Printed, by Afsignment from the Executors of the late Mr. JAMES DODSLEY, FOR W. OTRIDGE AND SON; R. FAULDER ; J. CUTHELL; R. LEA; OGILVY AND SON; J. NUNN; J. WALKER; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; E. JEFFERY; AND VERNOR AND HOOD, By J. WRIGHT, Denmark-Court, Strand. 1800. PREFACE. Tanding the HE year of which we treat, notwithpeaceable aspect of the times, has not been unproductive of events which claim a confiderable degree of attention. Of these, the expulfion of the Jefuits from Spain and Naples is not the least extraordinary, nor likely to be the least confiderable in its consequences. The affairs of Poland have attracted much of the general attention of Europe; and, it is to be hoped, are now fettled upon an happy and permanent basis. The origin of the late disputes, the past and present state of the Difssidents, and many particularities relative to the hiftory and government of that country, which were requifite to be known, to form a proper judgment of those transactions, were but little confidered or understood in this part of the world. We have therefore given our readers all the fatisfaction on those heads, which the materials that we could procure would afford, and the plan of our work allow. The subject is indeed peculiarly |