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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.

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Marriages.

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Principal Promotions.

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Deaths.

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APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE.

The Lords' Proteft, Feb. 8, 1768.

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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.

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Abstract of the Trial of the Coalbeavers.

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of Samuel Gillam, Efq.

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Lord Baltimore's Defence, upon his Trial for a Rape, March 26, 1768. (234 Papers relative to the late difturbances in the Colonies.

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Infeription on a Monument erected by Sir Jeffery Amberst, at Montreal, near Riverhead, in Kent.

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-on a Cenotaph erected by Sir William Draper at Clifton..

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A lift of original pictures at the Royal Society Houfe.

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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

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His Majefty's most gracious speech to both boafes of parliament, on Thursday

the 10th day of March, 1768.

Proclamation for diffolving the Parliament.

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1270

His Majesty's most gracious fpeech to both houses of parliament, on Tuesday
the 8th day of November, 1768.

1272

of the manufacturers and traders of the cities of London and

Westminster, as also thofe of Spital-fields and parts adjacent.

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Manifefto of the Grand Seignor, concerning the war declared by bis highness

against the Empress of Ruffia.

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The declaration of the Imperial Court of Ruffia, upon the arrest of its minifter,

refident at Conftantinople.

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Treaty concluded between the French king and the republic of Genoa, for the

ceffion of the island of Corfica.

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Declaration made by the French king, on fending his troops to take poffeffion of
the island of Corfica.

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Some Account of the Inhabitants of Lombardy, particularly the Milanefe, from
Baretti's Account of Italy.

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Extracts from the life of Bernard Gilpin, Rector of Houghton le Spring, in the
reigns of Queen Mary and Elizabeth; from the third volume of British
Biography.

The Life of Sir John Perrot, from the fame.

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A curious and interesting account of a substance, not before attended to, which
the bees collect, and turn to honey.

ibid

USEFUL PROJECTS.

Curious experiments for preventing the waste of Honey, and preferving the
lives of Bees during the vinter.

Curious method of raifing turkeys to advantage.

ibid.

114

A very cheap and lafting Varnish, proper for pales and coarse work. ibid.
Procelles for dying Leather Red and Yellow, as practifed in Turkey; with
directions for preparing and tanning the Skins.

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.

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Account of a canvas for a lectureship, in a letter to a Bishop.

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An odd fort of diverfion, common in the neighbourhood of Smyrna.

POETRY.

The Fatal Sifters, an ode, from the Norfe Tongue, by Mr. Gray.
The Defcent of Odin, an ode, from the Norfe Tongue, by the fame.

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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.
On the jame.

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.

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231

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
Bath.

238

Occafional Prologue on the Appearance of the New Juliet at the Theatre-Royal
in Covent-Garden, written by Mr. Colman.

ibid.

On feeing Mifs Morris in the character of Juliet.

239

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A Sailor's Defcription of the late Masquerade.

ibid.

On the late Mrs. Cibber, written many years ago, upon her appearance in
Dublin; never before published.

241

The Hamadryads to Lord G-ve-r, on his preventing fome beautiful rows of
trees from being cut down, near a place of public entertainment.
On Gailftown Houfe, by the late Dr. Delany..

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245

The Midnight Magiftrate, written under a picture of Heinfkirk's.

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Lines, by Mr. Garrick, to a Nobleman, who asked him if he did not intend to
fit in parliament.

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On Dowager Lady E. Hd, by the late Earl of Bath.
Real Beauty. Said to be written by the Author of Sermons to Young

ibid.

Women.

ibid.

Verjes faid to have been written by Dr. Johnson, at the request of a Gentle-
man to whom a Lady had fent a sprig of myrtle.
On the Death of the Marchioness of Tavistock.

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An Account of BOOKS published in the Year 1768.

An account of the customs and manners of Italy; by Jofeph Baretti. 250
The narrative of the hon. John Byron (commodore in a late expedition
round the world), from the year 1740 to the year 1746, written by
himself.
Commentaries on the laws of England. Book the third. By William Black-
Stone, efq

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