fire to fupport the dignity of the Lords houfe as much as pol fible; and to that purpose it is neceffary at prefent, that all the prerogatives of that houfe, and efpecially the right of judicature, fhould be preferved intire; for if this fhould be loft, they would find it impoffible to preferve their dignity. If it fhould be fuppofed, that there are fome young, unattentive, and unfkilful perfons, at all times among them; it is certainly true on the other hand, that there are and always have been, others of great knowlege and probity, who take care that there fhall be no juft grounds of complaint in their adminiftration of juftice. In fact, I do not find there have been many caufes complained of; and probably this fame care will always be taken, not only from their innate honour and probity and regard to juftice, but also because they know that the House of Commons have their eyes open upon them; and that the Commons will be likely to be fupported by the people, in cafe the Lords do any thing amifs. So that upon the whole, the laft refort could not eafily be better placed, nor the judicial authority in general be much better adminiftered.'

And

We believe the general public fenfe will confirm the honourable teftimony this learned Writer bears to the ability and integrity with which judicial proceedings are conducted in the House of Lords; but the ftrongest testimony of all others is the amazing encrease of business of this kind; and the very numerous appeals which are made at the bar of this aflembly every feffion of parliament: this fhews the confidence which the public places in this court of judicature; and we doubt not there are many great families, both in this, and other kingdoms, that have experienced, to their great and lafting fatiffaction, the wifdom and fidelity of its determinations. we need not fcruple to foretell, that if the body of the British Peers will go on to adminifter juftice, in the manner that it hath been done, for fome years paft, they will on this account, if on no other, retain their dignity and importance in the legislature. The friends of public liberty, though not partial to the aristocratic part of our government, as fuch, have obferved with pleasure, their rifing importance in this instance, and have looked upon it as an earneft of the frequent and early meetings of parliaments, which is the great fecurity of every thing dear to us as Britons. Nor did his Lordfhip need to have expreffed any fears, as though the Houfe of Commons was gaining ground beyond its due proportion: as long as the fons, relations, and dependents of noble families are members of the House of Commons; and fo many boroughs and counties are almost at the difpofal of the peerage in all their elections: as the number of Peers is every day enlarging; and a steady plan of policy pursued for confining and accumulating wealth in that body; and as long as Bps have a feat in the House of Lords, the apprehenfions of the public will certainly run the ⚫ther way. [To be continued.]

INDE X.

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

ANA, books in, account of, 327periments on the compreffi

CONVERSATION, remark on, 207. EDUCATION, general remarks on,

Du MOULIN, Mr. account of, FORMOSA, women there, at what

CLECTIC philofophers, ac- FUMIGATIONS, in places infected, count of, -33.1.

G.

ARDENS, general directions
concerning, 343.
GENIUS, unfavourable to friend-
ship, 357-

GNOSTICS, account of their here-
tical opinions, 100.
Divifions
among them, 102.
GRASSES, obfervations on the fe-
veral forts, 255. Various Cul-
ture of, 256,

H.

JANSSEN and Spencer, their fuit in
chancery, 109.
IDOLATRY, whether punished by
the patriarchs, 176, 392.
Jews, their State, civil and reli-
gious, at the time of Chrift's
birth, 92. Voltaire's notion of
them controverted, 131. Jofe-
phus's account of their antiqui-
ties defended, 136.
IMAGINATION, in pregnant wo-
men, the fuppofed force of, de-
nied, 28. Particular inftances
of, contraverted, 34.

ABEAS CORPUs, act fo cal- INCLOSURES, of land, obfervations

Hled, account of, 559.

HAPPINESS, focial and political
diftinguished, 529.
HARDWICK, Lord, his adjudica-
tion in the caufe between Janffen
and Spencer, 109..
HEDERN, Count, his defence of
inoculation, 542.
HEMLOCK, its ufe in diforders of
the bowels, 182,
HERMAN, Profeffor, account of his
famous cypher, 544.
HERVEY, Mr. objections to fome

of his doctrines, 159.
HINDOOS, of Indoftan, fome ac-
count of, 267.
HOLWELL, Mr. his feasonable hint

to the East India company, 270.
HOPS, their culture and manage-

ment, 349.

HOUSES, ill conftruction of, or bad
fituation, conducive to ill health,

49.
HUME, David, his defamation of

Luther refuted, 432.
HUNTING-SCENE, 325.
HUSBAND, duties of a good one,
187.
HUSBANDRY, the old and new
fyftems of, compared, 254.
HUSBANDS, in feveral countries,
lie-in for their wives, 540.

relative to, 258.

INCUBUS, or night-mare, account
of that diforder, 122.
INDIANS, of Quito, live almost in
a ftate of nature, 41.
INFLAMMATION of the breast,
fymptoms of, defcribed, 52.
INOCULATION, for the fmall-pox,
account of that practice in Scot
land, 125.

defence of, by
Count Hedern, 542. Satan faid
to be its first inventor, ib.
JOHNSON, Dr. his edition of Shake-
fpeare, characterized, 387.
JOHNSON, Mrs. [Swift's Stella]

her life and character, 219–226.
JOSEPHUS, not an unbeliever in

miracles, 134. His Jewish an-
tiquities defended, 13.
ISINGLASS, its importance as a
commercial article, 427. Bri-
tifh, method of proving whether
equal to foreign, 428.
ITALIANS, modern, characterized,
514. Their averfion to labour,
and its ill confequences, 516.
Origin of their Cicisbeos, 521.
JURIES, trial by, and privileges
of, 561.

His illuftration of feveral paffages
in that author, 460.
KEYSER'S, and other pills for the
Ven, Dif. remark on, 372.
KUSTER, Mr. his differtation on
the idol Jodutha, 547.

L.

LABOUR, exceffive, ill effects

of,

LADIES, of Ireland, Swift's unfa-
vourable character of them, 150.
LAPIS Lazuli, account of, 542.
LEARNING, ftate of, in the time of
Trajan, 329. In the 5th centu-
ry, 336.

LEHMANN, his account of a filver
ore, 542, of gum copal, ib.
LETTERS, restoration of, (in the
16th century) public advantages
from, 439.
LIBERTY, religious, its unbounded
extent, 554. Civil, legal pro-
vifions in favour of, 555:
LIEBNITZ, his philofophy founded
in nature, 498. His contro-
verfy with Locke, 499, 501. His
notion of innate ideas, 503. Of
the nature of the foul, 504.
LIEUTAUD, Mr. his account of
the nature of fevers, 525.
Locke, Mr. his controverfy with
Liebnitz, 499, 501, 504. Both
eafily to be reconciled, 505.
LOGOs, critical differtation on, 413.
LONGITUDE, account of attempts

for the discovery of, 64. Par
liamentary reward for, ib. Har-
rifon's invention, 65. Proceed-
ings of the commiffioners, rela-
tive thereto, 169.
LoWTH, Dr. controverfy between
him and Dr. Warburton, 176,
389. His ironical encomium on
the Divine Legution, &c. 391.
LUTHER, Martin, his character,
431. Calumnies invented against
him refuted, 432.
LUXURY, a caufe of depopula-
tion, 48.

M

M.

ADNESS, in dogs, fymptoms
of described, 53. Bite of,
its ufual effects, ib. Practical
directions for the cure of, 54.
A cafe inftanced, 55. Dogs how
cured, ib.
MALADIES, popular, ufual caufes
of, 49.

MALT-LIQUORS, cure for, when
ropy, 355. Method of fining.
429. Stubbornness of, how to
MAN, comparative view of his fa-
remedy, ib.
MANSFIELD, Lord, high enco-
culties with thofe of animals, 356.
mium on, in Bp. Warburton's
MARGGRAFF, Mr. his account of
dedication, 127.
the regulus of antimony, 541-
MARS, quibbling derivation of his
of the Lapis Lazuli, 542.

name, 228.

M'CULLA, Mr. his project for a
new Irish copper-coin, 148.
MELANCTHON, the great reformer,
his amiable character, 437.
MELCHISEDEC, ludicrously men-
tioned by Warburton, 177, 178,
393.

MERIAN, Mr. his enquiry into the
moral fenfe, 545-
MILTITZ, his artful endeavours
to reconcile Luther with the Ch.
of Rome, 435.
MONT MOLLIN, Profeffor. the great
adverfary of Mr. Rouffeau, 507,
512. His very unfavourable cha-
racter, 550. His baseness and
MORAL Senfe, difquifition on, 544-
treachery, 551.
MOSAIC hiftory, chronological dif-
MOSHEIM, Dr. his great charac-
ficulties in, 494:

ter, 443.
MOUNTEBANKS, great mischiefs
done by them, among the com-
Music, philofophically confider
mon people, 60.
ed, 358. Principles of taste in,
founded in nature, 365...
MYSTERIES, ill effects of, 539.
NABOBS,