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changes of the world fhall make us deviate-"LET EVER ENGLISHMAN DO HIS DUTY TO HIS COUNTRY." Wit? this determination, under the bleffing of Providence, we may laugh to 'fcorn the malice of our Enemies, we may profecute our Commerce, enlarge the fources of ou Wealth, cultivate Learning and the Arts, and ftill farthe promote and extend the Glory of our Country.

The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE poffetfes this prouc diftinction. It has been refpected uniformly for it EQUANIMITY, neither too much elated by temporary fucceffes, and never depreffed to defpondency by the fevereft reverses of our National hopes.

In this we shall firmly and fteadily perfevere. We fhall eagerly look for brighter funs and fairer fkies to thofe Powers of Europe who have moft fuffered from the vifitations of Providence, and the calamities of War, in defence of their Liberties and Laws. We fhall vindicate our own independence, and attach ourselves ftill more clofely to the venerable fabrick of our Conftitution. We would willingly live and die, with and for it.

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Profeffions of our zeal in the caufe of Literature muft needs be fuperfluous; we can make an honourable appeal to a long series of Volumes, which are efteemed by our Countrymen, as containing fome of the earlieft, and many of the best productions of Genius in every branch of Learning. Whilft life and health ftill remain to us, they will continue to do fo; and, in the hope that we may yet be acceffary to much that is ufeful, inftructive, and ornamental, we bid our Readers and our Countrymen heartily

Dec. 31, 1805.

FAREWELL!

PREFACE TO VOLUME LXXV.

THE emotions with which we addrefs our Readers on the prefent occafion are of a very mixed kind indeed. When we contemplate the height of Glory to which this Nation has arrived by a series of Naval Victories to which the History of the World affords no parallel; when we confider the extent of our Commerce, the wonderful increase of our National Wealth; when we examine the progreffive improvement of Learning and the Arts among us; we feel the value and importance of the English Character; our hearts expand with confidence and hope, and we glance forward to fucceeding years of profperity and happiness. But, looking far beyond ourfelves to the Nations around us, the scene is very different, the afpect of the heavens gloomy and lowering. We are compelled to fee antient and hereditary Kingdoms tottering to their fall, Sovereigns degraded, the Nobles of the Earth fcattered before the defolation of War. We behold principles of the moft pernicious tendency and operation daily increafing in force and strength, and as it were a new Epoch commencing in the Hiftory of Mankind. From this reprefentation, and these appearances, what is the inference that Briton fhould draw as a rule of conduct for himself and his Countrymen? The dying words of the departed and immortal NELSON here prefs upon our recollection; and we record them as an indelible maxim, which, to ourfelves at leaft, fhall be a path from which no chance or changes

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changes of the world fhall make us deviate-"LET EVERY ENGLISHMAN DO HIS DUTY TO HIS COUNTRY." With this determination, under the bleffing of Providence, we may laugh to 'fcorn the malice of our Enemies, we may profecute our Commerce, enlarge the fources of our Wealth, cultivate Learning and the Arts, and ftill farther promote and extend the Glory of our Country.

The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE poffetfes this proud diftinction. It has been refpected uniformly for its EQUANIMITY, neither too much elated by temporary fucceffes, and never depreffed to defpondency by the fevereft reverses of our National hopes.

In this we shall firmly and fteadily perfevere. We shall eagerly look for brighter funs and fairer fkies to thofe Powers of Europe who have moft fuffered from the vifitations of Providence, and the calamities of War, in defence of their Liberties and Laws. We fhall vindicate our own independence, and attach ourselves ftill more clofely to the venerable fabrick of our Conftitution. We would willingly live and die, with and for it.

Profeffions of our zeal in the caufe of Literature must needs be fuperfluous; we can make an honourable appeal to a long series of Volumes, which are esteemed by our Countrymen, as containing fome of the earlieft, and many of the best productions of Genius in every branch of Learning. Whilft life and health ftill remain to us, they will continue to do fo; and, in the hope that we may yet be acceffary to much that is ufeful, inftructive, and ornamental, we bid our Readers and our Countrymen heartily

Dec. 31, 1805.

FAREWELL!