We shall give a genuine account of admiral Byng's trial, as foon as we can get minutes that may be depended upon. The great number of pieces in profe and verse that we have received from our kind correspondents, fhall be inferted in their due time. The Requital was not received, and Philomufe will foon have a letter from us. About the Middle of January was Published, N APPENDIX to the LONDON MAGAZINE for 1756, with a A Beautiful FRONTISPIECE, a general TITLE curioully engraved, com- at INDEXES, and several other Things, neceflary to be bound up with the Volume, Combinets Sanders 10-24-30 24752 ТНЕ PREFACE. N our Preface to laft Year's MAGAZINE, the many exact Accounts we have given of foreign and domeftick Affairs, every Reader, we believe, has found this Prophecy compleatly fulfilled. We wish we could have finished this Year with the Terms of a fafe, honourable, and glorious Peace; for our FRONTISPIECE to this Year's MAGAZINE, will fhew that we are far from delighting in War. This we might probably have been enabled to do, if the furprizing and glorious Victories of the King of PRUSSIA, had been duly feconded by the warlike Exploits of this Nation; and this they would have been, if our military Force, by Sea and Land, had been as vigorously exerted by thofe who were trufted with the Execution, as the Measures for that Purpose have of late been wifely planned by those who had the Direction. a BUT BUT as Matters now ftand, we can hardly expect, that our Enemies will fue for Peace, before the Trial of another Campaign; and whilst we have such an invincible Navy upon the Ocean, this Ifland may refolutely adhere to the Maxim of the Old ROMANS, never to fue for Peace, but to grant it to a fuppliant Enemy, who offers ample Satisfaction for all paft Injuries, and full Security against any future. THEREFORE, in our MAGAZINE for the enfuing Year, we hope, our Readers will find not only more Materials, but much more fatisfactory Materials, than they have found in the past. And as we have great Reason to thank them for the Indulgence they have hitherto fhewn us, we shall endeavour to deserve a Continuance of that Indulgence in Time to come. The FRONTISPIECE exhibits PEACE flying at the Approach of WA R. P a EACE is reprefented crowned with Olives, and holding a Cornucopia in one Hand, and in the other an Olive Branch; the Boy with the Bundle of Arrows tied together, fignifies Concord; and the Figure behind, with the Lyre, fignifies polite Learning; all which are flying away at the Approach of the God of War, who is advancing with his Sword drawn, and trampling on Inftruments of Agriculture. The Furies follow, treading on Heaps of Dead; and in the Distance is a Town on Fire. 1 The ТНЕ LONDON MAGAZINE. The following Extract from the CON TEST, N° 7, will not improperly accompany the HEAD of the illuftrious Gentleman which fronts our Title. B EING born of a A good family, and allied to feveral noble ones, he thought it incumbent upon him to preferve the luftre derived from both, whether in private or publick B life. In the former he was always frugal, temperate, honeft, fincere, and benevolent; and was thereby naturally free, brave, and uncorrupt, in the latter. Being poffeffed only of a fmall fortune, he virtuously circumfcribed his expences within the limits of his income; and therefore, C when corruption ftooped fo low as to take the ftandard out of the hands of a cornet (as he himself emphatically expreffed it) on account of inflexible integrity, he was enabled to subsist without publick pay, and had fortitude last, to re honour of the nation, and the liberties of mankind, were fuperior to all other confiderations. This was his invariable conduct whilst in employmeut, and, at length, he gloriously relinquished this fubordinate power rather than co-operate with weak or wicked men, in schemes prejudicial, in any degree, to the common intereft of his country. He then retired, a while, to enjoy untainted honour in unenvied obfcurity; but when the united voice of a perishing people called upon him for affittance, he was willing, ready, and able, and I hope will perfift, in fpite of the mean oppofition of faction, or the dark arrow of calumny, which flies by night, in his endeavours to reftore this kingdom to its antient virtue, and confequently to its peace, plenty, and honour. A faithful Account of the SIEGE of ST. PHILIP'S FORT, in the land of MINORCA. (See our laft Volume, p. 409, and the MAPS and PLANS at p. 104, 208.) N April 17, garrifon first benge the unconstitutional infult offered to DO alarmed with the Saewoo was large We shall give a genuine account of admiral Byng's trial, as foon as we can get minutes that may be depended upon. The great number of pieces in profe and verfe that we have received from our kind correspondents, fhall be inferted in their due time. The Requital was not received, and Philomuse will foon have a letter from us. The lift of fhips taken on both fides, will be refumed in February. About the Middle of January was Published, N APPENDIX to the LONDON MAGAZINE for 1756, with a Beautiful FRONTISPIECE, a general TITLE curiously engraved, comINDEXES, and several other Things, neceffary to be bound up with the Volume. |