washed, and ready to set out to dry in the fun.

Those who once try this fort of starch, will never make use of any other. It makes the linen very clear, and furprisingly beautiful. But when linen ftarched with this starch is ironed, it will be proper to rub the smoothing box or iron with a little wax, and then to wipe it with a clean linen cloth: precaution to which lawndresses are 10 strangers.

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Ince the colouring of prints to be viewed in optic glaffes has been fo nuch in vogue amongst us, we have imorted vast quantities of CARMINE from 'rance; very little being made here, nd that only by a few French about oho. It must therefore be very acceptble to many consumers of that coftly olour, to be acquainted with a better vay of making it than any the French hemselves ufe; especially as we have the rincipal ingredient, the fcarlet cloth, 1 much greater perfection than they. TAke

Ake four or five gallons of clean water, and diffolve therein enough ot-afh to make a strong ley; which urify by filtering; and boil therein, in brafs pot, a pound of the clean fhreds f cloth dyed in grain, till it has quite oft its colour; then fqueeze the fhreds, nd pafs all the ley through a flannel ag; diffolve two pounds of alum in a roper quantity of water, and add this lution to the ley; ftir them well toether, and the whole will grow fomethat thick; then repafs it through the annel bag; the liquor will run out lear. But if it be at all tinged, boil it gain, with the addition of a little diflved alum; pafs it again, and all the armine will be left in the bag. Pour elh water, repeatedly, into the bag, ill all the alum be washed clean away. Then dry the colour, fo as no duft may ettle upon it, and keep it for ufe, having rft reduced it to an impalpable powder na glass or marble mortar.

N. . If, in the boiling, you find fo nuch of the water evaporated as to requ're a fupply, you must not add cold, put boiling hot water.

Anno 1744 ad amum 1750, cum fig. 4to.
Upfalia.

Cta focietatis regiæ fcientiarum Upfalienfis ab

Commentarii academiæ fcientiarum imperialis Petropolitanæ. Tomi 13. et 14. cum fig. 4to. Petropoli.

Commentarii novi ejufdem academiæ. Tomus 2. cum fig. ibid.

Flora Sibirica, five hiftoria plantarum Sibiriæ, tomus 2. auctore Gmellin, cum fig. 4to. Petropoli.

Lettres de Madame de Maintenon, avec la vie, trois tomes, 12mo. Paris.

The third volume, containing part of her life only, leaves hopes of one or two more in the fame agreeable taste.

7 tomes, 8vo. Drefde.
Nouvelle edition des oeuvres de M. de Voltaire,

The Henriade is enriched with several new and beautiful paffages. The fecond volume is full of curious anecdotes. The reft are mifcellanies in philo fophy, literature, and hiftory; befides a variety of occafional pieces, and fome new tragedies, with the life of Charles XII. revised and corrected.

Traité de la confervation des grains, et en particuliere du froment. Par M. Duhamel du Monçeau, de l'academie royale des fciences. Fig. Paris.

Roi, et prefentés à fa Majefté par Robert VaugonGlobes celefte et terreftre, faites par ordre du dy fils.

They are not comparable to our English globes, eSpecially Senex's, either for correctness or beauty. Melange de literature, d'hiftoire, et de philofo phie. Par M. d'Alembert, 2 vols, 12mo. Berlin. for the French Encyclopedie. This author furnishes the mathematical articles

Lettres fur l'electricité, &c. par M. l' Abbó Nollet, de l'academie royale des sciences, &c.

12mo. Paris.

Franklin, Efq; now Poftmaster-General of Philadel Moft of thefe letters are addreffed to Benjamin phia; and have been generally looked upon as a cris ticism on Mr Franklin's celebrated work on the fame fubject; though in reality they are rather a defence of the Abbe's own dine; for be every where treats Mr Franklin with the most decent reSpect, and speaks of his performance with applaufe.

Eflayo fobre los alphabatos de las letras deféonociados, &c.; that is, An eflay on the alphabets of fuch unknown letters as are found upon the antique medals and monuments of Spain By der of St James, and member of the royal histo Don Louis Jofeph Volaiques, Knight of the cr rical academy. Revised and published by order of the faid academy. Fig. 4to. Madrid.

This work is dedicated to his Catholic Majefty, makes a great deal of noise. Several critics, it faid, are about answering it.

and

is

nay, medecin confultant du Roi, membre de l'aTraité des fievres continues, &c. Par M. Quef

YOL. XV.

5D

cademie

cademie royale des sciences, &c. 2 vols, 12mo. Paris.

Recueil d'antiquités Egyptiennes, Etrufques, Greques, et Romaines. Par M. le Comte de Caylus. Fig. 4to. Paris.

This work is a defcription of the Noble author's prefent collection only; for he has more than once difperfed entire cabinets, to enrich thofe of his friends. Hiftoire de l'academie royale des fciences pour l'année 1749. Fig. 4to. Paris.

Principia phyfico-medica, in tironum gratiam confcripta, à J. C. A. Helvetio archiatro reg. 2 vols, 8vo. Paris.

Nouveau traité de navigation, contenant la theorie et la pratique du pilotage. Par M Bonguer, de l'academie royale des sciences, &c. Fig. 4to.

Paris.

The author fucceeded his father in the poft of King's Hydrographer at Havre; from whence he was elected into the academy; and was one of the mathematicians fent, by the King's order, to meafure the quantity of a degree of the meridian at the equator.

Tractatus de tumoribus humoralibus, auctore Francifco Imbert, medico regis, et in academia Monfpelienfi profeffore regio. 8vo. Monfpelii.

Myographie; ou, Defcription des muscles du corps humain Par M. Tarin, M. D. Fig. 4to. Paris.

The author had before given an ofteology in the like form. The figures of both are reduced from the celebrated large ones of Albinus, to fuit fuch ftudents as cannot well afford to purchase the originals; and although they fall fhort of them in point of magnificence, yet they are engraved exceeding well, and with great exactness.

Hiftoire naturelle, generale, et particuliere, a vec la defcription du cabinet du Roi. Par M. de Buffon et M. d' Aubenton. Tom. 4. Fig. 4to. Paris.

Recueil des piéces qui ont concouru pour le prix de l'academie royale de chirurgie. Tom. 1. Fig. 4to. Paris.

Dictionaire univerfelle de mathematique, et de phyfique, ou l'on traité de ces deux sciences, et des arts qui en dependent, &c. Par M. Saverien, de la focieté royale de Lyons; en 2 tomes, 4to. Fig. Paris.

This is a work of excellent ufe, and very well executed

Encyclopedie, tome 3. fol. Paris.

This volume, which is near as large as either of the two former ones, contains only a part of the articles which come under the letter C. M. D'Alembert has prefixed a long preface.

Elemens de l'architecture navale, ou traité pratique de la conftruction des vaiffeaux. Par M. Duhamel de Monçeau, de l'academie royale des fciences, e. Fig. 4to. Paris.

We shall only obferve at prefent, that this performance is in great effeem abroad; and that the ingenious Mr Mungo Murray, of his Majesty's yard at Deptford, who is on the point of publishing a book upon the fame fubject, being encouraged thereto

by a handsome fubscription from all the yards, &c. intends to annex to it an abridgment of M. Dabar mel's work.

Tables aftronomiques du foleil et de la lune, a» vec les obfervations du paffage au meridien de cette derniere planete, faites par M. Halley, a Greenwich, traduite en François par M. l'Abbe de Chappe 8vo. Paris.

There are fome additions by the tranflus, proved of by the Royal academy of sciences.

L'état du ciel pour l'année 1754, calculé fir les tables de M. Halley, par A. G. Pingré che noin regulier, correfpondant de l'academie da fciences, 8vo. Paris.

It appears to be done with care, is elegantly printed, and also approved of by the academy

Description des courans magnetiques, defini et gravés d'apres nature en 15 planches, faves de quelques obfervations for l'aimant. Par M. Bazin, de l' academie de la Rochelle, et correfpondant de celle de Paris, 4to. Strasbourg.

Lettres à un Americain fur l'histoire naturelle de Meff. Buffon et D'Aubenton, et fur les obfer vations microscopiques de M. Needham. Pate 4. et 5. Hamb.

These are fuppofed to be written by that celebra ted naturalist M. de Reaumur, of the royal acainy of Sciences.

Arithmetica univerfalis Ifaaci Newtoni, E tis, perpetuis commentariis illuftrata. Anda P. Ant. Lecchi, 3 vols, 8vo. Mediolani.

Conftantini Porphyrogeniti Imperatori Ti duo de ceremoniis aula Byzantina. Fol. Gram et Latinè.

This is the first impression of the work, ce ing only the first book, the second being sperms a follow. It was written by the Emperor tin and is a ceremonial of the court of Conftantisep der that reign. The lovers of bijtory mujt be ly delighted with a monument which makes ja tuu derable an addition to the body of the Byzantiu ftorians.

ANNUAL BILLS for 1753

In Paris. Births, 10,308 boys, 9919 in all 20,227. Burials, 9583 males, males; in all 17,762. Marriages, 4359. Tand lings, 4123.

In Amfterdam Burials, 8382; which is 187 more than in 1752, and 2048 more than a 1751.

In the Hague. Burials, 1600; which is put more than in 1752.

In the kingdom of Pruffia. Births, 26,575
Burials 18,398. Marriages, 5565. (55)
In Dublin. Births, 870 boys, 967 girls;
Burials, 959 males, 866 females:
Births increased 104. Burials de

all 1837.
all 1925.
creafed 19.
In Glasgow, Burials, 1014. [55.]

The LONDON general Bill of Christenings and Burials, from December 12. 1752, to December
11. 1753; with the diseases and casualties, &c.

Age.
Under

478

50 and 60

1568

90 and 100

54

26 Broken leg
23 Drowned

Killed by a cow
Killed by a fall

5 Teething

5 Ulcer

57

2 Tympany

-I

4 Vomiting

2

70 Water in the head

I

I

2

INDEX to the DEBATES, ESSAYS, HISTORY, &c.

A

between the British and the Fan-
tee nation 576. War fhips fent
to protect the British trade 577
Age, the prefent ftyled the age of
authors 613

1753.

Bagshot the robber, the ftory of
187. Compared with Alexander
the Great 189
Bank of Scotland, one tenth of
ftock added to the credit of each
adventurer's account 157
Bank-notes, fummary dilige
not competent on those of a pr
vate company 361
Barbary, state of affairs there la
year 15. 16. The corfairs in-
fult the British flag 299
Barron, Jean, banished for theft
468

N. B. Whe different pages are referred to at any article, if the numbers are disjoined by a comma,
first figure or figures in the preceedi g number are supposed to be repeated in the fubfequent.
Berdeen fynod appoints a Afranius Burrhus, his speech in
thanksgiving for the late favour of the marriage-bill 486
plentiful harvest 525. Africa, affairs there last year 66
Abstract of the act for improving 67. Differences between the Bri-
Edinburgh 161. of the act for tifh and French 197. Capt.
taxing windows 209. of the act Cockburn drives the French
to permit Jews to be naturali. from Anamaboe 66 A treaty
zed 274. of the act to encou
rage the manufacture of linen
in the highlands 275 of that for
/ continuing the act for difarming
the highlands, and to afcertain
the lawful debts on Strowan's e-
ftate 276 of that for preventing
the fraudulent removal of to
bacco 327. and for afcertaining
the rates payable for the por
tage of letters 328. of the act
for preventing clandeftine mar-
riages 433
Acts paffed 96. 155. 200, 49.
303.624

Addreffes of the Lords 46. 547.
of the Commons 46. 548
Adventurer: The diftinguishing
properties of fable 32. Of ladies
memorandum-books 35. A la-
dy's journal for one week 37.
Whether a reformed rake, a
man of sense, or a man of good-
nature, is to be preferred for a
hufband 89. Love and esteem
effentials in married happiness
136. Cruelty towards brutes re-
prefented in a dream 141. The
itory of Bagfhot the robber 187.
Bagfhot and Alexander the Great
compared 188 Longinus on the
facred writings 215, 17. Drama-
ticus's morning-adventure 239.
An inquiry whether it is fafer to
think too highly or too meanly
of one's felf 430. The story of
the admirable Crichton 431.
The characters denoted by fome
modern terms: A Greenhorn
and a Jemmy 490. A Jeffamy
and a Smart 491. An Honest
Fellow, a Joyous Spirit, a Buck,
and a Blood 492. Pity a selfish,
not a focial affection 543. This
illuftrated by affecting examples
544, 5. The prefent age ftyled
The age of authers 613. How
one may judge of his qualifica-
tions to write 615. Of dreams
and lunacy 655. The affecting
cale of Mr Simon Browne 656.
His remarkable dedication of a
book to Q Caroline ib.
Etna, an eruption of it 150

Alehouses. purport of the act for
licensing them 539
Algebraical queftion propofed 489.
A folution of it 603
Algiers, affairs there last year 16.
The plague breaks out 193. Its
progrefs 463. A French ship ta-
ken, and the captain cruelly u-
fed 620. Declaration to the re-
genev by the Grand Signior in
relation to their privateers 621
Aliens, the incapacities they are
subject to 271

Angus, Mary, banished for child-
murder 468

Angus and Mearns fynod's over-
ture about Mr Gillespie 202
Antigallicans agree to give a me.
dal to fuch commander as takes
the greatest number of whales
305. The medal given to Capt.
Mead 525
Archangel, a fire there 618
Arrianus Maturius, his fpeech in
favour of the marriage bill 473
Affeid, claim for that estate de-
termined 259

Baftards, of the incapacities they
are under 489

Baxter, Mr A. a private letter
wrote by him before his death

170

Bellienus, L. his fpeech in favour
of the marriage bill $34
Berkeley, Bp, his death and che-
racter 53

Black feffions at the Old Baky
accounted for 42
Bleeding, indifcriminate, cenfired

Bristol, riots there 305. The
oters tried 67
British fishery fociety, their p
ceedings 304

British miffionaries, their face..
in the Eaft Indies 578
British mufæum, a lift of th
trustees of it 629, 30.
British fhips taken by the Sp

ards 195
Affociate fynod, their number Brown, And. tried for murd
203. Appoint a miffion for Pen-
260. Pardoned 309.
filvania ib. Cenfure a probation--And. fugitated for murder
er for refusing to go thither ib. - Janet, banished for theft 264
Excommunicate Meff. Swanfton Browne, Mr Simon, his fag
and Potts ib. Appoint a com- cafe 656. His dedication
mittee to confider the Jews aft Caroline ib.
469. Reftore Mr Bunyan his Bruce, David, tried for robbery
licence 47°
260 Pardoned for tranfporta
Affurance man of war wrecked tion 309
200. The pilot tried 305 -George, tried for robbery 264
Aulic council, its original and Executed 309
constitution 297
Bruford, Sufannah, burnt for pr
Auftrian Netherlands, ftate of af- foning her husband :67
fairs there laft year 64. The Brutes, cruelty towards them re
barrier and tariff of commerce prefented in a dream 141
with the United Provinces fet- Bullock, Jacob, imprdoned
tled 194. Number of troops to tarving his children 418
be kept up 409.
Burnet Sir I. his death $2.
Baculonius, A his fpeech against remarkable declaration in
the Saxon fubfidy treaty 77. A- will concerning religion
gainst the marriage-bill 640 Bute, the produce of be