ANNUAL REGISTER, OR GENERAL REPOSITORY ΟΣ HISTORY, POLITICS, AND LITERATURE, For the Year 1804. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, PART I, OF THE HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, AND TASTE, IN GREAT BRITAIN, During the Reign of King William III. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE, PICCADILLY. 1805. PREFACE. IN submitting to the Public the NEW ANNUAL REGISTER for the Year 1804, Mr. STOCKDALE, the proprietor, feels it incumbent upon him to state the principles on which it is his intention that a work of so much importance shall in future be conducted. At all times, it is the duty of the historian to record events with fidelity, and to state with impartiality the measures which are carried into execution, and, as far as they can be distinctly ascertained, the motives which led to their adoption. Not merely in compliance with the wishes of the proprietor, but in conformity to his own inclination, the editor of the Historical Department has endeavoured to preserve throughout the most temperate and unbiassed impartiality. It remains with the Public to decide, whether he has succeeded in the accomplishment of this design. With respect to the promise made in the Preface The proprietor also entertains a confident hope, that the care with which the literary and every other department of this work has been executed, will merit an increase of that general circulation |