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COLLECTION

OF

STATE PAPERS,

RELATIVE TO THE

WAR against FRANCE

Now carrying on by GREAT-BRITAIN and the
feveral other EUROPEAN POWERS,

Containing AUTHENTIC COPIES of

TREATIES,

CONVENTIONS,

PROCLAMATIONS,

MANIFESTOES,

DECLARATIONS,
MEMORIALS,

REMONSTRANCES,

OFFICIAL LETTERS,

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS,

LONDON GAZETTE ACCOUNTS

OF THE WAR, &c. &c. &c.

Many of which have never before been published in ENGLAND.

London:

Printed for J. DEBRETT, oppofite Burlington Houfe, Piccadilly.

1794.

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9-15-47
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INTRODUCTIO N.

THE

'HE object of the Editor of this Work has been to collect all State Papers illuftrative of the fentiments, actions, and views, of the European Powers, in the present War against France, and also of the United States of America, who, though fituated in another quarter of the globe, are, notwithstanding, by language, cuftoms, and connexions, fo intimately inter woven with the European fyftem, that their conduct is more important to it than that of many European States then.felves. It must therefore be particularly understood, that these Papers relate only to the FRENCH WAR, and the difpofitions of the different Powers on that subject.

At a time when so many various opinions are formed and maintained respecting the motives of Princes and States for commencing hoftilities or remaining neuter, it seems proper to lay before the Public authentic Documents by which thefe motives may be investigated and afcertained, as far as poffible, on the Declarations of the Parties themselves. It is prefumed that the utility of this volume therefore must be evident. The want of fome perfect collection of this kind has of late been regretted not only by Members of both Houfes of Parliament, but by many other eminent characters, to whom the deficiency was obvious; and it was a knowledge of the embarrassment occafioned by fuch a want, that first induced the Editor to collect the following Papers, to class them under their refpective heads, to arrange them in chronological order, and to accompany them by an ample Index, by means of which any one may be referred to in an instant.

It has been thought moft eligible to place thefe Papers under the following Heads:-1, Treaties 3-2. Proclamations and Manifeftoes ;-3. Official State Correfpondence ;-4. Papers relative to Neutral Powers ;-5. Parliamentary Papers ;

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