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losophy in the CloUege of William and Mary in the State of Vir- 

 ginia, was also an occasional writer for the work ; but one of the 

 most constant contributors was the Rev. Samuel Badcock, a 

 respectable Dissenting Minister, who is said to have been 

 the author of those elegant Sermons which were preached in the 

 year 1784 at the Bampton Lectures, delivered before the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford, by Dr. Joseph White, Professor of Arabic 

 in that University. This Gentleman, as I have understood, 

 was connected with the Proprietor of the Monthly Review for 

 many years. 



Dr. Griffiths died at Turnham Green on the 2Sth September 

 1803, in the 83d year of his age, and Mrs. Griffiths on the 24th 

 August 1812+. 



I have already said that Dr. Griffiths published two General 

 Indexes to the First Series of the Monthly Review, consisting 

 of 81 volumes. In the year 1818 an Index to the first Eighty- 

 one volumes of the New Series was also published. This latter 

 was compiled by Mr. J. Cudlipp, in two thick volumes, and is 

 sold at two guineas and a half in boards. The title to this 

 Index runs thus : " A General Index to the Monthly Review, 

 from the Commencement of the New Series in January 1790 to 

 the end of the Eighty-first volume completed in December 1816. 

 In Two Volumes. London, Sold by John Porter, Pall Mall, 

 1818." 



The Public have thus a very valuable and connected Series 

 of Literary Journals, extending to no less than 162 volumes *, 

 besides Five volumes of General Indexes. 



A work of this magnitude, embracing a period of more than 

 seventy years, wouM be an unwieldy incumbrance, and com- 

 paratively of little use were it not for the volumes of General 

 Indexes already referred to, and which may be now had to ac- 

 company it — but with this accompaniment a Library cannot 

 contain a set of books of more value, nor of more general 

 utility. 



Having been a regular reader of the Monthly Review for more 



• As the work is still in the course of publication, 16 volumes more have 

 been conjiileted, but these at present have no Cciieral Index. 



