tion, which our Author reduces to the three following: ff The right of making war, which the great magiftrates had under the first race, and which Charlemagne could not supprefs. 2dly, The exceffive power that was intrufted with that armed magistracy, who found it so easy afterwards to divide among themfelves the fpoils of the monarchy. 3dly, The innumerable multitude of beneficiaries, and the imprudence of Louis le Debonnaire, in intrufting them with, or allowing them to ufurp, the power of jurifdiction. Moreover, to prove, with the greater evidence, that all these causes must have really contributed to degrade the monarchy, and to turn power from its primitive channel, he fhews, that in proportion as thefe caufes difappeared, all the branches of fovereignty were gradually, though flowly, restored to their proper places by the fole influence of thoje rights, which feudal anarchy had not been able to deftroy. We find alfo in this volume, among many other interefting articles, which we cannot even enumerate, an excellent analyfis of the celebrated charter de Villis, which exhibits a complete view of the domeftic economy of Charlemagne, and a curious difcuffion relative to the origin of duels, and the principles on which legiflation and cuftom ought to direct their influence with refpect to that object. This eighth Volume is terminated by a perfpective view of the revolutions that deftroyed the ancient French monarchy, and those that restored it upon a plan more favourable to the authority of the monarch, and (as our Author pretends) to the liberty of the people.
The ninth Volume is published; but as we have not yet received it, we muft referve the more particular mention of it for another occafion.
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.
BINGDON, Lord, controverts the opinion of Sir W. Black- ftone, relative to the diftinction between the crown and the perfon of the King, 386. ABSCESS in the cefophagus, cured by quickfilver, 513. ACID, aerial, observations on, 71. of fugar, 76.
AIR, owes its origin to water, 158. Curious exper. of the influence of vegetables on the air, 346, 504.
AIR, fixed, obf. relative to, 154. ALMON D-tree, natural hift, of, 291. AMIOT, M. his memoirs relative to
China, 519, 521. AMPUTATION. See BILGUER. ANDERSON, Mr. his account of ancient monuments and fortifica- tions in the Highlands of Scot- land, 273. ANNUITIES. See PRICE. ANSTEY, Mr. See SPECULA-
BAILEY, Capt. his unfortunate
cafe in the affair of Greenwich
BANK of Amfterdam, account of, 559. Of England, 60. BANKS, and paper credit, nature of, with their good and bad effects, difcuffed, 558.
BARRINGTON, Hon. Daines, his account of remains of the Cor- nish Language, 108.
his explan. of a passage in the Book of Genefis, 111.
his enquiry into the anti- quity of clocks, 281. BARTHEZ, M. his elementary treat. on the knowledge of man, 401.
BATH, Roman. See LYON. BEAUMONT and Fletcher, their rank in the dramatic walk, 417. Compared with Shakespear, 418. The feveral editions of their works, 423.
BENGAL, neceffity of our studying the language of, 342. Mr. Hal hed's Grammar of, ib. BIEL, his Novus Thefaurus Phile- logicus, 235.
BILGUER, Dr. his notions concern- ing amputation attacked and de- fended, 243. BLACKSTONE. See SHERIDAN. See ABINGDON. BLANDFORD, Marquis of, compli mentary verses to, 391. BLIGHTS of fruit-trees, &c. whence proceeding from, 356. Method of remedying, 357. Qq
PORAX, new difcovery relative to the production of, 237. BOSWELL, Mr. his directions for watering meadows, 456. BRERETON, Mr, his account of the feal of Q Henrietta Maria, 274. BROOKE, Mr. his acc. of a Saxon infcription on Kirkdale church, 114. Of an ancient feal of the Fitzwalter family, 115.
his defcription of the great feal of Q. Katherine Parr, 272. BROTHS, made from flesh, faid to be pernicious in fevers, 571. BRUCE, Robert, his pocket-watch found, 281.
BUCQUET, M. his memoir on the manner in which animals are affected by mephitic fluids, 515. BUFFON, M. his Nat. Hift. Sup. plement, Vol. V. containing the Epochas of Nature, 395. BUGGE, Profeffor, his theory of the machine for driving piles, 383. BURNEY, Dr. his acc. of an extra- ordinary genius for mufic in an infant, 209. BUSCH, Profeffor, his acc. of the commercial academy at Ham- burgh, 238.
CAMPER, Dr. his acc. of the or- gans of fpeech in the Orang Outang, 221. CANNON. See KING. CARDAN, his rule for refolving the cubic equation, &c. investigated,
&c. 43. CARTWRIGHT, Major, his politi- cal debate with Lord Abingdon, 385. CATHOLICS, Roman, late A&t in favour of, vindicated, 1:6, 149. Their free toleration in Scotland defended, 150. The act of par- liament farther vindicated, 238, 371. CAZAUD, M. his acc. of a new method of cultivating the fugar
CELTS, ancient inftruments fo call- ed, account of, 110.
CEMENTS, exper. with regard to the compofition of, particularly with respect to buildings, 361. CHARITY confidered, as a Chrif tian virtue, 295. CHARLESTOWN, N. England, acc. of the first fettlement of, 468. CHINA, the wines, fruits, and other products of, 519. CHINESE, their chronology not fa ancient as pretended by fome writers, 506. Their history, in courfe, extremely defective, 508. Their empire first established a- bout 1000 years before Chrift,
11. Their mufic, 521. Their population, 522. Their igno- rance of Aftronomy, 523. Their hofpitals for foundlings, 524. CHIO, in the Levant, defcribed,
517. Its delicious wine, 518. Its maftic, ib. Medals of, 519. CHOISEUL, Count de, his defcrip- tion of different parts of Greece,
517. CHRIST, death of, confidered in the fame light with that of Socrates,
CLARENDON, Lord, his hift. of the rebellion, not altered by the Ox- ford editor, 303. CLERGYMAN, rural, poetical en- comium of, 169.
CLOCKS to frike the hour, enquiry
when first made, 281. CLUB, rules for one established at Philadelphia, 205.
COINS, ancient acc. of fome difco-
vered at Fenwick caftle, 113. And in the Tower of Lond. 276. COFFINS, ftone. See PEGGE. COLE, M. his acc. of the ancient
horns, in the cathedral of Car-· life, 279:
COLONIES, American, when first an object of British taxation, 465, COMMERCE. See BANKS. COMET. See LEXEL. Cook, Capt. elegant verses to his memory, by a Lady, 459. COSROES, K. of Perfia, plunders Jerufalem, and fells 90,000 Chriftian
Chriftian captives to the Jews, who murder them, 568. COWPER, Mr. his acc. of the effects
of lightning on board a ship, 222. CREATION, various opinions of the ancients concerning, 101. CROTCH. See BURNEY.
DEIST, the nobleft of all appel-
lations, 104. DEITY, the knowledge of, dif- cuffed, 97-100. DEMONIACS, Scripture, controver- fy relative to, 178. DERRY, Bishop of, highly pane- gyrifed, 553.
DIALOGUE between a Frenchman, and an Englishman, relative to Canada, 145. DRAKE, Mr. his acc. of two Ro- man ftations in Effex, 112. Combats Mr. Whitaker's acc. of the origin of the English lan- guage, 277. DRAMA, Crit. obf. relative to, 186. DROPSY. See LATHAM. DUNCAN, Dr. his publication of certain MSS. of the late Mr. Baxter, 58.
DUNE of Dornadilla described, 271.
FARTH, terraqueous globe of, held to be wholly derived from water, 157.
M. de Luc's theory of, 529. EARTHEN ware, ancient, great quantity of difcovered in the fea, off the Kentish coast, 275. See also VASES. EARTHQUAKE, nature of, electri- cal, 556. Difcoveries rel to the means of rendering its effects less fatal to mankind, 557. ECLIPSE. See Ulloa. ECLOGUE, a Lambeth one, 408. ELECTRICITY, peculiarly effica- cious in the cure of female difor- ders, 308. Lord Mahon's prin- ciples of, and exper. in 435. M. Marat's discoveries in 546. See alfo FRANKLIN, FOTHERGILL, PARTINGTON, and EARTH- QUAKE.
ELEPHANTS, when inhabitants of the northern regions of our globe, 398. Their bones found in North America, 399.
FABLE, dramatic, remarks rela- tive to, 186.
FENWICK. See COINS.
FEVERS. See FOOD.
FIRE, its nature different from that of light, 154. New discoveries relative to, 546.
FIRES, method of fecuring build- ings from, 51. FLORENCE, royal gallery of, cata- logue of the pictures and rarities there, 572.
FLOWERS of plants, their noxious effect on the air, 346, 504. FOOD, animal, and broths, perni- cious in fevers, 57!. FOTHERGILL, Dr. Anthony, his acc. of a cure of St. Vitus's dance by electricity, 215. FRANKLIN, Dr. Benj. his excellent parable against perfecution, 196. His Poor Richard's Almanac, 198. His anxious defire to promote peace and harmony between Great Britain and America, 202. Shamefully abufed by Mr. Wed. derburne, 204. His electrical difcoveries, 206. His hypothe- fis concerning the Aurora Bore- alis, 207.
FREE Martin, account of, 221. FRENCHMAN, his dialogues with an Englishman, concerning the power of the Crown to make laws for conq. countries, 145: FRERET, M. his erroneous hypo- thefis concerning the Chinese chronology, 5c6.
GENESIS. See PERSECUTION.
GROSE, Mr. his defcription of antiquities in Hampshire, 272. GUNNERY, the theory of, hiftori- cal deduction of, 122.
HAMBURGH, commercial acade-
my at, 238. HAYLEY, Mr. his elegant verfes Qq 2
on the death of Mr. Thornton,
compofed Dr. Dodd's fpeech at his trial, 483.
HEARING, Curious exper. relative IRELAND, whether void of fer-
HIGHLANDS of Scotland, account of ancient monuments, &c, in, 273. HINDOSTAN, remarks on the in- troduction of English laws into the eastern provinces of, 147. HOEFPER, Mr. his Memoir on the native fedative falt of Tufcany, &c, 237. HORNS. See COLE. HORSES, of the Sybarites, ridicu- lous ftory of their musical educa- cation, 577. HOT-houfe, plants, method of
guarding against infects, 356. HUNTER, John, his acc. of a fpe- cies of Hermaphrodite called the Free Martin, 221.
HUTTON, Mr. his acc. of calcula- tions made to ascertain the mean denfity of the earth, 38.
ERUSALEM, its flourishing ftate in the time of Conftantine, 567. JEURAT, Mr. account of his co-
nantidiptic telescope, 215. JEWS, faid to have purchased 90,000 Chriftian captives of Cofroes K. of Perfia, that they might have the pleasure of cut- ting their throats, 568. INDIA, Eaft.-See TANJORE. See HINDOSTAN.-Several tracts, rel. to, 244. See also BENGAL. See MOGULS. INSECTS, infefting
hot-houfe plants, their forts enumerated, 355. Methods of guarding a- gainst their depredations, ib.
See alfo BLIGHTS. JOHNSON, Sam. his malignity to- wards Milton, 479. Animad. verted on, 480. Said to have
pents, 113. Her commercial re- ftraints confidered, 162. Her political connexion with Eng- land difcuffed, 306, 359- ́ IRWIN, Mr. his Eastern Eclogues commended, 451. His tender and elegant compliment to his wife, 453.
ISAIAH, Book of. See LoWTH. ITALIANS, their character, 549.
That of their women, 550. ITALY, the land of painters, itself the most beautiful picture in the world, 549.
JUDEA, Country of, its great fer- tility and populoufness afferted, 565.
KIRKDALE, church of, a Saxon infcription on, illuftrated, 114. KING, Mr. his acc. of a curious piece of ordnance fished out of the fea, 112.
of a petrifaction found in East Lothian, 219. of antiquities dog
up in Merfey island, &c. 271. KING John's houfe at Warnford. See WYNDHAM,
KNIGHT, Dr. his method of mak- ing artificial loadftones, 221.
LANGUAGE, English, various o-
pinions as to its origin, 277. LASSONE, M. de, his memoir on the accidents occafioned by ani- mal putrefaction, 514. On a method of improving the tartar emetic, 516.
LATHAM, Mr. his ace. of an ex-
traordinary dropsical case, 217. LEAD ore, chemical exper. on, 48. LE CERF, Mr. his improvements in watch-making, 44. His merit in this refpect questioned, 176. LE COMPTE, M. his method of curing ulcers by the burning- glass, 514. LETTER to the Reviewers, com- cerning the remains of ancient potteries,
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