THE NEW YORK

PUBLIC LIBRARY

PREFA C E.

IT may be proper to acquaint the reader, that the present situation of affairs has not hitherto obliged us to make any change in the plan of our work. We have endeavoured to procure as many and as various materials as was confiftent with our defire of keeping our collection chafte, and of preferving the order and method which the public indulgence had formerly approved.

If the materials for the foreign history have, through the felicity of the times, been less abundant than in former years, our domestic diffentions have fupplied the place of those foreign events, and displayed a scene almost as animated, but much less hurtful

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to humanity. Thefe jars, fuch is the excellent temperament of our constitution, have done, and will, probably, do very little mischief. Without materially checking the neceffary operations of government, they prevent the minds of men from stagnating in a state so full of profperity as our prefent; and keep alive the fpirit of liberty, at a time when the real and undisturbed enjoyment of that invaluable bleffing might, perhaps, without this fpur, abate fomething of that jealous and anxious zeal for its preservation, which, when once extinguished, is not so eafily kindled. There are times, when the fpirit of liberty muft owe something to the spirit of faction.

THE

State of Europe. Disposition of Ra. State of the other northern

powers. King of Prussia, his alliances. Revolution in political

system. Distraction of France. Character of the parliaments of

that kingdom. Growth of their poiver,

CHA P. II.

Contest between the administration and parliaments of France. Money

edicts. Remonstrances. Governors sent to register the edicts by

force. Arret against the Duke of Fitz James by the parliament of

Thoulouse. Proceedings at Rouen and at Grenoble. Further remon

strances. Effect of these dissensions. Spain. Dispositions of

France with regard to peace. Louisiana,

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CHA P. III.

Election of a king of Poland. Parties there. Conduct of the neigh

bouring powers. Poniatowski recommended by Russia and Prussia.

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Opposition

Opposition to the foreign troops. Protest against the diet of election.

Branitzki divested of his command He and Radzivil defeated and

driven out of Poland. Ambassadors of France and Austria retreat.

Poniatowski elected,

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CHA P. IV.

Disturbance in Russia. Prince Ivan. He is visited by the Empress.

A guard is set upon him. Scheme of Mirowitz. Is put on guard in

the castle of Schlusselburgh. Seizes the governor. Attacks the prince's

guards. Prince Ivan murdered. Mirowitz surrenders. Is exe-

cuted,

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CHAP. V.

Parliament meets. State of parties. Wilkes's affair. Message to the

house. Both houses address. North Briton censured, and burnt by

the hands of the common hangman. Question of privilege; debates

thereupon. Wilkes retires to France. He is expelled,

CH A P. VI.

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Question of general warrants. Debates thereupon. Administration hard

pushed. Question adjourned. State of the national supplies. Scheme

of ways and means criticised. Observations on that contro-

versy,
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CHAP VII.

Affairs in Indostan. Situation of Mir Jaffier. His territories invaded

by a son of the mogul's, and the Marattas. Ill condition of his go-

vernment. He is deposed; and Mir Cossim set up in his place. Cha-

racter and designs of Mir Cossim. His disputes with the English.

War undertaken against him. Mir Jaffier proclaimed,

CHAP. VIII.

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English surprize Patna. Driven out and defeated. Major Adams

takes the field. Action at Ballasara. Battle of Nuncas Nullas.

Siege of Auda Nulla. Great slaughter of the Indians. Mongheer

reduced. Massacre of the English prisoners at Patra. Patna taken.

Mir Cossim flies out of Bengal,

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