CONTENTS. VOL. XXXI. No. 47. NON Macklin's British Inquisition. Speech on the Question,-Whether the Stage might not be made mere conducive to Virtue?.. COL. & THORN. 48. On Christmas. Celebration of it if Town and Country. On Christmas Boxes, This Season disagreeable to Persons of Fashion... 49. Letter containing a Scheme for a Female Parliament.. -Usefulness of it, and Objections against it.-Account of the Covent Garden Society, consisting of certain Good-natured Females, divided into Ladies and Commons.. 50. On Suicide. Account of the Last Guinea Club. Assembly at White's, a kind of Last Guinea Club. Different Ways of Suicide between vulgar Persons and Persons of Fashion. Punishments for Suicides proposed. Frequency of Self Murders in England falsely imputed to the Climate. Despair, brought on by Extravagance and Debauchery, a Cause of Suicide.-Free-thinking another.— Specimen of a Bill of Suicide after the DUNCOMBE BRITISH ESSAYISTS; WITH PREFACES, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS, A. M. VOL. XXXI. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, J. NICHOLS AND SON, R. BALDWIN, F. AND C. RIVINGTON, W. OTRIDGE AND SON, W. J. AND J. RICHARDSON, A. STRAHAN, J. SEWEL, R. FAULDER, G. AND W. NICOL, T. PAYNE, G. AND J. ROBINSON, W. LOWNDES, G. WILKIE, J. MATHEWS, P. M'QUEEN, OGILVY AND SON, J. SCATCHERD, J. WALKER, VERNOR AND HOOD, R. LEA, DARTON AND HARVEY, J. NUNN, LACKINGTON AND CO. D. WALKER, CLARKE AND SON, G. KEARSLEY, C. LAW, J. WHITE, LONGMAN AND REES, CADELL AND DAVIES, J. BARKER, T. KAY, WYNNE AND CO. POTE AND CO. CARPENTER AND CO. W. MILLER, MURRAY AND HIGHLEY, S. BAGSTER, T. HURST, T. BOOSEY, R. PHENEY, W. BAYNES, J. HARDING, R. H. EVANS, J. MAWMAN, AND W. CREECH, EDINBURGH. 1802. |