certain Articles of the Charge againft Mr. Haftings. Motion to petition

the King againfi proroguing the Pa lament till the Evidence should be closed

on the Impeachment. Debate in the Lords on the Impeachment. Debates on

the Indian War.

132

Bill for the Relief of Protefting Catholics. Libel Bill. Slave Trade. Re-

flections on that Subject. Eftablish rent of a Colony at Sierra Leona.“ Bill

for the Divifion of Canada into Upper and Lower, and for the Regulation

of thofe Provinces. Altercation between Mr. Barke and Mr. Fox concerning

the Affairs of France.
161

Mefage from his Majefty. Difpute with Ruffia. Armament voted. Debates

on the State of the Nation, and on the Probability of a War with Ruffia.

Debates in the Lords on these Subjects. Committee of Finance. Budget,

Debate on the Report of the Committee of Finance. Finances of India.

Debate on the repeal of the Test Alt, as far as regards the Church of Scot•

land. Scott Burghs. Prorogation of Parliament. Riots at Bir-

mingham.

PRINCIPAL OCCURRENCES.

PUBLIC PAPER S.

189

(3)

His Majefty's Speech to both Houses of Parliament, June 10, 1791,

The Speech of the Earl of Westmorland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,

Houfes of Parliament, May 5, 1791,

Addrefs of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the

City of

London, to the Duke of York, Dec. 19, 1791,

(66)

A fewer to the fame,

(ibid.)

Address from the jame to the Duchess of York,

(ibid.)

Alaver to the fame,

(ibid.)

Addrefs to his Majefty, from the High-Bailif, Clergy, and other principal

Inhabitants of the Town and Neighbourhood of Birmingham,

(6)

The Address of the Proteftant Diffenters of the jane Town,

Proclamation for the Discovery of the Publishers of a certain feditious Pater,

circulated on the 11th of July, in the Town of Birmingham,

Letter of Inftructions from M. Montmorin, Minifier of France for Foreign

Affairs, fent by Order of the King, to all his Minifters at Foreign Courts,

(ibid.)

(65)

April 23,

(69)

The King's Froclamation on his Departure from Paris, June 20
Address on the fame Subject, from the National Affembly to the French Nation,

(71)

(-5)

The French Conftitution, as finally fettled by the National Conflituent Affembly,

and prefented to the King, Sept. 3, 171,

Letter from the King to the National Ambly, announcing his Refolution to

accept the Conflitution, Sept. 13,

(78)

(102)

The

Sept. 14, 1791,

The Prefident's Answer,

The King's Speech to the National Affembly on accepting the Conflitut on,

The King's Speech to the National Affembly, the laft Day of their Meeting,

(104)

(105)

Sept. 30,

(ibid.)

The Prefident's Answer,

(106)

His Majefty's Proclamation, Sept. 30,

(ibid.)

Speech to the New National Affembly, Oct. 7,

(108)

The Prefident's Anfwer,

(109)

Meffage from the National Affembly to the King, Nov. 29,

(ibid.)

The King's Speech to the National Affembly, Dec. 14,

(110).

The Prefident's Anfwer,'

(112)

Addrefs from the National Affembly to the King, Dec. 16,

(ibid.).

The Speech of George Washington, President of the United States of America,

to both Houses of Congress, C. 25, 1791,

(1.3).

Letters from Arthur Philip, Esq. Governor of New South Wales, to Lord

Sydney, laid before the Houfe of Commons, March 2, 1791,

(17)

Supplies granted by Parliament for the Year 1791.

(126)

Principal Public Acts paffed in the firft Seffion of the feventeenth Paia-

ment of Great Britain,

Biographical Anecdotes of Erneft John Biron, Duke of Courland,

[12]

Enquiry with respect to the Singing and Declamation of the Ancient Tragedy,

t

[96]

On the proper Mode of pronouncing the Greek Vowels,

[99]

Obfervations on the Language of Botany

[100]

Sketch

Sketch of the Character of Michael Angelo,

Obfervations on Clumps and Park Scenery,

PHILOSOPHICAL PAPER S.

[105]

[107]

Dr. Herfchell's Obfervations on Nebulous Stars,

Communication from the Committee of Council, appointed for the Confideration

of all Matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, relative to the
Natural Hiftory of Ambergris,

[123]

Process of converting the Smoke of Steam-Engines into Tar,

[125]

Conjures refpecting the Formation of Nitre,

[126]

Natural Hiftory of the Grana Kermes,

[130]

Account of the Baya, or Indian Grofs-Beak,

[131]

Oriental Method of Curing the Elephantiafis,

[132]

ANTIQUITIES.

Obfervations on the Progress of the Ancient Inhabitants of India, in the Culti-

Curious Method of Managing Hogs in the New For ft,

[160]

Obfervations intended to Exfe the Practice of docking Horfes,

To William Locke, cfq. Junior, or bis Picture of the Death of Cardinal

Free Imitation of a Latin Ode, by Walter de Mapes,

[177]

Ode on bis Majefty's Birth Day,

[179]

Characteristics of Liberty in the Savage State of this Island,

[180]

Ode on the d ftant View of France from Dover Cliff,

The Hue and Cry,

Project for the Improvement of Theatrical Entertainments

Defcription of the Horrors of a Guilty Mind

Ode to Hope,

The Disappointment, a Ruftic Tale,

Stanzas from the Ode for the 14th of July, 1791,
Trenfation of a Peom of Haller,

DOMESTIC LITERATURE, of the Year 1791,
FOREIGN LITERATURE, of the Year 1791,

THE

HISTORY

O F

KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, AND TASTE,

IN GREAT BRITAIN,

During the Reign of Queen ELIZABETH.

PART THE THIRD.

THE

HE great objects of religion, of government, of naval discovery, and of philofophical and medical knowledge, fo far as they relate to the period now before us, we have already confidered. Thefe are the objects that come under the head of Science, more diftinctly fo called; and they undoubtedly fuftain the firft rank in the departments of literature. It is not, however, to matters of small confequence that our attention is now to be directed. Claffical and polite learning, hiftory, poetry, and the fine arts in general, prefent to us very interefting, as well as very pleafing fubjects of contemplation. With the cultivation and improvement of them the honour and advantage both of individuals and of nations are clofely connected. They cannot be properly and rationally ftudied without contributing, in an eminent degree, to enlarge the underftanding, to captivate the fancy, to engage the affections, 1791.

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