THE Gentleman's Magazine AND HISTORICAL REVIEW. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. M DCCC LXV.-VOL. II. JULY TO DECEMBER INCLUSIVE. BEING VOLUME XIX. OF A NEW SERIES, AND THE TWO-HUNDRED-AND-NINETEENTH SINCE THE COMMENCEMENT. THE RESIDENCE OF CAVE, THE FOUNDER OF THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, 1731. London: JOHN HENRY AND JAMES PARKER. PREFACE. THE present volume of the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE is the closing one of the Series originated in July, 1856, by Mr. J. H. Parker, of Oxford, and carried on under his personal direction as long as the state of his health permitted him to devote the necessary attention to it. When such ceased to be the case, he took measures for the transfer of the work to other hands, and the result is, that in future the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE will issue from the press of Messrs. Bradbury, Evans, and Co., under the editorial care of a gentleman who is well known in connexion with the study of family history, genealogy, and topography, so that old subscribers may rely on seeing those distinctive features of the Magazine duly cared for, whilst others are introduced that may be acceptable to readers of different tastes. |