In tenui labor; at tenuis non gloria, fi quem
Numina læva finunt, auditque vocatus Apollo. VIRG.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR J. SIBBALD:--And SOLD by J. MURRAY,

LONDON.

1790.

BODLEIA

10 JAN 045

Edinburgh Magazine,

OR,

LITERARY MISCELLANY,

FOR JULY 1790.

With a View of YESTER HOUSE †.

CONTENTS:

Page

Regifter of the Weather for July, 2

Picture of the Court of France in

1715, and of the private Life

of the Regent. By the Duke
of Richelieu,

Anecdotes of Law and the Com-

mencement of his System,

Biographical Account of the late

Lord Prefident Miller,

Anecdotes of Dr Franklin,

Extraordinary Narrative of the

revivification of Jofeph Taylor,

who was hanged at Bofton for

Robbery. Written by him-

felf,

Account of Jidda, a town on the

Red Sea. From Bruce's Tra-

vels,

Curious Transactions at Gondar,

the Capital of Abyssinia. From

the fame,

Singular Customs in Abyssinia.

From the fame,

On the new System which admits

the Electric Fluid as the cause

of Congelation,

Capt. Bligh's Narrative of the Mu-

tiny on board the Bounty Sloop, 43

3 Brutus's Letter to H. R. H. the

P. of W

7

9

15

47

Analysis of a proposed Publica-

tion on the Elements of Jurif-

prudence,

19. Sketch of the Life of Dr Duncan

Liddel, Professor of Mathema-

tics at Helmstadt,

23 A Tribute to the Memory of Ul-

53

57

60

6г

62

64

From the German of Wieland, 65

26

32

37 Monthly Register

VOL. XII. No. 67.

A

State

+ The feat of the Marquis of Tweeddale.