The ftate of politics in Europe appears pregnant with extraordinary events. In the pre

fent volume we have completed our account of the diffentions in Holland, and have thus cleared the way for the more extensive concerns of the commotions in France, and the intrigues of the Czarina and the Emperor,

The Literature of the year 1787, has not been altogether fo productive of valuable publications as the year 1786, or as the prefent year promises to be. In the mean time fome performances of merit have appeared, and the reader will find that they have not escaped our notice,

CON

CONTENT S.

THE Hiftory of Knowledge, Learning, and Tafle, in Great Britain,

during the Reign of King Henry the Eighth. From the Year 1509, to

the Year 1547.

BRITISH and FOREIGN HISTORY.

CHA P. I.

Page i

Affairs of Bengal, Situation of Oude. Negociations at Delhi. Oecono-

mical Reform. Mr. Haftings refigns. Affairs of the Carnatic. Sur-

render of the Revenues, Lord Macartney refigns,

CHA P. II.

3

Proceedings of the States of Holland. Inflitution of the College of Tribunes

at Utrecht. States withdraw to Amersfort, Capture of Elburg and

Hattern. Stadtholder is deprived of the Office of Captain general,

CHA P. III. .

17

Mediation of Pruffia and France. Revolution in the City of Amfterdam.

Fluctuation of the States of Holland. Hoftilities in the Province of

Utrecht, Tumults. Preparations for War,

CHA P. IV.

29

Meeting of Parliament. Addrefs. Commercial Treaty with France. De-

bates. Treaty approved by both Houjes,

CHA P. V.

44

Confolidation of Cuftoms. Budget. Farming of the Poft Horse Tax.

Lottery Bill. Mutiny Bill. Spanish Convention,

CHA P. VI.

76

Determinations on the Scottish Peerage. India Affairs. Motion for a Re-

peal of the Teft. Infolvent Bill. Eftablishment of the Prince of Wales.

Inquiry into the Poft Office,

CHA P. VII.

94

Impeachment of Mr. Haftings. Charge of the Rohilla War negatived.

Charge of expelling the Raja of Benares adopted by the House of Commons.

CHA P. VIII.

130

Mr. Sheridan's Speech on the Charge of the Begums. Charges of Farruk

abad, of the Contracts, of Fizulla Khan, of the Prefents, of the Reve-

nues, and of Mifdemeanours in Oude, voted. Mr. Haftings impeached at

the Bar of the House of Lords,

150

PRINCIPAL OCCURRENCES.

PUBLIC PAPERS.

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His Majefty's Speech to both Houfes of Parliament, January 23, 1787 (57)

His Majefty's Speech to both Houses of Parliament, May 30, 1787 (ibid.)

His Majefty's Speech to both Houses of Parliament, Nov. 27, 1787 (58)

The Speech of his Grace Charles Duke of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of Ire-

land, to both Houses of Parliament, Jan. 18, 1787,

60

61

(ibid.)

The Speech of the right hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland,

to his Grace the Lord Lieutenant, March 17, 1787,

The Speech of his Grace the Duke of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,

to both Houses of Parliament, May 28, 1787

A Proclamation (by the King), for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue,

and for the preventing and punishing of Vice, Profaneness, and Immo-

rality,
(62)

Circular Letter from the right hon. Lord Sydney, one of his Majefty's Prin

cipal Secretaries of State, to the overal High Sheriffs of England, in-

clofing the foregoing Proclamation

Convention between his Britannic Majefty and the Meft Chriftian King,

figned at Verfailles, the 15th of January, 1787

Convention between bis Britannic Majefty and the Moft Chriftian King,
figned at Versailles, August 31, 1787
(68)
Declaration and Counter Declaration exchanged at Verfaillss, between the
Minifters of his Britannic Majefty and the Moft Chriftian King, October
27, 1787,

(64)

(65)

Remonftrance of the Parliament of Paris to the King, against the Declara-

tion of a Stamp Duty, July 24, 1787

His Mof Chriftian Majefty's Speech to the Parliament of Paris, Nov. 19,
1787,

(70), (71)

(71)

(77)

The Addrefs of the firft Prefident of the Parliament of Paris to the King at

Verfailles, on the Exile of the Duke of Orleans, and two Counsellors of

the Parliament,

The Second Addrefs of the Parliament of Paris to the King, on the fame

Subject, Nov. 23, 178-,

(78)

(ibid.)

His Majefty's Anfiver to the foregoing Address, Nov. 26, 1787, (80)

The Third Remonftrance of the Parliament of Paris to the King, on the fame

Subject. Dec. 10, 1787,
(ibid.)

Memorial prefented to the States General of the United Provinces, Aug. 14,

1787, by fir James Harris, K. B. the British Ambassador at the Hague,

(82)

Reprefentation of the Equeftrian Order and Nobles of the Province of Hol
land, to the States of Holland and Weft Friesland, Aug. 27, 1787, (ibid.)

Letter from her Royal Highness the Princefs of Orange to his ferene Highness

the reigning Duke of Brunfwick, Sept. 15, 1787,"

(80)

The Emperor's Declaration to the States of his Belgic Provinces, July 3,

1707, in Anfower to their Remonftrance of the 22d of June,

From the fame to the fame, Nov 3, 1787,
The Anfwer of his ferene Higbnefs the reigning Duke of Brunswick, Nov. 5,

1787, to the preceding Letters,

(87)

(88)

(ibid.)

The

'The Emperor's Anfwer to the Deputies from the States of the Belgic Pro-

vinces, Aug. 15, 1787,

(89)

The Emperor's Orders alluded to, in the preceding Anfwer, and tranfmitted

to the Compte de Murray,

(90)

Memorial of the Deputies of the Belgic Provinces to Prince Kaunitz, occa-

fioned by his communicating the foregoing Orders to them,

(91)

Declaration of the Emperor's Intentions to the States of Brabant, by his Ex-

cellency the Compte de Murray, Sept. 21, 1787,

(93)

Letter written by Order of the Emperor, to the Council of Brabant, by the

Count de Trauttmansdorff, the new Imperial Minifter, at Bruffels, (94)

Circular Letter tranfmitted by the United States of America, in Congress

effembled, to the Governors of the refpective States,

(95)

Plan of the new Conftitution of the United States of America, agreed upon

at a Convention held at New York

(99)

Memorial of a Society, inftituted in Pennsylvania, for promoting the Abolition

of Slavery, addreffed to the Convention of the United States of America,

affembled at Philadelphia,

(109)

Abstract of the Overfeers Returns to Parliament of the feveral Parishes in

England and Wales,

(110)

The Thirteenth Report of the Commiffioners appointed to examine, take, and

fate the Public Accounts of the Kingdom,

(112)

Supplies granted by Parliament for the Year 1787,

(155)

Public Acts paffed in the Fourth Seffion of the Sixteenth Parliament of Great

Britain,

(158)

Prices of Stock for the Year 1787,

(160)

Peculiar Features of English Landscape,

[118]

PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS.

Dr. Herfchel's Account of the Difcovery of two Satellites revolving round

the Georgian Planct

Tr. Herfchel's Account of Three Volcanos in the Moon,

Sir Benjamin Thompson's Experiments on the Moisture absorbed from the

Atmosphere by various Subftances,

[123]

[125]

-

[126]

On the Production of Borax, in a Letter from William Blaze, Efq. [129]

Willis's Method of preventing Stone Retorts from breaking during Chemical

Operations,

[131]

Dr. Rufton's Letter to Dr. Francklin on the Cure of Smoky Chimneys, [132]

Thoughts on the Caufe of the Variation of the Needle,

[135]

On the Perceptibility of Vegetables,

[137

Dr. Percival's Obfervations on the Silk Cotton of Sumatra

[144

On the Acid of Tar

[145]

Hiftory of the Virginian Mountains,

[147]

ANTIQUITIES.

Of the Settlement of the Phoceans at Marfeilles,

[149]

Obfervations relative to the Hiftory of Serapis,

[152]

Of the State of the Sovereign in the Primitive Anglo-Saxon Government, [155]

Of the Origin of the Petty Jury and Grand Jury,

Specimens of Love Letters in the Reign of Edward IV.

Letters on the Breeding and Treatment of Silk-Worms,

[173]

Mifs Greenland's Obfervations on the Ancient Grecian Method of Painting,

Ode to a Lady going abroad,

Ballad in the Style of Mr. Crow's Song, "Seaton Cliffs,"

The Court Belle,

Dr. Corbet to his Son Vincent Corbet,

Elegy on the Burying-Place called Campo Santo, near Florence,

DOMESTIC LITERATURE for the Year 1787,

FOREIGN LITERATURE for the Year 1787,