The History of the Reign of George III

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. XXXIII. Britain resumes her attention to the affairs of the continent.?State of foreign powers.?Situation and views of Catharine.?Character and conduct of the emperor Joseph.?Catharine courts his alliance.?Treaty between these princes.?Catharine's invasion of the Crimea.?Seizure of that country.?Measures of internal improvement.?It is the interest of Russia to cultivate amity with Britain.?Catharine's conduct to Britain not consistent with her usual wisdom.?Reforming projects of the emperor.?Suppression of religious orders.?Schemes of naval and commercial aggrandizement.?-Dismantles the fortresses of the Netherlands.?Proposes to open the Scheldt?The emperor prefers his claims.? Arguments on both sides.?Joseph's allegations entirely contrary to justice,?The Dutch prepare to defend their rights.?Russia supports the pretensions of the emperor.?Prussia and France unfriendly to the emperor's demands.?Britain disposed to protect Holland.?Britain's speedy recorery from the evils of war.?Flourishing commerce.?Miscellaneous occurrences.?Death of Dr. Johnson, and a short vie w of literature and science at his decease ?Improvements of the present age in natural philosophy and chemistry.?Invention of air balloons.?Ascent of Lunardi from the artillery ground.?General astonishment of the metropolis at this phenomenon. FOR the last twenty years, England had been so much CHAP, engaged in her own intestine and colonial dissensions, and XXXIII. afterwards with the American war and its consequences, that i-vx she bestowed much less attention on the general concerns of .'784. Europe, than at any former period of her history since the re-Bntaln revolution. From the commencement of Mr. Pitt's administra- "entionte tion, -while recovering her internal prosperity, she resumed hertbe affairs i...

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