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1786. MR. PITT's plan of a sinking fund is approved.-Further financial regula tions. India bill amended.-Mr. Burke commences the proceedings against Mr. Hastings by charging him with high crimes, &c.-Convention with Spain. -Commercial treaty with France.

1787.

1788.

-Merits of the commercial treaty discussed.-New arrangement of the customs. -Decisions relative to Scotch peerage. Proceeding relative to Mr. Hastings's trial.-Foreign affairs.

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-Policy of Great Britain relative to the war between Russia and the Porte.-Affairs of Holland.-Flag officers.-Affair of.-Divers acts.-Slave trade.Foreign affairs.-The king's illness.-Parliamentary proceedings relative to it. 1789.-Death of Mr. Cornwall and election of Mr. Grenville-speaker.-Parliamentary proceedings on the king's illness. The king recovers.-Motions respecting dissenters. Election of Mr. Addington speaker.

1790. Prosperous state of the kingdom.-Sentiments of men respecting the French revolution.-Parties in parliament.-Motion for repeal of the test.-Affair with Spain respecting Nootka Sound.-Mr. Flood's unsuccessful motion for reform of the representation.

1791.

-Conduct of government respecting the Turkish war.-Mediation for peace.-
Liberal act respecting roman catholics.-Merits of the slave trade debated.
-Merits of the war in India debated.

1792. State of the public mind.-Tumult at Birmingham.-Act respecting trials for libel.-State of the revenue.-Seditious proceedings of several societies.Effects.-Merits of the approaching war.

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1794.-

1795.-

-Negotiations with France-abortive.-Deceitful

conduct of France.-War
declared by France.-Supplies provided.-Precautionary measures.-Proceed-
ings against Muir and Palmer.-Failure of commercial credit.-Le Brun's
letters. Measures with the allies.-Events of the campaign in Europe and the
Indies.

-Debates on the merits of the war.-Supplies for it voted.-Societies charged
with seditious practices.-Habeas corpus suspended.-Consequent proceedings.
-Different opinions respecting the war.
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to the German emperor.-Supplies voted.-Motions by lord Stanhope,-Mr.
Grey,-Duke of Bedford,-Mr. Fox, and Mr. Wilberforce respecting the war.
-Marriage of the prince of Wales.--Treaty with Russia.-Affairs of Ireland.
Lord Fitzwilliam's conduct as lord lieutenant.-Resigns and is succeeded by
lord Camden. His majesty's carriage assaulted.-Consequent acts of parliament.
-Debates on them.-Naval exploits.-Cape of Good Hope taken.
1796.Policy of government respecting negotiations for peace.-Debates on the subject
of finance.-Lord Malmsbury's negotiations at Paris unsuccessful.-Reasons.-
Measures of defence.-Enemy's attempt on Ireland fails.-Reduction of the
Dutch East India settlements.

1787.

1789.

-Reasons for the line of conduct adopted by France in foreign affairs.-
Origin of the revolution.-State of the public mind.-Calonne's plan of reform.
-Death of de Vergennes.-Assembly of notables.-Calonne foiled by the
opponents to his measures.-He is succeeded by the archbishop of Toulouse.
-Measures of finance.-Seance. royale.-Duke of Orleans ordered to leave
court.-Foreign affairs.

1788. Effects produced by the assembly of notables.-Imprudent conduct of the
court.-State of the public mind.-Cour pleniere projected.-King's distress.
-Necker is appointed minister of finance.-His character. His errors of judg-
ment.-Convocation of the states-general resolved on.-How constituted.—-
Mirabeau's character.-Duke of Orleans.-The motives of their conduct.
-Feelings of different descriptions of men before the convocation of the states-
general. Cahiers.-How given.-Tumults at Paris.-State of parties.-Necker's
erroneous judgment and its consequences.-The convention takes the name of
assemblee nationale.-King's distress.-First acts of the assembly.-Royal
session. Its consequences.-Assembly removes to a tennis court.-Resolu-
tions. The nobles join the tiers etat.-Views of Mirabeau and the duke of
Orleans. Ill-judged measures of the court.-Necker dismissed.-Popular
tumults. The bastile destroyed.-The king visits Paris and reinstates Necker.
-State of the public mind.-Artois, the Polignacs and others desert the king.
-Tumults in the provinces.-Necker's financial measures.-New constitution.
-The court gives occasion to a tumult at Versailles by its indiscretion.-
The king is forced to come to Paris.-Triumph of the republicans.—Mira-
beau's overtures rejected.-Assembly removed to Paris. Subsequent measures.
-Death of the dauphin.

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State of the public mind.-Causes of stability in an ill-constituted govern-
ment.-Necker's resignation.-Judicious measures of government.-Its insin-
cere professions.-Its views and maxims.-Conduct relative to Avignon.-To
St. Domingo.-Anacharsis Clootz.

Reflections on the measures of the revolutionists and the state of the king-
dom.-Artifices of the jacobins.-Suspicions of the king's intention to escape.
-Character of the noblesse.-King's escape and arrest.-Effects on the public
mind. Subsequent proceedings.-Different schemes of foreign powers to
restore the king to his authority.-Congresses of Pilnitz and Mantua.-
Princes at Coblentz.-Different policy of the emperor and king of Prussia.-
Different principles of the parties in France.

1792.State of the kingdom.-Conduct of the emigrant princes considered.-Change
of opinion in some of the patriots.-Preparations for war.-Transactions
with foreign powers.-Change of ministry.-Measures adopted by foreign
powers.-Warlike events.-Influence on domestic affairs. Decrees respecting
non-juring priests and army of 20,000 ordered to Paris.-King's veto.-

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1795.

Madame Elizabeth's behaviour.-Fayette's.-Marseillois.-Means used to incense
the populace.-Duke of Brunswick advances.-Country pronounced in danger.
-Petion accuses the king.-Revolutionary project executed by Danton,
Roberspierre, Marat, &c.-Dumouriez's artifice.-Attack of the thuilleries.-
Lewis flies to the hall of assembly.-Proceedings of the convention.-Change
of ministry.-Anarchy prevails.-Plan of the campaign and events.-Fayette
escapes.-Dumouriez commands.-Massacres at Paris.-Royalty abolished and
the king imprisoned.-Military events.-Conferences between Dumouriez and
the Prussian agent.-Retreat of the Prussians.-Reflections.-Military events.
-The Netherlands conquered.-National convention elected.-Acts of it.—
The jacobins triumphant.-King's trial ordered.-Process.
-Sentence pronounced.-King's execution. His character. State of parties.-
Roland resigns.-Practices of the terrorists.-Effects.-Erroneous principles of
the powers which had invaded France.-Effects.-War with Great Britain.-
Great exertions.-Events of the campaign.-Dumouriez's principles and conduct.
-His defection and escape.-Successes of the allies and effects.-Acts of the
convention.-Triumph of the jacobins over the girondists.--Decrees for rising
in mass.-Danton and Roberspierre rivals.-Characters.-Reverse of fortune
of the allies.-Duke of Brunswick's disgust.-New constitution.-State of the
kingdom.-Lyons and Toulon recovered.-Execution or exile of the girondists.
-Measures relative to religion.

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-State of the public mind.-The democrats avail themselves of it.-Robers-
pierre proscribes his former associates.-War in the Vendee.-Events of it.
-Roberspierre provokes resistance by his tyranny.-Violent motions in the
convention. He is borne down.-Arrested and executed.-New system.-
Political events relative to France.-Conduct of Prussia.-Force of the two
armies.-Events of the campaign.-Pichegru is repulsed by the British
forces in an attack on the Dutch frontier.-Successes of the French on the
Spanish frontier.-Political effects.-Events on the Italian frontier. Conquest
of Corsica by the English.-Successes of the English in the West Indies.
-Naval exploits of the English.

-Pichegru's campaign in Holland and reduction of the Dutch provinces.-Sub-
7 sequent acts.-Conduct of Prussia.-Of the king of Spain.-Submission of
thechouans, after the unsuccessful descent of the emigrants.-State of the
confederacy.-Events of the campaign in Flanders.-State of the kingdom.—
Contest between the moderatists and terrorists in the convention, and preva-
lence of the former.-Death of the dauphin.-New constitution.--Disturbances
excited by it.-Buonaparte employed to quell the insurgents.-Consequent
occurrences.French institute founded,

1796. Policy of the government respecting pacific negotiations.-Hostilities with the
chouans.-Buonaparte appointed commander in Italy.-Force of each party.

-Successes

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