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ANNUAL REGISTER.

VOL. II.

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER,

1802.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY COX AND BAYLIS, GREAT QUEEN STREET,
AND SOLD BY E. HARDING, PALL-MALL; R. BAGSHAW, BOW-STREET; 1. MERCIER,
DUBLIN; AND E. SARJEANT, NEW YORK,

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PREFACE.

WHEN I first described the nature and proposed contents of this work, I prepared my readers for "such alterations, additions and improvements, as time and experience might suggest." Many and useful have been the suggestions of these patient monitors. After having finished the two volumes, wich complete the first year of the work, I now regard it as having assumed its permanent form and manner.

This volume, like the former one, may be considered as divided into two parts; the first consisting of the numbers, which have been published weekly during the half year, or, of a reprint of those numbers; the second, of the Supplement. The former of these divisions contains a collection of all authentic documents, appertaining to state affairs, or to matters of political economy, whether they immediately relate to this country or not; and, in making this collection, care has constantly been taken to recur to such compacts and transactions of past times, as do, or may affect the circumstances of the present time.-During the Session of Parliament, a weekly account of the proceedings is given, reserving the Debates, corrected and at full length, to be given in the Supplement to the volume. As occasion requires, and time affords opportunity, brief Notices are given of such new Books as relate to history, politics, or political economy, or that bear upon subjects connected therewith. The preceding heads are followed by a selection of such Foreign and Domestic Intelligence as appears to be of public importance; to which is added, a Record of Appointments, of Bankruptcies, Births, Deaths, Marriages, Prices. The scale of these articles has, in the latter num. bers, been abridged; but whatever has been left out in the body of the work, will be found in the Supplement.Besides the aforementioned

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