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ANTIQUITIES.

The Order of the Maunday, made at Greenwich, March 19, 1572. 128 Account of the New Year's Gifts prefented to Queen Elizabeth, 1584-5 129 The Manner of burienge great Perfons in ancient Tymes.

130

A Remembrance of the Order and Manner of the Burial of Mary Queen of
Scots.

An ancient Indenture relating to a Burgess in Parliament, &c.
Obfervations on the Roman Roads.

131

134

ibid.

The Nature of the British Commerce before and after the coming of the

Romans.

137 A Difcourfe of Shereborne Caftell and Manor, written in the Year 1620

143

A Narrative of the Jufts, Banquetts, aud Disguisings, used at the Inter-
taynement of Katherine, Wife to Prince Arthure, eldeft Sonne to King
Henry VII.
Anecdote of John Perfom, an English Yeoman, in the 4th of Henry VII. 151

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

144

152

A Difcourfe delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, on the Diftribution of the Prizes, December 14, 1770, by the Prefident. Remarks on Montefquieu and Voltaire, &c. with Obfervations upon the State of French Literature in the prefent Century.

159

An Effay on Subjects of Chemistry, and their general Divifion.
Difference between ancient and modern Aftronomy.

167

173

Thoughts on Quacks of all Denominations, by M. de Voltaire.

176

Extract from Mr. Voltaire's Anfwer to Mr. Mirabaud's Treatife, intitled,

The fyftem of Nature.

181

Obfervations on the Patriotism of the Ancient and Modern Greeks.

184

On the economical Genius of the Italians.

186

An Account of fome Veftiges of Cultivation and Antiquity, which the French

met with in their attempt to trace out the Faffage by Land from Canada to the South Sea.

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The Miftake; an Anecdote of the late King of Pruffia.

203

An Ancient Stone and Infeription recovered.

Reflections on Dramatic Performances.

POETRY.

Extract from the Loves of Medea and Jafon.

Extracts from the Minstrel; or the Progrefs of Genius.

Specimen of a Tranflation of the Lufiad of Camoens; by Mr. Mickle.
Ode for the New Year, 1771. By William Whitehead, Efq;

205

210 215

218

Epilogue

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Epilogue to the Tragedy of Almida, by Mr. Garrick.

To a Lady curling her Hair.

219

220

4 Tour to Stockholm; tranflated from the Latin of the celebrated M. Huet, Bishop of Atranche, by Ì, Duncombe, M. A.

Part of a Chorus in Tao's Amyntas, tranflated.

221

230

Tranflation of the celebrated Soliloquy of Amarillis in Guarini's Paftor Fido.

Ode for his Majesty's Birth-Day, June 4, 1771. By William Whitehead, Elys

Prologue to the new Comedy called the West Indian.

Epitaph on Mr. Powell's Monument at Bristol.

232

233

234

235

ibid.

236

ibid.

237

Verfes addreffed to Mrs. Montague, Author of“ An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear."

On an Urn (now erected) to the Memory of William Shenstone, Efq; in HalesOwen Church-yard, Shropshire.

ibid.

ibid.

An Addrefs to an Ironmonger, on his Birth-day.
Lines left at a Coffee-Houle in Cambridge.
Epitaph on a Mifer, by William Stevenson, Efq;
Epitaph on a Horse.

Epitaph on the Right Hon. George Grenville.

238

ibid.

Jeux d'Elprit, prefented by the Hon. H. Walpole to four French Ladies, upon
a Vifit to him at his Villa at Strawberry-Hill.
Lines fuppofed to be written on finding a Pair of Shoes on the Bed of one of
the Female Members of the Coterie.

Ode to Leven-Water; by the Author of Roderick Random.
On Contentment.

239

ibid.

240

The Partridges, an Elegy. Written on the lafi Day of August, by the Rev. Mr. Pratt, of Peterborough.

241

To an Infant fleeping ia the Arms of its Mother. By the fame. 242 Extract from Verfes fent to a Lady on her Birth-Day. By the fame. 244 Elegy to a Lady who wished not to hear the Toll of a Bell on the Evening of the late Princefs Dowager's Funeral.

ACCOUNT of BOOKS publifhed in the Year 1771.

245

Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland. From the Dissolution of the last Parliament of Charles II. until the Sea Battle of La Hogue. By Sir John Dalrymple, Bart. In 1 Vol. Quarto.

246

An Elay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Oppofition to Sophiftry and Scepticism. By James Beattie, LL. D. Profeffor of Moral Philofophy and Logic in the Marifchal College and University of Aberdeen. The Second Edition, corrected and enlarged, 8vo.

252

The History and Art of Horfemanship. By Richard Bererger, Efq. Gertleman of the Hore to his Majesty. In two Volumes, Quarto.

260

THE EN D.

Printed by J. Crowder and E. Hemfied,

Warwick-Square.

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