The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 42

Edmund Burke

Longmans, Green, 1801 - History

Contents

• for the public Interest Suspicions expreffed of an intended Dilatojhrip: 18
• Effets of what paſſed in the Council of Five Hundred on the Deliberations: 27
• First Measures of the confular Government Proclamations by the legislative: 44
• Meeting of Parliament Meffage from the King refpeting Overtures: 76
• Articles of the Capitulation of the Isles of Malla and Goza to the English: 81
• Table of Fees payable in the two Houſes on Bills of Enclosure: 92
• Message from his Majesty respecting the Employment of German Troops: 100
• First Second Third Fourth Fifth and Sixth Reports of the fetect Committee: 101
• fied by the British Parliament and paſſed into a Law Suspension of: 112
• First and fecond Reports of the Lords Committees on the Scarcity: 128
• Annual Amount of Wheat imported to London from 1781 to 1800: 139
• List of Irish Parliament Annuitants: 145
• The Ceffation of Arms in the discontented Provinces of France not Univerfal: 160
• Both the allied Powers of Austria and Great Britain determined to profecute: 168
• Revolution of Vado Viciffitudes and Progress of the Siege of Genoa: 179
• Army of Reserve Plan of Buonaparte for retrieving the French Affairs: 190
• Banks of the Danube to the Lake of Conflance The Change in Italy: 199
• Account of the Amount of Bank of England Notes in Circulation in the 1: 1
• Return from the Affairs of the Continent to those of Great Brilain Diflurb: 21
• Births in the Year 1800 47: 45
• Deaths 56: 56
• London Gazette January 21 1800 69: 73
• Financial Refoluttons moved by Mr Pitt and carried by a large Majority: 149
• India Budget 155: 155
• Supplies granted by Parliament for the Year 1800 160500: 169
• A general Bill of Christenings and Burials for 1800 174: 174
• Message from the LordLieutenant to the Irish House of Commons 181: 181
• Proteft entered on the Journals of the Irish House of Lords against: 194
• Letters from the Minister for foreign Affairs in France and from General: 203
• Papers relative to the Commencement of Negociations for Peace with France: 209
• Convention for the Evacuation of Egypt 217: 217
• General Klebers Address to the Divan of Cairo 224: 224
• Letter from General Menou to the First Conful Buonaparte 230: 230
• Letter from Mr Merry the British Minister at Copenhagen to Count: 238
• Extract from the official Note transmitted by Lord Whitworth to Count Bern: 243
• Note from the Swedish Minister to the Pruſſian Minifler at Stockholm: 249
• Note from Lord Carysfort to Count Haugwitz 1: 255
• Regulations to be observed in confequence of the above Convention: 264
• Convention between the Generalsinchief of the French and Imperial Armies: 270
• Anecdotes of Mr Robert Bloomfield Author of the Farmers Boy: 318
• State of Agriculture in the Canary Islands from the Memoirs of the: 369
• Experiments refpecting the Circulation of the Sap in Trees by M: 376
• Account of a Method of destroying Caterpillars in Gooseberrybashes from: 386
• Method of making Hay from the Leaves of Carrots and improving the Size: 395
• Criminal Prosecutions of Witches in the Seventeenth Century from: 405
• from the fame: 412
• Archæologia vol 13: 419
• Ode for his Majestys Birthday June 4 by H J Pye Poet Laureat: 452

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Bibliographic information

• Title: The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 42
• Editor: Edmund Burke
• Publisher: Longmans, Green, 1801