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HE original plan of this work propoed no more than that each volume hould contain a narrative of thoe events which distinguih its own year. But, becaue we have entered upon our undertaking in the heat of an almot general and very important war, I thought it would not be unnecessary or diagreeable to look a little farther back. It would be difficult perfectly to undertand the operations of the everal powers at war, during the lat year, without reviewing the tranactions of the preceding years; nor would it be eay to enter into the pirit of thee without examining the caues which I