The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ...

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G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1811 - English poetry
 

Contents

Hanse TownsProject of an Organic Senatus Consultum 183
183
Discontent and Indignation of the Nation on account of the Walcheren Expe ditionMeeting of the Common Hall respecting the Rejection of their
187
Inquiry respecting the Expedition to the Scheldt continued and concluded Second Branch of EvidenceHow far the Objects were attainableCom
202
CHAP X
212
AttorneyGenerals OpinionRemarks on it Sir Francis Burdett arrested
213
Public Attention and Interest engrossed by the Imprisonment of Sir Francis
224
Remarks on some other Proceedings of ParliamentBill brought in ly
239
Commercial and financial History of Britain during 1810Introductory
256
Preliminary Remarks on the Appointment of the Bullion CommitteeCharge
266
Unexpected Meeting of Parliament in November occasioned by the Kings
282
State of IrelandAdvantages which it was supposed would result from
298
East India AffairsHistory of the TentContractits AdvantagesReport
312
Affairs of the PeninsulaPreliminary ObservationsPredictions of the diffe
331
Spanish AffairsWeakness of the Supreme JuntaLord Wellesleys
348
Affairs of SwedenPreliminary ObservationsDeath of the Crown Prince
359
Thanksgiving Prayer and Prayer for the Restoration of His Majestys
PRINCIPAL OCCURRENCES
3
The London General Bill of Christenings and Burials 129
129
Promotions 136
176
Sheriffs appointed by His Majesty 140
182
Sir Richard Strachans Narrative of the Naval Proceedings 149
149
Petition of the Freeholders of Middlesex 159
159
Act of Congress concerning the Commercial Intercourse between the United
166
Protest against the East India Companys Loan Bill 172
172
BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES AND CHARACTERS
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