Annual Register for 1776 Declaration of Independence Articles of Confederation

Description: Volume 19 of The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics and Literature, for the Year 1776. Edited by Edmund Burke et al. Fourth edition published by J. Dodsley in 1788. Quarter leather binding. Please see all photos for condition. Note that the front board is rather loose. Some pages marked or discoloured from age. Contains an early printing in book form of the July 4 1776 Declaration of Independence by the Representatives of the United States of America in General Congress Assembled (see photos). Also, Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States October 4 1776 (see photos). Also, Many contemporaneous reports on the war in North America. Also an essay "Slavery absolutely inconsistent with, and even contrary to, sound policy, humanity, reason, and justice; with some hints to those who are not to be moved by such arguments..." A review of "Volume the First" of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that was published this year. A review of An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith that was also published that year. And an essay "On the new species of fashionable amusement, called Charades." The contents of the History of Europe section is as follows: Chapter I. Retrospective view of American affaires in the year 1775. Motives which led in the invasion of Canada. Forts of Chamble and St. John taken, Montreal taken. General Carleton retires in Quebec. Armed vessels surrender. Arnold appears before Quebec. Is joined by General Montgomery. The city summoned. Siege. Attempt to take Quebec by by escalade. Montgomery killed. Arnold wounded. Rebels retire from before the walls. Chapter II. Virginia. Provincial Congress. Powder removed from the magazine at Williamsburg. Consequences thereof. Assembly convened. Magazine rifled. Lord Dunmore retires on board a ship of war. Various transactions between the Governor and the Assembly. Report from the Committee of Enquire. Refusal of the Governor to go on shore to pass the bills. Assembly will not attend him on board the Fowey, and put an end to their session. Convention of Delegates held. Means used to arm the province. Declaration to justify the proceedings. Lord Dunmore repulsed in his attempt to destroy the town of Hampton. Proclamation for martial law, and the emancipation of the Negroes. Actions near the Great Bridge. Connelly taken prisoner, and his scheme for raising the Indians and the Back Settlers, discovered and frustrated. Town of Norfolk reduced to ashes by Lord Dunsmore. Transactions in North and South Carolina. General Gage returns to England. Command of the army at Boston devolves upon General Howe. Continental army before Boston enlist for a new term. Town of Falmouth cannonaded, and nearly destroyed. Law passed by the Assembly of Massachusets Bay, for granting letters of marque and reprisal. Article of confederation proposed by the Continental Congress. Commercial resolution, suspending in certain cases the prohibition with respect to exportation and importation. Declaration in answer to the royal proclamation of the 23rd of August. Chapter III. State of affaires previous to the meeting of parliament. City public transactions. Letter from New-York. Addresses from the guild of merchants in Dublin, to Lord Effingham, and to the protesting peers. Resolutions of the sheriffs and commons of the city of Dublin. Riot of the sailors at Liverpool. Petition from the American Congress, presented by Mr. Penn. Addresses. State of parties. Ancient animosities revived. Petitions. Newfoundland. Negotiations for foreign troops. Great supplies of provisions sent for the support of the army in Boston. Vast expences of that service. Reports circulated for some time before the opening of the session. Conspiracy. Mr. Sayre sent to the Tower. Chapter IV. Speech from the throne. Address. Motion for an amendment. Great debates. Amendment rejected, and the original address passed by a great majority. Debates renewed upon receiving the report. Motion for recommitment, withdrawn. Motion for a new amendment to the address in the House of Lords. Great debates. Original address passed Protest. Chapter V. Duke of Manchester's motion relative to the Hanovarian troops. Debates. Previous question carried by a great majority. Similar motion by Sir James Lowther in the House of Commons. Debates. Previous question put and carried. Debates on the Militia Bill. Army estimates. Motion for returns rejected. 28,000 seaman voted Motion for an address on American affaires rejected. 55,000 men voted for the land service. Chapter VI. Resignation of the Duke of Grafton. Lord George Germaine to the American department, in the room of the Earl of Dartmouth, who receives the privy seal. Lord Weymouth appointed Secretary of State for the southern department, in the room of the Earl of Rochford, who retires. Other promotions and charges. Petition from the American Congress laid before the Lords. Duke of Richmond's motions. Mr. Penn's examination. Motion relative to the petition. Great debates. Motion rejected. Four schillings in the pound land-tax voted. Debates on the Militia Bill. Amendment proposed and rejected. Several motions proposed by the Duke of Grafton, and rejected. Mr. Burke's Conciliatory Bill. Great debates. Motion for bringing the bill rejected. American Prohibitory brought into the House of Commons by the minister. Motion for an amendment. Great debates. Motion rejected. Debates upon the second reading, and in the committee. Various motions, and amendments proposed. The bill passed in the House of Commons. Mr. Fox's motion for the information relative to the state of the forces in North America. Militia Bill passed. Indemnity Bill passed. Motion for an address, in conformity to the instructions from the city of London to its representatives. Mr. Hartley's conciliatory propositions. Indemnity bill rejected by the Lords. Great opposition to the Prohibitory Bill. Protest. Duke of Manchester's motion for deferring the commitment till after the holidays. Marquis of Rockingham's motion for an amendment. Bill passed by the Lords. Chapter VII. Petition from the colony of Nova Scotia. Resolutions passed, but no bill brought in. Motions and debates relative to a message sent to parliament of Ireland. Motion for an enquire into the causes of the ill success in North America. Great debates. German treaties laid before the House of Commons, and produce long debates. Duke of Richmond's motion for an address relative to the German treaties. Great debates. Motion rejected. Protest. Considerable debates in the Committee of Supply. Motion for extraordinary expences carried by a great majority. Duke of Grafton's motion for an address relative to the colonies. Debates. Motion rejected. Progress of the bill for militia in Scotland. Bill at length rejected. Enquiry into licences granted to ships bound to North America. Speech from the throne. Chapter VIII. Difficulties of the army during the winter at Boston. New batteries opened, and the town bombarded. Embarkation. Gen. Howe departs with the army to Halifax. Siege of Quebec raised. Rebels repulsed at Three Rivers, Montreal, Chamblee, and St. John's retaken; all Canada recovered. Regulators and Emigrants totally defeated and dispersed in North Carolina. Hopkins strips the Bahama Islands of stores and artillery. Lord Dunmore abandons the coast of Virginia; fugitives dispersed. Sir Peter Parker's squadron, with Lord Cornwallis and troops, arrive at Cape Fear, where they meet Gen. Clinton; proceed to Charlestown. Attack on Sullivan's Island. Circular letter from the Congress for the establishment of new government in the colonies. Declaration of Independence. Lord, and Gen. Howe appointed Commissioners for restoring Peace in the Colonies. Gen Howe, with the army, land at Staten Island. Circular Letter, sent by Lord Howe to the Continent, and published by the Congress. Letter from Gen. Washington refused. Conference between Adjutant Gen. Paterson, and Gen. Washington. Plots at New York, and Albany. Army landed at Long Island. Americans defeated with great loss. Retire silently from their camp, and quit the Island. Gen. Sullivan sent upon parole with a message from Lord Howe to the Congress. Fruitless conference between his Lordship and a Committee of the Congress. Descent on York Island; City of New York taken; set on fire, and a great part burnt. Army pass through the dangerous navigation called Hell Gate; land at Frogs Neck; Skirmish at the White Plains. Forts Washington and Lee taken, and the whole of York Island reduced. Jerseys overrun. Rhode Island reduced. Chapter IX. General conduct of European powers with respect to the American troubles. France. Military preparations. Count de St. Germain placed at the head of the war department. Musquetaires reduced. Mr. Necker placed at the head of the Finances. Spain. Extraordinary military preparations. Dispute with Portugal. Improvements. Discoveries in the Southern Ocean. New Academy. Vienna. Torture abolished. Toleration enlarged. Bohemia peasants on the royal demesnes freed from their former state of Villainage. Attempt to open a trade with the East Indies. Russia. Endeavors to people the uncultivated parts of the Empire. Grand Duchess dies. Grand Duke marries the Princess of Wirtemburg. Porte. Baffora taken by the Persians. North Kingdoms. Holland. The contents of the State Papers section is as follows: Petition of the City of London, presented, separately, to both Houses of Parliament, at the opening of the Second Session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain. Protest of several of the Lords against their House's Address, in answer to the King's Speech, at the opening of the foresaid Session of Parliament. Letter from Commodore Sir Henry Parker, to W. Tryon, Esq; Governor of New York. Proclamation by General Carleton for the relief of the fugitive Provincials, after they had been driven from before Quebec Substance of the Speech made by Sir Fletcher Norton, Speaker of the House of Commons, to His Majesty, previous to that, by which His Majesty, on the 23rd of May, put an end to the Second Session of the 14th Parliament of Great Britain The King's most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Thursday the 23rd of May, when His Majesty put an end to the foresaid Session of Parliament Circular Letter written by Lord Howe to the Governors of the American Provinces, and an enclosed declaration addressed to the inhabitants; with the resolutions and proceedings of the Continental Congress relative to both. Singular Resolutions agreed to, in the Council of Safety, at Savannah, in Georgia, to destroy their houses and shipping rather than let them fall into the hands of their enemies. Decree of his most faithful Majesty the King of Portugal, relative to the revolt of the British North American colonies. Substance of a Letter, written by the Marquis de Grimaldi, to the Governor of Bilboa, relative to an American Corsair, which had taken five English ships, and had been detained thereupon at that port, at the request of the English Vice-Consul. Reasons assigned by the Continental Congress, for the American colonies and provinces withdrawing their Allegiance to the King of Great Britain. Article of confederation and perpetual union between the United States of America.

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