INTRODUCTION

NOTE TO THIS VOLUME (1760-1801)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BRITISH VICTORIES "A YOUNG MR. BURKE" (1761). Source.

HONOURS FOR MR. PITT (1761). Source. Correspondence of

THE STATE OF THE PRISONS. Source. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield (Chap. XXVII.).

TOWNSHEND'S CONTUMACY (1767). Source. Correspondence of

WILKES RIOTS (1768). Source. Calendar of Home Office Papers,

RIOTS IN THE NORTH (1768). Source. Calendar of Home Office

A PETITION TO GEORGE III. FROM THE FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF

THE CITY OF LONDON AND THE EARL OF CHATHAM ON PARLIAMENTARY

COMMENTS ON PARLIAMENTARY HAPPENINGS (DECEMBER, 1770). Source.

THOMAS HUTCHINSON TO LORD HILLSBOROUGH (1771). Source.

REFORMERS IN PARLIAMENT RECOMMENDED TO SINK DIFFERENCES AND

DISTRESS CAUSED BY HIGH PRICES (1772). Source. Calendar of

MEETINGS OF WEAVERS AND OTHERS TO PETITION THE KING (1773).

DESTRUCTION OF TEA (CARGOES) AT BOSTON (DECEMBER, 1773).

WAR MATERIAL FOR AMERICA (1774). Source. Calendar of Home

AMERICAN EXPEDITION TO CANADA (1775). Source. Calendar of

RESOLUTIONS FAVOURING THE AMERICAN COLONIES (1775). Source.

THE ARMIES UNDER HOWE AND CLINTON (1777). Source.

CHATHAM'S LAST LETTER AND SPEECH (1778). Source.

KING GEORGE'S MESSAGE AND THE SPANISH MANIFESTO (1779). Source.

SOCIETY AT BRIGHTHELMSTON (BRIGHTON) IN 1779. Source.

THE GORDON NO-POPERY RIOTS (1780). Source. Letters of Horace

SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS (1781). Source. Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. li., p. 539.

PRELIMINARIES OF EUROPEAN PEACE (1783). Source. Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. liii., p. 91.

A VIOLENT ELECTION CONTEST (1784). Source. Cowper's Letters.

THE COUNTRY POST (1785). Source. William Cowper, The Task. Book iv.

HIS MAJESTY'S SPEECH (1787). Source. Annual Register. Vol. xxix., pp. 268 et seq. of State Papers .

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY (1788). Source.

CORN IMPORTS AND EXPORTS (1789). Source. Annual Register, 1789 , pp. 279 et seq.

THE SPOLIATION OF THE CLERGY IN FRANCE (1790). Source.

SUSSEX ELECTION PETITIONS (1792). Source. Oldfield's

THE RIGHT OF THE FRENCH NATION TO SELF-GOVERNMENT (1792).

PERORATION IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS (1794).

GEORGE III. ASSAULTED BY THE MOB (1795). Source. Letters of

THE MUTINY AT THE NORE (1797). Source. Annual Register. Vol.

ENGLAND AND THE DIRECTORY (1797). Source. Correspondence of

THE BATTLE OF THE NILE (OR ABOUKIR BAY) (1798). Source.

SUPPLIES GRANTED BY PARLIAMENT FOR NAVY AND ARMY (1800).

HIS MAJESTY'S SPEECH TO THE FIRST UNION PARLIAMENT (1801).

FOOTNOTES:

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AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
AND THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION
(1760-1801)

AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
AND THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION
(1760-1801)
COMPILED BY
S. E. WINBOLT, M.A.
(CHRIST’S HOSPITAL)



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