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Printed for J. DODSLEY, in Pall-Mall, 1788.

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PREFACE.

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NONSIDERING the very long acquaintance
which we have so happily maintained with the
Public, a Preface to our Twenty-eighth Volume
feems a very unneceffary ceremony. Even acknow-
ledgments of kindness and profeffions of gratitude
become tiresome by a continued repetition; and yet,
if cuftom has rendered fuch an introduction necef-
fary, and it is expected that we should fay fomething
upon the fubject, how can we poffibly refrain from
the genuine expreffion of our fentiments, under the
ftrong impreffions which the liberal and unvarying
favour of that Public, through so long a course of
years, has indelibly ftamped upon us? The proper
manifestation, however, of our gratitude, will be in
act and not in words; in ufing our utmost exer-
tions ftill to preferve the Annual Regifter in that
ftyle of reputation and character, which has hitherto
procured it fuch marked diftinction and fo unli-
mited a patronage.

As the year of which we treat did not fuper-
abound in political events of great general import-
ance, and was happily free from the dazzling
brilliance of military exploits, thefe circumftances

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