Translation of Tasso. acknowl.
Account of the Detection of the Imposture of the Cock-Lane Ghost, published in the Newspapers and Gentleman’s Magazine. acknowl.
1764.
Part of a Review of Grainger’s ‘Sugar Cane, a Poem,’ in the London Chronicle. acknowl.
Review of Goldsmith’s Traveller, a Poem, in the Critical Review. acknowl.
1765.
The Plays of William Shakspeare, in eight volumes, 8vo. with Notes. acknowl.
1766.
The Fountains, a Fairy Tale, in Mrs. Williams’s Miscellanies. acknowl.
1767.
Dedication to the King of Mr. Adams’s Treatise on the Globes. acknowl.
1769.
Character of the Reverend Mr. Zachariah Mudge, in the London Chronicle. acknowl.
1770.
The False Alarm. acknowl.
1771.
Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland’s Islands. acknowl.
1772.
Defence of a Schoolmaster; dictated to me for the House of Lords. acknowl.
Argument in Support of the Law of Vicious Intromission; dictated to me for the Court of Session in Scotland. acknowl.
1773.
Preface to Macbean’s ‘Dictionary of Ancient Geography.’ acknowl.
Argument in Favour of the Rights of Lay Patrons; dictated to me for the
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. acknowl.
1774.
The Patriot. acknowl.
1775.
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. acknowl.
Proposals for publishing the Works of Mrs. Charlotte Lennox, in Three
Volumes Quarto. acknowl.
Preface to Baretti’s Easy Lessons in Italian and English. intern. evid.
Taxation no Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the
American Congress. acknowl.
Argument on the Case of Dr. Memis; dictated to me for the Court of
Session in Scotland. acknowl.
Argument to prove that the Corporation of Stirling was corrupt; dictated to me for the House of Lords. acknowl.
1776.
Argument in Support of the Right of immediate, and personal reprehension from the Pulpit; dictated to me. acknowl.
Proposals for publishing an Analysis of the Scotch Celtick Language, by the Reverend William Shaw. acknowl.
1777.
Dedication to the King of the Posthumous Works of Dr. Pearce, Bishop of
Rochester. acknowl.
Additions to the Life and Character of that Prelate; prefixed to those
Works. acknowl.
Various Papers and Letters in Favour of the Reverend Dr. Dodd. acknowl.
1780.
Advertisement for his Friend Mr. Thrale to the Worthy Electors of the
Borough of Southwark. acknowl.
The first Paragraph of Mr. Thomas Davies’s Life of Garrick, acknowl.
1781.
Prefaces Biographical and Critical to the Works of the most eminent
English Poets; afterwards published with the Title of Lives of the
English Poets[83]. acknowl.
Argument on the Importance of the Registration of Deeds; dictated to me for an Election Committee of the House of Commons. acknowl.
On the Distinction between TORY and WHIG; dictated to me. acknowl.
On Vicarious Punishments, and the great Propitiation for the Sins of the
World, by JESUS CHRIST; dictated to me. acknowl.
Argument in favour of Joseph Knight, an African Negro, who claimed his Liberty in the Court of Session in Scotland, and obtained it; dictated to me. acknowl.
Defence of Mr. Robertson, Printer of the Caledonian Mercury, against the Society of Procurators in Edinburgh, for having inserted in his Paper a ludicrous Paragraph against them; demonstrating that it was not an injurious Libel; dictated to me. acknowl.
1782.
The greatest part, if not the whole, of a Reply, by the Reverend Mr.
Shaw, to a Person at Edinburgh, of the Name of Clark, refuting his
arguments for the authenticity of the Poems published by Mr. James
Macpherson as Translations from Ossian. intern. evid.
1784. List of the Authours of the Universal History, deposited in the British Museum, and printed in the Gentleman’s Magazine for December, this year, acknowl.
Various Years.
Letters to Mrs. Thrale. acknowl.
Prayers and Meditations, which he delivered to the Rev. Mr. Strahan, enjoining him to publish them, acknowl.
Sermons left for Publication by John Taylor, LL.D. Prebendary of Westminster, and given to the World by the Reverend Samuel Hayes, A.M. intern. evid.
Such was the number and variety of the Prose Works of this extraordinary man, which I have been able to discover, and am at liberty to mention; but we ought to keep in mind, that there must undoubtedly have been many more which are yet concealed; and we may add to the account, the numerous Letters which he wrote, of which a considerable part are yet unpublished. It is hoped that those persons in whose possession they are, will favour the world with them.
JAMES
