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CUTHELL

W. OTRIDGE AND SON; J. SEWELL; CLARKE AND SON; T. HURST;
B. CROSBY; J. BELL; T. EGERTON; R. FAULDER;
AND MARTIN; OGILVY AND SON; R. LEA; J. NUNN;

J. WALKER; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND

E. JEFFERY; AND VERNOR AND HOOD.
1802.

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PREFACE.

THE

HE year 1801 is fraught with a greater number of important events than any other that has elapfed fince the commencement of the Annual Regifter. From the Molucca Ilands to the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean there was no country or coaft that was not a fcene of either military preparation or action, or political negotiation.-Across the Atlantic, the agitations in St. Domingo and Gaudaloupe perplexed France, and alarmed Britain.

The treaties of peace that enfued were many and various and thefe, with the new forms of government impofed on ftates, formerly independent, were certainly not lefs important than the actions at fea and land, by which they had been preceded.

To the natives and fubjects of Great Britain and Ireland the hiftory of 1801 is peculiarly interefting. The meeting of the Imperial Parliament, and the firft effects of the union with Ireland in that affembly; the war in the Baltic with a kindred and hitherto a friendly

nation;

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