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and, indeed, an easy matter. But it is impossible, that 
any intelligent and liberal mind should approve of such 
economy. Our Readers will do us the justice to ac- 
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_knowledge, that our Annual volumes are not written on 
_ this plan: if, in the present, we have brought forward 
Great Britain, which, at all times, makes so conspicuous 
_ a figure in the circle of civilization, still more promi- 
nently than usual, this conduct, by the clouded aspect 
of the political horizon, in our quarter, is abundantly 
justified. 
From a combination of causes, to which we have 
been, at different times, compelled to allude, the pub- 
lication of the Annual Register was every year more 
and more protracted: and the complaint was just, that 
it had become extremely dilatory, if not, as was appre- 
hended by some, uncertain. The publication of this. 
MH Volume at this time, in which we have faithfully ob- 
served, and even somewhat exceeded, the engagement 
we came under in our Volume for 1793, will, we trust, 
afford to our Readers an earnest of that assiduous zeal: 
_ with which we endeavour to give them satisfaction. 
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