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 raifing the above supply 寒 STATE PAPER S. His majesty's most gracious fpeech to both houses of parliament, on Thursday the 2nd day of July, 1767 5230 His majesty's most gracious speech to both houfes of parliament, on Tuesday the 24th of November, 1767; with the bumble addreffes of both boufer upon the occafion, and his majefty's most gracious anfers The humble addrefs to his majesty, of the right bon. the lord mayor, aldermen, [ibid. and commons of the city of London, in common council assembled, 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 A His excellency George lord vifcount Tornbend, lord lieutenant-general, and general governor of Ireland, his speech to both bonfes of parliament at Dublin, on Tuesday the 20th day of October, 1767, with their addresses on the occafion, -[235 c. of Harold of William the First and death of prince Euftace, Jon to king Stephen of king Stephen of Siward, earl of Northumberland of the duke of Berwicks CHARACTERS. General character of the Welsh, as it was in the time of Henry the Second Character of the English and Normans Curious particulars of fome remote nations and tribes of Tartars 27. of John duke of Argyle [214 Jz16 -226 5 7. ibid. of Henry the Second I of the empress Matilda 21 of Sir Philip Sidney, with a comparison between him and the celebrated chevalier Bayard 23 10 13 14 15 17 ibib Some account of Mrs. Thomas, the celebrated Corinna Anecdotes of Monf. de Voltaire in his prefent fituation at Fernez in Burgundy, Near Geneva 59 NATURAL 51 53 NATURAL HISTORY. top af. hunf TO TO SLIDE Obfervations upon animals, commonly called amphibious, by authors to 74 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 rhinoceros. 79 A letter to the president of the royal fcciety; containing a new manner of measuring the velocity of wind, and an experiment to afcertain to what quantity of water a fall of fuow is equal 81 Some carious particulars relative to the growth of rhubarb; how an animal called the marmot contributes to its propagation, and how the natives dry the Froot --› *; 184 Some account of the bores, called mammon's horns; and the strange opinions T the Tartars bold of the kind of animal to which they imagine they belonged - 85 Extract from the Theatrico Critico Univerfal. Para Defenganno De Errores Communes, the voluminous work of the famous Spanish Benedictine Monk, Father Feyjoo 86 JAN Of Spirits prepared by the force of fire, with fome obfervations for guarding againft, and remedying the noxious vapours of charcoal, c. On the effect of the imagination on a different body Of the common fensory affected by poisons Of the effect of rains, of marshes and bogs, fubterraneons wood, and subterra neous waters. 99 Obfervations on the cicada, or locuft of America, which appears periodically once in 16 or 17 years Experiments on a bog's bladder 88 92 96 107 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 V bodies 103 106 --- 109 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 Account of a petrified bee-hive, difcovered on the mountains of Siout, in the Upper Egypt An extract from Ambrofe Beurer's differtation on the ofteocolla An uncommon inftance of a catalepfis (a kind of apoplexy) in a lady 122 On a fish of the river of Surinam, which produces very fingular effects Obfervations on cures performed by burning 115 116 117 118 120 121 124 126 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 Egypt, to the written mountains in the defert of Sinai Some account of the ruins of Poeftum, or Posfidenia, an ancient city of Magna 22533428 Græcia, in the kingdom of Naples, which have been lately discovered 137 A bort account of the Sedmy Palaty, or Seven Palaces, a remarkable building and veftage of antiquity, fill remaining on the banks of the river Ixtif, in the country of the Kalmucks, being in the wilds of the great or eastern Tartary Offome ancient monuments in the fame country \Korany&39 Some account of a remarkable monument in the isle of Purbec, known by the alatom p F40 names of Aggleston, Stone Barrow, the Devil's Night-Capy Samunera41 A charter of King Henry the Third, in the old English of that time; with a tranflation of it into modern English, by Mr. Somner Hiftorical remarks on ancient architecture 4143 An account of the cruel facrifices of the Canaanites, Phenicians, and oster 14 **** 144 she fo · 14 nations き ** 159 Of the Chaldeans, and their original Memoirs of Richard Plantagenet, (a natural fon of King Richard II.) was died 22 Dec. 1550 (4 Edward VI.) The teftimony of Clement Maydeftone, that the body of King Henry W, was ibid. thrown into the Thames, and not buried at Canterbury A (25mm) ~/ 162 Of mufical founds; and of the origin of the names of the days of the week thi Girly ***** ibid. 474_* 1.81 LITERARY and MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. 3 he pr - Thoughts on the causes and consequences of the present high price of proca frons PONUDA SIGL MM. A a. An effay upon theatrical imitation 165 Some account of a nation in South America, of a most extraordinary and gigantic 173 *fize Catherine Vade's preface to the tales of William Vade Curious extracts from Rouffeau's letter on French mufics The hiftory of nonfenfe "Copy of Emen's first letter to the then E. now D. of Nd, with a translation from the Armenian of his letter to Prince Heraclius From Voltaire's Ignorant Philofopher Account of an essay on the learning of Shakespeare An effay on the expression of the pallions in painting A letter from the Abbe Metaftafio on the musical drama, addressed to the author of an effay on the union of mufic and poetry An effay on elegies Two letters from Mr. Everard, F. S. M. containing an adventure, of click RAYE ua 220 he was a witness, at the quickfilvermines of Idra 204 210 272 S 215 218 222 192 POETRY 185 190 194 201 POETRY. སྤྱན་ནས་ཕ་ ོ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ 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, A.M. oh yor 12 232 Of Birmingham-its manufactures—iron ore-process of it.—Panegyric upon * iron. From the jame 235 Prologue at the opening of the theatre royal, in Edinburgh. Written by James On the much-lamented death of the marquis of Tavistock 242 Tranflation of a Greek epigram on a Grecian beauty 1 An ode to Spring, Supposed to have been written by the celebrated Vanessa, in confequence of her passion for Dean Swift An ode to Wisdom. By the fame reflection on the death of the marquis of Tavistock The rookery Epitaph CĂ Prologue to the English Merchant. Spoken by Mr. King On Mr. Garrick's picture by a bust of Shakespeare. By Dr. H-rr-gt-n 7 2 238 239 241 Epilogue. Spoken by Mrs. Mattocks 21201 244 ibid. 245 ibid. of Bath 249 ibid. The Lover and the Friend. Taken from the Bagatelles Prologue to the Taylors. Spoken by Samuel Foote, Efq. and supposed to be written by DG, Esq. 250 The Acceptable Sacrifice; a fragment of Meander: tranflated by Francis Fazukes, M. A.. 251 A tranflation of a little fonnet wrote by Plats in his younger time of life, and preferved by Digenes Laertius 246 ibid. 247 ibid. 248 T Epitaph on Claudius Phillips. By Dr. Jahnsin Verfes infcribed on a small cottage, in ruftic taste, intended as a place of retirement, built by Powis, Efq. in a grove by the river Severn 253 An occafional prologue 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. ibid. 254 2 Prologue to the Oxonian in Town. Spoken by Mr. Woodward, in the character of a gentleman commoner, dreffed in his academical habit 252 ibid. 256 257 258 259 Pre A paftoral. In the modern ftyle An ironical eulogium on Ignorance. By Dr. Clancy, of Durrow in Ire ACCOUNT OF BOOKS for 1767. The Hiftory of the life of king Henry the Second, and of the age in which be 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 FINIS, Commentaries on the laws of England 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 Printed by J. WRIGHT, Denmark Court, Strand. 1 |