1838- GENTRY, MERCHANTS, FARMERS and TRADESMEN: Also Published Monthly according to Act of Parliament, Price Six-Pence. PREFAC E. T HE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE has for more than Thirty Years continued to be the faithful Chronicle of public Transactions and Events; while it has been also a rich Repofitory of whatever was most interefting and curious in the various Branches of Science and Literature, that tended either to Knowledge or Plea fure. The Editors have spared no Labour not Expence to merit that Encouragement which has only stimulated them by every Means in their Power to render these Volumes full and complete Memoirs of the Times and in this Character they will prove of no less Value to fucceeding Generations than to cotemporary Readers. The Close of the Old Year, and the Commencement of a New One, is a Seafon of general Recollection, and of Acknowledgements to our Friends: we therefore make Use of this Opportunity of addreffing our numerous Friends and Contributors, gratefully to return our best Thanks for all those paft Favours, that embolden us to hope for the Continuance of their kind Apé probation. The Tafk before us is of a very extenfive Nature, and claims an unremitted Attention; but the American War, the Troubles in Europe, and our own Parliamentary Debates, have for fome Time past afforded, and ftill continue to furnish, political Materials of too much Importance to be flighted; if therefore Articles of a more amusing Kind are fometimes obliged to make Way for National Concerns, we truft the Plea will be A accepted ; accepted with Indulgence by our juvenile Readers, who as they advance into active Life, will be more fenfible of the Obligations we act under: they may in due Time look back with great Satisfaction on what may now be confidered as Obftructions to their Monthly Entertainment. The fame Cause may occafionally have expofed us to Sufpicions of neglecting the Favours of our Correfpondents; but we are too often indebted to them for valuable Communications to disregard our beft Friends. In the Selection of Articles to lay before the Public, the Caution, requifite for our own Reputation, includes alfo an Attention to that of our refpective Contributors. When we know not the Parties, there can be no Temptation, no Prejudice, to give a Bias to our Judgment; and, when we reject, a little Self-examination may enable a candid Writer to queftion, whether the Partiality he feels in Favour of his own Productions, may not fometimes be rather too ftrong. If farther Evidence is neceffary, it must be waited for; and, if a young Lady, or Gentleman, will only lock up the first Effufions of their Imagination for a few Years, the Chance is greatly in Favour of our Opinions being juftified by their own riper Judgment. In brief, the Variety we ftudy to afford our Readers will, after all, receive a Tincture from the Complexion of the Times; for whatever moft engages the public Attention, will, more or lefs, obtrude on us, in a larger Proportion than others: this will ever be expected, and, under due Restriction, must be complied with. But, nevertheless, agreeable to the Title of our Monthly Miscellany, our Aim fhall be, that no Clafs of Readers may at any Time confult the UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE, without finding their peculiar Taftes confulted in the Choice and Diftribution of the Subjects. THE THE Univerfal Magazine O F Knowledge and Pleasure : FOR JANUARY, 1779. VOL. LXIV. The BEAUTIES of TELEMACHUS, PART XI: Iluftrated with an elegant Defign of VENUS's Application to JUPITER, in a Council of the Gods, for the Deftruction of Telemachus, by Monnet: being the Frontispiece to this Volume. Venus, fill breathing Revenge against Telemachus, applies to Jupiter for his Deftruction. But, the Fates not allowing of that, she confults with Neptune, how to prevent his reaching Ithaca.—In order to this they employ Illufions to miflead the Pilot, who, while he imagined he was arrived at Ithaca, entered the Port of Salentum with full Sail. W HILE Telemachus and Adoam were engaged in converfation, never thinking of fleep, nor perceiving that the night was already half spent; a malicious, deceitful Divinity carried them far from Ithaca, which the pilot Athamas endeavoured to make in vain. Neptune, though he favoured the Phoenicians, yet could not digett Telemachus's efcape in NUMB, CCCCXLIII, VOL, LXIV. the tempeft, which had driven him upon the rocks in Calypfo's ille. Venus was ftill more exasperated against hin, for his having triumphed over Cupid, and all the powers of beauty. So violent was her chagrin, that the bid adieu to Paphos, Cythera, Idalium, and all the honours which are paid her in the ifle of Cyprus. She could no longer bear the fight of thofe A 2 places |