1 PRE FACE. Entertainment. To this End we have spared neither Τ Η Ε Ga?? FTER having enjoyed the Favour of the Publick for such a Number upon an annual Address of this Sort, can' be little tiic but a Return of grateful Thanks, for the Esteem with which we are honoured ; and to crave the future Assistance of our learned and ingenious Correfpondents, whose Productions have so evidently contributed to gåin us the Approbation of our Readers. We hope it is observed, that Success 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 Purchasers, to their Instruction and A a for = The PRE FAC E. for Assiduity nor Expence in opening the Stores of Science before them, in order to render the LONDON MAGAZINE at once the most useful and most amusing 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. INERVA offering at the Feet of LIBERTY the Collection of the LONDON MAGAZINES, who receives them with a benign Aspect, whilft ENVY Skulks away enraged and disappointed. The Or, GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer. For JANUARY, 1755 To be Continued. (Price Six. Pence each month.) XVII. The World: On the Modern Arts of XVIII. POETRY: Prologue and Epilogue to Herminius and Efpafia ; Epilogue spoken V. A Description of BRECKNOCKSHIRE. by Mrs. Woffington ; New Year's VI. The Journal of a Learned and Po Ode; to William Lyttelton, Erq; Song, litical CLUB, &c. continued : Contain 100 years old ; to a Lady who fings a very ing the SPEECHES of T. Sempronius good Song; Epitaph on Joseph Shelton ; Gracchus, and Quintus Mucius, on the to Mr. Town; On seeing Miss WilkinBill for punishing Mutiny and Desertion fon perform ; the Wherry; Answer to an of the oficers and soldiers, in the Service Enigina; Epigrams; a new Song sec to of the East-India Company: Mulick, and a Minuet. XIX. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOCER: Beds, by the Steam of boiling water, Sad Accident by Lightning; Bills of Murwith Cuts of the Alembick and Apparatus. talicy for Dublin, Newcastle, Glasgow, VIII . Connoisseur, again ft Suicide. Paris and Koningsberg; Eruption of Mount XI. The Life of Dr. JONATHAN Swift. Vesuvius ; Debates in the Common Coin. X. His Birth, Education, Church preier cil; Sessions at the id Bailey ; Courts ments and Popularity. of the British Fishery and South Sea XI. His Poetical and Moral Character. Company, Fires, &c. &c. XX. Promotions; Marriages and Births ; Deaths; and Bankrupts. XXI. Prices of Stocks for each Day. XXII. Monthly Bill of Mortality. XXIV. A Catalogue of Books. MULTU MIN PARVO. Stitch'd, or any singie Month to complcat Sets. Rectum. boar of PLYMOUTH. 36 Extraordinary case of a child, in a letter Annual produce of the present pub from a surgeon 5 An impervious reétum, tow treated 32 7 A description of Plymouth, with a beau- tiful prospect of that town ibid. The JOURNAL of a learned and political Its citadel, docks, yards, &c. 9-17 Receipt to cure the bite of a mad dog a3 SPEECH Of T. Sempronius Gracchus, a The World : On the modern art of histo- gainst the bill for punishing mutiny and ry writing defertion in the officers and soldiers, in System of instructions for that purpose the East-India company's service 9 Martial law not constitutional till after Ornaments of modern history displayed None in the reigns of Charles and James II. POZTRY. Tempus fugit, a new song, let The firft mutiny act, a limited one ibid. Epilogue, spoken by Mrs. Woffington ibid. Quartering soldiers at discretion, rise of Ode for the new year, by Colley Cib- Song by a bridegroom 100 years old 38. How the several charters of the East. In Verses to William Lyttelton, Esq; on his 13 being appointed governor of South Ca- Dangerous to fend our troops to the Eart rolina 14 To a lady who sings a very good song ibid. SPEICH of Quintus Mucius in favour of The wherry, a song 16 Prologue and Epilogue to Herminius and The Romans governed their armies by a Efpafia ibid. Epitaph on Joseph Skelton Martial law not extended ; but defects in To Mr. Town, on his paper againft sui- A new contrivance for making hot-beds On seeing Miss Wilkinson perform ibid. by the fteam of boiling water 18 Answer to the enigma in December ibid, Cut, and description, of the Alembick for Verses spoken extempore on a man's dy- Cut, and construction, of the apparatus Wrote at the end of Bolingbroke's works, Useful remarks on the foregoing inven. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER 41 Suicides of different ranks and tempers Eruption of mount Vesuvius ibid. Debates in common-council Causes of the frequent examples of this Sessions at the Old-Bailey 24 Bills of mortality for Newcastle, Glar- The life of Dr. Jonathan Swift, with his gow, Paris, and Koningiberg ibid. Material points discutled in the trial of Conveyed to England by his nurse ibid. Canning Supported and encouraged by Sir William Marriages and births His marriage and church preferments ibid. Ecclefiaftical preferments 26 Promotions civil and military His poetical and moral character Account of the Tragedy of Barbaroffa FOREIGN AFFAIRS Prices of Itocks and grain ; wind, wea- Catastrophe, and account of the story, Monthly bill of mortality We are obliged to defer inserting Mr. Craiefleyn's will to our next ; besides several curious and entertaining pieces received from our ingenious correspondents. About the Middle of January was Publisbed, N APPENDIX to the LONDON MAGAZINE for 1754, with a pleai INDEXES, and several other Things, necessary to be bound up with the Volumen A |