ANNUAL REGISTER, OR GENERAL REPOSITORY OF HISTORY, POLITICS, AND LITERATURE, For the YEAR 1787. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, The HISTORY of KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, and TASTE, in GREAT BRITAIN, during the Reign of HENRY the EIGHTH, from the Year 1509 to 1547. LONDON, MDCCLXXXVIII. PRE FAC E. HE prefent volume of the New Annual Re THE gifter will be found to have called forth not lefs industry and diligence in its compilers, than those which have preceded it; at the fame time that we have been enabled to offer it fomewhat earlier to the curiofity of our readers. We truft that that Public, to whofe encouragement we are fo deeply indebted, will give us credit for the uniformity and conftancy of our exertions. If we cannot add to the scientific improvements, or the literary embellishments of the age, we will at least not fub. tract from our merits by irregularity and caprice. As we proceed in our History of Knowledge and Tafte, our fubject becomes every hour more interesting. The Literary Hiftory of the Period of the Reformation is a grand and awful spectacle, and it has been our aim that it should not lofe its effect by not being brought together in a full and complete view. The state of politics in Europe appears pregnant with extraordinary events. In the pre fent volume we have completed our account of the diffentions in Holland, and have thus cleared the way for the more extensive concerns of the commotions in France, and the intrigues of the Czarina and the Emperor. The Literature of the year 1787, has not been altogether so productive of valuable publications as the year 1786, or as the present year promises to be. In the mean time fome performances of merit have appeared, and the reader will find that they have not escaped our notice. CON CONTENT. S. THE Hiftory of Knowledge, Learning, and Tafe, in Great Britain, during the Reign of King Henry the Eighth. From the Year 1509, to Affairs of Bengal. Situation of Oude. Negociations at Delhi. Oecono- mical Reform. Mr. Haftings refigus. Affairs of the Carnatic. Sur- Proceedings of the States of Holland. Inftitution of the College of Tribunes at Utrecht. States withdraw to Amersfort. Capture of Elburg and Hattern. Stadtholder is deprived of the Office of Captain general, Mediation of Pruffia and France. Revolution in the City of Amfterdam. Fluctuation of the States of Holland. Hoftilities in the Province of Impeachment of Mr. Haftings. Charge of the Rohilla War negatived. Charge of expelling the Raja of Benares adopted by the House of Commons. |