The utility of referring to proper names of perfons (whether authors or others) is very obvious, as it greatly facilitates the mode of finding out any article, and is more easily remembered than the fubjects to which these names relate. It has therefore engaged a particular share of the Compiler's attention, efpecially in the article CHARACTERS, fo as to form an eafy access to this valuable repofitory of the manners and cuftoms of nations and of individuals, whether ancient or modern, barbarous or civilized, Pagan or Chriftian.

Such is the plan which the Compiler has purfued. He has endeavoured to execute the work with accuracy, and has omitted no article worthy the attention of the Reader.

Additions to the Preface to the Second Edition.

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From the rapid fale of the First Edition, he is inclined to hope, that his labours have met with a candid reception in general. With a view to make this Second Edition more worthy of public favour, he has corrected feveral errata of the prefs, which appeared in the First Edition, and has made fome confiderable additions in various parts of the Index. At the fame time he begs leave to observe, that any hints for improving this, and rendering another edition (if neceffary) more perfect, will be thankfully received by the Publisher, who will take care that they fhall be attended to and inferted.

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INDE X.

HISTORY OF EUROPE.

Almeida; befieged and taken by the Spa-
niards, v. [30.]

Ambergris Inland, in the Bay of Hon-

duras; defcription of, xii. 191.
America, North; parliamentary grants
to, v. [153. 164]—vi. [177. 179]-
vii. [161]--viii. [236]-ix. [200]-
X. [216 21%. 220]xi. [261. 263]
-xii. [218, 219]xiii. [234. 236]
-xiv. [222. 224]-xv. [209. 211]-
xvi. [226]-xvii. [250, 251]
America, North; origin of the troubles

in it between the English and the
French in 1756, arofe from the un-
certain limits of their territories in
this country at the peace of Utrecht,
particularly Acadia (now called Nova
Scotia) and the fettlements on the
Mifliflippi and the Ohio, i. 1, 2, 3
-military operations previous to the
declaration of war in 1756, and at
the beginning of it in 1758, 3,
4. 70, 75 plan and operations
of the campaign in 1759, ii. 29. 45.
-State of the military preparations
for the campaign of 1761, iv. [117]
-The nature and limits of the En-
glith and French fettlements in this
country propofed and confirmed at
the general peace of 1763, v. [55,
56. 235. 237]—The great ex-
tent of the English empire in this
part of the world after the peace, and
the exertions purfued by Great Bri
tain to render this extenfive tract of
land beneficial to the mother-coun-
try; the divifion of this newly ac-
quired empire into three feparate and
independent governments, the rea-
fons for this arrangement of the
country, and the caufe of the war be-
tween the English and the Indi-
ans, vi. [18. 23. 111]-the plan,
profecution, and iffue of this war in
1763, [23. 32]-The fum of nine
thoufind fix hundred pounds fterling
collected in England, on the brief
iflued for the benefit of the colleges
of Philadelphia and New York, vii.
67.-the dreadful outrages and cru-
elties committed by the Indians in
the back fettlements of the British
colonies, and the wife methods taken
to prohibit, under fevere penalties,
any perfon whatsoever from fupply-
ing the Indians with ammunition,
arms, or warlike fitores, [102]—
the effects of the reftrictions laid on
the trade of the British fettlements to
the French and Spanish Weft India
islands, in 1764, unfavourable to the

mother-country, as appeared from the
refolution they adopted of manufac-
turing for themselves, of laying afide
all fuperfluities of drefs with which
their own manufactures could not
fupply them, and of working their
own mines of iron and coal, which
were to be found on the coast of New
England, Cape Breton, and Nova
Scotia in particular, [107]—The first
appointment of naval officers as re-
venue officers, in this country in
1764, by the British government, and
the interruption which they gave to
the trade carried on between the Bri-
tish colonies and the colonies of the
Spanish and French in the Weft In-
dies, viii. [18. 21]-this injury to
the British colonies confiderably in-
creafed by ill-timed laws in England,
which oblige them to manufacture
for themfelves, the mifchiefs to be
apprehended from thefe manufactures
to the mother-country, and the tra-
ditionary report of fir Robert Wal-
pole (when prime minifter) refufing,
in 1739, to tax the British colonies
in this country, [22. 25]-unani-
moufly rejects an offer made to the
British colonies by the miniftry in
1765, fignifying their readiness to
receive propofals for any other tax
which might be an equivalent for the
ftamp tax, [33, 34]-proceedings
against the ftamp act (which received
the royal affent by commiffion, March
zzd, 1765), and the stamped papers,
both by the populace and provincial
affemblies, which affert their inde-
pendence, and refolve on a general
congrefs; the petitions conformable
thereto, and the measures taken to
elude the act, or force a repeal of it,
in various colonies, [49, 56]-ix.
[62]-the royal order for dividing
this country into two districts, and
the boundaries appointed for them,
[75]-The plan for introducingepif-
copacy in this country, as laid down -
by bishop Butler in 1750. viii. [108]-
The extreme licentioufnefs, anarchy,
and confufion which appeared in the
British colonies in 1766, ix. [31, 32]
-The fubftance of the petitions pre-
fented by the agents for Virginia and
Georgia in 1766, and the arguments
in favour of them and in oppofition
to them in the British parliament,
[36. 44]-the repeal of the ftamp
act in 1766, and the bill of indem-
nity relating to thofe who had in-
curred

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