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London Mag 1780.

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Monthly Intelligencer

VOL. XLIX.

For the YEAR 1780.

LONDON
MAGAZINE


By His MAJESTY'S Authority
Printed for R.Baldwin at the Rofe Pater Nofter Row

Oalker 3-31-38 21324

ADVERTISEMENT.

No greater proof can be given of the advantage and pleasure refulting from any literary production, than the confiant, voluntary fupport of the Public. Our unwearied exertions to give general fatisfaction have been again crowned with fuccefs, and we have the happiness to find, at the conclufion of the year 1780, that the number of our friends is confiderably increased.

It is with great please therefore, that we repeat our annual tribute of grateful acknowledgements to every individual, who has been pleafed to countenance this undertaking, either as a purchafer, or as a generous contributor to our labours.

The patronage we have fo long enjoyed is the more flattering, as, of late years, we have been furrounded with competitors, who have taken no small pains, to obtain the fame favourable diftinétion.

Emulation has been excited by this laudable conteft, and it has been productive of confiderable improvements. To the frength and folidity of our ancient edifice, has been added, every modern decoration and embellishment, fuited to the reigning tafte.

OUR JUBILEE commences with the enfuing year, when we shall think it more efpecially incumbent upon us, to make our FIFTIETH volume, a confpicuous monument of gratitude for paft favours, and a fignal of our earnest defire to mérit future Success.

The perplexed fituation of public affairs, is likely to afford us many fubjects of a ferious and interefling nature. The progress of a war in which our ALL feems to be at flake, will demand a confiderable jhare of our attention, being determined fieadily to purfue, the approved cuftom, of giving just defcriptions, with accurate plans, charts, and maps of the countries, cities, and coafts, that may hereafter be the fcenes of action to thefe fhall be annexed every paper communicating authentic intelligence, or recording the spirited conduct of our gracious Sovereign in the fupport of the dig nity of his crown, and the rights of his jubjects, against the treachery of false friends, and the perfidy of the ancient fworn foes to the British empire.

PORTRAITS, with the best memoirs that can be procured, of thofe gallant officers, in the land and fea fervice, who fignalife themselves at this awful crisis, in maintaining the honour, independence, and envied fuperiority of their country, will confitute the chief ornament of our work, and may victory attend them in every quarter of the globe!

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Hiftory will, as ufual, occupy a limited space, for the inftruction of youth; and as a relief from fubjects of a ferious, and fludious caft; fprightly dialogues; witty effays; elegant letters; anecdotes; extracts from entertaining publications; fugitive pieces on topics of the day; an account of our theatrical exhibitions; and in fine, all other articles generally inferted in fimilar productions, will find a place in ours, when they are not poftponed for more important objects.

Every alteration in our commercial fyftem is worthy of notice in a maritime, commercial fate; the genuine fpirit of British generofity has at length furmounted prejudice, and the felfish views of individuals; the freedom of trade granted and confirmed to Ireland in the courfe of the last year, forms an era in the annals of commerce which deferves commemoration. The fkill of the artist could not well be employed upon a more pleasing fubject *. The most beneficial confequences may be expected from this union of interefts between the two kingdoms; it will furnijh us with additional Arength in time of war, and will cramp the power of our enemies, by diminishing their fupplies of provifions. And in times of peace, by augmenting the population and induftry of the irish, it will afford new refources to the united empire of Great Britain. We bid adieu to our readers for the prefent, with a hint that we ball open the new year, with a portrait of our young royal naval officer Prince William Henry (to whom our Magazine for January 1781, will be dedicated) and with an accurate chart of the coafts of England and Holland. ·

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