[Rarebooks] fa: 1800 Gentleman's Magazine: WAR WITH FRANCE - CHINESE PRIME MINISTER, &c.

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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCC [1800]. Volume LXX [70]. Part the Second. London: Printed by Nichols and Son, 1800. Six monthly issues (July-December), plus index. Thick 8vo in early/period calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; [2]. 599-1300, [24] p.; with 15 copper-engraved plates, one of which is folding (complete).

The PLATES (with accompanying text) include: a large folding plate depicting the Inscription on the Mantle Tree in the Parsonage at Helmdon in Northamptonshire; a Portrait of William Dakin, a Dealer in Wooden-ware and Enthusiast; the Lanti Bacchanalian Vase; Two Drafts of the large antique Vase at Warwick Castle; Part of a Sword found at Bosworth Field; View and Plan of the Castle (now in ruins) at Northampton; views of: the Church at Berriew in Montgomeryshire, the Church at Sydling St. Nicholas, the Tower at Stanton, the Ruins of Kendal Castle, the Minster at Winborne; plus more views, miscellaneous antiquities, curiosities, coins, inscriptions, etc.

Other notable, curious and/or characteristic features include:
	- Ongoing contemporary coverage of the War with France (the decisive battle at Marengo; Austrians defeated by the French; proceedings of Earl St. Vincent at Quiberon; frigates and privateers taken; plot to assassinate Buonaparte; France concludes a treaty with America; papers respecting a negotiation with England; etc.)
	- Summary of the Crimes and Confiscation of the Property of the Chinese Prime Minister at Pekin
	- Egyptian Researches (by the French Literati in Egypt)
	- A Familiar Letter from Miss Biddy Rupee, in Bengal, to her Cousin Dorothy Rusty
	- Laudable Pursuits of Prince Henry of Portugal
	- Diary of the Royal Excursion to Weymouth
	- On Thomas Robert Malthus's An Investigation of the Cause of the present high Price of Provisions
	- A temperate Discussion of the Causes which have led to the present high Price of Bread
	- Account of [William ] Dakin, a charitable Enthusiast
	- Passages of Luigi Groto and Shakspeare compared
	- An Account of a Library at High Wycombe
	- Duel between Sir G. Wharton & Sir J. Stewart
	- Wanton Dilapidation of Monuments censured
	- On a Favourite Norfolk Bantam; who travelled more than 300 Miles; and who, soon after his arrival at Churston, in Devonshire, was drowned in a Cistern near Torbay
	- Plus news from America, monthly meteorological tables, parliamentary debates, poetry, Prices of Stocks and Goods, Accounts of Theatrical Performances, Reviews and Extracts of Books recently published, Obituaries, Bills of Mortality, lists of Bankrupts and Promotions; and much, much more.