DEATH OF THE KING OF SWEDEN.
SESSION OPENED.
PROCEEDINGS UPON A PAMPHLET, ENTITLED “THE CASE OF MR. MURRAY.”
LAW RELATING TO THE FORFEITED ESTATES IN SCOTLAND.
NEW CONSOLIDATION OF FUNDS.
TWO PORTS OPENED FOR THE IMPORTATION OF IRISH WOOL.
THE KING SETS OUT FOR HANOVER.
DISPUTE BETWEEN HANOVER AND PRUSSIA.
MISUNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE COURTS OF LONDON AND BERLIN.
IMPROVEMENT OF POMERANIA.
TREATY WITH THE ELECTOR PALATINE.
SESSION OPENED.
GAME ACT.
ACT FOR PERFORMING QUARANTINE.
ACT FOR PREVENTING THE PLUNDERING OF SHIPWRECKED VESSELS.
BILL RELATING TO THE BOUNTY OF CORN EXPORTED.
TURKEY TRADE LAID OPEN.
NATURALIZATION OF THE JEWS.
MARRIAGE ACT.
DELIBERATIONS CONCERNING THE SUGAR COLONIES.
FATE OF THE REGISTER BILL.
SIR HANS SLOANE’S MUSEUM PURCHASED BY PARLIAMENT.
EXECUTION OF DR. CAMERON.
TUMULTS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE KINGDOM.
DISTURBANCES IN FRANCE.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE DIET RELATIVE TO EAST FRIEZELAND.
EXTRAORDINARY TREATY.
CONFERENCES WITH RESPECT TO NOVA SCOTIA BROKE UP.
DESCRIPTION OF NOVA SCOTIA.
CHAPTER IX.
AMBITIOUS SCHEMES OF THE FRENCH.
RISE AND CONDUCT OF THE OHIO COMPANY.
PERFIDY OF THE FRENCH.
MAJOR LAURENCE DEFEATS THE FRENCH NEUTRALS.
BRITISH AMBASSADOR AT PARIS AMUSED WITH GENERAL PROMISES.
SESSION OPENED.
REPEAL OF THE ACT FOR NATURALIZING JEWS.
MOTION FOE REPEALING A FORMER ACT FAVOURABLE TO THE JEWS.
EAST-INDIA MUTINY BILL.
SESSION CLOSED.
DEATH OF MR. PELHAM. CHANGE IN THE MINISTRY.
NEW PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED AND PROROGUED.
DISPUTES IN THE IRISH PARLIAMENT.
TRANSACTIONS IN THE EAST INDIES.
ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS.
DISPUTE ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT OF ARCOT.
MAHOMMED ALI KHAN SUPPORTED BY THE ENGLISH.
MR. CLIVE TAKES ARCOT.
MR. CLIVE REDUCES THREE FORTS, &c.
CHUNDA SAIB TAKEN AND PUT TO DEATH.
CONVENTION BETWEEN THE EAST INDIA COMPANIES OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE.
GENERAL VIEW OF THE BRITISH COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA.
THE FRENCH SURPRISE LOG’S TOWN.
CONFERENCE WITH THE INDIANS.
COLONEL WASHINGTON DEFEATED AND TAKEN BY THE FRENCH.
DIVISIONS AMONG THE BRITISH COLONIES.
HEREDITARY PRINCE OF HESSE-CASSEL PROFESSES THE CATHOLIC RELIGION.
PARLIAMENT OF PARIS RECALLED FROM EXILE.
AFFAIRS OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
SESSION OPENED.
BILL IN BEHALF OF CHELSEA PENSIONERS.
MESSAGE FROM THE KING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
COURT OF VERSAILLES AMUSES THE ENGLISH MINISTRY.
SESSION CLOSED.
CHAPTER X.
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.
EARL PAULET’S MOTION.
REGENCY APPOINTED.
BOSCAWEN’S EXPEDITION.
FRENCH AMBASSADOR RECALLED.
AFFAIRS OF THE ENGLISH IN AMERICA.
BRADDOCK’S UNFORTUNATE EXPEDITION.
EXPEDITION AGAINST CROWN POINT AND NIAGARA RESOLVED ON.
BRAVERY OF CAPTAIN M’GINNES.
DESCRIPTION OF FORT OSWEGO, &c
EXPEDITION AGAINST NIAGARA.
GENERAL SHIRLEY RETURNS TO ALBANY.
TREATY WITH THE LANDGRAVE OF HESSE-CASSEL.
NEWS OF THE CAPTURE OF THE ALCIDE AND LYS REACHES ENGLAND.
THE KING RETURNS FROM HANOVER, AND CONCLUDES A TREATY WITH RUSSIA.
DECLARATION OF THE FRENCH MINISTRY AT THE COURT OF VIENNA.
SPIRITED DECLARATION OF PRUSSIA.
THE FRENCH MAKE ANOTHER UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT UPON THE COURT OF SPAIN.
THE IMPERIAL COURT REFUSES AUXILIARIES TO ENGLAND.
THE FRENCH TAKE THE BLANDFORD.
STATE OF THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH NAVIES.
SESSION OPENED.
REMARKABLE ADDRESSES OF BOTH HOUSES.
HIS MAJESTY’S ANSWER.
ALTERATIONS IN THE MINISTRY.
EARTHQUAKE AT LISBON.
RELIEF VOTED TO THE PORTUGUESE.
MUTINY BILL, MARINE, AND MARINERS’ ACTS CONTINUED.
ACT FOR RAISING A REGIMENT OF FOOT IN NORTH AMERICA.
MARITIME LAWS OF ENGLAND EXTENDED TO AMERICA.
QUIET OF IRELAND RESTORED.
TREATY CONCLUDED WITH PRUSSIA.
NEW MILITIA-BILL.
SESSION CLOSED.
CHAPTER XI.
LETTER FROM M. ROUILLE.
THE FRENCH THREATEN GREAT BRITAIN WITH AN INVASION.
REQUISITION OF SIX THOUSAND DUTCH TROOPS.
HESSIANS AND HANOVERIANS TRANSPORTED INTO ENGLAND.
FRENCH PREPARATIONS AT TOULON.
ADMIRAL BYNG SAILS FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN.
ADMIRAL BYNG ARRIVES AT GIBRALTAR.
HE ENGAGES M. DE LA GALISSONNIERE OFF MINORCA.
ADMIRAL BYNG SUPERSEDED AND SENT HOME PRISONER.
ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF ST. PHILIP’S FORT IN MINORCA.
PRECAUTIONS taken by GENERAL BLAKENEY.
SIR E. HAWKE SAILS TO MINORCA.
GALLANTRY OF FORTUNATUS WRIGHT.
GENERAL BLAKENEY CREATED A BARON.
MEASURES TAKEN FOR THE DEFENCE OF GREAT BRITAIN.
EARL OF LOUDON APPOINTED COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN AMERICA.
HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S DECLARATION OF WAR.
SUBSTANCE OF THE FRENCH KING’S DECLARATION.
ADDRESS OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
TRIAL OF GENERAL FOWKE.
AFFAIRS OF AMERICA.
EARL OF LOUDON ARRIVES AT NEW YORK.
OSWEGO REDUCED BY THE ENEMY.
FURTHER PROCEEDINGS IN AMERICA.
NAVAL OPERATIONS IN AMERICA.
TRANSACTIONS IN THE EAST INDIES.
CALCUTTA BESIEGED.
FATE OF THOSE WHO PERISHED IN THE DUNGEON AT CALCUTTA.
ADDITIONAL CRUELTIES EXERCISED ON MR. HOLWELL.
FORT GERIAH TAKEN BY ADMIRAL WATSON AND MR. CLIVE.
CHAPTER XII.
MOTIVES OF THE WAR IN GERMANY.
MEASURES TAKEN BY THE KING OF PRUSSIA AND ELECTOR OF HANOVER.
THE KING OF PRUSSIA DEMANDS AN EXPLANATION.
THE PRUSSIAN ARMY ENTERS SAXONY.
PRUSSIANS PENETRATE INTO BOHEMIA.
SAXON ARMY SURRENDERS.
KING OF POLAND’S MEMORIAL TO THE STATES-GENERAL.
IMPERIAL DECREES PUBLISHED AGAINST THE KING OF PRUSSIA.
DECLARATION OF DIFFERENT POWERS.
HIS PRUSSIAN MAJESTY’S ANSWER TO THE SAXON MEMORIAL.
DISPUTES BETWEEN THE PARLIAMENT OF PARIS AND THE CLERGY.
DEARTH OF CORN IN ENGLAND.
SESSION OPENED.
DEBATES ON THE ADDRESS.
BILL PASSED FOr PROHIBITING THE EXPORTATION OF CORN.
REFLECTIONS ON THE CONTINENTAL WAR.
MESSAGES FROM THE KING TO THE PARLIAMENT.
MEASURES TAKEN TO REMOVE THE SCARCITY OF CORN.
MILITIA BILL.
BILL FOR QUARTERING FOREIGN TROOPS, &c.
BILL FOR THE MORE SPEEDY RECRUITING THE LAND-FORCES AND MARINES, &c.
ACT FOR IMPORTING AMERICAN IRON DUTY FREE.
REGULATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE IMPORTATION OF SILK.
INQUIRY INTO THE SCARCITY OF CORN.
INVESTIGATION OF THE LOSS OF MINORCA.
EXAMINATION of the AMERICAN CONTRACT.
INQUIRY INTO THE CONDUCT OF ADMIRAL KNOWLES, &c.
RESOLUTIONS concerning MILFORD-HAVEN.
SESSION CLOSED.
TRIAL OF ADMIRAL BYNG.
BILL TO RELEASE THE MEMBERS OF THE COURT-MARTIAL, &c
EXECUTION OF ADMIRAL BYNG.
REMARKS ON ADMIRAL BYNG’S FATE.
CHAPTER XIII.
MR. PITT AND MR. LEGGE TAKEN INTO THE ADMINISTRATION.
COALITION OF PARTIES.
DESCENT ON THE COAST OF FRANCE MEDITATED.
COMMAND OF THE FLEET GIVEN TO SIR EDWARD HAWKE, &c.
ADMIRAL KNOWLES SENT TO TAKE AIX.
ATTACK AND SURRENDER OF AIX.
THE FLEET RETURNS TO SPITHEAD.
SIR JOHN MORDAUNT TRIED BY A COURT-MARTIAL.
FLEETS SENT TO THE EAST AND WEST INDIES.
RIOTS OCCASIONED BY THE HIGH PRICE OF CORN.
OPERATIONS IN AMERICA.
LORD LOUDON’S CONDUCT IN AMERICA.
FORT WILLIAM-HENRY TAKEN by the FRENCH.
NAVAL TRANSACTIONS IN AMERICA.
STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE EAST INDIES.
SEDUCTION OF CHANDERNAGORE.
COLONEL CLIVE DEFEATS THE SUBA AT PLAISSEY, &c.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE KING OF FRANCE.
CHANGES IN THE FRENCH MINISTRY.
STATE OF THE CONFEDERACY.
SKIRMISHES BETWEEN THE PRUSSIANS AND AUSTRIANS.
NEUTRALITY OF THE EMPEROR, AND BEHAVIOUR OF THE DUTCH.
DECLARATION OF THE CZARINA AGAINST THE KING OF PRUSSIA.
KING OF PRUSSIA ENTERS BOHEMIA.
PRAGUE INVESTED.
COUNT DAUN COMMANDS THE AUSTRIANS.
KING OF PRUSSIA DEFEATED AT KOLIN.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE DEFENCE OF HANOVER.
SKIRMISHES WITH THE FRENCH.
DUKE OF CUMBERLAND PASSES THE WESER.
BATTLE OF HASTENBECK.
THE FRENCH TAKE POSSESSION OF HANOVER AND HESSE-CASSEL.
THE FRENCH REDUCE VERDEN and BREMEN.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE FRENCH ENTER THE PRUSSIAN DOMINIONS.
A RUSSIAN FLEET BLOCKS UP THE PRUSSIAN PORTS IN THE BALTIC.
ARMY OF THE EMPIRE RAISED.
THE AUSTRIANS TAKE GABEL.
THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA LEAVES THE ARMY.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ENGLAND AND OSTEND BROKE OFF.
MARESCHAL LEHWALD ATTACKS THE RUSSIANS NEAR NORKITTEN.
HASTY RETREAT OF THE RUSSIANS OUT OF PRUSSIA.
FRENCH AND IMPERIALISTS TAKE GOTHA.
ACTION BETWEEN THE PRUSSIANS AND AUSTRIANS NEAR GOERLITZ.
THE FRENCH OBLIGE FERDINAND TO RETIRE.
BATTLE OF ROSBACH.
THE AUSTRIANS TAKE SCHWEIDNITZ.
MARESCHAL KEITH LAYS BOHEMIA UNDER CONTRIBUTION.
HOSTILITIES of the SWEDES in POMERANIA.
MEMORIAL PRESENTED TO THE DUTCH.
DISPUTES CONCERNING THE CONVENTION OF CLOSTER-SEVEN.
PROGRESS OF THE HANOVERIAN ARMY.
DEATH OF THE QUEEN OF POLAND, &c.
FATE OF CAPTAIN DEATH.
SESSION OPENED.
SECOND TREATY WITH PRUSSIA.
BILLS FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF SEAMEN, &c.
ACT FOR ASCERTAINING THE QUALIFICATION OF VOTING.
BILL FOR MORE EFFECTUALLY MANNING THE NAVY.
HABEAS-CORPUS ACT AMENDED.
SCHEME IN FAVOUR OF THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.
PROCEEDINGS RELATIVE TO THE AFRICAN COMPANY.
SESSION CLOSED.
VIGOROUS PREPARATIONS FOR WAR, &c.
THE FRENCH EVACUATE EMBDEN.
ADMIRAL BRODERICK’S SHIP BURNT.
DESCENT AT CANCALLE BAY.
EXPEDITION AGAINST CHERBOURG.
DESCENT AT ST. MALOES.
ENGLISH DEFEATED AT ST. CAS.
CLAMOURS OF THE DUTCH MERCHANTS, &c.
CHAPTER XV.
EXPEDITION AGAINST SENEGAL.
FORT LOUIS AND SENEGAL TAKEN.
EXPEDITION TO CAPE-BRETON.
LOUISBOURG TAKEN.
ATTEMPT UPON TICONDEROGA.
FORT FRONTENAC TAKEN AND DESTROYED BY THE ENGLISH.
BRIGADIER FORBES TAKES FORT DU QUESNE.
SHIPWRECK OF CAPTAIN BARTON.
GALLANT EXPLOIT OF CAPTAIN TYRREL.
TRANSACTIONS IN THE EAST INDIES.
TRANSACTIONS on the CONTINENT of EUROPE.
STATE of the ARMIES on the CONTINENT.
THE FRENCH KING CHANGES THE ADMINISTRATION OF HANOVER.
TREATY BETWEEN THE FRENCH KING AND THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK.
DECREE OF THE AULIC COUNCIL.
BREMEN TAKEN AND RETAKEN.
THE FRENCH ABANDON HANOVER.
PRINCE FERDINAND DEFEATS THE FRENCH, &c.
PRINCE OF YSEMBOURG DEFEATED.
GENERAL IMHOFF DEFEATS M. DE CHEVERT.
GENERAL OBERG DEFEATED by the FRENCH.
DEATH OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.
OPERATIONS OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA.
PROGRESS OF THE RUSSIANS.
THE PRUSSIANS DEFEAT THE RUSSIANS.
SUBURBS OF DRESDEN BURNT.
THE PRUSSIANS RAISE THE SIEGE OF NEISS, AND RELIEVE DRESDEN.
INHABITANTS OF SAXONY OPPRESSED.
PROGRESS OF THE SWEDES IN POMERANIA.
PRINCE CHARLES OF SAXONY ELECTED DUKE OF COURLAND.
THE KING OF ENGLAND’S MEMORIAL.
DEATH OF POPE BENEDICT.
KING OF PORTUGAL ASSASSINATED.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FRENCH MINISTRY.
CONDUCT OF THE KING OF DENMARK.
CONFERENCES AT THE HAGUE.
CHAPTER XVI.
TRIALS OF DRS. HENSEY AND SHEBBEARE
INSTITUTION OF THE MAGDALEN AND OTHER ASYLUMS.
SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS.
NEW TREATY WITH THE KING OF PRUSSIA.
SUPPLIES GRANTED.
KING’S MESSAGE TO THE COMMONS.
BILLS RELATING TO THE DISTILLERY, &c.
REGULATIONS with RESPECT to PRIVATEERS.
NEW MILITIA LAWS.
ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF DEBTORS REVIVED.
BILLS FOR THE IMPORTATION OF IRISH BEEF AND TALLOW.
CASE OF THE INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
CASE OF CAPTAIN WALKER.
REMARKS ON THE BANKRUPT-LAWS.
INQUIRY INTO THE STATE OF THE POOR.
REGULATION OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.
DEATH OF THE PRINCESS OF ORANGE, &c.
EXAMPLES MADE OF PIRATES.
MURDER OF DANIEL CLARKE.
MAJORITY OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.
A NEW BRIDGE AT BLACKFRIARS.
FIRE IN CORNHILL.
METHOD CONTRIVED TO FIND OUT THE LONGITUDE.
INSTALLATION AT OXFORD.
CAPTURES MADE BY CRUISERS.
PRIZES TAKEN IN THE WEST INDIES.
ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN THE HERCULES AND THE FLORISSANT.
HAVRE-DE-GRACE BOMBARDED.
BOSCAWEN DEFEATS M. DE LA CLUE.
PREPARATIONS MADE BY THE FRENCH FOR INVADING ENGLAND.
ACCOUNT OF THUROT.
FRENCH FLEET SAILS FROM BREST.
ADMIRAL HAWKE DEFEATS M. DE CONFLANS.
THE IRISH PARLIAMENT.
LOYALTY OF THE IRISH CATHOLICS.
INSURRECTION IN DUBLIN.
ALARM OF A DESCENT IN SCOTLAND.
CHAPTER XVII.
STATE OF THE ISLAND OF MARTINIQUE.
EXPEDITION AGAINST THAT ISLAND.
ATTEMPT UPON ST. PIERRE.
DESCENT ON GUADALOUPE.
FORT-LOUIS REDUCED, &c.
ENGLISH FLEET SAILS TO DOMINIQUE.
GENERAL BARRINGTON TAKES GOSIER, &c.
ISLAND OF MARIGALANTE TAKEN.
TREATY WITH THE INDIANS.
PLAN OF THE CAMPAIGN.
GENERAL AMHERST EMBARKS ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN.
NIAGARA REDUCED.
INTRODUCTION TO THE EXPEDITION AGAINST QUEBEC.
GENERAL WOLFE LANDS ON THE ISLAND OF ORLEANS.
ENGLISH FLEET DAMAGED BY A STORM.
GENERAL WOLFE ENCAMPS NEAR THE FALLS OF THE RIVER MONTMORENCI.
BRIGADIER MURRAY DETACHED UP THE RIVER.
THE TROOPS LAND AT THE HEIGHTS OF ABRAHAM.
BATTLE OF QUEBEC.
QUEBEC TAKEN.
CHAPTER XVIII.
SIEGE OF MADRAS.
SUCCESS OF COLONEL FORDE.
SURAT TAKEN BY THE ENGLISH.
ADMIRAL POCOCKE DEFEATS MONSIEUR D’APCHE.
HOSTILITIES OF THE DUTCH.
COLONEL COOTE TAKES WANDEWASH.
COLONEL COOTE CONQUERS ARCOT.
STATE OF THE BELLIGERENT POWERS IN EUROPE.
FRANCKFORT SEIZED BY THE FRENCH.
PROGRESS OF THE HEREDITARY PRINCE OF BRUNSWICK.
PRINCE FERDINAND ATTACKS THE FRENCH.
RETREAT OF PRINCE FERDINAND.
ANIMOSITY BETWEEN PRINCE FERDINAND AND THE BRITISH COMMANDER.
THE FRENCH ENCAMP AT MINDEN.
DUKE DE BRISSAC ROUTED.
GENEEAL IMHOFF TAKES MUNSTER.
A BODY OF PRUSSIANS MAKE AN INCURSION INTO POLAND.
PRINCE HENRY PENETRATES into BOHEMIA.
GENERAL WEDEL DEFEATED BY THE RUSSIANS.
BATTLE OF CUNERSDORF.
ADVANTAGES GAINED BY THE PRUSSIANS IN SAXONY.
GENERAL FINCK SURROUNDED AND TAKEN.
DISASTER OF THE PRUSSIAN GENERAL DIERCKE.
CONCLUSION OF THE CAMPAIGN.
ARRET OF THE EVANGELICAL BODY AT RATISBON.
FRENCH MINISTRY STOP PAYMENT.
THE STATES-GENERAL SEND OVER DEPUTIES TO ENGLAND.
MEMORIAL PRESENTED TO THE STATES BY MAJOR-GENERAL YORKE.
A COUNTER-MEMORIAL PRESENTED BY THE FRENCH MINISTER.
DEATH OF THE KING OF SPAIN.
DON CARLOS SUCCEEDS TO THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN.
DETECTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CONSPIRATORS AT LISBON.
SESSION OPENED IN ENGLAND.
SUBSTANCE OF THE ADDRESSES.
PETITIONS RESPECTING THE PROHIBITION OF THE MALT DISTILLERY.
OPPOSITION TO THE BILL FOR PREVENTING THE EXCESSIVE USE OF SPIRITS.
ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH A MILITIA IN SCOTLAND.
BILL FOR REMOVING THE POWDER MAGAZINE AT GREENWICH.
ACT FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE STREETS OF LONDON.
BILL RELATIVE TO THE SALE OF FISH, &c.
ACT FOR ASCERTAINING the QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.
ACT FOR CONSOLIDATING ANNUITIES GRANTED IN 1759.
BILL FOR SECURING MONIES FOR THE USE OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL.
ACT IN FAVOUR OF GEOEGE KEITH, &c.
SESSION CLOSED.
CHAPTER XIX.
DETECTION OF A MURDER.
CLAMOUR AGAINST LORD SACKVILLE.
HE DEMANDS A COURT-MARTIAL.