ANNUAL REGISTER,

OR GENERAL REPOSITORY OF

HISTORY,

POLITICS,

AND

LITERATURE,
For the YEAR 1789.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

The HISTORY of KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, and
TASTE, in GREAT BRITAIN, during Part of the Reign of
Queen ELIZABETH,

Printed for G. G. J. and J. ROBINSON, Pater-nofter-Row.

MDCCXC.

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nual Register to the Public, there are two circumstances which we have reafon to reflect upon with pleasure. The firft is, that we have been able to give it fo early an appearance; and the other, that it has been executed with an attention and diligence which cannot fail of procuring it a favourable reception.

In the Foreign Hiftory, befides the Narrative of the important Events that have taken place in the Eastern Parts of Europe, in Germany, in Holland, and in Flanders, the account we have given of the proceedings of the Notabies in France will demand, in an efpecial manner, the notice of our Readers, as they will thence be enabled to trace, with perfpicuity and precision, the fteps which have led to the late aftonishing Revolution, and to fee that, wonderful as it is, it was the neceffary refult of the previous difpofition of things in that country.

With regard to Great Britain, we have endeavoured to relate, with accuracy, copiousness, and im