P Re E BoA) Crk. 
Iw offering to the public the present volume of a 
work of such long established reputation as the An- 
nual Register—and the former volumes of which have 
already assumed a place of no inconsiderable rank 
among the historical documents of our country—we 
cannot but feel an anxiety proportioned to the subjects 
of which we have had to treat. 
Already, in the close of our preceding volume, we 
had anticipated the renewal of the war, that great 
event which forms the leading feature of the period, 
whose transactions are here related ; and which will, 
in its influence, too probably pervade all the political 
relations of the country during a long course of suc- 
ceeding years. 
At a time, when the public press appeared almost 
exclusively devoted, to the object of prolonging the 
delusive 
