A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY, NORTHWEST! FROM THE YEAR 1753 TO THE TREATY OF AMIENS IN 1802. ་སག་ EVANSTON, ILL. LIBRARI ΤΟ WITH NOTES, ITY OR ELUCIDATE THE PASSAGES TO WHICH THEY REFER. BY CHARLES MAYO, L.L.B. = RECTOR OF BECHING STOKE AND HUISH, IN THE COUNTY OF WILTS. Hoc illud est præcipue in cognitione Rerum salubre ac frugiferum, omnis te Exempli FOR G, AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW; AND J. FAULDER, NEW BOND-STREET, LONDON. 1804. 1799 CONTENTS. GREAT BRITAIN, 1786. 1786. MR. PITT's plan of a sinking fund is approved.-Farther financial regulations.-India bill amended.-Mr. Burke commences the proceedings against Mr. Hastings by charging him with high crimes, &c.-Convention with Spain. --Commercial treaty with France. 1787. 1788. -Merits of the commercial treaty discussed.-New arrangement of the customs. -Decisions relative to Scotch peerage.-Proceeding relative to Mr. Hastings's trial.-Foreign affairs. -Policy of Great Britain relative to the war between Russia and the Porte.Affairs of Holland.-Flag officers.-Affair of.-Divers acts.-Slave trade.— Foreign affairs.-The king's illness.-Parliamentary proceedings relative to it. 1789. Death of Mr. Cornwall and election of Mr. Grenville-speaker.-Parliamentary proceedings on the king's illness.-The king recovers.-Motions respecting dissenters. Election of Mr. Addington speaker. 1790. 1791. -Prosperous state of the kingdom.-Sentiments of men respecting the French -Conduct of government respecting the Turkish war.-Mediation for peace.- 1792.-State of the public mind.-Tumult at Birmingham.-Act respecting trials for libel.-State of the revenue.-Seditious proceedings of several societies.Effects.-Merits of the approaching war. VOL. III. b 1793. |