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force or constraint; and is very properly rendered by our tranflatorsHe TOOK ber [TULIT eam. Montanus]. But the reply made by her brethren to the expoftulation of Jacob, is a demonstration that no violence was ufed—“ Should he deal with our fifter as with an barlot ?" Our Correfpondent thinks that Mr. Madan acted very judiciously in palling over this cafe of Dinah, without making any particular obfervations on it. We think he acted disingenuously; for in our view it is a case so much in point, that it could not be pass'd by without defign.

If this Letter-writer had defigned to have written a regular reply to the remarks in the Review, he should have taken fome notice of our animadverfions on Mr. Madan's unwarrantable liberties with feveral texts of scripure, before he proceeded to take the cafe of Dinah into confideration. He hath paft over the criticisms on Gen. ii. 24. Mat. xix. 5. and omitted to take any notice of our remarks on Mr. Madan's abfurd interpretation and perverfion of Exod. xxii. 16, 17. In this, we think, he hath acted full as judiciously as Mr. Madan, in his omitting to take notice of the cafe of Dinah.

We can give no encouragement to this Correfpondent to continue his animadverfions in the line he hath chofen. If he deems them of too great confequence to be loft to the world, we would advise him to collect them together, and publish them in a pamphlet. They will then fall under our obfervation in the common courfe of reviewing; and we will not fail to pay them all that respect to which their merit fhall entitle them.

+++ Our best acknowledgments are due to our Correfpondent L Z, for the hearty laugh he has afforded us, by the defcription of the weekly club, whom, in our defence, we had occafion to mention lately, under the title of the Mathematical Society [M. R. Septemb. 1780, pag. 238.], as having given their fanction to a new philofophical fyftem, on which we had found ourselves obliged to pass fome Atrictures. The particular Reviewer, however, whom he fo earnestly invites to accompany him, incognito, to vifit this body on a Saturday night, would right gladly liften, in a corner, to the learned lecturer's' orations againft.Newton, and in favour of the air ycleped vital, did he not dread detection, and its poffible confequences to his perfon. He muft therefore decline L Z's friendly offer, and be content to enjoy, in idea only, the rich humour of the fcene he paints; part of which he would here tranfcribe, were not the proceedings of the principal actors in it-[he means no difrefpect to the harmless audience, who meet to drink their porter in quiet]-though excellent fubjects for a news-paper effay, rather of too ridiculous a caft to be admitted into a grave and Jober literary journal.

Sir Robert Cotton's "Difcourfe on the Authority of the high Court of Parliament," concerning which a Correfpondent inquires, was published three times in the last century; but the impreffions, befides being now not eafily to be met with, are full of faults. Perhaps a new edition, from a more correct manuscript, with notes, might be acceptable to the Public.

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INDEX

INDE X

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume.

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

IR, inflammable, experiments and obfervations on, 374. Account of a new kind of inflammable air or gass, 375. ACHARD, M. his new invented Thermometer, 501. ACTA Ofnabrugenfa, &c. 141. ADULTERY, ought to be made a capital offence, 275. The nature of this crime defined, 276. AGOSTINI, his collection of an

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cient gems, 294, ALENTIAN. Ifles, difcovery of, 2. ALLY, Ifman Abu, the Great Arabian Shaik, his good character, 405. ALTAMONT, Lord, his improvements on his eftates in Ireland, 39.

AMERICA, North, de facto, an inRe

dependent power, 105.

flections on the nature of this change in the political world, ib. America formidable from her great increasing population, 107. Her future grandeur predicted, ib.

South, reflections on its prefent ftate with regard to its European fubjection, 105. Not yet ripe for revolt, ib. AMERICANS, chiefly Diffenters from the Epifcopal church, 356. Their unconquerable averfion to Epifcopacy, 357Perfecuted

by the Epifcopalian party, 440. AMPUTATION of the thigh, improvement in the method of,

122.

APP. Rev. Ixiii.

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ANQUETIL Du Perron, his Oriental publications cenfured, 109. ARABIANS, our first inftructors in ..the fciences, 372.

ARABIC language. See KOREIST. ARABS, modern, their perfidious difpofition exemplified, 404. ARCHIPELAGO, Ruffian, difcovery of, 3.

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ARDMAGH, Archbishop of, his noble public works in Ireland,99. ARNAUD, Abbé, affifts in publifhing a description of the principal gems in the cabinet of the Duc D'Orleans, 293.

ARNOLD, Mr. his account of the going of his pocket chronometer, 198.

ATKYNS, Sir Robert, his Hift. of Gloucestershire the foundation of a new Hift. of that county, 10, AURUM fulminans, new obs. relat. to, 503. A very dangerous fubftance, 506.

BACON, Roger, acquainted with the nature of gun-powder, 410. BAROMETERS, new improvements in, 498.

BAROMETRICAL obfervations. See
SHUCKBURGH,

BALL, Mr. his intrigue with
Mrs. Thomson, 125.
BATH Society for the encourage.

ment

ment of agriculture, &c. their
rules and orders commended, 70.
BAUER'S Fundamenta Geographia,
&c. 140.

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BEERING'S Ifle, its discovery, 2.
BEHMEN, Jacob, his wonderful
writings, 519. Memoirs of his
life, 523. His death 525.
BELGRADE, battle of, remarkable
circumstances attending, 422.
BENTLEY, Mr. his masterly sketch
of the character of Brindley, the
celebrated mechanic, 94-96.
BERKELEY, Sir Wm. Governor of
Virginia, his narrow and bigotted
views, 23.
BERTHOUD, M. his time-keepers
for the discovery of the longi-
tude, 199, 201.
BIOGRAPHY, medical, 380.
BISHOPS. See EPISCOPACY.
BLAKE, John Bradley, memoirs of,
82. His extraordinary progrefs
in the purfuit of natural know-
ledge, ib. His lamented death,
86.


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BORDE, Dr. Andrew, account of,
380.
BRIDGWATER, Duke of, his rich
coal mines in Lancashire, 90.
His grand canal, &c. for inland
navigation, ib.
BRINDLEY, John, memoirs of, 87.
His great genius for mechanics,
88. His vaft fuccels in canal
navigations, 92. His death, 95.
BRYANT, Mr. his Analysis of An-
cient Mythology centured, 115.
His controverty with Dr. Prieft
ley, concerning Philofophical
Neceffity, 348.

BUFFON, M. de, his theory of the

central fire, &c. contraverted,

139.
BULLEYN, Dr. his account of the
ftate of furgery in the reign of
Q. Eliz. 382.
BURNET, Bishop, characterifed as
an hiftorian, 34.
BURNING glafs, curious experi

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CAYLUS, Count, his great merit in
the study of antiquities, 295.
CERES, hymn to, an ancient Greek
poem, where difcovered, 482.
By fome afcribed to Homer,
483. General view of the poem,
486. Specimens of, 490.
CHAMBERS, William, his defence
of Dr. Hugh Smith, remarks on,
238.
CHEMISTRY greatly improved of
late, 502

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CHESTERFIELD, Lord, cenfured
on acc. of Letters to his Son,444.
CHINA, Correfpondence betw. that
country and Ruffia by land, 7.
Immense distance between the
trading towns of the two em
pires, ib.
CHRONOLOGY of the Scriptures
greatly perplexed by thofe, who
have endeavoured to reconcile it
with that of the Greeks, 112.
CHRONOMETER, Arnold's acc, of
its going, 198, 205. Its fupe-
riority to former watches, for the
purpose of ascertaining the lon-
gitude, 297..
CLARENDON, Lord, his hift.
netically characterised, 33-
CLEOMENES, King of Sparta, his
conduct in the war against Me-
galopolis, 416.

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CLOCK, perpetual, 498.
COLONIZATION, remarks on the
modern spirit of, 174.
hobby horse of Europe, ib.
COMPOSITION du remede de M.
Daran, 138.
COMNENA, Anna, poetical com-
pliment to her memory, 31.
CONNECTICUT, political state of,
100 years ago, 19.
CORNBURY, Lord, his bigotry
and misconduct during his go-
vernment of New York, 440.
COPPER Iland, its discovery, 2.
COTHAM ftones described, 14.
CRAWFORD, Dr. his hypothefis of

animal heat corrected, 500.
CROWN, John, his depofition rel.
to two of the regicides who took
fhelter in New England after the
death of Charles I. 15.
CUPID and Pfyche, beautiful alle
gory of, 299.

CZAR Peter, his conduct with re-
fpect to his antagonist Charles
XII. 419. His fpeech in a

council of war, ib.

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FONTANA, Abbé, his exper, and
obf. on inflammable air, 374.
acc. of the airs extracted from
different kinds of water, 375.
FOSTER, Ld. Ch. Baron, his great
improvements on his eftates in
Ireland, 97.

Fox Iflands, their difcovery, 2.
Inhabitants of, defcribed, 5.
FRISIUS, Gemnia, the first who
fuggefted the means of finding
the longitude by
watches, 198.
FUNDAMENTA Geographia, &c.

140.

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thountains in Ireland, defcribed,
44.

GARDENSTON, Lord, his improve.
ments at Laurencekirk, 145.
GARRICK, Mr. memoirs of his
life, 107. His generofity, ib.
Bred to bufinefs, 207. Engages
in the dramatic profeffion, 211.
His epigram on Quin, 213. His
great fuccefs as an actor, 214.
Becomes joint manager with La-
cey, 366. His journey to Italy,
ib. Sole patentee, and manager,
367. Quits the ftage, with pro-
digious eclat, 368. His death,
and pompous funeral, ib.
GEMS, in the cabinet, of the Duc
d'Orleans, described, 293. H ft.
of those who are most famous for
the publication of engravings
from ancient gems, 294. De-
fence of the study of antiques,

&c. 297.

GIBBON, Mr. poetical compliment
to, as an hiftorian, 37. His ir-
teligious fpirit reproved, 38.
GOLD, actually undergoes a partial
vitrification, under the intense
heat of the burning-glafs, 511.
GONSALVO, a Spanish General, his
generofity to a poor but brave
man, 423.

GOUT, rules to be observed in the
⚫ treatment and cure of, 61.
GRAFTING, curious conjectures

rel. to improvements in, 549.
GRASSES, the feveral fpecies of
them recommended for culture
by the Bath Society, 70.
GREEKS, their ancient hiftorical
writings how widely different
from thofe of the Perfians, 110.

their chronology irrecon-
cileable with that of the Scrip-

tures, 112.
GRUNDLICHE, &c. See MAYER.
GUNPOWDER, new theory of, 375.
Invention of, traced to its fource,
410.

GUTHRIE, Dr. his account of the
manner in which the Ruffians
wreat perfons affected by the

fumes of burning charcoal, and
other noxious effluvia, 373-

HAMPTON, Rev. Mr. a Prefbyte-

rian minifter, perfecuted by the
Epifcopalians at New York, 440.
HARES, five kinds of, heretofore
unknown, 141.

HARRISON, Mr. hiftory of his ap-

proaches toward a difcovery of
the longitude by his time-keep
ers, 201. Claims the reward
appointed by parliament for that
discovery, z0z; and receives it,
20, 205.

HAYLES, in Gloucestershire, po-

pifh miracle performed there, 11.
HECKLA, mount. described, 193.
HERALD, orig. of that office, 223.
HERALDRY, its orig. 215. Sprung
from the feudal system, 220.
HIGHLAND poetry, refl. on, 339.
Specimen of, 341.

HILLS, meth. of meaf. them, 537.
HISTORIANS, English, poetically
characterized, 33.

HISTORY, the chief defects of,
whence derived, 35.

HOMER, fuppofed to have been the
author of an ancient Greek hymn
to Ceres, lately difcovered, 483.
His claim to that work contro-
verted, 484. General view of
the poem, 486. For farther par-
ticulars relative to this bard, fee
FICTIONS.

HOOKE, Dr. his difpute with Huy-
gens, concerning the invention of
the watch pendulum fpring, 198.
His microfcopical obfervations
reprinted, 388.

Howe, Lord, his conduct in Ame-
rica impeached, 65.
Howe, Sir William, his conduct
in America impeached, 65. His
narrative, and defence of his
conduct, 307.

HUDIBRAS, bad effects produced
by that fatire, 542.

HUME, David, his hift. of Eng.
poetically depicted, 34.
HUYGENS. See HOOKE.

HURD,

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