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PREFACE.

IT will perhaps be thought neceffary to

fay a few words in excufe for the delay, in our annual publication, which appears fomewhat later than the usual time. The Reader will be pleased to observe, that the papers relative to the rupture with Spain, which furnish a confiderable and important part of our work, were not published until MARCH 1762, though the events which they elucidate properly belonged to the year 1761, which we were to treat. So that there was a neceffary delay, in order not only to supply the unavoidable defect, which want of early information had left in our history, but also to make fome material changes in the plan of the whole