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THE

ANNUAL REGISTER,

OR A VIEW OF THE

HISTORY,

POLITICS,

AND

LITERATURE,

For the YEAR 1772.

SIXTH EDITION. ·

LONDON:

Printed by T. Davifon, Lombard-ftreet, Fleet-ftreet,
FOR THE PROPRIETORS OF DODSLEY'S ANNUAL REGISTER,
W. OTRIDGE AND SON; R. FAULDER; J. CUTHELL;
OGILVY AND SON; R. LEA; J. NUNN; J. WALKER;
LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; E. JEFFERY;

AND VERNOR AND HOOD.

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PREFACE.

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HE great changes which the tranfactions of present year have introduced in the political fyftem of Europe, and thofe ftill greater, which they feem capable of producing in their confequences, are matters of ferious confideration to individuals as well as ftates. It would not require a long fucceffion of fuch events, to cause a total difarrangement of the European commercial, political, and even religious eftablishments. No equal portion of time, in the most rapid period of conqueft, has been fo fatal to public liberty, and the rights of mankind, as that which comprehends the overthrow of the conftitution, in those great and extenfive countries, of France, Sweden, and Poland. The breach that has been now made, in those compacts that unite ftates for their mutual benefit, establishes a most dangerous precedent; it deprives, in a great measure, every separate power in Europe, of that fecurity which was founded in treaties, alliances, common intereft, and public faith. It feems to throw nations collectively into that ftate of nature, in which it has been fuppofed, that mankind feparately at one time fubfifted, when the fecurity of the individual depended fingly upon his own ftrength, and no refource was left when it failed.

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