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Fort furprised and taken. Sombreuil and other Emigrants condemned and executed. Charette's Proclamation. A fecond Defcent attempted on the Coaft of France. L'Ile Dieu taken. Evacuated. Campaign in Germany. Surrender of Luxemburg. Siege of Mentz. French pafs the Rhine. Take poffeffion of Manheim. Reverfe of Fortune. Blockade of Mentz raifed. French defeated near Mentz. Manheim retaken. Armistice on the Rhine. Caufes of the French Difafters. Weft-Indies. Reduction of Tiburon by the French. Of St. Euftatius. Ambitious Projects of the French in the Weft Indies. Infurrection in St. Lucia. In Grenada. In Dominica. In St. Vincent's. Fire at Montego Bay, in Jamaica. War with the Maroons in that land. Cape of Good Hope taken by the British. Mediterranean Convoy intercepted by the French, &c. Reflections on the Prefent State of Europe,

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PRINCIPAL OCCURRENCE S. (3)

PUBLIC PAPER S.

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His Majesty's Speech to both Houfes of Parliament, December 30, 1794, (80) Addrefs to his Majefty moved for in the Houfe of Commons by Sir Edward Knatchbull, Dec. 30, 1794, with the Amendment thereunto propofed by Mr., Wilberforce, Proteft by Earl Stanhope, Jan. 6, 1795, against the Motion for Adjournment, by which his propofed Refolution, "That this Country ought not, and will not, interfere in the internal Affairs of France, and that it is expedient explicitly to declare the fame," was negatived; fixty-one Peers voting for the Adjournment, and his Lordship alone against it,

(84)

Mr. Grey's Motion in the House of Commons, Jan. 26, 1795, with the fubfequent Amendments thereunto,

(86)

The Duke of Bedford's Motion in the Houfe of Lords, Jan. 27.
Mr. Grey's Motion in the Houfe of Commons, Feb. 6,
The Duke of Bedford's Motion in the House of Lords, Feb. 12; and the Pro-
teft on the Rejection thereof,

(87)

(ibid.)

(ibid.)

Addrefs to the King moved for in the House of Lords, by the Earl of Lauderdale, June 5,

(88)

Petition of the Livery of the City of London, in Common Hall affembled, prefented to the Houfe of Commons, Jan. 26,

(91)

Address of the City of London to his Majesty, prefented Jan. 28,

(ibid.)

Proteft against the Bill for continuing the Sufpenfion of the Habeas Corpus Act,

Feb. 4,

(92)

His Majesty's Speech to both Houses of Parliament, June 27,
His Majeny's Speech to both Houses of Parliament, Od. 29,

(93)

(94)

Copy of the Proclamation iffued, Oct. 31, in Pursuance of the foregoing Addrefs,

The Joint Address of both Houses of Parliament to his Majefy, on the daring Outrages offered to his Majefty in his Way to and from the Parliament Houfe, prefented Oct. 31,

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(96) (97)

Copy of a Proclamation against Seditious Meetings, Nov. 4,
Congratulatory Addrefs of the City of London to his Majefly, prefented Nov. 6,

(98)

Refolutions paffed at an extraordinary Meeting of the Whis Club, Nov. 11,

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Proceedings of Aficiated Livery of the City of London, at the Antwerp Tavern,
in Threadneedie Street, Nov. 13,

Proceedings of a Meeting held at the Paul's Head Tavern, in Cateaton Street,

Νου. 14,

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Declaration of his Majesty the King of Pruffia to his mofi Serene and Illujirious

Co-fiates

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Method of preparing a Sulphureous Medicinal Water,
Account of the Cinnamon of Ceylon,

ANTIQUITIE S.

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Sketch of the Military Hiftory of France,

[156]

Morals, &c. in Britain about the Cl fe of the XVth Century,
Origin of the Game of Chefs, traced to China;

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Obfervations on the Grafting of Trees,

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS.

Bucknall's Communications relative to Orcharding,
On the Means of Defroying Infects in Orchards,
Defcription of a Method of increafing Potatoes,

POETRY.

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[174]

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[179]

Ode to the Furies avho afferted the Conftitutional Rights of the Subjet, on

Ode for the New Year, by Henry James Pye, Efq.

the late State Trials,

Sonnet to the Peoples' Advocates,

Eulogium, by the Genius of the Eaft, on Sir William Jones,

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Lines on the Death of the Reverend Dr. Kippis, by Helen Maria Williams,

[184]

Tranflation of a Hymn, written by La Source and Sillery, and fung by them every Night, when imprifoned in the Luxembourg, in expectation of Death, [185] Ode on his Majesty's Birth Day, by Henry James Pye, Efq.

[186]

War Elegy, by Jofeph Fawcett,

[187]

Sonnet on Fame, by William Ashburnham, Jun. Efq.

[189]

The Wish, by Robert Lovell,

[190]

Morning, a poetical Sketch in irregular Verfe, by Ann Batten Criftall, [191]

March of the Guards to Greenwich, Feb. 25th, 1793,

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THE

HISTORY

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KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, AND TASTE,

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IN GREAT BRITAIN,

During the Reign of King CHARLES the First.

'N the Hiftory of the Progrefs of Knowledge, Learning, and Tafte, with which our annual volume ufually commences, the first place has generally been affigned to Theo-. logy. In no age indeed could fuch an arrangement have more propriety than in that of which we have now to treat: it was a period in which religious controverfy engaged the minds of all, and mingled with almoft every occurrence in focial, or civil life. The adoption of the tenets of Arminius, by feveral of the most celebrated divines in the reign of James, has been already mentioned; and thefe prelates happening to be, from their fituation, temper, or prejudices, fupporters of the prerogative of the crown, and attached to ecclefiaftical power and oftentatious ceremonies, were regarded by the greater part of the nation with jealouty and diftruft, though, ftrictly speaking, the tenets of their philofophy had no tendency to favour either civil or ecclefiaftical - tyranny. They were, however, branded by the nation with the names of heretics and innovators; and the houfe of com

mons,

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