CONTENT S. A CONCISE View of the State of Knowledge, Literature, and Tafie, in Great Britain, from the Acceffion of King Henry the Fourth, to the Acceffion of King Henry, the Seventh, BRITISH AND FOREIGN HISTORY. CHAP. I: i The Crimea acquired by the Ruffians. Defcription of the three Provinces of Catharinoflaw, Taurica, and Caucafus. Calamitous State of the Ottomay Empire. Claims of the Emperor on the Dutch. Their internal Dis fractions. Affair of the Schelde: Mediation of France. Exchange of Bavaria. Affair of Dantzic. Prince of Denmark, CHA P. II. 3 Expeditions against Algiers and Sufa. Finances of France. Caifle d'A mortiffement. America. Perpetual Revenues. Unappropriated Lands. Commerce. Order of the Cincinnati. Nova Scotia, CHA P. III. - 24 Ireland. Meeting at Dungannon. Meeting of Parliament. National Convention. Bill of Reform rejected. Change of Miniftry. Arrival of the Duke of Rutland. Protecting Duties. Riots. Bill respecting the Liberty of the Prefs. Prorogation, CHA P. IV. Trade of Ireland. City of Dublin. Roman Catholics. 39 Opinion of Lord 59 CHAP. V. Meeting of Parliament. Speech from the Throne. Addrejs. Termination of the Wfiminfier Scrutiny. Parliamentary Reform, 72 CHA P. VI. Votes of Supply. Fortifications. Newfoundland. Affairs of India. Debts of the Nabob of Arcot, CHA P. VII. 86 Commiffioners of Accounts. Navy Office Bill. Audit of the Impreft. Office Reform Bill. Finances. Loan. Taxes. Bills of Mr. Grenville and Lord Mahon. Mr. Beaufoy's Bill. Herring Fishery. Polls and Scrutinies. Bill of Police. CHAP. Syftem of Intercourfe with Ireland. amended into Twenty. Debates. Lords. Addrefs of both Houses. VIII. 113 The Eleven Propofitions. Modified and Progress of the Syftem in the House of Adjournment. Prorogation. PRINCIPAL OCCURRENCES. 141 PUBLIC (3) PAPER S. Letter from the Hon. Warren Haflings, Governor General of Bengal, to the Honourable the Court of Directors of the Eaft India Company, dated Lucknow, April 30. With a Poffeript, dated May 13, 178, : (120) A Second Letter from Governor Haftings to the Court of Directors of the Eaft India Company. (129) The Speech of his Grace Charles, Duke of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governor of Ireland, to both Houses of Parliament, on Thurfday the 20th Day of January, 1785, (136) His Majefty's Speech to both Houses of Parliament, Jan. 25, 1-85, (137) Petition of the Electors of the City and Liberty of Waftminfler, prefented to the Houfe of Commons, Feb. 2, 1785, (138) Refolutions paffed at a National Assembly of Delegates, for promoting a more equal Reprefentation of the People in Parliament held in Dublin on the 20th of January, 1785, and thener continued till the 4th of February following, pursuant to Adjournment from the 27th of October, 1784. (141) Plan of Commercial Intercourfe between Great Britain and Ireland, which, on the 7th of Feb. 1780, Mr. Orde, Secretary to the Duke of Rutland, laid before the Grand Committee of the Irish Parliament, and which being. amended on the 11th, were palled on that Day, 142 Extract from the Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council, dated (145) (150) Plan of a Commercial Intercourfe between Grea' Britain and Ireland, as finally finally paffed by the British House of Commons, in twenty Refolutions, May 30, 1785, (150) (155) Petition to Congrefs on the State of Trade in New-England, (157) Joint Addrefs of both Houses of Parliament to his Majefly, relative to the Proceedings on the Irifb commercial Bufinefs, July 28, 1785; with his Majefty's Anfwer, (160) A Table of the total annual Amount of the French Taxes and Expences of the A Letter from the Right Honourable John Hely Hutchinson, Secretary of A fecond Decree of the King's Council of France, dated 17th of July 1785. Taken from the Council's Regifters, (189) Declaration of the King of Pruffia, August 23, 1785, delivered by the Count de Lufi to the Marquis of Carmarthen, (191) Anfer delivered by the Marquis of Carmarthen to Count Lufi, fequence of the preceding Communication. Letters between Captain Stanhope, of the Mercury Man of War, Addrefs of the Juftices of the City and County of Philadelphia, to in con (194) and Go (195) the Ho (196) (198) Refolutions of the City of London, in Common Hall, respecting the Shop Tax, Nov. 4, 1785, (199) Definitive Treaty of Peace between the Emperor of Germany and the States General, Nov. 8, 1785, (200) Treaty of Alliance between his moft Chriftian Majefty and the States General, Nov. 8, 1785, (203) Memorial delivered, after the foregoing Treaties avere figned, by Sir James Harris, Envoy Extraordinary and Minifter Plenipotentiary from the Court of London, in a Conference with the Hebdomadary Prefident of the States-General, (206) Proceedings Proceedings of the Congress of America, on the Arrival of a British Conful Letter from the Hon. Warren Haflings, late Governor General of Bengal, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated July 9, and read Dec. 21, 1785, at a General Quarterly Court of the Proprietors, (208) Extraordinary Petition addressed to the Queen of Portugal by the Chevalier Brunzi d'Entrecafteaux, formerly Prefident of the Parliament of Pro- vence, who fled from France to Portugal on Account of having murdered Letter from Mr. Raikes, of Gloucefter, to a Gentleman of Bradford, in Yorkshire, giving an Account of the firft Inftitution of Sunday Schools, (212) The Ninth Report of the Commiffioners appointed to examine, take, and and Means for raifing the Supplies granted to his Majefty for the Year Ways 1785, (236) Memoirs of the late Dr. Bell, M. D. add effed to the Prefidents and Members of the Literary and Philofophical Society of Manchester. By Dr. Currie, MANNERS O F NATION S. |