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and of his engagement with the combined fleet on the 20th of Of
1782
Extract of a letter from Captain Curtis to Mr. Stephens, containing
further particulars of the attack and defence of Gibraltar, and of the

total deftruction of the Spanish armament

Extracts of two letters from the fame to the fame

Extract of a letter from Sir Edward Hughes to Mr. Stephens, con-

taining an account of his engagement with the French fleet under

Monf. Suffrein in the Eaft Indies, on the 17th of Feb. 1782 [268

Extract of a letter from the fame to the fame, containing the particu-
lars of another engagement with the French fleet, on the 12th of
April 1782
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Extract of a letter from James Luttrel, Efq. commander of his Ma-
jefty's fhip Mediator, to Mr. Stephens, giving an account of his en-
gagement with feveral French armed fhips, and taking two of them

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Heads of the act for restraining any perfon concerned in any con-
tract, &c. made for the public fervice, from being elected a member
of the house of commons

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CHARACTERS..

Character of Auguflus Cæfar. From Dr. Bever's Legal Polity of the

Roman State

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Characters, manners, customs, &c. of the people of Naples. From
Travels in the Two Sicilies, by Henry Swinburne, Efq.

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A short narrative of the late Gilbert Weft, LL.D.

NATURAL HISTORY.

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Account of a child who had the fmall-pox in the womb

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Account of Lichfield and its cathedral. Extracted from Pennant's

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Account and defcription of the tomb of Humphry Duke of Gloucester, From the fame Charges of the burial of Humphry Duke of Gloucester, and obfervances appointed by him to be perpetually borne by the convent of the monaftery of St. Albans

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Of the military machines of the antients, and the ufe they made of them. From the Italian of Count Algarotti.

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Of the fieges and naval armaments of the antients, and their refemblance to thofe of the moderns. From the fume

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

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A Difcourfe delivered to the ftudents of the Royal Academy on the diftribution of the prizes, December 10, 178, by the prefident 146 Captain Inglefield's narrative concerning the lofs of his Majefty's flip the Centaur of 74 guns, and the miraculous pre/ervation of the pinnace, with the captain, mafier, and ten of the crew On cruelty to inferior animals

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Some account of the rife and descent of the Empress Catharine, wife of the Czar Peter I.; and alfo of the rife of Prince Menzikoff 169 Some account of the bay and city of Sorrento, and of the ruins of the Surrentinum or Villa of Pollius, at Capo di Puolo

Some account of the French African iflands

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Some account of the most capital pictures in the King of Spain's palace at Madrid

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POETRY.

Ode for the new year Jan. 1, 1782

Ode for the King's birth-day, June 4, 1782

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Addrefs to Poetry; an extract from an Effay on Epic Poetry 188 Sketches of the most diftinguished Epic Poets of England. From the fame prem

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Verfes on Sir Joshua Reynolds's painted window at New College, Ox

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Ode to the Honourable William Pitt

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Prologue poken at the opening of the Lyceum at Madras, 1782 197 Prologue to the new comedy of Variety

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Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the Works of the English Poets,

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