Annual Register of World Events, Volume 6

1764

They arrive at Manila Page	1

Condition of Manila The forces landed A fally of the enemy They	7

Two frigates fent after the Acapulco galleon Dijappointed Fall in with	13

Plan of the Indian war Frontiers of the middle fettlements wafted Forts	24

Demeftic affairs Scheme of the supplies Oppofition to them Arguments	32

State of affairs on the continent Death of Auguftus king of Poland State	43

Remarkable inftance of decrepitude tranfmitted from parents to children	97

Births for year 1763 124	124

Account of the corn butterfly ibid	85

An account of the death of the countcfs Cornelia Baudi of Cefena fuppofed	91

An account of the duke of Bridgwaters new inland navigation 99	99

Copy of a letter written by a noble duke to the vicechancellor of Cambridge	102

New method of preferving birds with their elegant plumes unhurt 105	105

Rats ibid	121

On the poffibility and uses of a perpetual motion ibid	128

Extract from a letter on an improved method of breeding feed wheat 134	134

Deaths 131	131

Heads of an act for granting certain duties upon cyder and perry c 147	147

Heads of the act for explaining and amending the foregoing act 150	150

An account of the mutiny at Quebec 159	158

Remarks on fome cautions in our last volume to perfons going to Scotland to	165

An account of the annual Supplies that have been granted by parliament	174

Thoughts on death	182

A regular plan of mufic	192

The humble addrefs of the right hon the house of lords Nov 151763 193	193

The humble address of the archbishop bishops and clergy of the province	199

Separate act between the empress queen and the king of Pruffia in purſuance	213

Memoirs of the late Dr Berkeley bishop of Cloyne 2	2

Life of M Languet the famous vicar of St Sulpice in Paris 14	14

Letter written by Alfred the Great to Wulf fig bishop of London 32	32

Tranflation of a letter from the empress of Ruffia to M dAlembert 41	41

Trial of Neale Molloy efq and his wife for cruelty to their daughter 51	51

Letter relating to the foregoing intricate affair 57	57

The velocity of borfes in the race philofophically confidered 63	63

Philofophical remarks on the face of the earth throughout Italy 69	69

Account of a boy furviving the lofs of a confiderable portion of the brain 75	75

Some account of the Harleian collection of manufcripts compiled by Mr Aftle 140	140

Account of the difcovery and conqueft of Siberia 155	155

Hiftory of the city of Rome and its environs as to air and inhabitants ibid	163

A differtation on oracles 169	169

Table of the quantity of fine filver in a fhilling from 1300 to 1695 177	177

The truth of Chriftianity deduced from Daniels prophecy by Mr Locke 187	187

Remarks on our cathedral and parochial mufic 194	194

Addrefs to the proteftant diffenting minifters in and about the cities of London	203

A letter from lady Wortley Montague 204	204

The fixteenth ode of the fecond book of Horace imitated 210	210

A preclamation prohibiting correſpondence with the Cerfican rebels 213	213

An ancient tale from Gower imitated	218

Two fongs fung at the queens palace	224

Mr Garricks addrefs to the town	230

On feeing the pictures of Lovat and Wilkes drawn by Hogarth	236

An Elegy on the death of general Wolfe ibid	242

The ftate papers of Henry earl of Clarendon lord lieutenant of Ireland during	250

The biftory of Ireland by Ferd Warner L L D	257

Debates of the house of commons from 1667 to 1694 collected by the	264

Letters of the right hon lady MW M	299

Titre	Annual Register of World Events, Volume 6
Publié	1764
Original provenant de	la New York Public Library
Numérisé	3 avr. 2012

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