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PRINTED FOR W. OTRIDGE AND SON; J. CUTHELL; J. NUNN; E. JEFFERY; J.
BELL; B. AND R. CROSBY AND CO.; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; LONG-
MAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN; J. ASPERNE; CRADOCK AND JOY;
SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES; J. FAULDER; AND J. JOHNSON AND CO.

1813.

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
DAVIS

Printed by C. WOOD,

Poppin's Court, Fleet Street.

PREFACE.

THE year 1801 is fraught with a greater number of important events than any other that has elapsed since the commencement of the Annual Register. From the Molucca Islands to the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, there was no country or coast that was not a scene of either military preparation or action, or political negotiation.-Across the Atlantic, the agitations in St. Domingo and Guadaloupe perplexed France, and alarmed Britain.

The treaties of peace that ensued were many and various; and these, with the new forms of government imposed on states, formerly independent, were certainly not less important than the actions at sea and land, by which they had been preceded,

To the natives and subjects of Great Britain and Ireland the history of 1801 is peculiarly interesting. The meeting of the Imperial Parliament, and the first effects of the union with Ireland in that assembly; the war in the Baltic with a kindred and hitherto a friendly

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