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miffioned. Prefs. Difpute between the city of London and the Admiralty, Account of John the Painter; he burns the hemp-boufe at Portsmouth i fets fire to fome boufes at Bristol. Speech from the throne. Addreffes, Amendments moved. Great debates. [23

CHA P. III.

Debates upon a proclamation issued in America by the Commiffioners. Motion for a revifal of the American laws by Lord John Cavendish. Motion rejected by a great majority. Seceffion. Arguments urged for and against the propriety of a partial feceffion. 45,000 feamen voted. Debate on naval affairs. Supplies for the naval and the land service. Recefs. [42

CHA P. IV.

Bill for granting letters of marque and reprifal, paffed, with a small amendment in the title, by the Lords. Bill for fecuring perfons charged with high treafon, brought in by the Minifter. Great debates upon the Second reading. Question of commitment carried by a great majority. Amendment paffed in the committee. Second amendment rejected. Debates renewed on receiving the report. Petition from the city of London against the bill. Amendment moved and agreed to. Second propofed claufe of amendment rejected. Great debates on the third reading. Clause proposed by way of rider, is received with an amendment. Question upon the third reading carried upon a divifion. The bill paffes the Lords without any amendment, [53

CHA P. V.

Accounts laid before the committee of fupply. Mations by the minister. Contracts animadverted on. Payment of an unexpected demand made by the Landgrave of Heffe for levy-money. Debates. Message from the throne. The meage referred to the committee of fupply. Motion by Lord John Cavendish, that the order of reference be discharged. Great debates. The motion rejected upon a divifion. Refolutions paffed in the committee of Supply for the discharge of the debts incurred on the civil lift establishment, and for an annual augmentation of that revenue. Debates renewed upon receiving the report from the committee of Supply. First refolution paffed without a divifion. Amendment moved to the, fecond refolution. Amendment rejected. Second refolution carried upon a divifion. Meffage debated in the Houje of Lords. Address of concurrence moved by the Earl of Derby. Amendment moved by the Marquis of Rockingham. Amendment rejected upon Amendment rejected upon a divifion. Previous question moved by the Duke of Grafton, and rejected. carried upon a divifion. Proteft.,

CHAP. VI.

Addrefs

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Motion by the minifter for the payment of a demand made by the Landgrave of Heffe, on an unliquidated hofpital account of the last

war.

war. Debates. Motion carried in the committee of Supply upon a divifion.
Debate renewed on receiving the report. Question carried upon a divi-
fion. Motion for an address to the throne relative to the Royal Bro-
thers. Previous question carried on a divifion. Debate on the Speaker's

Speech. Mr. Fox's motion. Motion of adjournment. The latter with-

drawn, and the former carried. Vote of thanks to the Speaker for

bis fpeech. Revolution at Madrass. Transactions previous or relative

to the depofing and imprisonment of Lord Pigot. Tranfactions in

Leadenhall Street. Refolutions on India affairs, moved in the house of

commons by Governor Johnstone. Debates. The refolutions rejected upon

a divifion. Earl of Chatham's motion for an addrefs relative to a

reconciliation with America. Motion rejected. Speech from the throne. [88

State of affairs at New-York previous to the opening of the campaign. Loyal

provincials embodied, and placed under the command of Governor Tryon.

Expedition to Peek's Kill. To Danbury, under General Tryon. Maga-

zines deftroyed. General Woofter killed. Veffels and provifions deftroyed,

at Sagg Harbour, by a detachment from Connecticut under Colonel Meigs.

Advantages derived by General Washington, from the detention of the

army at New-York through the want of tents. Different Schemes Jug-

gefted for conducting the operations of the campaign, all tending to one object.

General Sir William Howe takes the field; fails in his attempts to bring

Washington to an action; retires to Amboy. Turns fuddenly and advances

upon the enemy. Skirmishes. Americans under Lord Sterling defeated.

Washington regains his ftrong camp. Royal army pass over to Staten-

Ifland. Alarm excited by the preparations for the grand expedition.

General Prefcot carried off from Rhode-Ifland. Rate of interest upon the

public loan, advanced by the Congrefs. Monuments decreed for the Gene-

rals Warren and Mercer. Fleet and army depart from Sandy Hook.

Force embarked on the expedition. Congress and Washington alarmed by

the lofs of Ticonderoga. Fleet arrives at the River Elk, after a tedious

voyage, and difficult paffage up Chesapeak Bay. Army lands at Elk

Ferry. Declaration iffued by the General. Washington returns to the

defence of Philadelphia. Advances to the Brandywine, and to Red-Clay

Creek. Various movements on both fides. Action at the Brandywine.

General Knyphaufen makes an attack at Chad's Ford. Lord Cornwallis

marches round to the forks of the Brandywine, where he passes, in order

to attack the enemy's right. Defeats General Sullivan. Purfuès his ad-

vantages until topped by night. General Knyphaufen paffes at Chad's

Ford. Enemy, every where defeated. Lofs on both fides. Reflections -on

the action. Victory not decifive. Foreign officers in the American fer-vice.

Motions of the armies. Engagement prevented by a great fall of rain.

Major-General Grey, furprizes and defeats a party of Americans under

General Wayne. Royal army paffes the Schuylkill, and advances to Ger-

man-Town. Lord Cornwallis takes poffefion of Philadelphia. Some of

"the-principal” îubabitants fent prisoners to Virginia, upon the "ap-

proach

proach of the army. Attack on the new batteries at Philadelphia.

Delaware frigate taken. Works conftructed by the Americans to

render the paffage of the Delaware impracticable. Successful expedition

to Billing's Fort, and a paffage made through the lower barrier. Royal

army furprized and attacked by the Americans at German-Town. Ame-

ricans repulfed with lofs and pursued. Brigadier-General Agnew, and

Colonel Bird killed. Army removes to Philadelphia. Unfuccessful attack

upon the enemy's works on the Delaware. Heffians repulfed with great

lofs at Red Bank. Colonel Donop killed. Augufta man of war and Mer-

lin floop deftroyed. New and effectual measures taken for forcing the ene-

my's works. Mud Island, and Red Bank, abandoned, and taken with

their artillery and flores. Americans burn their gallies and other shipping.

Paffage of the Delaware opened to Philadelphia. General Sir William

Howe, finding all his efforts to bring Washington to a general action

fruitless, returns with the army to Philadelphia. Americans Hut their

camp at Valley Forge for the winter.
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CHAP. VIII.

Canada. Conduct of the northern expedition committed to General Burgoyne.

Preparations made by General Carleton. Line of conduct pursued by him

upon the new arrangement. Different opinions upon the utility and pro-

priety of employing the Savages. State of the force under the command of

General Burgoyne. Canadians obliged to contribute largely to the fervice.

Expedition under Colonel St. Leger. War feaft, and speech to the Indians

at the river Bouquet. Manifefto. Royal army inveft Ticonderoga and

Mount Independence. Council of war held, and the forts abandoned by

the Americans. Boom and bridge cut through. Purfuit by land and

water. American gallies and batteaux deftroyed near Skenesborough Wa-

ter-falls. Americans fet fire to, and abandon their works. Rear of the

Americans overtaken by General Frazer near Hubberton. Colonel Francis

defeated and killed. General St. Clair, with the remains of his army,

take to the woods; and arrive at length at Fort Edward. Enemy bravely

repulfed by Colonel Hill, and the 9th regiment, who are obliged to engage

under a vaft fuperiority of force. Americans fet fire to, and abandon Fort

Anne. Extraordinary difficulties encountered by the royal army in the

march to Fort Edward. American Army retires to Saratoga. [141

CHA P. IX.

General terror excited by the lofs of Ticonderoga, and the expected progress of
the favages. New England governments notwithstanding shew no ap-
pearance of fubmiffion. Arnold fent with a reinforcement to the northern
army. Ill effects produced by the cruelties of the Indians. Difficulties
experienced by the royal army in the neighbourhood of Fort Edward, and
in the conveyance of provifions and Stores from Lake George. Movement
made down the North River, and a bridge of rafts thrown over near Sa-
ratoga, in order to facilitate the operations of Colonel St. Leger. Expe-
dition to furprize the magazines at Bennington, under the conduct of Colo

nel Baum. Colonel Breyman ordered forward to fupport the expedition.
Baum defeated and taken prisoner; Breyman alfo defeated. Ill confe-
quences. Fort Stanwix obftinately defended against Colonel St. Leger.
General Harkimer attempts to relieve the fort with a body of militia, who
are mostly cut to pieces. Cruelty, and ill conduct of the favages; grow
fullen and intractable; oblige Colonel St. Leger to raise the fiege with pre-
cipitation and lofs. Villainy of their behaviour on the retreat, Siege
raifed before the arrival of Arnold and his detachment to the relief of the
fort. General Gates takes the command of the American army. General
Burgoyne with the royal army pass the North River at Saratoga, and ad-
vance to attack the enemy near Still Water. Difference of opinion upon that
measure, as well as the motives which led to its being adopted. Severe
and heavy action on the 19th of September. Both armies fortify their
camps. Unfortunate action on the 7th of October. Camp formed. Death
of General Frazer, Colonel Breyman, and Sir James Clarke. Diftreffed

fituation of the royal army. Mafterly movement made, and an entire new

pofition taken in the night. New engagement eagerly fought, but refused,

on the next day by the enemy. Retreat to Saratoga. Previous defertion

of the Indians and others. Royal army reduced to the utmost freights.

Nearly furrounded on all fides. Cut off from all means of fubfiftence, and

poffibility of retreat. Councils of war. Convention concluded with Gene-

ral Gates. Terms of the convention. State of the army. Successful ex-

pedition by Sir Henry Clinton and General Vaughan up the North River.

Several forts taken; Efopus and other places deftroyed. Colonel Campbell,

with the Majors Sill and Grant, and Count Graboufkie, a Polish noble-

man, killed in this expedition. Some obfervations on the campaign. [155

CHA P. X.

Suc-

Amicable change of difpofition in the courts of Madrid and Lisbon, upon the

death of the King of Portugal. Some account of that Monarch.

ceeded by his daughter the Princefs of Brazil. Marquis of Pombal re-

moved from power. Public joy upon that occafion. Some account of that

Minifter. State prifoners enlarged, and popularity acquired by that act.

Orders fent to South America for a ceffation of hoftilities. Account of the

ftate and progrefs of the armament which had been fent out from Cadiz in

the latter end of the preceding year. Takes the Island of St. Catherine's.

Reduces the colony of St. Sacrament. Preliminaries of peace, and a treaty

of limits concluded between Spain and Portugal. Obfervations on that

event. Armaments ftill continued in Spain. Differences between Ruffia and

the Porte. Rival Chans. Petty war in the Crimea. Both fides unwil

ling to proceed to extremities. War between the Turks and Perfians.

State of Ruffia. King of Sweden vifits that court. Dreadful inundation

at Petersburg. Emperor vifits France.
Emperor vifits France. Treaty between France and

Switzerland. Death of the Elector of Bavaria.

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APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE.

The humble petition of the lord-mayor, &c. of the city of London, in common
council affembled, to the honourable house of commons, against the North-
American high treafon bill.

Summary of the trial of Dr. Dodd, for forgery.

Summary of the trial of John Horne, Efq; for a libel.

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Further proceedings in the cafe of the King against Horne, for a libel. [240

Decifion of the court of King's-Bench in the cafe of Mr. Horne.

[243

Narrative of the trial of James Aitken, otherwife John the Painter, at Win-

chefter affixes, for fetting fire to the rope-house at Portsmouth.

[245

Abstract of the act for reftraining the negotiation of bills of exchange, promif-