[Rarebooks] fa: 1803 Gentleman's Magazine: LOUISIANA PURCHASE - ST. DOMINGO - NAPOLEON, &c

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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCCIII [1803]. Volume LXXIII [73]. Part the First [and] Part the Second. London: Printed by Nichols and Son, 1803. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, preface and indexes. Two volumes, 8vo, in early/period calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; iv, 604, [18] p.; [2], [605]-1262, [22] p.; with 27 copper-engraved plates, one of which is folding (complete).

The PLATES (with accompanying text) include: Portraits of Francis Beaumont and his nephew, Francis; Three Stone Crosses at Alphington, Cricklade, and Caraton Down; Elevation of an old House at Elgin in Scotland belonging to the Calder family; Indian Image of a Deity; View of the Remains of the Marshalsea Palace in Southwark; Inside View of the Palace Court of the Marshalsea; Facsimile of a Letter written by Henry IV, King of France (folding); Antient Painting of St. Christopher on the inside Wall of St. Thomas a Becket's Crown; views of: the Church of Swanscombe in Kent, the Church of Hales-Owen in Shropshire, the Remains of the Priory at Kington St. Michael, plus more views, miscellaneous antiquities, curiosities, coins, inscriptions, etc.

Other notable, curious and/or characteristic features include:
	- Articles related to the Louisiana Purchase: cession of Louisiana to the French [by Spain]; sale and cession of Louisiana to America; Mr. [Thomas] Jefferson's letter to the National Institute of France; extent of the territory ceded to America ("450,000 square miles, and this acquisition renders the whole extent of the United States...about 16 times larger than Great Britain and Ireland united"); etc.
	- Extensive contemporary coverage of the collapse of the Peace of Amiens: Correspondence between Great Britain and France ("the correspondence between the...governments abounds with the strongest proofs of the perfidy, ambition, rancour, and insolence of the First Consul [Napoleon]..."); Declaration of the First Consul in a Message to the Senate ("The Ambassador of England has been recalled; Compelled by this circumstance, the Ambassador of the Republic has quitted a country where he could no longer hear the Language of Peace..."); infamous fabrications of the Paris newspapers; Louis XVIII's answer to Buonaparte's proposal of resigning the crown of France; base conduct of the French in Egypt; preparations for war; vigorous preparations for an invasion; Bonaparte thrown from his phaeton; the Rev. J. Carr's Address to the Ealing and Brentford Corps. of Volunteer Infantry, Oct. 20; etc.
	- Proceedings of the French at St. Domingo [Haiti]; massacre of the Blacks; dreadful situation of St. Domingo; West India Islands the Grave of Europeans; Letter regarding St. Domingo [signed "White Man"]; Response to letter [signed "White Man"], agreeing that the slave rebellion against the French in Santo Domingo was the instrument of God's wrath against France [signed "Another White Man"]
	- A particular Account of the Rebellion in Ireland
	- Account of the Trials for High Treason
	- Inscription from Rosetta illustrated by J. D. Akerblad [re. the Rosetta Stone]; Inscription on Pompey's Pillar; Inscription on the Alexandrian Pillar
	- Lord Elgin's Collection of Grecian Antiquities
	- On the Zodiacs of the Temple of Tentyra (several articles)
	- Critical Observations on the Pyramids of Giza
	- Accurate Detail of the Loss of the East India Company's ship Hindostan
	- Plan for educating the Sons of Navy Surgeons
	- Particulars of Weight of an Eighty-gun Ship
	- Lord Orford's [Hugh Walpole's] Villa and Museum described; Admission Ticket to Strawberry Hill Museum
	- A lengthy review of William Hayley's The Life and posthumous Writings of William Cowper
	- Poetry: "On a Voyage to China, in a Ship of War"; "Britons, to Arms!!!" Written by W. T. Fitzgerald, Esq. and recited by him at the Meeting of the Literary Fund, July 14; Buonaparte's Will; The British Bomb-Ketch's Challenge to the French Flotilla; Poetical Abridgement of the Address to the Warriors of the Army of England, inserted in the Mercure de France; Whiskey against Brandy, an Irish Ditty; The Tears of Colon, an irregular Ode; etc.
	- Mrs. Piozzi on Dr. Johnson's MS Letters
	- Practical Information on the Scarlet Fever
	- Practical Information on Inflammation of the Bowels; Practical Information on Strangulated Rupture
	- Society for the Benefit of Chimney-sweepers; Plan for the Relief of Chimney-sweepers
	- Indecorous Advertisements in Newspapers
	- In Praise of Snuff
	- Remarkable Instance of Sagacity in a Dog
	- Plus foreign and domestic news, monthly meteorological tables, parliamentary debates, poetry, Prices of Stocks and Goods, Accounts of Theatrical Performances, Reviews and Extracts of Books recently published, Obituaries, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons, Bills of Mortality, lists of Bankrupts and Promotions; and much, much more.