The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volume 47

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J. Dodsley, 1807
 

Contents

Deaths
457
Sheriffs appointed by his Majesty in Council
516
Interesting Account of the Loss of his Majestys Sloop Arrow and Acheron
524
Dispatch from Lieutenantgeneral Sir William Myers Bart commanding
530
Interesting Account of Lieut Yeos gallant Action at Muros Bay In
536
Letter from the late Lord Viscount Nelson K B to W Marsden
546
Report from the Select Committee up the 10th Naval Report c Ordered
556
Defence made by R A Sir Robert Calder on the 25th of December 1805
564
A General Bill of Christenings and Burials from December 13 1804
580
Taxes Imposed in the Year 1805
594
His Majestys Speech to both Houses of Parliament on the Meeting of
605
Letter from the Emperor Napoleon to his Majesty the King of England
615
Segurs Speech in the Legislative Body of France upon the Sulject
626
Regnaults Speech in the Tribunate of France relative to the Overtures
637
Austrian Answer to the French Note Rescript delivered by the Austrian
643
Note from the French Government in Reply to the Note of M Novosiltzoff
650
Proceeding of the Extraordinary Meeting of the Conservative Senate of France
661
Speech of M Schimmelpenninck at the opening of the Session of the States
676
Memorial referred to in the preceding Note being the French Answer
694
Proclamation of LieutenantGeneral Deroy to the Bavarian Army
715
Official Account of the Coronation of the Emperor of the French as King
723
Royal Decree issued at Naples Nov 20th 1805
734
An Account of the Life and Writings of Father Boscovich
743
Brief Memoirs of the late Earl Howe
751

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