Gate; land at Frogs Neck; Skirmish at the White Plains. Forts
Wallington and Lee taken, and the whole of York and reduced. Fer-
Jeys overrun. Rhode Island reduced.

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General conduct of European powers with respect to the American troubles,
France. Military preparations. Count de St. Germain placed at the
bead of the war department. Maquetaires reduced. Mr. Necker placed
at the head of the Finances. Spain. Extraordinary military preparations.
Difpute with Portugal. Improvements. Difoveries in the Southern
Ocean. New Academy. Vienna. Torture abolished. Toleration en-
larged. Bohemia peasants on the royal demefnes freed from their former
State of villainage. Attempt to open a trade with the East Indies.
Ruffia. Endeavours to people the uncultivated parts of the Empire.
Grand Duchefs dies. Grand Duke marries the Princess of Wirtemberg.
Porte. Baffora taken by the Perfians. Northern kingdoms. Holland.

Summary of the trial of Elizabeth, filing berfelf Dutchess of Kingfun, for

bigamy, before the House of Lords of Great-Britain, in Westminster-Hall,

on Monday the 15th of April, and the feveral fucceeding days.

Afhort review of Mr. Garrick's theatrical reign, with fome particulars of

the former part of bis life, &c.

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Heads of an act passed on the 23d of May, 1776, being the loft day of the

laft feffion of parliament, for the relief of Infolvent Debtors.

Remarkable address of the prefent Governors and Directors of the poor of the

parish of Saint Andrew Holborn above the Bars, and Saint George the

Martyr, united, to the inhabitants of the faid parish.

Some account of the public trials made by David Hartley, Efq; to evince the

efficacy of a new, cheap, and eafy method, invented by him, for preferving

boufes, fhips, &c. from fire; with the proceedings of the Lord Mayor,

&c. of London, relative thereto.

Supplies granted for the fervice of the year 1776, with the ways and means

for raifing them.

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Supplies of 1775 and 1776 compared.

His majesty's meage to the House of Commons, for a vote of credit.

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STATE

STATE PAPER S.

Petition of the City of London, prefented, Separately, to both Houses of Par-
liament, at the opening of the fecond feffion of the fourteenth parliament of
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Great-Britain.
Proteft of feveral of the Lords against their Houfe's Addrefs, in answer to the
King's Speech, at the opening of the aforesaid feffion of parliament. [252
Letter from Commodore Sir Henry Parker, to W. Tryon, Efq; Governor of
New York.
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Proclamation by General Carleton for the relief of fugitive Provincials,
after they had been driven from before Quebec.
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Subftance of the Speech made by Sir Fletcher Norton, Speaker of the House of
Commons, to his Majefty, previous to that, by which his Majefty, on the
23d of May, put an end to the fecond feffion of the 14th parliament of

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The King's most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Thursday
the 23d of May, when his Majesty put an end to the forefaid feffion of
parliament.
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Circular Letter written by Lord Howe to the Governors of the American
provinces, and an enclosed aeclaration, addreffed to the inhabitants; with
the refolutions and proceedings of the Continental Congress relative to
bath.
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Singular Refolutions agreed to, in the Council of Safety, at Savannab, in
Georgia, to defroy their koufes and shipping rather than let them fall
into the hands of their enemies.
Decree of his most faithful Majefty the King of Portugal, relative to the re-
volt of the British North American colonies.
Subftance of a Letter, written by the Marquis De Grimaldi, to the Governor
of Bilboa, relative to an American Corfair, which had taken five English
fhips, and had been detained thereupon at that port, at the request of the
English Vice-Conful.
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Reafons affigned by the Continental Congress, for the American colonies and
provinces withdrawing their Allegiance to the King of Great Britain.

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Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the united States of

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1

Picture of the condition and manners of the people of Rome, when first pillaged
by the Barbarians; collected from different cotemporary writers.
Curious particulars relating to the ancient Academy and Philofophers of
Athens with fome account of the manners, cuftoms, &c. of the modern
inhabitants of that city and its territory.

4

Sketch of the manners and cufioms of the old Mexicans; with fome account of
their remaining genuine defcendants.

Some Account of the late inhabitants of Acadia, in North America, called
by fome authors Neutral French, but confidered as rebels by the British
government.

14

Singular Adventures of a German Princess, confort of Alexis, the unfortu
nate fon of the Czar Peter the Great.

A Sketch of the character of the late George Lord Lyttelton.
New Anecdotes of Sir Ifaac Newton.

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An Account of the life and writings of the late David Hume, Efq.
Tranflation of a letter from M. de Voltaire to the King of Pruffia, dated
March 30, 1776.

Anecdotes of the late Edward Wortley Montague, Esq.

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Anecdotes of the late Rev. George Stubbs and John Straight, authors of
feveral ingenious pieces in profe and verse.

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Memoirs of the Life of the late Rev. Dr. John Hoadly.
Recent Account of the perfon filed in England the Pretender, and in Rome
Il Re, or The King.

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Brief Account of that excellent critic, the late Mr. Jerry Markland.

Some Account of the life and writings of the late Mr. Benjamin Stilling-
fleet

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Memoirs of the late Mr. Peter Collinfon, F. R. S. and S. A.
Some Account of the late celebrated Mr. Ferguson.
Memoirs of the late Mr. George Edwards, F. R. S.
Some Account of the death, &c. of the Abbé Laurence Ricci, General of the
Jefuits at the time of their diffolution; with an authentic copy of a declara-
tion left by him concerning the crimes imputed to himself and his order. 60
Picture of London and its Inhabitants; by the Abbé Raynal

An account of various experiments, lately made in France, to afcertain the
truth of Sir Ifaac Newton's doctrine, concerning the difference in the gra-
vitation of bodies towards the earth, at different diftances, both above
and below her furface.
65
Subftance of two curious articles in the Philofophical Tranfactions for 1775,
being "A propofal for measuring the Attraction of fome Hills in this
Kingdom by Aftronomical Obfervations;" and "An Account of Ob
"fervations made on the Mountain of Schehallien in Scotland, for finding
"its Attraction;" by the Rev. Nevil Mafkelyne, D. D. F. R. S. 68
Parallel between the Old and New Worlds, with regard to extent, fitua
tion, climate, foil, inhabitants, &c. by the Abbe Raynal
Experiments on water obtained from the melied ice of sea-water; alfo Ex-
periments to find the degree of cold in which fea-water begins to freeze. 76
A Comparison of the heat of London and Edinburgh.

An Account of fome curious experiments tried lately, with very great degrees
of heat and cold, on animal and vegetable bodies.
Two cafes of great fatness and fomnolency, treated by Dr. Fothergill.
Some account of a very remarkable medical cafe, in which all the bones, par-
ticulary thofe of the thighs and legs, loft their folidity.

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Some account of a new species of mortification, and of the extraordinary effi
cacy of opium in the cure of it.

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An account of fome experiments tried on the urine of a man about thirty-three,
Labouring under a confirmed diabetes, with the very extraordinary refult
thereof.
Singular infances of a revived, or newly discovered, property in carrots,
grated and reduced to a poultice, to fubdue the intolerable french, and abate
the great pain, attending cancerous ulcers; and of wort, or the infufion of
malt, to cure the faid defperate complaints.
Phyfical obfervations on the furprifing efficacy of falt, in feeding, fattening,
and multiplying cattle, and, of course, improving land.
The highest exertions of human art in Mofaic work, compared with the Mo-
faic work of the wing of a butterfly.

PROJECTS.

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On the air propereft for perfons labouring under confumptions, or chronic
difeafes of the lungs, in the feveral feafons of the year, particularly in the
neighbourhood of London; and on the use and abufe of exercise, milk, and
fpirits, in the fame complaints.

110

A relation of fome of the mofi fimple, though efficacious means, by which Cap-
tain James Cook preferved himself and his ship's company, in his laft
voyage round the world in his Majesty's fhip Refolution.

114

A fummary of the discovery of the great antifcorbutic virtues of wort; with
an account of two other vegetable preparations for the fame purpose, one of
them ufed by the Ruffians with amazing fuccefs, and the other by the Cap-
tain of an English man of war.

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Obfervations on the method of burying the parish poor in London, and on the
manner in which fome of the capital buildings in it are confiructed and
kept; as two great fources of the extraordinary fickness and mortality fo
fenfibly felt in that capital.

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Eafy method of effectually preferving dead bodies, as practifed by the Capu
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Some account of Mr. Braidwood's Academy in Edinburgh, for teaching per
fons born deaf and dumb, to speak, write, and read, with understand-
ing.
The rural induftry and economy of the Chinese propofed as an example to all
the nations of the univerfe; by the Abbé Raynal.
Rules for the conftructing of wine cellars, particularly thofe intended for the
keeping of wines of a delicate texture and flavour.
An account of feveral trials made on a boat, or floop, fit for inland naviga-
tion, coafting voyages, &c. which is not liable to be overfet or funk by
winds, waves, water-fpouts, or too heavy a load.
The effects of rifled gun-barrels and feathered arrows, afcertained, and at-
counted for.

An caly and effectual remedy for the head-ach, and alleviative for the
ofthma.

ANTIQUITIES.

General fate of the Roman empire in the height of its profperity, with re-
gard to the number and greatness of its cities, and the eafy communication
between them by fea and land.
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A general review of the rife, progrefs, and amount of the Roman revenues.

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An account of the Fall of Palmyra under Zenobia, and of that accomplished
Princefs herself, and her Secretary Longinus.
Hiftory and prefent fate of the celebrated Mount St. Michael, near Gran-
ville in France, one of the most celebrated fate prisons of that kingdom. 148
An account of fome very ingenious poems, attributed to Thomas Rowley, of
Bristol, in the fifteenth century, and others his fellow-citizens and cotem-
poraries; and of the very extraordinary perfon who first produced them.

155

A fhort account of William Cannings, the perfon fo often mentioned in the
preceding article, Founder of St. Mary Redcliffe's Church, Bristol. 162
Some account of the prerogatives, &c. of Sarum, especially of the Epifcopus
puerorum, a very fingular inftitution, in memory of St. Nicholas, Bishop
of Myra, in Lycia, furnamed the Child Bishop.

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

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Valour, patriotism, and friendship, weighed in the balance of Christianity;
from the "View of the internal Evidence of the Chriftian Religion, by
Soame Jenyns, Efq;"
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Slavery abfolutely inconfiftent with, and even contrary to, found policy, hu-
manity, reafon, and juftice; with fome hints to those who are not to be
moved by fuch arguments, for the better treatment of flaves during their
pallage from Africa to America; and on the plantations of the latter.
greatly to the advantage of their owners as well as themselves. From
the Abbé Raynal's Hiftorical and Political Survey, &c.
168
The rights of the brute creation to tenderness from man deduced from the two-
fold confideration of their being fufceptible of pain and pleasure as well as
man himself, though not fufceptible of a just compenfation for any evils
man may inflict on them. From the Rev. Dr. Primatt's Differtation on
the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals
Thoughts on education, particularly that of boys; by Father Ganganelli, af-
terwards Cardinal Ganganelli, and lafty Clement XIV. the late Pope. 180
Tranflation of a Letter from M. de Voltaire, concerning the collection of letters
from which the preceding article is taken

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On the connection between mufic, prophecy and poetry, particularly under the
Fervish difpenfation; from "The General Hifery of Mufic, by Charles
Burney, Efq; Muf. D. F. R.S."
Tranflation of a letter from M. de Valtaire to M. d'Argenteuil, concerning
Shakespeare's Works, and the tranflation of them into Fren.b.

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