Steward of our Houfhold; Francis Earl of Huntingdon, Groom of the Stole; Bafil Earl of Denbigh, Daniel Earl of Winchelfea and Nottingham, Philip Earl of Chesterfield, John Earl of Sandwich, Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury, Robert Earl of Holderneffe, William Henry Earl of Rochford, George Earl of Albemarle, William Earl of Jerfey, Francis Earl of Godolphin, George Earl of Cholmondeley, Thomas Earl of Kinnoul, Chancellor of our Duchy of Lancaster; John Earl of Hyndford, John Earl of Bute, one of our Principal Secretaries of State; George Dunk Earl of Halifax, our Lieutenant-general and Ge neral Governor of our Kingdom of Ireland; James Earl of Waldegrave, William Earl of Bath, Granville Levifon Earl Gower, John Earl of Buckinghamshire, Henry Arthur Earl of Powis, Comptroller of our Houfhold; Charles Earl of Egremont, Simon Earl Harcourt, Charles Earl Cornwallis, Conftable of our Tower of London; Philip Earl of Hardwicke, John Earl Delawarr, John Earl of Egmont, Wills Earl of Hillsborough, Percy Earl of Thomond, Treasurer of cur Houfhold; our right trufty and well-beloved Coufins and Counsellors, Hugh Viscount Falmouth, William Viscount Barrington, Chancellor and Under Treasurer of our Exchequer; John Viscount Bateman, John Viscount Ligonier, Mafter General of our Ordnance; our right trusty and well-beloved Counsellors Philip Yorke, Efq; commonly called Lord Viscount Royfton; John Lord Berkeley of Stratton, Allen Lord Bathurst, Samuel Lord Sandys, George Lord Anfon, first Lord Commiffioner of our Admiralty; William Lord Mansfield, Chief Juftice of our Court of King's-Bench; George Lord Lyttleton, George Lord Melcombe, Thomas Lord Grantham, William Finch, Efq; Vice-Chamberlain of our Houfhold; George Townshend, Efq; Henry Bilfon Legge, Efq; George Grenville, Efq; Treasurer of our Navy; James Grenville, Efq; Cofferer of our Houthold; William Pitt, Efq; one of our principal Secretaries of State; Sir John Willes, Knt. Lord Chief Juftice of our Court of Common Pleas; Sir John Rufhout, Baronet, Henry Fox, Efq; Paymaster-general of our forces; Sir Thomas Clarke, Knight, Mafter of the Rolls; Charles Townshend, Efq; Se cretary at war; Robert Nugent, Efq; Welbore Ellis, Efq; and Sir Francis Dashwood, Bart. Treasurer of our Chamber; or any five or more of them, to receive, hear, and determine, the petitions and claims, which fhall be to them exhibited by any of our loving fubjects in this behalf: And we shall appoint our faid Commiffioners, for that purpose, to fit in the Painted Chamber of our palace at Weftminster, upon Tuesday the 21st day of this inftant July, at ten of the clock in the forenoon of the fame day, and, from time to time, to adjourn, as to them shall seem meet, for the execution of our faid commiffion, which we do thus publish, to the intent that all fuch perfons, whom it may any ways concern, may know when and where to give their attendance for the exhibiting of their petitions and claims concerning the fervices beforementioned to be done and performed unto us at our faid coronation: And we do hereby fignify unto all and every our subjects, whom it may concern, that our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby ftrictly charge all perfons, of what rank or quality foever they be, who either upon our letters to them directed, or by reason of their offices or tenures, or otherwife, are to do any fervice at the faid day or time of our coronation, that they do duly give their attendance accordingly, in all respects furnished and appointed as to fo great a folemnity appertaineth, and anfwerable to the dignities and places which every one of them refpectively holdeth and enjoyeth; and of this they, or any of them, are not to fail, as they will answer the contrary at their perils, unless upon special reafons by ourself, under our hand, to be allowed, we fhall difpenfe with any of their fervices or atttendances. Given at our Court of St. James's, the eighth day of July, 1761, in the first year of our reign. GOD fave the KING. INDEX to the Twenty-eighth VOLUME. A. A&t, abstract of, for an additional duty upon beer and ale, 39.-For the re. lief of infolvent debtors, 154. Action at Saalfeld, 215.-At Grunberg, ib. Addrefs of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c, of the city of London, to his Majefty, on the reduction of Belleffle, 332. Enigma, 154-Anfwer to it, 377. Almoran and Hamet, an Oriental tale, 370, Ambition, its origin, 62.-Ode to, 232. American, North, colonies; eftimate of what the French and English imported from them, before the breaking out of the prefent war, 62. Amherst, General, addrefs presented to him by the Corporation of New York, 49.— A fhort elogium of him, 99. Anacreon, his ode to a dove, 43.-Tranflation of his third ode, 97. See Cupid. Afiatic armies, the manner of fubfifting the vaft multitudes they are compofed of, 188, -Advantage of the Europeans, when in war with the Afiatics alone, to what owing, 189. Affociation Affociation entered into by the Prince of Axle-tree, its use in mechanics, 316. Balance, common, its properties explained, Beaux of St. James's, a new country dance, 374 Bell, Anne. See Sutton. Belleifle, defcription of, 225.-Letters relative to the first attempts against it, 226. To the landing of the English troops there, 229.-To their feveral operations, 230.-Account of its capitulation, 320, See Palais. Bishops, their advice to King James II, 22. Bodies, their figure, 13.- Their foftnefs, firmness, hardness, compreffibility, flexibility, elafticity, cohefion, fluidity, confiftence or fixity, thinnefs, tranfparency, and opacity, 14.-Their percuffion, 123. Their gravity and weight, 125. Boleyn, Anne, pompous proceffion for honouring her coronation, 150. Brett, John, found guilty of forgery; his pathetic address to the Court, for making a favourable report of him to his Majesty, 273. Bridge, building at Black-friars, the first ftone laid by Sir Robert Ladbroke, 333. Burgoyne, Colonel, a new fong, on feeing his regiment of light-horfe reviewed, Character, different, of Charles II. and James II, 194. Chinese, congress and treaty with them and the Ruffians, 134. The Choice, 154, 270. Churchill, Lord, his letter to King James II, fhewing his reafons for going over to the Prince of Orange, 133. Colutea. See Coronilia. Conquests. See Peace. Content, ode to, 153. Convention, inftead of a Parliament, fummoned to meet, on the departure of King James II, 301. Copper, proceffes of fome preparations from it, 307.-An admirable remedy for ma lignant and inveterate ulcers, 307. Cords, their ufes in mechanics, 367. Cornwall, Captain, description of his monument, 40. Coronilla Herbacea, or the herbaceous joint ed-podded colutea, described and coloured from nature, 128.1 Criminals, the ufes that may be made of their punishments, 286. Cupid benighted, an ode of Anacreon, 97. D. Deafness, the cure of it, attempted by electricity, 250. Debates, between the Lords and Commons, concerning the abdication of King James II, and the vacancy of the throne, 353. Declaration of the Emprefs-queen, &c. in order to the holding of a congress at Augsburg, with the counter-declaration of their Britannic and Pruffian Majeftiés, 220. Of war, by the Grand Signior, against the Knights of Malta, 275.-His Majefty's, fignifying his intentions to take a confort, 378. Denmark, Princefs of, retires, 194.-Her letter to the Queen, ib.. Dove. See Anacreon. Duty, New Whole, of Man, fome account of it, 168. E. Earthquake at Lisbon, 221. Ely, Bishop of, fplendid entertainment at Epileptic fits, method of preventing and removing them, 299. Epilogue to the new tragedy of the Earl of Effex, 31. To the Jealous Wife, a new comedy, 103.-To All in the Wrong, a new comedy, 327. Equilibrium explained and illustrated, 255. Effex, Earl of, a new tragedy, an account of, 23. Estimate of human greatness, 98. Fable of Mifs and the Butterfly, 42.-Of the Starling, Crows, Fox, and Hawk, 95. The Flea, 205. Force, paffive. See Vis inertiæ. Forces, live and dead, notion of, illuftrated, 74. French, their principal fettlements in Canada, G. Gardelle, Theodore, his trial for the murder of Mrs. Anne King, 211.-His execution, 217. Garrick, Mr. his address to the public, 327. Grants, for the year 1761, 155. Journals of the war in Germany, 47, 104, 159, 215, 272, 329. Ireland, fituation of affairs there, at the time of the departure of King James II, 302. Iroquois, five nations of, the ceremony of their calumet and cup for the ratification of peace, treaties, &c. 115.-Their notions of the immortality of the soul, ib. K. Gutta lerena, the cure of it attempted by Keppel-family, fome account of it, 271. Gravity, or weight, center of, 255 electricity, 249. H. Hamet. See Almoran. Happiness, temperance effential to it, 71. Hexham, riot at, 163. Hiftory. See London, England, and Ruffia.-Natural, compendious fyftem of, continued, 128. Horace, Odes of, imitated, 43, 374. Hygrometers, their ufe for knowing the fate of the atmosphere, 369. J. James II, King, is perfuaded by the Earl of Sunderland to reject the assistance offered him by France, 19.-His proclamation for an univerfal liberty of confcience, 20.-Another proclamation, informing his fubjects of the invasion expected from Holland, 21.-His speech to an extraordinary Council, called to prove the birth of the Prince of Wales, 83.-His remarks on the Prince of Orange's declaration, 130.-Defection in his army very confiderable, 133.-So difpirited by it that he returns to London, 193.-Publishes a proclamation for a free and new Parliament, 195.-His propofitions to the Prince of Orange, 196.-Waits but one day to execute his defign of following his Queen to France, 197.-Diforders committed by the populace on his flight, 243.-Difcovered at Feverfham, and is prevailed upon to return to London, 244.-Withdraws to Rochefter, and foon after to France, 246-Leaves a paper, written with his own hand, juftifying his motives for fo doing, ib.-On his departure, the Lords believe themselves invested with a power to act in their own names, 300. Jealous Wife, a new comedy, an account of, 100. Indians of North America, their principal fettlements in Canada, 59.-Their cuftoms, manners, religion, government, 113.-Their perfons defcribed, 114. Their veneration for their old people, ib. See Iroquois. Indians of the Mogul empire, remarks on their military genius, 187. Infeription, monumental, of Thomas Fletcher, D. D. late Bishop of Kildare, 333Interefts, commercial, of Great Britain, a difcourfe on, 2. L. Lafs, the way to fucceed with one, 96. St. Lawrence, river, description of its course and navigation, 116. Lear, King, verfification of his speech to Edgar, 271. Lever, its mechanical powers, explained and illuftrated, 253. Life, three kinds of, anfwerable to the three powers of the foul, 375.-To be enjoyed 376. London, hiftory of, extracts from, 34, 78, 148, 190, 233. Louisiana, its extent, boundaries, and furprifing fertility, 60. M. Magazine, a large one, belonging to the French, burnt at Wefel, 272. Malta, Inland and fortifications of, defcribed, 281.-Its ancient poffeffors, and when granted to the Knights, ib.-Its fituation, extent, produce, &c. ib.-Its ha ven and new city, 283.-Its antiquities and curiofities, 284.--The government under the Grand Master managed with prudence and juftice, 285,-See Declaration. Masonry, a new fong, 152. Mafque, description of a pompous one, for the entertainment of King Charles I. and his Queen, 192. May, ode to, 207. May-games, in what manner formerly celebrated, and how partly fuppreffed, 148. Mechanics, in general, 184. Mediums, their refiftance, 124. Menzikoff, Prince, his rife, 348. Metals, new method of diffolving them, for medical purposes, by neutral falts, 395. Meteorological journals of the weather, 55, 111, 167, 223, 279, 335: Mineral quinteffence, procefs of, 306.-Ufed with fuccefs for the cure of the jaundice, green-fickness, obftructions, &c. ib. Mira and Colin, a new fong, 43. Miffiffipi river, the finest in the world, defcribed, 60.-Right of the English to the French fettlement there, 62.-Of greater importance to England than Canada, ib. Mogul. See Indians. Mohammed, the Legiflator of the Arabs, and founder of the Moflem power, his life, 309, 359. Money, tance, 2. Night-piece, 269. Occafional letter, 16. 0. Ode to the memory of Mifs B-, 208.For his Majefty's birth-day, 326. Oeconomy, animal, new and curious notions concerning it, 293. Oil, train, procefies for edulcorating it, 351. Orange, Prince of, his preparations for invading England, 19. His declaration, 85.-Takes his leave of the States, and fets fail, 129.-His fleet difperfed by a tempeft, ib.-Sails out a fecond time, and lands in England without oppofition, 130. A falfe declaration published in his name, 195.-His propofals to the King, 196.-His guards march, and take poffeffion of all the pofts about Whitehall, 245.- Addreffed by the Lords to take upon him the administration of the public affairs, 300. His letter to the Convention, 303. -- P. Palais, chief town and citadel of Belleifle, defcribed, 225.-Authentic journal of its fiege, 322. Palfy, experiments made for curing it by electricity, 248. Panic, ftrange, of the inhabitants of London, 244. Parliament, proceedings in the last feffion of, 157, 198, 235, 288, 357.-Exact alphabetical lift, from the Gazette, of the Members returned for the present, 262. Paftoral poem, 328. Patkul, John-Reinhold, authentic account of what paffed between him and his Confeffor, the night before, and at his execu tion, 117. Peace, when concluded, political reflections on what is neceffary to be retained by the English of their conquefts, 62. Peter the Great, of Ruffia, his ancestors, 9. -Beginning of the great reformation in his reign, 69. His expedition to the 349. Phenomenon, extraordinary, occafioned by the chain of mountains which run through the peninsula within the Ganges, 187.-Strange one, communicated to the Royal Academy at Paris, 251. Philofophy, elements of, 13, 73, 123, 183, 251, 316, 366. Plague, terrible, of 1665, an account of its rife and progrefs, 234.-Conjectures on its natural causes, ib. Plane, inclined, its mechanical powers, 317. Proclamation, nominating perfons to hold a Propagation of trees by parts of the roots, 209. Pullies, their mechanical powers. 256. Quebec, memoirs of its fiege, from the jour- Ranks, diftinction of, 62. Rett, notion of, illuftrated, 74. Ruffia, M. de Voltaire's Hiftory of, S. Sappho, a new tranflation of her 2d ode, 44. Scotland, affairs of, at the time of the de parture of King James II, 302. Screw, its ufe in mechanics, 366.-Screw of Archimedes, 367.-Endlefs fcrew, ib. Sea-water, method of making it potable, his life, 337-Monument, erected to his memory, defcribed, 344. Sheriffs, for the year 1761, 105. Signior, Grand. See Declaration. Siyah-ghush, an animal brought from Eat-Indies, an account of, and reprefented in a cut, 349. U. Understanding, its improvement of fingular Vanity, modern, fome fpecies of, exempli- Society, human, a view of their imperfections, 45. Soliloquies, 153, 207. Sophia, Princess, her government in Ruffia, 67. Soul, human, reafons for its immortality, from its indeftructibility, 97.-Notions of the Iroquois Indians concerning its immortality, 115-Answer to an objection against its immortality, 152. Speech, of his Majefty, for diffolving the Parliament, 163.—Of Mr. Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, in answer to the thanks of the House given to him, 164. Spring, hymn to, 98. States general, their refolution on the Prince of Orange's declaration, 87. Strelitz, the Ruffian militia, horrible maffacres committed by them, 12. See Peter the Great. Sunderland, Earl of, removed from all his places, 84. Sutton, Mr. his trial for the murder of Anne Bell, 143: Systems, Philofophic, vanity of, 326. Vapour, fubterraneous, a woman killed by the eruption of one, 251. Venus, tranfit of, over the folar disk, calcu-lated, 210.-Obfervations and a view of her in her tranfit, 315 Vis inertiæ, or paffive force, what it is, 16. Vitriolic fulphur, tincture of, manner of preparing it, 344.-An excellent remedy for feveral purposes, 345: Voltaire, Mr. verfes on the report of his bing employed in writing a commentary on the Bible, 43. See Ruffia. Vote, memorable of the Commons, fetting forth that King James had abdicated the government, 304. W: Wales, Prince of, fon of King James II, baptifed, 82. An extraordinary Council called to prove his birth, 83.-Depofitions 'taken, with remarks on them, ib. Wat Tyler, account of his infurrection, 79. Way to Keep Him, a comedy of five acts, fome account of, 32.-Way to be wise, DIRECTIONS to the BINDER, for placing the Curs in this Volume. # |