Depravity, inftance of, 54. Difcoveries, 80, 103.
Deaths, fingular, of eminent men, 32,
56, 80, 192, 232, 272, 312, 352,392, 432. Of remarkable old perfons, 475- Distress, inftance of, 349. Drawings relative to the natural history of Bruce's Travels, account of them, 414.
Dendara, account of, 246. Depredations committed by the Pavi- fians, 135, 138.
Don Hieronimo, a Spaniard, particulars of, 370.
Duels, 54, 103, 191, 30. Damgate-street, relation of a dreadful accident which occurred in, 473.
Events, Domeftic, 28, 53, 77, POL, 228, 269, 287, 309, 347, 389, 429, 469.
Events, National, rog. Elephant, inftance of parental affection in one, 368. Particulars of, 383. Mode of attacking them by the Abyffinian hunters, 367. Their flesh delicious, 183.
Electrical eel, or torpedo, of Surinam, curious account of, 42, 43. Eel, fea, or kraken, particulars of, 68. Egyptian flave trade, interefting parti- culars of the, 57, 58, 59. Execution, a cruel one, 154. Eaftcheap, hiftory of, 155. Efop, anecdote of, 204. English ambaffador, fpirited conduct of the, 239.
Epitaph, Dr. Franklin's, written by himself, 248.
Economy, the triumph of, 278. Equity, inftances of, 367. Earthquake, 80.
Egypt, thoughts upon the origin of,
paffion for gaming, 95. Remark- able inftances of his penurious dif- pofition, 96. An account of his huntfman, 96. Mr. Elwes his own afurer, 96. Commences member of parliament, 97. Death of his fa- mous fervant of all work, 97. His fingular expedient to avoid paying turnpike, 97. Account of the wretched fare on which he fometimes dined, 98. Mistaken for an old car- penter, 99. Falls in love, and con- ducts an amour with a fervant girl, 99. Striking picture of his anxiety of mind, 99.
Egypt, the fituation of the feat of the ancient kings of, defcribed, 227.
French revolution, cause of, 115. Par- ticulars of, 105, 115, 137.
Fortune, inftance of good, 04. Forgery, trial of Fonton for, 351. France, anecdote of the prefent king of,
238. A tour through part of, zo. Franknefs, inftance of, zoo. Flattery, anecdotes of, 366. Falftaff, fir John, Kis refort in East- cheap, 155-
Franklin, Dr. Biography of, 245. Tri- bute paid to his memory by the French National Affembly, 248- ` Funeral honours, 3.09.
Frederick II. late king of Pruffia, anecdotes of, 322, 323.
Fracas, curious, between a party of
Coffacks and count Benyowfky, 176. Female heroifm, inftance of, 363. Fenn, fir John, extracts from his or ginal letters, 433.
Friar, the villainy of a, 437: Family, a fingular one, 438. Feftival, a fingular one held at Mont- pelier, 440.
Fire, 78, 102, 192, 390. Foreign difcovery, obfervations on the rage for, 44.
Formofa, a fkirmish with the natives of, and Benyowsky's party, 370. Flefh, raw, thoughts on the propriety of eating it, 241 •
Huffein, fon of Ali, anecdote of, 4. Hiftory of counts Struenfee and Brandt, 48. Concluded, 74. Hedge-hog, considered as ufeful, 288. Haftings, Mr. circumftance highly to
the honour of, 67. Account of his trial, 143. Cenfure carried against Mr. Burke for ufing unwarrantable expreffions upon his trial, 147. Hottentots, their ideas of happiness, 181. Their methods of affuaging the effects of hunger, 218. Con- jugal fidelity of the Gonaquais Hot- tentots, 219. Uncommon hofpita- lity, 219. Refutation of a filthy custom at their marriages, afcribed to them, 220.
Humanity, inftances of, 237. Herschel on the Satellites, 283, 328. Hanno, fragments of, confidered as genuine, 323.
Hayley, Mr. the fate of his tragedy of Eudora, 47.
Hydrophobia, extraordinary inftance of,
Inconfiftency; instances of, from An- drews's anecdotes, 8, 9. Italian prince, anecdote of, 11. Justice, fingular act of, 5. Ingratitude, initance of, ros, Janiffary, anecdote of a, 276. Ingenuoufnefs, inftance of, 277.' Intrepidity, Britif, 279 Infolence rebuked, 363. Integrity, recompence of, 436. Jealoufy and Infanity, 54. Juftice, 102, 367.
Ice, an amazing field of, defcribed, 9. Interment, Milton's, difcovered, 399. Jofeph, emperor of Germany, induce- ments which led him and the em- prefs to declare war on the Turks, 1c6. Their preparations previous to the campaign of 1787, 106. Succefs of the allies immediately af- ter, 107. Revolution of the Auf- trian Netherlands, and the acts of the emperor which finally led to the revolt, 109. He appoints generał Dalton to a& against the Patriots,
His propofitions refufed by them, 112. Succefs of the Patriots and the defeat of general Dalton, 113. The Patriots give a name to the new government, 114. emperor's letters to general Dalton, 341. Remarks by the Belgians, 342. Maffacres at Antwerp, 343. Inftances of the cruelty of Jofeph's difpofition, 344, His remarkable orders concerning general Vander f merch, 345. His depreffion on re- ceiving intelligence of the capture of Ghent, 345. Appoints com- miffioners to facilitate the bufinefs of the Netherlands, 346.
King John and the Jew, a fragment, 364.
King, lieutenant, his arrival from Syd- ney Cove, with difpatches from go- vernor Philips, 474-
Law, fingular, in the Ifle of Man, 8. Liege, affairs of, 109.
Longevity, wonderful inftance of, 79. London, great fire of, 156.
Lion, his ftriking fuperiority over other animals, 218.
Legal advice, or the counfellor and the Jew, 361.
Lewis XIV. anecdote of, 361. Letter by Dean Swift, 376. Learning, its fuperiority over igno-
rance, 393. Love, frantic, 432. Linnæus, the great naturalift, memoirs His ennoblement, 409. of, 497 Laureat, Poet, appointed, 270. Ode for the year 1790, 18. Ladies, comparison between the value of the French and English, 26. Lottery, new fcheme of, 102. Lunacy, 103.
Liege, revolt of the principality of, 109. Measures taken by Frederic III. on the occafion, 109. Ledyard, Mr. the celebrated traveller, memoirs of, 329. Seized by two Ruffian foldiers, 330. His peculiar diftrefs, 330. Arrives in England, and engages in the African affocia- tion, 330. His death, 331. Liberty, the dawn of, in France, cele- brated by a grand Te Deum, 123. Lotteries, origin of them, 14.
Majefty, his prefent, anecdote of, 6. Minifter's budget, confiderations on, 150.
Marriages, profligate, performed in the rules of the Fleet, 153. Mendes, Lewis, account of his very fingular will, 475.
Monument, account of the, 156. Magnanimity, inftances of, 159, 394. Mafon, the royal, fome account of,
Manchet, fome account of, 178, Mufic, the power of, 235. Military ardour, inftance of, in a Ger man officer, 322.
Mary queen of Scots, her affecting letter to queen Elizabeth, 313. Se- cretary Davifon's apology for his thare in her murder, 353. Moderation, princely, inftance of, 361. Mechanical arts, ftate of the, in Eng-
land, in the reign of Edward IV. 435. Monfter, or Rhynwick Williams, par- ticulars of, 192, 229. Determina- tions on his cafe, 431. Judge Afhhurt's addrefs to him, 469. His fpeech to the court, 470. Refult of his trial at Hicks's Hall, 471. Matrimony, 54, 55. Madnefs, philofophic, 62. Mutiny on board the Bounty armed fhip, 78.
Murder of a foreigner by his travelling companions, 78. Murders, 54, 103, 272. of, 103. Lift of, 348. Monks and nuns of Waldubba, ac count of the, 334.
Murderer, Bihareen, capture of, 411. Memorial of the three mediating pow.
ers refiding at the Hague, to the count de Mercy Argentou, the Im. perial ambaffador, 464. Misfortunes, fingular way of treating Modern Breakfaft, a farce, foihe notice them, in France, 23. of, 346.
Mistake, aludicrous one, of Guangoul, Marriage, ftate of, in Abyllinia, 343 chief of the Galla of Angot, 378.
New year, Jewish, fome account of, 343-
New years gifts, origin of them, 14. Newton, fir Ifaac, anecdote of, 11. Navy, British, present state of the, 530. Nadir Shah, an account of the mur- der of, 40, 41.
Nile, the river, detail of circumstances previous to the difcovery of its fource, by Mr. Bruce, 193. Caufe of its overflowing, 340. His arrival at its fource, 194. Divine honours paid to this river, 195. Exact latitude and longitude of its fource, 197. Natural History, 401. A doubtful circumftance in, afcertained, 380. 0.
Ode for the new year, 18. Old man, a remarkable, who lately vifited Paris, fome account of, 38,
Ostrich, new circumstances relative to the, 221.
Oath, remarkable one taken by the in- habitants of Mount Jura, 325. Oliver Cromwell, original letter from him to his coufin, 397. Offenders, feveral notorious ones, exe- cuted, 432.
Ottomans, the heads of a treaty con- cluded between them and Pruffia, 462.
Opera, Italian, commenced at Mr. Colman's theatre, 17. Oczakow, account of the capture of, 106.
Ochytin, an adventurer, fhort hiftory of, 296. Olympus, the fuppofed, defcribed by Mr. Bruce, 231
235. Preface to the fecond volume, 1. Punishments, account of fingular ones, 3, 4, 325.
Prince of Orange, anecdote of, Polish king, anecdote of, 8. Patients, leprous, fingular facts re- lative to, 11. Pruffia, views of, 101.
Pliny the elder, historical memoirs of, 59, 60.
Peter the Great, remarkable inftance of his courage and wifdom, 81. His philofophy, 84.
Punishment, fingular, of a phyfician accused of want of fkill, 84. Perfians, fome account of the, 88,
Pillon, efq. memoirs of that gentleman, 172. Anecdote of, 101. Plantagenet Richard, natural fon of Richard III. account of, 202. Parental exultation, anecdote of, 234. Pruffia, king of, his political condu confidered, 109. Anecdotes of, 7, 8, 235, 236, 279, 361. Polyphemus feaft, in Abyffinia, account of a, 241..
Parifians, amusements of the, 25. Paris, thoughts on approaching it, 23- Commotions at, 119.
Palace of the Thuilleries, fome ac- count of the, 24. Pedestrianifm, account of Powel's jour ney to York, 348. Prodigality, ftriking inftances of, 362. Perfonal courage, ftriking inftance of, 360. Proceffion, a curious monkly one to difcover a hidden treasure, 277. Poison, 231.
Philofophical and Natural History, 283.
Perfidy of Theodorus Santabarenus,
Peak's hole in Derbyshire, curious ac- of, 439..
Pope Benedict XI. fingular behaviour of, 442.
Priests of Lao, their confeffions, 445- Prince of Wales, account of his first levee at Carlton House, $3. Phænomenon, mufical, 54. Pugilifm, 55.
Phænomenon at fea, 88. At Leeds, 80. Philanthrophy, 102, 432. Parliament, the prefent, confiderations on its virtue, 154. His majesty's meffage to, 187.
Peter, furnamed the Cruel, of Caftile, a fingular act of justice to his ho nour, 35.
Performers, dramatic, the return of old and esteemed ones at Drury-lane, 466.
Provocation, a pantomime, account of, 468.
Purfuit, the Female, or Stop her whỏ can? a comedy, 469.
Paris, the Picture of, a pantomime, 469.
Poles, the late king of Pruffia's cha- racter of them, 108.
Poland, prefent fituation of, 108, Pruffia, the political conduct of the
prefent king of, confidered, 109. Party, remarks on the views of, dur- ing the king's illness, 142. Price, Dr. remarks on his mode of addreffing the king, 426. Petition, the prefentation of a, to the Houte of Commons by major Scott, on the part of Mr. Haftings, on be- ing charged with murder by Mr. Burke, 145.
Provifions, fingular though cruel me- thod of procuring them on a jour ney, 240.
Pentapolis defcribed, 222,
Palmyra, fhort account of, 224.
Revolution fociety, ferious queries ad- dreffed to them, 422. Revolution, French, its probable in- fluence on Great Britain, 142. Caufes of the, 115.
Riley's Hiftorical Pocket Library, 185. Riou, lieutenant, his narrative of the lofs of the Guardian, 291. His let- tels, 190.
Saxe, marfhal, anecdote of, 235. Sadi, the philofopher, anecdote of, 4 Stocks, highest and lowest price of, 478.
Spain, fingular law in, 39.
Pyramids of Geeza and Sacchara, de- Seymour, fir Edward, anecdotes of,
Queen, the prefent, her character, 185. Quakerifm, whimsical origin of, 399. Question of right, confideration of the,
Queen's birth-day, account,of, 29. Question of law, 54
Queen of Sheba, conjectures concern- ing her-fuppofed to have had a child by king Solomon, 300,
Remedy, curious, for want of provi- fion, 296.
-Rhodes, an account of, by Mr. Bruce,
Ruffel, lady, anecdote of, 278. Religion, anecdote relating to, 323. Robbery, fingular fpecies of, practifed by the Troglodites of Guarague, 379. Remarkable one, 431. Reynolds, fir Jofhua, refignation of, as prefident of the Royal Academy, 53. Prefent made him by the em- prefs of Ruffia, 101.
Ras Michael, anecdotes of, 337. Rover, or Banished Cavaliers, written
by Mrs. Behn, revived under the title of Love in many Masks, 100. Robber of Maitha, Mr. Bruce's cu- rious adventure at the house of a, 378. Rouffeau, the celebrated, particulars of his wife, 27. Value of his fhoes, 27.
Richard the Firft of England, noble conduct of, 396.
Record, a remarkable one lodged in the Tower, 449.
St. Leger, Mr. anecdote of, 64. Sail-maker, old, anecdote of an, 72. Swedish revolution, detail of the, 114. Spaniard, anecdote of a, 86. Statesman, Chinese, anecdote of, 86. Slavery, curious incitement to, 86. Slave trade, parliamentary difcuffion of the, 151.
Slave fhip, miferies of, depicted, 153. Soldier, the courageous one, 163. Sorcery, Siberian, description of, 236. Satellites, Herfchel's account of a fixth and feventh, revolving round Saturn, 283, 284.
Swallows, how useful, 288. Sea-fight, a ftrange occurrence during
Superftition, inftance of, 326. Suicide, remarkable inftances of, 31,
54, 80, 103, 310, 348, 391, 431. Secrefy, an historical anecdote of, 365. Sermon, a fingular, 397.
Scales, lord, fome account of, 434. Speech of Henry the Firft to his nobles, 437.
Stradella, the celebrated musician, af- fecting narrative of, 442. State Papers, 459.
Sand, prodigious pillars of, floating in the great Nubian defert, 410. Simoon, dreadful particulars relative to the, 411.
Scott, major, reprimanded by the Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, 467. Somerfet House, 80. Shipwreck, 104, 389.
Sea, fmall portions at, method of di viding them, 216. Solitude, 271.
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