Printed by C. ACKERS, in St. John's-Street; for T. Cox, at the Lamb under
the Royal Exchange; J. CLARKE, at the Golden Ball in Duck-Lane; and
T. ASTLEY, at the Rofe over-againft the North-Door of St. Paul's.

TO NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND

TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

1

THE

PREFACE

W

E must take this Opportunity to return Thanks to the Publick for the great Encouragement they have been pleafed to give us, and to affure them, we fhall, for the future, fpare neither Pains nor Expence, to procure them all the Satisfaction the Nature of our Undertaking can admit of; therefore, we hope, they will continue their Approbation as long as we continue to deferve it, by what they think real Merit, without any falfe Pretences, or fraudulent Impofitions. A Gentleman, who publishes nothing but bis own Productions, might perhaps be accafed of too much Vanity, if he should pretend to deferve the Approbation he is favoured with; but as our MAGAZINE is a Collection of the moft ingenious Pieces we can meet with or procure, either printed or in Manufcript; and as in the making of this Collection, we depend chiefly upon the Pains and Expence we are at in procuring the best upon every Subject; we may be allowed to say, we in fome Measure deferve the Approbation of the Publick, as long as we fhall, by our extraordinary Pains and Expence,

be able to communicate more perfect Extracts, or more and better
original Pieces, than are to be met with in any other Collection
of the fame Kind.

When we have not Room for communicating the Whole of any
curious Piece that has been before published, we shall always en-
deavour to employ fuch Perfons as are able to give an Extract
of it, without being guilty of any Blunder, or of leaving out
the most material Paffages; and fhall never, like fome of our
Brother Monthly Collectors, pretend to palm upon the World
any printed Pamphlet, Poem, or Paper, by way of an origi-
nal Manufcript of our own: At least, we shall never dare to
do any fuch Thing, knowingly, and with a Defign to impofe
upon the Publick; for if we did fo, the Lofs of all our Customers
would be the leaft Refentment we could expect. In Love Af-
fairs, indeed, little Frauds and Impofitions, even when fully
detected, are often excufed; but this is an Indulgence peculiar
to Lovers; even in Friendship, it feldom or never takes place;
and therefore, we think it would be the Height of Impudence
in a Printer, Publisher, or Bookfeller, to expect any fuch In-
dulgence, efpecially, if the Fraud fhould be often repeated, and
every Time fully detected.

As we shall endeavour to give our Readers full Copies, or
proper Extracts, of all remarkable Differtations, Essays, and
Poems, published in this great City, upon any Subject political,
moral, philofophical, or humorous; fo we shall endeavour to
procure, and communicate from Time to Time, fome original
Pieces never before published; and in this we shall take care
not to publish any Original, but what we know to be the Pro-
duction of fome Genius of established Character, or fuch
one as has been approved of by fome of the best Criticks;
for as we are never in want of valuable Materials for
filling up our MAGAZINE, we have no Occafion to fue for,
or to purchase infignificant Scraps at a low Rate, from ob-
fcure Perfons, or from Authors of no Name in the Common-
wealth of Learning, or from Poets who were never heard of
but in Grubstreet.

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