RARE 1795 Antique Leather 1st Edition British Empire in 1794 Antiquarian

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RARE 1795 Antique Leather 1st Edition British Empire in 1794 Antiquarian:
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A scarce antiqueleather first edition, this is:A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE DURING THE YEAR 1794by Francis Plowden, L.C.D.Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, London 1795
5 1/2\" by 8 1/4\" hardcover (full leather, leather title label on spine). 377 pages.Francis Plowden (8 June 1749 – 4 January 1829) was an English Jesuit, barrister and writer.
CONTENTS:CHAPTER I. JANUARY.Introduction — Defeat of the Royalists in the Island of Noirmoutier — Effects of the Failure of Lord Moira\'s Expedition — Failures of the Combined Armies on the Rhine — The Duke of Brunswick and General Wurmser resign — Remarkable Letter of the Duke of Brunswick upon his Resignation to the King of Prussia — The noble and spirited Conduct of the Swiss Cantons in maintaining their Neutrality against the urgent Importunities and Threats of the British Minister — Provisional Acknowledgment of the French Republic, and a Cessation of Arms proposed by the Combined Powers — King\'s Speech to Parliament - Debates upon it — Small Minorities: 12 in the Lords, 59 in the Commons — Reasons why Mr. Fox\'s Friends abandoned him, and went over to the Minister — Duke of Portland and the Marquis of Tichfield give their Reasons publicly — Mr. Wyndham\'s Declaration of his Opinion of Mr. Pitt\'s Administration — Lord Stanhope\'s Motion against interfering with the Government of France — 85,000 Seamen granted for the Year — State of Halifax — Defection of the Party in Ireland.CHAPTER II. FEBRUARYNatureo of the present Opposition — Discussion upon the Legality of landing foreign Troops in England without the Consent of Parliament — Lord Albemarle\'s Motion in the Lords for a Bill to indemnify the Ministers — Lord Auckland the only Lord who held the landing of foreign Troops to be legal — Inutility of making Motions from the small Minorities — Lord Lansdowne\'s Motion for Peace with France — Duke of Grafton comes forward after Twenty Tears Retirement from Politics — Motions in both Houses on behalf of Messrs. Muir and Palmer — Mr. Adam\'s Motion concerning the Criminal Law in Scotland — French Officers under Lord Moira — His Lordship\'s Account of his own Expedition — Alarm of an Invasion — Colonel Maek assists at a Council of War; also the Duke of York — Pichegru\'s first Movements with 140,000 Men — State of the Armies — Real Situation of the Royalists in Vendee — Perfidy of the King of Prussia — Remonstrance from Genoa against our Conduct towards them — The French General La Vaux\'s spirited Rejection of a Bribe.CHAPTER III. MARCHThe Minister\'s Syftem of general Alarm, and his Views in procuring private Subscriptions towards the War — The Illegality of such Subscriptions, and the Application of them without the Consent of Parliament — Lord Lauderdale\'s Motion hereupon in the Lords — Lord Camden\'s and Mr. Willies\'s former Opinions upon this very Question — Artifices used to calumniate the Opponents of this Measure, particularly at the Surry Meeting — The Minister\'s Treatment of the Commons — King\'s Message to the Houses of Parliament hints not even at voluntary Subscriptions - Lord Stanhope\'s Motion against exciting Insurrections in France - Mr. Whitbread\'s Motion concerning our Alliances — Colonel Fitzpatrick\'s Speech and Motion for the Release of the Marquis de la Fayette — The King of Prussia secedes from the Confederacy - His Demands from the Diet of Ratisbon, the six anterior Circles, and the Emperor —He treats with French Commissioners — Our Outrages cause an armed Neutrality — Alarms in Jersey and Guernsey — Disease in the Armies — Clairfait fails in attacking the Enemy — Differences between the Duke of York and the Austrian Generals — Successes in the West Indies, under Sir Charles Grey and Sir John Jervis — No Opposition in Ireland — Lenity towards the Irish at Bourdeaux.CHAPTER IV. APRILFirst Part of the Conquest of the Kingdom of Corsica — Prussian Treaty for 62,400 Men — His Majesty empowered to employ any Number of Frenchmen in the Service — The Emperor arrives in the Netherlands —Is inaugurated Duke of Brabant — Siege of Landrecies — General Attack upon the French Lines — Favourable Opportunity for the French to rise against their Government, when our Army was victorious on their Territory — Landrecies taken — Turn of the Campaign — French Successes against Beaulieu — Successes in the Pyrenees — Capture of Oneglia, the Key to the Sardinian Territories — Capture of St. Lucia and Guadaloupe — Acquittal of Mr. Walker, of Manchester —Dunn the principal Evidence against him committed for Perjury.CHAPTER V. MAYAttempts to connect the Exertions for Reform with those of the Enemy — Mr. Reeves sets the Example in the District of the Duchy of Lancaster, of swearing in every Man a Constable — Mr.Thelwall\'s House where he delivered his Lectures presented to the Jury, but not found to be a Nuisance — King\'s Message upon the Existence of a general Conspiracy against the Government — Messrs. Hardy and Adams arrested — Mr. Pitt\'s Motion for a Select Committee of 21 — First Report from the Secret Committee — Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act — Opposition to the Bill — The Minister\'s Conduct towards the Objects of his Severity — What the intended Convention was really to be - How the Minister has treated the Roman Catholic Subjects of his Majesty — Mr. Fox\'s Motion for omitting the Long Oath at Elections — Mr. Sheridan\'s Motion to require no other Test from Catholics serving his Majesty, than what are required from Foreigners — Nature of the Test Law - Second Report of the Secret Committee — Lord Lansdowne\'s Motion respecting our Situation with America — Lord Dorchester\'s imprudent Answer to some Tribes of Canada — Clairfait defeated — Duke of York attacked and repels the French — Clairfait attacked again, drives the Enemy into Courtray, but is himself obliged to retreat — The French cross the Sambre and attack Kaunitz — Are repulsed with the loss of 5000 Men — General Defeat of the Combined Armies — Fresh Attack upon the Combined Army by 100,000 French who were repulsed with the Loss of 12,000 Men, after an Engagement of seventeen Hours — Beaulieu driven from Arlon — Ninety-nine Ships lost in one Month - Capture of Baslia.CHAPTER VI. JUNEGlorious Naval Victory of the 1st of June — Seven French Men of War taken, one sunk in the Engagement, and one after striking — The French by this Engagement secured the Arrival of their American Fleet, of 160 Vessels — Failure of our Arms on Land — The Emperor and Colonel Maek leave the Army — The French defeated before Charleroi by the Hereditary Prince of Orange —Clairfait again defeated — The Hanoverians discontented with him — Mutual Accusations of each other — Fall of Ipres — General Consternation thereupon — The Emperor\'s Entreaties to the Belgians to rise en Masse — Defeat of Cobourg in his Attempt to raise the Siege of Charleroi which had surrendered on the preceding Day — Lord Moira sent with his Army to join the Duke of York — Ostend evacuated — Decree of the Convention to give no Quarter to the British and Hanoverian Troops — Mr. Fox and the Duke of Bedford make Motions for Peace — City Militia Bill — Vote of Thanks to Lord Hood — King visits Portsmouth.CHAPTER VII. JULYParliament prorogued — King\'s Speech thereupon — Imperial Loan opened with Mr. Pitt\'s consent at MeSsrs. Boyd and Co. for 3,000,000 — Breach of Treaties by the King of Prussia — The Emperor withdraws his Stores and Troops into Germany — The King of Prussia pleads the necessity of employing his Force in Poland — Duke of Portland, Mr, Windham, &c. go into Administration — Judges Opinions how the Persons imprisoned should be tried — Mr. Jay, the American Envoy Extraordinary — Failure of Lord Macartney\'s Embassy — New Cabinet Arrangements — Proposals for Peace with Spain — Bruges, Tournay, and Mons receive the French cordially — Cobourg\'s Defeat, and the loss of 7000 Men, retreats through Brusselles —Namur, Mechlin, Louvain, and all Brabant evacuated — Lord Moira\'s Expedition to the Continent of Flanders — He resigns — His Farewell to his Army — The Duke of York retires to Breda — The Prince of Orange\'s Address to his Army — Defeat of the Combined Armies on the Rhine — SIuys holds out — Lillo evacuated.CHAPTER VIII. AUGUSTFall of Roberspierre. — Its Effects upon the Republic — Prince Cobourg\'s singular Manifesto to the Circles — Exhortation of the Stadtholder to the States — Removal of Cobourg — Surrender of Sluys — The British retire to Bois-le-Duc — The Emperor s Address to the anterior Circles — Capture of Treves by the French — Their System of Moderation to the vanquished — Death and Character of Count Merci D\'Argenteau — The Blue Ribband given to the Duke of Portland — Ten New Peers createdCHAPTER IX. SEPTEMBERRe-capture of Valenciennes, Le Quesnoy, Conde, and Landrecies -- French System of Moderation — Fresh Alliance with the Emperor — Clairfait advances with a large Force, but is obliged to retreat for Want of Provisions — Retreat of the Duke of York — Liege taken by the French — Latour and Clairfait defeated — Clairfait retreats towards Aix la Chapelle, General Kray to Maestricht — Calvi taken — The Kingdom of Corsica conquered — The Crown accepted by his Majesty — Sir Gilbert Elliott, Viceroy — Mr. Windham goes over to Holland — A Cordon of 30,000 men is formed along our Coast — Invention and Use of the Telegraph —Trial, Conviction and Execution of Watt at Edinburgh — Conviction of Downie, recommended to Mercy, and respited — Opening of the Special Commission —The Assassination Plot, a Fabrication of Upton — Discontents and Riots about Crimps and Kidnappers.CHAPTER X. OCTOBERThe Ground, of the present System was the Prevention of a Parliamentary Reform — Ministerial Influence upon Parliament — To destroy it is the Object of the Reforming Societies — Nature of a Scotch Jury — Lord Chief Justice Eyre\'s Charge to the Grand jury — The Nature of the Act of Parliament which gave Rise to the Commission - Danger of dissolving the Government — Mr. Locke\'s Thoughts thereupon — Strictures upon the Chief Justice\'s Charge — True Bill found against Twelve — Four of them still at large — Mr. Holcroft voluntarily surrenders himself — Methods practised to keep up the Fermentation of the Public — Farther Particulars of Watt\'s Infamy — His Confession a gross Imposture — French Officers taken into Pay for 30,000 Men — Extraordinary Measure of reviving the Irish Brigade — Strange Conduct of the Duke of Portland — Dictatorial Powers given to the Stadtholder — Zealand proposes to the other States to negotiate for Peace — The Court Influence prevents it - Successes of the French — Bais-le-Duc surrenders — Clairfait defeated — crosses the Rhine — Stand in Bemmel Waart French cross the Waal — Duke of York retreats — The Dutch want Peace — Apply for Leave to transport their Effects and Treasures to England — Are refused.CHAPTER XI. NOVEMBERReformation in the House of Commons the avowed Purpose of the Popular Meetings — Three Parties in the Nation, the Ministerial, the Republican, the Moderate Whig Party — Nature of the Apostates from the Whig Party — Meeting of Parliament deferred till the Issue of the Trials should be known — Reflections upon the Effects of trying Messrs. Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall — Effects of their Verdicts upon the Bench and in the House of Commons — Several of the indicted Prisoners discharged without Trial — Mr. Holcroft prevented to deliver his Sentiments tothe Court — Conviction of Government that no Conspiracy existed — Peculiarity of Mr. Thelwall\'s Trial — John Taylor the perjured Evidence against him — The Proprietors of the Northern Star acquitted in Ireland — 500,000 Men in Arms in this Kingdom — Evacuation of Nimeguen — The British plunder the Town before they evacuate it — The Consequences of the Dutch Aversion from the War — The Duke of Brunswick declines the Command of the Troops in Holland — Treaty of Marriage between the Prince of Wales and the Daughter of the Duke of Brunswick — Opposite Interests in Holland — French Successes on the Continent and at SeaCHAPTER XII. DECEMBERDangerous Consequences of the present Measures — All the Belligerent Powers except England inclined to Peace — Duke of York resigns — New Cabinet Arrangements — The Reward of Lord Mansfield\'s signal Services — Irish Parliament prorogued — The Portlandists\' Agreement with Mr. Pitt for the Emancipation of Ireland — How far Ireland bound by the Councils of the British Cabinet - Mr. Pitt negotiates a Loan of 24,000,000 before the Meeting of Parliament — 6,000,000 of it for the Emperor — Extinction of the Jacobin Club at Paris — Decree for sending young Capet out of the Kingdom — La Croix arrested for writing in Favour of Royalty — Recapture of Guadaloupe — French Successes in Spain — State of that Kingdom — Partiality of the French to the Dutch Nation — Stand made by the Combined Armies at Mentz — Manheim threatened — Fort du Rhin surrendered to the French — Fate of Holland decided — The Stadtholder flies to England — Proclamation for landing Dutch property a Fortnight after the Loss of Holland — Our Ministers\' general Conduct towards Holland — Parliament meets — King\'s Speech — Debates thereupon — Accession to the Minority.
CONDITION: Front board detached along with front endpaper, but present. Leather rubbed & worn, worn through at corners. Title label partially chipped away. Prior owner bookplate inside front cover. Old dampstain at inner top corner of several pages near front plus stain at upper half of final 8 pages. All legible. Other pages uniformly age-toned.
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