able law paffed by Sigifmund Auguftus, in favour of Chriftians of all denominations. Final union of the kingdom of Poland and the great dutchy of Lithuania. The kingdom modelled into a republic, upon the death of igismund Auguftus. The first diet of the republic. A perpetual peace agreed upon between the Diffidents. The original meaning of that [12 term. CHA P. IV. The caufes affigned for the great fuperiority which the Roman Catholics in Poland have acquired over the Greeks and Proteftants. Account of Sigifmund the third. Treaty of Oliva. Edict against the Arians. Conftitution of 1717. Opp effion of the Diffidents in confequence of it. Confitution of 1736. Confederacies formed by the Diffident nobles. Declaration of the Emprefs of Ruffia in their favour. Of the King of Pruffia, &c. Malecontents. The diet meets; fome of the members arrested by the Ruffians. A commiffion appointed finally to fettle the affairs of the Diffidents. [17 CHA P. V. Spain. Meafures relative to the expulfion of the Jefuits; the causes that are affigned for that proceeding. The boufes of that fociety in every part of Spain feized by the king's troops; the members arrefted, and their effects Jequefiered. The King of Spain's ordinance against the fociety. The FeJuits transported to Civita Vecchia; but are not Juffered to be landed; from thence they are carried to Corfica. The Jefuits in Mexico, and all the other Spanish colonies, arrefted, and their property feized. Similar meafures purfued in Naples and Sicily. [27 CH A P. VI. Of Cerfica; its ancient fiate granted by a pope to the republic of Pifa: conquered by the Genoefe: oppreffive and impolitic government of it. The Cor cans offer to fubmit themselves to the Turks. The beginning of the prefent troubles in that ifland; the Prince of Wirtemberg with an imperial army compels the malecontents to fubmit. The troubles begin again. Theodore proclaimed king. French army fubdue the island; but upon their departure the malecontents renew the war with more fury than ever. Fafcal Paoli aeclared general of the Corficans: he drives the Genoefe to the fortified towns upon the coafts; and establishes a regular government. The conqueft of the island of Capraja. [34 CHA P. VII. Great difreffes of the poor from the high prices of provifions; riots and tumults thereupon; Jeveral of the rioters taken; fpecial commiffions iffued for their immediate trial. A proclamation against forestalling the parliament prorogued; an embargo laid on fhipsloaded with wheat. The ftate • the East India company; great difputes between the members of it; their affairs become a fubject of general difcuffion. Meffage from the miniftry to the court of India directors; a great increase of dividend carried by a numerous majority of proprietors. The parliament meet; notice taken in the Speech from the throne, of the neceffity that occafioned the late exertion of authority for the preferuation of the public safety. [39 CHAP. VIII. A bill of indemnity for thofe concerned in the late embargo, brought in; great debates thereon; the bill paffed. The bill for reftraining all acts of the affembly of New York, brought in, and paffed. Land-tax reduced to three Jhillings in the pound. Great debates upon India affairs; proposals made by the company for an accommodation with government, the proposals accepted, and a bill paffed for that purpose. Bill for regulating India dividends; great debates thereon; the bill paffes, and the house breaks up. [44 CHRONICLE. [*46 APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. Proteft against the refcinding the East India dividend. Tranflation of his Catholic majesty's ordinance for the banishment of the Jefuits. [180 [185 An authentic narrative of the many horrid cruelties inflicted by Elizabeth Brownrigg upon her poor apprentice girls. [190 Abstract of the trial of William Guest for high-treason, in filing, impairing, c. the current coin of this kingdom. [197 Copy of a letter of her imperial majesty of all the Ruffias, to his excellency count Wolodimer Orlow, director of the academy of Sciences at Peterf burg. [200 Copy of a letter from M. Ramousky, of the imperial academy of Sciences at Peterburg, to Mr. Short of the royal fociety of London. ibid. An account of the last honours paid to his royal highness the duke of York, at Monaco in Italy. A curious account of the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius, on the 19th of October, 1767. [201 [203 Ceremonial of the private interment of his late royal highness the duke of York and Albany, in the royal vault in king Henry the VIIth's chapel. 204 royal highness the duke of Some particulars of the life of his late York. A narrative of the extraordinary diftreffes which we suffered at fea, by the furviving part of the crew of the brig Sally, captain Tabry, bound from Philadelphia to Hifpaniola. Y 2 [211 Oliver CHARACTERS. General charater of the Wilf, as it was in ice me of Hrus tet ftcond. Charader of the Englife and Normani. of the empress Matilda, 5 7 ibid. 10 13 14 15 17 ibid. 21 of Sir Philip Sidney, with a comparison between bin and the celebrated chevalier Bayard. Curious particulars of fome remete nations and tribes of Tartars. Charader of the du e of Skrewfoury. of John duke of Argyle. of the duce of Ormind. 22 23 43 46 of the duke of Berwick, 47 50 of Cordinal de Fleury. 51 52 near Geneva. Anecdutes of Monj. de Voltaire in his present fituation at Fernex in Bargundy, Some account of Mrs. Thomas, the celebrated Corinna. NATURAL HISTORY. Obfervations upon animals, commonly called amphibious by authors. 74 A letter from James Parfons, M. D. F. R. S to the right honourable the earl of Morton, prefident of the royal fociety, on the double horns of the rhinoceros. 79 A letter to the prefident of the royal fociety, containing a new manner of measuring the velocity of wind, and an experiment to ascertain to what quantity of water a fall of snow is equal. 81 Some curious particulars relative to the growth of rhubarb; how an animal talled the marmot contributes to its propagation, and how the natives drý the root. 84 Some account of the horns, called mammon's horns; and the frange opinions the Tartars bold of the kind of animal to which they imagine they belonged. 85 Extract from the Theatre Critico Univerfal. Para Defenganno De Errores Communes, the voluminous work of the famous Spanish Benedictine Monk, Father Feyjoo.xxxa Of Spirits prepared by the force of fire, with fome obfervations for guarding againft and remedying the noxious vapours of charcoal, &c. On the effect of the imagination on a different body. Of the common fenfory affected by paifons. 86 88 92 96 Of the effect of rains, of marshes and bogs, fubterraneous wood, and fubter raneous waters. 99 Obfervations on the cicada, or locufst of America, which appears periodically once in 16 or 17 years. Experiments on a bog's bladder. 103 1сб Obfervation on fome extraordinary Symptoms occafioned by nutmeg taken in too great a quantity. 107 An account of a dwarf kept in the palace of the late king of Poland. 108 New experiments concerning the putrefaction of the juices and humours of animal bodies. 109 Experiment on the beat that may be caused by the rays of the fun reflected from the moon. On a fingular bone, found in the lower belly. 115 116 Account of a petrified beehive, discovered on the mountains of Siout in the Upper Egypt. An extract from Ambrofe Beurer's differtation on the ofteocolla. On a fifh of the river of Surinam, which produces very fingular effects. 122 Obfervation on cures performed by burning. 124 126 1 Copy of Kwiks poft later to the then E. wa D. of K i, wat z lution from the Armenian of his inster to Prince Heredi Archant of an effay on the learning of Shakespear. 22 An effuy on the expreffum of the pofiens in quirting. 215 A letter from the Abbe Marapafo on the mufyal brama, citryfed to the Butlar of an effay on the union of music and poetry. An effay on elegies, - 220 4u biters from Mr. Everard, F. 8. M. containing an adormant of swhich be suas a suitness, at the quick-filver mine of Lára. 2 272 POETRY. |