ADVERTISEMENT. 
On completing the fifty-second Volume of this Miscellany, the Editor 
tenders his sincerest thanks to those of his original Subscribers who have 
survived the stern march of time, for the generous support which they have 
conferred on his labours. He earnestly hopes that their long intercourse has 
not produced satiety, and that the sympathy of principles and taste which 
first produced their literary connection, has never been, nor ever will be dis¬ 
turbed. In the singular vicissitudes of the world, which have taken place 
during the production of so extended a periodical Series, the same principles 
which influenced the Editor in the composition of his Prospectus, and hi the 
arrangement of his first Number, have continued to govern his conduct. He 
then believed what he has since experienced, that in the great family of the 
British People, there were to be found a sufficient number of Friends of libera £ 
principles, on questions of Politics and Government, who at the same time 
were qualified to enjoy a Magazine, with higher literary and scientific preten¬ 
sions, than had previously characterized our Monthly Miscellanies. He felt 
at the same time, that a periodical publication possessed capabilities for dif¬ 
fusing useful practical Knowledge, and all novel facts in the Arts and Sciences, 
and under these combined views this Miscellany was undertaken, and has been 
perseverinyly conducted. 
The Editor's judgment is blunted, and his readers and correspondents are 
guilty of the basest flattery, if the series have not progressively improved, if they 
have not kept pace in taste, with the taste which they fostered and created, and if 
all the late numbers have not possessed a superiority not only over their elder bre¬ 
thren, but over all contemporaneous publications. 
Strong in this sentiment, which is echoed from all quarters, the Editor has 
acted on the maxim that that good wine, needs no bush and he has, therefore, 
forborne to enter into a competition of empiricism with certain adventurers in the 
same line of publication, who seek to catch the unwary by their boisterous adver¬ 
tisements, confident that the best advertisement is the constant superiority of his 
numbers, in Information, Interest, and Utility, and that his best advertizers are 
the good opinions of the intelligent portion of the nation, expressed in the circles 
in which they respectively move. 
Jan. 28th, 1822 . 
