nant, on Tuesday March 21, on presenting the money-bills at the bar of the boufe of lords [257 The Speech of the lord lieutenant of Ireland to both houses of parliament, on clofing the feffion, May 8, 1786 [258 His Majesty's fpeech to both houses of parliament, on clofing the feffion of par liament July 11, 1786 [259 The addrefs of the lord mayor, &c. of the city of London, August 11, 1786, on his Majesty's happy escape from assassination; with his Majesty's anfwer [259 Treaty of alliance and commerce between Frederick III. King of Pruffia and the United States of America, ratified by congrefs, May 7, 1786 [260 Convention between his Britannic Majefty and the King of Spain, figned at London, July 14, 1786 [262 Treaty of commerce and navigation between his Britannic Majefty and the Moft Chriftian King, figned at Versailles, September 26, 1786 [266 The Prince of Orange's letter to the States of the Province of Holland, fent September 26, 1786, in answer to their notification of his fufpenfion from the office of captain general [282 The King of Pruffia's letter to the States General of the United Provinces, delivered September 18, 1786, by the Count de Goertz, his majefty's envoy extraordinary [284 The memorial of the general meeting of Weft India planters and merchants, delivered December 26, 1786 [286 Tranflation of the Emperor of Morocco's letter to the States of North America, relative to a treaty lately entered into by that emperor with the States [288 Fifth report of the commiffioners of public accounts, relative to the balance in the hands of the paymaster general of the forces in office [288 Heads of the principal acts of parliament which paffed in the feffion of parlia ment commencing January 24, 1786 CHARACTER S. [301 Character of Dr. Samuel Johnson; from Mrs. Piozzi's anecdotes concerning him 1 3 Short account of the perfon and character of Peter II. Emperor of Rufia; and of his fifter the princess Nathalia; from Mrs. Vigor's additional Letters from Ruffia, written during that emperor's reign Character of the Mogul Emperor, Shaw Aulum, eldeft fon and fucceffor to the famous Aulumgeer Aurengzebe; from a tranflation of the memoirs of Eradut Khan, a nobleman of Indoftan, by Captain Jonathan Scott Characters of the four fons of Shaw Aulum; from the fame work Account of the behaviour and conduct of Jebaundaur Shaw, after be became emperor 7 Hiftory and character of Lord Digby, by the Earl of Clarendon, from the Supplement to the third volume of his State Papers VOL. XXVIII. P NATURAL NATURAL HISTORY. Natural hiftory of the different ferpents in the East Indies; from Monf 45 49 Natural history of the Ichneumon; from the fame work P. R. S. - - 57 55 58 61 Refult of fome obfervations relative to army difeafes, made by Benjamin Rush, USEFUL PROJECT S. - 70 73 Obfervations on the use of acids in bleaching of linen, by Dr. Eafon - A fyftem of Kentish agriculture, by the Rev. Mr. Hill, of Eaft Malling, 86 87 On the use of steeping feed-barley in a dry feafon; by Mr. James Chapple 93 94 ANTIQUITIES. Defcription of Thebes; ftate of that city under the Perfian, Roman, and 97 A vifit to the tombs of the kings of Thebes; farcophagi, &c. defcribed; ob- 102 107 Obfervations on a picture by Zuccaro, from Lord Falkland's collection, fup- MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. The hot baths ufed all over Egypt, and the manner of bathing described, with 118 121 An account of the Almai, or Egyptian Improvisatore, their education, dan- Curious account of the chicken-ovens in Egypt ; from the same work 124 128 129 Taciturnity, an apologue, tranflated from the French of Abbé Blanchet 134 POETRY. Ode for the new year 1786, by the Rev. T. Warton 136 Ode for his Majesty's birth-day, June 4, 1786, by the fame 138 Verjes fuppofed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during his solitary abode 140 141 Ode to Edmund Malone, Efq; from the Gentleman's Magazine Epilogue to the fame Pathetic apalogy for all laureats, past, prefent, and to come; by W. Whitehead, Efq; late poet laureat Sonnet from Petrarch; by Charlotte Smith Another; by the fame 145 146 149 149 A parody on "Bleft as th' immortal Gods is he;" faid to be written by the Hon. Henry Erfkine Lines to Edmund Hopkins, Efq; by David Garrick, Efq; 150 150 151 1151 Epitaph on Sir William Draper, K. B. by C. Anstey, Esq; AccoUNT of BOOK S for 1786. 152 The Hiftory of Ancient Greece, its colonies, and conquefts, from the earliest accounts till the divifion of the Macedonian empire in the Eaft; including the biftory of literature, philofophy, and the fine arts, in 2 vols. By John Gillies, LL. D. 154 An account of State Papers, collected by Edward Earl of Clarendon, vol. iii. folio 159 Sixth Report of the Commiffioners of Public Accounts; omitted by mistake in the State Papers 175 FINI S. |