APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. Copy of the Petition of the Clergy, &c. relative to the subscription to [ibid. Claufe of an Act for the better preventing of mischiefs by fire, within Ceremonial of the Interment of her late Royal Highness the Princess Account of the Coronation of Guftavus III. King of Sweden [183 Particulars relating to the Execution of the State Criminals in Extract of a Letter on the Lofs of the Verelft Eaft-Indiaman [186 Copy of a Will made by his Majefty King George I. in favour of the A Declaration of Truft from Robert Walpole, Efq; to his faid Ma jefty, for the ufe of the Duchefs of Kendal Opinions of feveral of the most eminent lawyers of that reign, relative Account of a man's standing the foot of a cannon at a small diftance, ibid. Table of the Corn exported from England during five years, the Species thereof, and the bounties payable thereon Tables of Births and Burials, within the Bills of Mortality, for the laft forty years Account of the Hiftory and Memoirs of the Society formed at Amfter- dam, for the recovery of drowned perfons The Petition of the Eaft-India Company to Parliament [201 Account of an extraordinary Adventurer, in a Letter from Canton [202 Difference in the Probabilities of Longevity, between living in the Academy of birds at Canterbury Supplies granted by Parliament, for the year 1772 STATE PAPER S. [208 [209 [213 His Majesty's most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, on [218 The humble Addrefs of the House of Lords to the King, with his Majefty's most gracious Anfwer [219 The humble Addrefs of the House of Commons to the King [220 MeJage from his Majefty to both Houses of Parliament [221 His Majesty's most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, on [ibid. The bumble Addrefs of the House of Lords to the King, with his His Majesty's most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, on [222 The humble Address of the House of Commons to the King [223 [225 The Addreffes of both Houses of Parliament in Ireland to his [226 The Addresses of both Houses of Parliament in Ireland to the Lord [228 The Speech of the Speaker of the House of Commons in I land to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant [230 His Excellency Lord Viscount Townshend's Speech to both Houfes of [230 The Lords Proteft against the Bill for regulating the Marriages of the Royal Family [232 The Lords Protest against the Bill for reftraining the Eaft-India [236 The King of Sweden's Speech at the opening of the Diet, on the 25th -to the States affembled in the Great Hall, at Stockholm, Auguft 21, 1772 [247 His gracious Proposals, delivered to the States of the Realm, Auguft 25, 1772 [ibid. The The Speech of the Marshal of the Dyet, in the name of all the States, - Declaration of the Imperial Minifter at the Court of Warsaw [255 CHARACTERS. - [ibid. p. 1 Memoirs of the Life of Sir Henry Fynes, alias Clinton, Knight, 6 13 The Life of the celebrated Count de Caylus - 18 Memoirs of John Baptifle Santeuil, a celebrated Latin Poet of the Anecdotes of Rubens and Vandyck of Rembrandt of Antonio Verrio of Boerhaave of Francis Duke de Rochefoucault of Sir Ifaac Newton 21 25 29 30 32 34 ibid. Some Account of the late celebrated Marchionefs du Chatelet - 37 Memoirs of Cardanus - 40 Anecdotes of Nicholas Ferrar, extracted from his Life by Bishop A Portrait of Julius Cæfar, by a Philofopher 43 47 An Account of a native of Taiti (an ifland in the South Seas) who Remarks upon the Nature of the Soil of Naples, and its neighbour- M, D. 62-83 84 An Account of the Nyl-ghau, an Indian animal, not hitherto described Experiments on Snails, contradicting the Abbé Spalanzani's Account of the Reproduction of new Heads after the old ones have been cut off Some Account of the Aquatic Spider; from a French Work lately published Of the Bombardier; from the fame Of the Sea-Bear; from the fame Account of the Fafting Woman of Rofshire 89 92 93 93 The Cafe of Thomas Wood, a Miller of Billericay in Effex 94 Inftances related of an aftonishing Faculty in fome Perfons, who are faid to be able to difcover Water under ground 96 Wonderful Contrivance of Nature for the Prefervation of a Plant that grows in the River Rhone 98 Dr. Lettfom's Account of the Tea-tree, and its Medicinal Qualities USEFUL PROJECTS. 99 A Method of dying Wool and Silk of a Yellow Colour with Indigo, and alfo with feveral other Blue and Red colouring Subftances 106 Receipt for making the Yellow Dye Method of making folid and comby Pot-afb ibid. 107 Method of ripening any quantity of Wort, and of effectually raising a bushel of Flour with a tea-fpoonful of Barm 108 Receipt for making the Powder of Fumigation, to prevent the Infection of the Plague An eafy Method of preferving Subjects in Spirits The proper Method of raising a White-thorn Hedge 110 Secret of recovering the Writing upon Parchments decayed by time, and of making it legible ANTIQUITIES. 115 Sketch of the State of Literature in England, particularly at Oxford, about the period of the Reformation 116 An Account of the burning and Rebuilding of the Church of Canterbury, in the year 1174 Improvements in Architecture by the Normans 122 130 Some Extracts from an Enquiry into the Value of the ancient Greek and Roman Money 133 Curious Extracts from the Lives of Lelande, Hearne, and Wood 139 Certuyne Certoyne Quefyons, wyth Anfweres to the fame, concernynge the Mystery of Maconrye; wrytenne by the hande of Kynge Henrye the Sixthe of the name, and faithfullye copyed by John Leylande, MISCELLANEOUS ESSAY S. Extracts from a Difcourfe delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, on the Distribution of the Prizes, Dec. 10, 1771, by Extracts from Whitelocke's Journal of the Swedish Ambaffy; con taining fome Particulars of the meeting of the Swedish Diet, affembled to confent to the Refignation of Queen Chriftina; with an Account of the Marshal of the Boors, and the Speech he made Of the Ruffian Envoy's Audience at the Swedish Court; from the Anecdotes of Queen Chriftina, and of her favourite Grave Magnus An Account of a May-day Collation, given by Whitelocke, in the English manner, to the Queen and fome of her favourite ladies Some Account of the Diamond and Gold Mines in the Brafils 155 Some Extracts and Anecdotes from Grossley's Obfervations on Eng- Derivation of the word Bleffed, and of other old words Mr. Ferguson's Defcription of the Devil's Cave at Caftletown, in |