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 [214 J216 ₤226 STATE PAPE-R S. 4230 His majesty's most gracious fpeech to both houses of parliament, on Thursday the 2nd day of July, 1767 His majesty's most gracious fpeech to both houses of parliament, on Tuesday the 24th of November, 1767; with the humble addresses of both houfes upon the occafion, and his majefty's most gracious anfwers fibid. The humble addrefs to his majesty, of the right bon. the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in common council affembled, 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 His excellency George lord viscount Tornbend, lord lieutenant-general, and general governor of Ireland, his fpeech to both houses of parliament at Dublin, on Tuesday the 20th day of October, 1767, with their addresses on the occafion, Sr. CHARACTER S. (235 General character of the Welsh, as it was in the time of Henry the Second Character of the English and Normans of Harold of William the First of William Rufus of Louis le Gros and death of prince Euftace, Jon to king Stephen of king Stephen of Sirvard, earl of Northumberland of Henry the Second of the empress Matilda of Sir Philip Sidney, with a comparison between him and the celt brated chevalier Bayard Curicus particulars of some remote nations and tribes of Tartars Character of the duke of Shredvfbury of John duke of Argyle of the duke of Berwicks of the duke of Ormind of Cardinal de Fleury Some account of Mrs. Thomas, the celebrated Corinna 22 23 50 51. 53 59 NATURAL Anecdotes of Monf. de Voltaire in his prefent fituation at Fernez in Burgundy, Near Geneva Obfervations upon animals, commonly called amphibious, by authors 74 A letter from James Parfons, M. D, F. R. S. to the right boncurable the earl of Morton, prefident of the royal fociety, on the double horns of the rhinoceros. - 79 81 A letter to the prefident of the royal feciety; containing a new manner of measuring the velocity of wind, and an experiment to ascertain to what quantity of water a fall of fnow is equal Some curious particulars relative to the growth of 1bubarb; bow an animal - called the marmot contributes to its propagation, and how the natives dry the Frost 84 Some account of the bores, called mammon's horns; and the frange opinions 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 88 Of Spirits prepared by the force of fire, with fome obfervations for guarding again, and remedying the noxious vapours of charcoal, Se. On the effect of the imagination on a different body Of the common fensory affected by poisons 1892 96 Of the effect of rains, of marshes and bogs, fubterraneans wood, and fubterra 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 103 106 107 Obfervations on fome extraordinary fymptoms occafioned by nutmeg taken in too 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 bodies -- 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 115 116 Account of a petrified bee-hive, difcovered on the mountains of Siout, in the An extract from Ambrofe Beurer's dissertation on the ofteocolla 117 118 120 121 122 On a fish of the river of Surinam, which produces very fingular effects Obfervations on cures performed by burning 124 126 ANTIQUITIES. A letter from Edward Wortley Montague, Efq. F. R. S. to William Watfon, M. D. F. R. S. containing an account of his journey to Cairo, in Egypt, to the written mountains in the defert of Sinai vas Some account of the ruins of Poftum, or Poffidsnia, an ancient city of Magna Græcia, in the kingdom of Naples, which have been lately discovered 37 A short account of the Sedmy Palaty, or Seven Palaces; a remarkable building and veftage of antiquity, fill remaining on the banks of the river Irtifs, in the country of the Kalmucks, being in the wilds of the great or eafter Tartary t 39 Offome ancient monuments in the fame country and Some account of a remarkable monument in the ifle of Purbec, known by the names of Aggleston, Stone Barrow, the Devil's Night-Capy Communi441 A charter of King Henry the Third, in the old Englift of that time; with a tranflation of it into modern English, by Mr. Somner Hiftorical remarks on ancient architecture 143 144 An account of the cruel facrifices of the Canaanites, Phenicians, and asker Of the Chaldeans, and their original ibid. Memoirs of Richard Plantagenet, (a natural son of King Richard III.) wks died 22 Dec. 1550 (4 Edward VI.) The testimony of Clement Maydeftone, that the body of King Henry W, was thrown into the Thames, and not buried at Canterbury A cm) / 162 Of mufical founds; and of the origin of the names of the days of the wéék 134 ibid. LITERARY and MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. Thoughts on the caufes and confequences of the prefent high price of provi frons An effay upon theatrical imitation 165 173 Some account of a nation in South America, of a moft extraordinary and gigantic fize Catherine Vade's preface to the tales of William Vade Curious extracts from Rouffeau's letter on French mufic 185 194 12201 The history of nonfenfe " Copy of Emen's first letter to the then E. now D. of Nd, with a trans lation from the Armenian of his letter to Prince Heraclius From Voltaire's Ignorant Philofopher Account of an lay on the learning of Shakespeare "An effay on the expreffion of the pallions in painting 204 210 272 315 A letter from the Abbe Metaftafin on the musical drama, addressed to the author of an effay on the union of mufic and poetry An effay on elegies 218 220 Two letters from Mr. Everard, F. S. M. containing an adventure, of golfch he was a witness, at the quickfilvermines of Idra POETRY + PIO ET R: Y. A я 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, TEAM نید 232 Of Birmingham-its manufactures—iron are-process of it.—Panegyric upan It iron.\ From the fame 235 Prologue at the opening of the theatre royal, in Edinburgh. Written by James On the much-lamented death of the marquis of Tavistock Tranflation of a Greek epigram on a Grecian beauty 238 239 241 242 Letter to Dean Swift, when in England, in 1726. An original Poem ibid. An ode to Spring, Supposed to have been written by the celebrated Vanessa, in confequence of her pallion for Dean Swift An ode to Wifdam. By the fame reflection on the death of the marquis of Tavistock The rookery Epitaph Prologue to the English Merchant. Spoken by Mr. King 244 ibid. 245 ibid, 246 ibid. Fa Sir Godfrey Kneller. By the late D. Geakie On Mr. Garrick's picture by a bust of Shakespeare. By Dr. H-rr-gt-n The Lover and the Friend. Prologue to the Taylors. The Acceptable Sacrifice; Taken from the Bagatelles Spoken by Samuel Foote, Efq. and fuppofed to be 250 a fragment of Meander: tranflated by Francis 251 A tranflation of a little founet wrote by Plato in his younger time of life, and preferved by Diogenes Laertius 252 ibid. Epitaph on Claudius Phillips. By Dr. Johnson Verses infcribed on a small cottage, in rustic taste, intended as a place of retirement, built by Powis, Efq. in a grove by the river Severn 253 An occafional prolque 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. Prologue to the Oxonian in Torn. Spoken by Mr. Woodward, in the character of a gentleman commoner, dreffed in his academical habit Epilogue. Spoken by Mrs. Mattocks Prologue to a Peep behind the Curtain; or, the new Rehearsal Epilogue 254 256 257 258 259 Pro Prologue to the new comedy of the Widow'd Wife. Spoken by Mr. Holland Epilogue. Spoken by Mr. Clive A paftoral. In the modern ftyle 259 260 261 An ironical eulogium on Ignorance. By Dr. Clancy, of Durrow in Ire. land The Winter's Walk. By Samuel Johnson, L. L. D. ACCOUNT OF BOOKS for 1767. 263 265 The Hiftory of the life of king Henry the Second, and of the age in which he 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 Second Commentaries on the laws of England 266 286 307 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 FINIS. Printed by J. WRIGHT, Denmark Court, Strand. |