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25NOTES BY THE WAY. with 60,000 Men beats the Chinese in every Engagement, tho' their Army consists of no less than 400,000 Men."

On October 18th his Majesty settled 6,OOOl. per annum on the Duke of Cumberland for the support of his equipage, &c.

On December 3rd Mr. Richard Franklin was tried at the King's Bench Bar, Westminster, before the Lord Chief Justice Raymond, for printing and publishing The Craftsman of the 2nd of January, wherein was the Hague letter. After a hearing of about seven hours the jury found him guilty.

In December it is also recorded that the Princess of Monaco, daughter of the Prince Antonio Grimaldi, lately deceased, set out from Paris, together with her spouse, jointly to take possession of that Principality; but, on pretence of going before to prepare things for his reception, she got herself recognized as the only rightful sovereign.

Mr. Andrew Chatto, of the firm of Messrs. Chatto & Windus, the publishers of the magazine, informs me that, on reference to his office set, he finds that the second title was " Traders' Monthly Intelligencer." The number for September, 1731, first bears the woodcut view of St. John's Gate, and in this month the word "Traders'" was omitted. In later editions of the first number the word "Traders'" was omitted, and the woodblock of St. John's Gate was inserted. The title was again altered in vol. vi., 1736, to that of The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, and so continued until 1834, when vol. i. of a "new series," called The Gentleman's Magazine, without further sub-title, was published, although it still retained its characteristics of being a "Chronicle." When Messrs. Bradbury & Evans became the publishers a second title was added, that of "Historical Review." In June, 1868, the character of the magazine was changed, when it became more like the modern magazine.

The eighty-seventh volume of The Gentleman's Magazine, completed at the close of 1817, the same year that Blackwood's was in its first volume, deserves notice, as showing the enterprise and careful attention to detail with which the older magazine was being conducted. The chief events of that year, which had been so full of anxiety and of peril to the nation, are fully recorded. "The festal blaze of war had ceased, but the sun of Peace had not attained its meridian" (speech of Mr. Canning on the reassembling of Parliament, Jan. 29th, 1817). The 'Miscellaneous Correspondence' and 'Reviews of New Publications' contain stores of information useful to the architect and the antiquary, while valuable contributions towards county histories the biography in these being especially interesting are given. The contents of 'The Historical Record' include the Report of the Committee of Secrecy presented on the 19th of February, in which details are given of the