TASTE, in GREAT BRITAIN, during the Reign of HENRY LONDON, Printed for G. G. J. and J. ROBINSON, Pater-nofter-Row. PREFACE: T HE farther we proceed in our undertaking, the lefs occafion there is either to enlarge on its nature, or on the manner in which it is conducted. In both these respects we have had the fatisfaction of receiving the approbation of the Public; and we truft, that a fimilar approbation will attend the prefent volume. Not to mention that it hath been prepared for the prefs with a care equal to what has formerly been displayed, we shall beg leave to obferve, that one or two parts which, in the last year, were perhaps rather too excrefcent, are now reduced to their due compafs and propor tion: at the fame time, it is hoped, that no department of the work will be found defective. A feafon of general peace doth not exhibit fuch ftriking fcenes as when the world is involved in the tumults and devaftations of war. But it af fords matters equally momentous, and which are more delightful to philofophic minds, and the friends of humanity. The Parliamentary History of Great Britain and Ireland, which comprehends fuch a variety of political, civil, and commercial concerns, must ever be a very important object: and Europe, in its most tranquil ftate, will always be productive of events that give scope to fpeculation. It is devoutly to be wifhed, that the |