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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.

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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.

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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,

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130. On Teesdalia, 133. On
the Bryum marginatum, 134.
Sobieski, John, King of Poland,

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412.

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.

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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.

END OF VOL. LXXX. OF THE NEW SERIES.

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