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PREFACE.

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GREEABLE to our pleafing profpects, at the clofe of the last year, the neceffaries of life are, by the blessing of a plentiful harveft, now greatly reduced in price, and bread, the ftaff of life, may be procured at a reasonable rate. This happiness we primarily are indebted for to benign Providence, ever watchful over the diftresses of mankind; and secondarily, to the wife provifions made by parliament, particularly in continuing the prohibition of the exportation of corn. We wish we could congratulate our readers, also, upon the public fpirit of the people in general, and their co-operating with the wife care of the government; but fuch a felfifb rapacity reigns fill amongft the dealers in provifions, that engroffers and foreftallers, as much as poffible, continue to counteract all the measures of adminiAration, and to create an artificial fearcity: This is undoubtedly one of the fatal confequences of burdensome and oppressive taxes, which we have little prospect of feeing reduced: For individuals endeavour to make themselves amends by preying upon one another; and in no time have the arts and chicanery of trade been more predominant than at present : But let us hope, that the diffipation, corruption, and profligacy of the people, will receive fome check, and that we may become more and more the favourites of heaven.

The enemies of liberty have been but too fuccessful in the late year: Our colonies bave, bitherto, in vain, held out their fupplicating hands for redress; and the brave Corficans, who have fo many years fruggled for freedom, feem abandoned to Gallic tyranny; abandoned by all thofe powers who have heretofore been the generous fupporters of the natural rights of mankind: But they have hitherto nobly rejected their chains, and, if affiftance is not too long delayed, may yet disappoint the fchemes to inflave them. As to the Americans, their grievances are before an affembly, which has already, in many inftances, proved aufpicious to the cause of liberty; and we have no reason to doubt will be thoroughly confidered, and, finally, peace and happiness restored to that extenfive continent. This we have fill the more reafon to expect, as our gracious fovereign is remarkably the friend of mankind, and the father of all his people, and will not long suffer arbitrary cruelty, and unconftitutional oppreffion: To him" Liberty (fee the FRONTISPIECE) cannot with impropriety appeal; nor the jaded American and the barraffid Corsican bend lowly for jupport :- -See the auguft monarch attends with commiferation to their complaints, and pity, when he feels it, is redrefs."

We beg leave, at the close of this our thirty-feventh volume, to reiterate our acknowledgments to the public in general, and to our learned and ingenious correfpondents, in particular, for the continuance of their favour, which we daily experience in our increafed fuccefs. On our parts we will never flacken in our endea vours, to inform, and to entertain cur readers; to render the LONDON MAGAZINE the most faithful repofitory of the Literature, the Bufinejs, and the Politics of the times we live in.

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HEREAS Our trusty and well-beloved Richard Baldwin, of Pater

nofter-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 publithed 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 said Work, which has been published 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

Progress of the PresenT WAR, To be illustrated 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 reapiag the Fruits of his very great Expence and Labour, in the Prosecution of this work, and enjoying the full Profit and Benefit that may arise from printing and vending the fame, without any other Person interfering in his just Property, he most humbly prays Us, to grant hiin Our Royal Licence and Protection, for the sole printing, publishing, and vending the said Work. And we do, therefore, by these Presents, fo far as may be agreeable to the Statute in that case made and provided, grant unto hin, the said Richard Baldwin, his Executors, Administrators, and Alligns, our Licence for the sole printing, publifing, and vendling the said Work, for the term of Fourteen Years, ftrictly forbidding all Our Subjects, within Our Kingdoms and Dominions, to reprint, abridge, or, publith the same, either in the like or any other Volume, or Volumes whatsoever, or to import, buy, vend, utter, or distribute, any copies thereof, reprinted beyond the Seas, during the aforesaid Term of Fourteen Years, without the Consent and approbation of the said Richard Baldwin, his Heirs, Executors, or Aligns, under their hands and Seals first had and obtained, as they will answer the contrary at their Perils. Whereof, the Commissioners, and other Officers of Our Cuftoms, 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 230 Day of O&ober, 1759, in the Thirty-Third Year of Our Reign. By His MAJESTY'S Command.

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