ANNUAL REGISTER,

OR A VIEW OF THE

HISTORY,
POLITICK S,

AND

LITERATURE,

Of the YEAR 1760.

THE THIRD EDITION

Printed for R. and J. DODSLEY in Pall-mall, 1764.

WE

it

E have now brought our Register to the third year, and we hope has been conducted to the fatisfaction of the Public. In our collections we have continued our attention to lay before our Readers the most striking and useful of the detached pieces that have appeared during the year, and to ftudy variety as far as it could be done without loading the work, or introducing frivolous and impertinent matter.

The Reader will find fome difference in the paging between this and the preceding volumes. In order to allow fufficient time for digesting the History and Chronicle, it was neceffary to put the other articles of the collection earlier to the prefs; this has divided the book into two parts, from the beginning of each of which the pages are numbered.

With regard to that hiftory, we are extremely fenfible of the defects to which, from the very nature of our plan, we are liable, to fay nothing of our own particular inability. We have no occafion to bespeak the candour and indulgence of the Public, which we have already abundantly experienced. In our fituation, as the annual relaters of events, we are unavoidably subject

to

to inaccuracies and mistakes, which it would be vain to think of concealing from the judicious Reader by any parade. Such a Reader must be sensible, that mistakes cannot poffibly be avoided in fuch a work: for he will be confcious that imperfection must neceffarily be expected from hafte; and that we must reprefent things according to their appearances at the time, tho' these appearances may afterwards be discovered to have been delufive. These are misfortunes to which all are subject who, without being perfonally concerned in them, write upon public affairs near the time in which they have been transacted. But we who give no account of the business of the year, until the conclufion of each campaign, are lefs liable to be imposed upon, and lefs fubject to contradict our own accounts, than thofe who confine themselves to fhorter periods. Thefe Annual Histories, imperfect and inaccurate as they evidently muft be, are yet of confiderable ufe; they aid the memory; they connect in the mind the scattered events; they fhew their dependencies and relations; in fhort, they fupply, for a time, the place of a folid and regular history, which is not to be expected in many years after the events.

THE

ANNUAL REGISTER,

For the YEAR 1760.

THE

HISTORY

OF THE

PRESENT WA R.

CHAP. I.

Nothing decided in the war. State of the feveral powers concerned. Great Britain and Pruffian propofe an accommodation. Difficulties in concluding a peace. The condition and hopes of France. Demands on the king of Pruffia. Treaty faid to be between Ruffia and Auftria.