Orignion sculp While Victory's Wreaths Britannias Temples crown, And her high Deeds from Fame's loud Trumpare blown; Low at her Feet proud France a Suppliant see, Asking whatever Peace her Justice shall decree, THE London Magazine: Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer VOL. XXVIII. For the Year 1759. By His MAJESTY's Authority. Printed for R.Baldwin at the Refe in Pater Nosterkow. THE PREFACE. W E have now finished the happy and wonderful Year 1759:A Year as glorious as ever appeared, even in the glorious Annals of this Nation.-Some Part of our Success we prophetically foretold, in the Preface to our Magazine for laft Year; but it has far exceeded our most fanguine Hopes; for the Glory of Great-Britain may now be justly faid to extend from the Southern to the Northern Pole, from the rifing to the fetting Sun; and our Victories, at Land efpecially, are the more dazzling, as they were obtained, not by the Superiority of Numbers, or by the Stratagems of War, but meerly by the irrefiftible Bravery of our Troops.-Even at Sea, though we be fuperior in naval Strength to our Enemies, get one famous Engagement has fhewn, that our Seamen are as little capable of being daunted by a fuperior Number of hoftile Ships, as our Troops by a fuperior Number of hostile Battalions. * Our magnanimous Ally, the King of Pruffia, bas, it is true, in the courfe of this Year, met with fome Checks from the Fortune of War; but they Jeem to have been defigned by Providence only to her, that he rifes fuperior to every Misfortune, and that he can, by his Prudence and Diligence, quickly repair the Breaches that may be made in his Affairs by any adverfe Fate; for his Enemies are now again all retired or retiring from before bim, and in one bold Stroke, at the Beginning of the enfuing Year, he may probably find a Recompence for all the Loffes he met with during the courfe of the former. Thefe are the Triumphs of War, aud to thefe our Minifters have added a Triumph equally glorious, by fhewing that they cannot be tempted by Victory to delight in Biood, or to rejoice in oppreffing!-By offering Peace upon reafonable Terms †, they have shewn, that this Nation can even triumph over itself, fo as not to forget Moderation in the midst of Conquest, but to prefer the Peace of Mankind to a most just Resentment, though every Year the War continues, would, in all human Probability, put it more and more into our Power to fatisfy that Refentment, and to provide for our future Tranquillity, by tripping our Enemies of every Poffeffion they have yet remaining in America. If the Terms of Peace now offered by us should be rejected by the Pride and Obflinacy of our Enemies :-If their prefent pacifick Pretences fhould be found to be like the Tears of the Crocodile, we have Reason to hope that the fame Providence which infpired our Miniflers with fo much Wisdom in directing, and our Troops, both by Sea and Land, with fo much Čourage in executing, the Operations of War will be as propitious to us, in the enfuing *See Land, Mug. for 1758, f. 97, 526. + See dittto, for 1759, p. 680. |