THE London Magazine Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer. VOL. XXVI For the Year 1757 Printed Multum in Parvo. ed for R. Baldwin at the Rofé in Pater!) N our Preface to laft Year's MAGAZINE, we foretold what Source of Materials would be furnished us for the enfuing Year, by the then Crifis of Affairs in Europe, and the ticklish Situation of this Country; and from the many exact Accounts we have given of foreign and domeftick Affairs, every Reader, we belicve, has found this Prophecy compleatly fulfilled. We wish we could have finished this Year with the Terms of a fafe, honourable, and glorious Peace; for our FRONTISPIECE to this Year's MAGAZINE, will fhew that we are far from delighting in War. This we might probably have been enabled to do, if the furprizing and glorious Victories of the King of PRUSSIA, had been duly feconded by the warlike Exploits of this Nation; and this they would have been, if our military Force, by Sea and Land, had been as vigorously exerted by thofe who were trufted with the Execution, as the Measures for that Purpose have of late been wifely planned by thofe who had the Direction. a BUT |