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logy for, 57.

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.

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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,

270.

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.

D

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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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,

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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,

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Madness, of poets, verses on, 153.
Mainwaring, Mr.

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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,

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,

N

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.

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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.

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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.
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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,

527.

Pastoral office, difficulties and
duties of, 191. Parochial

duties, 193.

Paunchoo, a poor Bengal Indian,
his miserable and incurable

disorder, 83.

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.

Phyfic,

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