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Letter from Count Welderen to Lord Stormont Letter from Lord Stormont to Count Welderen [380 Report of the commiffioners appointed to examine, take, and ftate, the public accounts of the kingdom Proceedings of a board of general officers, held by order of General Washington, refpecting Major John Andrè, Adjutant-general of the British

army

ibid.

[384

General Arnold's address to the inhabitants of America, after having abandoned the fervice of the Congress

Addrefs of Sir George Saville to his conftituents

CHARACTER S.

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Character and manners of the Venetians; from a View of Society and Man

ners in Italy, by Dr. Moore

Of the modern Romans; from the fame

Of Naples, and the manners of its inhabitants; from the fame
Of the poetical Rehearfers and Improuvisatori

Reflections on the genius and character of the Biscayners

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Defcription of the town of Bilbao, and the manners of its inhabitants

Of the character of our debt-laws, and of Mr. Howard
Of the Popish penal laws, with the character of Sir George Saville and Mr.
Dunning

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Adventures of Eyles Irwin, Efq; in a voyage up the Red Sea, and in a journey through the deferts of Thebais

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Narrative of the fufferings of Mr. de St. Germain, and his companions, in the deferts of Egypt

Of 'e religion of the Kalmucs and Mongouls
Of the religion of Tibet; or, of the Dalai Lama

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An account of the fufferings of Lady Harriet Ackland, in the campaigns of 1776 and 1777, in Canada

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Tranflation of a fhort extract from a Journal kept by C. P. Thunberg, M. D. during his voyage to, and refidence in, the empire of Japan

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NATURAL

HISTORY.

An account of the eruption of Mount Vefuvius, which happened in Auguft

1779

Relation of the recent eruption of Mount Etna

Of the effects of volcanos, and of the hot fprings, in Iceland

Natural Hiftory of the Grana Kermes, or Scarlet grain

The method of making falt-petre in Spain

Extract from Dr. Ingenhoufz's account of a new inflammable air, which can be made in a moment without apparatus, and is as fit for explosion other inflammable gaffes

as any

Account

Commercial, and non-confumption agreements. French invafion threatened. Military affociations. People become ftrongly armed. Exemplary conduct of the affociators. Prudent measures of government in that country. General demand of a free and unlimited commerce. Difcontents in Scotland, under an apprehenfion of a relaxation of the popery laws. Outrages in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Subfcriptions for raising troops, and other public purposes. Eaft India company grant bounties for raifing 6000 feamen, and undertake to build three ships of the line, as an augmentation to the royal navy. State of parties. Changes in adminiftration. Meeting of the Irish parliament. [15

CHA P. III.

Speech from the throne. Addreffes. Amenament moved in the House of Commons by Lord John Cavendish. Great Debates. Great Debates. Strictures upon public meafures in general, and upon the conduct of the preceding campaign. Able defence made by the minifier. Amendment rejected upon a divifion. Amendment in the House of Lords moved for by the Marquis of Rockingbam. After long debates, rejected upon a divifion.

CHA P. IV.

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Vote of cenfure against minifters, relative to their conduct with respect to Ireland, moved by the Earl of Shelburne.

Debates on the question.
Motion rejected

Part taken by the late lord prefident of the council. upon a divifion. Similar motion in the House of Commons by the Earl of Upper Oory. Defence of administration. Animadverfion. Motion rejected upon a divifion. Motion by the Duke of Richmond, for an economical reform of the civil lift establishment. Motion, after confiderable debates, rejected upon a divifion. Minifter opens his propofitions, in the House of Commons, for affording relief to Ireland. Agreed to without oppofition. Two bills accordingly brought in, and paffed before the recess. Third bill to lie open till after the holidays. Earl of Shelburne's motion relative to the extraordinaries of the army; and introductory to a farther reform in the public expenditure. Motion rejected on a divifion. Notice given of a fecond intended motion, and the lords fummoned for the 8th of February. Letters of thanks from the city of London to the Duke of Richmond and to the Earl of Shelburne, for their attempts to introduce a reform in the public expenditure; and · fimilar letters fent to his royal highness the Duke of Cumberland, and to all the other lords who fupported the two late motions. Mr. Burke gives notice of his plan of public reform and economy, which he proposes bringing forward after the recess.

CHA P. V.

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County meetings, petitions, and affociations. York leads the way. Great meeting at that city. Committee appointed. Some account of the peti tion from that county, which becomes a model to others. Sir George Sa_

wille prefents the petition from the county of York. Debates on that fubject. Jamaica petition prefented. Mr. Burke's plan of economical reform. Bills brought in upon that fyftem. Earl of Shelburne's motion (pursuant to the notice given before the recess) for a committee of both boufes, to enquire into the public expenditure. Motion feconded by the Earl of Coventry. Oppofed. Debaies. Strictures with respect to the county meetings and petitions. Marquis of Carmarthen explains the caufes of his refignation. Strictures on the conduct of a noble lord at the bead of a great department. Motion rejected upon a divifion. Unusual strength bewn by the oppofition on this divifion. [85

C. HA P. VI.

Colonel Barre gives notice of his intended propofitions relative to a committee of accounts. Scheme approved of by the minifter. Sir George Saville's motion, for an account of patent places and falaries, agreed to. Second motion, for an account of penfions, during pleasure or otherwife, oppofed. Debate broken off by the illness of the speaker. Refumed in the following week. Amendment, moved by the minifter. Long debates.

Minifter's amendment carried, on an exceedingly clofe divifion. Jamaica petition prefented in the House of Lords, and the Subject strongly enforced, by the Marquis of Rockingham. Thanks of the lords and commons to Admiral Sir George Rodney, for his late eminent fervices. Attempt by the oppofition, in both houfes, to obtain fome mark of royal favour for that commander. Scheme, for a commiffion of accounts, announced by the minifter, in the House of Commons. Strictures on that business. Mr. Burke's establishment bill read a first and fecond time without oppofition; debate and divifion, relative only to time, on its committal. Motion by the Earl of Shelburne, relative to the removal of the Marquis of Carmarthen, and the Earl of Pembroke, from the lieutenancy of their respective counties. Question, much agitated. Motion rejected on

a divifion.

CHA P. VII.

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Order of the day for going into a committee on Mr. Burke's establishment bill. Queftion of competency started. Debated. Oppofition infift, that the decifion of that question should take place of the order of the day. Question for the order of the day, carried, upon a very clofe divifion. Debates in the committee on the first claufe of the establishment bill, for abolibing the office of third fecretary of fate. Claufe rejected, after very long debates, upon a divifion, by a very small majority. Long debates in the committee, on a fubjequent day, upon that clause of the eftablishment bill, for abolishing the board of trade. Question for abolishing that board, carried upon a divifion. Difference between the speaker and the minifter. Mr. Fullarton's complaint of the Earl of Shelburne. Issue of that affair in Hyde Park. Notice given by Sir James Lowther, of an intended motion, for preferving the freedom of debate in parliament. Subject confiderably agitated. Warmly refented without doors. Ad

dreffes

dreffes of congratulation to the Earl of Shelburne on his recovery. Dan ger to which Mr. Fox and he had been exposed, attributed to their zeal in the fervice of their country. Contractors bill brought in by Sir Philip Jennings Clerke, and carried through the House of Commons without a divifion. Great debates on the claufe in Mr. Burke's establishment bill, for abolishing the offices of treasurer of the chamber, and others. Queftion, on the firft member of the claufe, loft upon a divifion. Succeeding questions rejected. Debates on the minifter's motion for giving notice to the Eaft India company, of the paying off their capital stock at the end of three years. Previous question moved, and loft on a divifion. Motion against receiving the report of the new taxes, until the petitions of the people were confidered, rejected upon a divifion by a great majority. Earl of Effingham's motion in the House of Lords, for a lift of places, penfions, c. held by members of that house, rejected upon a divifion.

CHA P. VJII.

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Army eftimates. Debates on the fubject of the new corps. Divifion. Queftion carried. Confideration of the petitions. Great debates in the committee. Part taken by the Speaker. Amendment to the motion, propofed and agreed to. Mr. Dunning's amended motion, carried, upon a divifion, in a very full house. Second motion, agreed to. Third motion, by Mr. T. Pitt, agreed to. House refumed. Mr. Fox's motion, for immediately receiving the report from the committee, opposed, but carried. Refolutions, reported, received, and confirmed by the House. Mr. Dunning's motion (on a following day) in the committee, for fecuring the independence of parliament, agreed to. Second motion, for dif qualifying perfons holding certain offices, from fitting in that house, carried, upon a divifion, by a majority of two only. Mr. Crewe's bill, for excluding revenue officers from voting on the election of members of parliament, rejected, on a divifion. Great debates in the House of Lords, upon the fecond reading of the contractors bill. The bill rejected, upon a divifion, by a confiderable majority. Proteft. Confequences of the Speaker's illness. Poftponed motion of Mr. Dunning's, for an adddrefs, to prevent diffolving the parliament, or proroguing the prefent feffion, until proper measures should be taken for correcting the evils complained of in the petitions of the people, brings out long debates; but is rejected by a confiderable majority, in an exceedingly full house. Disorder upon Mr. Fox's rifing to speak, after the divifion. Nature of his fpeech. Reply, by the minifter. Great debates upon the claufe in Mr Burke's eftablishment bill, for abolishing the office of the Great Wardrobe, &c. Claufe rejected upon a divifion. Succeeding claufe, for abolishing the Board of Works, rejected upon a divifion. Debates upon the minifter's bill for a commiffion of accounts. Clofe divifion upon a question in the committee. Bill at length paffed. Debates on Colonel Barre's motions, relative to the extraordinaries of the army. First motion rejected, upon a divifion, by a great majority. Succeeding refolutions rejected. General Conway's bill, for restoring peace with America, difpofed of, upon a

divifion,

divifion, by a motion for the order of the day. Motion tending to an enquiry, into any requifition made by the civil magiftrate, for the attendance of the military, upon the late meeting of the electors of Westminster. Various claufes of Mr. Burke's eftablishment bill, rejected, upon, or without divifions. Recorder of London's motion in behalf of the petitioners, rejected upon a divifion. Mr. Dunning's motion, in the committee of the whole houfe on the confideration of the petitions, for reporting their own two refolutions of the 10th of April, fet afide, by a motion for the chairman to quit the chair, which was carried upon a divifion. Meeting of the Proteftant affociation in St. George's Fields. Subfequent riots, mischiefs, and conflagrations. Refolutions, conduct, and adjournment of both houfes. Lord George Gordon committed to the Tower. Speech from the throne, on the meeting of parliament after the late diforders. Addreffes. Refolutions in the House of Commons, for quieting the minds of well-meaning, but illinformed perfons. Bill paffes the House of Commons, for the fecurity of the Proteftant religion. Is laid by in the House of Lords. Speech from the throne. Prorogation. [139

and convoy.

CHA P. IX.

Sir George Rodney proceeds to Gibraltar, in his way to the West Indies, Takes a valuable Spanish Convoy. Falls in with a squadron, under the command of Don Juan de Langara. Takes the Admiral, with feve ral men of war, and destroys others. Relieves Gibraltar, fupplies Minorca, and proceeds on his deftined voyage. Prothee, French man of war, taken by Admiral Digby, on his return from Gibraltar. Dutch convoy, under the conduct of Count Byland, stopped, and examined by Commodore Fielding. Count Byland comes to Spithead, with his fquadron, Confequences of that, and of other precedent and fubjequent meafures. Ruffian manifefto. Northern neutrality. Royal proclamation in London, fufpending certain ftipulations in favour of the fubjects of the States General. Retrospective view of affairs in America and the Weft Indies, in the year 1779. Advantages derived by the Spanish commanders, from their early knowledge of the intended rupture. Don Bernardo de Galvez, fubdues the British fettlements on the Mifilippi. Sullivan's fuccessful expedition against the Indians of the fix nations. Some obfervations on the policy of that people, and on the ftate of culture and improvement, which the Americans difcovered in their country. Expeditions from Jamaica to the Bay of Honduras, and the Mofquito fhore. Fortress of Omoa and Spanish register fhips taken. Vigilant and fuccessful conduct of Admiral Hyde Parker, on the leeward island ftation. [*201

CHA P. X.

Rhode Island evacuated. Defign against New York fruftrated by D'Eftaing's failure at Savannah. Expedition against Charles Town. Sir Henry Clinton lands with the army in South Carolina; takes poffeffion of the VOL. XXIII.

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