W. OTRIDGE AND SON; J. SEWELL; CLARKE AND SON; T. HURST; 3. CROSBY; J. BELL; T. EGERTON; R. FAULDER; AND MARTIN; J. WALKER; CUTHELL OGILVY AND SON; R. LEA; J. NUNN; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND Co. E. JEFFERY; AND VERNOR AND HOOD, 1802. PREFACE. HE year 1801 is fraught with a greater number THE of important events than any other that has elapfed fince the commencement of the Annual Regifter. From the Molucca Iflands 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.-Acrofs 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 imposed on flates, formerly independent, were certainly not lefs important than the actions at fea and land, by which they had been preceded. To the natives and subjects of Great Britain and Ireland the hiftory of 1801 is peculiarly interefting. The meeting of the Imperial Parliament, and the first effects of the union with Ireland in that affembly; the war in the Baltic with a kindred and hitherto a friendly nation; [iv] nation; mutual preparation for invafion and for defence on the coafts of France and England; engagements on the French fhores, feen or heard from the Cliffs of Dover.-All these objects naturally arouse the attention of the English reader, and may be supposed to occupy, in his imagination, more than their just proportion in that of a citizen of the world. To the extraordinary labours of this year, we have added a deduction of the facts and questions that had, for fome time, agitated and divided the India-House, and has seriously engaged the attention of the legiflature. THE |