Pitti, Lucas, his rise to power at Rennell, Major, his farther ob.
Florence, 506. Planets, on their motions about the sun, 518. Plants, their disengagement of vital air in the day, and of car- bonic acid gas in the night, 130. New, from New Holland, 134. From Caucasus, 137. Platea, exaggeration of the num- bers at the battle of, 239, 240. Platina-wires, on the relative conducting powers of, 72. Poetry and Romance, among the Germans, historical particu- lars of, 356-367. Poland, King of, mode of elect- ing, 401. See Sobieski. Manners of the Court of, 405. French intrigues there, 406. Polish Dictionary, a new one undertaken, 528. Pond, Mr. on the north polar distances of fixed stars, 81. Poor-laws, on the right of go-
vernment to enact them, 292. Poor, table of the increase of, 330. Daily fare of, 331. Population of Larissa, 233. Porrett, Mr. his farther experi- ments on acids, 68. Portugal, comparative ill be- haviour of all the contending troops in, 431. note. Prodigal-Son, observations on the parable of, 153. Prussia, its ardour in freeing it- self from the yoke of Bona- parte, 467. Arguments for the support of, 468.
--, King of, See Frederick. Prussiate of Mercury, analysis of, 68.
Psalida, a modern Greek school-
master, his attainments, 229. His national pride, 230. Psidium, on a new species of, 131. Puritans, defended, 284.
servations on the current to the west of Scilly, 75. Representatives, national, in France, difficulty of making a fair election of, 353. Respiration, on the organs of, in particular animals, 70. Romances, of Germany, particu
lars concerning, 358-367. Rome, History of, by Mr. Gib- bon, his preparations for, 9. Its completion, 18. View of its progress, 19. Roscoe, Mr. on the monandrous plants of India, 133. Obser- vations on his life of Lorenzo de' Medici, 510. Rosmunda of Pavia, a tragedy, account of, 28.
Rubicon, inscription of, its au- thenticity rejected, 116. Rudge, Mr. on new plants, 134. Rulhière's History of the Re-
volution in Russia in 1762. Anecdote relative to, 115. Russia, reflections on the ag grandizement of, 466.
Salamanca, its situation on the
retreat of our army, 445. Sallust, Cæsar, &c., obs. on, by Mr. Gibbon, 4.116. Salonica, beautiful approach to by sea, 236. Account of, ib. Satellites of the Georgian Planet, observations on, 77. Scilly, See Current.
Sea long-worm, obs. on, 134. Sensation and idea, distinction between, 263. Sheffield, Lord, his letter to the Monthly Reviewers, respect- ing Gibbon's works, 224. Shells, rare, account of, 128. Shew, on the love of, in France, 352. Sicily, remarks on the campaign in, by the English, in 1810,423.
Rackett, Mr. on Cancer Salinus, Smith, Sir J. E. on Iris susiana,
130. On Teesdalia, 133. On the Bryum marginatum, 134. Sobieski, John, King of Poland,
his life and character, 400
Soldiers, French, charges against them, 348. Of the contend- ing powers in Portugal, their bad character, 431. note. Soult, Marshal, strictures on his conduct at the battle of Al- buera, 381-383. Military life and character of, 386. South, Dr. his account of So- bieski, King of Poland, 404. Spain, particulars of the late campaigns in, 244-256. 381 -388.445. Of the revolution in, 470-484. Spider, experiment with one which hunted its prey, 135. Steven, Chev. on new plants, 137. Sting, of the Bee, cure for, 57. Strepsiptera, addendum to, 131. Swarms of Bees, how to cause their production, 56. To
effect a junction of them, 61. Sydney, Algernon, particulars of his life, and view of his cha- racter, 155-170. Syphilis, obs. on, and on diseases resembling it, 390-396.
Walpole, Horace, his flattery of Gibbon, 117.
War, reflections on the wars of France, 457.
Warnings for beauty, 211, 212. Watch, gold, epigram on the loss of, 178.
Waterloo, battle of, poetically described, 209.
Weights and Measures of the
antients, essay on, 4. Wellington, Lord, observations on his tactics in Spain, 384. Whitaker, Mr. of Manchester, his letter to Mr. Gibbon, 11. Wine, exported from Oporto in 1796-1807, 110.
Wood, exper.on the power of dif-
erent thicknesses of that ma- terial to support weights, 311.
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