especially in respect to the conduct of wives; and accordingly, in
1774, he published "An Effay on the Imprudent Behaviour of
Married Ladies towards our Sex." He was also an enemy to
that mafculine article of female attire, the riding habit, which is
now worn at all times of the day, and he delivered his fentiments
on this fubject in a pamphlet published in 1781.

In refpect to his declared averfion and rooted antipathy to
wigs, he will no doubt be confidered as an oddity by all those
who wear them.

In his diet and manner of life Mr. Pennant was very simple.
He feems to have been a great lover of tea; an honest Welsh
parfon, on hearing that he ufually repaired in the afternoon to
his fummer-house to enjoy that beverage, was moved with in-
dignation, that any thing weaker than ale or wine fhould be
drank there, and calling to mind the good times of old, paffion-
ately exclaimed, "his father would have fcorned it!"

He retired to bed by ten, rose both winter and fummer by
feven, when he instantly shaved, and enjoyed a few glaffes of
wine after dinner, but carefully avoided fupper, which he con-
fidered as "the meal of excess."

It was in this manner that life glided away, and that he en-
joyed a "green old age," affailed by but few ailments, until his
feventy-fecond year, when he died, December 15, 1798, amidst
the lamentations of his family, the forrow of his friends, and the
regret of men letters.

Mr. Pennant was rich in academic honours, for he was a
member of the royal focieties of Great Britain and of Upsal, of
the Linnæan fociety of London, of the royal academy of Dron-
theim in Norway, of the focietas pafiographica at Lund in Swe-
den, of the American philofophical fociety, of the royal academy
at Stockholm, of the fociety at Edinburgh for promoting natural
knowledge, of the agricultural fociety at Odiham in Hampshire,

&c. &c.

INDE X.

A

ABBEY MEDNAM, an account of, Note to, 548.

Abyffinia, fome particulars relative to, 133. Bruce arrives in its capital, 135.
Academies, French, their fate in confequence of the Revolution, 98.

Air, Fixed, Lavoifier traces the hiftory of, 107. His difcoveries relative to this fub-
ject, 108. His experiments on inflammable and vital air, 109. The new
theory respecting air, 110, 112.

Aleria, the port in which the baron de Newhoff lands, and is received as a deliverer, 15-
Ambition, criminal only when perverted to bad purpofes, 368, 369.

Ambert, Jeffery Lord, receives a commiffion in the guards, 585. Is patronised by

the duke of Cumberland, 586. Is fent with a body of troops to America, 587.
His proceedings there, 558. Returns home, and is created a knight of the
Bath, 589. Is fuddenly difmiffed from his employment, 590. Is re-establish-
ed, and receives new honours, &c. ib. Retires to his feat in Kent, 59r.
Character, 592.

Anderfen, George, a native of Buckinghamshire, 246. Difplays talents for mathe-
matics, 247. Becomes a village prodigy, and is pat.onifed by a refpectable
clergyman, 248. Is fent to Oxford, 249. Takes a degree, 250. Receives
an appointment at the board of control, 251. Death and character, 252, 253-
Angria, the pirate, attacks all nations, 47. An account of the fortrefles appertaining
to him, 49. Severn-droog is taken by Sir William James, 50. The capture
of Gheriah, 51. Tullagee Angria escapes with his treasure, 52.

Animal magnetifm, an inquiry relative to this fubject, 83.

Arabs, conduct Bruce acroís the defert, 139. He efcapes from one of their chiefs,

140.

Aftronomy, the history of, written by Bailly, 83.

B

Bailly, Jean Sylvain, his birth and family, 79. He addicts himself to aftronomy,
80. Compofés an eloge on Charles V. &c. 81. Enters into a correfpondence
with Voltaire, 82. Lives in great intimacy with Buffon, until the election of
the abbé Maury to a feat in the French academy, 83. Draws up a report
refpecting the hofpital of Hotel-Dieu, 84 Is elected mayor of Paris, &c.:85.
Becomes a victim to the revolutionary tribunal, 86. Defcription of his per-
fon, 87.

Bakewell,

Bakewell, Robert, born in Leicestershire, 199. Difplays talents as a breeder of cattle,

200. The high prices of the Dishley stock, 202. The manner in which he
obtained his knowledge, 203. New mode of conveying turnips to the home-
ftead, 204. Death and character, 208, 209.

Barthelemy, the abbé, his birth, 179. Is fent to Marseilles for his education, 180.

Acquires great reputation for learning, while a ftudent, 181. Repairs to Paris,
182. Procures a place in the cabinet of medals, 183. Becomes an affociate of
the cabinet of infcriptions, 184. Is nominated keeper of the cabinet of me-
dals, 185. Is patronised by the duke and duchefs de Choifeul, 186. Vifits
Italy, 187. Repairs to Vienna, 189. His noble conduct towards his benefac-
tor, 190. Publishes the travels of Anacharfis, 191. Becomes a member of the
French academy, 192. Is denounced and arrefted, 194. Is released from
prifon, and offered the place of keeper of the national library, 195. His death,
196. Eloge by Dufaulx, 197.

Baxter, Andrew, dedicates a work to Mr. Wilkes, 520.
Benda, George, his family poffefs a tafte for mufic, 225. Repairs to Gotha and dif--
tinguishes himself by his airs and fymphonies, 225. Is fent to Italy, 226. On
his return, refigns, and vifits Hamburgh and Vienna, 227. Repairs to Pairs,
228. Character, 229, 230.

Bernstorff, count de, his family, birth, and education, 359.

Becomes prime minifter
of Denmark, 371. Projects ufeful reforms, 374. Performs eminent fervices
to his country, 375. Eres a new tribunal for the fettling of differences and
preventing of law-fuits, 376. Completes the enfranchisement of the boors,
377. Joins the armed neutrality, 379. Denmark increases her trade under
his wife adminiftration, 380. He encourages industry, and extends his patriot
cares to Norway and Iceland, 383. Is prefented with a medal, as a testimony
of his glorious administration, 384. Takes the neceffary steps towards the
abolition of the flave-trade, 385. Becomes a member of the board of agricul-
ture, ib. His letter to the prefident, 386. Review of his administration,
387. Defcription of his perfon, 388.

Bill, the India, occafions the downfall of the coalition administration, 492.
Biographia Britannica, the new edition of, undertaken by Dr. Kippis, 215. The
affiftance of Dr. Towers called in, 216.

Bruce, James, the traveller, fuppofed to be defcended from the Scottish kings, 127.
Is appointed conful at Aleppo, 128. Studies Arabic, and aliociates with the-
natives, 129. Vifits the Greek islands, the coaft of Syria, and Egypt, 130,
131, Enters the Abyffinian empire, 132. Arrives in the capital, 134.
Acquires powerful protection, in confequence of his skill in medicine, 135..
Determines to penetrate to the fources of the Nile, 137. Leaves Abyffinia,
138. Arrives at the capital of the kingdom of Senaar, 140. Reaches the con
fines of Egypt, 141. Sees a Turkish village, 142. His reception at the British
court, 143. Publishes an account of his travels, 146. Dies in Scotland, 148.
Bürger, Godfred-Auguftus, his birth, 118. Is confidered as a dunce, 119. Discovers
talents for poetry, 120. Writes epithalamiums, birth day odes, &c. 121.
Marries a farmer's
Becomes fteward to the manor of Alten-Gleichen, 122.
daughter, 123. Tranflates Macbeth, 124. Becomes farmer, 125. Takeş

for

for his fecond wife a poetefs, from whom he foon feparates, and dies of a pul-
monary consumption, 126.

Burke, Edmund, a native of Ireland, 461. Is fent to Ballytore boarding-fchool, 461.
Studies at the university of Dublin, 463. Attacks Dr. Lucas, the famous pa-
triot, 464. Becomes a candidate for a Glasgow profefforship, 464. Enters as
a ftudent of the Inner Temple, 465. Writes for the newspapers, &c. 465.
Becomes an author, 466. Accompanies Mr. Hamilton to Ireland, 467. Sela
the penfion he had obtained there, 468. Becomes private fecretary to Lord
Rockingham, ib. Oppofes the expulfion of Mr. Wilkes, 470 Becomes a
Aeady and uniform opponent to the American war, 471. Forms an intimacy
with Mr. Fox, 473. Becomes a candidate for Bristol, 473.
his celebrated propofitions for putting an end to the war, 475. He, and many
of his friends, determine to fecede from parliament, 479. Is made a privy
counsellor, and nominated to the lucrative office of paymaster-general, 489.
Becomes the penman of the India bill, 492. Is driven from power, 492. Im-
peaches Mr. Haftings, 493. Accepts of a penfion, 497. Character, 499-

с

Caffis, the birth place of the abbé Barthelemy, 179. ☆ i

Brings forward

Catharine II. her birth and family, 259. Is pitched upon by the emprefs Elizabeth

as confort to her nephew, 259. Repairs to St. Petersburgh, and after being ad-
mitted into the bofom of the Greek church, receives the hand of the grand-
duke, 260. She governs Peter, in confequence of the fuperiority of her under-
ftanding, 261. Conceives a regard for Poniatowski, 262. Applies herself to
Rudy, and affects to be a devotee, 263. Proposes that Peter should be recog-
nifed by the fenate, inftead of being faluted by the army, 264. Forms a plot
against her confort, 266. She afcends the throne of the czars, and notifies her
affumption to all the courts of Europe, 267. Is recognised by the title of Ca-
tharine-Alexiewna II. 268. Is determined to foothe the ambition of the Raf-
fians, and begins by giving a fovereign to Courland, 273. Impofes a king on
Poland, 274. Térrifies the Ottoman Porte, firft into an acknowledgment of
the independence of the Crimea, afterwards of its fubjection to Rusia, 275-
Repairs to Kiow, where the is received under triumphal arches, and then vifits
Mofcow, 276. The Turks having declared war, her army feizes on Ifmael,
and commits terrible outrages, 277. Concludes an advantageous peace with
the Turks, and patronifes the pope, 278. Her majefty's private life, 279,
280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287. An account of the death and per-
fon of Catharine, 288. Her temperance, 289. Immense fums lavished by her
on favourites, 290, 291. Note.

Charron, Mr. an ingenious artist, recollects to have feen king Theodore lying in ftate,
26.

Chemistry, is greatly indebted to the labours of Lavoisier, 111.

Clubs, an account of the Eumelean, 401. The Unincreafable, 402. The Effex-
street, ib. The Turk's head, Note to 466. The St. James's coffee-house,
Note to 467.

Cook, the circumnavigator, his eloge written by Bailly, 81.

Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de, his birth and noble extraction, 88. He

publifaes

publishes his first work, and begins to be confidered one of the greatest geome-
tricians in Europe, 89. Becomes a member of the French academy, 90.
Writes a philofophical work, 91. Is appointed fecretary-elect to the academy,
and publishes the cloge of Fontaine, 92. Is nominated a member of the national
affem.bly, 98. Draws up the manifefto relative to the war, 100. Is included
in the decree against the Girondifts, 101. Flies from Paris, and dies in prifon,
J02. His character, 104, 105.

Corfica, an hiftorical account of, 6. The Genoefe abuse their power, in confequence
of which the natives revolt, 7. The baron de Newhoff employs his good
offices, 10. A deputation proffers him the crown, 11. He repairs to Con-
ftantinople, to folicit the affistance of the Turks, 13. Arrives in the port of
Aleria, 15. Is crowned amidit the applaufes of the people, ib. He attempts
to reform the natives, 16. Establishes a militia, ib. Inftitutes the order of
deliverance, 17. The priests confpire against him,

The people abandon

him, 19.
He determines to leave his kingdom, and affembles the states, 20.
Nominates a regency, 21.

Corte, the capital of Corfica, where the baron de Newhoff is elected king, 15.

Courland, the emprefs Catharine's conduct in respect to, 273.

Cuba, the difafters to which captain, afterwards Sir William James, and his crew,

were expofed in the neighbourhood of that island, 46.

D

Dancer, Daniel, his birth and family, 152. An account of his habitation, 153. His
manner of life, 154. Becomes acquainted with lady Tempest, 155. She pre-
fents him with a bed, 156. Death and burial, 157. Character, 158. Va-
rious anecdotes of him, 160, 161, 162, 163.

Deliverance, the order of, inftituted by king Theodore, 17.

Denmark, melancholy fituation of, previously to the administration of Bernstorff, 371.
Ancient conftitution of, 372. Perjury of Frederick III. 373. Her liberties
overturned, 373. Refcued from her dependence on Ruffia by Bernstorff, 375.
Ufeful reforms introduced by that great minifter, 376. Joins the armed neu-
trality, 379. Benefits refulting from this, 380. Her peafantry are emanci-
pated, 383. She avoids the war of the revolution, 384. She abolishes negro
flavery in her colonies, 385.

Difhley, the refidence of Robert Bakewell, the celebrated breeder, 199. Some obfer-
vations on the cattle produced there, 201 High prices of, 202, 2c6.
Dodd, Dr. an original letter written by him a little before his execution, to coloneľ
Frederick, 342.

Dryden, Sir John, his family, 362. Is educated at Harrow, and makes the grand

tour, under Dr. Nugent, 363. Enters into the guards, and marries the great
grand-niece of the poet Dryden, 364. Is first knighted, and then made a
baronet, 365. His health declines, in confequence of his exertions, ib. Death
and character, 366, 367.

Sir Edward, educated under the eye of his mother, 366.

Dupuy, Louis, an account of his father, 163. He studies at Lyons, 164. Attempts
to acquire a knowledge of finance, but refigns a profitable fituation in difguft,
165. Difplays greaterudition, 166. Becomes a writer in the Journal de Sça-
vans, 167. Exercifes the functions of a cenfor, 171. Remarkable faying at
his death, 172. His character and purfaits, 173, 174, 175.

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