ANNUAL REGISTER, OR GENERAL REPOSITORY OF HISTORY, AND LITER A TURE, TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A CONTINUATION of the HISTORY of KNOWLEDGE, LEARN- LONDON, Printed for G. G. J. and J. ROBINSON, Pater-nofter-Row. MDCCXCII. PREFACE. N presenting another volume to the Public; we IN feel no small satisfaction in having been able to fulfil our promife of "giving a compact and energetic account of the French revolution down to the completion of the national conftitution." To that important fubject, indeed, we profess to have been particularly attentive, and we muft add that we have found that part of our work a moft laborious and difficult task. So much has the fpirit of party intermixed itself in the relation of these transactions, that there is not to be found either in French or English a fair and honeft narrative. In this country, in particular, nothing has appeared but the most incorrect and inaccurate conjectures, for they fo ought rather to be called than narratives; wretched compilations, which are as applicable to the affairs of Otaheite as to thofe of France. Much of the hiftory which we present to our readers has been collected from, or at least corroborated by, the teftimony of eye-witneffes, and the reft is drawn from the journals of the national af |