CONTENTS. ON Macklin's British Inquisition. Speech on the Question,-Whether the Stage might not be made more conducive to Virtue?.. COL. & THORN. 48. On Christmas. Celebration of it it. Town and Country. On Christmas Boxes, 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 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 BRITISH ESSAYISTS; WITH PREFACES, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS, A. M. sició 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. |