[Rarebooks] fa: 1798 Gentleman's Magazine: BATTLE OF THE NILE - BUONAPARTE - SWINGING HINDUS &c.

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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCXCVIII [1798]. Volume LXVIII [68]. Part the First [and] Part the Second. London: Printed by John Nichols and sold by Eliz. Newberry, 1798. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Two volumes, 8vo, in early/period calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; [2], 546, [20] p.; [547]-1158, [22] p.; with 26 copper-engraved plates (complete).

The PLATES (with accompanying text) include: Bayswater Conduit in Middlesex; Lancet and Hooks used by the Hindoos in the religious ceremony of Swinging; Runic Monument at Kirk Michael in the Isle of Man; Two Views and a Plan of Hunsborough Camp in Northamptonshire; Distant View of the Church at Cheltenham; other Views of: the inner part of old Somerset House; the Gate of Tinmouth Castle; the Church of New Shoreham in Sussex; the Abbey Church at Waltham in Essex; Cowdray Castle; the Churches of West Clandon [and] East Clandon in Surrey; the Church at Ashover in Derbyshire; plus many more views, portraits, coins, medals, inscriptions, antiquities, curiosities, etc.

Other notable, curious and/or characteristic features include:
	- Several items related to Lord Nelson and the Battle of the Nile (August 3, 1798): the glorious victory of Admiral Nelson at the mouth of the Nile (including the lines of battle of the British and French fleets); a sailor's relation of his victory; his reception at Naples; a relation of his cruizing in search of the Toulon fleet; etc.; plus a number of tributes in verse (see below)
	- Ongoing contemporary coverage of the war with France: The arrival of Buonaparte at Alexandria; a supposed motive for Buonaparte's expedition into Egypt; troops landed in Ireland; the escape of Barthelemi, Pichegru, and others from Guiana; etc.
	- The Hindoo Ceremony of Swinging
	- Extracts from the Travels of Sir Aston Cokayne
	- Letter of Advice to a young Gentleman on his Travels
	- Note on Pompey's pillar at Alexandria
	- Essays on the Provincial Half-Pennies.; [and] The History of the modern Provincial Half-pennies
	- Plan for forming a Drift, or Tunnel, under the Thames
	- The Louvre Press [and] Robert and Andrew Foulis, [printers] of Glasgow
	- Mr. [James] Barry's Account of modern Picture-cleaners
	- "A Card to Lady Lyttelton, to enquire when she would be in Town." By Lord Orford [Horace Walpole]; [and] "Lines by Lord Orford, On Lady Lucan's copying in Water-colours, after only Five Months' Practice, the Enamels and Miniatures in his Collection, imitating most exactly the Manners of the several Masters"
	- Miss [Anna] Seward's additional Stanzas to "Rule, Britannia!" [in praise of Nelson's victory in the Battle of the Nile]
	- "The glorious First of August! or The Battle of the Nile! An Address upon Nelson's Victory." Written by W[illiam] T[homas] Fitzgerald, Esq.
	- "On the Death of Captain Westcott, Of his Majesty's Ship Majestick: who fell gloriously, on the First of August, 1798" [in the Battle of the Nile]
	- "Impromptu. To Captain T. B. Martin, upon his taking the French Frigate L'Immortalite." By W. T. Fitzgerald, Esq.
	- A Sonnet; by Mr. [Christopher] Anstey. "To my Old Wig"
	- "A Bagatelle to a Lady. With a Present of Ear-rings"
	- "On Shooting a Moorfowl off her Nest through Mistake"
	- The Origin of Gray's beautiful Ode
	- On Sir John Hawkins's purchase of the original score of Comus in 1777
	- Mr. Shaw's Discovery of Literary Treasures at Ingestre [Staffordshire]
	- The Scurvy caused by common Culinary Salt; An History of several Cases of Scurvy
	- On the piteous Case of Chimney-sweepers
	- On a Device for rescuing Skaters who fall through Ice
	- A Cure for Viper Bites
	- Obituaries of Remarkable Persons, including: Irish patriots/rebels Wolfe Tone and Lord Edward Fitzgerald; Welsh naturalist and writer Thomas Pennant; explorer George Vancouver; John Bent, "at a premature age... by the casual discharge of a fowling-piece"; etc., etc.
	- Plus monthly Intelligence from America, the West Indies, Europe, etc., meteorological tables, parliamentary debates, poetry, Prices of Stocks and Goods, Accounts of Theatrical Performances, Reviews and Extracts of Books recently published, Bills of Mortality, lists of Bankrupts and Promotions; and much, much more.