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HOUGH this Work is offered under the Denomination of a Magazine, as moft convenient, and beft adapted to the Talte of the Times, yet the Plan of it differs from most others, inafmuch as that the hiftorical Part is not blended with the mifcellaneous, but both are kept apart, and, at the End of every Year, will bind in diftinct Volumes.

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What excites our astonishment is, that a Work of fuch national Confequence has not before made its Appearance. We read and admire the noble Deeds and heroic Atchievements of the Grecian and Roman Empires, whilft those of our own Country, equally glorious and important, feem to be forgotten. Let it be AUG1942 remembered that the British Lion has given Laws to all Europe, and retains, by Conqueft, an hereditary Right to that very Country, which now, with pollut ed Hands, has facrificed its King, and bids Defiance to the Laws both of God and Man! A Record of noble Actions, like thofe contained in this Hiftory, cannot fail to prove acceptable at all Times; but never fo effentially as at a Crifis when the honeft Indignation of every true-born Briton is roufed by the Prefumption and Temerity of our old and natural Enemy. Under the fpecious cry of Liberty, they meditate the moftbominable Injustice; and, by carrying Devasta tion, Rapine, and Plunder, against the weak and defenceless, confirm the Character this Country has uniformly experienced from them. With us, what Treaties have they not violated-or what Opportunities have they not embraced, when they fuppofed an Advantage could be taken? Perfidious in all their Undertakings, they can be trufted in none. Tyrants in Power, they are alike deaf to Humanity and Juftice. Hypocrites in Danger, and Cowards at Heart, they ftoop to the meanett Artifices, to take Advantage of our Generofity.

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