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SCOTS MAGAZINE.

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VOLUME LII.

Ne quid falfi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.

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To each article is annexed the number of the page of this volume in which it is to be found.
Commons a falary of 6000 l. a year, 173.
11. The Emperor of Morocco died at
Sallee, 258.

1789 April 28. A mutiny on board the Bounty armed ship, in the South Sea; when the captain and eighteen others were put into an open boat, and after traverfing the occean for forty-six days, arrived at Timor, p. 145.

Aug. 23. The Vanfittart Eaft Indiaman, with a great deal of treasure on board, loft in the ftraits of Billoton, 143.

Dec. 20. The French National Affembly decree, that perfons, though not Roman Catholics, are capable of holding employments civil and military, 44.

24. His Majefty's fhip the Guardian damaged on an island of ice, and miraculoully got to the Cape of Good Hope, after the greatest part of the crew had taken to their boats and left her, 220.

- 1790, Jan. 11. A congrefs of deputies from the ftates of the provinces in the Netherlands, met at Bruffels, conclude a treaty of union, 90.

20. Mr Howard, the celebrated philanthropist, died at Cherfon, 153.

21. J. Frith, a maniac, threw a ftone at the ftate-coach as his Majefty was go ing to the Houfe of Peers, 47.

25. The Edinburgh equestrian Circus opened for the first time, 98.

31. Treaty of alliance between Pruffia and the Porte figned at Constantinople,

193.

Feb. 4. Trial by jury declared to be a fundamental part of the French conftitution, 91.

4. The French King went to the National Affembly, and gave his unfolicited and voluntary sanction to the new conftitution, 91.

5. Dr William Cullen, first physician to his Majefty in Scotland, and profeffor of the practice of phyfic in the univerfity of Edinburgh, died at Edinburgh,

102.

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14. Sir George Ramfay wounded in a duel with Mr Macrae, at Muffelburgh links, and died two days after, 206.

14. Dr Andrew Coventry appointed profeffor of agriculture in the university of Edinburgh, 208.

15. The lines of Travancore, in the East Indies, ftormed and carried by Tippoo Saib, 561.

17. The celebrated Dr Benjamin Franklin died at Philadelphia, 310. 483. The French National Assembly go into mourning three days for the Doctor, 305.

14. Decree paffed by the French National Affembly for the management of the eftates of the clergy, 196.

19. The House of Lords determine the appeal relating to Scots fictitious votes, and reverse the judgement of the Court of Seffion, 229. 256.

28. The King of Sweden takes Karnankofky; and kills near 2000 Ruffians in an attempt they made to dislodge him,

250.

May 4. Warrants iffued for impref fing feamen, 253.

5. His Majefty fends meffages to both Honfes of Parliament intimating the Spanith hoftilities at Nootka Sound, 253.

8. Officers ordered to join their regiments, and the customary proclamation offering bounties to feamen, 253.

12. The Courts of Seffion and Exchequer met this day for the fummer feffion, agreeable to an act of parliament,

225.

13. The Swedes lose two ships of the line in an unsuccessful attempt on the port of Revel, 250.

15. They gain a complete victory over the Ruffian fleet of armed veffels at Fredericksham, 250.

22. The French National Affembly, after fome days debate, deprive the King of the power of making war, 251.

27. The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland appoint a committee to take the proper measures to obtain a repeal of the test-a&t, 351.

June 4. The Whig club of Dundee fend an addrefs to the French National Affembly, 457; and receive an answer, 458.

11. The fixteenth parliament of Great Britain diffolved, 330.

19. The French National Affembly annulled

annulled all titles of nobility, 305. July 3. The Swedish fleet totally defeated by the Russians at Viborg, and seven fhips of the line, befides fome frigates, taken or deftroyed, 403.

6. Lord Heathfield died at Aix-la-Chapelle, 412.

8. A fleet of Dutch men of war joined the British at Spithead, 347.

8. Rhynwick Williams the monfter, convicted at the Old Bailey : his case referred to the opinion of the judges, 347; who find his crime only a misdemeanour, 565. 613.

9. & 10. The Ruffian fleet of gallies totally defeated by the Swedes, 403.

14. Grand confederation of the French at the Champ de Mars in Paris, 345.

24. A declaration and counter decla ration figned at Madrid, for accommodating the differences between Britain and Spain, 409.

24. The clerks return only thirteen Scots Peers as duly elected to fit in the feventeenth parliament of Great Britain, and fix Peers with an equality of votes, 359.

27. Preliminaries of peace in favour of the Turks figned at Reichenbach, between the Kings of Pruffia and Hungary, 404.

28. The Forth and Clyde navigation opened from fea to sea, 409.

Aug. 14. Preliminaries of peace between Ruffia and Sweden, figned at Werla, 451.

17. The grand fleet, confifting of thirty-one fhips of the line, befides frigates, failed from Torbay, under the command of Lord Howe, 409.

26. The French National Affembly agree to maintain the family-compact with Spain, and determine to augment their navy to forty-five thips of the line, 406.

28. The Turkish fleet in the Black Sea, under the command of the Captain Pacha, defeated by the Ruffians, 505. Sept. 18. Died at Cumberland house, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, 466.

19. An armiftice figned between the Auftrians and Turks, 505.

21. A great promotion of naval offi. cers, 467.

30. Leopold II. King of Hungary and Bohemia, elected King of the Romans, 505

08. 8. The city of Oran, on the coaft of Africa, almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake.

11. The French National Affembly requeft the King to appoint commiffioners for restoring order and discipline in the fleet at Breft, 558.

II. A detachment of the foot-guards ordered for foreign service.

16. Orders iffued for raising 100 independent companies.

27. Adm. Cornith, with a squadron of fix thips of the line, failed from St Helen's, 514.

28. Convention between Great Britain and Spain figned at the Escurial, 529. 563.

31. The minifters of England, Pruffia, and Holland, intimate to the deputies of the Belgic ftates, that only twenty-one days fhall be allowed to accept the paci fic propofitions of the Emperor, 555.

24. Namur furrendered to the Empe ror's troops, who soon re-established his dominion over the whole Belgic ftates 607.

25. The feventeenth parliament of G. Britain meets at Westminster, 521. Mr Addington chofen Speaker of the House of Commons, 522.

Nov. 5. A fociety formed at Edinburgh to promote the improvement of British wool, 565.

Dec. 23. A moft violent ftorm of thun. der, lightning, hail, and rain iu England, feveral houses in London unroofed, and many people killed, &c. 614.

24. The Houfe of Commons, after a debate of three days, determined that Mr Haftings's impeachment fhould proceed notwithstanding the diffolution of parliament, 123 being for continuing, and 30 against it.

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An Account of Dr JOHN MOORE and his Writings

R MOORE is fon of the Rev. Mr Charles Moore, a clergyman of the Church of Scotland, highly efteemed for the purity of his manners and his amiable difpofition. He was many years one of the minifters at Stirling, in North Britain, where Dr Moore, the only fon who furvived him, was born in the year 1730.

His mother was daughter to John Anderfon, Efq; of Dowhill, near Glafgow. On the death of her husband, which happened seven or eight years after her marriage, this lady left Stirling with her children and returned to her native city of Glasgow, where the fortune left her by her father lay.

VOL. LII.

She was a woman of a moft refpectable character, diftinguished by the ftrength of her understanding, her piety, and the benevolence of her heart.

Dr Moore was educated at the Uni versity of Glasgow, and began the study of medicine and furgery under the care of Dr Gordon, an eminent practitioner in that city, attending the anatomical demonstrations of Dr Hamilton, and the medical lectures of the celebrated Dr Cullen, at that time Profeffor of Medicine at Glasgow, and to whom Dr Moore, as we underftand, is related.

In the year 1747 the late Duke of Cumberland commanded the allied army in Brabant; many British ftudents of medi A

cine,

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