O! may the yet far diftant Day, Referved for his appointed Sway, Still fee the peaceful Olive spread RG'D on by Fate in fwift Career How Year for ever chafes Year! How Year for ever chafes Year! Like Dreams, terrestrial Objects fly! They fade, they vanish, change and To paint the shifting Scene is thine With hafty Tints, but juft Defign; Thine, to record the tranfient Deed With flying FAME's impatient Speed: From thee fucceeding Times hall know What LEARNING'S patient Labour What Poets fung, what Sages thought: But from thy Works felected still, [fill, This Tome fome favour'd place thall Supreme where BRITAIN has decreed The Nations round no more fhall bleed, Has bid itern WAR'S Dominion cease, Andyiven this pefidant Ball to PEACE:" Where TIME records that BRITAIN'S Boafts a new Heir that's all her own... And Men learn only from thy Page Lift of Plates in this Volume; with directions to place them. JANUARY. A large Map of part of si'efia, No. 27, on the Plan proposed MARCH. An exact Plan of the Town and Fortifications of Gibraltar. 104 APRILA A Map of the Island of Ja- OCTOBER. Plan of the Siege of the NOVEMBER. Portrait of Lord Aller- 522 marle Anatomical representation SUPPLEMENT. A Map of the Coun- tries in America, ceded to the Ex- glish by the Preliminaries. - 602 Place the Maps of Silefia together at the End of the Volume. 1 T The PREFACE. HE important Events of the Year 1762, could not fail to render a Work which recorded them entertaining and interefting; we fhall, - therefore, as we did the latt Year, recommend our Mifcellany to the Attention of the Public, only by a brief Recapitulation of its Contents, claiming no Merit, which is not implied by the Favour of the Leaned and Ingenous, who have preferred the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE before other periodical Pamphlets of the fame Kind, as a Channel to convey the Refult of their Obfervations and Study to the Public: To this Preference, which has been long our Honour and Advantage, we are content to owe our Superiority; and, as the belt Teftimony of our Gratitude, we promife till to exert our utmost Abilities to deserve it, by our Regularity and Exactness in recording the public Events of the Year; the Impartiality with which we exhibit different Opinions, whether in Literature or Politics, from other Publications, and our Care and Fidelity with refpećt to the Manuscripts which we are favoured with by our Correfpondents. In the Magazine for the Month of January, there is a clear and ample Account of the Difpute between Great Britain and Holland, with refpect to the Proceedings of the English and Dutch East India Companies at Bengal, the Mani feftoes of the two Crowns of England and Spain are inferted, with the Declara. tion of War that almoft immediately followed. This Number alfo contains a fuccinct yet full Hiftory of the public Funds, and of the Bulinefs of ChangeAlley; an Account of the Death of ABEL, a celebrated German Poem; and an original Life of Dr Sherlock, the late Bishop of London. In the Month of February, an Event is recorded, which had Confequences of great Moment, the Death of the Emprefs of Ruffia, with an Account of the firft Measures taken by Peter the IIId, who fucceeded her, in favour of Prussia This Magazine contains alfo the Life of the celebrated Cardinal Borromeus; a particular Account of a pretended Ghoft in Cock-Lane; and a Specimen of a new poetical Verfion of the Pfalms, by the learned and ingenious Mr Merrick. In the Magazine for March, the Events which brought on the War with Spain are traced back to their Source, by Facts authenticated in Papers relative to that Subject, which were published by Order of Government: A farther Account is given of the new Meafures purfued by the Emperor Peter III. of Rupa; a Scheme is propofed, which has fince been executed with great Succefs, for fupplying the Markets of London with Fith, by Land Carriage, at a reasonable Price, and defeating the iniquitous Contrivances of Fishmongers: An authentic and particular Account is inferted of the Reduction of Martinico; and a Scheme is propofed for railing Money by Sale of Crown-Leafes. In April, we gave an Account of a Voyage undertaken by a Son of the ingenious Mr Harrison, with his celebrated Clock, which meafures Tune with fuch Exactness as fufficiently to afcertain the Longitude: Of feveral Steps taken by the Powers at War tending to a general Peace: Of an Infurrection in Ireland, by fome idle and mif-led People, who called themfelves White Boys: Of the Tranfit of Venus over the Sun, as obferved at Madres; and a Narrative of the Commiffion, Discovery, and Punishment of a Murder, attended with mot uncommon and astonishing Circumstances. In May, we gave an Account of the Proceedings of France and Spain, with refpect to Portugal, with the Memorials of the three Crowns: Of a Premium for difcovering the first common Ufage of Linnen Paper: Of the Life of the late Admiral Holmes: Alfo a fuccinct Hiftory of Phylic, from the earlieft Times, with the first Difcovery and Introduction of many capital Medicines:_And & Method of purifying the fouleft and most fœtid Train-Oil, without Trouble or Expence.The Change in the Administration, which took place in May, produced three new weekly political Papers, the BRITON, the NORTH BRITON, and the AUDITOR. 20644 |