Printed (by Affignment from the Executors of the late Mr. JAMES. By J. Crowder and E. Hemfted, Warwick-Square. PREFACE. WE have fo often had occafion to thank the public for the reception with which they have been pleased to honour our labours, that the doing of it any more may appear to arise from habit rather than any consciousness of the obligations we are under to them. We fhall, therefore, juft beg leave to affure them, that greater pains have been taken with this volume of the Annual Register, to render it worthy of their perufal, than with any of the former; though we are very far, at the fame time, from meaning to affert, that these pains have been attended with proportionable fuccefs; and much lefs ftill, that, even in that cafe, we do not equally stand in need of their tendernefs, fince every indulgence on their fide is a title to extraordinary exertions on ours. Nay, in one respect, the |