European Magazine, For DECEMBER 1791. [Embellished with, 1. A PORTRAIT of Mr. CHARLES MACKLIN; 2. A VIEW of ST. MEDARD'S, at Soissons in FRANCE; and 3. A MACHINE for ASCERTAINING a SHIP'S RATE of SAILING at SEA, with a TIME-REGULATOR and TELLTALE.] CONTAINING Page Fourth Century before the Chriftian Æra. By the Abbé Barthelemi [concl.] 444 Petition of the Letter H. 448 Animadverfion on Capt. Newte's Tour ibid. Remarks on the Island of Hinzuan or Jo hanna. By Sir William Jones [concl.] 449 Lines added by Mr. Haftings to LONDON: Printed for J. SEWELL, Cornhill; [Entered at Stationers-all.] 460 464 473 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to CORRESPONDENTS. We never received the Dialogue mentioned by Mr. Rickman. If Miles chufes to let his piece take its turn it will be inferted, otherwise it shall be returned. Many pieces are in hand which claim priority. We must again repeat, that nothing, unlefs temporary, can be inferted which is fent after the middle of the month. The number printed requires to go very early to the prefs. AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from Dec. 10, to Dec. 17, 1791. COUNTIES upon the COAST. Wheat Rye Barl. Oats Beans Wheat Rye Barl. Oats Beans, 5 43 23 62 43 9 Suffolk Norfolk 52 44 2 Lincoln 62 5,4 I York Bedford 4 10 3 53 4/2 23 3 Durham 4 103 7:3 Cheshire 93 Stafford 5 110 23 82 34 2 5 24 03 04 Cornwall 5 5 5 556 555 10 10 10 55 9:3 62 210 0 5 IO O O O O 4 10,2 74 7 72 00 0 3 111 100 2 3 91 100 22 60 0 5 50 03 7.2 43 7 32 34 52 513 11 WALES. Engrata by I Corner from a load by MCloche in Reparron of M Machlin. Hibtisha by J. Sewell 32 Cornhill 1Dec 1707. ТНЕ EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND LONDON REVIEW, For DECEMBER 1791. MR. CHARLES MACKLIN, As when that Hero, who in each campaign A common Soldier who but clubb'd his mite? Such, fuch emotions fhould in Britons rife, When prefs'd by want and weakness MACKLIN lies. POPE on Dennis. AT the age of ninety-two, Mr. Macklin, the Neftor of the Stage, after an exertion of his talents for the maintenance of himself and his family unto a period much later than falls to the general lot of mankind, by the lofs of his memory has found himself reduced to a fituation which has compelled him to folicit the attention of the public towards him. When it is confidered, that the present state of his affairs is not owing to extravagance or vicious indulgencies, but to caufes from which no human being can exempt himself, it is apprehended few words will be neceffary to induce the public to regard the application for him with a favourable eye. We fhall, therefore, lay before our readers Mr. Murphy's Addrefs fubjoined to the Propofal for printing the Man of the World, and Love A-lamode; intending at a future, and not diftant period, to give a full account of Mr. Macklin's Life and Writings. TO THE PUBLIC. WHEN the reafons which have occafioned the neceffity of the prefent plan are fhortly stated, the friends of Mr. Mack lin are willing to perfuade themselves, that propofals for a fubfcription will not be unwelcome to the public. Dr. Johnson obferved, on a fimilar occafion, that " To affift induftrious indigence, fruggling with diftrefs, and debilitated by age, is a difplay of virtue, and an acquifition of happiness and honour." The prefent Addrefs is an appeal to the humanity and generofity of a large and opulent community, in behalf of a man who has lived to the age of ninety-two, and of that long life has paffed near seventy years under the eye of the public, at all times diligent in his bufinefs, and now a worn-out veteran in the fervice of the Drama. Bleffed with uncommon vigour of conftitution, Mr. Macklin hoped that his induftry and indefatigable pains would have held him above want to the end of his life. But the decay of his memory has deprived him of all hopes of appearing again in that profeffion which he always loved, and before that public whom he honoured for the generous encouragement with Fff z which |