defender of the Jewish legislator, 395.

BLOOD of St. Januarius, the li

unhappy fate, 252.

C.

ABAL, a miniftry distinguished

219.

BODIES, organized, their mode of

generation, 524 BOLINGBROKE, lord, artfully varnishes over the peace of Utrecht, 206. His fophiftry obvious, ib. BOSCAWEN, Mr. his fpeech in the houfe of commons against arbi

trary power, 412. BOSSUET, bishop of Meaux, his letter to the pope, giving an account of the dauphin's ftudies, 325. Character of this prelate, 326.

BOTANNIC Garden, at Chelsea, a

donation of Sir Hans Sloane's, to the apothecary's company, and on what terms, 52. BRAMINS of India, fome account

of 474

BREWER, Mr. his fpeech in the houfe of commons on the king's negative voice to bills, 422. BRIBERY, in parliamentary elections, refolution against it, in the houfe of commons, in the reign of Charles II. 194. BROMLEY, Mr. his remark in the houfe of commons on the king's negative voice to bills, 423. BUCKINGHAM, duke of, juftifies

himself betore the house of commons, 131. Debate thereupon,

ibid. BUTE, earl of, his adminiftration accufed of endeavouring to increase the power of the crown, 210. And to maintain an undue influence over the parliament, ib. Inflance produced in fupport of the charge, 211. Other charges against him, ib. Not the contriver of Annet's profecution, 237. Abufed in a dedication, 241. High panegyric on him, in Dr. Smollet's hiftory, 365.

CABINET Councils, debate on, in

the house of commons, 420. CAMBRIC Manufacture, one eftablished in Suffex, 372. CATECHISM, that usually taught to children abfurd, 90. A good one very neceffary, ib. CASES in Phyfic, cured by thornapple, monkshood, henbane, wolfsbane, &c. 499 to 460. CAREW, Sir Nicholas, his fhrewd remark, in a debate on the ftate of the nation, 189. On a breach of privilege, 260. On the feizure of Montagu's papers, 264. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. his verses on the birth of the prince of Wales in the Oxford collection, commended, 21.

CAVENDISH, Lord, complains of bribery and corruption in the houfe of commons, 134. Speaks in the wrangling debate on a fupply, 262.

CECILIA's Day, humourous ode on, by Mr. Thornton, 479. CHARLES II his anfwer to an ad.

drefs of the commons, concerning the recall of his fubjects from the French king's fervice, 190. Debate on that anfwer, ib. His parliament no lefs jealous of him than of the French, 197. His fcandalous mifgovernment, ib. Corrupted by his refidence in France, 257. Infatuation of the people at his restoration,

without any limitation of prerogative, ib. The parliament's jealoufy of him juftified, 263. A penfioner to France, 264265. His regard for the papifts, 338. CHASTITY, held in no esteem among the Greeks, 535

CHE

CHEROKEE Indians, attempt to prove them defcended from Methek, 164. Prophecied of by Ezekiel, ib. Are to fubdue the Europeans, 165. CHILDREN improperly inftructed in the mysteries of religion, 558. CHINA, the high reverence paid by the inhabitants of that country to their literati, 175. CHINESE Language, number of words in, 174. Destitute of an alphabet, ib. Their literature comprized in arbitrary characters, ib. Wholly addreffed to the eye, 175. CHRIST, Jefus, his character ftrangely burlefqued with Spa nish comedy, 294.

His nature and offices, orthodox account

of, 313. CHRISTIANITY, not to be rejected on account of the immoralities of its profeffors, 40. Natural religion in its highest degree of perfection and purity, 565. CHRONOLOGY fcriptural, Mr.Ken

nedy's, unaftronomical, 434 CHURCHILL, Mr. Charles, cenfured for debafing his pen by party fcurrility, 56. Pathetically exhorted to purfue nobler fubjects, 61.

CLARGES, Sir Thomas, his fpeech

in the house of commons on the fpeaker's being a courtier, 127. On the duke of Buckingham's juftification of himself before the houfe, 131 On the growing greatnefs of France, 196. On a breach of privilege, 260. CLAYTON, Sir Robert, 334. CLERGY, Ruffian, their reply to Peter Ift. in regard to his fon Alexis, 552. Scandalized at a propofal from the doctors of the Sorbonne to unite the Greek and

Latin churches, 551. Attached to their ancient barbariẩm, 555. COLLETON, Sir Peter, his fpeech

in the house of commons on the fovereign's partiality to foreigners, 418. COLONIES, the cautions to be obferved in fettling them, 403. Ought not to be too much fubjected to laws against irreligion, &c. ib.

COLT, Mr. Dutton, his opinion in the houfe of commons on placemen fitting there, 417. COMEDY, Spanish, an account of,

294.

COMMERCE, foreign, of this kingdom, hints for improving, 373COMMONS, Houfe of, jealous of their speaker's being under court influence, 126. CONDAMINE, Monf. a philofophical traveller, 215. His account of the emerald cup at Genoa, 216. Of the leaning tower of Pifa, ib. Of the Campagna of Rome, 217. His fyftem of volcanoes, &c. 219. His obfervations on the liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius, 219. On the longitude, 221.

COMMONS, or body of the people, whence, and on what occasion, taken into the conlitution of government, 141. Their reprefentatives a balance to the power of the lords, ib. Right of voting for originally derived from property, 142. Defect of the conftitution in excluding the trading intereft from the right invested in freeholders, 143. CONQUERORS, more destructive to mankind than tyrants, 29. Not efteemed refponfible for thofe who fall in battle, ib. Will always be popular, ib. CONSCIOUSNESS, what, 527. CONSTITUTION of Great Britain traced from its first principles, 140. Defective in not comprehending the trading interest in the election of the reprefentatives of the peopic in parlia ment, 143.

CON

D

ANEY, lord treasurer,

his

motive for caufing Mr. Montagu's papers to be feized, 263. His evil conduct difcovered, 265. Pleads the king's pardon, 332. Refentment of the commons thereupon, ib. DAVID, King, his meaning, by the expreffion, workers of iniquity, 268. His Pfalms, No. 109 and 110, tranflated by Mr. Green, 269, 272. Meaning of his, fuppofed, imprecations, againft his enemies, 271. Criti cifms on the comparison of the dew, in Pfalm 110, &c. On the words, Thou art my fon, this day have I begotten thee,

273. DEBATES, Parliamentary, thofe

in print generally spurious, 123, Obfervation of a noble dake on them, 124. Debates on the reduction of interest, account of, 251.

DEBAUCHEE, anecdote of a young one reclaimed, 7. DENNIS, Mr. his poem on the birth of the prince of Wales in the Oxford collection, ridiculed,

20.

DICTIONARIES, biographical, their alphabetical order condemned, 33. The chronological form recommended, 34.

DIVORCE, analyfis of the law of, 72. Effects of, 173. DoD, Rev. Mr. cenfured for his doctrine of fire and brimftone, and the eternity of hell-torments, 311.

DOWNING, Sir George, his fervile fpeech in defence of preroga tive, 259. DUNCOMBE, Sir John, recommends the punishment of abientees from the houfe of commons, 126. His moderate fentiments with regard to the duke of Lauderdale's removal, 130.

E

E.

AST-Indies, fome account of, 473. The four principal tribes of the Indians, ib. The Hallachores, 475. EDUCATION, ftrangely perfonified, and poetically celebrated, 104. ELOQUENCE, its influence in parliamentary affairs, 124. ENTHUSIASM, not the most noble or effential characteristic of poe. tic genius, 146. Poetical analyfis of its operation, 309. ERNLY, Sir John, 331. ERSKINE, Mr. his humourous letter to Capt. Boswell, 477. EVIL Counsellors, debate on the removal of, 129.

EUDOCIA, first wife of Czar Peter, her fcandalous intrigue with Glebo, and Doritheus bishop of Rolton, 556.

556 FAITH

F.

FAITH and Works, felf-exami-

nation concerning, 314.
FALKLAND, Lord, his fpeech for
limitting the regal power, 413.
On the fovereign's attachment to
foreigners, 418.

FANCY, poetical addrefs to, 377.
FAST on the 30th of January, ob-
fervation of, difapproved in the
houfe of commons, 415.
FASTING, its power and efficacy,
314.

FATIMA, a beautiful Turkish lady,
defcribed, 470, feq.
FINCH, Mr. attorney, his fpeech
in the house of commons, on the
non-attendance of members,

125.
FIRE-eater, humourous account
of, 482.
FOREST-Lands, proposals for fell-
ing them, 178, 182.
Fox, Sir Stephen, a difpenfer of
fecret-fervice-money, 332, feq.
Proceeding relating to, in the
houfe of commons, 333. His
remark on the neceflities of go-
vernment, 417.
FRANCE, debate in the Britif par-

liament on her growing great-
nefs, 195. Police of, 425. Ex-
cellent régulations for prevent-
ing robberies, &c. 426.
FRANKLIN, the printer, his re-
venge on David Mallet, 167.
FREE Holders and Freemen,
whence their right of electing
reprefentatives in parliament,
142. Neceflity of investing the
trading interest with the fame
privilege, ib. feq.
FRENCH, treachery of, to the Nat-
chez, 448.

G

G.
ARROWAY, Mr. his speech on
the recall of British subjects,
in French fervice, 190. On the
growing greatnefs of France,
195. His free expreffion in a
debate concerning war, 197.
Qualifies the audacious behavi-
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our of Titus Oats, 332. On
king James's abdication, and for
limitting the power of his fuc-
ceffor, 411, 414.
GENOA, the famous emerald cup

fhewn there, an impofition, 216.
GEORGE II. King of Great Bri-

tain his character, 362. Princi-
pal events of his reign, 363.
GOD, mifreprefented as a dreadful
and vengeful Being, 311.
GOOD-Nature, with respect to re-
ligion, confidered, 42.
GOVERNMENT, naturally tends to
defpotifm, 210

GRANVILLE, Col. his motion for
a temporary tax on place - men,
417.

H

H.

AMPDEN, junr. his speech in
the house of commons, on
king James's abdication, 415.
HARBORD, Mr. William, his re-
flections in the house of com.
mons, against the, fpeaker, 128.
Employed in the enquiry con-
cerning Montagu's papers, 264.
O bribery, 266. Gn king
James's abdication, 415.
HARCOURT, Sir Philip, his warm
remark in the house of com-
mons on a breach of privilege,
260.

HARLEY, Mr. his fpeech for a

fequent renewal of parliaments,

422.

HARWOOD, Mr. proposes a test in
the houfe of commons to ac-
quit the members of the charge
of bribery and corruption, 134.
HELL-Torments, pious dealers in,
rebuked, 311.
HENBANE, its medicinal use,
451, feq.

HERBERT, Sir Henry, his fpeech
in the house of commons, on the
non-attendance of members,
126.
HERRING, archbishop, his life,
297. A hater of perfecution,
ib.
HISTORIAN, importance of his
Qg
province,

province, 30. His difadvant-
ages in recording recent events,
250.
HISTORY, general uncertainty of
its evidence, 10-249.

of France, in what man-
ner faid to have been compofed
by the dauphin, 325.
HOBBES, cenfured by Lord Shaftf-
bury, for the immorality of his
principles, 41-2.
HowARD, Sir Robert, his fpeech
on an address for removing the
duke of Lauderdale, 193.
Howe, Mr. his opinion in parlia-
ment on placemen and penfion-
ers, 417.

HUNGERFORD, Sir George, his
oppofition in the house of com-
mons to the demand of a fup-
ply, 261, feq. Begs pardon of
the houfe, 263.

HURD, Mr. his criticism on the
Chinese drama, where preferv-
ed, 177.
HURDY-Gurdy, verfes adapted to,
481.

I.

conftitution of the government,

142.

INSULTS, perfonal, by whom to
be revenged, 13.

INVASIONS, policy of carrying
them on with humanity, 254.
A French commander praised on
this account, ib.
INVOCATION, to the ghost of
Trenmor, an admirable passage
in Temora, 279. Of Hervor,
from the Kunic, 283.
Jokes, how commonly spoiled by
dull ftory-tellers, 325.
JONES, Mr. his poem on the birth
of a prince of the Wales, 20.
--, Mr. Hugh, his Welth poem
on the fame occafion, 18.
--, Serjeant, his fpeech in the
house of commons, on an ad-
drefs for removing the duke of
Lauderdale, 193.

Sir William, his fenfible
fpeech on the bill for excluding
the duke of York, 336.
JULIAN the apoftate, neither fo
good or bad a man as ufually re-
prefented, 559. Voltaire's mif
take concerning, ib.

K.

ING of Great Britain may ap-

Kloof his own fervants, but

not fupport them in office against
the general fenfe of his people,
132. Not obliged, however, to
regard the artful clamours of a
party against his minifters, ib.

L.

ABOURER, a free-man, works
harder than a flave, 402.
LADIES, in the gallery of the house
of commons, pleasantly taken

notice of by the members, 199.
LADY, a pedantic one, the maft

ridiculous of human beings, 94.
LAUDERDALE, duke of, debates
relating to his evil adminiftra-

tion, 129-192.
LAW of England, rudis indigeftaque
moles, 169. Attempt to reduce
it into fome form, ib. Hints
for a Digeft, of general use, 170,

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