THE

ANNUAL REGISTER,

OR A VIEW OF THE

HISTORY,

POLITICS,

'AND

LITERATURE,

For the YEAR 1760.

The SEVENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for J. DoDSLEY, in Pall-Mall, 1789.

WE

E have now brought our Register to the third year, and we hope it has been conducted to the fatisfaction of the Public. In our collections we have continued our attention to lay before our Readers the moft ftriking and useful of the detached pieces that have appeared during the year, and to study variety as far as it could be done without loading the work, or introducing frivolous and impertinent matter.

The Reader will find fome difference in the paging between this and the preceding volumes. In order to allow fufficient time for digefting the History and Chronicle, it was 'neceffary to put the other articles of the collection earlier to the press; this has divided the book into two parts, from the beginning of each of which the pages are numbered.

With regard to that hiftory, we are extremely fenfible of the defects to which, from the very nature of our plan, we are liable, to fay nothing of our own particular inability. We have no occafion to bespeak the candour and indulgence of the Public, which we have already abundantly experienced. In our fituation, as the annual relaters of events, we are unavoidably subject

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