@article{539463,
      note = {Anonymous. By John Oswald.},
      author = {Oswald, John,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/539463},
      title = {The British mercury. Containing 1. The present state of  the world, or a philosophical Inquiry into the Origin and  Progress of Commerce, Literature, and Politics. 2. The  Brain Sucker, or the Distress of Authorship: 3. Account of  the Natives of Joanna, an Island in the African Seas: 4.  Songs of the Madecassi: 5. Address to the King: 6. The  Birth-Day: 7. Correspondence between a Chinese Philosopher,  now in England, and a Mandarin at Pekin: 8. Humorous  Strictures on the Musical Festival at Westminster Abbey: 9.  General View of Affairs in the Summer of 1787: 10. Humorous  Account of the Reception which Charlemagne and his Twelve  Peers met with at the Court of Hugo, Emperor of  Constantinople: 11. The Serpent that tempted Eve defined.  12. La Bagatelle, containing many Original Bon Mots, J'eux  D'esprit, &c. 13. On the late Commotions in Holland.  14. On the late Conduct of Lord G. Gordon. 15. On the  Paintings exhibited in 1787. 16. Critique on, and Extracts  from the Lousiad, Irish Birth-Day Ode, King's Weston Hill,  Nina, &c. &c. 17. Curious extracts from Foreign  Publications, &c. &c. To Which IS Now Added, The  Priests of Apollo; A Song From The Original Hebrew.  Embellished with three caricature prints, Exhibiting The  Brain-Sucker, the British Lion, and Moses erecting the  Brazen Serpent in the Desart. [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {printed for J. Ridgway, No. 1, York-Street, St.  James's-Square, and L. Macdonald, No. 454, opposite  Villers-Street, Strand,},
      recid = {539463},
      pages = {36,4,[1],38-102,[3],104-138p.,plates ;},
      address = {London :},
      year = {1788},
}