PREFACE. T HE reader will obferve, that, though the negotiations by which the war has been fo happily terminated, were not entirely closed until the beginning of the prefent year, we have nevertheless brought all thefe tranfactions into the Regifter for 1762. We thought it more adviseable to delay our publication for fome days, than leave incomplete an object, which appeared to us fo extremely interefting. Accordingly, the reader has before him, in this volume, every thing of moment relative to the last year's part of the war, except the taking of the Manilas, the account of which came very late. We return our thanks to thofe gentlemen, who have been fo obliging as to favour us with hints, towards rendering our work more complete. Of fome we have been already in a condition to profit; of others we fhall take advantage hereafter; fome few, though |