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of its most valuable features, and unremitting attention is devoted to
the task of making it as complete and comprehensive as possible. It
records the decease of all persons of station in society or of
individual merit, and biographical memoirs are given (amounting every
year to more than three hundred) of eminent characters, whether
statesmen, senators, officers in the public service, members of the
learned professions, men of science, authors, artists, &c. &c. The
Magazine for January will contain, among others, Memoirs of Her Majesty
the Queen Dowager; Sir John Dashwood King, Bart.; Sir Thomas Lethbridge,
Bart.; Rear-Adm. Sir S.J.B. Pechell, Bart.; Admiral Sir J. Hawkins
Whitshed; General Sir George Anson; General Sir John Vandeleur;
Lieut.-Col. John Browne; Charles Lyell, Esq.; John Musters, Esq.; Louis
Hayes Petit, Esq.; Wm. Cooke Taylor, L.L.D.; Mr. Kenney, the dramatist;
Charles Edw. Horn, the composer, &c. &c.
The Number for January will be embellished with two Plates of the Roman
Pavements recently found at Cirencester.
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THE JUDGES OF ENGLAND; from the TIME of the CONQUEST. By Edward Foss,
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