Slave, Circaffian, anecdote of a, 346. Sweden, characters and anecdotes of the court of, 94. Sketch of the king and queen of, 93, 94. Shangalla, particulars of that nation, 397. Caufes of polygamy amongst them afcribed to their women, 309. Account of them concluded, 332. Shekh of Atbara, treachery of the, 380. Mr. Bruce's vifit to his wo- men, 381. Account of his feraglio, 381. Sennaar, defcription of, and its king, 384. The king's toilets defcribed, 385. Mr. Bruce's adventures with the royal ladies, 385. The person and drefs of the principal queen, 386. Singular duty of an officer belonging to the king, 387.
Sunday, method of employing it in France, 24.
Swift, dean, his own character, by himself, 376. Miscellaneous pieces, 375- Siberia, political state of, 295. Reasons why the Ruffians have not hitherto been molested in the commerce of that place, 295. Defcription of Ja- kutz, the remotest town in that province, 294
Shaving, origin of, 12.
Stone, cutting for the, origin of, 15. Struenfee and Brandt, counts of, au- thentic elucidation of their history, and of the Danish revolution, 48. Struenfee appointed phyfician to the Danish king, 48. Gains the favour of queen Matilda by his attention to the young prince while under inocu- lation, 48. With the affiftance of the queen, procures the difmiffion of the miniftry, and new models the conftitution of the country, 49. Re- ports, injurious to the honour of the queen, in confequence of her attach- ment to him, 49. Formation of a fratagem to ruin the queen and her party, 51. Struenfee and his friends feized and committed to prison, 53. Count Ranzau appears before the queen to fecure her, 74. Defcription of his brutality, and her courage, 74, Humiliating mode of conveying her to the fortress of Cronenburg, 74. Struehfee's confeffion relating to her conduct, 75. Artifice of baron Schak to wreft a confirmation of the count's confeffion from the queen,
76. Defcription of the execution of counts Struenfee and Brandt, 77. Account of the queen's departure from the fortrefs of Cronenburg, 77. Progrefs in learning of the prince royal of Sweden, 95.
Supplies for 1790, lift of, 477.
Theatre, Hiftory of, 17, 18, 186,26%, 346,466.
Turkifh infolence, remarkable inftan- ces of, 35, 36, 37. Tower of London, murders committed
Treachery, remarkable inftances of, 198, 393.
Travels, Bruce's, 221, 227, 253, 297ø
-399, 410, 413, 415.
Teft and Corporation acts, detail of the arguments used for and against the repeal, 448.
Troglodites, fingular manner of rob- bery practifed by the, 379. Taranta, the tremendous mountain of, and the phænomenon on its fummit, defcribed, 333-
Teawa, Mr. Bruce's various adven- tures at that place, 381. Interesting interview between him and the fhekh, 384.
Try Again, a farce, fome account of, 267.
Taste and Feeling, a trifling dramatic
piece, fome account of, 346. Tyre, defeription of, 224. Thebes, account of the ftupendous fepulchres there, 257.
Turks, their devotion, 446. Their maritime condition, 106. Singular exclamation among them, 446. Tripoli, the ancient Byblis, defcribed,
alla Female asking, for her Husband, another Wife,
mbus prophefying to the American Indians,
END OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
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