O! OCEAN! thou guardian and friend to mankind, In infancy, thou, while we struggle and squall, Sue brings home a boy to retain the estate : 'Tis thou giv'st the rake, weak with revels and pain, 'Tis the virtue supreme of thy catholic wave, That so many poor mortals each summer doth save, To keep off our enemies far from our State. My IMITATION OF THE ANGLO-LATIN EPIGRAM, Non ipse----sed tipse, &c. HE tumbles about like a ball, I must own; By falling so oft-he will knock himself up. Then how foolish he'll feel, when he sees-looking round, December.1 THE HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, LITERARY, AND SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE, FOR DECEMBER 1799. CONDUCTED BY ROBERT BISSET, LL. D. WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF OTHER LITERARY GENTLEMEN, THIS NUMBER IS EMBELLISHED WITH A PORTRAIT OF THE RIGHT HON. LORD VISCOUNT DUNCAN, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE, AND KNIGHT OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ORDER OF ST. ALEXANDER NEWSKI. LONDON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY G. CAWTHORN, BRITISH LIBRARY, NO. 132, STRAND, BOOKSELLER TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES: SOLD ALSO BY MESSRS. RICHARDSON, ROYAL-EXCHANGE; H. D. SYMONDS, J. WALLIS, WEST AND HUGHES, PATERNOSTER-ROW; J. WRIGHT, PICCADILLY; P. HILL, EDINBURGH; AND ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN TOWN AND COUNTRY. TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. THE LIFE OF SHERIDAN, is unavoidably postponed. Improvements in the management of this Publication are intended for the commencement of the year. In order to bring down the History, Literature, and Science of the year 1799 to its conclusion, it is intended to subjoin a SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER, containing also such other subjects, peculiar to that period, as have been either cursorily noticed, or passed over altogether. The poetical contributions of R. A. D. came too late to hand for insertion in the present Number. Other favours received are under consideration. The request of E. S. J. shall be attended to. то THE HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, LITERARY, AND SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE, FOR THE YEAR 1799. CONDUCTED BY ROBERT BISSET, LL. D. WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF OTHER LITERARY GENTLEMEN. LONDON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY G. CAWTHORN, BRITISH LIBRARY, NO. 132, STRAND, • SOLD ALSO BY MESSRS, RICHARDSON, ROYAL-EXCHANGE; H. D. SYMONDS, J. WALIIS, WEST AND HUGHES, PATERNOSTER-ROW; J. WRIGHT, PICCADILLY; P. HILL, EDINBURGH; AND ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN TOWN AND COUNTRY. |