ANNUAL REGISTER2 OR GENERAL REPOSITORY OF HISTORY, POLITICS, AND LITERATURE, For the YEAR 1801. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, The HISTORY of KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, and TASTE, NEW YORK LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW, By S. Hamilton, Falcon-Court, Fleet-Street. 1802. PREFACE. THE principles upon which the New Annual Re gister has been conducted, have been amply vindicated by the testimony of facts and experience. They are, indeed, the principles of constitutional liberty, the principles of the Bill of Rights, the principles which seated the house of Brunswic on the throne of these kingdoms. We expect therefore to hear no more of those despicable cavils, which the voice of venal faction had raised against us, and of which this notice will shortly be the only memorial. Should it now be objected, that, from having been the opponents, we are become the panegyrists of government, we answer, that government in its measures has come over to us, and not we to them. We have never regarded men, but measures; and if that criterion be observed in deciding on our merits, we defy the most captious critic to fix upon us a charge of inconsistency. |