LAWRENCE, Mr. his verses on the
birth of the prince of Wales, 20.
LAWS of England, their rude and
imperfect ftate in the early peri-
ods of our history, 62. Whether
the obfolete ftatutes ought to be
annihilated, 63. Inconvenience
of the multiplicity of penal laws,
ib. and 65. The indiscriminate
feverity of our ftatute laws com-
plained of, 64. Laws against
irreligion, &c. deftructive to co-
lonies, 403. How far pernici-
ous to fociety in general, ib.
LEE, Sir Thomas, his fpeech in
the house of commons, on the
non- attendance of members,
125. On bribery and corrup-
tion, 134. His remark on the
ftate of the navy, 189. His
motion on fome diforderly pro-
ceedings at a grand committee,
192. His motion relating to
polygamy, 195. Remark, on a
breach of privilege, 260.
On

the abdication of James II. 415.
LE ROY, Monf. his kuins of A-
thens compared with Mr. Stu-
art's Antiquit es of that famous
city, 305. The blunders of the
French artit, 307.
LIBERTIES of the people, in moft
danger in times of the greatet
fecurity, 210.

LIBERTY illuftrated and defended,

115 Of the Prefs afferred, 117,
and vindicated, in oppofition to
an Oxford Writer, 118.

Goddess of, her wor
ship among the Romans, 510.
Cap of, manner of giv

it to Roman laves, 513.
LICENSE, of plays, a fatal ftroke
to the Liberty of the Prefs, 363.
Actual ill confequence thereof,
364.
LITERARY Reputation, the right
of attacking it, 503.
LITTLETON, Sir Thomas, his
fpeech in the houfe of co.amons,
relating to the fpeaker's being a
courtier, 126. Speaks in the

LONGITUDE, new method of find-
ing, 406.
Love, the effence of true religion;
and Hatred the practice of reli-
gious parties, 44•

LoWTHER, Sir John, his fpeech on
the feizure of Montagu's papers,
264. On place-men in parlia-
ment, 417. On the mal-admini-
ftration of public affairs, 421.
Lucy, Sir Kingfmill, his fpeech on
an addrefs for removing the duke
of Lauderdale, 192.
LUNATION, Mean, exact length
of, 435.

LYTTLETON, Hon. Mr. his verses
on the birth of the prince of
Wales, 20.

Attendance an indifpenfible du-
ty, 125. Debate on the re-
moval of evil counsellors, 129.
On the duke of Buckingham's
juftification of himself before the
houfe, 131. On impreffing fea-
men, 132. On bribery and cor-
ruption. 134. On a motion for
producing certain records, 188.
On recalling British fubjects from
French fervice, 190. Disorderly
proceedings thereon, 191. On
a bill for making Polygamy fe-
lony, 194. On the growing
greatnefs of France, 195. On
abuses in the courts of juftice,
198. On the ladies in the gal-
lery, 199. On the royal prero-
gative, 258. On a breach of
privilege, 260. On a fupply,

261. On the feizure of Mr.
Montagu's papers, 264.

On
Titus Oats's behaviour, 331.
On the bill for excluding the
duke of York from fucceeding
to the crown, 334, feq. On the
abdication of James II. and for
limiting the power of his fuc.
ceffor, 41. On placemen in
parliament, 416. On the fove-
reign's regard to foreigners, 418.
On the mal-adminiftration of
public affairs, 420. On the
king's negative voice to bills,

422.

PATRIOTS in parliament in the

reign of Charles II. their virtue
and perfeverence, 266.
PEACE, the best too dear, if pur-
chased at the expence of liberty,

206.

PEERAGE, whence derived, 141.
PELHAM, Mr. Heary, his defence
of the reduction of intereft, 251.
PENAL Laws, the nature and ex-
pediency of, 500. Not acts of
vengeance, ib. Should be adapt-
ted to the crime, 501.
PENITENTS, in the Magdalen hof-

pital, elegiac verfes on, 113.
PENSIONERS, the creation of fu-
pernumerary ones condemned,

212.

PETER, Czar, his travels into Hol
land and France, 551. His
conduct with regard to his fon
Alexis, ib. Exculpated by Vol-
taire, 555:

PHILIPS, Mr. his verfes on the
birth of the prince of Wales, 21.
PITT, Mr. account of his refigna-
tion, 366.

POEMS to be found among the an-
tiquities of all nations, 145. The
ancient more generally pleasing
than the modern, 149.
POETRY, how far it can be faid
to be more ancient than profe,
145. Barbarous times favour-
able to the poetical spirit, 146.
Difadvantages of poetry on ac-
count of modern refinements,
147. Accuracy inconfiftent with
fublimity, ib. Thefe opinions.
controverted, 148, feq. Poeti-
cal imagery and defcription con-
fidered, 149. Of the Spanish

poetry, 293.
Of the French
poetry, 564. Of the Turkish
poetry, 465.
POLLEXFEN, Mr. his fpeech on

king James's abdication, 413.
POLYGAMY, debate on in the
houfe of commons, 194. Ad-
miffible in certain countries and
circumstances, 504. Neceflary
to population, ib.

PowLE, Mr. his objections in the
boufe of commons to the fpeak-
er's being a privy-counsellor,
128. His speech on the removal
of evil counsellors, 130.
PREACHING, its ufe in the Chrifti-
an world, 40. Neither chrifti-
anity nor morality can fubfit
without it, 41. Its abuse, ib.
PRELATICAL Titles, impiety of,
humourously fhewn, 98.
PRESS, liberty of, what it is not,

liberties of the people, 142.
Their right of electing repre-
fentatives in parliament derived
from their independency, ib.
Property in trade ought to con-
fer the fame right, 143. Great
inequality in the conftitution, in
this refpect, ib. Non-electors,
the majority of substantial and
independent inhabitants of this
kingdom, 144.
PRUSSIA, prefent king of com-
pared to Mofes, 235. Cenfured
for his feverities in Saxony, 255.
Anecdotes concerning, 518.
late king of, his
quar-
rel with king George the IId.
520. His behaviour to the royal
academy of fciences, 522.
PSALM ii. 7. Criticifm on, 273.
civ. 4. Criticifm on, 339.
PALMS, CIX. and cx. Green's
tranflation of, 269, 272.

1

Sacheverel's motion to
have it printed, 189. Import-
ance of that record, 190.
REGENERATION, account of, 313.
REPRESENTATIVES of the people
in parliament, a balance to the
hereditary power of the lords,
141. Their proper constitu-
ents, who, and whence their
right of electing derived, 142.
Great alteration and defect pro-
duced by commerce, in this part
of the constitution, ib. Necef-
fity of comprehending the trad-
ing interest, ib.
RESOLUTIONS of the house of

commons, fome spirited ones,
334. On the abdication of
James II. 410. On the appli-
cation of the falaries, &c. of the
crown offices, to public uses,
418. On the king's refufing to
pals a bill, 423.
REWARDS, future, the notion of,

how far confiftent with the focial
affections, 43.

RHINE, river, famous cataract of,
poetically defcribed, 379-
RICH, Sir Robert, his difinterested

fpeeches in parliament, 417,418.
ROME, Campagna of, account of
its unhealthy air, 217. Means
ufed to remove this evil, 218.
No fociety at Rome for phyfics
and mathematics, 219. The
ftudy of antiquities chiefly cul-
tivated there, 220.
ROUSSEAU, his fyllem of educa
tion, 1-14. Continued, 81-
95. His letter to the archbishop
of Paris, on that prelate's man-
date iffued against him, 224.
Roors, fquare and cube, 230, feq.
RUSSEL, admiral, his motion re
lating to placemen, 417.
S.

ACHEVERELL, Mr. his obfer

mons on impreffing feamen, 132
-133. On a motion concern-
ing records, 189. On abufes in
the courts of juftice, 198. On
the abdication of king James,
413.

SACKVILLE, Sir Edward, abufes
Titus Oats, 330.
SALT-Box, mufical, verses adapted
to, 480.

SAWYER, Mr. his fpeech on in-

preffing feamen, 132. On an
addrefs for removing the duke of
Lauderdale, 192. On the wrang
ling debate about a fupply, 263.
SCRIBBLERUS, Martinus, his cri-
ticism on the Oxford and Cam-
bridge verses on the birth of the
prince of Wales, 14. His droll
tranflation of Mr. Swinton's Pal-
myrene poem, 17.

SECRET-fervice-money, proceed-
ings of the commons relating to,
332.
SEPTUAGINT, Greek verfion a-
roneous, 430.
SERMON, poetical and anodyne,
96.

SEX-

SERMONS, no probability of a
dearth of them, 39-40.
SERVIA, defarts of, 392. Mifery
of the inhabitants, ib.
SEYMOUR, Mr. his fpeech on the
abdication of king James, 414..
Sir Edward, his speech
on the king's attachment to fo-
reigners, 419.
SHUTER, the player, anecdote con-
cerning his piety, 71.
SLAVERY, the ancient ftate of, lefs
barbarous than that of modern
labourers, 536.

SLOANE, Sir Hans, his life, 47.
His recipe for fore eyes, 54, the

note.

SMUGGLING, reports concerning,

to the house of commons, 343•
SNOWDON, Ode to, on the birth of
the prince of Wales, 22.
SOBRIETY in no esteem among

Perfians, 533

SOLAR Days, all equal, 430.
Years equal, 431.

the

Days and years commen-
furate to each other, ib.
SOUL, the feat of, conjectured,
526.
SOUND echoing to the fenfe, ex-
trao dinary inftance of,
in a
mock ode on St. Cecilia's day,
480.
SPAIN, all our accounts of that
country unsatisfactory, 287. Ap-
pearance of the country, from
Corunna to Madrid, defcribed,
289 Its inhabitants character-
ifed, ib. Reflect ons on the ftate
of literature there, 292. The
inquisition a great enemy
learning, 293. Poetry of Spain,
ib. Theatre, ib. & 294.
SPEECHES, published as parlia-
mentary, generally spurious, 123.
Anecdote on that head, 124.
STOCKDALE, Mr. his free expref-
fion in the house of commons,
concerning the duke of Lauder-

to

dale, 130.
STRANGEWAYS, Col. fpeaks in the
house of commons against bri-
bery, &c. 134.

STRICKLAND, Sir William, his re-
mark in the houfe of commons,
on the mal- adminiftration of
public affairs, 420.
SUPERIORITY, the difpute con-
cerning, between the fexes, ab-
furd, 83.
SWINTON, Mr. his Palmyrene
poem on the birth of the prince
of Wales in the Oxford collec-
tion, ridiculed, 17.
Swiss Cantons, poetical encomium
on their liberty, 381.
SYKES, Dr. his expofition of the
imprecations in the 109th Pfalm,
271.
SYMPATHY, Rouffeau's mistaken
notion concerning it, 3. Not
voluntary, 4.

TILSON, Mr. his verfes on the

birth of the prince of Wales, 26.
TITUS, Col. his fpeeches concern-
cerning the ftate of the nation,
189. On the king's negative
voice to bills, 422.

THEOCRITUS not a romantic writ-
er, 464. The characters and
manners defcribed by him ftill
exifting in real life, ib.
THOMPSON, Sir John, his fpeech
against placemen in the house of
commons, 416. On the king's
negative voice to bills, 423.
THOMSON, eulogium on his Sea-
fons, by an English bard, 398.
THORN