The Scots Magazine (November, 1759)

[edited by William Smellie]

  • November 1, 1759
  • 56 pages
  • Magazine

A single issue, long since disbound from an annual volume, of _The Scots Magazine_, from November, 1759 (Volume 21, Number 11 (?)). Contents include History of the session of Parliament 1758–9. Of the distillery bill [561]. Of the bill to permit the importation of salted beef, &c, from Ireland [564]. An abstract of the act [565]. Of the bill for the better prevention of piracies [ ibid .]. M. de Maupertuis's letter concluded. Of the punishment of criminals [568]. On medicine [569]. Of experiments on animals [570]. Microscopical observations [571]. Of burning-glasses [ ibid .]. Of electricity [ ibid. ]. Metaphysical experiments [572]. Inquiries to be discouraged [573]. The history of the late comet [573]. An account of M. Guines's essay to prove that the Chinese are en Egyptian colony [577]. An abstract of the National Debt [580]. Forms of prayer for the Thanksgiving [581]. Remarks on the terms in which the French are described in some of our public prayers [582]. Scurrility in writing reprehended [583]. Poetry. For General Wolfe's monument [583]. The birthday-ode [584]. Congreve on improving the present time [ ibid. ]. An ode to Miss L— [585]. On the French flat-bottomed boats [ ibid. ]. The end of time [ ibid. ]. History [586–604]. Munster surrendered to the Allies [586]. Motions and operations in Saxony [587]. A great body of Prussians under Gen. Finck defeated and taken prisoners at Maxen [588]. The French stop payment, and coin their plate [ ibid. ]. The Brest fleet…

Series
The Scots Magazine
Genres
War, Religion, Fiction and letters
Language
English
Collection
The Magazine Rack
Licence or status
CC0 1.0 (as the archive states it)
Who can read it
Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
Archive
Internet Archive