Printed at St. John's Gate, for D. HENRY, and fold by F. NEWBERY, To URBAN, on compleating the XLIVth Volume. very month, and every day, Sink undiftinguifh'd in the tomb, Or freeze on Hacluit's dreary hare, * Plates of curiofities found in the ruins of that city. + Epitome of the late voyages round the world. 143628 And towards the North Pole. Tour in the midland counties of England, Here, ftripp'd of all the glare of state, But chief muft thy historic page That Commerce, unreftrain'd, once more See the Memoirs inferted in this volume. + See p. 555. A Meteorological DIARY of the Weather for JANUARY, 1774. Jan. 1774 294136 29 5 34 hard froft, ditto Ditta 29 6 34 4 W fresh 29 8 33 5 SW little 29 9 33 6 S fresh 29 735 N little 29 5 38 The geographical chart in Ja- No.9of Herculan. Paintings 152 Dr. Irving's Still, &c. nuary is part of a general St. Catharine's Chapel 182 Non-defcript from N. Seas 416 chart of the globe,intended to Portrait of late K.of France195 Mr. Wilkes's Cup be joined to the former parts. Cooper's-bridge Canal Ruffian Antiquity, &c.to fabep.9 Bolton Caftle Head of a New Zealander Head of M. de Voltaire Moorfields Canal 200 Harlequin Duck 257 Hercul. Paint, with 3-Coins 504 305 Plate of Antiques &c.313 No. 10 of Hercul. Curiofities 552 512 19 Turacp-Drill, &c. 57 Ancient Coins, Infcript. 121 Leeds and Selby Canal, &c.352 Piece of Ordnance 562 H PREFAC E. AVING now compleated the XLIVth Volume of the Gentleman's Magazine, we are authorized*, to attribute to the publication of that work, the establishment of charitable focieties abroad and at home, that do honour to humanity. From the year 1745, to that of 1763 †, the Editors laboured occafionally to recommend to public confideration the poffibility of preferving the human fpecies, by extending the medical art to perfons under the appearance of fudden death; but it was not till the year 1767, that a few wealthy gentlemen of the city of Amfterdam, ftruck with the variety of inftances in which people falling into the water were loft for want of proper treatment, formed themselves into a society, at their own expence, to attempt the recovery of drowned perfons. Thefe gentlemen purfued their defign with fo much zeal and fuccefs, that, in the space of fix years, they had the fatisfaction to find, that, in not less than 210 cafes, drowned perfons were recovered by the means pointed out by them, and recommended in the United Provinces by advertisements, and other publications. The great fuccefs of this undertaking, and the advantages accruing from it to the ftate, foon induced each of the Provinces of the Republic of the Low Countries to take proper measures for fecuring the benefit it offered, by enjoining all public perfons, over whom their ftrict rules of police gave them a conftant fway, to obferve the fociety's directions, and to lend their affiftance in following them, through their respective districts, upon pain of displeasure, mulets, and punishment. This worthy fociety communicated to us, from time to time, the refult of their proceedings; and we, as often as room would permit, co-operated with them, in making known the means ufed, and the fuccefs that attended their laudable endeavours. (See Vol. XLI. p. 512, Vol. XLIII. p. 174. The falutary effects of this inftitution remained not confined to the United Provinces. The Boards of Health at Venice, at Milan, and Padua, adopted it: the city of Hamburgh did the fame: the Empress of Ruffia countenanced it, and ordered the Dutch publication and inftructions to be tranflated for her dominions: the Empress of Germany, by fpecial edicts and mandates, gave very parti cular encouragement to the practice: the French have found means to unite it with the particular police of their capital and England has, at length, alfo received it, our metropolis having now its Society for the Recovery of Drowned Perfons, under the fanction of a late first magiftrate. Thele feveral focieties and inftitutions have published their memoirs, tranfactions, reports, and obfervations. The cafes defcribed in thofe various publications (fome of which we have already related in the volumes above referred to) fufficiently The writer, on whofe authority we have pretumed, will not, we hope, be difpleased to find his letter made the fubject of this Preface, as no other place remained wherein to infert it. In the farther profecution of his fubject, he is requested to confult the fubfequent references. In Vol. XXXIII. p. 486, the cafe of an English failor, who accidentally fell overboard, in the river Douro, in Portugal, and who was taken up without any figns of life, and recovered, is produced as an example to encourage farther trials. Many other cafes, much more extraordinary, were adduced; but they were then thought fo Extraordinary, that their reality was doubted, |