Freemason's Magazine, The; or General and Complete Library.
Commissumque teges et vino tortus et ira. Hor
Other titles: The Freemasons' Magazine and Cabinet of Universal Literature; The Scientific Magazine, and Freemasons' Repository
1793--1798 Monthly
London, England.
Language: English.
Publisher: J.W. Bunney, George Cawthorn.
1/1, June 1793-1798.
80 pp.

This was a combination of eighteenth-century miscellanies and general Masonic intelligence. It carried news of the wars in Europe, uprisings in Ireland, parliamentary proceedings, negotiations with America, etc., and articles on the histories of Malta, Egypt, Ireland, Easter Island, China, etc., the "Perfidy of the French," Lavater, the immortality of the soul, Pompey's Pillar, Prince Rupert, "Mermaids Not Fabulous," Dean Swift, Potemkin, the Doge's Marrying the sea at Venice, new Shakespeare manuscripts, "Account of Dr. Dee, the Astrologer," "Equality of the Sexes" ("This is very alarming, for who knows where it may stop! Already we have known female parties at taverns, and it may be dreaded that the character of a social soul and jolly dog will soon be transferred from us. One lady writer is for having her sex educated in the same manner with boys--and if so, who knows but in a few years, a sober citizen may be called out of his bed to give bail for his wife, who has beat the watch?"), etc., etc., together with coquettish poetry in English and Latin, "Poems by General Buonaparte," "Elegy on Burns the Poet." etc., all combined with symbolic Masonic plates, disquisitions on the trestle board, the current state of Masonry in Scotland and elsewhere, and General Masonic intelligence. The journal was sold at the end of the first year on behalf of J.W. Bunney, but he was back as the publisher of the journal in 1797 at least.