force or constraint; and is very properly rendered by our tranflatorsHe TOOK ber [TULIT eam. Montanus]. But the reply made by her brethren to the expoftulation of Jacob, is a demonstration that no violence was ufed—“ Should he deal with our fifter as with an barlot ?" Our Correfpondent thinks that Mr. Madan acted very judiciously in palling over this cafe of Dinah, without making any particular obfervations on it. We think he acted disingenuously; for in our view it is a case so much in point, that it could not be pass'd by without defign. If this Letter-writer had defigned to have written a regular reply to the remarks in the Review, he should have taken fome notice of our animadverfions on Mr. Madan's unwarrantable liberties with feveral texts of scripure, before he proceeded to take the cafe of Dinah into confideration. He hath paft over the criticisms on Gen. ii. 24. Mat. xix. 5. and omitted to take any notice of our remarks on Mr. Madan's abfurd interpretation and perverfion of Exod. xxii. 16, 17. In this, we think, he hath acted full as judiciously as Mr. Madan, in his omitting to take notice of the cafe of Dinah. We can give no encouragement to this Correfpondent to continue his animadverfions in the line he hath chofen. If he deems them of too great confequence to be loft to the world, we would advise him to collect them together, and publish them in a pamphlet. They will then fall under our obfervation in the common courfe of reviewing; and we will not fail to pay them all that respect to which their merit fhall entitle them. +++ Our best acknowledgments are due to our Correfpondent L Z, for the hearty laugh he has afforded us, by the defcription of the weekly club, whom, in our defence, we had occafion to mention lately, under the title of the Mathematical Society [M. R. Septemb. 1780, pag. 238.], as having given their fanction to a new philofophical fyftem, on which we had found ourselves obliged to pass fome Atrictures. The particular Reviewer, however, whom he fo earnestly invites to accompany him, incognito, to vifit this body on a Saturday night, would right gladly liften, in a corner, to the learned lecturer's' orations againft.Newton, and in favour of the air ycleped vital, did he not dread detection, and its poffible confequences to his perfon. He muft therefore decline L Z's friendly offer, and be content to enjoy, in idea only, the rich humour of the fcene he paints; part of which he would here tranfcribe, were not the proceedings of the principal actors in it-[he means no difrefpect to the harmless audience, who meet to drink their porter in quiet]-though excellent fubjects for a news-paper effay, rather of too ridiculous a caft to be admitted into a grave and Jober literary journal. Sir Robert Cotton's "Difcourfe on the Authority of the high Court of Parliament," concerning which a Correfpondent inquires, was published three times in the last century; but the impreffions, befides being now not eafily to be met with, are full of faults. Perhaps a new edition, from a more correct manuscript, with notes, might be acceptable to the Public. 2 INDEX INDE X To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume. N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume. IR, inflammable, experiments and obfervations on, 374. Account of a new kind of inflammable air or gass, 375. ACHARD, M. his new invented Thermometer, 501. ACTA Ofnabrugenfa, &c. 141. ADULTERY, ought to be made a capital offence, 275. The nature of this crime defined, 276. AGOSTINI, his collection of an cient gems, 294, ALENTIAN. Ifles, difcovery of, 2. ALLY, Ifman Abu, the Great Arabian Shaik, his good character, 405. ALTAMONT, Lord, his improvements on his eftates in Ireland, 39. AMERICA, North, de facto, an inRe dependent power, 105. flections on the nature of this change in the political world, ib. America formidable from her great increasing population, 107. Her future grandeur predicted, ib. South, reflections on its prefent ftate with regard to its European fubjection, 105. Not yet ripe for revolt, ib. AMERICANS, chiefly Diffenters from the Epifcopal church, 356. Their unconquerable averfion to Epifcopacy, 357Perfecuted by the Epifcopalian party, 440. AMPUTATION of the thigh, improvement in the method of, 122. APP. Rev. Ixiii. ANQUETIL Du Perron, his Oriental publications cenfured, 109. ARABIANS, our first inftructors in ..the fciences, 372. ARABIC language. See KOREIST. ARABS, modern, their perfidious difpofition exemplified, 404. ARCHIPELAGO, Ruffian, difcovery of, 3. ARDMAGH, Archbishop of, his noble public works in Ireland,99. ARNAUD, Abbé, affifts in publifhing a description of the principal gems in the cabinet of the Duc D'Orleans, 293. ARNOLD, Mr. his account of the going of his pocket chronometer, 198. ATKYNS, Sir Robert, his Hift. of Gloucestershire the foundation of a new Hift. of that county, 10, AURUM fulminans, new obs. relat. to, 503. A very dangerous fubftance, 506. BACON, Roger, acquainted with the nature of gun-powder, 410. BAROMETERS, new improvements in, 498. BAROMETRICAL obfervations. See BALL, Mr. his intrigue with ment ment of agriculture, &c. their BEERING'S Ifle, its discovery, 2. ་ BORDE, Dr. Andrew, account of, BUFFON, M. de, his theory of the central fire, &c. contraverted, 139. CAYLUS, Count, his great merit in CHESTERFIELD, Lord, cenfured po- CLOCK The CLOCK, perpetual, 498. animal heat corrected, 500. CZAR Peter, his conduct with re- council of war, ib. FONTANA, Abbé, his exper, and Fox Iflands, their difcovery, 2. 140. means of thountains in Ireland, defcribed, GARDENSTON, Lord, his improve. &c. 297. GIBBON, Mr. poetical compliment GOUT, rules to be observed in the rel. to improvements in, 549. their chronology irrecon- tures, 112. GUTHRIE, Dr. his account of the fumes of burning charcoal, and HAMPTON, Rev. Mr. a Prefbyte- rian minifter, perfecuted by the HARRISON, Mr. hiftory of his ap- proaches toward a difcovery of HAYLES, in Gloucestershire, po- pifh miracle performed there, 11. HILLS, meth. of meaf. them, 537. HISTORY, the chief defects of, HOMER, fuppofed to have been the HOOKE, Dr. his difpute with Huy- Howe, Lord, his conduct in Ame- HUDIBRAS, bad effects produced HUME, David, his hift. of Eng. HURD, |