Transcriber’s Note: Obvious printer’s errors have been repaired, but period and inconsistent spelling have not. The printer’s use of italics was somewhat haphazard. Normal text within italic passages is indicated ~like this~. THE _Gentleman_’s _Magazine_: OR, TRADER’s Monthly Intelligencer. NUMBER I. _for_ JANUARY. CONTAINING, I. A view of the Weekly _Essays_ and _Controversies_, viz. Of Q. _Elizabeth_; Ministers; Treaties; Liberty of the Press; Riot act; Armies; Traytors; Patriots; Reason; Criticism; Versifying; Ridicule; Humours; Love; Prostitutes; Music; Pawn-Brokers; Surgery; Law. II. POETRY, _viz._ The _Ode_ for the new Year, by _Colly Cibber_, Esq; Remarks upon it; Imitiations of it, by way of _Burlesque_; Verses on the same Subject; ingenious Epitaphs and Epigrams. III. _Domestick_ Occurrences, _viz._ Births, Deaths, Marriages, Preferments, Casualties, Burials and Christenings in _London_. IV. Melancholy Effects of Credulity in _Witchcraft_. V. Prices of Goods and Stocks, and a List of Bankrupts. VI. A correct List of the Sheriffs for the current Year. VII. Remarkable _Advertisements_. VIII. _Foreign_ Affairs, with an Introduction to this Year’s History. IX. Books and Pamphlets publish’d. X. Observations in _Gardening_, and the Fairs in _Feb_. XI. A Table of Contents. By _SYLVANUS URBAN_ of _Aldermanbury_, Gent. _Prodesse & Delectare._ The THIRD EDITION. _LONDON:_ Printed for _R. Newton_, at St _John’s Gate_, and Sold by the Booksellers, MDCCXXXI. (_Price_ SIX-PENCE.) CONTENTS of No. I. _for_ JANUARY. Remarks on the Reign of Q. _Elizabeth_, _p._ 3, 5, 7 Reflections on the Conduct of a certain great Man, 4 Political Observations from the _Craftsman_, _ibid._ Liberty of the Press asserted, 5 ---- Reply’d to, 17 Of the standing Army and Riot Act, 5 ---- Reply’d to, 16 Remarks on the _Craftsman_’s Hague Letter, 6 On the present State of Affairs, 7, 10 Conduct of the Ministry, 7 Of Mr. _Chubb_’s Discourse of Reason, 8 The Writers in behalf of the Government, ridiculed and censur’d, _ibid._ Mr. _Cheselden_’s intended Operation on the Drum of the Ear, ridicul’d, 10