A FTER having enjoyed the Favour of the Publick for fuch a Number of Years, and, with Pleafure, perceiving their Kindness increased upon every Publication, the Bufinefs of an annual Addrefs of this Sort, can' be little che but a Return of grateful Thanks, for the Esteem with which we are honoured; and to crave the future Affistance of our learned and ingenious Correfpondents, whose Productions have fo evidently contributed to gåin us the Approbation of our Readers. We hope it is obferved, that Succefs has not abated our Attention and Endeavour to excel; but rather animated us to new and warmer Proofs of our Regard, to the good Opinion of our Purchafers, to their Inftruction and Entertainment. To this End we have fpared neither The PREFACE. for Affiduity nor Expence in opening the Stores of Science before them, in order to render the LONDON MAGAZINE at once the most useful and most amufing COLLECTION ever yet published, which having now entered the twenty-fifth Year of its Existence, bids fair to convey down to the Days of our Posterity, a faithful Register of all the ingenious Labours and useful Transactions of the learned, the politick, and the polite World. EXPLANATION of the FRONTISPIECE. NERVA offering at the Feet of LIBERTY MIN the Collection of the LONDON MAGAZINES, who receives them with a benign Afpect, whilft ENVY fkulks away enraged and disappointed. The The LONDON MAGAZINE: Or, GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer. To be Continued. (Price Six-Pence each Month.) Containing, (Greater Variety, and more in Quantity, than any Monthly Book of the fame Price.) II. His Literary difputes and Friendships. III. Produce of the Publick Revenue. V. A Description of BRECKNOCKSHIRE. VI. The JOURNAL of a Learned and Po- litical CLUB, &c. continued: Contain- ing the SPEECHES of T. Sempronius Gracchus, and Quintus Mucius, on the Bill for punishing Mutiny and Defertion of the Officers and Soldiers, in the Service of the East-India Company, VII. A new Contrivance for making Hot- Beds, by the Steam of boiling Water, with Cuts of the Alembick and Apparatus. VIII. Connoiffeur, against Suicide. XI. The Life of Dr. JONATHAN SWIFT. X. His Birth, Education, Church prefer- XI. His Poetical and Moral Character. XII. Account of Barbaroffa, a Tragedy. XIII. Account of CANNING's Trial. XIV. Extraordinary Cafe of an Impervious XVI. Receipt to Cure the bite of a Mad Dog. XVII. The World: On the Modern Arts of XVIII. POETRY: Prologue and Epilogue to Herminius and. Efpafia; Epilogue spoken Woffington; New Ode; to William Lyttelton, Efq; Song, 100 years old; to a Lady who fings a very good Song; Epitaph on Jofeph Shelton; Sad Accident by Lightning; Bills of Mǝr- tality for Dublin, Newcafte, Glafgow, Paris and Koningsberg; Eruption of Mount Vefuvius; Debates in the Common Coun- cil; Seffions at theOld Bailey; Courts of the British Fishery and South-Sea XX. Promotions; Marriages and Births; XXI. Prices of Stocks for each Day. We are obliged to defer inferting Mr. Craiefteyn's will to our next; befides several curious and. entertaining pieces received from our ingenious correspondents. N APPENDIX to the LONDON MAGAZINE for 1754, with a Beautiful FRONTISPIECE, a General TITLE curiously engraved, com- pleat INDEXES, and several other Things, neceffary to be bound up with the Volume. |