with fome proofs illuftrating this af fertion, xii. [11, 12]-the number of negro flaves bartered for by Portugal in 1768, and the computed value of each flave, [114]-an edict was iffued in 1769, by which widows of more than fifty years of age are forbidden to marry, and the reafon affigned for this edict, [157]-The weaknefs and cruelty of the fyltem of politics in this country, and the dangers to be apprehended from it; the real or pretended confpiracies in this country; the private executions which took place without any form or pretence of trial, and the univerfal deteftation of the prime minifter, the marquis de Pombal, xii. [10, 11]-the unfriendly treatment towards the British merchants and factory eltablished in this kingdom, without any fpecious complaint against them, [11]-he reconciliation between his mot faithful majesty and the holy fee in 1770, [136]-The very dangerous infurrection which broke out in May 1772 at the Brafils, and threatened the exiftence of the power of this country in that part of the world; with an enquiry into the caufe of this infurrection, the formidable oppofition made by the infurgents to the military force of the Portuguese in thofe fettlements, and the great influence which they had among the confederate Indians in the neighbourhood of the Brafils, xv. [9, 10]-The happy adjustment of fome difputes and difturbances at their fettlements on the coaft of Africa, [151]-the very humane and benevolent edict to prevent flavery from being perpetual, even among the black defcendants of the original negroes who came from Africa, and the particular privileges granted to thofe who could prove that any of their mothers had been free for three generations, xvi. [53, 54]-many religious houfes fuppreffed in 1773, [67]—the naval force which was borrowed of the States General, and fent to the West Indies in 1773, [115]-The order for taking off the duty on leaf tobacco imported from America, at the time that every poffible obftruction was thrown in the way of the British commerce, xvii. [173]-The reafons which prevented the court of Lisbon from taking the fame advantages from the difputes between England and her solonies, as were taken by feveral other European powers in 1776, xix. [181*. 183*]-the nature of the difpute with Spain about limits on the borders of the Rio de la Plata in South America, [185*, 186*] — a very memorable inftance of honefty and integrity, and the reward it met with from his most faithful majetty, [118, 119]-The amicable change of difpofition between the courts of Lif bon and Madrid upon the death of Don Jofeph I. February the 24th, 1777, with fome account of that monarch, xx. [177*, 178 *] the change of miniftry which took place immediately on the acceffion of his daughter, the princefs of Brazil, who was married to her uncle Don Pedro, (her father's brother) in 1760, and the very great joy which appeared through all the kingdom upon the removal of the marquis de Pombal from power, and the great popularity which the queen acquired by enlarging the ftate prifoners, [178. 182]-preliminaries of peace and treaty of limits concluded between the courts of Lifbon and Madrid, with an account of the probable effects of this treaty upon the politicks of this country, [183, 184] an account of the marriage of his royal highness the prince of Beira with her royal highness the Infanta Maria Francifca Benedi&ta, (his aunt) on February the 21st, 1777, [170] the value of the effects belonging to the marquis de Pombal exceeded the fum of 600,000 pounds fterling, [195]-Some particulars relating to the peace concluded between this court and Madrid, xxi. [169]For remarkable inundations, and the damages they produced, in this country in 1774, fee NATURAL HISTORY. Prague; the glorious defeat of the Auftrians, though fortified with almoft impregnable intrenchments, i. 16-the very memorable fiege of this city by his Pruffian majesty, May 7th, 1757, 17, 18. Printing; encouragement given to the introduction of, into Conftantinople, x. [11] Providence; parliamentary grants to, i. 127-ii. 171-iii. [183]-v. [152. 162]-vi. [177] Pruffia; ground of the difpute and war with Auftria; the means by which it has acquired its prefent extent of empire, and made a fovereign power; its alliance with England, and commencement of hoftilities at Pirna and LofoH 2 witz, witz, i. 3. 6. 9-state of the powerful confederacy formed against it, 14. 18 -fubfidy treaty with England in 1758, 39, 40-the fame 1759, ii. 3-the critical fituation of affairs at the beginning of 1759, 3, 4-and at the clofe of the fame year, 55, 56—a tax of ten per cent. laid upon the revenues of all popish ecclefiaftics in the dominions of this country, 81-The ftate of this country at the beginning of 1760, and the demands made on it by the court of Vienna, iii. [3. 5. 11]-The fad ftate of the affairs of this country in the beginning of the year 1762, v. [2, 3]-the fortunate change in the affairs of the king of Pruffia by the peace concluded between him and the czar Peter the third of Ruffia, on his acceffion to the throne, and the alliance formed between them, with an account of the peace concluded between Pruffia and Sweden, [12. 14]-the effect of the revolution in Ruffia at the death of Peter III. which produced great anxiety, till the new emprefs adopted a neutrality, and restored the Pruffian conquefts, [21. 23] a coldness between this country and England on account of the latter refusing to renew the treaty of alliance in 1762, [54]— the nature and fubftance of the treaty of peace with the empress queen of Hungary at Hubertburgh in 1762, [63. 247. 249]-The zealous endeavours of his majesty to repair the loffes fuftained by the war, to reward the merit of his brave military officers, and to punish fuch mifb:haviour in them as was attended with any confiderable influence on his affairs, vi. [97, 98]— the tranquil ftate of the country_in 764, and her perfect fecurity against any defigns of the neighbouring powers, vii. [3]-fome clear and indifputable proofs of the indefatigable attention given by the king to the real welfare of his fubjects, [77]—his formal renunciation of all claims to all and any part of Polish Pruffia, on condition of the acknowledgment of his right to the title of king of Pruffia, [95]-the great encouragement given to an excellent porcelain manufactory in this country, [101]-the fund of the new bank established at Berlin by his Pruffian majelty, and the grants made to the proprietors for thirty years, [109]-the wife and humane royal decree relating to tenants or farmers in this country, made in 1764, [109]-the permiffion given to his Pruflian majefty to purchase great quantities of faltpetre in Ruffia, to the exclufion of every other nation, [109] -The capital, number of fhares, and value of each share, of the new chamber of infurance eftablished by his majesty, June the 1ft, 1765, in Berlin, which was to fubfift irrevocably for thirty years, to the exclufion of all other chambers of infurance, viii. [68] -the inftitution of a literary academy for noblemen by his majefty in 1765, [85] new Turkey company established at Berlin, [96]--The remarkable claim made by a memorial prefented to their high mightineffes, January 14th, 1766, of a debt to the amount of upwards of four millions contracted by the republic in 1672, and the following years, ix. [70]-The entertainments, &c. given on the marriage of her royal highness the princefs Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, princess royal of Pruffia, to his ferene highness the prince of Orange, on October the 4th, 1767, x. [136]-Was not inattentive to the affairs in Poland in 1768, but observed a ftrict neutrality, xi. [7. 36]-military reformations, and the liberal donation to the inhabitants of Silefia in compenfation for the great misfortunes they fuffered by the late war, [36, 37]-the ordinance published by his majefty, July the 12th, 1768, by which the importation of all manufactures of copper, iron, and tin, was prohibited under certain penalties, [151]-The neutrality obferved towards the belligerent powers in Poland, and his majesty's indefatigable attention to the welfare of his fubjects, and to the commerce of his dominions, xii. [7]—a bank and lombard for the convenience of trade was opened at Embden, February the 1ft, 1769, by order of his Pruffian majefty, [71]The perfect neutrality which continued to be obferved by the king in 1770, with respect to the events of the war between the Ruffians and the Turks, although the attention which his majefty paid to the military department, and the excellent condition of his army, feemed to indicate fome great defign in view, xiii. [42]— the various conjectures formed in confequence of the interview between his majesty and the emperor of Germany, September 30, 1770, whofe mutual behaviour to each other was fo cordial and and affectionate as greatly to affect the beholders, particularly fuch as ren.embered and had experienced the fatal confequences of the animofity which had fo long fubfifted between the two families, [42, 43]—the violent and unwarrantable proceedings of his majefty against the city of Dantzick, which was furprized by his troops, laid under a contribution of feventy-five thousand ducats, and obliged to comply with certain other terms of fubmiffion, [43, 44]—The hoftile appearances and military preparations of his majelty at the beginning of the year 1771, and the march of his army into Poland, which ended in becoming a mediator (in concert with the court of Vienna) between the belligerent powers of Ruffia and the Porte, and in tranfmitting various propofitions relative to a peace through the hands of the ministers of the refpective courts at the Porte, xiv. [79*. 81*.85*, 86*] the melancholy accounts re ceived of the misery and wretchedness in this country, arifing from the extreme feverity of the weather in April 1771, [99] the very great damage done by the heavy and inceffant rains which fell in this country in the months of June and July 1771, [129, 130] an enquiry into the great advantages the king has acquired by the partition of Poland, and by the remarkable harmony that prevails between the Houfes of Auftria and Bran. denburg, xv. [4.6.]-the exceffive contributions and violent oppreffions committed by the army when stationed on the frontiers of Poland, under a pretext of forming lines to protect their own country from the plague (which at that time raged in Poland) being communicated to their own borders, [20. 22]-the very probable effect on the conduct of Ruffia with respect to the affairs of Poland, which was produced by the unexpected union in politics and fentiments between the emperor of Germany and his Pruffian majefty, [24, 25]-the great fhare his majefty is fuppofed to have had in producing the civil war in Poland, [25, 26]the letters patent of the king of Pruffia containing a deduction of his rights to a part of the kingdom of Poland, with fome obfervations upon these rights, [31. 34] the revenue of the tobacco imported into this kingdom in 1772, was farmed to a Frenchman for fifty thousand pounds fterling, [71]-the patent which was granted the 14th of October, 1772, for the establishment of an affociation or a company of maritime commerce, and the encouragement which his majefty gave by taking a number of the shares into his own hands, [145]-The great military augmentations and improvements, and the conduct obferved by his majefty with refpect to the new provinces, particularly to the Jews in Polifh Pruffia, and to the inhabitants of Dantzick and Thorn, xvi. [44. 47. 127]-the new duty of ten per cent. which was impofed by his Pruffian majefty on all fugars fent from Hamburgh into Saxony, Silefia, Bohemia, and Hungary, [154, 155]-The great and unweared attention fhewn by his majelty to the improvement of his new dominions, and to the profecution of every scheme for rendering them of every poffible advantage, xvii.[25]-the duty laid on the importation of fugar into Silefia from foreign countries by a royal edict bearing date February 15th, 1774, [105]The fubftanee of the edict, and the reafon on which it was founded, forbidding the merchants of Konigsburgh to frequent he fairs at Leiptic, xviii. [120]-naval preparations at Stettin, [120]-The nature of the toleration granted by his majefty to the Jefuits in his dominions, xix. [126, 127]-a particular account of the very grand and magnificent entry of the grand duke of Ruffia (accompanied by prince Henry of Pruflia) into Berlin, on July the 21ft, 1776, and the interview which the grand duke had with his Pruffian majesty, previe ous to the demand of the princess of Wirtemberg Stutgard in marriage for the grand duke, which demand was made in form the following day, [165, 166]-in a list of all his majesty's forces laid before him in 1776 at Potzdam, the totals were as follow, horse 76,000, foot 152,000, artillery 7,500, and militia 36,000 men, [203]-The respect which his majesty thewed to the memory of the generals Schwerin, Winderfeldt, Kleift, and Keith, by erecting their ftatues in marble in the capital of Berlin, xx. [188]-His Pruffian majetty fupports the claims of the prince of Deux Ponts, the electress dowager of Saxony, and the dukes of H 3 Mecklen Mecklenburgh, in oppofition to the UEBEC; the expedition again it Qby the English in 1759, the ifle of Orleans occupied by the English, and crowned with the furrender of the city which were increafed by the ufual vigilance of general Carleton, against every effort of fraud, force, and fur'prize ufed by the rebels, till at length the fiege was raifed, and the rebels experienced a continued feries of loffes and misfortunes in the province of Canada, [151. 153]-For the natural history of this place, fee NATURAL HISTORY. Quebec; parliamentary grants to, v.[152. 164]-vi. [177, 178]-vii. [157] Queine, Fort du; the rife and importance of this place, and the occafion it gave to the war between the English and French in North America, in 1756, i. 2, 3-vi. [26]-Evacuated by the French, and called by the Englih Pittsburgh, i. 74, 75-Attacked by the Indians in 1763, who are repulfed with difficulty, vi. [26. 31] R. RHINE, the; fate of the war upon, i. 43, iii. [10] Rhode Island; the number of the whites and blacks fuppofed capable of bearing arms in 1766, was computed at 15,000 men, ix. [60]-The remarkable act of the legislature in 1767, finking all the money-bills of that colony emitted in March, April, and May 1762, and fubftituting in lieu of thefe bills notes bearing interest till the time of their return, at the rate of fix per cent. per annum, x. [95]The amount of the British fhips and feamen employed in the trade between Great Britain, this colony, Connecticut, and New Hampshire; the value of the goods imported from Great Britain to thefe colonies; and the produce of thefe colonies exported to Great Britain and elfewhere, xii. [215] -The great outrage committed in this province, in burning a fchooner which was ftationed there to prevent fmuggling, xvii. [45, 46]-the agreement entered into by the ladies in January. 1774, not to ufe any more India tea, [99]-the ordnance belonging to the crown was feized upon and removed out of the fore-houses as foon as an account arrived that the exportation of military ftores from Great Britain to America was prohibited, [122 * ] — fimilar tranfactions which this conduct produced in New Hampshire, in Philadelphia, and in Maryland, [122, 123*]-The forfeiture of the real eftates of Thomas Hutchinfon, efq. late governor of Maffachufet's Bay, and others, which took place in 1775, according to an act pafled for this purpofe in the affembly in this island, and the application of the value of thefe eftates to the defence and fecurity of the island, xviii. [184]-The fuccefs of the British navy in December 1776, when the rebels abandoned the island, and the royal army took poffeffion of it without the lots of one man, and the excellent winter quarters they found in it, xix. [181*]-The fpirit.d adventure made by the provin cials under the command of colonel Barton on July the 10th, 1777, when they furprized general Prefcot, who commanded the king's troops in this quarter, and was carried off by colonel Barton, and the great exultation this adventure produced in the minds of the provincials, xx. [124, 125]→ Some predatory expeditions undertaken from this ifland towards the latter end of May 1778, and the lofs fuftained by the Americans on this occafion, xxi. [214, 215*]-the appearance of the French fleet before this ifland; the defenfive preparations made by general fir Robert Pigot to oppole them; the invafion of this ifland meditated by the Americans to fecond, the operations of the French; the failing of lord Howe to its relief; d'Estaign's refolution to meet the Britifh fquadron, when the fleets were feparated on the point of engaging by a violent ftorm, [230*. 233*)—general Sullivan lands in the ifland, invetts the British pofts, but is greatly difconcerted by d'Eftaign's departure to Bolton, whither he is pursued by lord Howe; lord Howe finding d'Eftaign's fquadron fo ftrongly fecured in Nantaiket road, as to render an attack impracticable, returns to Bofton; and general Sullivan not being able to accomplish his purpofes upon this ifland, retreats, and at length quits it, [234*. 236*]-The reafons which prevented fir Henry Clinton from cutting off the retreat of general Sullivan, and the fuccefs of the expedition he planned to Bedford, Fair Haven, and to Martha's Vineyard, xxii. [1, 2]— Evacuated by the British troops in the autumn of 1779, and the reafons affigned for it, xxiii. [216*, 217*] Rice; the quantity of rice exported from Charlestown H 4 |