CHAP. XI. State of the Ministry. The Parliament meets. The King in his Speech recommends a particular attention to the diftreffes of the people, occafioned by the high price of provifions. Petition from the City of London on that fubject; proceedings and debates thereon. A new Bill for reftraining Eaft India dividends. Petition against it from the Company. Great debates on the fubject ; the Bill paffes. Motion for bringing in the Nullum Tempus Bill. Tranfactions relative to that motion. Great debates thereon; the affair deferred to the next feffion. A bill passed for limiting the duration of the Irish Parliaments. An end put to the feffion; Parliament diffolved, and writs iffued for a general Election. New Parliament meets; address on the late difturbances; Provifion Bills renewed; the Parliament adjourns. The CHRONICLE. Births for the year 1768. [*75 [57---205] [206, Marriages. [207 Principal Promotions. [209 Deaths. [213 APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. The Lords' Proteft, Feb. 8, 1768. [219 The Speech of the Speaker of the House of Commons to the Mayor, Bailiffs, &c. of Oxford, when he reprimanded them on their knees, February 10, 1768. [221 Abstract of the Trial of the Coalbeavers. [222 of Samuel Gillam, Efq. [227 Lord Baltimore's Defence, upon his Trial for a Rape, March 26, 1768. (234 Papers relative to the late difturbances in the Colonies. [235 Infeription on a Monument erected by Sir Jeffery Amberst, at Montreal, near Riverhead, in Kent. [255 -on a Cenotaph erected by Sir William Draper at Clifton.. 257 A lift of original pictures at the Royal Society Houfe. [258 An account of the public debts at the receipt of the exchequer, ftanding out the 5th day of January, 1768, with the annual intereft, or other charges, paya His Majefty's most gracious speech to both boafes of parliament, on Thursday the 10th day of March, 1768. Proclamation for diffolving the Parliament. £269 1270 The lord chancellor's fpeech to both houses of parliament, at the opening of the feffion on Wednesday the 11th of May, 1768, when the commons prefented their fpeaker, for the approbation of the lords commiffioners appointed by his His Majesty's most gracious fpeech to both houses of parliament, on Tuesday 1272 of the manufacturers and traders of the cities of London and Westminster, as also thofe of Spital-fields and parts adjacent. art, and mystery of weavers, London. A proclamation against riots, tumults, and unlawful affemblies, &c. [ibid. Lord Viscount Townshend's speech to both houses of parliament at Dublin, May 27, 1768, with the proclamation for diffolving the parliament. The address of the boufe of peers in Ireland to the lord lieutenant. Manifefto of the Grand Seignor, concerning the war declared by bis highness against the Empress of Ruffia. [281 The declaration of the Imperial Court of Ruffia, upon the arrest of its minifter, refident at Conftantinople. [283 Treaty concluded between the French king and the republic of Genoa, for the ceffion of the island of Corfica. [284 Declaration made by the French king, on fending his troops to take poffeffion of Some Account of the Inhabitants of Lombardy, particularly the Milanefe, from Some extracts from the history of the great Prince of Conde, by Deformaux. 19 Character of Cardinal Richlieu, by De Bury. of Mrs. Pritchard, the celebrated actress. Some Account of Father Finetti, a Dominican Friar, by Baretti. Extracts from the life of Bernard Gilpin, Rector of Houghton le Spring, in the 49 Character of Sir John Hawkins, the famous navigator, from the fame. of Sir Francis Drake, from the fame. Some account of the Countess Dowager of Shrewsbury, from the fame. Account of fome very large foffil teeth, found in North America. Sequel to the account of foffil teeth. Of the increafe and mortality of the inhabitants of the island of Madeira. A table fhewing the different degrees of fecundity of feveral kinds of fifb. A curious and interesting account of a substance, not before attended to, which ibid An account of trials made with different medicines, reckoned the most effectual in cafes of canine madness, on eleven perfons bitten by a mad volf USEFUL PROJECTS. Curious experiments for preventing the waste of Honey, and preferving the ibid. A very cheap and lafting Varnish, proper for pales and coarse work. ibid. ibid ANTIQUITIES. Account of the expences of his prefent majesty's ftate coach, made in 1762 138 Table of Saxon coins, their names, weights, and values, from Mr. Clarke's connexion of the Roman, Saxon, and English coins. An explanation of Egyptian hieroglyphics. MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. 139 ibid. Some account of Dr. Kennicott's undertaking to collate the different manuscripts, and the beft printed editions, of the Hebrew Bible. 146 An article on hiftory, by Voltaire. 157 Reflections on modern hiftorians, and the uncertainty of Hiftory, by the fame. 160 Of the Auguftan Agè in England. A defcription of the Paraclete. 164 169 A Letter of M. de Voltaire to M. de Paulet, on the fubject of his fcheme for the fuppreffion of the small-pox. 175 An applauded Dialogue, written in the manner of Plato, by Voltaire. 180 A Letter from Voltaire to the Ruffian ambassador at Paris. 182 to the Chevalier Vanfommer at London. 183 Account of a canvas for a lectureship, in a letter to a Bishop. An odd fort of diverfion, common in the neighbourhood of Smyrna. POETRY. The Fatal Sifters, an ode, from the Norfe Tongue, by Mr. Gray. 211 213 The Triumphs of Owen, a fragment, from fpecimens of Welch Poetry, by the fame. 215 Ferney, an epiftle to M. de Voltaire, by George Keate, efq. 216 Ode for the new year. 222 Prologue to the Good-natured Man, written by Dr. Johnson. 223 Mrs. Pritchard's Farewell-Epilogue. 224 An Anatomical Epitaph on an Invalid, written by himself. ibid. Ode for the day appointed for celebrating her majefty's birth-day, at the caftle of Dublin, Feb. 8, 1768. 225 Abufe of names of great renown. 226 The facking of Covent-Garden. An Epitaph, for the Rev. Lawrence Sterne's tomb-ftone, by a Lady. 227 ibid. ibid. Ode for his Majesty's birth-day, June 4, 1758. 229 Epitaph on Bonnell Thornton, efg. 230 Verfes pafted on the walls of Guildhall during the election. Extempore on a Pipe of Tobacco. 230 A Fragment of Solon, preferved in the Oration of Demofthenes, De falfâ legatione. by Ifaac Hawkins Brown, efq. ibid. On Phabe, by the fame. 232 On the fame, by the fame. 233 An epiftle, written in the year 1764, by a gentleman of Oxford. ibid. The Hermite's Addreffe to Youthe, written in the gardens of the Vauxhall at 238 Occafional Prologue on the Appearance of the New Juliet at the Theatre-Royal ibid. On feeing Mifs Morris in the character of Juliet. 239 A Sailor's Defcription of the late Masquerade. ibid. On the late Mrs. Cibber, written many years ago, upon her appearance in 241 The Hamadryads to Lord G-ve-r, on his preventing fome beautiful rows of 243 245 The Midnight Magiftrate, written under a picture of Heinfkirk's. Lines, by Mr. Garrick, to a Nobleman, who asked him if he did not intend to 247 On Dowager Lady E. Hd, by the late Earl of Bath. ibid. Women. ibid. Verjes faid to have been written by Dr. Johnson, at the request of a Gentle- An Account of BOOKS published in the Year 1768. An account of the customs and manners of Italy; by Jofeph Baretti. 250 |