PREFACE TO THE THIRTY-FOURTH VOLUME

Summary

HAVING reached the conclusion of our Thirty-fourth Volume, we have now to take our customary review of its contents; and it is peculiarly gratifying to be able at the same time to do justice to the good sense, the ingenuity, and the genius of our correspondents, and to commend with confidence the volume before us to the patronage of a discerning public, but especially the naval part of it, for to their interests it is more immediately devoted.

Our Biography stands prominent in the volume, as detailing the services and sufferings of a character, exemplary even to Britons, for the firmness and fortitude with which he withstood a cruel and insidious enemy, in the cause of his country. The great number of original letters, and the very interesting information they contain, both in the details of service, and historical statement of proceedings on the part of the French and our Syriac allies, must render it an article of peculiar value to the historian of our eventful times.

In our Nautical Selections, we can only venture a claim to the meed of judgment, which we flatter ourselves will be found successfully directed to the amusement and useful information of our readers. We are still desirous of original communications of naval anecdote and petite-histoire.

Our Correspondence has lost nothing of its value by the cessation of warfare.