tion, which our Author reduces to the three following: ff The right of making war, which the great magiftrates had under the first race, and which Charlemagne could not supprefs. 2dly, The exceffive power that was intrufted with that armed magistracy, who found it so easy afterwards to divide among themfelves the fpoils of the monarchy. 3dly, The innumerable multitude of beneficiaries, and the imprudence of Louis le Debonnaire, in intrufting them with, or allowing them to ufurp, the power of jurifdiction. Moreover, to prove, with the greater evidence, that all these causes must have really contributed to degrade the monarchy, and to turn power from its primitive channel, he fhews, that in proportion as thefe caufes difappeared, all the branches of fovereignty were gradually, though flowly, restored to their proper places by the fole influence of thoje rights, which feudal anarchy had not been able to deftroy. We find alfo in this volume, among many other interefting articles, which we cannot even enumerate, an excellent analyfis of the celebrated charter de Villis, which exhibits a complete view of the domeftic economy of Charlemagne, and a curious difcuffion relative to the origin of duels, and the principles on which legiflation and cuftom ought to direct their influence with refpect to that object. This eighth Volume is terminated by a perfpective view of the revolutions that deftroyed the ancient French monarchy, and those that restored it upon a plan more favourable to the authority of the monarch, and (as our Author pretends) to the liberty of the people.

The ninth Volume is published; but as we have not yet received it, we muft referve the more particular mention of it for another occafion.

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume.

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

PORAX, new difcovery relative to
the production of, 237.
BOSWELL, Mr. his directions for
watering meadows, 456.
BRERETON, Mr, his account of the
feal of Q Henrietta Maria, 274.
BROOKE, Mr. his acc. of a Saxon
infcription on Kirkdale church,
114. Of an ancient feal of the
Fitzwalter family, 115.

his defcription of the great
feal of Q. Katherine Parr, 272.
BROTHS, made from flesh, faid to
be pernicious in fevers, 571.
BRUCE, Robert, his pocket-watch
found, 281.

BUCQUET, M. his memoir on the
manner in which animals are
affected by mephitic fluids, 515.
BUFFON, M. his Nat. Hift. Sup.
plement, Vol. V. containing the
Epochas of Nature, 395.
BUGGE, Profeffor, his theory of the
machine for driving piles, 383.
BURNEY, Dr. his acc. of an extra-
ordinary genius for mufic in an
infant, 209.
BUSCH, Profeffor, his acc. of the
commercial academy at Ham-
burgh, 238.

CAMPER, Dr. his acc. of the or-
gans of fpeech in the Orang
Outang, 221.
CANNON. See KING.
CARDAN, his rule for refolving the
cubic equation, &c. investigated,

&c. 43.
CARTWRIGHT, Major, his politi-
cal debate with Lord Abingdon,
385.
CATHOLICS, Roman, late A&t in
favour of, vindicated, 1:6, 149.
Their free toleration in Scotland
defended, 150. The act of par-
liament farther vindicated, 238,
371.
CAZAUD, M. his acc. of a new
method of cultivating the fugar

cane, 222.

CELTS, ancient inftruments fo call-
ed, account of, 110.

CEMENTS, exper. with regard to
the compofition of, particularly
with respect to buildings, 361.
CHARITY confidered, as a Chrif
tian virtue, 295.
CHARLESTOWN, N. England, acc.
of the first fettlement of, 468.
CHINA, the wines, fruits, and
other products of, 519.
CHINESE, their chronology not fa
ancient as pretended by fome
writers, 506. Their history, in
courfe, extremely defective, 508.
Their empire first established a-
bout 1000 years before Chrift,

11. Their mufic, 521. Their
population, 522. Their igno-
rance of Aftronomy, 523. Their
hofpitals for foundlings, 524.
CHIO, in the Levant, defcribed,

517. Its delicious wine, 518. Its
maftic, ib. Medals of, 519.
CHOISEUL, Count de, his defcrip-
tion of different parts of Greece,

517.
CHRIST, death of, confidered in the
fame light with that of Socrates,

it.

CLARENDON, Lord, his hift. of the
rebellion, not altered by the Ox-
ford editor, 303.
CLERGYMAN, rural, poetical en-
comium of, 169.

CLOCKS to frike the hour, enquiry

when first made, 281.
CLUB, rules for one established at
Philadelphia, 205.

COINS, ancient acc. of fome difco-

vered at Fenwick caftle, 113.
And in the Tower of Lond. 276.
COFFINS, ftone. See PEGGE.
COLE, M. his acc. of the ancient

horns, in the cathedral of Car-·
life, 279:

COLONIES, American, when first
an object of British taxation, 465,
COMMERCE. See BANKS.
COMET. See LEXEL.
Cook, Capt. elegant verses to his
memory, by a Lady, 459.
COSROES, K. of Perfia, plunders
Jerufalem, and fells 90,000
Chriftian

on the death of Mr. Thornton,

462.

compofed Dr. Dodd's fpeech at
his trial, 483.

HEARING, Curious exper. relative IRELAND, whether void of fer-

viewers, 253.

HIGHLANDS of Scotland, account
of ancient monuments, &c, in,
273.
HINDOSTAN, remarks on the in-
troduction of English laws into
the eastern provinces of, 147.
HOEFPER, Mr. his Memoir on the
native fedative falt of Tufcany,
&c, 237.
HORNS. See COLE.
HORSES, of the Sybarites, ridicu-
lous ftory of their musical educa-
cation, 577.
HOT-houfe, plants, method of

guarding against infects, 356.
HUNTER, John, his acc. of a fpe-
cies of Hermaphrodite called the
Free Martin, 221.

HUTTON, Mr. his acc. of calcula-
tions made to ascertain the mean
denfity of the earth, 38.

JER

ERUSALEM, its flourishing ftate
in the time of Conftantine, 567.
JEURAT, Mr. account of his co-

nantidiptic telescope, 215.
JEWS, faid to have purchased
90,000 Chriftian captives of
Cofroes K. of Perfia, that they
might have the pleasure of cut-
ting their throats, 568.
INDIA, Eaft.-See TANJORE. See
HINDOSTAN.-Several tracts,
rel. to, 244. See also BENGAL.
See MOGULS.
INSECTS, infefting

hot-houfe
plants, their forts enumerated,
355. Methods of guarding a-
gainst their depredations, ib.

See alfo BLIGHTS.
JOHNSON, Sam. his malignity to-
wards Milton, 479. Animad.
verted on, 480. Said to have

pents, 113. Her commercial re-
ftraints confidered, 162. Her
political connexion with Eng-
land difcuffed, 306, 359- ́
IRWIN, Mr. his Eastern Eclogues
commended, 451. His tender
and elegant compliment to his
wife, 453.

ISAIAH, Book of. See LoWTH.
ITALIANS, their character, 549.

That of their women, 550.
ITALY, the land of painters, itself
the most beautiful picture in the
world, 549.

JUDEA, Country of, its great fer-
tility and populoufness afferted,
565.

KIRKDALE, church of, a Saxon
infcription on, illuftrated, 114.
KING, Mr. his acc. of a curious
piece of ordnance fished out of
the fea, 112.

of a petrifaction
found in East Lothian, 219.
of antiquities dog

up in Merfey island, &c. 271.
KING John's houfe at Warnford.
See WYNDHAM,

KNIGHT, Dr. his method of mak-
ing artificial loadftones, 221.

LANGUAGE, English, various o-

pinions as to its origin, 277.
LASSONE, M. de, his memoir on
the accidents occafioned by ani-
mal putrefaction, 514. On a
method of improving the tartar
emetic, 516.

LATHAM, Mr. his ace. of an ex-

traordinary dropsical case, 217.
LEAD ore, chemical exper. on, 48.
LE CERF, Mr. his improvements in
watch-making, 44. His merit
in this refpect questioned, 176.
LE COMPTE, M. his method of
curing ulcers by the burning-
glass, 514.
LETTER to the Reviewers, com-
cerning the remains of ancient
potteries,