THE

ANNUAL REGISTER,

OR A VIEW OF THE

HISTORY,

POLITICS,

AND

LITERATURE,

For the YEAR 1802.

LONDON:
PRINTED by R. WILKS, No. 8, CHANCERY-LANE ;

FOR W. OTRIDGE AND SON; CLARKE AND SON; T. HURST; B. CROSBY

J. BELL;

R. FAULDER; CUTHELL AND MARTIN; OGILVY

AND SON; R. ĻEA; J. NUNN; J. WALKER; LACKINGTON,

ALLEN, AND CO. E. JEFFERY; VERNOR AND

HOOD; J. ASPERNE; AND WYNNE

AND SCHOLEY.

1803.

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PREFACE.

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WE closed our labours for the last year, with the an-
nouncement of peace, having been once
blished throughout those wide-spread regions, whose fields
had been stained with twelve years desolating warfare;
whose ancient limits had given way to the innovating spirit
of revolution : and whose inhabitants had been, during that
period, successively exposed, either to the insolent ravages
of the invader, or the no less exhausting friendship of the
protecting power. At that period, peace, in the abstract,
seemed so great a blessing to the nations of the earth, that
we were little disposed to damp the enthusiastic joy, with
which it was received by all ranks of people in this
country; by too curiously canvassing its terms, or by these

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