606

ADDITIONS

are fo much against the land tax, called
in France the 20th penny, and yet their
taxes upon confumption (the only other
way for raifing money for the publick
fervice) have given fuch encouragament
to fmuggling, that the fmugglers, to the
the number of fome thousands, have
formed themselves into a regular body
under a proper chief, all better armed
than the regular troops, and raise con-
tributions in many parts of the country,
under pretence of obliging people to buy
their tobacco, &c. fo that the government
have been forced to employ a part of their
army against them, a thing not ufual in
France; and thefe troops have already
had two fkirmishes with two detachments
of fmugglers, in which the former got
the victory, but a great many were killed
on both fides.

According to advices from Naples, no
lefs than 150 volumes have been found
in a wooden cheft, which happened to
stand under a brick arch, which fecured
it from the lava or torrent of melted
metals, which rolled over the city of
Herculaneum, Thefe volumes, at least
most of them, are faid to be perfectly
legible and well preserved.

Private letters from Berlin fay, that the
king of Pruffia having received frequent
complaints from the pealants and farmers,
of the injuries done them by hunting
upon their lands, has forbid all hunting,
even by his own officers, without the
permiffion of an intendant appointed for
that purpose, who has inftructions to
prevent private diverfions from producing
publick inconveniences.

Hanover, Dec. 24. The deliberations
of the ftates of the Landgraviate of Heffe-
Caffel, who are actually affembled, turn
on the following points:

1. To take the best meafures for in-
violably maintaining the religion, laws
and conftitutions of the country.

2. To this end it fhall be exprefsly fti-
pulated, that prince Frederick of Heffe,
when he comes to the regency, fhall not
have it in his power to alter what is efta-
blished by the faid laws, nor grant any
church to the Roman Catholicks for the
publick exercife of their religion.

3. That the faid prince fhall not chufe
a confeffor out of any orders befides thofe
that shall be specified.

4. That the princes, his fons, till they
are of age, fhall be under the immediate
direction of the reigning Landgrave or
the flates of the country, the prince their
father being quite excluded from the di-
rection or care of their education.

5. That the county of Hanau fhall be
given to the eldest of those princes, upon
beir father's acceffion to the regency of

the Landgraviate; it being withal under-
flood, that the prince-poffeffor of the
county of Hanau must profess the Pro-
teftant Religion.

6. And the better to infure the execu-
tion of thefe arrangements, they shall be
guarantied by the kings of Pruffia and
Denmark, as alfo by the maritime powers
and the Evangelick body of the empire.

Francfort, Dec. 24. We have already
received the agreeable news, that the
king of Pruffia, at the inftances of the
Landgrave of Heffe-Caffel, has been the
first to guaranty all the measures taken
by his ferene highness for maintaining the
Proteftant Religion for ever in his house,
and throughout his dominions, notwith-
standing the convertion, or perverfion, of
the prince his fon and fucceffor.

Amfterdam, Dec. 28. The bill of mor-
tality of this city for the present year is
7161, which is confiderably lefs than that
of the year 1753, which amounted to
8589. Chriftnings 4111. Marriages 1701.

The

Paris, Dec. 28. The 14th instant, at
feven in the morning, a cloud of fire,
followed by a moft dreadful clap of
thunder, covered the whole village of St.
Aubin, fituated in Lorrain, between
Ligny and Void. The terror it occafion-
ed was fo great, that horfes and other
cattle broke their bridles and halters, and
ran wildly about the streets and fields.
The lightning fell upon the church, in
which there were then two young wo-
men, who fell fenfelefs to the ground;
by the fame flash the top of the confeffion-
box, the fteeple door, and the lower
windows, were beat down, and the walls
of the church fhaken and cracked.
lightning made its way thro' the loft of
the steeple, and broke down the timbers
that fupported the great bell, which fell
upon the fecond bell, and broke that, to-
gether with the clock. The covering of
the fteeple was carried away, and the
fouth and weft angles beat down: The
materials were difperfed with fo prodi-
gious a force, that stones weighing above
Solb, were thrown upon the ifle of the
church above 22 yards from the steeple,
and fome upon adjacent houfes, the roofs
of which they broke through. It for-
tunately happened that no lives were loft,
nor did any place take fire. The mayor
of the village, who was then standing in
his yard at a good diftance from the
church, found himself fuddenly furround-
ed with fire and fmoke, and remained
about a minute without either fight or
fenfe. The fame day they had terrible
claps of thunder at Commercy, which is
three leagues from St. Aubin; but we do
not hear of any damage 'done there.

INDEX

Ague, a receipt for

253

550

166

190

Air, fire, light, &c. confidered
Algerines wofted by the Spaniards 94.
French defign against them 142. The
affair accommodated
Alphabetical lift of the places which return
members, with the members returned
in the prefent parliament 243-246
Alphabetical lift of the members, with the
places annexed
291-295

Alterations in the lift of parliament 92. In
the lift of the prefent
605
Amelia and Caroline, princeffes, their
birth-day celebrated
283
America, the French incroachments there
185. Advices from thence 330, 370,
371, 570. Officers and foldiers to be
fent thither 474. See Virginia.
Amfterdam, yearly bill of mortality there
606
Animal plant, defcription of a new one 72
Animals in North-America
78
Apprentices, luxury in them reproved 410
Archite&ture, fculpture, &c. antient and

modern

5. 6

Architecture, modern, humorously display-

ed

80

Army, debate on 111-114, 153-161
Amy, the parliament's, in K, Charks the
I'fts time, their arbitrary proceedings
112, 113, 159
Army in K. James the Id's time, their
behaviour
113, 159
Artapanus, his teftimony to the truth of
the Mofaick hiftory
588
Artificial lightning, receipt for making it

BAB

B.

263, 264

ABOUC, or the World as it goes, cx-
tracts from it
25 G, &c.
Babius Dives, L. his fpeech in the debate
about Cambricks and French lawns 45
Beculonius, A. his fpeech on the army
112, For repealing the Cambrick acts

304

139

Bank, general court of
Barbaroffa, the ufurper of Algiers, story of

531-534

Batavia in the Eaft-Indies, a description of

Berofus, his hiftory and chronology con-
firm the Mofaick account 586, &c.
Biddiford, an account of
512 E.
Boadicia, account of the new tragedy of
53, &c.
Bolingbroke, late lord, extracts from 10;,
167, 22. Extract from the View of his
philofophy 437. Scripture defended a-
gainst him
511, 5:7
Bombay, in the Eaft-Indies, an account
of
320

Bones, a remarkable cafe of fragility, flexi
bility and diffolution of them
362
Boyle, Henry, Elq; addrefs of thanks to
him
234
Brandenburg, account of the trade of that
country 406. Its products and manu-
factures

407
Bewing, directions for
128 F.
Bridge, arguments for a new one cross the
Thames 75, 76. Refolutions about it
91. Opinion and propofal of Samuel
Dicker, Efq; concerning it 131 C. Pro-
ceedings of the committee appointed to
confider of it 139, 427. Their report
463. Taken into confideration
Bridgen, William, Eiq; chofen alderman

177

498

426

282

Burials,

C.

192, 240, 288, 336, 384, 432, 480,
528, 576. Yearly account of 605
Burleigh, lord, a remarkable letter of his
248
ESO Fabius, his fpeech about Cam-
bricks and French lawns 348. His
fpeech on the menagement of the laft
lottery
399
Cambrick and French lawn ads, debate
on the motion tor repealing them 297-
307, 745-362. Proceedings on the bill
for that purpose
359
Canning, Elizabeth, proclamations for ap-
prehending ber 43. She appears at the
Old Bailey 138. Queries relating to her
Cafe 193.
Progress of her trial 233.
She receives fentence 234. A methodi-
cal abstract of her trial 236-239. Ab-
Araft of Sir Crifp Gafcoyne's addrefs re-
lating to her, &c. 317-320. Motion at
the Old Bailey in relation to her tran-
portation
331
Cape of Good Hope, defcription of, 224
Carcajou, an animal in North-America 78
Cardiganshire, a defcription of
295
Carmarthenshire, a defcription of 391
Cafpian fea, proposals for reviving its trade

Cinnamon

467

Citizens rural retreats, and their country
boxes humorously defcribed 389, 390
City amusements difperfed into the country

307
Clarinda and the valet, history of 322
Clergyman, importance of his character 139
Clogher, bihop of, extra&is from his Vin-
dication of the hiftory of the Old and
New Teftament
563, 586-592
Clothing trade, frauds in
521
Cloyne, late bishop of, remarkable cafe
trom him, of the effect of tar-water in
the dropfy
426
Club, a modern cne 421. A further de-
fcription of it
Common-council, their proceedings about
the Borough market and London-bridge

457

42

1754.
Connoiffeur, a new paper 92. Letters and
extracts from it 123, 124, 212, 226,
261, 269, 307, 368, 389, 405, 513,
535, 545, 557. Encomium on it 419
Conftable, oblervations on the office of
171-173
Conftables, account of the aft relating to
them, &c.
Conftantinople, the dreadful earthquake
there
478, 526, 570
Convocation diffolved, and a new one
fummoned 186. It meets 522. Their
addrefs
553. The king's anfwer
554
Copper fprings in Ireland, experiments on
365. Obfervations on them 356
Coquet, her character, in a letter to a lady
78

D

D.

EBATES in the Political Club, on
the bill for numbering the people
15-21, 57-56, 105-111. On the
number of forces to be kept up 111-114,
153-161. On the expediency of re-
pealing the Jews act 201-208, 249-
258. On the motion for repealing the
acts for prohibiting the wearing and im
portation of Cambricks and French
lawns 297-307; 345-352. On the
motion for an enquiry into the manage...
ment of the last lottery 343-402, 44x
-450, 489-491. On the preamble co
the bill for repealing the Jews ac 492—
496, 537-545, 577-584
Delany, Dr. Story of him and lord Carteret
341, 342
Dicker, Samuel, E q; his opinion and pro-
pofal concerning a new bridge at Black-
Friers
131 C.
Dictionaries, a judicious difcourfe on 552
Dictionary for the ladies propofed, with
obfervations

$754.

201

602

obfervations upon it, two humorous
papers
555, 597, &c.
Distemper among the horned cattle, pro-
ceedings in relation to it
316, 317
Domitius Calvinus, Cn. his fpeech for
repealing the Jews act
Dorfet, duke of, arrives from Ireland 234
Dauglafs, Dr. extract from his hiftorical
fummary of the Amerian colonies
Drefden work, or muslins finely embroidered
304, 305
Dublin fcheme, perfons convicted for it 427
Dunkirk, important article from thence
14. Obiervations with regard to that
port
306, 307
ARTHQUAKE in Yorkshire 133.
At Montferrat in the West-Indies 330.
In Sicily 378. On the coat of the
Morea 426. A moft dreadful one at
Conftantinople 47, 526, 570. At Grand-
Cairo in Egypt
574
Earths and tones, different kinds of 411
Eat-India company, of the act for punish-
ing mutiny and defeition of othcers and
foldiers in their fervice
358
Eaft. Indian flory, an affecting one 593
Eaft Indies, important advices from 190,
226, 475, 476. Battles and tieges there,
with their dates

E

E.

440

Edinburgh, yearly bill of mortality there

91

502

67

French incroachments in America 185,

Edinburgh bells

Effeminate men and manly women

displayed 212.

verted ones

Elections, contefts at the late, humorously
Account of the contro-

Electricity, experiments in 417. A turkey

killed by it
418
Elizabeth, queen, her fituation at the be-
ginning of her reign (04. Her brave and
wife management with the French 505.
Authentick letter from Sir Nicholas
Throckmorton, her minifter at Paris
ibid, &c.
Ellis, capt. h's letter to Dr. Hales, con-
erning ventilators, &c.
126
Emerfon, Mr. extract from his principles
of mechanicks 435. Thefe applied to
machines and animals 435, 436. To
trees, and the strength and stress of
timber
436
Enfenada, marquis de la, prime minister
of Spain, difgraced

French policy in propagating their language

Froft, an intenfe one
Fulminating powder, receipt for making

40 E.

Fulvius, Cn, his fpeech in the debate on the
army 155. In the debate about the
management of the last lottery 441
Future ftate afferted
540

G.

Helena, St. described
337, 388
Herculaneum, MSS. found there 606
He donius, App. his fpeech on the manage-
ment of the last lottery
448
Herefordshire a defcription of 151, 152
Heffe, prince Frederick of, turns papift
526. The ftates fummoned by the
landgrave on that occafion 574. Their
proceedings
605
Highlands of Scotland, a journey in 364, &c.
40405. Dreadful precipices there 404.
Further remarkables there 452. Drifts
of fnow and winds there
453
Highland bogs and fords 366, 367
Highland inns or huts
402, 403
Hendon in Wiles, the great fire there 330
Holland, the people there difcontented 142.
Good regulation there for encouraging
commerce and navigation ibid. Other
advices from thence
190, 574
Holland, Mr. his famous caufe tried
331
Hely orders, a flagrant abuse in relation to

1754.

ing that people 214. Prophecies to be
fulfilled in relation to them 215. Pro-
ceedings on the bill for repealing the
act in their favour 314, 315. Motion
in relation to the American naturaliza-
tion act, fo far as it relates to them 315 B.
Second debate on the expediency of re-
pealing the act in their favour 492—496,
537-545, 577-584
Imprifoning, a method of, too frequently
practifed

27

Indians, congrefs with them at Albany 475
Indigo, account of the growing and mak-
ing of it
596, 597.
Inspector, extracts from 31,69,263,468,593
Inspiration defended

549

Inundacions, terrible ones in Holland and
Germany 46. In Yorkshire
521
Journey in the highlands of Scotland ;64, &c.
402-405, 452-456
Ireland, thoughts on the affairs of 33. The
people compared with bottled wine 33,
34. Great perfons difmiffed from their
employments there 90. The prefent po-
litical conteft there 99. State of the
publick revenue there, and rife and pro-
grefs of the conteft 99-103. Procla-
mation by the lord lieutenant 138. Re-
flections on the political contest there
147. Similarity between the constitut
on of its government, and that of Eng-
land ibid. Lords juftices appointed 234
Irish parliament, bills loft by proroguiug it

589

ENNEDY's obfervations on the Nor-

Kthern colonies

439

the last fel-

He reviews
His fpeech

KING's fpeech at the close of
fion of laft parliament 176.
the horse guards blue 330.
at the opening of the fecond feffion of
the prefent parliament 509. His answer
to the lords addre's 510. To the com-
mons 511. His birth-day celebrated 522.
His answer to the addrefs of the convo
cation
Kirk treasurer

LA

L.

554
501

ADIES, their modern drefs cenfured
323. Admonitions to them 485.
A paint for them 502 C. Of the fashi-
onable appellation of 545. Several
claffes of 545, 546. A new dictionary
for 555. Their painting an unnatural
practice
558, 559
Lady and her guardian, story of 502, 550
Lancey, Capt. condemned for burning the