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HOLMES LIBRARY

THE

ANNUAL REGISTER,

OR A VIEW OF THE

HISTORY,

POLITICS,

AND

LITERATURE,

For the YEARS 1784 and 1785.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed by J. Crowder, Warwick-fquare,

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.

1800.

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THE

HE backwardness, with respect to publication, which the heavy bufinefs of the late, entenfive war, and its fucceeding confequences, occafioned, excited us to make a vigorous, and, as we hoped, decifive effort, for the recovery of our former fituation in point of time. This was no less than to throw the whole bufinefs of two fucceeding years into one volume; paying little regard to our own trouble, when put in competition with our engagements to the Public, the spirit of the undertaking, and the utility of the performance.

This experiment (for it was no more, and is not to be repeated) has by no means anfwered our expectation with We have found refpect to the saving or gaining of time. the double work exceedingly heavy; and the business in its amount went far beyond our calculation. The critical circumstances, the extraordinary claims, and the alarming change in connections and policy, which appeared, within that period to be taking place in Europe, prefented an afpe&t not a little ominous to its repose; and neceffarily rendered our foreign hiftory an object of much care, confideration, enquiry, and research. And however important foreign affairs were, our domeftic concerns were not lefs fo; and were ftill more interesting to Englishmen.

Within the period of which we treat, one parliament had been fuddenly diffolved, a new one fpeedily called,

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