GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE LOND. GAZETTE The Son-Star JANUARY, 1800. CONTAINING 60 Doncafter 2 Hereford, Hull 2 IRELAND 38 LEICESTER Lewes Liverpool 3 XFORD Salifery SCOTLAND 12 Semeld a Sherborne, Surry Stafford faire Worceste. 2 YORK 3 Meteorolog. Diaries for Dec. 1799,and Jan. 1800 21Mr. Belham.-Sterne's Originality defended 32 BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. Printed by JOHN NICHOLS, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion Paffage, Fleet-Atreet, London; where all Letters to the Editor are defired to be addrefied, Pos T-PAID. 1800. Gathered a well-blown rofe; another bud upon the fame ftem.-6. The buds of the honeyfuckle turgid and green. Goliamer floats.-7. Blades of the fnow-drop have broke ground.-13. A polyanthus in flower. N. B. The air, in general, has been fo foft, that the fmall birds have chirped aloud. their notes. The effects of the gale, noticed in laft month, have continued to the end of the prefent month. But the ftagnated air has caufed a gloominefs and fogginefs; and the effect of its want of motion of the atmosphere has nearly caufed a famine in the want of bread, the wind mills being almoft continually at a ftand. The water-mills are nearly in the fame fituation, the water being almoft exhaufted, from unusual drains, and long drought. J. HOLT, Walton, near Liverpool. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for January, 1800. GENTLEMAN's MAGAZINE, For JANUARY, 1800. Mr. URBAN, *****NOTHER Jan. 1. NOTHER year is gone! and, if our hearts be not devoid of that gratitude to the Almighty which **** fhould ever fill the breaft of a mortal, can we fuffer the remembrance of the bleffings which we, as individuals, and as a collected people, have received at his beneficent hands, to pafs without due reflection? Whilft we behold the other nations of Europe groaning beneath the mercilefs hands of their conquerors, or labouring under the horrors of the devouring fword, whilft brayely encountering an unprincipled and inveterate foe; Britain remains tranquil bleft with all that a mortal holds dear, in an equal adminiftration of juftice and liberty; a Monarch on her throne, beloved by his people; equally faithful to his Creator, as tenderly affiduous for the welfare of his meaneft fubjet; Religion reviving under his fmiles; the arts and fciences flourithing; commerce extending her wings to the remoteft corners of the globe; and a navy triumphant, throughout the world! I conceive, that it is not only the bleffings of the past year, which demand our confideration; but, as another Century is now about to clofe upon us, it may not be unprofitable to take a retrospect view of the fame; for it has undoubtedly been unequalled, not only in the annals of Europe, but of the world; and I fhould fuppofe that arecapitulation of fome of the monentous tranfactions which have occurred within that circle of time may not only be entertaining, but ferve as a memento to revive our drooping gratitude to that gracious Being, who hath, amid the wreck of kingdoms, nations, and empires, preferved unfullied the liberty, glory, and religion, of our native land. To prove that this Century is unparalleled by any of the preceding ones, efpecially as it refpects England; we need but remark, that it has to boast the existence of a New ton, a Locke, a Johnson, a Han del, a Wren, a Chambers, a Rey. nolds, a Hanway, a Howard, and many other worthies, who have paid the debt of Nature; as well as numbers who ftill furvive, to purfue the fame path, which led their predeceffors to honour and fame. Blended with thefe, we have to enrol, in the annals of this Century, a number of patriotic ftatefmen, intrepid and fuccessful warriors, and of learned and pious divines. But the confideration of the labours of thefe eminent men, exclufive of the momentous concerns in which this nation of ours has been moft deeply interefied during the period alluded to, would fo very far exceed the limits of a letter, that (with your leave, Mr. Upa ban,) it fhall form a series of effays; whofe object fhall be, to comprise within a fmall compafs fome of the most prominent occurrences which have tranfpired during that lapfe of time. Leaving, then, the commencement of thefe effays to your next number, I fhall conclude this intro duction with a few reflexions on the paft year. And who of us but has feen the fuperintending providence of the Moft High, wonderfully dif |