mmerce Lon.Mag.1775. OF When fell Debate & civil Wars shall cease. Thou mayst defy imperious FRANCE & SPAIN. I PRE F A C E. N our last year's addrefs, we gave the Public reafon to expect, that we fhould fpare neither pains nor expence to procure them the greatest information, fatisfaction, and pleasure, according to their various difpofitions and tastes, which the nature of cur undertaking would admit. The acknowledgements we have received during the courfe of the year, and the public approbation teftified by the still increafing fale of our Magazine, while others of the kind are drooping and dying, fhew that our pretences were not falfe, nor our promifes impofitions. Amidst the growing number of humble imitators, and monthly compilations, the London Magazine hath flood the fhock of forty-four years, and is fill Strong and flourishing. To our fubfcribers and correfpondents, known and unknown, for their generous aid, their ingenious contributions, and judicious pieces in profe and verse, we return our fincere thanks, and grateful acknowledgements. We hope they will continue their affistance and approbation, which we defire no longer than we continue to deferve. They may be affured our ambition is not merely to fecure, but to increafe the favours of the public to our mifcellany. The political department, antiquities, and new literary productions and difcoveries, fhall be carefully regarded; and original differtations, effays, and poems on moral, philofophical, entertaining, and humorous fubjects, jhall be communicated monthly. As to thofe font to us during the last year, which we have omitted, we hope the authors will believe that the fole reafon of their omiffion was, their not being fo fuitable to our design, and not from capriciousness or disapprobation. We wish for a speedy reconciliation between Great Britain and the colonies, upon a conflitutional and eternal foundation (as our frontispiece exhibits) for the happiness of every part of the British Empire-and as we have now completed the political debates to the prefent feffion, we shall be able to publish more of thofe learned effays and ingenious pieces of wit and entertainment furnished by our unknown correfpondents. While the differences exift, and there are fuch important debates in parliament upon them, we fhall, agreeable to the original plan of our work, give a comprehenfive, and withal as concife an account as poffible, of thofe great affairs; but fo as that the different tastes of readers fhall have fuitable matter to gratify them. In brief, nothing fall be wanting in the courfe of the next year, to give the London Magazine all the perfection we can, and to continue it worthy of our friend's approbation, and the fimiles and encouragement of the publ.c. |