OF MODERN EUROPE. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: AND A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY, FROM THE RISE OF PARIS, IN 1763. IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, BY WILLIAM RUSSELL, L. L. D. SECOND AMERICAN EDITION, CAREFULLY CORRECTED, VOL. V. PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM YOUNG BIRCH AND ABRAHAM SMALL, BY H. MAXWELL, COLUMBIA-HOUSE. 1802. TABLE OF CONTENTS General view of the affairs of Europe, from the death of Lewi XIV. in 1715, to the death of the emperor, Charles VI. in 1740. 1717 Battle of Belgrade ibid. The Turks defeated, with great slaughter, by the Impe- ibid. He forms a conspiracy for obtaining forP hilip V. the 5 |