Printed by Assignment from the Executors of the late Mr. FOR W. OTRIDGE & SON; R. FAULDER; CUTHELL & MARTIN; AND VERNOR AND HOOD; By J. WRIGHT, Denmark Court, Strand. 1803. PREFACE. THE year of which we treat has been more favourable to the general tranquillity than many preceding circumstances seemed to indicate. It has not, however, been destitute of interesting events. The dismemberment of Poland, the necessity of which produced a ratification of that act by the King and the Republic, and the precarious state of the remaining part of that unfortunate country, present a lesson to others, which might be studied with advantage. The favourable change which has taken place in the Ottoman affairs, and the insurrections which have happened in Russia, seem rather to increase the probability of peace, than of a long continuance of the war. The final dissolution of the Jesuits would alone distinguish the present year; and as that measure |