firming the difcovery of M. Riems that fome common working bees are capable of laying eggs, 328-In cafes of two rival queens being in a hive, one of them always put to death, 330. -Confequences of the removal of the queen from a hive, 331.-Maffacre of the drones, 333.-Periods at which the transformations occur in the different orders of bees, 333.-Account of the hatching of the queen bee, 334.-Of the formation of fwarms, 335---Ob- fervations on the economical treatment of bees, 337. Huntingdon, William, S. S. account of, 385.
Ingram, Mr, on Methodism, 341.-Ex-
amples, according to them, of the fpe- cial interference of Providence, 343. -Specimens of the energy of their religious feelings, 345.-Shocking ftory of the effects of their doctrines, 347. -Religious hoy established between London and Margate, 351.-Specimen of the advertisements circulated in their fingular publications, 352.—Activity of their exertions in the British army and navy, 353.-Their doctrines shown to lead to erroneous and dangerous no- tions of the prefent judgements of God, 355.-Their fanaticifm and gloomy dispofition, 356.-Do not dif- fent from the articles of the church of England, but differ in the choice of the articles upon which they dilate, 357.-Confequences of their notions upon men of different temperaments, 358.-All their doctrines calculated to gain influence among the poor and ig-. norant, ib.-Reflections on the causes, &c. of the prevalence of fanaticism, 359-Inquiry to what degree Metho- difm is likely to extend in this coun- try, 360.
Inn, English, picture of, 372. Inn, Portuguese, defcription of, 89.- Spanish, 91.
Inquiry into the State of the Poor, 100. -Miferies of mankind owing at least as much to the ignorance as to the bad defigns of legiflators, 101.-General character of the prefent work, ib.— Population of a country, on what it depends, 102.-Difference between pub- lic and private benevolence, 105.-
Plan propofed by the author for the improvement of the poor laws, 106.— General view of the tendency of the many plans which have been adopted for ameliorating the condition of the poor, 109.
Jupiter, theory of the disturbances of the fatellites of, 274.
Lakes in Cumberland, defeription of, 382. Lancafler's, Mr, Plan of Education, &c. 61-Account of the method of teach- ing employed by, 62.-What may be confidered as the chief improvements made by, 63.-Duli and diftant mo- tives hitherto prefented to children, 66.-Advantages arifing from educa- tion being diffuted among the lower claffes, 68.
London, view of, from the top of St. Paul's, 375.
Lowe's, Mr, tract on West India affairs, character of, 153.
Macartney, Lord, Barrow's Life of, 289. Birth and education of, 291.-Is fent as envoy to the court of Petersburgh, ib.-Marries, is appointed fecretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland, and made a knight of the Bath, governor of Grenada, &c. 294.-Taken prifo- ner by Count d'Estaing, and carried to France, 295.-Is appointed to the go- vernment of Madras, 296.-Integrity of, in his administration, 297.-Rc- turns to England, 303.-and is fent ambafador to the emperor of China, 305.-Made governor of the Cape of Good Hope, 306.-Returns to Eng- land, ib. and dies, 307.-Character of the Ruffian nobility, 308.-Account of the court ceremonies of the Chinese, 311-Extortion of the Chinese admi- niftration, 316.-Cultivation of the ufeful arts difcouraged among, 318. Macedon, kingdom of, the leatt confider- able in extent and opulence of all those into which the dominions of Alexan- der were divided, 60.-Obftinate resist- ance oppofed to the Romans by, un- der many disadvantages, 61. Mant's Poems, 167.-Neglect of that style of poetry which delineates the beauties of the country, among the writers of the early part of the last century, 167.-Restored by Thomson,
168.-Author of the prefent work entitled to praife in that refpect, 169. --Extracts, ib.
Manufacturing towns, wretched state of the lower claffes in, 380. Mayer, Chriftian, the first who applied algebra to trigonometry, 249. Milo, an island in the Archipelago, in- terefting from its harbour and fitua- tion, 96.
Moon's acceleration, various hypotheses to account for, 260.-Solved by La Place, 261.
Neutral Queftion, pamphlets on, I - Great importance of the fubject at prefent, ib.-Subftance of Mr Ran- dolph's fpeech in congrefs, 2.-No conclufion can be formed from the fentiments of Mr Randolph and his party, of the probable conduct of the United States on the present occasion, 3.Importance of the carrying trade of America underrated by him, 4.- Opinions advanced by Mr Maryatt in his publication, 5.-By Mr Medford, 6. Right of the mother country to monopolize the trade of her colonies, denied by, 7-Comparative statement of the confequences of a war between England and America, to the interefts of both countries, ib.Investigation of the claim of England to fearch foreign veffels for deserters, 9.—That claim defenfible with regard to Imer- chant ships, but if extended to veffels of the state would prove the cause of conftant hoftility, 10.-Whether the prefence of a fhip of war ought to protect a convoy from fearch, 11.- Inviolability of the territories of a ftate applies equally to her ships of war, 13-fhown from Grotius, 14- A confequence of peculiar abfurdity arifing from admitting the right of nations to search each other's fhips, 15. --Doctrine that the fea may be appro- priated by a people, examined, 16.- How far that right, as claimed by Bri- tain, has been acknowledged by other nations, 17.-Only inftances in which the right of searching fhips of war has been entertained, 19.-Right of fearch- ing merchantmen admitted by the Dutch, but denied with regard to ships of the state, 20.-Importance of the right of fearch overvalued, 2r.-Claim
to fearch merchantmen for deserters, shown to be valid, 22.—though attend- ed with fome difficulties, 23-The permitting of our feamen to enter into the American fervice, perhaps upon the whole an advantage to this coun- try, 24.-Sufpicion entertained that the affair of fearch is only the often fible reafon for defiring a rupture with A- merica at prefent, 23.-Inquiry whe- ther the deftruction of all neutrality would be of advantage to this country,
Obelife, Egyptian, placed in front of St. Peter's at Rome, 189.
Obfervations on the means of increasing the regular army, 171.-Fickleness of our ministry in their military plans, ib. Only ways in which the army of a state can be recruited, 172.-Cau- ses which prevent the recruiting of the army by voluntary enliftment, ib. Army of referve, a most iniquitous and oppreffive measure, 174-Only ration- al plan that has hitherto been proposed for the recruiting of the army, 178. Dependence in cafe of invafion, only to be placed on the exertions of the re- gular army, 181, Otway, ode of, 33.
Paisley, process of purifying the water of a fmall river at, described, 202. Palace, imperial, at Rome, vastness of,
Paffinus, account of the city of, 45. Peter the Great, character of, 308. Phalanx, Macedonian, description of, 56. Philopamen, by a well-timed manœuvre,
decides the victory at Sellafia in favour of the Achæans, 50. Place La, Traité de Mechanique Céleste, 249-Aftronomy the most fublime and perfect of the physical sciences, ibid. View of the principal improvements made in the integral calculus, 250. General character of the prefent work, 254.-Divifion of the subject, 255. Problem of three bodies, 256.; steps by which mathematicians have been gradually conducted to the solution of, 257-Various hypothefes to account for the moon's acceleration, 260.; folv- ed by La Place, 261.-Inequalities of the primary planets, 262; explained by him, 264.--Conclufion relating to
the ftability of the planetary fyftem, 265.-Inquiry into the caufes which determine the figure of the earth, and of the other planets, 266.-Flux and reflux of the sea explained, 268.-Equi- librium of the sea shown to be stable, 271.- Preceffion of the equinoxes; cause of, first discovered by Newton, 272.-Afterwards more fully explained by D'Alembert, &c. ib.-Further re- marks on the disturbances of the pla- nets, and on the lunar theory, 273. Disturbances produced by the action of the fecondary planets on one another, 274. Of aftronomical refraction, 275. -General eulogium of the prefent work, 277. Conclufion from this view of the planetary system of a wife design in its conftruction, 278; which leads to a beautiful extenfion of the doctrine of final causes, omitted to be taken notice of by La Place, 279.-Reflections on the small number of eminent mathema- ticians which Britain has produced of late, 285-Cause of that deficiency to be fought for chiefly in the public in- ftitutions of the country, 283. Planets, primary, account of the theory of the disturbing forces of, 262. Poetical extracts from Southey's Specimens
of English Poetry, 33; from Mant's poems, 169; from Wordsworth, 218; Lord Byron, 286; Hoyle's Exodus, 364. Pompeii, remarks on the city of, 189. Pope. See Bowles.
Prado, at Madrid, description of, 90. Punifoments, military, extreme severity of, in this country, 376.
Quackery, why fo prevalent in England, 384.
Quakers, character of, 387.
Quarterly lift of new publications, 232,498. R
Refraction, astronomical, 275. Rofetta ftone, remarks on the characters upon, 53.
Ruffian nobility, character of, 308. S
Salluft. See Steuart.
Sea, caufes of the flux and reflux of, 268. Stability of equilibrium of, proved, 271.
Scotland, efficacy of religious toleration in allaying difcontent and infurrection, ex- emplified in the hiftory of, 130. Sellafia, account of the battle of, 49. Semple's, Mr, Travels in Spain, general
character of, 88-Defcription of a Portuguese inn, 89-Of the Prado at Madrid, 90.-Of a Spanish inn, 91. Effects of the battle of Trafalgar at Cadiz, 93.-Amusements of the Turks, 96. Their character, 97; and that of the modern Greeks, 99.
Sinclair's, Sir John, Code of Health and Longevity, general character of, 195. Plan of the work, 196.-Circumstances independent of individual intention by which health is likely to be influenced, 197.-Original theory of the author's, ib.-Effects of climate, fituation, &c. 198.-Education, &c. of children, 199. -Qualities of air, 200.-Different forts of fluids used as drink, 201-Defcrip- tion of a method of filtering water at Paisley, 202.-Remarks on tea, 203.— Wine, 204.-Ale, 205.-Solid food, 206.-Cookery, 207.-Direction for meals, 208.-Exercises, 209.-Account of the process of training for boxing, &c. 210.-Of Sleep, 211-Patience and industry of the author entirely mifapplied, 213.
Snow-water, fwellings in the neck occa- fioned by the ufe of, 202.
Southey's Specimens of English Poetry, 31. -Object of the compilation, 32.—Ode of Otway, 33-Verfes by Sir William Blackstone, 37.-Sonnet of J. Bamfylde, 39.
Spence on Commerce, 430.-Strictures on the arguments on the unproductiveness of manfactures, 430.-On the affertion, that no addition can be made to na- tional wealth by the accumulation of profits in the hands of the home trader, 432.-Arguments by which the author controverts the notion of wealth being derived from a commerce of import, 436.-Conceffions he makes in favour of that of export, 437.-The reverse of his propofitions shown to be more pro- bable, 438, from a fuppofed cafe illus trative of the question, 439.-On the wealth derived from colonies, 441.- Foreign commerce, though not to be depreciated, far inferior in importance to the internal trade of a country, 446.
Staël, Madame de, Corinne, 183.-Out- line of the ftory of, ib.-Reflections on the castle of St Angelo, 188, and on St Peter's, 189.-Remarks on Pompeii, ib.-Effects on the mind of the fight of the ruins and antique monuments of
Rome, 191.-Effufion of Corinna, fup- pofed fitting on the promontory of Mifenum in a moonlight evening, 192. -Some of the writings of the authoress are vindicated from the charge of hav- ing an immoral tendency, 194 Stewart's, Dr. Translation of Salluft, 413. -Why versions of the ancient profe authors are in this country less attend- ed to than thofe of the poets, ib.-Ac- count of Thucydides, 415.-Miftakes the translator has committed, 416.- Remarks on his criticisms on Livy, 423.-Paflage in Herodotus mifunder- flood hy, 425.-Description of Sallust's gardens, 427.
Syria, account of the Greek kingdom of, 58.
Three bodies, problem of, 257. Thucydides, account of, 415.
No. XXIII. will be published in April 1808.
D. WILLISON, PRINTER, EDINBURGH.
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