To the Purchafers of the Monthly Magazinev 
T is not without reluctance that we feel ourfelves obliged to conclude the 
prefent year with announcing to our readers an advance of price in the 
future numbers 5 but we flatter ourfelves that the propriety, and even ne- 
ceffity of fuch a meafure, will appear fo manifeft on a candid confideration, 
that we fhall lofe none of that public fupport which we account our greateft 
honour. Indeed; our tafk of apology might be rendered very eafy, by refting 
the whole upon the concurrent examples of the Editors of all the other re- 
fpe€table publ:cations., but it is our wifh to enter into a more fatifaciory ex- 
planation. | 
No one converfant ia ii nefs can be ignorant of Jas great rife in the 
wages of workmen, ard in commedities of every kind, which has taken place 
within a few years. This we, in common with others, have contentedly 
borne, as a dedu€tion from ufual profits, to which it was our duty in fome 
meufure ta fubmit ; but the late enormous advance of paper, amounting to 
full 40 per cent of the price, has brought ona crifis in the bufinefs of a pub- 
hifher 5 and it 13 now became abfolutely neceffary to call upon ihe public wy 
their affifiance in bearing the Lurden. 
Vie are further to obferve, that the Perisdical Publications of this country 
have long been the cheapeft works iffuing from the prefs, in proportion to the 
quantity of their matter ; far exceeding in this point even the Fournals of — 
foreign countries, where the expences atiending them are fo much les. | 
With refpect to the relative value of our matter, it does not become us to 
be the efiimators either of cur own, or of other productions. We may, how- 
ever, be permitted to fay, that confcious as we are of [paring no cof in pro- 
curing many of our materials, and of receiving the voluntary favours of many 
excellent Correfpondenis, we fhould be _unreafonably diffident, did we net, 
Suppofe we p-ffeffed a real iitle to the unparalle! led encouragement with which — 
we have been hunsured. i: 
The advanced price will enable us tc take a fill wider range in our effarts 
to gratify our readers of every clafs, of which they may be affured we fall 
not fail to avail ourfelves to the full extent. 
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‘T. Gillet, Printer. Salitbury-fquare, F leet-freet. 
