THE

Hiftorical Register,

Containing

An Impartial RELATION
of all TRANSACTIONS, Foreign
and Domestick.

WITH A

Chronological Diary

OF ALL

:

The remarkable OCCURRENCES,
viz. Births, Marriages, Deaths, Removals,
Promotions, &c. that happen'd in this
Year: Together with the Characters and
Parentage of Persons deceas'd, of emi-
nent Rank.

VOLUME XIX.
For the Year 1734.

LONDON,

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TABLE

OF THE

PRINCIPAL MATTERS

Contained in the

Nineteenth Volume.

Abstract of the Proceedings of the

and last Seffion

Page 177, 322

Acts of Parliament fign'd at the Conclusion of 6th Seffion 89

Account of the two Elections to the Crown of Poland 162

Address of the House of Lords to his Majesty to Doאלמ

78

Convention between Holland and France

- on the Upper Rhine

Debates on a Motion for Papers relating to the Seville

269

70

Treaty

180

192

to Applications made from Abroad

208

on an Addition proposed to the Land-Forces 215,234

on the Septennial Act

335

on the Bill to prevent Stock-jobbing

327

on the Bill to prevent the Removal of Officers in

the Army

234

on the Removal of the Duke of Bolton and Lord

Cobham

255

on limiting the Number of Civil and Military Of-

ficers in the House

322

Declaration of France, on the Election of Poland

27

to the Electors and Princes of the Empire

39

-

Emperor's, of War

120

-

of the Czarina to the Lithuanians

19

Decree of Hambourg, touching Commerce to the East-In-

Expedition to Italy 61. Naples 284.

of the French Secretary of State to Dunkirk 51

- of Dantzick Magistrates to General Munich 262

of King Stanislaus to the Primate and Grandees,

to Dantzick

List of Forces in the French Service

267

54

of Spanish Forces employ'd first in the Expedition 61

of British Ships put into Commission

of Persons fent to Georgia

of German Forces

of Articles of Capitulation

of the King of Spain

Motives of the French King for War
Parallel between the two Polish Elections

61

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NUMBER LXXIII.

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POLAND.

HE late extraordinary Occurrences at Home, have indispensably engross'd our Attention for fome Time past, and left us no Room to take Notice of those no less extraordinary from Abroad. We refume that Province with the Affairs of Poland, the rather because our last Account from thence, clos'd with the remarkable Æra, viz. The Death of Auguftus II. Feb. 1, 1733, from whence may be dated the present unhappy State, not of that Kingdom alone, but of all Europe. The Primate was happy in his first Step of Authority: On the King's Death, his Serene Highness conven'd the Senate and Nobility, condol'd with 'em on the Loss of their Sovereign, and represented the imminent Danger of a Civil War from private Animofities in so moving a Manner, that several Illustrious Houses who were at Variance, came over to his Sentiments, and join'd in a folemn Reconciliation for the Sake of their Country. On the 2d 'twas refolv'd in full Senate, to summon the Dyettines for the 23d of March, and the General Dyet of Convocation for the 27th of April following, Orders were iffu'd accordingly. Soon after, several Grandees were observed to leave Warsaw, to use their respective Interests at their Country Seats, in the Election of Nuncio's to be fent to the Dyet of Convocation: There appeared three Parties, one for Stanislaus, the second for the Elector of Saxony, and a third for a Native exclusive of Stanislaus, purely to avoid the fatal Confequences which they apprehended mighs

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