Sold by R.Baldwin Jun! at the Rose in Pater Noster-Row. THE NORTH WEST PROSPECT OF THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER 3 16 5.The Cathedral. 9 SMichael's Church. u The Glafs House. 6. S. John the Baptist's Church. 10 S.Bartholomen's Hospital. 7. Trinity Tower. 4. SMary de Loades Grues for the London. 8. NicholassChurch. "the London Magazine 12 The West Gate Bridge. 13 The River Severn 4. Mary de Gript's Church 15. Upton Leonard's Church. 16.Robin Hood's Hill. 17. The Ruins of Lantonr. Abby Or GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer. For OCT Q BE R, L749. To be Continued. (Price Six-Pence each Month.) Containing, (Greater Variety, and more in Quantity, than any Monthly Book of the fame Price.) XIV. Defcription of the Ifland of Rattan, XVI. Extract of a Letter from Nova Scotia. fing in the Fields; Advice to a Lady on the on XX. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER : XXI. Promotions; Marriages and Births; XXII. Prices of Stocks for each Day. With a New and Correct MAP of CORNWALL, and a View of the North West Profpect of the CITY of GLOUCESTER, curiously engrav'd on Copper. MULTUM IN PARVO. LONDON: Printed for R. BALDWIN, jun. at the Rofe in Pater-Nofter-Row. Of whom may be had, compleat Sets from the Beginning to this Tune, reatly Bound, or Stitch'd, or any fingle Month to complete Sers. CONTENT S. RAISE of the pamphlet, intitled, The Wealth of Great Britain, in the Ocean, &c. with the fubftance of that pamphlet 439-142 nation 439 Of the herring and cod fisheries And from the petition of the London mer chants Epigram to the author of the furprize, in442 fcribed to Mifs A defcription of the county of Cornwall of Gloucefter ibid. 442-444 A particular account of the boroughs, 442 market towns and other places of note The JOURNAL of a learned and political ibid. &c. CLUB, &c. continued, SPEECH of C. Livius Salinator, on the 445-454 motion for an addrefs Of the late treaty of peace, and the fituation 445 of the feveral powers engaged in the war, when that treaty was concluded 445, 446 A general account of it Whether it can be call'd an honourable one How the late money fubfcription was made 447 a jobb of Other objections against the addrefs 448,449 448 SPEECH of Servilius Prifcus on the other fide Abstract of the book, intitled, Free and 462 -466 Extract of the Cafe of Mr. Charles Moore, fometime mafter-cooper of the victualling office 466 The vulgar notion of witchcraft expofed The whole contents and fome account of 467 the last number of the Philofophical Transactions 469 Of craba-eyes, and the fish call'd in Ruffia Quab Of the laws of electricity 470 ibid. ibid. C. Of one born with two tongues Medical experiments of electricity ibid. F. A short defcription of the island of Rattan Extract of a letter from Nova Scotia, with 475 the manners and drefs of the Indians ibid. The duty of government, from the Remembrancer POETRY. On the death of Sir Watkin A panegyrick upon a louse 474 ibid.. On the fight of these words written on a Other verfes on the death of Sir Watkin ibid. A Calvinftical reflection, with a note con- Situation of France and Holland at the time 450 of the treaty That the terms of peace were better than 451 could be expected That no inquiry fhou'd be entered into without fome neceffity ibid. A rebus riddie ibid. On wishing ibid. 452 The fond thepherdefs, a new song, fet 476 477 453 The conflict ibid. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER 478 The fummary of the most important affairs that happened laft feffion of parliament, concluded Of the motion for an addrefs for copies of 454 the inftructions to the governors of Barbadoes, in relation to the islands of St. Lucia, Dominice, St. Vincent and Tobago No call of the houfe laft feffion Motions for addreffes in relation to the proposals for a peace Petitions relating to the falt works, and 454, 455 Tailcloth in Scotland Other motions and orders of the house 457 455, 456 Verfes occafion'd by a letter from a períon of difunction to the E. of EA fate of the national debt in 1748 - ibid. F. Account of the produce of the finking fund 458 in that year On Miss Jenny Hn Perfons taken into cuftody for fending ar- Seffions at the Old Bailey ibid. ibid. Malefactors hang'd at Tyburn, and Mr. Sheriff Janfen attends the execution in 128, 479 DEATHS, and character of Sir Watkin Wil- ibid. perfon ibid. Marriages and births liams Wynne 480, 481 Ecclefiaftical preferments 481 Promotions civil and military ibid. Perfons declar'd bankrupts ibid. Prices of stocks; wind, weather 482 Monthly bill of mortality ibid. FOREIGN AEFAIRS 483 Catalogue of books 484 459 ADV E R All Sorts of ALMANACKS for the Year 1750, will be published together at STATIONERS-HALL, on Túifday, November 28, 1719• 1 THE LONDON MAGAZINE. OCTOBER, 1749. waters gave. Trade once extinguifh'd, Britain's fun, A pedient which may contribute to retrieve it: Tis exacly the fame with nations, as with individuals. hele reflections are by way of prelude to the commendation of a pamphlet just publifh'd, entitled, The wealth of Great Laitain in the ocean, &c. This pamphlet is not the moviey offspring of a needy writer, or tricking chemift; nor fuddenly huddled tozeth at the clicitation of fome mercenary book-ler, by all whom the publick are to c..n impos'd upon; but drawn up (as I am pofitively affur'd) from the He fines in vain; her ifle's an ifle in- B materials of a well-known, and very in deed; A fpot too fmall to be o'ercome: Ah dreadful fafety! wretched doom! No foe will conquer, what no foe can Dr. Young's NAVAL LYRIC. SIR, A MAGAZINE. telligent gentleman concerned in trede, whofe name implies probity, and whofe nobleft ambition is to ferve his native country. This gentleman being fenfible, that in the multitude of counsellors there is wif dom, collected all the books, pamphlets, and MSS. poffible, on the berring and cod C fisheries. By means of his extracts from thofe feveral pieces, the curious reader is agreeably entertain'd with the hiftory of the berring fifbery, from the earliest lights which cou'd be procur'd, down to the preten time. It appears in the courfe of thefe most interefting researches, that our immortal Edward III. feems to have heen the first English prince, who fram`d the wifcft and most copious laws with regard to the bering fify, the famous flature of herrings being enacted under that monarch: And a remarkable circumftance is, the fagacious inftitutions laid down by him, in that particular, were the ground-work whereon the Dutch, fo many years after, built their they have reap'd no les pecuniary profit, renown'd herring fishery; and from which and infinitely greater folid advantages, than the Spaniards from their boafted Peruvian S the nation is opprefs'd with a moit heavy debt; fill groaning under the weight of taxes; and our neighbours round are employing every ar- D tifice, and exerting their utmolt endeavours, to rival us in our trade and manufactures; it is highly incumbent on us, if we have the leaft fpark of wifdom left, to rouze all our faculties; and to attempt, not only to recover all fuch branches of our long-envied commerce as may be impair'd, but likewife to ftrike out any new tracks which may offer for that very falutary purpofe; and have thofe in the greatest veneration, who devote their whole attention, and turn their moft ferious thoughts, to the finding out of fuch tracks. When a family is injured in point of fortune, prudence calls upon them to try every ex Octaber, 1749. E |