THE

ANNUAL REGISTER,

OR A VIEW OF THE

HISTORY,
POLITICS,

AND

LITERATURE,

For the YEAR 1759.

THE EIGHTH EDITION.

LONDON:

OGILVY

PRINTED (by Assignment from the Executors of the late Mr. James Dodsley)
FOR W.OTRIDGE ANDʻSON; R.FAULDER ; CUTHELL AND MARTIN;

AND SON; R. LEA; J. NUNN; J. WALKER;
LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO. E. JEFFER Y;

VERNOR AND ноор;
By H. Bryer, Bridetextl-Hospital.

AND

PRE FACE.

manner

In our Preface to the RegisTER of last year, we fully explained the nature of our design : the Book itself has shewn in what

we have been able to carry it into execution: It is therefore not necessary to detain the reader a long time at the entrance of the volume which we now lay before him. Even at our first setting out, we employed none of the customary arts to excite attention, and seduce judgment; and on the present occasion these arts