Sabley 3-31-38 21324 PREFACE. WE are never happier than in this annual opportunity of returning thanks to the public for the continuation of their favours; the LONDON MAGAZINE bas been now published almost forty years, and during that period, the proprietors have been conftantly ambitious of deserving the protection which it received from the ingenious in every science, and the liberal of every denomination. The encouragement they have been honoured with, gives them the strongest reason to imagine that their endeavours have not been wholly without effect; and, notwithstanding the multiplicity of fimilar productions, they are even vain enough to imagine that they will not suffer by the strictest comparison. Through all the rage of the times they bave fleered their literary bark with the minutest circumspection; avoiding on the one band the quicksands of a minifterial attachment, and shunning on the other, the rocks of popular prejudice. To speak without a figure, it has been their business to give a difpaffionate register of events, without making themselves parties in any one transaction; in their Political Debates, particularly, they have not, like many of their cotemporaries, treated fome characters with ridicule, and complimented others in the most fulsome ftrain of adulation; on the contrary they have treated all with an equal share of respect: left the argument to be recommended by its own force, and the reader to make use of bis own understanding. In their Review and their Theatrical Critique, they appeal to the world for the rigid impartiality they bave observed; and in the more miscellaneous articles of their work, the general avidity with which they have been imitated by their rivals, is an indisputable test of care, at least, in the compilation. There are some points, indeed, in which they can by no means enter into competition with other Magazines, and in which they would even blush to acquire a fuperiority; these are in the fictitious biftories of amours, or the ftill more dangerous annals of real gallantry. The London Magazine is published to improve, not to corrupt the mind; to inculcate principles of rectitude, not to pandar to the passions of its readers. They are befides bongured with an extensive perusal among the most amiable of the Softer fex, and cannot open the unhallowed orgies of the stew, upon a woman of virtue. The licentious Atalantis is, therefore, banished from these pages; it is consigned to fuch publications as are interesfied in debasing the heart; and they trust, that Nothing will ever appear in this, but what is likely to advance the ends of science, and the laws of morality. EXPLANATION of the FRONTISPIECE. MARS, enraged at the affront offered his Favourite BRITANNIA, prefents her the key of the temple of Janus, and encourages her to let out the Furies of War on her infidious enemies, GEORGE R. MON DROIT HEREAS Our trusty and well-beloved Richard Baldwin, of PaterW nofer-Row, in Our City of London, Bookseller, hath, by his Petition, humbly represented unto Us, that he is the Proprietor of a Work that is pub. lished monthly, entitled, The LONDON MAGAZINE. In which is contained many original Pieces, that were never before printed; and that he is at a great expence in paying Authors for their Labours in writing and compiling the faid Work, which has been published once a Month for near Thirty Years paft, and hath met with great approbation from the Publick. That he is now publishing therein An Impartial and Succinct HISTORY of the Origin and Progress of the PRESENT WAR, To be illuftrated with many Maps and Charts, which hath already been so well received, as to induce several Persons to reprint it in other periodical Publications; and being desirous of reaping the Fruits of his very great Expence and Labour, in the Prosecution of this Work, and enjoying the full Profit and Benefit that may arife from printing and vending the fame, without any other Person interfering in his just Property, he most humbly prays Us, to grant him Our Royal Licence and Protection, for the fole printing, publishing, and vending the faid Work. And We do, therefore, by these Presents, fo far as may be agreeable to the Statute in that cafe made and provided, grant unto him, the faid Ritbard Baldwin, his Executors, Administrators, and Afsigns, our Licence for the fole printing, publishing, and vending the faid Work, for the Term of Fourteen Years, fictly forbidding all Our Subjects, within Our Kingdoms to reprint, abridge, or, publish the fame, either in the like or and Dominions, any other Volume, or Volumes whatsoever, or to import, buy, vend, utter, or diftribute, any Copies thereof, reprinted beyond the Seas, during the aforesaid Term of Fourteen Years, without the Confent and Approbation of the faid Richard Baldwin, his Heirs, Executors, or Afsigns, under their Hands and Seals first had and obtained, as they will anfwer the contrary at their Perils. Whereof, the Commissioners, and other Officers of Our Customs, the Master, Wardens, and Company of Stationers, are to take Notice, That due Obedience may be rendered to Our Will and Pleasure herein declared. Given at Our Court at Kensington, the 23d Day of O&ober, 1759, in the Thirty-Third Year of Our Reign. By His MAJESTY'S Command. W. PITт. ! T.DOGIC Or, GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer; For JANUARY, 1770. Reflections on the Tragedy of Hamlet 3 | History and Description of Afa, con Effay on Affectation of Wit and florid | tinued 31 Writing 4 Proceedings of a Political Club 32 Eflay on New Words 5 State of the Cafe refpecting the Execu 6 tion of the two Weavers, Doyle and Effay on Tragedy and Comedy ibid.! Valline 37 Eflay on Superannuated Words Account of the Manner of inoculating | An Impartial Review of New Publi the Small Pox on the Coast of Bar- cations bary and in the East Indies 8 42 7 9 Moses justified in his Account of the 19 ibida Letter to a Great Peer, &c. 45 ibid. 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