xiv CONTENTS. 



Pt-ussian Edict, concerning the so-called Cimtinental Si/slcm, Sfc. . . 397 



Imperial Decree of Napoleon 398 



Manifesto of the King of Denmark ibid 



of the Spanish Regency, against the Archbishop of Nicca . . 399 



Decree of the Regency, addressed to the Nuncio 400 



Message of the American President 405 



Remonstrance to the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United 



States ■. . , 409 



Article from the Copenhagen Gazette . . . . . . . 418 



Treaty between Portugal and Algiers ....... 42© 



Manifesto of his Majesty the Emperor of Amtria .... 422 



Treaty of Amity, and of Defensive Alliance, between the Courts of Vienna 



and St. Petersburgh ........ 433 



Declaration of War by Sweden against Denmark ..... 436 



Proclamation addressed to the Hanoverians ...... 437 



Bavarian Declaration .......... 439 



Address of the Swiss Diet . , . . . . . . . 441 



Declaration of the Allied Poiuers . . ..... 442 



The Prince of Orange Address and Proclamation . , . . . 443 



Message of the American President ....... 444 



Proclamation of Prince Schwartzenberg to the Swiss .... 450 



Imperial Decree of Napoleon ........ 451 



Republic of Geneva 452 



CHARACTERS. 



Character of Customs Adolphm, late King of Sweden .... 454 



Sir Joshua Reynolds . 457 



John Home Tooke 458 



Alberoni and Ripperda . ........ ,462 



MANNERS CUSTOMS, &c. 

 OF NATIONS AND CLASSES OF PEOPLE. 



■Account of the Parsees ......... 465 



'Character and Religion of the Sikhs 468 



The Quajis ......... 474 



Manners of the Laplanders . . ...... 477 



Mission of the United Brethren 482 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



Account of the Balccna Myslicclus, or Great Northern or Greenland Whale 487 



On the Duration if tite Germindtive Faculty of Seeds .... 490 



tThe Chnmclion . . . ....... 492 



Aligators 493 



Elephants . ibid. 



