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THE NEW

ANNUAL REGISTER,

OR

GENERAL REPOSITORY

OF

HISTORY,

POLITICS,

ARTS, SCIENCES,

AND

LITERATURE, ⠀⠀⠀
NEW

For the Year 1823.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY B. J. HOLDSWORTH,

18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1824.

NEM AOBK

PUBLIC LIBRARY

152941

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDE FOUNDATIONS.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, DORSET STREET.

PREFACE.

Ir is now nearly half a century since we first undertook our office of General Chroniclers: a period comprising events of greater interest to the world in general, and this country in particular, than any fifty years within the retrospect of History-more mighty convulsions of war-greater advances in Science-more violent struggles of good and evilmore victories of Liberty-more improvements in the moral condition of mankind.

The past has been a year of peculiar interest, and one upon which the eye of the future historian will often fix. Despotism has shewn itself in its true colours, selfish, cruel, and irreclaimablein close alliance with Bigotry and Ignorance. A reviving spirit has gone abroad. Intellect has arisen, which had long lain prostrate; and events have proved, that where men are resolved to be rationally free, no power on earth can bind them.

We have spared no pains to enrich our volume with whatever may be worthy of preserving. Some new periodical documents are added this year, in addition to those which have been inserted in former volumes.

May 18, 1824.

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