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ANNUAL REGISTER,

OR GENERAL REPOSITORY OF

HISTORY,

POLITICS,

AND

LITERATURE,
For the YEAR 1791.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

A CONTINUATION of the HISTORY of KNOWLEDGE, LEARN-
ING, and TASTE, in GREAT BRITAIN, during the Reign of
Queen ELIZABETH.

LONDON,

Printed for G. G, J. and J. ROBINSON, Pater-nofter-Row.

MDCCXCII.

PREF A CE.

N prefenting another volume to the Public, we feel no fmall fatisfaction in having been able to fulfil our promife of "giving a compact and energetic account of the French revolution down to the completion of the national conftitution." To that important subject, indeed, we profess to have been particularly attentive, and we must add that we have found that part of our work a most laborious and difficult task. So much has the fpirit of party intermixed itself in the relation of thefe tranfactions, that there is not to be found either in French or English a fair and honeft narrative. In this country, in particular, nothing has appeared but the most incorrect and inaccurate conjectures, for they so ought rather to be called than narratives; wretched compilations, which are as applicable to the affairs of Otaheite as to thofe of France.

Much of the hiftory which we present to our readers has been collected from, or at leaft corroborated by, the testimony of eye-witneffes, and the reft is drawn from the journals of the national af

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