THE ondon Magazine. Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer VOL XXXI For the Year 1762 By His MAJESTY'S Authority. PREF A C E.:: WE E may now congratulate our readers upon what we foretold, would be the confequence of Spain's joining openly with France in the war againf us *. The only rich fhip that attempted to return to Spain fince their declaration of war has, by the diligence and bravery of our feamen, been brought to England; and one of their largest islands, together with the best fortified and most use. ful harbour they have in America, bave fallen a prey to the intrepidity of our troops, fafely and furprisingly conducted thither, through a long and narrow chanzel, fo full of holes, eddies, and currents, that it was always before deemed impracticable for juch a numerous fleet. These rapid conquefts have, in the course of one fummer, convinced the haughSpanish court, that the united power of France and Spain is far from being a atch for that of Great-Britain alone in America. This foon induced them to fug r Peace; and in order to recover the island and harbour we had conquered, they ve facrificed the well grounded hope they had of being able, with the affiftance of ence, to add Portugal to their dominions: They have departed from every claim ly fet up against us: And they have yielded to us every territory they poffeffed on this file of the Milippi, which, in cafe of a war with this nation, will always render the Havanna of little fervice to them; because, by our being now in poffeffion of the continent on one fide of the Gulph of Florida, and of the Bahama iflands on the other, not so much as a single ship can pass through the Gulph, with out falling a prey to our cruifers or privateers. On the other hand, the French being thus made apprehenfive that they would be dejerted by Spain, and having been prevented, by the bravery of our troops and the conduct of our general in Germany, from becoming maflers of his majefly's territories in that country, which was from the beginning their only hope of bringing the war to a happy iffue, they at laft began fincerely to jue for peace, and in order to recover a few fmall islands in America, all of which we can in one year take from them again, bould they ever hereafter provoke us to war, they have not only given up their claim, or their right, to feveral other islands, but have made an abfolute ceffion of the whole continent of North America, on this fide the Mississippi, except the fingle town of New Orleans with a small territory round it, fo circum fcribed by rivers and lakes, that they can never pretend to extend their bounds, or to make any incroachment upon us, without a manifeft breach of the treaty they have agreed to. Thus we have now got the undisputed poffefion of a fruitful country in America, almoft equal in extent to the whole continent of Europe: Bounded on the North by feas of ice and mountains of Snow, which have in part been explored by the courage and patience of our failors and travellers, but never as yet paffed by the bokleft or the most indefatigable adventurer: On the caft it is bounded only by the Atlantic Ocean: On the South by the bay of Mexico; and all along its known western frontier by the great river Millilippi, which neither the French nor Spai niards must ever pass, not even for the fake of traffick with the Indians. Thefe advantages, if duly preferved, and made a proper use of, must soon render our dominions in America fufficiently able to protect themselves, and even to give aid to their mother country, if it should ever be found neceffary. Of this wa fhall take care to give, in our future Magazines, a candid and impartial account; and, we hope, fuch an account as will give pleasure to every true British subject̃. From hence we have good reason to expect, from our readers and correspondents, the fame indulgence and encouragement they have hither to favoured us with, for which we return them our most hearty and grateful acknowledgments. See Preface to last year's Lond. Mag. XXXXX MAI DIEUE GEORGE R. MONDROIT WHEREAS Our trufty and well-beloved Richard Baldwin, of Pater nafter-Row, in Our City of London, Bookfeller, hath, by his Petition, humbly reprefented unto Us, that he is the Proprietor of a Work that is publifhed inonthly, entitled, The LONDON MAGAZINE. In which is contained many original Pieces, that were never before printed ; and An Impartial and Succinct HISTORY of the Origin and To be illuftrated with many Maps and Charts, which hath already been fo well By His MAJESTY's Command. W. PIT T. 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