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deftruction of barbarous nations, that civilifed ones may fupply their place, as we praife the hand that roots up weeds in order to fow grain: but when this order is reverfed, there is occafion for poignant regret; and we are dubious which to prefer, the good fenfe of our ancestors, or our own fenfibility.

The debates on the conftitution of the Scottish burghs prefented a fingular scene.-Great numbers of the moft refpectable people in that country figned petitions for redrefs; yet the minifter, the former friend of a parliamentary reform, did not fupport their claims; and the fecretary, with his coadjutor, treated them with contempt.

Let it not be fuppofed from this, and our remarks on fome other tranfactions of this feffion of parliament, that we mean to contribute in the fmalleft degree to the murmurs of diffatiffaction. If any man imagine himself a better friend to the public tranquillity, he errs. But that there are difcontents it would be ridiculous to deny; and, in our opinion, finall conceffions and conciliations are abfolutely neceffary to the national peace. That obftinacy which excites oppofition, that contempt which kindles rage, are dangerous weapons to weild at this enlightened period. In former ages it might be a prudent maxim to yield nothing, that nothing might be expected; but maxims muft vary with times. If our parties be kept at fuch extreme distance, that the one feems to fhelter itself under defpotic power, and the other to fly to republicanifin, the collifion, if they encountered, must be dreadful. It is furely the duty of every friend to his country, to recommend fome conceffions on the part of power; temper and content to the other fide; moderation to all. The Spartan king, who diminished his own power in order to render it more lafting, may be recommended as a model to rulers, who ought to treat those who offer reafonable requests as their friends and brothers, and not to excite accumulated vengeance by a stern refufal of the smallest conceffion, far lefs to obtrude upon the public patience by fuch unwife obduracy at a critical period.

In regard to the two other kingdoms of this empire, Ireland acquired fo many advantages lately by a patriotic parliament, that he has every reafon to be contented and happy: but Scotland, as we are concerned to obferve from fome periodical publications of that country, and to learn from intelligent natives,complains much of old fetters on her commerce and improvement, not yet removed, and of the marked neglect fhewn to her interefts. The defpotifm of laft century, and Iwo rebellions of a part of her people in this, rendered Scot

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land fo tame, that the has long regarded any oppofition to the
minifter, as an act of fedition carefully to be avoided, left the
memory of her rebels fhould recur. Now becoming more
induftrious and enlightened, fhe begins to know her real in-
terefts, and to apprize all the bleffings of freedom.

The parliament of Ireland has extended liberal indulgences
to the Roman catholics of that kingdom, by establishing the
legality of intermarriage between them and the proteftants, by
admitting them to the profeffion of the law, and the benefit
of education, and by removing all restrictions upon their in-
dustry in trade and manufacture. A reciprocal preference in
the corn trade with Britain has been established. Further
progress has been made in checking the immoderate ufe of
fpirituous liquors; and fome wife inftitutions have been or-
dained for the regulation of charitable foundations.

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from the general committee
of Roman Catholics to their Protef-
tant fellow-fubjects,

478

472

468
to the right rev. the pre-
lates of England and Wales on the
flave-trade,
ibid.
to the duchess of York
against the use of sugar,
Admonitory epitle from Harry Ho
mer to Peter Pindar,
Advice to the privileged orders of the
feveral ftates of Europe, refulting
from the neceffity and propriety of
a general revolution in the principle
of government, part 1.
Air, a treatife on,
353
Analyfe chymique de l'eau fulfureufe
d'Enghein, pour fervir a l'histoire
des eaux fulfureux en général, 513
Analysis of the waters of Tunbridge
Welis,

474

109

Ancient popular poetry,
Anecdotes of the Wyndham family,

55
116
-of Henry IV. of France,
118

of the late duke of King-

fton and mifs Chudleigh,

239

B.

Agatelle, or the Bath anniver-
113

Bampton lectures, read before the uni-
verfity of Oxford,
29, 156
fermons preached

at,

165

Baviad, an imitation of the first fatire
of Perfius,

193

Billington (Mrs.) memoirs of, 238
Blind child, the,

116

Boroughs of Great Britain, hiftory of
the, vol. I.
309
British conftitution, an enquiry into
the nature, defects, and abuses of
the,
233

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Effay on duelling,
Effays, philofophical, hiftorical, and
literary, vol. II.
Evils of adultery and proftitution, 479
Examination into the increate of the

132

revenue, commerce, &c. of Great
359
Britain,
Excurlions in literature and criticism,

115

Expofition of the beginning of Genefis,
the epifle to the Romans, doctrine
77,79
of baptifm, Map O£8,
'Extracts and obfervations on the flave
trade,

238
elegant, inftructive, and enter-
taining, in profe, 354. În verfe, ib.

F.

Airford, in Gloucestershire, ac-
count of,

237

476

Female geniad, the,

113

education, fketches of,
Werter, the,

117

235

175

Festival of beauty, the,

110

Foreign articles,

92,481

99

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literary intelligence,

Foreft fcenery,

Fortune, inftances of the mutability of,
331

France, a concife hiftory of, vol. II.

177

357

Free mafonry for the ladies,
Freedom of human action explained

75

233

and vindicated,
Freeman's budget, No. 1.
French revolution, hiftorical sketch of
the,

Friendship, the triumphs of,

G

G.

441

234

Enera infectorum Linnæi & Fa-
bricii iconibus, illuftrata a Jo.
529
Jac. Roemer,
Government, principles of, deduced
from reafon, &c.

233

92

Globus coeleftis Cufico-Arabicus Veli-
terni musei Borgiani,
Grumbler, the,

H

475

HEdaya (the), or guide; a com

mentary on the Muffulman law,
Book Alms impofed by the law,
22.-II, Marriage; III, Fofterage;
IV. Divorce; V. Manumiffion; VI.
Vows; VII. Punishments, ibid.-
VIII. Larceny, with an extract;
IX. The inftitutes; X. Foundlings,
23-XI, Troves; XII. Abfcondi

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of flaves; XIII. Perfons miffing:
XIV. Partnership; XV. Pious or
charitable appropriations; XVI.
Sale; XVII, Sirf fale; XVII. Bail;
XIX. Transfer of debts; XX. Du
ties of the kazee; XXI. Evidence ;
XXII. Retractation of evidence;
XXIII. Agency; XXIV. Claims;
XXV. Acknowledgments; XXVI.
Compofitions; XXVII. Of mozari
bat; XXVIII. Depofits; XXIX.
Loans; XXX. Gifts; XXXI. Hire;
XXXII. Of mokatibs; XXXIII. of
willa, 24-XXXIV. Compulfion;
XXXV. Inhibition; XXXVI. Of
licenfed flaves: XXXVII. Of ufurp-
ation; XXXVIII. of fhaffa;
XXXIX. Partition; XL. Compacts
of cultivation; XLI. Compacts of
gardening; XLII. Of zabbali, 25.-
XLIII. Sacrifice; XLIV. Abomina-
tions; XLV. Prohibited liquors;
XLVL Hunting; XLVII. Pawns;
XLVIII. Offences against the per-
fon; XLIX. Fines; L. The levying
of fines; LI. Of wills, 26.-LII. Of
hermaphrodites, 27.-Extract con-
cerning marriage, ibid.-On mak-
ing peace, 28.-Specimens of fingu-
lar frivolity,
High-church politics,
History of Taunton, Somerfetfhire, 66
Hiftory of philofophy,

28,29

345

121

Hiftory of painting and fculpture, from
the earlieft accounts, vol. I. 499
Hogarth, illuftrated,
408
Howard (the late John), Efq. a view
of the character of,
208
Human reafon, the nature, extent, and
province of, confidered,

I.

85

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346
to the right hon. Wm. Pitt, on
his plan for discharging the national
debt,
ibid.
to Mr. Paine on his late publi-
347
Letter to Dr. Cope, and Mr.
Moore, on their propofals for pub-
lifhing the life of John Wefley, 350
to the bishop of Chefter on the
removal of poor children to the ma-
nufactories at Manchefter, &c. 359
on tythes,
ibid.

of advice from a French de-
mocrat to an English revolutionist,

464

to the right hon. Wm. Pitt on
a tax for railing 6,000,000l. to be
employed in loans to induftrious
poor,
ibid.
Letters to the members of the new Je-
rufalem church,
216

man,

in aufwer to Paine's rights of
347

Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. 257

of Mrs. Gooch,
477
London (new) medical journal, vol. I,
405.-Cafe of a bony excrefcence on
the infide of the jaw, 406.-Cafe of
nafal hemorrhage, with petechiæ,
ibid. Account of the discovery of
azote, or phlogisticated air, in the
mineral

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