THE European Magazine, AND LONDON REVIEW; CONTAINING THE LITERATURE, HISTORY, POLITICS, ARTS, [Embellished with, 1. An EMBLEMATICAL FRONTISPIECE. 2. An ENGRAVED TITLE- PAGE and VIGNETTE. 3. A Portrait of JOHN O'KEEFE, Efq. And 4. A VIEW of Preface to Vol. XIV. An Account of John O'Keefe, Efq. CONTAINING Account of a Gate leading to a Mosque at Mifcellaneous Thoughts Original Letters from Sar Boyle to D. - Anecdotes of Drs. Goldfr. and Kenrick 10 14 16 -- Page 35 39 Playfair's Effay on the National Debt - Poetry; including Hymn to the Mufe- Monthly Chronicle, Preferments, Mar OND O N: Printed for J. SEWELL, Cornhill; [Entered at Stationers all.] 62 65 66 67. The extreme length of Mr. Baretti's Third Stricture on Mrs. Piozzi's publication, obliges us to postpone it until next month, We thought we had at once acted a delicate and friendly part by our Cambridge Correspondent (whofe name we shall fupprefs), by requesting him to reconfider his compofition. 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FTER fo long an intimacy as the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE has enjoyed with the Public, the kindefs with which it has been received, and the friendship it has experienced, are circumftances the Proprietors cannot but look to with exultation; and they prefume they may now addrefs themfelves to their readers with that familiarity which long acquaintance and mutual good offices authorife and allow, unchecked by diftance or referve, undebased by adulation. If, in the prefent advanced state of English Literature, any periodical publication has been fuppofed to contribute to the improvement of Learning, to the enter tainment of the informed, or the information of the uninstructed, the increased and extended circulation of the pre fent publication may lay claim to its fhare of fuch praife as will not be denied to laudable and fuccefsful efforts for the fervice of the World. 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