PREFACE. Τ' 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 present year, we have nevertheless brought all these transactions into the Register 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 laft ycar'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 so 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 hall take advantage hereafter; fome few, though |