THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND, DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE III. BEING A CONTINUATION ΤΟ HUME AND SMOLLETT. BY WILLIAM JONES, AUTHOR OF THE BIBLICAL CYCLOPÆDIA, HISTORY OF THE IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73. CHEAPSIDE; AND R. GRIFFIN & CO. GLASGOW. 1825. 590. HISTORY OF ENGLAND, DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE III. CHAPTER I. 1789-1792. REVIEW OF THE STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN FRANCE. IN reading the history of every country, there are certain periods at which the mind naturally pauses, to meditate upon and consider them, with reference, not only to their immediate effects, but to their remote consequences; and precisely such is the epoch at which we are now arrived in the history of GEORGE the Third. In the preceding volume, I have continued the narrative of its internal and domestic policy, with scarcely any relation to its concerns in the affairs of the continent, till the moment arrived when Great Britain became involved in a long, expensive, and most disastrous war, and in which she had to sustain a prominent and most distinguished character on the theatre of Europe. From this period it is |