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Unknown The story on which the new tragedy, call'd, The Roman father, is founded. With some account of the author, and his writings.
Unknown A brief narrative of the unhappy affair, which happened at the city of Tours in France, to the Lord Viscount Dunkeron; only son to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shelburne in the kingdom of Ireland. Mr. Kinnersly, brother to the lady of Sir John Frederick Bart; Mr. Hamilton, nephew to Colonel Hamilton, the late Duke Hamilton's second in Hyde-Park. And, Mr. Stuart, another Scotch gentleman: touching the killing of one Mauripate, an Italian gamester, in the said city, upon the twentieth day of November last, N.S. being the anniversary of the feast of St. Andrew, the tutelar patron of Scotland. Wherein, that unfortunate transaction is set in a true and impartial light. To which is added, some account of the instances made by the Earl Waldegrave to the French court, and his Majesty's most gracious interposition in behalf of the said gentlemen his subjects.
Unknown The third volume of the Examiners: beginning on Friday the 2d of January, 1712, and ending on Monday the 11th of May, 1713.
Unknown The duel; a poem: inscribed to the Right Honourable W P-y Esq;.
Unknown The Case of bankrupts and insolvents consider'd. Wherein it is shewn, I. That the most criminal of all insolvents do not, by the laws now in being, meet with any punishment. II. That their creditors have no proper relief. III. That all other insolvents are too severely punished. IV. That the truly unfortunate are most inhumanly dealt with. And, V. That the present method of treating insolvents in general is inconsistent with the laws of nature, and the maxims of true polity. Together with the draught of a bill for amending the law in every one of these particulars: I. By distinguishing insolvents into their proper and natural classes. II. By alloting a proportional punishment to each. III. By granting mercy in a proper way to the truly unfortunate. And, IV. By giving relief to the creditors of fraudulent insolvents. Part I.
Unknown An historical account of the present fatal divisions of this nation, and how they have contributed to bring the dissenters into their present circumstances. With some serious proposals to the dissenters for the remedy of these evils.
Unknown The thoughts of an honest Tory, being an answer to the thoughts of an honest Whig: wherein Mr. Place's examination of the Bishop of Bangor's undisturb'd scheme is re-examin'd in some of its particulars. By a presbyter of the Church of England, lately curate of St. Asaph, now curate of Bangor.
Unknown A defence of the negative of the two questions propos'd by Mr. Reynolds and his people, to Mr. Read. In a letter to the Revd. Mr. Reynolds. By an Impartial inquirer after truth.
Unknown Liberty: or, the meeting of the Parliament. A poem.
Unknown The Duel: a poem. Inscribed to the Right Honourable W- P-y, Esq; The Fourth Edition.
Unknown The conduct and scandalous behaviour of the porters in Exchange Alley. To which is added, the heads of a remarkable trial at a Travest Sessions at Guildhall, London, on the twentieth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine. By a Society of twenty impartial inquirers.
Unknown The occasional paper. Vol. II. Numb. XII. An essay on the Pride of authors.
Unknown The occasional paper. Vol. II. Numb. II. Letters to the author. Containing, I. A vindication of the character of a Protestant from Modern Distinctions. II. Of the Roe-Buck Procession, January 19. With a Judgment on Sir H. M's. Pamphlet, Down with the Mug-Houses. III. Of Canvassing for Places, especially by Churchmen. IV. Of the Jumble and Mischief of unconnected Ideas. V. Of the dissenters writing little against popery in King James's time.
Unknown Serious thoughts on the weekly news-writers. Humbly addressed to the people of Great Britain.
Unknown The occasional paper. Vol. III. Numb. I. of retractations.
Unknown The fool: being a collection of essays and epistles, moral, political, humourous, and entertaining. Published in the Daily Gazetteer. With the author's preface, and a complete index.
Unknown One thousand, seven hundred, and forty-five. A satiric-epistle; after the manner of Mr. Pope.
Unknown The 1736 Court Kalendar: Containing I. The BIRTHS of the Sovereign Princes now living, and the Original or first founding of all the Kingdoms, States and Republicks, now in Europe p. 5. II. A LIST of the Cardinals, with the Time of their Births, and by whom promoted. p. 11. III. The Deaths of the Princes since the Year 1720. p. 34. IV. Remarks Historical, &c. concerning the Antiquity of the World. p. 42. V. Of the Names of the Months. p. 43. VI. A LIST of the Privy Council. p. 45. VII. A SCHEME of the Stalls of Knights of the Order of the Garter. p. 48. VIII. —— of those of the Bath. p. 50. IX. a LIST of the Knights of the Thistle. p. 52. XX. A LIST of the Foreign Ministers Abroad. p. 54. XI. A LIST of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c. XII. RATES of the Coachmen and Watermen. p. 62. XIII. MEMORABLE EVENTS since 1688. p. 68. [ited] to bind up with Rider's Almanack, and a LIST of the present PARLIAMENT.
Unknown A short vindication of the proceedings of the Governors of the General Hospital at Bath, in relation to Mr. Archibald Cleland, Late Surgeon to the said Hospital; wherein The several Facts misrepresented in a Pamphlet, call'd, An Appeal to the Publick, by Mr. Cleland, Are Fairly Stated. To which is prefix'd, A short narrative of the proceedings. By the Governors of the Hospital, who voted for Mr. Cleland's dismission
Unknown An answer to a printed libel, intitled, A letter to a member of Parliament concerning the bill for regulating the nightly-watch in the city of Westminster and liberties thereof.
Unknown Wednesday club-law: or, the injustice, dishonour and ill policy of breaking into parliamentary contracts for publick debts.
Unknown Remarks upon a sermon lately preach'd by D----r B-----r before the h-ble H-se of C-ns. By a lay lover of the constitution both in church and state.
Unknown The contest: being poetical essays on the Queen's grotto: wrote in consequence of an invitation in the Gentlemen's Magazine for April, 1733 Wherein was Proposed, That the author of the Best Piece be Entitled to a Volume for that Year, Royal Paper, and finely bound in Morocco; and the Author of the Second Best, to a Volume Common Paper. To These are added, The gift of Pallas, and the lover's webb, Two poems on the Fine Piece of Linen made in Ireland, and presented by the Trustees of the Linen Manufacture to the Princess Royal. Also An Epithalamivm On the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Orange.
Unknown Bartholomew-Fair: or, a ramble to Smithfield. A poem in imitation of Milton.
Unknown The occasional paper. Vol. III. Numb. XII. An address to persons of figure, and of estates, and to all in general; with relation to the societies for reformation of manners.