THE

CONTENTS.

History of the present War.

CHA P. I.

Nothing decided in the war. State of the feveral powers concerned. Great
Britain and Pruffia propofe an accommodation. Difficulties in concluding
a peace. The condition and hopes of France. Demands on the King of
Pruffia. Treaty faid to be between Ruffia and Auftria.

CHAP. II.

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State of the English garrison at Quebec. Defigns of Monf. Levi. Prepara-
tions for a fiege. French army marches from Montreal. Their firength.
Battle of Sillery. Gen. Murray defeated. Quebec befieged. The English
fleet under Lord Colville arrives. French veffels destroyed. Levi raifes
the fiege.

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CHAP. III.

Diftrefs of Saxony. M. Broglio commands the main body of the French ar-
St. Germain commands on the Rhine. English army reinforced. King
of Prufia's loffes. Theatre of war in the east of Germany. Pofitions of
the Auftrian and Pruffian armies. Battle of Landsbut. Pruffian army
under Fouquet deftroyed.

CHAP. IV.

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The Auftrians take Glatz. Situation of the Pruffian armies. King of Pruf-
fia marches towards Silefia and deceives M. Daun. King of Prufa re-
turns to Saxony. Siege of Drejden. Town burned. Return of Daun.
Siege raifed. Breflau befieged by the Auftrians. March of Prince nro.
Laudohn retreats.

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CHAP. V.

Caufe of the floronefs of the Allies and French. Advantages on the fide of the French. Difference between Broglio and St. Germain. Marpurg and Dillenburg taken by the French. Battle of Corbach. Hereditary Prince wounded. Surprize and defeat of Monf. Glaubitz at Erm/dorf. The Allies change their camp. Action at Warbourg. [19

CHAP. VI.

Laudobn blocks up Schweidnitz. Ruffians enter Silefia, March of the King of Pruffia from Saxony to Lignitz. Function of the Auftrian army in Silefia. The Ruffians pass the Oder. Plan of M. Daun. Laudobn defeated near Lignitz. Daun forms the blockade of Schweidnitz. Compelled to raife it. Action between General Hulfen and the army of the empire. Intercepted letter from the King of Pruffia to the Marquis de Argens.

CHA P. VII.

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Situation of the French and English armies. Hereditary Prince Jurprises a body of French in Zierenberg. Gen. Bulow takes Marpurg. Defeated by Monf. Stainville. Gen. Wangenheim paffes and is obliged to repass the Wefer. French retire from Mulbaufen to Caffel. Hereditary Prince marches to the Rhine, paffes that river. Cleves taken. Wefel befieged. English expedition. M. Caftries forms an army on the Rhine. Battle of Campen. Allies defeated. Hereditary Prince repaffes the Rhine. Siege of Wefel raifed. Death and culogium of George the II. Acceffion of George II. and bis refolution of fupporting his Allies. [32

CHAP. VII.

Ruffians and Auftrians enter Brandenburgh. General Hulfen retreats from Saxony to Berlin. Evacuates it. The city capitulates. Berlin defcribed. King's palace plundered. Enemy retires out of Brandenburgh after having pillaged it.

CHAP. IX.

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Imperialifts make themselves mafters of Mifnia. M. Stainville enters Halberftadt. Ruffians befiege Colberg. Laudobn befieges Cofel. King of Pruffia and M. Daun march into Saxony. Battle of Torgau. M. Daun wounded. The towns in Mifnia retaken. Siege of Colberg raifed. Swedes driven back.

CHA P. X.

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The Allies raife the fiege of Gottingen. Winter quarters and fufferings of the Briti troops. Popular debates in England concerning the German war [50

СНАР.

CHAP. XI.

Thurot fails from Dunkirk. Puts into Gottenburg and Bergen. Puts into
the Ifle of Ilay. He takes Carrickfergus. Sails from thence. He is killed,
and his whole fquadron taken. War in America. General Amberft goes
down the river St. Laurence. General Murray marches from Quebec.
Montreal furrenders. Cherokee war. Affairs of the Eaft-Indies. Lally
defeated by Coote.
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The CHRONICLE.

169

Some account of the Frauds, which occafioned the late Act of Parliament for
the better regulation of the Fishery
[164

A brief account of the Act for better fupplying the cities of London and Weft-
minfter with Fish

166
The feafons wherein feveral fort of Fish are allowed to be taken, and the fixes
Fish expofed for sale ought to be of

[168

Regulations of the Fish Markets in general in Holland, and particularly that
at the Hague

[170

Openings to be made in the city of London, pursuant to the late Act of Par-
liament paffed for that purpose

[171

Hiftory of the London brewery, from the beginning of King William's reign to

the prefent time

[173

A compendious fate of the cafe of Lord George Sackville, as it appears from
the trial published by his own direction

[175

Particulars relating to the interment of his late majesty King George II. of
bleffed memory

[178

Supplies granted by Parliament for the year 1760
State of the national debt, as it ftood Jan. 11, 1759, and Jan. 11, 1760[196

[182

STATE PAPERS.

A tranflation of the declaration delivered by the Auftrian minifter, refiding
at the Hague, to his Serene Highness Prince Lewis of Brunswick [203
Offers made by Several neutral powers, to the powers at war, of places
in their countries, to hold a congress in
Tranflation of a convention between the King of England, and the King
of Pruffia, &c.

[204

[205

Letter from M. Berryer to M. de la Broffe

[206

Declaration of the King of Pruffia to his co-eftates of the circle of Weft-
phalia, &c.

[208

Memorial of the King of Poland, on the raifing the fiege of Drefden [208
An account of the barbarous manner in which the Auftrian, Ruffian, and
Saxon Troops wafted the Marche of Brandenburgh, Sc.

[210

Answer to the foregoing Relation, St.

Tranflation of a very extraordinary letter, addreffed to the Canadian mi litia, &c.

[218

Articles of capitulation agreed upon and affented to by Captain Paul Demere, commanding at Fort Loudoun, and the beadmen and warriors of the Overhill Cherokee towns

[219

Copy of a Letter from Mr. Secretary Pitt, to the feveral governors and councils in North-America, &c.

[219

Pajers relative to the final reduction of Canada Articles of capitulation between General Amberft and the Marquis of Vaudreuil, Governor of Canada and Montreal

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[222

A brief Account of the Negotiation between Governor Littelton and Attakullakulla (or the Little Carpenter) Deputy of the whole Cherokee nation, and other headmen and warriors of that nation Treaty of Peace and Friendship concluded by his Excellency William Henry Littelton, Efq; with Attakullakulla, &c.

[231

Papers relating to the late affair between the English and Dutch in the Eaft

Indies

[235

The Speech of the Lords Commiffioners appointed by his Majefty, for bolding

The Subftance of the Memorial prefented by General Yorke, to the States General, concerning the foregoing affair

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this Parliament

[238

The bumble Addrefs of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the city of London, to the King

[240

The King's Proclamation, for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue, and for preventing and punishing of Vice, Profaneness, and Immorality

[241

Copy of a Letter from the Bishop of L-n to the King
The humble Addrefs of the Chancellor, Mafters, and Scholars of the Univerfi-

[243

ty of Cambridge

[244

The humble Address of the Univerfity of Oxford

[246

The humble Addrefs of the people called Quakers

[247

The King's most gracious Speech to both houses of Parliament

[248

The bumble Addrefs of the Lords fpiritual and temporal

[250

The bumble Addrefs of the Houfe of Commons to the King

[253

Difpofition of his Majefty's forces, about the middle of the year 1760

[255

Difpofition of his majesty's fleet

[257

Complete authentic Lift of men of war, both of France and England, taken, funk, or cafually loft, fince the commencement of the prefent hoftilities [258

CHARACTER S.

Account of the Lacedemonians, from the celebrated Prefident Goguet's Origin

of Laws, Arts, and Sciences, among the Nations of Antiquity

An Account of the life of George Frederick Handel, Efq;