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EAST VIEW of BLENHEIM, the SEAT of the DUKE of MARLBOROUGH.

Publifhed as the Act directs by Harrison & Co Nov 1 1783.

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UNIVERSAL MISCELLANY.

OCTOBER 1783.

Enriched with the following truly elegant ENGRAVINGS:

1. A moft delightful VIEW of the Eaft Front of BLENHEIM, the Seat of his Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH. 2. An interefting Scene in ANNETTE, a Fairy Tale, by MASTER LENOX.

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Printed for HARRISON and Co. No. 18, Paternoster-Row; by whom Letters to

the EDITORS are received.

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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

HE Editors are happy to hear from their old Correspondent Mr. C.
Roope, whofe elegant Verses will be given in the next Number.

Mr. Afbby's very beautiful Poem will also appear in our next.

Clario's Hint will be attended to.

A. G.'s Poem will be returned as directed, the first Opportunity.

G. H. of Edinburgh is informed, that he may himself remedy the Inconvenience of which he complains, by giving a regular Order to his Bookfeller.

Matilda's elegant Verfes, in Favour of a Singing Bird, are received, and will be inferted in our next.

The Favours of Amintor are likewise come to Hand, and will be properly attended to.

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The Epigram on Mers. Flood and Grattan, beginning, When Rogues fall • out,' &c. is too grofs for our Miscellany.

There is a confiderable Portion of Merit in Mifs G.'s Verses, confidering them as her firft Poetical Attempt, but the Subject is too unimportant.

Horatio's Serenade seems rather calculated to lull his Rofalind to Sleep, than to rouze her from the Arms of Morpheus.

We have not forgot, or neglected, An Old Correfpondent, but only treated him as Friends too often are treated-put him off a little longer.

The Subject recommended to our Attention by the Reverend Mr. B. is not fufficiently entertaining.

The feveral Articles tranfmitted for our Review, and hitherto neglected, will be noticed in the next Number.

We are happy to find that our difinterested Strictures on the Drama give so much Satisfaction to Lady and shall certainly continue them with the

fame Spirit and Freedom.

Sir Jofeph M is refpectfully informed, that MASTER LENOX's most aftonishing Productions will be published at the Beginning of the enfuing Year, but that no actual Subscription is necessary.

THE

BRITISH MAGAZINE AND REVIEW;

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UNIVERSAL MISCELLANY.

OCTOBER 1783.

MODERN BIOGRAPHY.

LORD KEPPEL.

HE Right Honourable Auguftus Keppel, Viscount Keppel, of Elveden in the county of Suffolk, Firft Lord of the Admiralty, was born in the year 1725.

His lordship is defcended from Arnold Jooft Van Keppel, a member of the Nobleffe of Holland, who accompanied King William into England at the Revolution in 1688; and, after attending his majefty in feveral campaigns, with diftinguished courage and ability, was created a peer in 1695, by the title of Baron Afhford, of Ashford in the county of Kent, Viscount Bury, and Earl of Albemarle.

This noble ancestor of Lord Keppel was held in the higheft efteem by King William, who bequeathed to him, in a codicil annexed to his laft will, the Lordship of Breevoft, and a legacy of 200,000 guilders; being, indeed, the only legacy left by the king from the Prince of Naffau Friesland, his majesty's heir.

The late Earl of Albemarle, fon of the first earl, and father of Lord Keppel, was named William-Anne, from her majesty Queen Anne, who honoured his lordship by ftanding godmother in perfon.

Lord Keppel is the fecond fon of the fecond Earl of Albemarle, by his lady, Anne Lenox, fifter to his Grace the late Duke of Richmond.

His lordship having early conceived a very strong inclination for the feafervice, was placed under the care of Lord Anfon, with whom he failed into the South Seas, and was at the taking of the town of Paita, (where he narrowly escaped being killed by a cannon-ball, which carried away part of a jockey-cap he happened to have on at the time, but did him no other damage) and at the capture of the famous fhip Acapulco, in 1744.

On the 16th of November, in the fame year, he obtained his commiffion as a captain of the navy; and, in 1746, being commander of the Maidstone man of war, he greatly diftinguished himself, by taking, finking, and deftroying, many of the enemies privateers and frigates, fome of them of very confiderable force.

In the year 1751, he was appointed commodore of a squadron in the Mediterranean; and, on the 1ft of May in the fame year, failed from Minorca, to accommodate the differences which

then fubfifted between the English merchants and the Dey of Algiers; a business which he compleatly effected, 2 I 2

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