iv INTRODUCTION. 6. An Appendix, made up folely from the London Gazettes, containing all the Accounts of the War which have been publifhed in that Official Paper. The Treaties arc copies of thofe recently laid before both Houfes of Parliament, the Partition Treaty and the Convention at Pilnitz alone excepted. Those with Spain, Naples, &c, would have been first published in this Work, had it made its appearance, as was intended, before the meeting of Parliament. The latenefs of the time in which the Editor's attention was first called to it, and the extent to which it has gone, has, however, delayed its publication; and, taking advantage of the Treaties lately laid before the Houfes of Lords and Commons, those first printed have been cancelled, purpofely to give them in the very words of the Official Tranflations. The Proclamations and Manifeftoes have been felected with great care. It is almost unneceffary to obferve, that the largest part of thofe published by the French, relative to their own internal concerns, are excluded: But fuch as are of importance in explaining the conduct of other Powers are preferved, and a few material Decrees placed among them. The Official Correfpondence commences with the Answers of the European Powers to the French King's Notification of his acceptance of the Conftitution in September, 1791, which is thought the proper æra from whence to trace and difclofe the conduct and difpofitions of the different States :-It is par ticularly full and complete at the very interefting periods mediately preceding the rupture with Auftria, and the rup ture with Britain. Many of the Papers which paffed on the eve of thofe events never were before published in England; and others of them Lave hitherto been but imperfectly laid before the Public, It has been thought neceffary to the completeness of the Work, to infert the Parliamentary Papers alfo:-Thefe con fift of the King's Speeches and Meffages; and the Addreffes, Amendments, and Motions, concerning the War, which laft Seffion were moved either in the House of Lords or in the House of Commons. The Appendix, containing the Hiftory of the War, is taken wholly from the London Gazettes: No article is omitted, nor is any inferted which has not appeared in that State Record. The different Accounts are claffed under the heads of Operations at Sea; Operations in the Netherlands; on the Rhine; on the fide of Italy; on the fide of Spain; at Toulon; in the Weft Indies and America; and in the Eaft Indies. The whole, as well Proclamations, Correfpondence, &c. as Gazettes, is brought up to the conclufion of 1793; and the English and foreign newspapers of the three last years have been carefully fearched, in order to complete the Collection. Many of the Papers have been perfected, and their dates affixed; but even where dates could not be precifely found, the time at which they first appeared is afcertained and mentioned. The Continuations of this Work will always be brought forward on the eve of every Seffion of Parliament. But the Editor will not impofe on the Public by printing Papers of little value, merely because they may fwell to an expenfive fize. At a time like the prefent, when the heat of Parties renders every political Publication odious to the one fide or the other, or perhaps fuspected by both, it is peculiarly fortunate for this Work, that it must be equally interesting to men of all defcriptions, and equally approved by them. Hints for its im provement will be thankfully received by the Publisher; as it is the Editor's most ardent wish to make it, what fuch a Work ought to be, an authentic, impartial, and complete Repofitory. Monday, Feb. 24, 1794: *Note, By a mistake of the Printer, a part of this Article is tranfpofed beyond the Operations on the Rhine. The Operations in the Netherlands, apparently end- ing in page 47, must therefore be again refumed in page 55, and continued till + These two Articles are by the Printer's mistake intermixed;---they jointly begin in page 70, and end in 75. Though all the Articles coming under this head are placed together, yet the |