passages from his most eloquent Clovis, the great founder of the
Cels, M. his curious plants, 529. Chaptal, M. on wines, 533. Characters, biographical, of Lord
Kames, David Hume, Adam Smith, &c. 422. Chemistry, curious papers relative
to the Chemical Annals, 530. Chevalier, M. le, his entertaining voyage to the Propontis, the Euxine, &c. 488. His story of a Dervise, 499. His curi- ous remarks on the Ea ine Sea, and on the practicability of rendering its commerce more beneficial both to the Turks and other nations, 291. China, observations and details
relative to, with respect to matters of costume, &c. 355- 362.
Clarke, Dr. fatal case of hernia of some of the abdominal viscera, &c. 80.
on the management of a particular change of position. in midwifery, 83.
antient empire of the Francs, his vast conquests, 296.
Coals, danger of too great a con- sumption of that kind of fuel, 367. Company, East India, politics of, respecting their Asiatic estab- lishments, 403. Constantinople, some account of, 4. Character of the Turks 5. Their women, ib.
Cook, Captain, tribute of praise to his memory by a French writer, 526.
Cooper, Mr. on the effects which follow the destruction of the Membrana Tympani of the Ear,
Corn, the bounty on the export of, vindicated, 37. Observa- tions on the high price of, 218. See also Grain, and other pub- lications on this subject, 327, 329, 332, 423-437. Corse, Mr. extraordinary case of Paunchoo, from Bengal, 83. Country Gentleman, or experi- mental farmer, useful plea- sures of his life in improving the productions of nature, ani- mal, vegetable, mineral, &c. &c. 472. Crell, M. Von, on the decompo- sition of boracic acid, 532. Croonian Lecture, on the Mem- brana Tympani of the ear, 267. Cultivation, or rural employment, celebrated. See Country Gen- tleman.
Darwin, Dr., his physiology of vegetables, controverted, 115. Curious thoughts on the vege- table organs of reproduction, 118. His ideas of vegetable passions, crimes, and generation, pleasantly attacked, 119. Cen-1 sure on his doctrine of the vessels, nerves, and brain of vegetables, 121. His hypo- thesis of the food of plants, 1239
123. Great merit in some of his agricultural ideas, 124. His ingenious remarks on light, heat, and electricity, 125. Beautiful account of Bees, ib. Interesting observations on the production of fruits, 126. De Brosses, President, his enter, taining journal of his travels in Italy, 505. Debt. See National. De Lille, M. his excellent georgi- cal poem on a country life, 470. His encomium on expe- rimental agriculture, the study of nature, the improvement of soils, &c. 472. Plan of his work explained, 473. restless fine gentleman who despises a country life exposed, 475. Encomium on the bene- volent and social attachments, ib. The Good Parish Priest described, ib. Philosophical and mechanical improvements praised, 476. Superiority of the English in agriculture, ib. Immensity of the world of waters, 477. Gradual changes in the globe, 478. Diabetes, extraordinary case of. See Baillie.
Farmers, practical society of, their objections to the conduct of the Board of Agriculture, 371. Experimental Farmer, Country Gentleman, 472. Farming, husbandry, &c. the nature and value of, appre- ciated, 273.
Ferdinand, Emperor, his bigotry, 397. Ill rewarded by the monks for his blind attachment to them, ib. His ingratitude to his great General, Wallen- stein, 398. Fermentation. See Wines. Fever, Dr. Fordyce's 3d disserta- tion, Part 2d, extracts from, 76. Fleurieu, M. his edition of Mar
chand's voyage round the world, commended, 522. 526. His stricture on Capt. Dixon's voyage, ib.
Fatus, extra-uterine, uncommon case of. See Mainwaring. Fordyce, Dr. on fever, Part zd, 76. On the combination of medicines, 84.
Forestalling, regrating, and in- grossing, considered in various interesting points of view, 410. Comparative table of prices of the necessaries of life, for the last five years of the last century, 413. Monopoly vin- dicated, 437. Inquiry into the laws relating to forestalling, &c. 439. Fox, Mr. his assertion in the House of Commons respecting the early measures of Louis XVI. to take arms against his subjects, canvassed, 176. Frederic
Frederic, Col. his unfortunate
story, 251. French, a list of the Italian cities which that people have plun- dered of their antiquities, paintings, &c. 518, 519.
language, radical defects of, 459. Its unfitness for poetry and music, ib.
literary society in Egypt, their proceedings in virtue of their commission, 3c0.
Revolution, publications relating to, 166..299. 497. Fryer, Mr. extraordinary case of a strangulated hernia, 84. G
Gadolinite. See Vauquelin. Gassicourt, M. on oxalic acid, 5 32. Gazerau, M. his observations on the nature of steel, 534- On Wedgwood's pyrometrical pieces, ib.
Genius, and taste, distinct mean- ings of those terms, 451. The word genius unwarrantably ap- plied by Voltaire, 452. justly estimated by Boileau, ib. Genoa briefly described, 513. Grain, remarks on the deficiency
of, arising from the bad harvest in 1799, 423.
Great Britain, M. Gentz's esti- mate of the finances and na- tional riches of, 492. His ideas on the funding system, and on the sinking fund, 493. On the Bank of England, the national debt, and the circulat- ing coin, ib.
Greece, modern travels in, under the direction of Bonaparte, &c. performed by two Corsicans, 482. The Morea described, 484. Baabarity of the Turks, and their cruel treatment of the Greek inhabitants, 485. An- tiquities in that country, 487. Observations on the present state of, 500. Greek language superior in beauty to the Latin, 460. Peculiarly adapted to poetry, ib.
Haden, Mr. case of a rupture of the uterus, 82. Hahnemann, Dr. on a new fixed alkali, 536.
Heir, human. See Wells. Hale, Judge, his account of the jurisdiction of the House of Lords; and their contests with the House of Commons, on that subject, 382-395•. Hargrave, Mr. his valuable nar- rative respecting the jurisdic-. tion of the House of Lords, prefixed to his edition of Hale's considerations on that import- ant subject, 383. Harmony, musical, scheme for teaching, 155.
Harness, Dr. on ulcers, 82. Harpe, M. de la, his present situ- ation, principles, &c. 450. General design of his Lyceum- lectures, ib. General character of them, 451. Analysis of his publication of them, 453.. Hellins, Mr. his 2d Appendix to the improved solution of a pro- blem in physical astronomy, 256. Henry, Mr. on decomposing the muriatic acid, 165.
Hermia, strangulated. See Home. Fatal case of, see Clarke. See Fryer. Herodotus, his geography explain- ed, 338-354 Herschel, Dr. on the power of pe- netrating into space by teles- copes, 256.
Home, Everard, Mr. cases and observations on strangulated hernia, 79.
of an uncommon tumour in one of the axillary nerves, 82. of a person who survived 32
years after having been shot through the lungs, 82. Home, Everard, Mr. additional cases to illustrate Mr. Hanter's method of performing the ope ration for the cure of the popli- tiel aneurism, 83.
on a particular case of preg- nancy, 84. On puncturing the bladder above the pubes, thro’ the rectum, 85. [See also Bones.] On the structure of the Mem- brana Tympani of the ear, 267. On the destruction of the Mem- brana Tympani, 270. Homer, poetical picture of his poetry, 151. The accounts of the birth-place of Homer all fabu- lous, 461. His Odyssey much inferior to the Iliad, 462. ́ Honey-stone. See Vauquelin. Hop garden, Mr. Booker's poetical instructions for the culture of, 185. Description of a day's labour in, 186. Episodical
story in his poem, 187. Howard, Mr. his experiments on a
new fulminating mercury, 267. Huet, M. denies the Newtonián
doctrine of gravitation, 505. Hulme, Dr. his obs. on the light spontaneously emitted from va- rious bodies, 263. Hydatids. See Home.
I and J, Jaundice, Dr.Gibbons's method of treating that disorder, 214. Income tax, observations on the produce of, 216. Indies, East, publications relative to, 85. 89. 387. 403. Industry, houses of, political eco- nomyof such establishments, 33. Inspiration, of the scriptures, the meaning of that term explained,
La Grange, M. on the Rhus radt- cans, 532.
La Harpe. See Harpe. Lama, Grand, of Tisu, his pro- digious long journey to visit the late Emperor of China, in 1780, 226. His death, 227.. His re-appearance (according to the faith) in Tibet; where his infant successor receives an embassy from Governor Hast- ings, ib.
Lichens, particular account of that genus, from a Swedist botanist, 519. 521.
Light. See Sound. See also Hulme. Lime, malate of, in house-leek,
Madness, of poets, verses on, 153. Mainwaring, Mr.
case of an extra-uterine fœtus, 84. Man, gradations of, between him and other animals, 360. The Africans considered as nearer to the brute creation than others of the human species, 361. Marchand, Captain, his Voyage
round the world, 522. Curi- ous extracts from, 524. Margraff, M. on extracting sugar from Beet-root, 530. Marseilles, some account of, 512. Medicines, observations on the
combination of. See Fordyce. Mercury. See Howard. Methodism, the late increase of in
Lincolnshire, the cause of much alarm among the church- men there, 210. Midwifery, successful practice of,
in a difficult case. See Clarke. Milan, some account of, 514. Ats famous cathedral describ-
ed, 515. Ambrosian Library, ib. State of music at the
opera, &c. ib. Wonderfully learned and accomplished young lady, 516.
Milner, Mr. his controversy with
Dr. Sturges, relative to the history of Winchester, &c. continued, 246. Missionary voyage, planned by the Methodists, to the Southern Pacific Ocean, unfortunate fai- lure of, 447. Monopoly, forestalling, &c. vindi- cated, 437.
Moon-light, poetic display of, 287. Mons, M. Van, on the Rhus ra-
dicans, 532. On steam, 535. Montgolfier. See Normand. Morgan, Mr. William, his method of determining, from the real probabilities of life, the values of contingent reversions, &c, 256.
Mosul, city of, described, 92. Mountains, their attraction urged against the doctrine of gravita- tion, 505. Murphy. See Addison. Music, art of, Mr. Shield's valu-
able introduction to, 155. Ex- tracts from and remarks on, 156, &c. Mysore, interesting account of the late war in that country,85,
National debt, that name said to be improper, 436; proposal for a change of name, ih. The late discharge of 37 mil- lions of it asserted to be, in part, the cause of the rapid dearness of provisions, ib. Navigations, inland, principles
and construction of, 15. 20, &c. Newton, Sir Isaac, his doctrine
of gravitation attacked, 505. Nile, verses in commemoration of Lord Nelson's victory, in August, 1798, 320. Observ- ations relative to that river, as known to the antients, 349. Nitre, how exhibited by Dr.
Gibbons in cases of hemor. rhage, 215.
Normand, M. le, inventor of bal.
loons, 534. Northumberland, general view of the agriculture of, 366., In- teresting observations on the coal-trade, 367. Estimate of the dangers of too great a con- sumption of that commodity,ib.
Ogle, Mr. case of a woman who poisoned herself in the first month of her pregnancy, 78. Orleans, L. J. P. Duke of, his correspondence with Louis XVI, &c. 497. His diplomatic em- bassy to England, ib. His bad character, 498. More favour- able account of his son, the present Duke, ib.
Oxen, unfitness of those animals for the labour of husbandry, 280. Their value, in this re- spect, beyond all comparison in- ferior to that of the horse, 281. Р
Padua, library there, said to contain an astonishing number of books, printed before the year 1500, 517. Musical ta- lents of Tartini, 518.
Parish Priest, amiable character of, poetically described, 475. Pasigraphy, observations relative to the system of, 526. Mr. Dantas's plan of, considered,
Pastoral office, difficulties and duties of, 191. Parochial
Paunchoo, a poor Bengal Indian, his miserable and incurable
Pavia, some account of, 514. Peace or War? publications rela-
tive to that most important question, 94. 322. Perth, general view of the town. and county of, 135. Phanissa of Euripides, Porson's edition of, 375: Phosphorus. See Raymond.
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