THE ondon Cagazine Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer VOL. XXXIX For the Year 1770. By His MAJESTY'S Authority cont 21324 PREFACE. WE are never happier than in this annual opportunity of returning thanks 10 the public for the continuation of their favours; the LONDON MAGAZINE has been now published almoft forty years, and during that period, the proprietors have been conftantly ambitious of deferving 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 frongest reafon 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 frictest comparison. Through all the rage of the times they bave fleered their literary bark with the minuteft circumfpection; avoiding on the one hand the quickfands of a minifterial attachment, and founning 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 athers in the moft fulsome frain 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 his 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 indifputable teft of care, at leaft, in the compilation. There are fome points, indeed, in which they can by no means enter into competition with other Magazines, and in which they would even blub to acquire a fuperiority; thefe are in the fictitious biftories of amours, or the fill more dangerous annals of real gallantry. The London Magazine is published to improve, not to corrupt the mind; to inculcate principles of recitude, not to pandar to the passions of its readers. They are befides bonoured with an extensive perusal among the most amiable of the fofter fex, and cannot open the unhallowed orgies of the few, upon a woman of virtue. The licentious Atalantis is, therefore, banished from these pages; it is configned to fuch publications as are interested in debafing the heart; and they truft, 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. Mher the key of the temple of Janus, and encourages her to let out the ARS, enraged at the affront offered his Favourite BRITANNIA, prefents Furies of War on her infidiqus enemies, GEORGE R. WHEREAS Our trufty and well-beloved Richard Baldwin, of Pater nofler-Row, in Our City of London, Bookfeller, hath, by his Petition, humbly reprefented unto Us, that he is the Proprietor of a Work that is pub lihed 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 publifhed once a Month for near Thirty Years past, and hath met with great approbation from the Publick. That he is now publishing therein An Impartial and Succinct HISTORY of the Origin and Progrefs of the PRESENT WAR, To be illuftrated with many Maps and Charts, which hath already been fo well received, as to induce feveral Perfons to reprint it in other periodical Publications; and being defirous of reaping the Fruits of his very great Expence and Labour, in the Profecution of this Work, and enjoying the full Pront and Benefit that may arise from printing and vending the fame, without any other Perfon interfering in his juft Property, he most humbly prays Us, to grant him Our Royal Licence and Protection, for the fole printing, publishing, and vending the said Work. And We do, therefore, by thefe Prefents, fo far as may be agreeable to the Statute in that cafe made and provided, grant unto him, the faid Richard Baldwin, his Executors, Adminiftrators, and Affigns, 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 and Dominions, to reprint, abridge, or, publish the fame, either in the like or any other Volume, or Volumes whatfoever, or to import, buy, vend, utter, or distribute, any Copies thereof, reprinted beyond the Seas, during the aforefaid Term of Fourteen Years, without the Confent and Approbation of the faid Richard Baldwin, his Heirs, Executors, or Affigns, under their Hands and Seals first had and obtained, as they will anfwer the contrary at their Perils. 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