ANNUAL REGISTER, OR GENERAL REPOSITORY OF HISTORY, AND LITERATURE, For the YEAR 1783. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A SHORT REVIEW of the STATE of KNOWLEDGE, LONDON, [ Drawback. ] PREFACE. IN prefenting the Fourth Volume of the New Annual Register to the Publie, it is a great fatisfaction to us that we have been able to bring it out comparatively fo early. Our fatisfaction, however, would be very ill-founded, if the work were offered to the world in a lefs perfect state than it would have appeared in, had the publication of it been longer delayed. But we may venture to affert that this is not the cafe, and, indeed, may with A 2 |