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THE

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Gentleman's

Monthly Intelligencer.

VOL. XXVII.

For the Year 1758

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17 Jan.-3

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PREFACE.

FTER returning Thanks to the Publick in general, for their kind Acceptance of our Endeavours to please them, and to all thote of Tafte, Penetration, or Judgment, for the Preference they give to our Magazine, we must congratulate our Countrymen upon the more hopeful Prospect we now have of our national Affairs, both Abroad and at Home, than we had at the End of laft Year.

IN Europe our Enemies have been driven out of almoft every Territory they had violently and unjustly taken Poffeffion of: The Campaign has favoured us with two Victories, the more glorious on our Side, as they were both obtained by fuch inferior Numbers of Troops; and if it did not end with two as fignal Victories as the laft did, it was owing to our Enemies being fo confcious of the fuperior Bravery of our Troops and the Troops of our Allies, that they durft not face them in a fair and pitched Battle, even after being encouraged by a little Advantage which they had got by furprize.

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Ar Sea again, we have nothing that dares venture to oppofe us; and in America, by the Wisdom of our Minifters, the Conduct of our Admirals and Generals, and the Intrepidity of our Soldiers and Seamen, we are now Mafters of the Key to the principal French Settlement in that Part of the World; therefore we have good Reason to hope, that before the End of next Year, we shall be able to destroy that Neft of French Vipers in Canada, whose conftant Employment, in Peace as well as War, has been, to poifon the Minds of the honeft, but fimple Indians, and to excite them to murder and fcalp as many of our People as they could master.

In most of our Undertakings this Year upon that Continent, we have met with Succefs; and it is to be hoped we fhall foon have authentick Advice of our having fucceeded in all but one, where, if we met with a Repulfe, we have the Comfort to think, that it was not owing to the Conduct or Bravery of the Enemy, but to their inacceffible Intrenchments.

How justly then may we now represent Britannia pleased with the History of this Year? That she may have the fame, or ftill greater Pleasure in every fucceeding, must be the Wifh of every true Briton, and fhall always be our most fervent Prayer.

EXPLANATION of the FRONTISPIECE.

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IME turning a terreftrial Globe, and pointing to Louisbourgh. He fhews it to HISTORY, who leans on his Shoulder, writing the great EVENTS that have happened. BRITANNIA appears on the other Side, well pleafed with the LABOURS of HISTORY. She is led by CONCORD, who points upwards to the Figure of VICTORY, intimating that BRITANNIA shall be always fuccessful.

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LONDON MAGAZINE.

For JANUARY, 1758.

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S the affairs of Europe are, perhaps, in the most critical fituation that ever yet A was feen, and the real views of the different powers not yet certainly known, it may not be amifs to form fuch conjectures, as are authorized by the behaviour of the different powers concerned in it.

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thirft of revenge the empress queen entertained against the king of Pruffia; and the liberties of Europe were no longer thought of, when her private intereft and vengeance were in view. The difputes that kindled up a war between the English and French, about the limits of fome territories in America, furnished that golden opportunity, which all their wisdom could not have forefeen; they greedily embraced it, and made shameful overtures to France, who, ever mindful of her own intereft, feized this fair occafion of accomplishing by craft, what force had been aiming at for above a century; they clofed in with the propofal, not with a view of destroying the Pruflian monarch, as the blinded queen of Hungary, and her partizans, vainly imagined, but with a defign of playing them off against each other; that the Germanick body, when weakened by their inteftine divifions, might fall an eafy prey to them.

The king of Pruffia has proved, as far as the nature of fuch a tranfaction could admit of proof, that the queen of Hungary had long meditated the defign of tripping him of that past of Silefia, which the formally ceded to him under the guarantee of Great-Britain; but tho' much fuperior to him in the number of her forces, and in refources for recruiting In this light, it is prefumed, the Rufand paying them, fhe was afraid of en- fian court now fees the affair; for it is tering the lifts alone with him, and, under D hardly to be fuppofed, their general would fpecious pretences, engaged the elector of have ventured to withdraw his troops Saxony to abet her defigns: The court without orders; and his arraignment and of Ruffia was engaged, by large prefents trial, can only be confidered as a politick to her minifters, to affift in putting a ftop farce to amufe thofe, whofe fury would to the growing power of the Pruffian mo- have carried them too great a length: narch; his ambition was reprefented to For whatever the people at Vienna may that court as unbounded; an opportunity E think, the Ruffians are not fo blind to was only wanting to fall upon him. But their own intereft, as not to fee that they this confederacy, great as it was, did not have lefs to fear from Pruflia, alone and feem fufficient to infure fuccefs; the unaffifted, than from France and Austria hereditary hatred that had fubfifted for in conjunction. They, no doubt, had good fo many ages between the houfes of information of the means France made Auftria and Bourbon, gave way to the ufe of to induce the fenate of Sweden January, 1758. A 2

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