more extraordinary

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On a fish of the river of Surinam, which produces very fingular effects
Of different bones which have been discovered within a rock near Aix

Obfervations on cures performed by burning

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ANTIQUITIES.

A letter from Edward Wortley Montague, Efq. F. R. S. to William Watfon, M. D. F. R. S. containing an account of his journey to Cairo, in Egypt, to the written mountains in the defert of Sinai vas

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Some account of the ruins of Poftum, or Poffidsnia, an ancient city of Magna Græcia, in the kingdom of Naples, which have been lately discovered 37 A short account of the Sedmy Palaty, or Seven Palaces; a remarkable building and veftage of antiquity, fill remaining on the banks of the river Irtifs, in the country of the Kalmucks, being in the wilds of the great or eafter Tartary

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Offome ancient monuments in the fame country and Some account of a remarkable monument in the ifle of Purbec, known by the names of Aggleston, Stone Barrow, the Devil's Night-Capy Communi441 A charter of King Henry the Third, in the old Englift of that time; with a tranflation of it into modern English, by Mr. Somner Hiftorical remarks on ancient architecture

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An account of the cruel facrifices of the Canaanites, Phenicians, and asker

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Of the Chaldeans, and their original

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ibid.

Memoirs of Richard Plantagenet, (a natural son of King Richard III.) wks died 22 Dec. 1550 (4 Edward VI.) The testimony of Clement Maydeftone, that the body of King Henry W, was thrown into the Thames, and not buried at Canterbury A cm) / 162 Of mufical founds; and of the origin of the names of the days of the wéék 134 ibid.

LITERARY and MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

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Thoughts on the caufes and confequences of the prefent high price of provi frons

An effay upon theatrical imitation

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Some account of a nation in South America, of a moft extraordinary and gigantic fize

Catherine Vade's preface to the tales of William Vade

Curious extracts from Rouffeau's letter on French mufic

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The history of nonfenfe

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Copy of Emen's first letter to the then E. now D. of Nd, with a trans

lation from the Armenian of his letter to Prince Heraclius

From Voltaire's Ignorant Philofopher

Account of an lay on the learning of Shakespeare

"An effay on the expreffion of the pallions in painting

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A letter from the Abbe Metaftafin on the musical drama, addressed to the author of an effay on the union of mufic and poetry

An effay on elegies

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Two letters from Mr. Everard, F. S. M. containing an adventure, of golfch he was a witness, at the quickfilvermines of Idra

POETRY

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The remains of the twenty-fifth Idyllium of Theotricus, Tranflated from the Greek, by Francis Fawkes, M. A.. 225 The Story of Godiva From Edge-hill, a poem by Richard Jago, TEAM

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Of Birmingham-its manufactures—iron are-process of it.—Panegyric upan It 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 much-lamented death of the marquis of Tavistock
Qde for the new year, Jan, 1, 1767.

Tranflation of a Greek epigram on a Grecian beauty

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Letter to Dean Swift, when in England, in 1726. An original Poem

ibid.

An ode to Spring, Supposed to have been written by the celebrated Vanessa, in confequence of her pallion for Dean Swift

An ode to Wifdam. By the fame

reflection on the death of the marquis of Tavistock

The rookery

Epitaph

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Prologue to the English Merchant. Spoken by Mr. King

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Fa Sir Godfrey Kneller. By the late D. Geakie
On the Circus at Bath. By a perfon of quality

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

The Lover and the Friend.

Prologue to the Taylors.
written by D G

The Acceptable Sacrifice;
Fawkes, M. A..

Taken from the Bagatelles

Spoken by Samuel Foote, Efq. and fuppofed to be
Efq.

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a fragment of Meander: tranflated by Francis

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A tranflation of a little founet wrote by Plato in his younger time of life, and preferved by Diogenes Laertius

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ibid.

Epitaph on Claudius Phillips. By Dr. Johnson Verses infcribed on a small cottage, in rustic taste, intended as a place of retirement, built by Powis, Efq. in a grove by the river Severn 253 An occafional prolque Spoken by Mr. Powel, 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 indifpofition. By Michael Clancy, M. D.

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Prologue to the Oxonian in Torn. Spoken by Mr. Woodward, in the character

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. Holland

Epilogue. Spoken by Mr. Clive

A paftoral. In the modern ftyle

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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.

ACCOUNT OF BOOKS for 1767.

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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

Second

Commentaries on the laws of England

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An effay on the hiftory of civil fociety An effay on crimes and punishments; tranflated from the Italian: with a com mentary attribu.ed to Monf. de Voltaire; tranflated from the French 316

FINIS.

Printed by J. WRIGHT, Denmark Court, Strand.

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