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Petition of the City of London, prefented, Separately, to both Houses of Parliament, at the opening of the fecond feffion of the fourteenth parliament of i [252 Proteft of feveral of the Lords against their House's Address, in answer to the King's Speech, at the opening of the aforesaid feffion of parliament. [252 Letter from Commodore Sir Henry Parker, to W. Tryon, Efq; Governor of New York. [255 Proclamation by General Carleton for the relief of fugitive Provincials, after they had been driven from before Quebec. [255 Subftance of the Speech made by Sir Fletcher Norton, Speaker of the House of Commons, to his Majesty, previous to that, by which his Majefy, on the 23d of May, put an end to the fecond feffion of the 14th parliament of [256 The King's most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Thursday the 23d of May, when his Majefty put an end to the forefaid feffion of parliament. - [256 Circular Letter written by Lord Howe to the Governors of the American provinces, and an enclosed declaration, addressed to the inhabitants; with the refolutions and proceedings of the Continental Congress relative to bath. [257

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Singular Refolutions agreed to, in the Council of Safety, at Savannah, in Georgia, to defroy their houses and shipping rather than let them fall into the bands of their enemies. Decree of his most faithful Majefty the King of Portugal, relative to the revolt of the British North American colonies. Subftance of a Letter, written by the Marquis De Grimaldi, to the Governor of Bilboa, relative to an American Corfair, which had taken five English bips, and had been detained thereupon at that port, at the request of the English Vice-Conful. [261 Reafons affigned by the Continental Congrefs, for the American colonies and provinces withdrawing their Allegiance to the King of Great Britain.

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Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the united States of America

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Picture of the condition and manners of the people of Rome, when firft pillaged by the Barbarians; collected from different cotemporary writers. Curious particulars relating to the ancient Academy and Philofopbers of Athens with fome account of the manners, cuftoms, &c. of the modern inhabitants of that city and its territory.

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Sketch of the manners and cufioms of the old Mexicans; with some account of their remaining genuine defcendants.

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NATURAL HISTORY.

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Some account of a new species of mortification, and of the extraordinary effi
cacy of opium in the cure of it.

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An account of fome experiments tried on the urine of a man about thirty-three,
Labouring under a confirmed diabetes, with the very extraordinary refult
thereof.
Singular inftances of a revived, or newly discovered, property in carrots,
grated and reduced to a poultice, to fubdue the intolerable flench, and abate
the great pain, attending cancerous ulcers; and of wort, or the infufion of
malt, to cure the faid defperate complaints.

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Phyfical obfervations on the furprising efficacy of falt, in feeding, fattening,
and multiplying cattle, and, of course, improving land.
The highest exertions of human art in Mofaic work, compared with the Mo-
faic work of the wing of a butterfly.

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PROJECTS.

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On the air propereft for perfons labouring under confumptions, or chronic
difcafes of the lungs, in the feveral feafons of the year, particularly in the
neighbourhood of London; and on the ufe and abuse of exercise, milk, and
Spirits, in the fame complaints.

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A relation of fome of the most fimple, though efficacious means, by which Cap-
tain James Cook preferved himself and his fhip's company, in his last
voyage round the world in his Majesty's fhip Refolution.

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A fummary of the difcovery of the great antifcorbutic virtues of wort; with
an account of two other vegetable preparatios for the fame purpose, one of
them used by the Ruffians with amazing fuccefs, and the other by the Cap-
tain of an English man of war.
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Obfervations on the method of burying the parish poor in London, and on the
manner in which fome of the capital buildings in it are conftructed and
kept; as two great fources of the extraordinary fickness and mortality fo
fenfibly felt in that capital.

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Eafy method of effectually preferving dead bodies, as practifed by the Capu-
chins of Palermo in Italy.
Some account of Mr Braidwood's Academy in Edinburgh, for teaching per-
fons born deaf and dumb, to speak, write, and read, with understand-
ing.
The rural industry and economy of the Chinese propofed as an example to all
the nations of the universe; by the Abbé Raynal.
Rules for the constructing of wine cellars, particularly those intended for the
keeping of wines of a delicate texture and flavour.
An account of feveral trials made on a boat, or floop, fit for inland naviga-
tion, coafting voyages, Sc. which is not liable to be overfet or funk by
winds, waves, water spouts, or too heavy a load.
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The effects of rifled gun-barrels and feathered arrows, afcertained, and ac-
counted for.

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An caly and effectual remedy for the head-ach, and alleviative for the

afthma.

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ANTIQUITIES.

General fate of the Roman empire in the height of its profperity, with re-
gard to the number and greatness of its cities, and the easy communication
between them by fea and land.

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A general review of the rife, progress, and amount of the Roman revenues.

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An account of the Fall of Palmyra under Zenobia, and of that accomplished
Princefs herself, and her Secretary Longinus.
Hiftory and prefent ftate of the celebrated Mount St. Michael, near Gran-
ville in France, one of the moft celebrated flate prisons of that kingdom. 148
An account of fome very ingenious poems, attributed to Thomas Rowley, of
Bristol, in the fifteenth century, and others his fellow-citizens and cotem-
poraries; and of the very extraordinary perfon who first produced them.

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A short account of William Cannings, the perfon fo eften mentioned in the
preceding article, Founder of St. Mary Redcliffe's Church, Bristol. 162
Some account of the prerogatives, &c. of Sarum, especially of the Epifcopus
puerorum, a very fingular inftitution, in memory of St. Nicholas, Bishop
of Myra, in Lycia, furnamed the Child Bishop.

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAY S.

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Valour, patriotism, and friendship, weighed in the balance of Christianity;
from the "View of the internal Evidence of the Chriftian Religion, by
Soame Jenyns, Efq;"
Slavery abfolutely inconfiftent with, and even contrary to, found policy, bu-
manity, reafon, and juftice; with fome hints to those who are not to be
moved by fuch arguments, for the better treatment of flaves during their
paffage from Africa to America; and on the plantations of the latter,
greatly to the advantage of their owners as well as themselves. From
the Abbé Raynal's Hiftorical and Political Survey, &c.
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The rights of the brute creation to tenderness from man deduced from the two-
fold confideration of their being fufceptible of pain and pleasure as well as
man bimfelf, though not fufceptible of a just compenfation for any evils
man may inflict on them. From the Rev. Dr. Primatt's Differtation on
the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals
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Thoughts on education, particularly that of boys; by Father Ganganelli, af-
terwards Cardinal Ganganelli, and laftly Clement XIV. the late Pope. 180
Tranflation of a Letter from M. de Voltaire, concerning the collection of letters
from which the preceding article is taken

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On the connection between mufic, prophecy and poetry, particularly under the
Jervish difpenfation: from "The General Hiflory of Mufic, by Charles
Burney, Efq; Muf. D. F. R.S."

Tranflation of a letter from M. de Voltaire to M. d'Argenteuil,
Shakespeare's Works, and the tranflation of them into French.

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Tranflation of a letter on the fame fubject with that of the foregoing, and written by the fame gentleman, to the French Academy with fuitable remarks upon it.

On the new species of fashionable amusement, called Charades.

POETRY.

Ode for the New Year, Jan. 1, 1776.

Ode for the King's Birth-day, June 4, 1776.

"Ariftotle's Hymn to Virtue, in memory of Hermias.

America: addrefed to the Rev. Dean Tucker.

Picture of the domeftic life and manners of the ancient Knights.

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The death of dico, an African flave, condemned for rebellion in Jamaica,

1762.

Ode to Mifs **** **

Briftowe Tragedie; or, The Deathe of Syr Charles Bawdin.

The Captive; a Perfian elegy.

Verfes to Sir Joshua Reynolds and Co.

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An Invocation to Poverty.

Ode on the breaking of a china quart mug belonging to the buttery of LincolnCollege, Oxford

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Mr. Gray's two Latin Odes to the deity of the Grand Chartreuft, and to Mr. Weft, with English translations of them. 226 Sir Anthony Branville's Address to the Ladies, in the late revived comedy of the Discovery.

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An occafional Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Garrick, the last time of his performing for the relief of infirm and decayed Players. Epilogue to the new comedy of the Runaway, written by Mr. Garrick. Verfes to the late Dr. Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, and his Lady, on occafion of their celebrating the 50th year of their union as a year of jubilee.

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233 To the memory of the late Rev. Mr. Granger, who was seized with an apoplectic fit while adminiftering the communion. 233

Song Jung by Mr. Beard, at the annual meeting of the Governors, &c. of the London Hofpital.

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The Hiftory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; by Edward Gibbon, Efq; Volume the First

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236 An Enquiry into the Nature and Caufes of the Wealth of Nations; by Adam Smith, LL.D. F. R. S., 2 vols. 4to. The Hiftory of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain; by Robert Watson, LL.D. 2 vols. 4to.

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