Chronological Annals 
 
 OF THE 
 
 WAR; 
 
 t'ROM ITS BEGINNING 
 
 TO THE 
 
 PRESENT TIME. 
 
 IN TWO PARTS. 
 
 Part I. Containing from April 2i 
 1755, to the End of 1760. 
 
 P A R T II. — from the Beginning 
 
 of 1761. to the figning of the 
 Preliminaries of the Pe a c e. 
 
 WITH AN 
 
 INTRODUCTORY PREFACE 
 to each Part, a Conclusion, and a 
 General Index to the Whole. 
 
 By Mr. DOBSON. 
 
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 the proper Names of Verfons and Places, 
 
 
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TO THE 
 
 RIGHT HONOURABLE 
 WILLIAM EARL TALBOT, 
 
 LORD TALBOT BARON OF HENSOL 
 IN THE COUNTY OF GLAMOR- 
 GAN, LORD STEWARD OF HIS 
 MAJESTY’S HOUSHOLD, AND ONE 
 OF THE LORDS OF HIS MAJESTY’S 
 MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUN- 
 CIL. 
 
 My LORD; .. - 
 
 A STEADY, regular, and uni- 
 form Oeconomy can alone 
 give the Nation any Relief 
 under that Oppreflion of Debt, which 
 it feels from the Length and Extent of 
 the late memorable War ; or teach it to 
 fet a juft Value upon the Bleflings of 
 Peace. The firft Step to this Oecono- 
 my is the Baniftiment of Fraud and 
 Corruption from the feveral Offices of 
 
 Govern- 
 
Government. Your LordfKip has taken 
 the Lead, with Succefs, in the Reformati- 
 on of fome fcandalous and inveterate 
 . Abufes in the King’s Houfliold : But 
 the Houfliold is only his Majefty’s pri- 
 vate Family ; His public one is • the 
 whole Kingdom; and I flatter myfelf 
 that the latter will, at a proper Time, 
 reap the Benefit of your Lordfliip’s Ex- 
 ample and Perfeverance. I am, with 
 the greateift Refpe<ft, 
 
 My LORD, 
 
 ITour fnojl humble^ 
 
 ' . And moft obedient Servant ^ 
 
 John Dobfon.- 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 T H E War between Great Britain 
 and Spaiut which commenced in 
 the Year 1739, on the Refufal of 
 the latter to fulfil the Terms of the 
 well-known Convention j and that which 
 afterwards became fo general in Europet up- 
 on the Death of the Emperor Charles the 
 fixth, the laft Heir Male of the Houfe of 
 AuJiria-j were both terminated by the Treaty 
 of Aix-la-Chapelle. All the Parties, fatigued 
 rather than fatisfied, fuffered themfelves to be 
 comprehended in this Peace4 France had the 
 Glory to dictate the Terms of it, and the 
 Moderation to give up all her Conquells in 
 the Netherlands. Great Britain was obliged 
 to reftore Cape-Breton, and to pafs over in 
 Silence the favourite Claim of No Search. 
 Spain obtain’d the Dutchies of Parmay Pla- 
 centiut and Guajiallay for the Infant Don Phi- 
 lipt after having fpent more Treafure than 
 the Fee-fimple of them was worth. The 
 Emprefs Queen relinquifh’d her Rights to 
 thofe three Dutchies ; confirm’d the Ceffion 
 of Sil^a and the County of Glatz to the 
 King of PruJJia't that of the Vigevanafque, 
 of a Part of the Pavefaut and of die County 
 
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IV 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 of Anghiera, to the King oi 
 retain’d the Reft of the Aujlrtan Dominions, 
 which had been guarantied to ^ 
 Pragmatic Sandion. Of all the great Pot 
 
 tates engaged in this War, the King of Pr«/- 
 fia feem’d to be the only one who had ac- 
 quir’d a clear Advantage, almoft without bx- 
 pence. Vicftory had been render’d familiar to 
 his Troops; Rich Provinces had been added 
 to his paternal PolTeffions; His own military 
 Condud and political Genius had made Inra 
 the Objed of perfonal Admiration ; His 
 Strength was dreaded by his Enemies, and 
 refpe&d by his Friends. But this very Si- 
 tuation, affifted by fome unforefeen and criti- 
 cal Events, plung’d him into a new War, 
 more extenlive in its Operation, and chec- 
 quer’d with a much greater Variety of For- 
 tune, ^ilefta was too fertile and opulent a 
 Province, to be furrender’d without Regret ; 
 and perhaps the Emprefs Queen gave it up 
 to her Antagonift, and form’d the Plan for its 
 Recovery, in the fame Moment. Few Prin- 
 ces think themfelves accountable for Succefs. 
 If the Courfe of publick Affairs happen to 
 fall in with their private Views, they feldom 
 negled the favourable Opportunity, and eve- 
 ry Vidory becomes an Apology for their Con- 
 dud. I do not think it at all neceffary to 
 labour the Defence of the King of Prtjjjiay 
 and to juftify his firft Invafion of Silejia. 
 Facts generally fpeak beft for themfelves; 
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 and then leave it to the Reader to deduce his 
 own Inferences from them. 
 
 The Houfe of Brandenburg had ancient 
 Pretenlions upon four Dutchies in Silefia, thofe 
 of lagerndorf, LignitZy Briegy and PFohlau. 
 The Margrave Georgey Coufin and Governor 
 of Lewis King of Bohemia, fold his Eftates in 
 Hungary, and purchas’d the Dutchy of Jee- 
 gerndorf of the Lords of Schellenberg, in the 
 Year 1524; King Lewis gave him the Invef- 
 titure of that Country, as of an hereditary 
 and alienable Fief ; and this whole Tranf- 
 adtion was confirm’d by King Ferdinand the 
 firft, in 1527; the Son of this Margrave, 
 having no Iflue, bequeath’d the Dutchy of 
 lagerndorf, by his lafi: Will and Teflament, 
 to the Eledloral Houfe of Brandenburg. Joa- 
 chim Frederic, who was then Eledlor, and 
 from whom the prefent King of Prujpa is 
 defeended, entered upon the peaceable Pof- 
 fefiion of it j and gave it, in 1607, to the 
 Margrave John George, his younger Son. The 
 Margrave, having unfortunately attach’d him- 
 felf to the Interefts of Frederic the fifth Elec- . 
 tor Palatine, (who had aflum’d the Title of 
 King of Bohemia in Oppofition to the Empe- 
 ror Ferdinand the fecond ) was difpoffefs’d of 
 his States, and put to the Ban of the Empire, 
 under which he died in 1624. Erneji, his 
 innocent Son, and a Minor, in vain made 
 Application for the Reftitution of his Father’s 
 Patrimony j and dying in 1642, without If- 
 
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 introduction, 
 
 fue, the elder Branch of the eleftoral Family 
 put in an immediate, tho’ unfuccefsful, 
 
 to the Dutchy of lagerndorf with its Depen- 
 dencies, 
 
 In Regard to the Dutchies oi 
 Brieg, and JVohlau, the Rights of the Houfe 
 of Brandenberg were more complicated and 
 involv’d. The ancient Dukes of Ltgmtz &c, 
 were, at firft, independent Sovereigns ; but 
 Duke fubmitted in 1329, ft® 
 
 voluntary Conceflion, to become a Vaffal of 
 the Kingdom of Bohemia^ on the Condition 
 of holding his Dutchies, as a true hereditary 
 Fief, to himfelf, his Heirs, and Defcendants, 
 King Wadijlaus, in his Letters Patent of 1511, 
 gave the Dukes of Lignitz a Power of alie- 
 nating their Eftates by Will j and the fame 
 Power was twice renewed by King Lews id 
 the Years 1522 and 1524; the Words of 
 whofe Letters Patent are to this Effedt -r- 
 “ That as the Dukes of Lignitz had always 
 enjoy’d the Power of alienating their Ef- 
 “ tates, and difpofing of them between living 
 «Perfons {'inter Fivosjy fo they might alfo 
 ♦‘do it for the future, by Way of Teftament, 
 “ and Declaration of their laft Will.” ^ A ge- 
 neral and full Confirmation of all Privileges, 
 beftow’d at any Time on the Dukes of Lig-r 
 nitz, was granted by King Ferdinand the firft 
 to the then reigning Poke, in 1529. 
 
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INTRODUCTION. vii 
 
 Under thefe Circumftances, Frederic Duke 
 of Lignitz and his two Sons on the one Part, 
 and Joachim Eledtor of Brandenburg on the 
 other Part, enter’d into a Treaty of here- 
 ditary Co-fraternity in i537* The yotingefl 
 Son of the Duke of Lignitz was to marry the 
 Eledlor’s Daughter, and the eldeft Son of the 
 Eledor was engag’d to the Daughter of the 
 Duke. In Confequence of this Treaty and 
 double Marriage, the Poffeffions of the Houfe 
 of Lignitz were fettled, on Failure of the 
 male Line of Duke Frederic, upon every 
 male Branch of the Houfe of Brandetiburg, 
 to whom the Marches of Brandenburg and 
 the Eleftoral Dignity fhould fucceflively de- 
 fcend ; and in Cafe of Failure of fuch IfTue 
 Male in the Houfe of Brandenburg, the Fiefs, 
 belonging to the Eledtor in Bohemia, were to 
 be entail’d, in like Manner, upon the Male 
 Heirs of the Houfe of Lignitz. This Treaty 
 was made with the Confent of the Clergy 
 and States of the Country, confirm’d by the 
 Oath of the contradling Parties, and an even- 
 tual Homage was paid to the Eledtor of 
 Brandenburg. In 154 ^* Ferdinand the firft, 
 in Quality of Prince and fupreme Judge of 
 the States of Silejia, annull’d and cancell’d 
 the whole Treaty, by a formal Decree pafs’d 
 at Brejlau ; againft which the Councellors 
 of Brandenburg protefted, in the Prefence of 
 that King, who did not oppofe their Pro- 
 ceeding. The Dukes of Lignitz were after- 
 wards 
 
VIII INTRODUCTION. 
 
 wards compeird to declare, that their Domi- 
 nions, upon the Death of the laft Male of 
 their Family, ought, of right, to revert im- 
 mediately to the King of Bohemia •, but they 
 wrote to the Eledtor of Brandenburg in thefe 
 memorable. Terms ; “ Tho’ a fuperiour Force 
 ** pretends to deprive you of your Rights, 
 their Foundation is unlhaken ; the' Inhe- 
 ** ritance is not yet fallen j Time changes all 
 Things ; what appears now impollible, your 
 Pofterity will find Means to effedt.” 
 
 The Male Line of the Dukes of Ltgnitz 
 became, at laft, extindt in 1675; and the 
 Eledtor Frederic William, firnam’d the Great, 
 infifted upon his Pretenfions to the Succef- 
 fion. The Emperor tempted the Eledtor with 
 a conftderable Sum of Money, which was 
 conftantly refufed. After reiterated Solicita- 
 tions, the Houfe of Aujlria apparently re- 
 folv’d, in 1686, to fatisfy the Eledtor by a 
 Treaty, which ceded to him the Circle of 
 Schwibus, together with fmaller Advantages, 
 in Compenfation of all his Demands. But 
 what was formally given with one Hand, was 
 virtually taken away with the other ; For 
 whiift the Emperor was amufing the old 
 Eledtor with this Ceflion, he employ’d In- 
 trigues and Menaces at Berlin, to feduce the 
 Eledtoral Prince (afterwards the firft King of 
 PruJJta) into a fecret Promife of re-deliver- 
 ing the Circle of Schwtbus, as loon as he 
 ihould fucceed to his paternal Dominions j 
 
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 an Adi of Security in Writing, according to 
 the Defire of the Court of Vienna. Upon the 
 Eledlor’s Death, the Aujlrian Minihry de- 
 manded the Circle of Sebwibus. The young 
 Eledlor fummon’d his Council, who declar’d 
 on mature Deliberation, that he was not 
 bound by fuch an illegal and extorted Obli- 
 gation. After negotiating till the Year 1695, 
 to little Purpofe, the Eledlor yielded the 
 Country in Difpute, for a fmall pecuniary 
 Confidcration j but at the fame Time he 
 charg’d his Poflerity with the Afl’ertion of 
 his Pretenfions. “I have given my Word 
 “ (fays he) and I will keep it. I leave it to 
 “ my Defeendants to make good my Claims 
 ** upon Stlejia, fince, in my prefent Circum- 
 '^ftances, I cannot do it myfelf. When it 
 ** pleafes Providence to change the Face of 
 
 Affairs, my Defeendants will well know 
 
 how to adl the Part that fhall be found 
 “ mofl convenient for them.” 
 
 The prefent King of FruJJia is that De- 
 feendant, who avail’d himfelf of the critical 
 Moment, and march’d a numerous and dif- 
 ciplin’d Army into Silefia, to vindicate the 
 Pretenfions of his Progenitors. Unhappily 
 for the Q^een of Hungary ^ a 2ealous Vote 
 of the Houfe of Commons, and the fpirited 
 Warmth of the Britijl^ Nation, (Irengthen’d 
 the natural Conflancy of her Temper, and 
 her to rejedl the Terms offer’d her 
 
X INTRODUCTION. 
 
 by her Adverfary. Conceflions made with a 
 tolerable Grace in that delicate Conjundture, 
 might have eafily turn’d a young Enemy into 
 a warm Friend. A diflerent Syftem of Poli- 
 cy was embrac’d ; the final Refult of which 
 was, the abfolute Ceflion of the nobleft Part 
 of Silejiat with the County of to the 
 
 King of Pru/fia, by the feveral Treaties of 
 Brejlau, Pirejderiy and Aix la Chapelle. 
 
 Europe continued arm’d after the Conclu- 
 fion of the General Peace. It was reafonable 
 to expedl that this very Circumftance Ihould 
 affure its Tranquillity for a Length of Time. 
 No State would probably venture upon Hof- 
 tilities, when its Rival was prepar’d for a vi- 
 gorous Refiftance. Yet this Expedlatiori was 
 blafted. Mutual Sufpicion and Jealoufy dic- 
 tated defenfive Meafures, which mutual Ani- 
 mofity and Revenge were ready to turn into 
 offeniive Ones, upon the fmalleft Alteration 
 of the political Balance. DifiTenfions arofe be- 
 tween RuJJia and Sweden, which threatened 
 the Repofe of the North j the King of Pruf- 
 fia interfered, with a Spirit and Refolution, 
 which the Emprefs of RuJJia never forgave, 
 Gommiflaries met at Paris, on the Part of 
 Great Britain and France, to regulate the 
 difputed Limits of Nova Scotia, and wafted 
 much Time in fruitlefs Conferences. The 
 Affairs in Germany were, in the mean while, 
 ripening into Confufion. The Minifters of 
 Vienna and Drefden had not been idle ; and. 
 
XI 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 whllft they projeded the Ruin of the King 
 of PruJJias Greatnefs, they puih’d the Rm* 
 prefs of Ruffian Refentment agamft that Mo- 
 narch into an implacable Averfion. The two 
 Emprefles had concluded at St. Peterjburg 
 what they call’d a defenfive Alliance, fo early 
 as May 1746 : By a fecret Article, it was re- 
 folv’d, that any War made by Pruffla, upon 
 Auftria, RuJJia, or Poland, Ihould be confi- 
 der’d as an Infraftion of the Treaty of Dref- 
 den ; tho’ the two latter Powers were not at 
 all concern’d in that Treaty. _ Thus the bm- 
 prefs Qi^en put in three Claims at once, tor 
 the Recovery of Silejia. The Court of JDref- 
 den declar’d their Readinefs, both in 1747 
 and 175 1> to accede to the Alliance or 
 Peterjburg-, if they might only prcvioufly ob- 
 tain a fufficient Proyifion for the Safety of 
 their hereditary Dominions, and be admitted 
 to a Share of the Spoils, in Proportion to the 
 Extent of the Conquefts. — Towards the Cloie 
 of 1749, \\itAuJlrian Mmifters at Peterjburg 
 and Berlin endeavour’d, in an artful 
 ner, to convey remote Hints to the RuJJian 
 Minifter at Berlin, that a Plot was forming 
 in Sweden againft the Lite of the Empreft o 
 RuJJia, in which the PruJJian Court had a 
 large Share. — The Grand Council of Rvjjta 
 was held in OBober 1755 ; and it was deter- 
 min’d in that AlTenibly, to embrace the hrlt 
 Opportunity of attacking the King of 
 Jia, without difcuffihg the Point of Aggiei~ 
 
 fton, an 4 to ered Magazines, for that Pur- 
 
 pofe. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 pole, at Riga, Mitfau, Liebau, and Wtndau, 
 capable of fupporting 100,000 Meit. — In 
 April 1 756, the Secretary of the Saxon Em- 
 bafly at St. Reterjburg recommended it to 
 Count Bruhl, to take Care that Intelligence 
 might be communicated, through different 
 Channels, to the RuJJian Miniftry, of the 
 King of Prujpids reconnoitring the Ukraine, 
 and ftirring up a Rebellion in that Country : 
 The Secretary clos’d his Advice with thefe re- 
 markable Words ; ** That the King of Prujjia 
 
 had given Saxony a Blow, which it would 
 ** feel for 50 Years j but he fhould receive 
 “ one himfelf, which he fliould feel for an 
 
 1 00.” Count Biuhl, in his Anfwer to the 
 Secretary’s Letter, promis’d to execute this 
 Commiffion. — Thus Fuel was prepar’d in 
 Abundance, on every Side j a little Spark on- 
 ly was wanting, to light it up into a general 
 Flame. The Troubles which arofe in Ame- 
 rica, united Aujlria with France, and Pruffia 
 with Great Britain. Nothing more was ne- 
 celfary, to involve the principal Powers of 
 Burope in the Calamities of War. 
 
 In the Courfe of the Year 1 754, the great 
 Deligns of the French in America began to 
 appear. Thefe were, to open a Communica- 
 tion between Canada and Louijtana, by Means 
 of Forts erecfled on the River Ohio, which 
 falls into the MiJJiJippi ; and to fecure the fer- 
 tile Countries, wafli’d by that River, to them- 
 fclves, by the Eftablifhment of numerous Set- 
 tlements. 
 
INTRODUCTION, xiii 
 
 tlements. Thus, in. Progrefs of Time, the 
 Britifi Colonies would be hemm’d in be- 
 tween thofe Settlements and the Sea, and the 
 allied Indians would be eafily tempted to for- 
 fake their Intereft, and to form Connexions 
 with the French. — To accomplifh thefe De- 
 figns, the French attack’d and took one of 
 the hnall Forts belonging to the Englijh, on 
 the Straight of the River Monongahelay obli- 
 ging Mr. Ward and his little Garrifon of 44 
 Men to capitulate, and retire. They after- 
 wards made themfelves Mafters of the Fort 
 of Logs-town on the River Ohioy in the Ter- 
 ritory of Virginia. On the firft of yune, a 
 Party of 3 5 Soldiers, detach’d to intercept an 
 EngliJJj Convoy, was routed by 45 Men un- 
 der Mr. WaJ})ington j feven of the French 
 were kill’d, and the reft made Prifoners, to- 
 gether with their commanding Officer M. la 
 Force j three unhappy Perfons fell into the 
 Hands of the Indians, and were malTacred. 
 On the third of yuly, M. de Villiers obliged 
 Mr. Wajhington to furrender Fort-Necejjity in 
 the Great Meadows, upon Articles of Capi- 
 tulation. 
 
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 The Situation of Great Britain, at this cri- 
 tical Period, with RefpeX to America, was 
 beautifully defcrib’d by a General Officer of 
 diftinguiffi’d Abilities, in Part of two Speech- 
 es. in the Houfe of Commons. “ We feem, 
 fays he, to be driving upon the Edge of an 
 high Mountain j on every Side, a dreadful 
 
 and 
 
XIV introduction. 
 
 and tremendous Precipice j too much Ex- 
 pence makes us Bankrupts, too little makes 
 Is Slaves. Some Years ago, the were 
 
 by no Means a Match for the five Nations j 
 now, they have a Communication, by a Range 
 of Forts, from the River St. Lf ren<:e m Ca^ 
 nada, to the Ohio near the Mijjifippi- Hence 
 it is, that they hold our Colonies between the 
 two Ends of a Net, which if they tighten by 
 Degrees, they may get all of thern in^to the 
 Body of it, and then drown them m the Sea. 
 When the Ship is finking, the Man at the 
 Helm in vain lays the Blame upon the La- 
 bourer at the Oar, or the Labourer at the 
 Oar recriminates upon the Man at the Helm; 
 we arc all in one Veffel ; it is our_ Intereft, 
 as well as our Duty, to unite heartily in the 
 common Caufe ; and , laying afide^ private 
 Ambition and Animofity, to a<ft with Ala- 
 crity and Confidence ; and to perform every 
 Thing in our Power, for the Prcfervation, 
 Honour, and Happinefs of our Country.” 
 
 This was the fatal Spark, which kindled 
 the Flame of War in every Quarter of the 
 World j and which afterwards raged ( parti- 
 cularly in Europe) with a deftructive and un- 
 relenting Fury, beyond the Example of for- 
 mer Times. France and Aujlria, to whom 
 Francis the firft and Charles the fifth had left 
 a Kind of hereditary Antipathy, mutually ran 
 into each other’s Arms. Great Fritain was 
 put under the difagreeable Neceflity of ex- 
 pending 
 
INTRODUCTION. xv 
 
 pending more Treafure againft the Emprefs 
 Queen, than had been employed, in the pre- 
 ceding War, for her Support. France, Au- 
 Jlria, Rujjia, Sweden, and the Empire, com- 
 bin’d their Strength to crufli one Monarch, 
 the King of PruJJia ; That Monarch, affifted 
 by Great Britain, maintain’d his Ground with 
 a Refolution and Activity, which deferved 
 Succefs. France weaken’d her Credit and 
 tarnilh’d her Glory, as a Friend to the Houfc 
 of Aujlria-, to which, for upwards of two 
 Centuries, £he had been a conftant and vidlo- 
 rious Enemy. Great Britain felt the unhap- 
 py Effedls of Party Divifion at home, in fome 
 early Misfortunes ) united within herfelf, and 
 favour’d by Providence, (he became irrelift- 
 ible. 
 
 The principal Events of this aftonifhing 
 War, reduced to a fliort chronological Series, 
 
 I make the Subject of the following Pages. 
 They are only defign’d to alfift the Memory 
 in the eafieft M^toner, and to ferve as a co- 
 ll pious Index to any larger Work ; which, by 
 
 i reafoning upon Matters of Fadl, and explain- 
 
 t ing the Motives of political Aftions, may 
 
 % throw a full Light upon the Conduct of the 
 
 ‘f Powers engag’d in the War, and enable the 
 
 j: Reader to form his Judgement upon the Na- 
 
 It: ture. Solidity, and Duration of a Peace. — A 
 
 U Work, of this Chara<5ter, belongs, not to the 
 
 If, Annalist, but the Statesman, 
 
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CHRONOLOGICAL ANNALS 
 
 Of the war. 
 
 1755 - 
 
 /Ipril 2. ✓^^Ommodore James, Commander in 
 chief of the Eaft India Company’s 
 marine force, in the Proteftor of 
 44 guns, with the Swallow of i6, together with 
 the Viper and Triumph bomb veflels, attack’d and 
 made himfelf Matter of the fort of Severndroog of 
 54 guns. Fort Goa of 40 guns, and two fmaller 
 forts of 20 guns each ; thefe belong’d to Angria ; 
 and were deliver’d up to the Marattas, according 
 to treaty. “ 
 
 ^pril 9. Bancote, the moft northern port of 
 confequence in Angria’s dominions, furrender’d to 
 Commodore James upon fummons, and was kept 
 by the Eatt India Company with the full confent of 
 the Marattas. It is now called Fort ViAoria. The 
 Harbour is good ; and the country about it a* 
 bounds in cattle, which are much wanted for the 
 ufe of the garrifon and fquadron at Bombay. 
 
 June 8. The Alcide of 64 guns and 480 men^ 
 M. Hoequart Commander ; and the Lys pierced 
 for 64 guns, but mounting only 22, with 8 com- 
 panies of land forces on board, M. de Largerii 
 Commander j having been feparated from their 
 fquadron commanded by M. du Bois de la Mothe, 
 
 A were 
 
2 Chronological Annals. 1755- 
 
 lSgues“from Newfoundknd north-north-eaft of 
 Bofcawen. 
 
 16 The French fort of Beau-Sejour, on 
 thflfthmu. of ttigocfto. furrendor’d to L.euK- 
 nant Colonel Monckton. 
 
 7 ««. 17. Gafpereau, a fmall fort near Bay Vert, 
 furrenderll to the fame Officer: and foon after- 
 wards the French abandon’d Fort St John, near 
 The mouth of the river of that name ; after having 
 ruin’d it to the utmoft of their power. This com- 
 pleated the reduftion of Nova Scotia. 
 
 7 a/y q. General Braddock receiv’d a total defeat 
 from an ambufcade of French and Indians, within 
 10 miles of Fort Duquefne, which he was march- 
 ing to befiege : the conduft of this unhappy Ge- 
 nefal has bln greatly cenfur’d, but his perW 
 courage was indifputable •, he had five horfes kill 
 under him, and died of his wounds. The Enghft 
 loft near 1000 men, kill’d and wounded, m this 
 aftion i among the former, were Sir Peter Halket 
 Baronet, Colonel of the 44th regiment of Foot, 
 and General Shirley’s eldeft fon. Secretary to Mr, 
 Braddock ; among the latter, were the Lieutenant- 
 Colonels, Gage and Burton, and Mr. Orme, an 
 Captain Morris Aid-de-Camps. The French be- 
 came mafters of all the artillery, provifions, bag- 
 gage, and the military cheft ; the ufual fruits of a 
 decifive viftory. General Braddock’s papers fell 
 into their hands, of which they afterwards availd 
 themfelves, in a large memorial which they pub- 
 Ufh’d aeainft the Britifh Miniftry : by their Qwn ac- 
 ® count. 
 
Of TtiE War. 
 
 * 755 - 
 
 3 
 
 count, they had in this battle only 250 French 
 Soldiers, and 650 Savages, commanded by the Sr. 
 Beaujieu (kill’d in the engagement) and under him 
 by the Srs. Dumas and Ligneris. 
 
 July 1 7. The Doddington Indiaman {truck upon 
 a barren uninhabited rock, in the latitude of 3 3 
 degr. 44 min. fouth, and diftance about 250 
 leagues eaft of the Cape of Good Hope ; out of 
 270 perfons, 23 only gain’d the rock: upon which, 
 they providentially fubfifted themfelves with the 
 provifions collefted from the wreck, till the 1 8th 
 of February, being feven months complete ; on 
 that day they fet fail from the rock (to which, at 
 parting, they gave the name of Bird Ifland from 
 the quantity of water-fowl, call’d Gannet, found 
 upon it) in a (loop, built by the carpenter out of 
 the fragments of the fhip. After a difficult and 
 diftrefsful voyage, they reach’d St. Lucia river on 
 the coaft of Africa the 6th of April ; and from 
 thence, anchor’d in de la Goa Road at 4 o’ clock 
 in the afternoon, on Wednefday the 21ft. This 
 floop was afterwards fold to Captain Chandler of 
 the Rofe galley, for 2500 rupees, or about 500 1 
 ‘flerling, and fail’d in company with him to Mada- 
 gafear. — It were to be wifli’d, that all fhips 
 which happen to fail near any defart ifiand or coaft, 
 would give themfelves the charitable trouble of 
 fowing a few feeds, and putting on fhore a few 
 animals, male and female, for the benefit of thofe 
 'Unfortunate people j who, in any future time, 
 might be expos’d to greater calamities, than thofe 
 which befel the Doddington Indiaman. 
 
 Sept. 8. Colonel Johnfon, who commanded the 
 Provincial regiments defign’d for the attack of Fort 
 Frederick or Crown-Point, obtain’d a vidory over 
 
 A 2 the 
 
^ ChroIIological Annals i7S5* 
 
 the French Regulars, “nie£"'’Thc 
 
 der the command of the Baron de Dielkau. i nc 
 
 French march’d up to Colonel Johnfon s jntrench- 
 mSS in good order, and behaved with courage 
 and fpirit i but the fteadinefs 
 and the fire of a fuperior artillery direded by Cap- 
 tain Eyre, obliged them to fly with precipitation. 
 The Baron de Dielkau was wounded and taken 
 prifoner ; the lofs of the French amounted to feven 
 hundred men-, that of the Provincials (in this 
 aftion, and in the defeat of their detachment un. 
 der Col. Williams, which immediately preceded it) 
 fell ftiort of 300 men kill’d and wounded : among 
 the former, were the Colonels 
 comb, one Major, fix Captains, and old Hendrick 
 the famous Indian Sachem. Col. Johnfon himlelt 
 was wounded. Some time afterwards the ICing 
 created him a Baronet, and the Parliament made 
 him an handfome prefent in money, for this ac- 
 ceptable fervice. The batUe was fought on the 
 banks of lake George. 
 
 November 11. L’Efperance of 74 guns, but 
 mounting only 24* M. le Vicomte de Bouville 
 Commander, was taken by the Orford of 70 guns, 
 Capt. Steevens. This Ihip was afterwards obliged 
 to be funk. 
 
 Supplies granted by Parliament for the fervice of the 
 year 
 
 Four millions, feventy three thoufand, feven 
 hundred, and twenty nine pounds. 
 
 I75<^- 
 
Of the War. 
 
 5 
 
 1756. 
 
 1756. 
 
 'fan. 16. \ Treaty was fign’d between the Kings 
 £\^ of Great-Britain and Pruflia, for 
 keeping all foreign troops out of the Empire. 
 
 February 13. Colonel Yorke, the King’s Mi- 
 nifter Plenipotentiary at the Hague, demanded the 
 6000 men, which the Dutch were bound to fur- 
 nilh by treaty, when Great-Britain was in danger 
 of an Invafion. 
 
 Feb. 13, Rear-Admiral Watfon, with the Kent,' 
 Cumberland, Tiger, Salifbury, Bridgewater, and 
 King’s Fifher floop •, and the following fhips be- 
 longing to the Company, viz. the Proteftor of 40 
 guns, the Revenge, Bombay, Grab, and Guar- 
 dian frigates, the Drake, Warren, Triumph, and 
 Viper bomb-ketches, attack’d and reduc’d the 
 ftrong fort of Geriah, belonging to Angria, and 
 the capital of his dominions. There were found 
 in the fort, 200 pieces of cannon, 6 brals mor- 
 tars, a great quantity of ammunition of every 
 kind, and money or effefls to the value of 120 or 
 1 30, 000 pounds fterling. The whole fleet of An- 
 gria was fet on fire and deftroy’d, by a {hell from 
 one of the fhips. It confifted of eight galliots, one 
 fhip, two others building (one of which was to 
 have carried 40 guns) together with a confiderable 
 number of fmall veffels call’d gallivats. Colonel 
 Clive landed his troops, to blockade the fort, and 
 prevent the Marattas from getting poflellion of it 
 clandeftinely, to whom the Governor intended 
 to lurrender it. The walls were of fuch an extraor- 
 dinary height and thicknefs, that no weight of me- 
 tal could have cffcdled a breach ; the garrifon was 
 
 A 3 fob- 
 
6 Chronological Annals i75^* 
 
 fubdued by the terror alone of fo briflc and un- 
 ufual a fire. 
 
 Mar. II. The Chev. d’Aubigny in the Prudent 
 of 74 guns, together with the frigates Atalanta 
 M. de Chaffault, and Zephyr M. le Touche de 
 Treville, took the Warwick of 6o Guns Captain 
 
 Shouldham, near Martinico. 
 
 / 
 
 March 27. The Sr. de Lery, Lieutenant of 
 the troops of the Colony, at the head of ^00 Re- 
 gulars, Canadians and Indians ; attack’d, and took 
 Fort Bull (at a confiderable diftance from Ol'wego) 
 by aflault, putting the garrifon of 100 men to the 
 fwordi the fort, after it was taken, blew up by 
 accident, with its magazine of Powder, (of 40,000 
 pound weight) bombs, bullets, grenades, other u. 
 tenfis of war, and a confiderable quantity of pro^ 
 vifion. 
 
 May I. A treaty was fign’d at Verfailes, be.- 
 tween the French King and the Emprefs-Queen, 
 by which the contrafting Parties reciprocally ob- 
 liged themfelves to the guaranty of all their Euro- 
 pean dominions ; and, in cafe of an attack from 
 any Power whatfoever, they mutuallw engag’d to 
 furnifli each other with 18000 foot and 6000 
 horfe ; or with a proportionable fum of money, 
 after the rate of 8000 German florins for 1000 
 infantry, and 24000 German florins for 1000 ca- 
 valry, 
 
 17. Great -Britain declar’d War againft 
 France, ® 
 
 Mayiy, There was a very warm engagement 
 off Rochfort, between the Aquilon of 48 guns M. 
 
 de 
 
Of the War. 
 
 1756. 
 
 7 
 
 de Maurville, and the Fidelle of 36 guns M. de 
 Litardais, on the one fide ; and the Colchefter of 
 50 guns Captain Obrian, with the Lyme of 20 
 guns Captain Vernon, on the other. The combat 
 began about fix in the evening, and lafted till half 
 an hour paft eleven between the Lyme and Fidelle, 
 and till half an hour paft twelve between the Col- 
 chefter and Aquilon. This aftion did great ho- 
 nour to the marine of both Nations. 
 
 May 20. The unfortunate engagement hap- 
 pen’d in the Mediterranean, between the Britifli 
 fquadron of 13 men of war exclufive of frigates, 
 commanded by admiral Byng ; and the French 
 fquadron of 12 men of war exclufive of rrigates, 
 under the orders of the Marquis de la Galalfionere. 
 Rear-Admiral Weft engaged briflcly with his divi- 
 fion ; the Intrepide, Chefterfield, Captain, and De- 
 fiance, fuffer’d confiderably. The Englilh had be- 
 tween 40 and 50 kill’d, among whom were the 
 Captains Andrews and Noel, and 168 wounded. 
 The French acknowleged the lofs of 38 kill’d, and 
 1 84 wounded. Admiral Byng, return’d to Gibral- 
 tar ; and the Marquis de la Galalfionere, to his fta- 
 tion before Port-Mahon. 
 
 May 25. The States General came to a refolu- 
 tion, to obferve an exact neutrality in refpe£t to 
 the war in America, between Great-Britain and 
 France. 
 
 June 4. The Suba, or Vice-Roy, of Bengal, ob- 
 liged the factory of Colfimbuzar to furrender, hay- 
 ing previoufly made Mr. Watts, the chief of it, 
 prifoner ; whom he had inveigled out of the fort, 
 under the pretence of an accommodation. 
 
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 Jtm 9. France declar’d War againft Great- 
 Britain. 
 
 'June 12. The Litchfield and Norwich, part of 
 Commodore Spry’s fquadron, took off Louilburg 
 the Arc-en-Ciel, a French man of war of 50 
 guns, 578 men, of whom 190 were foldiers, with 
 a great quantity of provifions and amunition for 
 the ufe of the garrifon of Louilburg. 
 
 June 20. The Suba of Bengal made himfelf 
 mafter of Fort-Williadi or Calcutta, the principal 
 fcttlement of the Englifh down the bay. It is fi- 
 tuated on the eaftern banks of the weftermoft 
 branch of the Ganges, 25 miles below Hughly, 
 and about 21 below Chandernagore. One reafon 
 which induced the Nabob to make this attack, 
 was the imprifonment of Omychund, a Gentoo, 
 and a very confiderable merchant of the country, 
 confin’d at that time in Calcutta. After the fur- 
 render of the fort -, Mr, Hoi well the Commander, 
 together with the officers and private perfons be- 
 longing to the fadtory, to the number, in the whole, 
 of one hundred and forty fix, were thruft into a 
 clofe room, a cube of eighteen feet, commonly 
 call’d the Black-Hole Prifon. The night was ful- 
 try, and this miferable place was open only to- 
 wards the weft by two windows ftrongly barr’d 
 with iron, which hardly admitted the leaft circula- 
 tion of frelh air. Mr. Holwell has given an ac- 
 count of the raiferics they endur’d, in a very ele- 
 gant letter-, and indeed they are not to be de- 
 ferib’d, but by one who felt them. Twenty three 
 Perfons, came out of the Black-Hole alive j after 
 having been confin’d from eight in the evening, 
 till a quarter after fix the next morning, 
 
 June 
 
Of the War. 
 
 9 
 
 1756. 
 
 June 29. General Blakeney furrender’d Fort St. 
 Philip to the Marfhal Duke de Richelieu, after a 
 fiege of more than feven weeks from the opening of 
 the French batteries againft the place. The lofs of the 
 Englilh amounted to 3 officers kill’d and 5 wound- 
 ed, 71 private men kill’d, 326 wounded (25 of 
 whom died of their wounds ) 10 deftroy’d by 
 difeafe, and 17 miffing. The French acknowleg’d 
 the lofs of 13 officers and 419 private men kill’d j 
 and 92 officers and 996 private men wounded. 
 
 July — The Sr. de Villiers, Captain in the 
 troops of the Colony, under the orders of the Mar- 
 (^uis de Vaudreuil, deltroy’d an Engliffi convoy on 
 the river Choeguen, compos’d of near 200 loaded 
 veflels, and kill’d or made prifoners 500 men. 
 
 July 27. Le Heros M. Beauffier, L’ Illuftre M. 
 de Montalais, with the frigates La Lycorne and 
 and La Syrene, failed out of Louifburg to engage 
 Captain Holmes, who was cruifing off the har- 
 bour with two ffiips of the line and a frigate. By 
 the French account the Heros fought the two 
 great ffiips alone, for 6 hours j the Illuftre being 
 prevented by a calm from giving her any affiftance. 
 The Heros was a fine new ffiip, but fo feverely 
 handled in the engagement, that ffie return’d into 
 the harbour in a ffiatter’d condition. 
 
 Augufi 1 4. The Marquis de Montcalm Marechal 
 de Camp, with near 3000 men, compos’d of the 
 batalions of Sarre, Guyenne, and Bearn, (amount- 
 ing to 1300) the troops of the colony, Canadians, 
 and Savages, attack’d and took Fort-Ofwego on 
 the lake Ontario. Colonel Mercer, the Engliffi 
 Commandant, was kill’d. The capture made upon 
 
lo Chronological Annals i75^* 
 
 this occafion confifted of feven brafs, and 48 Iron, 
 canon ; fourteen brafs mortars j forty-feven fwivel 
 guns ; twenty-three thoufand pound weight of 
 powder ; eight thoufand pound weight of lead and 
 ball ; two thoufand nine hundred and fifty bullets 
 of different fizes ; one hundred and fifty bombs of 
 nine inches, and three hundred of fix inches ; one 
 thoufand four hundred and feventy fix grenades ; 
 feven hundred and thirty fuzees for grenadiers, 
 three hundred and forty common fuzees ; feven 
 hundred and four hogfheads of bifeuit j a very 
 great quantity of pork, beef, and meal ; thirty- 
 two oxen i fifteen hogs ; together with a fmall 
 fum of money in the military cheft. 7'he French 
 burnt a fkiff upon the flocks ; and took a vefiel 
 pierc’d for 1 8 guns •, a brigantine of 16; a veffd 
 of lO; one batteau of 10, and another of 8 guns, 
 with a fkiff of 1 8 fwivels. A full detail of this im- 
 portant conquefl was publifh’d in Italian, under 
 the diredlion of the French Ambaflador at the 
 court of Naples •, to fink the credit of the Englifh, 
 and to imprefs a favourable idea of his mailer’s 
 power, in that part of the world. The Englifh 
 garrifon in Fort-Ofwego of 1600 men, among 
 whom were eighty officers, were obliged to fur- 
 fender themfelves prifoners of war. — About the 
 fame time, the French took Fort-Granville on the 
 frontiers of Penfilvania. 
 
 OBober i. The battle of Lowofehitz was fought 
 between the King of Pruffia and Marlhal Brown. 
 Both parties claim’d the vidlory. The King or- 
 der’d Te Deum to be fung, and a fermon to be 
 preach’d on Pfalm 20. v. 6. “Now know I, that 
 “ the Lord faveth his Anointed : he will hear him 
 “ from his holy heaven, with the faving llrength 
 of his right hand*” The Saxon army, on the 
 
II 
 
 1756. ' ■ ' Of THfE Wa'R. 
 
 contrary, celebrated the vi£lory of the Auftrians in 
 a fermon upon Pfalm 10. v. 12, 13, 14, i 7 » 
 
 “ Arife, O Lord ; O God, lift up thine hand : 
 “forget not the humble. Wherefore doth the 
 wicked contemn God ? he hath faid in his heart, 
 “ thou wilt not require it. Thou haft feen it ; for 
 “ thou beholdeft milchief and fpite to requite it 
 “ with thy hand : the poor committeth himfelf 
 “ unto thee ; thou art the help of the fatherlefs. 
 “ Lord,' thou haft heard the delirc of the humble : 
 “ thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt caufe 
 “ their ear to hear ; to judge the fatherlefs and 
 “ the opprefs’d, that the man of the earth may no 
 “ more opprefs.” — The adion lafted feven hours. 
 The Pruffians computed their lofs at 523 kill’d, a- 
 mong whom were the Generals Luderitz, D Oert- 
 zen, and Quadt, 600 wounded, and 250 taken 
 prifbners ; in all, I 373 ‘ The Auftrians own’d 19 
 officers kill’d, among whom was General Radicati, 
 and 105 wounded; 420 private men kill’d, and 
 1729 wounded; and 71 1 miffing; in all, 2984. 
 General Lafcy, on their fide, diftinguifti’d himfelf 
 by his condud and intrepidity. 
 
 October 16. The Saxon troops, inclos’d on eve- 
 ry fide, were obliged to furrender themfelvcs pri- 
 foners of war. They amounted to near r6ooo 
 men, according to an article in the Berlin Gazette- 
 
 Novemler 22. The Concord of 30 guns, one of 
 the beft frigates in the French navy, founder’d 
 upon fome rocks in her paflage from Morbihan to 
 Bourdeaux, and was irrecoverably loft; the men 
 and guns were fav’d. 
 
 December 30. Colonel Clive, -with the affiftance 
 of the fquadron under Admiral Watfon, made 
 
 him- 
 
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 Chronological Annals 
 
 felf mafter of the fort of Bufbudgia, which, though 
 4 place of ftrength, and capable of a good defence, 
 was taken with little lofs. 
 
 Supplies granted by Parliament for the fervice of the 
 year 1 756. 
 
 Seven millions two hundred twenty nine thou- 
 fand one hundred feventeen pounds, four {hillings, 
 fix pence three farthings. 
 
 December — The Juno, a French frigate cruif- 
 ing off Minorca, ftruck upon a rock at the en- 
 trance into Mahon harbour, and funkj but the 
 crew and guns were faved. 
 
 A lift of fame confiderable privateers and armed met- 
 chantmen^ taken by his Majefty's Jhips of war, 
 from the firft of December 1755. to the firft of 
 January 1757. 
 
 1755- 
 
 guns 
 
 men 
 
 A veflel of 
 
 20 
 
 
 Prince d’ Angola 
 privateer 
 
 i8 
 
 40 
 
 1756. 
 
 
 57 failors 
 
 A velTel of 
 
 H 
 
 183 foldiers 
 for Cape Breton 
 
 Le Grand Cerf of 
 
 22 
 
 225 
 
 Tht Rofe of 
 
 10 
 
 90 
 
 A privateer of 
 Dunkirk after a 
 
 8 carriage ( 
 
 ^ 86 
 
 fmart engagement 
 
 8 fuivcls \ 
 
 Grand Judeon 
 
 24 
 
 190 
 
 A Merchant Man 
 
 ' 22 
 
 
 captors 
 
 Savage (loop 
 Effcx 
 
 Orford 
 
 Tartar 
 C. Lockhart 
 Tartar 
 C. Lockhart 
 
 Hazard floop 
 
 Tartar 
 C. Lockhart 
 Briflol 
 
 Bigot 
 
Of the War. 
 
 13 
 
 175^- 
 
 1756. 
 
 guns 
 
 6 carriage 
 1 o fwivcU 
 
 men 
 
 captors 
 Difpatch (loop 
 
 Unicom 
 C. Edwards 
 
 Bigot privateer 
 of Dunkirk 
 Cigalle privateer 
 of St. Maloe 
 
 1757- 
 
 Jan. I and 2. T)Art of the fleet under Adml 
 
 batteries, which had been conflxuAed by the Na- 
 bob for the defence of Calcutta, with fuch fuccefs, 
 that upon the debarkation of the troops, they were 
 abandon’d ; the Englifh re-poflefs’d themfelves of 
 their demolilh’d fcttlement, and found a numerous 
 artillery on the batteries and in the fort. 
 
 Jan. 5. Captain Smith in the Bridgewater, with 
 a floop of war and all the arm’d boats of the fleet, 
 fail’d up the river to Hughley, a populous town 
 full of warehoiifes and magazines, which was re- 
 duced after a fliort but warm fire : in obedience to 
 orders, given with much reluftance, the houfes 
 were burnt, and all the magazines on both fides of 
 the river were efFeftually deftroy’d. 
 
 Jan . — The Captains Rogers and Speakraan, 
 with 70 Provincials under their command, wexc 
 attack’d on their return to Fort Edward near Lake 
 George or St. Sacrament, by a party of 200 French, 
 whom they obliged ro retreat after a very obftinate 
 engagement : the latter loft, at leaft, 50 men ; 
 Captain Speakman, Lieutenant Kennedy, with 16 
 private men, were kill’d on the fide of the Englifh ; 
 and Captain Rogers was wounded in feveral places. 
 
 Jan, 
 

 Chronological Annals i757* 
 
 Jan. The Vengeance Privateer of St. Maloe 
 
 fought the Terrible Privateer Captain Death, for 
 7 hours i the prize belonging to the Terrible Was 
 firft taken by the Vengeance, and then Captain 
 Death was attack’d by the joint force of thofe 
 fhips } at laft the Terrible ftruck, having only 26 
 men left out of 144 : the brave Captain loft his 
 life in this bloody engagement. The Vengeance 
 fuffer’d extremely, two thirds of her crew having 
 been deftroy’d •, almoft all the officers on both fides 
 were kill’d. The contributions which were gene- 
 roufly raifed for the relief of the furvivors, and the 
 widows of the (lain, amounted to upwards of 
 500 pounds. 
 
 Jan. — The Pondicherry, of 1000 tons, an 
 Eaft-India fhip, bound from China to Port L’Ori- 
 ent, and valued at 160,000 pounds fterling, was 
 taken by the Dover of 40 guns Captain Hill. 
 
 Jan. — The gallant Captain Fortiinatus Wright 
 of the King George privateer, fought the Hiron- 
 delle, a French polacco of a much fuperior force, 
 mounting 26 guns with 283 men-, and, after two 
 vigorous engagements, obliged Iier to put back ' 
 into Malta to refit. 
 
 yan. — The Greenwich of 50 guns, was taken 
 by a French fquadron, confifting of 5 fail of the 
 line and a frigate. 
 
 yan, — The Duke Packet, of‘8 carriage guns 
 6 fwivels and 26 men, was taken by the American 
 Privateer, of 10 carriage guns 16 fwivels and 110 
 men ; Captain Owen Phillips comtnanded the 
 packet, and engaged the privateer, about 6 leagues 
 
 to 
 
1757- War. 15 
 
 to windward of Cape-Tiberoon, for near eleven 
 glaffes. The crew of the packet were cruelly ufed 
 after the capture. 
 
 February 5. A detachment of feamen under 
 Captain Warwick, having join’d the land forces 
 commanded by Colonel Clive; the Colonel at- 
 tack’d the army of the Nabob, compos’d of horfe 
 and foot to the number of 40,000 men and up- 
 wards ; the Englilh artillery, confifting of fix fields 
 pieces and one haubitzer, play’d fo fuccefsfully on 
 the right and left, that the Nabob was diflodged 
 from his camp, and even obliged to abandon fome 
 of the polls that he took after his retreat. The 
 (mall army of the Englilh obtain’d this viftory 
 with inconfiderable lofs, having only 41 kill’d and 
 65 wounded. This fucccfs brought on a treaty 
 with the Nabob, by which the poffelfions, immu- 
 nities, and privileges of the Eaft-India Company 
 were confirm’d, fapsfaftion was to be made for 
 pall injuries, permilfion was given to fortify Cal- 
 cutta, and the Company were allow’d to coin 
 their own imports of bullion and gold into ficcas. 
 
 March 8. The Suffolk captain William Willbn, 
 Houghton C. jRichard Walpole, and Godolphin 
 C. William Hutchinfon, all in the fervice of the 
 Eaft-India Company, engag’d a French man of 
 war of 60 and a frigate of 26 guns, which they ob- 
 liged to ftieer off; and afterwards purfued their 
 voyage without interruption. 
 
 March 24 . Fifteen hundred men, under the 
 orders of the Governour of Canada, fent upon an 
 expedition to Fort -William -Henry on Lake 
 George or St. Sacrament, fet fire to, and deftroy’d, 
 4 brigantines from lo to 14 guns, two gallies with 
 
 50 oars. 
 
i6 Chronological Annals I757* 
 
 50 oars, upwards of 350 battoes, a large quantity 
 of Ihip-timbcr, a great number of field carriages, 
 and fome fmall magazines. The fort was preferv’d 
 by the want of wind. 
 
 March 23. Chandenagore, the chief of the 
 French fettlements in Bengal, fituated on a branch 
 of the Ganges, at a final! diftance below Hughley, 
 was reduced by Admiral Watfon and Colonel 
 Clive. This place was fortified with various out- 
 works and batteries, and contain’d a garrifon of 
 500 Europeans and 700 Blacks, with Ibme mor- 
 tars, and near 200 pieces of cannon mounted. The 
 French had fent away fome of their merchandize 
 and the beft part of their effeds. Befides ten Ihips, 
 funk above and below the Fort, tlie French loft 
 four floops and a fnow, which fell into the hands 
 of thc Englifli; they had 40 men killed and 70 
 wounded. On the jMrt of the Englilli, Mr. Sa- 
 muel Perreau firft Lieutenant, Mr. Rawlins Hey 
 tliird Lieutenant of the Kent, the Mailer of die 
 Tyger, and the fon of Captain Henry Speke were 
 kill’d, together with 32 private menj Admiral 
 Pocock, Mr. Stanton, and Captain Henry Speke 
 (the latter by the lame cannon ball which kill’d his 
 fi>n) were wounded, together with loo private 
 men. 
 
 April 21. The f)uke of Bevern, with about 
 20,000 men, defeated General Count Konigfegg 
 at the head of 28,000 men, who was advanta- 
 geoufiy polled at Reichenberg in Bohemia; the 
 Annans loft 1000 men in kill’d, wounded, and 
 pnfoners ; the Prufllans 300. 
 
 6, The King of Pruflia gain’d an Impor- 
 tant vuftcBy near Prague, over the Auftrian army- 
 
 corn- 
 
1757* Of the War. 17 
 
 commanded by Prince Charles of Lorrain and 
 Marfhal Browne. 4000 prifoners, (exdiifive of 
 the wounded and thofe taken in the purfuit) 60 
 pieces of battering cannon befides field pieces, 10 
 ftandards, and the military cheft, fell into the hands 
 of the conquerors. Marlhal Browne died of a 
 wound he receiv’d in -this battle, which was ren- 
 dred mortal by the chagrin that attended his de- 
 feat. The Prufiians loft 2500 kill’d and 3000 
 wounded j Marfhal Schwerin was in the number of 
 the former ; an aged General of confummate me- 
 rit, and the King of Pruflla’s mafter in the art of 
 war. The following compliment is the beft enco- 
 mium upon Marfhal Schwerin’s abilities ; his Pruf- 
 fian Majefty told him in the winter, that he in- 
 tended to give him the command of 40,000 men ; 
 upon looking over the lift of the regiments, the 
 Marfhal obferved to the King, that he could find 
 but 30,000-, I do’nt know, Marfhal, replied his 
 Majefty ; but including you, I am fure there are 
 full 40,000. — ^ — In confequence of the vidories at 
 Reichenberg and Prague, the King of Prulfia 
 made himfelf mafter of many confidcrable maga- 
 zines in the kingdom of Bohemia. 
 
 May 23 and 24. The Auftrian army befieg’d in 
 Prague, made a fally in the night, but were re- 
 puls’d with the lols of above 1000 men kill’d and 
 wounded. 
 
 May — The America of 600 tons from St. Do- 
 mingo, valued at 30,000 pounds, was taken and 
 brought into Yarmouth by the Squirrel. 
 
 The Superb of 750 tons, 24 guns, 50 Tea- 
 men and 250 fbldiers -, and the Renown of 350 
 tons, 12 guns, 86 feamen and foldiersj both from 
 
 B Bour- 
 
i8 Chronological Annals ^757* 
 
 Bourdeaivx to Quebec, and rich prizes, were taken 
 by the Somerfet Captain Geary, in company with 
 the Rochefter. 
 
 — The Aquilon man of war, of 48* guns, 
 450 men, was drove on Ihore, and deftroy’d, by 
 the Antelope of 50 guns, near la Hogue Bay. 
 
 The Merlin floop of war was taken by the 
 
 Machault privateer, and carried into Breft. 
 
 June 14. The French attack’d Kelfeld, in Weft- 
 phalia, ( 50 miles eaft of Munftcr) and carried it 
 after a vigorous refiftance ; the Count de Chabot 
 charg’d the rear of tte Hanoverians in their retreat, 
 without fuccefe. 
 
 June\^. The Kii^ of Proffia with 32,000 men> 
 attack’d Marlhal Daun at the head of near 6osooo 
 near Kollin j the latter was polled on a rifing 
 ground, defended by intrenchments, and by a nu- 
 merous and well ferv’d artillery. The aftion began 
 at half an hour after two in the afternoon, and 
 lafted till eight at night ; after feven different un- 
 fuccefsful attacks with his infantry, the King 
 brought up his houlhold troops and fome dragoons 
 to the charge, but with the fame bad fortune. His 
 iofs was prodigious in the battle, and its necelTary 
 eonfequences. The Auftrian Grenadiers behav’d 
 with remarkable intrepidity, and the Prince de 
 Lichtenllein direflcd the Artillery with judgment. 
 The kill’d and wounded, on the fide of the con- 
 querors, amounted to near 5000 men. 
 
 June 19. The town and fort of Cutwa, near the 
 idand of CalHriibuzar, was attack’d and taken by 
 Colon-.*! Clive. 
 
 Jitne 
 
19 
 
 I757* Of the War. 
 
 yu;fe 23. Colonel Clive, at the head of 1000 
 Europeans, 2000 Scapoys, 50 feamen under the 
 command of a lieutenant, with 7 midfliipmen, and 
 8 pieces of cannon, engag’d the army of the Suba 
 or Nabob of Bengal, in the plain of PlailTy, which 
 confifted of near 15,000 horfc and between 20 and 
 30,000 fewt, with upwards of 40 pieces of heavy 
 cannon direded by Frenchmen, in whom the Suba 
 placed great confidence. A grove, cover’d on 
 every fide by mud banks, in the midft of the plain, 
 Ihelter’d the Englilh from the enemy’s cannonade • 
 who withdrew their formidable artillery within their 
 camp, upon the falling of a fmart Ihower of rain : 
 Colonel Clive avail d himlelf of this capital error ; 
 and, by a well-plac’d detachment, prevented them 
 from bringing out their artillery any more. He 
 then ftorm’d the eminences near their camp; 
 which, together with the lofs of fome perfons of 
 diftinftion kill’d about this time, dilpiritfed the Na- 
 bob’s forces, and the right wing and center fled, 
 abandoning their camp and artillery : their lofs in 
 this decifive adion, was computed at about 500 
 men ; but their precipitate flight, and the number 
 of cannon taken, anfwer’d all the purpofes of the 
 moft bloody vidory. On the fide of the Englilh, 
 there were 20 kill’d and 50 wounded, the greatelt 
 part of which were Seapoys. Meer Jaffier, who 
 commanded the Nabob’s left wing, was in treaty 
 with the Englilh, and kept hovering at a diftance 
 with a great body of horfe, till the fate of the day 
 
 was determin’d. ^ In confequence of this fuc- 
 
 cefs. Colonel Clive was invited to Muxadavad, 
 wl^re he made his publick entry, and faw Meer 
 Jaffier feated in form upon the mufnud or carpet 
 of ftate, and unanimoufly faluted Suba of Bengal, 
 Bahar, and Orixa : the unfortunate Nabob Suraja 
 Dowlat was privately put to death in the 25th 
 
 B 2 year 
 

 20 Chronological Annals 1757* 
 
 year of his age j the treaty made with Meer Jaf- 
 fier, before his acceflion, was executed, as far as 
 the circumftances of the time would admit ; and 
 one moiety of the fum of two millions two hundred 
 and twelve thoufand five hundred pounds, was paid 
 in a fhort fpace ; and funds were afterwards af- 
 fign’d for the payment of the other ; the French 
 were for ever prohibited from fettling in the three 
 provinces •, the territory of the Company was en- 
 larg’d •, the Nabob engag’d to ered no new fortifica- 
 tion near the Ganges, below Hughley ; and he 
 gave the Company a leafe of the falt-petre of Pat- 
 na, which had formerly occafion’d continual dif- 
 putes between them and the Dutch. He allb dif- 
 tributed 625,000 pounds fterling between the fea 
 fquadron and the troops. The importance of thefe 
 events, juftifies the minute detail that has been 
 given of them. 
 
 June 26. Vizagapatam furrender’d to M. de 
 Bufly; the Chief, the Council, and all the Offi- 
 cers, civil and military, were made prifoners of 
 war on their parole ; the Europeans in the garri- 
 fon, to the number of 140, were to remain pri- 
 foners during the continuance of the war, unlefs 
 fooner exchang’d the country troops had leave to 
 retire where they pleas’d. The French fat down 
 before this place with 850 Europeans, 6000 Sea- 
 poys, and a fmall body of horfe. 
 
 yuKS 27. Lieutenant John Peighin, commander 
 of the James and John tender-, having receiv’d two 
 broadfides from a large fnow with a tier of guns 
 fore . and aft, and finding he could not board her 
 according to his- firft defign, order’d his men to 
 fire into her, which they did for an hour and an 
 half ; the floop at laft flood from the tender, and 
 
 Lieute- 
 
21 
 
 1/57* Of the War. 
 
 Lieutenant Peighin made for the Downs in a fhat- 
 ter’d condition. In January 1758, he had the com- 
 mand of the Alderney floop given him for his gal- 
 lant behaviour in this aftion. 
 
 June 28. Count Colloredo, Minifter Plenipoten- 
 tiary from the Emprefs Qiieen, acquainted Lord 
 Holdernefs by letter, that he had receiv’d orders 
 from his Miftrefs to leave the Kingdom, and defir’d, 
 the neceflary Paflports. 
 
 . June — The Borrine of 14 guns and 60 men, 
 with ftores for Canada, was taken, and brought 
 into Portfmouth, by the Harwich Capt. Rowley, 
 
 The Due d’ Aquitaine Eaft-Indiaman, of 
 
 50 guns 18 pounders, and 493 men, was taken by 
 the Eagle and Medway, after an engagement of 
 three quarters of an hour. 
 
 The Nymph of 32 guns, a French frigate, 
 
 M. de Caillan Commander, was deftroy’d by the 
 Hampton-Court, Captain Hervey, off Majorca. 
 
 July I, The Britannia privateer of Briftol, of 
 32 guns, nine and fix pounders, and 220 men. 
 Captain Fowler Commander, engag’d the Granville 
 Privateer very clofe, for three hours ; fhe mount- 
 ed 36 guns, viz. 22 nine, and 4 twelve pounders 
 on the main deck, 2 twelve pounders between 
 decks, and 8 four pounders on the quarter deck, 
 befides 5 fwivel guns; Ihe carried 278 men ; her 
 rigging being very confiderably damaged, the firi 
 and fecond Captains kill’d, and about 50 or 60 
 • private men kill’d and wounded, fhe was obliged 
 to Iheer off; three quarters of an hour afterwards, 
 fhe blew up ; all the crew perifhed, except 4 per- 
 
 B 3 fons 
 
22 Chronological Annals ^757* 
 
 Ions who were faved by the Britannia s boat. Xhc 
 Britannia’s rigging was cut to pieces ; but flie had 
 only 3 kill’d and nine wounded in this memorable 
 aftion. 
 
 July I, The Prince of Conti Indiaman, out- 
 ward bound for Pondicherry, M. Ic Mott Com- 
 mander, of 8oo tons, 50 guns eighteen, twelve 
 and nine pounders, and 195 men, was taken by 
 iive privateers j Ihe was laden with (tores, and had 
 a confiderable fum of money on board. 
 
 July 3. Embden furrender’d to the Marquis d* 
 Auvet, Commander of the French troops in Eaft 
 Frizeland : part of 400 Pruflians, who compos’d 
 the garrifon, went on board the Squirrel Captain 
 Hyde Parker ; the reft were made prifoners of 
 war. 
 
 July 5. The city of Memel furrender’d to the 
 RulTians. 
 
 July 13. The French took poirdTion of Caffcl. 
 
 July 16. Gottingen furrender’d to the Marquis 
 d’ Armentieres. 
 
 July 19 and 20. Oftend and Newport admitted 
 French garrifons, under the command of Lieute- 
 nant General de la Motte. 
 
 July 22. Colonel John Parker of the New-Jer- 
 fey Regiment, with 350 men, making an excur- 
 fion by water on Lake George or St. Sacrament, 
 fell into an ambufcade ; the French kill’d about 90 
 of this party, took upwards of too prifoners, the 
 reft made their efcape. 
 
’ 757 - 
 
 Of the War. 
 
 23 
 
 "Jiily — Gabel was taken by the Auftrians. 
 
 'July 23. Zittau, in upper Lufatia, was taken 
 fey the Auftrians, after a cannonade from eleven in 
 the morning till five in the evening : 547 houfes, 
 including brewhoules, two cathedrals, all the 
 fteeples except that of Bautzen, the orphan houfe, 
 eight parfonage houfes and eight fchools, the 
 town-hotilc, public weigh-houfe, and the prifon, 
 were laid in afees ; the archives, plate, and other 
 things of value, were confum’d. 
 
 July 25. The Southampton Captain Gikhrift, fell 
 in with two French frigates, and three fmall pri- 
 vateers, off the High-land of St. Albans ; he en- 
 gag’d one of them upwards of an hour and a half, 
 when fhe made fignals for the other to bear .down 
 to her afliftance \ Captain Gilchrift was put for 
 fome time between two fires j the firft fliip conti- 
 nued the engagement upwards of an hour longer, 
 till fhe receiv’d a whole broadfide, which filenc’d 
 her entirely : the other fliip then came up, fought 
 fmartly for about a quarter of an hour, after which 
 ftie dropt a-ftern. The Southampton was left a 
 perfedl wreck, and unable to purfue j flie receiv’d 
 eight very dangerous fliot between wind and w'a- 
 ter, had 10 men kill’d and 38 wounded, half of 
 them mortally : the frigate’s weight of metal was 
 the fame with that of the Southampton. 
 
 July 26. After fome fkirmiflies on the 24th and 
 25th, the French army, under the marflial DTtrees, 
 attack’d that of the Allies commanded by the 
 Duke of Cumberland, near Haftenbeck : the dif- 
 pute was long and vigorous ; but, in the end, his 
 Royal Highnefs found himfelf obliged to retreat 
 
 to 
 
24 Chronological Annals i757* 
 
 to Hamden. The hereditary prince of Brunfwick, 
 and the Colonels Bredenbach and Dachenhaufen, 
 diftinguilh’d ihemfelves in this engagement. The 
 lofs of the Allies, in the three days, amounted to 
 327 kill’d and 1127 wounded and miffing 5 by 
 a lift publiffi’d in France, the kill’d and wounded 
 of the enemy exceeded 2000 men. 
 
 July 28. Hamelen furrender’d to the French: 
 Hanover being no longer cover’d, the Regency 
 fent deputies to the French army, to treat about 
 the contributions. 
 
 July i\. The French took pofleffion of Min- 
 den. 
 
 Auguft I. The Sea-Horfe Captain Thomas Tay- 
 lor, and the Raven and Bonetta floops, engag’d 
 two Ihips from Breft, each of which carried 40 
 guns, fomething more than 12 pounders : the 
 aftion began at half an hour paft 12, off Oftend; 
 and the two French fhips bore away to the leeward, 
 at three quarters paft three. Captain Taylor, and 
 Captain Bover of the Raven, were wounded : the 
 Sea-Horfe had two men kill’d ; eight very dange- 
 roufly, and nine flightly wounded. The names of 
 the French frigates were, Le Chauvelin, and Le 
 Marechal de Bellifle ; the Sea-Horfe mounted 20 
 guns. 
 
 Auguft 9. The Marquis de Montcalm, with near 
 10,000 regular troops, Canadians, and Indians, 
 made himlelf mafter of Fort-William-Henry, after 
 a fhort fiege •, the garrifon, confifting of more than 
 2000 men, were difabled from ferving againft the 
 French or their allies, for the Ipace of 18 months; 
 the Marquis found magazines of provifions and 
 
 ftores 
 
^ 757 * War. 25 
 
 (lores in the fort, the former of which were of 
 of great fervice to him ; before he departed, he 
 raz’d the fort, and the buildings round it, to the 
 ground. 
 
 Augujl — The French took Poffeflion of Brunf- 
 wick and Wolfenbuttle. 
 
 Augujt 23. The French enter’d the Hanoverian 
 camp at Verden. 
 
 Auguji 23. Gueldres capitulated to the French 
 upon honourable conditions. 
 
 Aug. 24 and 25. The Prince Edward of 36 guns. 
 Captain William Fortefcue : engag’d, about 30 
 leagues from Scilly, a French (hip of 48 or 50 
 guns, from fix in the evening till feven ; they re- 
 newed the combat at eleven the fame night, which 
 lafted till one in the morning ; they fought a third 
 time, from five till paft eleven in the morning, 
 when the French (hip was oblig’d to (heer olf. 
 The Prince Edward had 10 men kill’d and 30 
 wounded. 
 
 Auguft 30. Marlhal Lehwald, with lefs than 
 30,000 men, attack’d 80,000 Ruffians under Mar- 
 lhal Apraxin, near Grofs Jaegerldorf, or Norkitten 
 in Pruffia ; the battle was obftinate and bloody, 
 and both fides had fome pretenfions to vidiory : 
 three thoufand Pruffians were kill’d and wounded, 
 and the Ruffians left 8000 men on the field of 
 battle : the latter occupied a very advantageous 
 Camp, fortified with a great number of cannon. 
 
 Auguji — The Merlin (loop of war was retaken, 
 and brought into Plymouth by the Rochefter and 
 Chichefter. Sep. 
 
26 
 
 Chronological Annals. i7S7* 
 
 September i. At 7 o’clock in the evening, a- 
 bout 19 leagues to windward of Barbadoes, the 
 Fawkner packet captain John Humphry, was at- 
 tack’d by a Schooner privateer of 14 guns and 
 near 140 men *, a dole engagement began, which 
 continued for four glafles, when the privateer 
 Iheer’d off; at 10 o’ clock the next nrorning Ihe 
 attack’d the packet again for four glafles more, and 
 was forced to flieer off a fecond time ; at one Ihe 
 made a third attack, hoifting her bloody flag, and 
 order’d the packet to ftrike : but after fighting 
 for two glafles, her men abandon’d their quarters, 
 and the packet got fafe into Barbadoes the next 
 day. Captain Humphry had eight carriage guns 
 and twenty fix men. 
 
 September — The Swedes invaded Pfuflian Po- 
 merania. 
 
 September — The city of Bremen was taken ' 
 poflelTion of, by the French. j 
 
 September 6 . Bautzen was taken by General 
 Haddick. 
 
 September 7. The Generals Nadafti and D’Arcm- 
 berg, attack’d and forced an eminence near Hen- 
 nerfdorf, planted with cannon, and defended by 
 three Prulfian battalions ; General Winterfeld was 
 kill’d by a cannon ball, as he march’d out of his 
 camp to fupport the eminence •, upon which, his 
 troops retir’d to the Neifs. This affair coft the 
 Pruflians 1000 men, 6 pieces of cannon, and as 
 many colours. The lofs of the Auftrians was con- 
 fiderable. 
 
 Sep' 
 
* 757 - 
 
 Of the War. 
 
 27 
 
 September — The Auftrians enter’d Gorlitz, 
 upon the retreat of the prince of Bevern. 
 
 September 8. A convention was fign’d at the 
 camp at Clofter-Seven, by which the troops of 
 Heffe, Brunfwick, Saxe-Gotha, and Lippe-Bucke- 
 bourg, were to be fent back to their refpeftive 
 countries ; fifteen Hanoverian battalions, and fix 
 fquadrons, were to pafs the Elbe ; the remaining 
 ten battalions, and twenty eight fquadrons, with 
 the whole body of Hunters, were to be placed in 
 the town of Stade, or canton’d within the line, 
 drawn between the mouth of the Luhe in the Elbe, 
 and the mouth of Elmerbeck in the Ofte, and not 
 to be recruited on any pretext whatfoever •, and the 
 French were to keep all the pofts and countries, of 
 which they were then in pofleflion. 
 
 September 8. The Efcarboucle, a French frigate 
 of 16 guns and no men, was carried into Guern- 
 fey by the Ifis. 
 
 September 13. The Ruffian army retreated out of 
 Pruffia,. with great precipitation. 
 
 September 23. The Magnanime Captain How, 
 and the Barfleur, C. Greaves, part of Sir Edward 
 Hawke’s fquadron, obliged the garrifon in the fort 
 of Aix, to ftrike their colours, and furrender j 
 eight mortars and thirty pieces of cannon were 
 found in the fort, the works of which were blown 
 up and demolifh’d. 
 
 Sept. 24 and 2 5. The fleet under the command 
 of Vice-Admiral Holbourne fuffer’d great Damage 
 in a ftorm j towards the evening of the 24th, they 
 
 were 
 

 28 Chronological Annals I757* 
 
 were about ten leagues fouth of Louifburg, when it 
 began to blow very hard at eaft ; but veering round 
 to the fouthward, it blew a perfe< 5 t hurricane till 
 near eleven the next day. Ten Ihips of the line were 
 difmafted, eighty guns thrown over-board, and 
 ten men drown’d : the Tilbury of 60 guns captain 
 Barnfley, drove on the rocks off Cape Foucett, and 
 was loft: out of all the Officers, three Lieute- 
 nants, one Lieutenant of Grenadiers, two Mafter’s 
 Mates, and nine Midffiipmen were faved ; part 
 of the private feamen were alfo providentially pre- 
 ferv’d. 
 
 September The Prince of Bevern abandon’d 
 Lignitz in Silefia, to the Auftrians. 
 
 September 29. Sir John Mordaunt and the land 
 Officers agreed, in a council of war, to return to 
 England, Sir John was afterwards tried, by a ge- 
 neral court martial, for the failure of the expedi- 
 tion to Rochfort, and was unanimoully and ho- 
 nourably acquitted of the charge exhibited againft 
 him. 
 
 October — • The Lutinc a French frigate, foun- 
 der’d in a ftorm at fea, and every Perfon perilh’d. 
 
 O£iob. 1 6. General Haddick enter’d the fuburbs 
 of Berlin, and levied a contribution of 200,000 
 crowns upon that city. 
 
 October 21. The Augufta of 60 guns 390 
 men. Captain Arthur Foreft, with the Dread- 
 nought Captain Suckling of 60 guns 375 men, and 
 the Edingburgh Captain Langdon of 64 guns 467 
 men, had the confidence to engage a French fqua- 
 dron, off Cape Franfois, compofed of the follow- 
 ing 
 
Of the War. 
 
 » 757 - 
 
 29 
 
 ing line of battle fhips and frigates — The Intre- 
 pide of 74 guns 900 men M. de Kerfin, the Scep- 
 tre of 74 guns 750 men M. Clavau, the Opiniatre 
 of 64 guns 640 men M. de Molean, the Green- 
 wich of 50 guns 400 men M. de Faucault, the 
 Outarde of 44 guns 350 men, the Sauvage of 30 
 guns 200 men, and the Unicorn of 30 guns 200 
 men. The adlion began about 20 minutes after 
 three in the afternoon, with great brifltnefs on both 
 fides, and continued for two hours and an half, 
 when the French Commodore made a fignal, arid 
 one of the frigates immediately came to tow him 
 out of the line, and the reft of the French Ihips 
 followed him. The Englifh fhips had fuffer’d fo 
 much in their mafts, fails, and rigging, that they 
 were unable to purfue them. The lois of the 
 French amounted to near 500 kill’d and wound- 
 ed •, that of the Englifh only to 23 kill'd and 89 
 wounded. 
 
 November 5. The King of Pruflia with lefs than 
 
 20.000 men, attack’d the combin’d army of French 
 and Imperialifts, near Rofbach, amounting to 
 
 50.000 fighting men, and gav^e them an entire de- 
 feat ; three thoufand of the enemy were left on the 
 field of battle ; and, in the courfe of the aflion 
 and purfuit, eight French Generals, 250 Officers of 
 different ranks, and 6000 common men were made 
 prifoners i fixty three pieces of cannon, 1 5 ftand- 
 ards, two pair of kettle drums, and feven pair of 
 colours were taken. The Count de Revel, bro- 
 ther to the Duke de Broglio died, at Merfeburg, 
 of his wounds. The vanquifh’d army was com- 
 manded by the Princes Soubife and Saxe-Hild- 
 berghaufen. The lofs of the Pruffians in kill’d 
 and wounded did not amount to 300 men. 
 
 No- 
 
Chronological Annals 1757. 
 
 30 
 
 November 12. The Auftrians took Schweidnitz, 
 the garrifon of 4000 cff^ive men furrendering 
 themfelves prifoners of war. 
 
 November — The garrifon of Schweidnitz, on 
 hearing the News of the King of Pruflia’s vidory 
 at Rolbach, fell upon their efcourt, and defeated 
 it; and afterwards join’d the King upon his 
 march. 
 
 4 November 22. The Hermione frigate of 26 thir- 
 teen pounders and 2 nine pounders, was taken, af- 
 ter a five hours engagement, by the Unicorn of 
 28 guns Captain Moore. 
 
 November 22. Prince Charles of Lorrain, and 
 Marflial Daun, attack’d and forced the intrench- 
 ments of the Prince of Bevern, near Breflau. The 
 heat of the adion lafted near five hours ; and the 
 Auftrians purchas’d vidory with the blood of their 
 beft troops ; General Wurben on their fide, and 
 General Kleift on that of the Prufllans, were kill’d 
 in this defperate engagement. The Prince of Be- 
 vern was taken prifoner in the morning of the 
 24th, as he was reconnoitring the pofition of the 
 Auftrian army. 
 
 November 23. The Huflar of 28 guns Captain 
 Elliot, together with the Dolphin of 24 guns, funk 
 a two-deck d trench fliip^ with one tier of guns 
 mounted ; not a fingle man was laved. 
 
 November's. The City of Brefiau capitulated; 
 and the garrifon had leave to depart, on condition 
 ot their not ferving againft the Emprefs Queen, 
 during the whole courfe of the war, 
 
 De- 
 
1757 - 
 
 Of the War. 
 
 3 * 
 
 Deemher The King of Pruflla left Leipfick 
 on the 1 2th of November; and after having pafs’d 
 the Elbe at Torgau, be purfued his march with all 
 diligence, by Groflenhayn, Koninglbruck, Ca- 
 mentz, Bautzen, Gorlitz, Naumburg on the C^eifs, 
 Deutmanfdorf, Lobedau, and arrived at Parchnitz 
 near the Oder on the 28 th, where he was join’d by 
 the Prince of Bevern’s army on the 2d of Decem- 
 ber, which had crofs’d the Oder at Glogau. On the 
 4th the King proceeded to Newmarck, and on the 
 5th gave battle to Prince Charles and Marflial 
 Daun near the village of Leuthen, obtain’d a moft 
 amazing viftory, and purfued the Auftrians as far 
 as Lifla. The Pruffian Officers and common fol- 
 diers behav’d to admiration in the aftion. In this, 
 and the following days of purfuit, the Auftrians 
 loft 307 Officers and 2 1 500 foldiers made prifoners, 
 befides 1 16 pieces of cartnon, 51 colours and ftand- 
 ards, and 4000 waggons of ammunition and bag- 
 gage taken. Their kill’d amounted to 6000 men. 
 The Pruffians eftimated their lofs at no more than 
 500 kill’d and 2300 wounded. This famous adion 
 began at one o’ clock in the afternoon, and ended 
 at four. The Auftrian army was at leaft, one 
 third more numerous, than that of the King of 
 Pruffia. 
 
 December 6. The Bien Acquis, or Abenakife, a 
 French frigate of 38 guns and 300 men Captain 
 M’Cartney, was brought up to Portfmouth by the 
 Chichefter Capt. Willet. ^ 
 
 December 20. The city of Breflau furrender’d to 
 the King of Pruffia, and the garrifon of near 
 14,000 men fick and wounded included, were made 
 prifoners of war. 144,000 florins were found in the 
 
 mill- 
 
32 Chronological Annals i757* 
 
 military cheft; 37 pieces of Pruflian cannon loft 
 in the aftion of the 22d, were retaken, with 44 
 pieces of Auftrian cannon, and all the artillery of 
 the place. 
 
 December 29. Lignitz furrender’d to the King of 
 Prullia. 
 
 December 29. The cattle of Harburg capitulated, 
 and the garrifon obliged themfelves not to ferve 
 againft the King of Great Britain during the War. 
 The Kings of Great Britain and France mutually 
 accufed each other of infringing the capitulation of 
 Clofter Seven. 
 
 December 29. The Swedes in Demmin capitu- 
 lated. 
 
 December 30. The Swedes abandon’d Anclam, 
 which Marflial Lehwald took pofleflion of, and 
 found in it 1 50 prifoners with a confiderable ma- 
 gazine of provifions and amunition, feveral pieces 
 of iron cannon, and a large quantity of regimental 
 cloathing. 
 
 Before the end of the year, the Pruflian General 
 Werner, with a corps of cavalry, took polTefllon of 
 Jagerndorf, Troppau, and Telfchen in Upper Si- 
 lefia. 
 
 Supplies granted by Parliament for the fervice of the 
 year 1757. 
 
 Eight millions, three hundred fifty thoufand, 
 three hundred twenty five pounds, nine Ihillings. 
 and three pence. 
 
 Aliji 
 
A lifi of many conjiderahle privateers and armed merchantmeny taken by bis MajeJiys 
 Jhips of war from the oj December December i757- 
 
 January. guns. 
 
 A French privateer * 
 drove afhore on the lo 
 
 coaft of France 
 La Gloire privateer 
 A cutter privateer burnt 6 
 
 A fiiip of war 12 
 
 A privateer 
 
 A fmall privateer 
 The Vi6tory,a merchant- 
 man ' ^ ^ 
 
 February. 
 
 The Swan of Calais 6 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 by the Hunter floop. 
 
 Prince Edward. 
 
 Mermaid and Eagle. 
 
 Otter floop Captain Harrifon. 
 Ditto. — made a Poft-Captain 
 for his gallant behaviour. 
 Scorpion and Ranger fioops. 
 blown up by the Trial (loop 
 Captain Falkingham. 
 
 50 Diligence fioop. 
 
 
 04 
 
 04 
 
 Of the War. 
 

 guns. 
 
 men. 
 
 captors. 
 
 Prince of Soubife 
 privateer 
 
 14 - carriage 
 10 fwivels 
 
 100 
 
 by the Dunkirk. 
 
 A privateer 
 
 10 carriage 
 
 *50 
 
 Porcupine floop. 
 
 St. Thomas of Dieppe 
 
 6 
 
 45 
 
 Hazard fioop. 
 
 Poft-Boy of Morlaix 
 
 10 
 
 
 Fire-Drake floop. 
 
 Duke de Penthievre 
 
 12 
 
 
 Aldborough. 
 
 Badger floop Captain Taylor, 
 
 A Dogger privateer 
 
 6 
 
 
 afterwards promoted to the Sea- 
 horfe. 
 
 A privateer Ketch 
 
 8 Iwivels 
 
 60 
 
 Bonetta fioop. 
 
 The Revenge Privateer. 
 
 10 carriage 
 
 70 
 
 Lyme Captain Vernon. 
 
 Glaneur Privateer , 
 
 1 6 
 
 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 A Privateer 
 
 18 
 
 180 
 
 Tartar Captain Lockhart. 
 
 A Privateer 
 
 1 6 eight pounders 
 
 150 
 
 Badger floop Captain Taylor. 
 
 The Badger mounted only 12 guns fix pounders; the engagement 
 lafted two hours; the Privateer had 53 men kill’d; the Badger 7 kill’d; 
 the Captain and others wounded ; the Badger was much fliatter’d in the 
 addon. 
 
 Chronologicai- Anwals 
 
guns. 
 
 men, captors. 
 
 The Mount Ofier Privateer 20 nine pounders by the Tartar Captain Lockhart. 
 
 She boarded the Tartar, after fhe had ftruck her colours, but was repulfed 
 with great lofs. 
 
 n 
 
 March . 
 
 Entreprenant privateer 
 
 Le Procureur privateer 
 
 Infernal privateer of 
 Havre de Grace 
 
 Victory of Havre a new 
 privateer 
 
 16 
 
 6 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 6 fix pounders 
 8 four pounders 
 6 fwivels 
 
 26 nine pounders 
 befides fwivels 
 
 13O Lyme Capt. Vernon. 
 
 36 Grampus floop Cap.Knackftone. 
 
 Happy Sloop Capt. Burnet: who 
 73 was made a Poft-Captain in May 
 
 for- his bravery. 
 
 230 Tartar. 
 
 La Vifloire privateer 
 fchooner 
 
 A Privateer floop 
 
 The engagement lafted an hour and an half ; Captain Baillle commanded 
 during the indifpofition of Captain Lockhart ; this Ihip was afterwards pur into 
 commilfion under the name of the Tartar’s Prize, and the command given to 
 the gallant Captain Baillie. 
 
 10 carnage 
 20 fwivels 
 10 carriage 
 20 fwivels 
 
 109 Blandford Captain Middleton. 
 Ditto. 
 
 
 1757. Op tub War. 
 
April. 
 
 ■ .The Ruto^ (rotn St.. Ma- 
 loe to I^ouifburg with 
 ftores prov'ilions and lol- 
 diers 
 
 The general Sally priva- 
 teer 
 
 guns. 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 o> 
 
 22 nine pounders 
 
 by the York Capt. Pi^tt •, he 
 took two other ftore (hips at the 
 fame time. 
 
 I lO 
 
 Due d’Aiguiilion 
 
 264 
 
 Flamborough, 
 
 Tartar Captain Lockhart. 
 
 wounded. 
 
 La'Victoire of Bayonne 
 Ruby of St. Maloe 
 A Ihip from Marfeilles to 
 
 Mart in ICO 
 
 14 carnage 
 4 Swivels 
 24 nine pounders 
 
 2 four pounders ’ , 
 
 The nrivateer was a Ihip of 500 tons, and each large g«n weigh d 300 
 poJniE“Aan\heTaL,'sfih^ 
 
 entrafrement of one hour and twelve minutes; Ihe had 50 men kill d and 
 Woumied -, the Tartar fired broadfidea, and had four kiUd and one 
 
 26 nine pounders 
 4 fwivels 
 14 carriage 
 
 340 
 
 j 10 
 150 
 
 Somerfet, Devonlhlre and Ro- 
 cheftcr. 
 
 Low'cftofTe Captain Gambier. 
 Fortune floop of T4 guns 100 
 men Captain Hotham ; and car- 
 
 Chronological Annals 1757. 
 
guns. 
 
 La Fortune privateer 
 
 The Chevalier Baft 
 Dunkirk. 
 
 May 
 
 Le Faucon privateer 
 L’Automne privateer 
 
 nArdencour privateer 
 
 LO 
 
 La Difficulte privateer 
 Lantore privateer 
 
 Invincible of St. Maloe 
 
 lO 
 
 of I o carriage 
 8 fwivels 
 
 lO 
 
 4 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 14 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 6 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 8 carriage 
 
 24 nine pounders 
 
 men. 
 
 78 
 
 48 
 
 86 
 
 57 
 
 45 
 
 286 
 
 captors. 
 
 by the St. Anne and Princefs of 
 Wales arm’d Ihips. 
 
 Solebay Capt. Craig i with 3 Ran- 
 fomers on board. 
 
 Swallow and Cruizer floops. 
 Falmouth, 
 
 Trident, Hind and Loweftoffe. 
 LoweftofFe. 
 
 Stafford, Sheernels and Seaford. 
 Unicorn of 20 guns Cap, Rawlins, 
 who being kill’d in the aftion. 
 Lieu. Clements fucceeded to the 
 command, and carried the Priva- 
 teer into Crookhaven. 
 
 
 
 1757. Of the War. 
 
Le Poftniion privateer 
 
 La Philippine privateer 
 
 Countefs of Noialles priv. 
 La Penelope of Morlaix 
 
 La Marquife du Barafl 
 
 A Dogger privateer 
 
 L’Heurufc Union Privat. 
 A Privateer 
 
 Le Nouveau Saxon Pri- 
 vateer 
 
 A Privateer 
 A Schooner privateer 
 
 suns. men. 
 
 12 70 
 
 6 carriage ^ 
 
 6 fwivels ^ 
 
 1 4 fix pounders 119 
 
 18 iSo 
 
 12 carriage 
 6 fwivek 
 
 6 carriage 
 
 5 fwivels 
 
 6 50 
 
 16 1 5° 
 
 S 38 
 
 10 85 
 
 captors. 
 
 burnt b}? the Rjoehefter. 
 
 Grampus floop. 
 
 Unicotn Lieutenant Clements. 
 
 Tartar C^atd Lockhart. 
 
 Dolphin. 
 
 drove on fhore near Oftend by 
 two Cutters under the command 
 of Mr. Barkley one of Admiral 
 Smith’s Midfliipmen. 
 
 Antelope- 
 
 Hound floop and St. Anne- 
 
 Lancafter and Dunkirk. 
 
 carried into Port Royal by the 
 Lively. 
 
 carried into Port Royal by the 
 Lynn- 
 
 Chronological AnNals ^757* 
 

 guns. 
 
 Due d’Aumont of Dun- 
 kirk 
 
 12 ffx pounders 
 4 four pounders 
 
 6 fwivels 
 
 Prince de Conti with fu- 
 
 14 carriage 
 
 gar, coffee and indigo. 
 Le Conte de Gramont. 
 
 36 
 
 drivateer 
 
 Jean Baprift of St. Malo 
 
 8 
 
 Privateer of Dieppe 
 
 8 
 
 A Privateer 
 
 16 
 
 Mars of Bayonne 
 
 16 
 
 A Schooner privateer 
 Telemachus privateer of 
 
 4 
 
 Marfcilles, with 30 muf- 
 quetoons and 250 ftands 
 of fmall arms 
 
 22 
 
 Urfula privateer 
 
 8 carriage 
 12 iwivels 
 
 men. 
 
 lOO 
 
 40 
 
 370 
 
 41 
 go 
 
 180 
 
 400 
 
 *56 
 
 ca.ptors. '<1 
 
 by the Grampus floop Captain 
 Allen. 
 
 St. Albans. 
 
 Lancafter and Dunkirk. 
 
 Rochefter Captain Du£F. 
 Aldborough. 
 
 Hind. 
 
 York. 
 
 Ditto- 
 
 boarded and taken by the Expe- 
 rlnient of 24 guns 135 men. 
 Captain Strahan, 
 
 Dolphin Captain Marlow. (si, 
 
 O 
 
 ►4 
 
 X 
 
 > 
 
Port-Mahbn of St. Maloe 
 A PrivaKer 
 
 A Dogger* Privateer of 
 Sk Maloe ‘ 7 ‘; " 
 
 A large Cutter privateer ' 
 A Show prfvateer 
 Prince Turenne pri- 
 vateer 
 
 Cojntfe ■ 3 e Harville of 
 .Bourdeaux 
 i^receaux of St. Maloe 
 L’Hiver of Brelt 
 
 Vainqueur privateer 
 
 Comte de Florentine 
 A privateer 
 
 A fnow privateer of Breft 
 
 guns. 
 
 14 carriage 
 4 
 14 
 
 10 
 
 16 
 
 26 
 
 6 
 
 24 nine & twelve 
 pounders 
 
 16 
 
 16 
 
 14 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 1 14 Sheernefs. 
 
 22 Brighthelmftone Cutter. 
 
 P4 
 
 Rochefter. 
 
 Medway arm’d Buis. 
 
 84 
 
 All ithree by the Ilis Captain 
 180 Wheeler. 
 
 240 
 
 50 Lizard Captain Vincent Pierce. 
 
 350 Arabufcade Captain Gwynn. 
 
 4 *. 
 
 O 
 
 Eflex. 
 
 ICO Litchfield and Centaur. 
 
 133 Loweftafie captain Haldane. 
 
 Chronological Annals i757* 
 
September. 
 
 Obioher. 
 
 guns. 
 
 A Privateer 
 
 2 carriage 
 6 fwiveJs 
 
 A Schooner privateer. 
 
 6 carriage 
 
 Prince de ia Borde 
 A large privateer 
 
 10 
 
 A privateer 
 
 Two ftout privateers 
 
 16 
 
 cruifing to the wind- 
 ward of Barbadoes 
 Countcfs of Grammont 1 8 
 
 A ftore ftip from Marti- 
 nico to Hifpaniola 
 
 men. 
 
 24 
 
 54 
 
 ”5 
 
 J55 
 
 captors. 
 
 by the Wolf floop and Flambo- 
 rough’s Prize. 
 
 Ifis. 
 
 Rochefter and Unicorn, 
 carried into Antigua by the Cam- 
 bridge Commodore Moore, 
 carried into Antigua by the A- 
 mazon. 
 
 Blandford of 20 guns Captain 
 Cummin. 
 
 Tartar Captain Lockhart, 
 lent into Jamaica by an Englilh 
 man of war. 
 
 Of the War. 
 
November. 
 
 guns. 
 
 The Mdampe priva- 
 teer of Bayonne of 
 yoo tons 
 
 St. Louis of Dunkirk 
 pierced for 
 Hazard -privateer 
 A fmall privateer 
 A fchooner privateer of 
 Cape Breton 
 A privateer 
 A privateer 
 
 Moras privateer of Bay- 
 onne 
 
 A privateer 
 
 A privateer fent into 
 Lifbon 
 
 3^ 
 
 lO 
 
 4 
 
 lO 
 
 i6 
 
 2^ carriage 
 12 fwivels 
 12 carriage 
 
 men. 
 
 320 
 
 33 
 
 120 
 
 245 
 
 captors. 
 
 Tartar Captain Lockhart of 28 
 guns 200 men. The Meiampe 
 was afterwards purchased by the 
 Government, and the command 
 given to Captain Hotham. 
 
 Southampton Captain Gilchrift, 
 
 Pallas Juno and Shannon, 
 
 Pallas. 
 
 Gofport, 
 
 M 
 
 O 
 
 s 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 l-H 
 
 o 
 
 > 
 
 V 
 
 Lynn. 
 
 blown up by Ditto. § 
 
 taken by the Antelope Captain > 
 Saumarez. ^ 
 
 Nottingham. 
 
 Greyhound. 
 
 ijrx 
 
 * 
 
Two fnows and a privateer fchooner, deftroy’d in Tiberon Bay by the Afllftance Captain 
 Weller. One of the fnows was the Duke packet, taken laft January, and mounted 1 8 guns. 
 Thefe veffels were defended by a battery of 5 guns. 
 
 December. 
 
 Le Frere of Dunkirk 
 
 A privateer 
 
 The Diamond, richly la- 
 den with a cargo of the 
 fineft furs 
 
 Dragon, a new privateer 
 of Bayonne 
 
 Intrepid of Bayonne 
 
 A lugfail boat of Dieppe 
 
 A large fliip mounting 
 
 guns. 
 
 men. 
 
 10 
 
 55 
 
 14 
 
 120 
 
 14 
 
 70 
 
 24 nine pounders 
 
 284 
 
 many fwivels 
 
 14 
 
 130 
 
 6 
 
 16 
 
 captors. 
 
 Difpatch Captain Hodges. 
 
 A man of war, off the Lands End. 
 
 blew up in firing herftern chafe 
 at the Brilliant i only 27 men 
 were faved. 
 
 taken by the Coventry. 
 
 funk by the Brilliant*, the crew 
 was faved in the Brilliant’s 
 boats. 
 
 taken by the Shannon 
 
 burnt by the French in Tiberon 
 Bay to prevent her falling into 
 the hands of the Augufta. 
 
 Of the War. 
 

 guns. 
 
 A privateer 
 
 8 carriage 
 10 fwivels 
 
 A privateer 
 
 4 carriage 
 8 fwivels 
 
 A fnow of 
 
 12 carriage 
 
 A fmalt privateer fchoon- 
 
 
 Eight merchantmen and 
 a brigantine, the richeft 
 fhips that ever laiFd 
 from Port au Prince 
 A large letter of marque 
 Ihip, with 400 hoglheads 
 of fugar, fome iudigo, 
 cotton, and coffee 
 
 A privateer fchoorter 
 
 4 carnage 
 4 fwivels 
 
 captors. 
 
 taken by the boats of the Marl- 
 borough, Augufta, and Prin- 
 cefs Mary, 
 
 Ditto. 
 
 by the Hornet Hoop off Cape 
 Rola. 
 
 Ditto. 
 
 taken by the Augufta Captain 
 Arthur Foreft, under the or- 
 ders of Vice-Admiral Cotes, 
 
 taken in fight of the Havannah 
 by the Wager Captain Shur- 
 mur. 
 
 carried into Barbadoes by the 
 Falkland. 
 
 Chronological Annals 1757. 
 
Of THE War. 
 
 45 
 
 1758. 
 
 1758- 
 
 January 2. A Merchant-man of 300 tons, 8 
 guns, 23 feamen, and 19 foldiers, 
 was taken by the Sterling-Caftle and Eflex, and 
 another merchant-man of 350 tons, 20 prriage 
 guns, 10 fwivels, 61 feamen and 20 foldiers, by 
 the Loweftoffe ; both bound to Louifburg, with 
 provifions. 
 
 Jan. 17 and 18. Captain Richard Tyrrell of the 
 Buckingham, in company with the Cambridge, 
 deftroy’d a fort in Grand Ance Bay which mounted 
 feven guns 18 and 24 pounders, and made himfelf 
 matter of four privateers j near 90 Frenchmen 
 were kill’d in this adfion : he afterwards took a 
 fchooner, and oblig’d the inhabitants to fink an- 
 other privateer, to prevent her from falling into his 
 hands. — The failors, flufh’d with viftory, earnett- 
 ly defir’d permiflion to dettroy, a village that lay 
 clofe to the fort, to whom their generous Com- 
 mander made this remarkable anfwer, “ Gentle- 
 “ men, its beneath us to render a number of poor 
 “ people miferable, by dettroying their habitations, 
 “ and little conveniencies of life j brave Englilh- 
 “ men fco^rn to dittrefs even their enemies, when 
 “ not in arms againtt them.” This prevail’d ; his 
 people anfwer’d him with three cheers, weigh’d 
 anchor, and failed. 
 
 Jan. 22. The Ruffians took pofleffion of Ko- 
 ningfberg, the capital of Pruffia. 
 
46 Chronological Annals 
 
 Jan. — The Opiniatre of 64 guns, and the 
 Greenwich of 50, were loft in a fudden fquall of 
 wind, as they were going into the harbour of 
 Breft; their cargoes were valuable, out of which 
 little was faved, except indigo in a bad condition. 
 
 February 18, The Marquis de Ville, diflodg’d 
 the Pruffians from Troppau, ,in upper Silefia. 
 
 Feb. 19. The Invincible of 74 guns Capt. Bent- 
 ley, ran afhore on a Ihoal of land call’d the Dean, 
 about four miles to the fouthward of South Sea 
 Caftle, and was loft ; the men, ftores, and moft 
 of the guns were faved. 
 
 Feb. 20. The caftle of Rottenbourg furrendet’d 
 to the Hanoverians, after a refiftance of fix hours, 
 and the garrifon of about 1 50 men were made Pri- 
 foners of war. 
 
 Feb. 23. The French evacuated the city of Bre- 
 men. 
 
 Feb. 23. The Hereditary Prince of Brunfwick, 
 with two battalions of Hanoverians, two of Brunf- 
 wickers, and fome hundred Chafieurs, Huflars, 
 and light troops, attack’d and made himfelf mafter 
 of the town of Hoya upon the Wefer ; the adtion 
 was ftiarp and memorable j many of the French 
 were kill d, and 670 made prifoners : the Count 
 de Chabot retreated with two battalions into the 
 caftle; to whom the hereditary Prince granted an 
 honourable capitulation, on the condition of his 
 leaving all the cannon, amunition, and provifions 
 
 and wound- 
 ed, did not amount to 100 men. 
 
 Feb. 
 
Of the War. 
 
 47 
 
 1758' 
 
 Feb. 26. The Marquis d’ Armentiers, and the 
 Marquis de Rpchepine, withdrew the French gar- 
 rifon from Zell. 
 
 Feb. 28. The Prince de Clermont, and the Duke 
 de Randan, evacuated Hanover. 
 
 Feb. 28 and 29. The Revenge of 64 guns Cap- 
 tain Storr, fupported by the Berwick of 64 guns 
 Captain Hughes, and the Prefton of 50 guns Cap- 
 tain Evans, took the Orphee of 64 guns 502 men, 
 commanded by M. de Flerville ; and the Mon- 
 mouth of 64 guns Captain Gardiner, fupported by 
 the Swiftfure of 70 guns Captain Stanhope, and the 
 Hampton Court of 64 guns Captain Harvey, took 
 the Foudroyant of 80 guns 800 men, on board of 
 which was the Marquis d« Quefne, Chef d’ Efcadre : 
 the Mounugu of 60 guns Captain Rowley, and 
 the Monarch of 74 guns Captain Mountagu, ran 
 the Oriflamme of 50 guns on ikore under the caftle 
 of Aiglos, but Ipared her out . of refpedt to the 
 neutrality of the coaft of Spain : the Pleiade of 24 
 guns, outfailed the Englifli fhips, and elcaped. 
 — ^ Captain Storr loft the calf of one of his legs, 
 and Captain Gardiner was kill’d ; Lieutenant Car- 
 ket fucceeded to the Qommand of the Monmouth, 
 and continued the engagement with diftinguifli’d 
 bravery. During the -adlion. Admiral Ofborne, 
 with the body of his fquadron, ftood off the Bay 
 of Carthagena, to watch the French fleet, in that 
 harbour, under the command of M. de la Clue. 
 The Foudroyant and Orphee fuffer’d fo feverely in 
 the battle, that they probably would have furren- 
 der’d to the Monmouth and Revenge, if no other 
 Ihips had came up. 
 
 March 
 
48 Chronological Annals 175^* 
 
 March 3. Six hundred Pruflian Dragoons and 
 Huffars, attack’d and defeated, near Lauenau, a 
 party of 60O French horfe and 300 foot, of which 
 300 were kill’d and 176 made prifoners. 
 
 Mar. — Minden furrender’d to the Hanove- 
 rians, and the garrifon of 3516 men were made 
 prifoners of war. 
 
 Mar. 13. Major Rogers, the famous Ranger, 
 having march’d with about 180 men from Fort 
 Edwards towards Ticonderoga, was attack’d by the 
 French and Indians to the number of 300, at the 
 diftance of about 5 miles weft from that place; 
 of thefe he kill’d 40, the greateft part Indians; 
 but the French being reinforc’d from their fort, < 
 renew’d the engagement, when Major Rogers af- 
 ter an obftinate difpute was obliged to make a pre- 
 cipitate retreat, with the lofs of 137 men kill’d 
 and prifoners; the French were reported to be 
 700 men ; they fuffer’d confiderably in the Ac- 
 tion. 
 
 Mar. 13. The Swedifli garrifon in the Fort of 
 Pennamunde on the Ifte of Ufedom, confifting of 
 8 officers and 180 foldiers furrender’d prifoners of 
 war. 
 
 Mar. 19 and 20. The French and Auftrians, to 
 the number of 3720, evacuated Embden, on the 
 arrival of Commodore Holmes with the fhips Sea- 
 Horfe and Strombolo. 
 
 Mar. 20. The French evacuated the town of 
 Muhden, without committing the leaft diforder. 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
49 
 
 1755. Of the War. 
 
 Mar 21. The French evacuated CaireL 
 
 March — The Pacifique gf Nantz, from Mad- 
 rkius to Port L’Orient, with a rich cargo, was 
 taken by the Windfor Captain P’aulkner/ and 
 brought into Plymouthi 
 
 % 
 
 March — The French abandon’d the town of 
 Munfter, on the march of Prince Ferdinand to 
 Saffertberg; they alfo evacuated Paderborn and 
 Lipftadt about the fame time. 
 
 March — A Corps of Huffars of the allied ar- 
 my, attack d the rear guard of the P'rench near 
 Soeft in the county of Mark, made a confiderable 
 number of prifoners, and took ten 24 pounders, 
 five 6 pounders, together with a large magazine. 
 
 — The caftle of Vechte, in which there 
 was a garrifon of feven companies, furrender’d, by 
 Capitulation, to an Hanoverian Captain with a de- 
 tachment of 150 men from Bremen; upwards of 
 100 pieces of cannon and mortars were found in 
 the places 
 
 Jpril — The Mount-Martin Eaft-Indiaman, of 
 16 guns 75 men, homeward bound, laden with 
 toffee and bale goods, was taken by the Dublin 
 Captain Rodney. 
 
 Jpril 4. Sir Edward Hawke, with 7 fhlps bf the 
 line and 3 frigates, oblig’d a French fquadron, ly- 
 ing off the ifle of Aix, and confifting of 5 fhips of 
 the line and fix or feven frigates, with 40 mer- 
 chant fhips, to cut, and flip their cables, and ran 
 in great confufion ; they threw over board their 
 
 D guns. 
 

 Chronological Annals i75^* 
 
 Ln. ftores and ballaft ; fome of the men of war 
 Sot as fat 4 as die moutli of the Cliarante ; the 
 merchant fliips were aground towards Ifle Ma- 
 dame • the boats of the KngUlli frigates cut away 
 about’so buoys, which were laid on their anchors, 
 and on what they had thrown over boaid. The 
 lhallownefs of the water prevented Sir Edward 
 from doing a more elTcniial fervice to his coun- 
 try. 
 
 Jpril 7. Tlie Galathee frigate of 22 guns 200 
 men; was taken by the Effex Captain Campbell. 
 
 The Prince George of 80 guns Captain Payton, 
 in which Admiral Broderick hoifted his flag, took 
 Are, and was confum’d •, the people on board of 
 her were about 780, but the number loft far ex- 
 ceeded the number faved. 
 
 V Jpril 16. Schweidnitz furrender’d to the King 
 "of Pruffia, after 15 days open trenches, one of the 
 works of the place having been taken the night 
 before by ftorm. The garrifon of 173 officers, 
 3439 foldiers, 1300 fick, in all 4912, were made 
 prifoners of war. 1 50 pieces of cannon with the 
 Pruffian arms, 40 with thofe of the Emprefs 
 Queen, 19 mortars, and near 18000 mulkets,were 
 found in this fortrefs. During the long blockade, 
 the Auftrians loft between three and four thoufand 
 men by difeafes. 
 
 Jpril — A French frigate of 32 guns, was re- 
 ported to be taken by Sir Charles Hardy. 
 
 Jpril 28. The Bridgewater of 24 guns, and the 
 Triton of 20, being furrounded in St. David’s 
 
 Road 
 
175S. Of the War* 
 
 Road by the French fleet, were obliged to be run 
 albore, and burnt. 
 
 April 29. Admiral Pocock engag’d M. D’Ache, 
 about feven leagues weft by north of Alamparvey, 
 from three o’ clock in the afternoon till paft half 
 an hour after four, when M. D’Ache broke the 
 line, put before the wind, and was follow’d by the 
 fleet under his command. The French, according 
 to the reports of the Dutch, and of feveral of their 
 own officers, had 600 men kill’d and many wound- , 
 ed in the adion ; the Englifh loft no more than 
 29 kill’d and 30 wounded, which dilparity can only 
 be accounted for, by the enemy’s endeavouring to 
 difmaft the Englifli ffiips, while thofe, on the con- 
 trary, fired at the French hulls. Admiral Pocock, 
 in his letter to the Admiralty, commended the gal- 
 lant behaviour of Commodore Steevens, the Cap- 
 tains Kempenfelt, Latham, Somerfet, and Harri- 
 fon, and of all the Officers and Men belonging to 
 I the Yarmouth. The French, if they did not lay 
 claim to vidlory, refolv’d, at leaft, not to confefs 
 * any defeat : they acknowledged that the a<5Hon 
 1 continued till night, with great vivacity on both 
 fides ; that a fecond engagement was expefled the 
 next Day ; but that the Engliffi retired to Madrafs 
 to repair the damage they had received* 
 
 i 
 
 A ft ate of the two fleets, from the journal of Count 
 U Ache's fquadron. 
 
 fhips. guns, ftiips. guns. 
 
 Le Zodiaque 74 Yarmouth 70 
 
 Le Comte de Provence 58 Elizabeth 70 
 
 not in the atftion. Cumberland 70 
 
 Le Bien Aime 58 Ncwcaftle 70 
 
 I Le Vengeur 54 Weymouth 60 
 
 D 2 Lc 
 
^2 Chronological 
 
 Ihips. 
 
 Le Due d’Orleans 5 ® 
 
 Le Due de Bourgogne 50 
 Le St. Louis 
 Le Conde 
 Le Moras 
 La Sylphide 
 La Diligente 
 not in the a£lion. 
 
 50 
 
 50 
 
 50 
 
 Annals 1758. 
 
 fhips guns. 
 
 Tyger 60 
 
 Salifbury 60 
 
 Proteftor 44 
 
 Queenborough ao 
 
 A fiate of the two fleets, from Admiral Pococks 
 letter. 
 
 ftiips. 
 
 guns. 
 
 Le Zodiaque 74 - 
 
 Le Bien Aime 74 
 
 Le Comte de Provence 74 
 to leeward of the French 
 line. 
 
 Le Vengeur 74 
 
 Le St. Louis 64 
 
 Le Due d’Orleans 60 
 
 Le Due de Bourgogne 60 
 Le Conde 5 ° 
 
 Le Moras 5 ® 
 
 La Sylphide 3 ^ 
 
 La Diligente 24 
 
 to leeward of the French 
 line. 
 
 flrips. guns, 
 
 Cumberland 66 
 
 Yarmouth 64 
 
 Elizabeth 64 
 
 Weymouth 60 
 
 Tyger 60 
 
 Newcaftle 5 ° 
 
 Salifbury 5 ° 
 
 Queenborough fri- 
 gate. 
 
 Proteftor ftorefhip. 
 
 The Bien- Aime, of 74 gunS, receiv’d fo much 
 damage in the aftion, that the French were oblig’d 
 to run her on fhore a little to the fouthward of A- 
 Icmparvey, where their fquadron was at anchor. 
 
 April 29, The Dorfetfhire of 70 guns, 520 men, 
 Captain Dennis, engaged the Raifonabie ot 64 
 
 guns, 
 
i7;8. Of the War. 53 
 
 guns, 630 men, the Prince de Mombazon Cheva- 
 lier de Rohan Commander ; the latter ftruck, after 
 a fight of near two hours, having had 6i men 
 kill’d, and 100 wounded : fhe was a new fliip, not 
 five months off the flocks •, on board the Dorfet- 
 Ihire, 1 5 men only were kill’d, and 2 1 wounded. 
 The lower-deck guns of the Raifonable were 36 
 pounders ; thofe of the upper-deck, 24, The 
 lower-deckers of the Dorfetfliire were 24 pounders j 
 the upper, 12. 
 
 May I. Fort Lewis, upon the river Senegal, 
 capitulated to Captain Marfh and Major Mafon ; 
 232 French officers and foldiers, 92 pieces of can- 
 non, with treafure. Haves, and merchandize to a 
 confiderable value (fome faid 200,000 pound) w'ere 
 taken in this fort. By the articles of capitulation, 
 every thing belonging to the French company on 
 the river Senegal, was to be put into the hands of 
 the Engliffi. 
 
 May 3. Cuddalore (commonly called Gondelour) 
 furrenderd to Lieutenant General Lally, on con- 
 dition that the garrifon ffiould have liberty to re- 
 treat to Fort St. David the next morning. 
 
 May — The Bolton Tender from Falmouth to 
 Milford, was taken off Mounts-Bay, by a fnow 
 privateer of 1 6 guns, after an engagement of three 
 hours. 
 
 May 26. The Hiips of war employ’d in the re- 
 dudtion of Senegal, made an attack upon the 
 Ftench fettlement at Goree, but after an engage^ 
 ment of an hour and an half, were obliged to 
 defifl. 
 
 D 3 May 
 
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 Chronological Annals ^75^* 
 
 May 29 and 30. M. Scheither, with his corps, 
 pafs’d the Rhine at Duyfbourg, defeated three 
 French battalions that oppos’d him, and took five 
 pieces of cannon with all the new cloathing ot the 
 regiment of Navarre, and afterv/ards repals d the 
 Rhine without moleftation. 
 
 J^ay 30 and 31* The allied army attack d K.ai- 
 ferfworth in the night, and carried it. 
 
 June 2. The allied army, under the .command 
 of Prince Ferdinand, pafs’d the Rhine without any 
 lofs, and made themfelves mafters of Cleves. 
 
 June 2, The garrifon of Fort Sr, David, con- 
 fifting of 720 Englifh, and 1700 Blacks, were 
 made prifoners of war ; the French army, which 
 form’d this fiege, was compos’d of 3500 Europeans. 
 The fortifications were afterwards reduced to an 
 heap of ruins •, the villas, and many" beautiful 
 ftruftures in the neighbouring country, were de- 
 ftroy’d : reafons of war juftified the former ; but 
 the latter was the efFeft of wanton and inexculable 
 
 feverity. Davecotah, a fort about eleven 
 
 leagues from St. Davids, was evacuated by orders 
 from Madrafs, and rhe garrifon retired through 
 the Tanjore country to Trichinopoly. 1 80 pieces 
 of cannon or mortars, were found in Fort St. Da- 
 vid, and 80 pieces in Davecotah. 
 
 June 9. The Duke of Marlborough burnt and 
 deftroy’d at St. Maloe, one fliip of 56 guns, one 
 of 36, one of 30, another of 30 (in part deftroy’d) 
 one of 22, four veflels of 20, one of 18, two of 
 16, one floop of 12, fixty feven merchant fliips, 
 fix Hoops, together with great quantities of 
 
 pitch, 
 
Of the War. 
 
 ^758* 
 
 55 
 
 pitch, train-oil, rofin, and deals, in the ftorc 
 houfes. 
 
 June 23. Prince Ferdinand of Brunfwick gain’d 
 a vi<5bory over the Prince de Clermont, near Cre- 
 velt. The right wing of the allied army was com- 
 manded by the Hereditary Prince and Major Ge- 
 neral Wangenheim ; the left wing by Lieutenant 
 General Sporcken. After a violent and well fup- 
 ported cannonade, the Hercjditary Prince put him- 
 felf at the head of the firrt line, and attack’d the 
 left wing of the French with a continued fire of 
 fmall arms, for two hours and an half-, but this 
 not producing the defir’d effeft ; he, in conjunction 
 with the Generals Kilmanfegge and Wangenheim, 
 order’d the grenadiers to attack two ditches in the 
 wood, that were lin’d with infantry-, thefe were 
 forced one after the other, and the enemy quitted 
 the wood in the utmoft diforder, owing their fafety 
 to the fpirited behaviour of their cavalry, which 
 protected their flight, and prevented the allies from 
 a farther profecution of their fuccefs. The right 
 wing and center of the French army, never en- 
 gaged -, but retir’d, on the defeat of their left, in 
 the greateft order, toward Nuys. The lofs of the 
 allied army confifted in 296 kill’d, 754 danger- 
 oufly, and 429 flightly wounded, in all 1512. This 
 fmart aCtion coft the French between 7 and 8000 
 men in kill’d, wounded, and prifoners. No more 
 than 2 kettle-drums, 5 llandards, 2 pair of colours, 
 and eight pieces of cannon, were taken. The 
 Count de Gifors only fon of the Marfhal l)uke de 
 Belleifle, a gallant young Nobleman, who headed 
 the Royal Carabineers, died in the 26th year of his 
 age, of the wounds he receiv’d in this battle, after 
 having given diltinguifh’d proofs of a courage 
 worthy of his high birth. 
 
 June 
 
56 Chronological Annals 1758, 
 
 June 25. The French abandon’d Nuys, having 
 firft given away or deftroy’d their great magazine. 
 
 June — The Loire frigate of 36 guns (pierc’d 
 for 44) and 300 men, Captain Gautier commander, 
 bound from Toulon to Quebec, with upwards of 
 1000 tons of provifions, was taken by the St. Al- 
 bans man of war, 
 
 July I, The Generals Laudohn and Zifkowitz 
 having, in two attacks on the 28th and 29th of 
 June^ defeated and deftroy’d the greateft part of a 
 large convoy coming from Troppau, and made Ge- 
 neral Putkhammer with feveral hundred men pri- 
 foners, in the defiles of Domftadt *, the King of 
 Prullia found himfelf obliged, after near five weeks 
 open trenches, to raife the fiege of Oltmutz in 
 Moravia *, which he effedled with little other lofs. 
 
 July I. The Rofe, a French frigate of 36 guns 
 (which had taken feveral prizes) was burnt near 
 the ifland of Malta, by the Monmouth and Lyme 
 men of war. 
 
 July 6 , The army under General Abercrombie, 
 marching through a thick wood to inveft Ticonde- 
 roga. Lord Howe fell in with a French party fup- 
 pos’d to confift of about 400 regulars j of thefe, 
 many were kill’d and 148 taken prifoners : but 
 this advantage was more than balanc’d by the lofs 
 of Lord Howe, who was kill’d in the beginning of 
 the fkirmifh ; a nobleman greatly and defervedly 
 fegretted. 
 
 July 7. The town of DufleldorfF capitulated, and 
 ^|ie garrifon engaged not to ferve againft the Al- 
 lies 
 
Of the War. 
 
 J758. 
 
 57 
 
 Jies for a year ; a large quantity of ammunition 
 and provifions, and a fine train of French artillery, 
 were found in the place. 
 
 "July 8. General Abercrombie, with 6367 regu-.- 
 lars, and 9024 profvincials, attack’d the Marquis 
 de Montcalm ; by whom he was unfortunately de- 
 feated. The French were formidably entrench’d 
 near Ticonderoga, and General Abercrombie en- 
 gaged without his Artillery. The Britifh army, in- 
 cluding provincials, had 551 kill’d 1356 wounded 
 and 37 miffing, in all 1944. The Chevalier de 
 Levis commanded the right wing of the French 
 army, and M. de Bourlamaque the left ; the Mar- 
 quis de Montcalm referv’d the center to himfelf. 
 According to the French accounts, [their force did 
 not exceed 3650 men-, they acknowledged the lofs 
 of 104 kill’d and 273 wounded. 
 
 July 23. The Duke de Broglio, with a fuperior 
 force, attack’d and defeated the Prince of Ifen- 
 bourg, near Sanderhaufen or Sangerfhaufen : the 
 battle was obllinate, and lafted fix hours. The 
 French had, by their own confeffion, 785 kill’d 
 and 1392 wounded. The Prince of Ifenbourg loft 
 above looo men kill’d, and the number of the 
 j wounded was confiderable. Seven pieces of can- 
 non were taken in the field, and eight more in the 
 j town of Munden. 
 
 July 26. Louifburg furrender’d to Admiral Bof- 
 cawen and General Amherft. Brigadier General 
 . Wolfe, who commanded the left divifion of the 
 army, made good his landing on the 8th of June, 
 notwithftanding the fire of the enemy, and the vio- 
 lence of the furff j then the center and right divi- 
 ^ fiqns follow’d in proper order, and landed in the 
 !. fame 
 
58 Chronological Annals i 758. 
 
 fame place ; three 24 pounders, feven 9 pounders, 
 feven 6 pounders, two mortars, and 14 fwivels, 
 were talcen on this occafion* On the 12th, B. G. 
 Wolfe took pofleflion of the Laght-Houfe Point, 
 which the French had abandon’d ; and having 
 ereded batteries on this Point, he filenc’d the 
 Ifland battery on the 25th in the evening. On the 
 9th of July, fix or feven hundred of the garrifon 
 made a fally, and furpriz’d a company of Forbes’s 
 grenadiers, but were eafily repulfed. In the night 
 between the 25th and 26th, the Captains Laforey 
 and Balfour, with the boats of the fquadron, burnt 
 the Prudent of 74 guns, and took the Bienfaifant 
 of 64. The articles of capitulation were fign’d on 
 the 26th, by which 3031 foldiers, and 2606 fea- 
 men and marines, were made prifoners of to. 
 Eleven colours were taken *, 221 pieces of cannon, 
 1 8 mortars, with a confiderable quantity of ammu- 
 nition and ftores, were found in the place. The 
 French marine fuffer’d a fevere lofs, in the de- 
 ftrudion or capture of the following fliips: 
 
 Prudent 
 
 Entreprenant 
 
 Capricieux 
 
 Celebre 
 
 Bienfaifant 
 
 guns 
 
 
 guns 
 
 74 burnt 
 
 Apollon 
 
 50 funk 
 
 74 burnt 
 
 Diana 
 
 36 taken 
 
 64 burnt 
 
 Fidelle 
 
 36 funk 
 
 64 burnt 
 
 Echo 
 
 26 taken 
 
 64 taken 
 
 Chevre 
 
 16 funk 
 
 
 Biche 
 
 16 funk. 
 
 In confequence of the redudion of Louilburg, the 
 French fettlements at Gafpey, Meremichi, and 
 other places fituated on the gulph of St. Law- 
 rence, and on St. John’s river in the bay of Fun- 
 dy, were afterwards entirely demolifli’d. 
 
Of the War. 
 
 59 
 
 July 26. Admiral Pocock took a fnow.off Alam- 
 parvey, loaded with fire wood for Pondicherry, 
 and burnt feven empty chelingas. 
 
 July 27. The Swedes made themfelves mafters 
 of the fort of Pennamunde, the Pruflian garrifon 
 of 350 men furrendering prifoners of war. About 
 the fame time, 2000 Swedifh infantry took poflef- 
 fion of the ifle of Ufedom. 
 
 July 28. Admiral Pocock drove on fhore, and 
 burnt, the Reftitution, bound to Pondicherry from 
 Carical, where flie had been fent with ordinance 
 ftores, and other materials, for M. Lally’s army. 
 
 July — The French took pofleflion of Gottin- 
 gen, and demanded a contribution of near 1 50,000 
 Florins. 
 
 July 31. Eight hundred ofFifcher’s corps occu- 
 pied Nordheim. 
 
 Augujl 3. About one o’ clock in the afternoon. 
 Admiral Pocock made the fignal for battle, and en- 
 gaged the French fleet under M. d’ Ache, with his 
 whole fquadron. The Comte de Provence fupplied 
 the pface of the Bien-Aime, and the Diligente fri- 
 gate that of the Sylphide, which had been dil- 
 arm’d. The Englilh fquadron was exadUy the fame, 
 one circumftance only excepted, viz. that fomc of 
 the fhips were put under the command of different 
 Captains : Captain Martin, who had before beeri 
 left ill at Madrafs, was appointed to the Cumber- 
 land ; Captain John Stukely Somerfet was ad- 
 vanc’d from the Salifbury to the Weymouth; Cap-r 
 tain Colville had the Newcaftle, and Captain Brere- 
 
 ton 
 
6o Chronological Annals 1758. 
 
 ton the Salifbury. The French made a running 
 figlit till near three o’ clock, when they fet all the 
 fail they could, and got out of the reach of the En- 
 glilh fquadron, which was obliged to leave off the 
 chace, and anchored at 8 o’ clock, off Carical, a 
 French fettlement. The French loft upwards of 
 500 men kill’d and wounded ; M. d’Ache and his 
 Captain were in the number of the latter. 31 En- 
 glilh were kill’d and 1 16 wounded; among the lat- 
 ter were, Commodore Steevens, who receiv’d 3 
 mufquet ball in his flioulder, and Captain Martin, 
 who was wounded in his leg by a fplinter. All the 
 officers and men, in this engagement, behav’d to 
 the Admiral’s entire fatisfadion. 
 
 Augiift 2. M. de Befenwald, a French Lieute- 
 nant General, at the head of a corps of Auftrians, 
 took pofleflion of Ruremonde, which had been a- 
 bandon’d by the Hanoverians. 
 
 Augufi 3. The Flereditary Prince forc’d the poll 
 of Wachtendonck, a little ifland furrounded by the 
 Niers, having forded the river with fome compa- 
 nies of grenadiers, and attack’d the French with 
 bayonets fix’d. By this gallant adion, the alHes 
 were enabled to repals the Niers without diffi- 
 culty. 
 
 Augujl 5. M. de Chevert, with a force vaftly Ai- 
 periour, was defeated by General Imhoff, atMeer 
 near Rees. The adion did not laft more than half 
 an hour. The French were driven under the can- 
 non of VVefel, with the* lofs of many kill’d, 354 
 men (eleven officers included) made prifbners, ele- 
 ven pieces of cannon, feveral waggons and am- 
 njunition carriages taken. The whole of General 
 , Im- 
 
1758. Of the War. 6r 
 
 ImhofPs lofs amounted only to 200 kill’d and 
 wounded. 
 
 Anguft 8. Major Rogers, with 65 regulars and 
 two officers, 80 light-arm’d infantry, 80 rangers, 
 a body of Provincials, making in the whole 700 
 men, fell in with a party of 450 French, Indians, 
 Canadians, and Colonifts, near Fort Anne at a lit- 
 tle diftance from Wood-Creek : the engagement 
 lafted above two hours ; upwards of 1 00 of the 
 enemy were kill’d-, the reft were purfued two 
 miles, but without fuccefs. The lofs on the fide of 
 Major Rogers was confiderable. 
 
 Auguft 8. Cherburg furrender’d at difcretion to 
 Lieutenant General Bligh and Commodore Flowe. 
 There were about 27 fhips in the harbour ; 22 
 pieces of fine brafs cannon and two brafs mortars 
 were taken, and 173 iron cannon with three iron 
 mortars were deftroy’d. The bafon and the two 
 piers at the entrance of the harbour were after- 
 wards demolifh’d all the batteries and forts, at 
 that place, and along the coaft, were effedually 
 ruin’d. 
 
 Auguft 9. The Hanoverians evacuated Duflel- 
 dorp. 
 
 Auguft 9. The Tanjorean fepoys (Indian foldiers, 
 difciplined by Europeans) and Collaries (inhabi- 
 tants of the woods, under the government of the 
 Polygars, who are Lords of fmall diftridls) fallied 
 out upon the ftrong army of Europeans and fe- 
 poys, commanded by Lieutenant General Lally, 
 attack’d at once the French camp and batteries, 
 kill’d 100 Europeans, took one gun, one tumbril 
 of ammunition, two elephants, and fome horfes, 
 
 , blew 
 
62 Chronological Annals i7S^* 
 
 blew up four tumbrils of ammunition, and then 
 return’d into the town. Upon this fuccefs, M. 
 Lally abandon’d the fiege of Tanjore, left his guns 
 fpik’d upon the batteries, and retreated towards 
 Carical. 
 
 Aiigiijl 9 and lo. The allied army repafs’d the 
 Rhine without any lofs. 
 
 Augufi 23. The Ruffians raifed the fiege of 
 Cullrin. 
 
 Augujl 2 5. The King of Pruffia defeated the 
 Ruffian General Count Fermor. The action began 
 at nine in the morning, and lafted till feven at 
 night. The Pruffians took, in and after the battle, 
 103 pieces of cannon, 27 colours, and made up- 
 wards of 2000 prifoners, among whom were five 
 Generals, and 80 Officers : more than 20,000 Ruf 
 fians were kill’d on the fpot, and the wounded they 
 carried off, amounted to 9000 ; their military 
 cheft of 900,000 rubles (upwards of 200,000 pound 
 fterling) fell into the king’s hands. In this great 
 day, the Pruffians loft near 1000 kill’d, and 1100 
 wounded •, four officers, and 300 private men, 
 were made prifoners, and 13 cannon taken. On 
 the other hand, the Ruffians laid claim to vidoiy 
 in this deftruftive battle j according to a lift, fpe- 
 cious if not exadt, which was fent by the Sieur 
 d’Arnfeld to the Swedifh General Count Hamilton, 
 their total lofs in kill’d, wounded, and prifoners, 
 did not exceed 21529 men. Their fecond line, as 
 it advanc’d, fir’d upon the firft, and did very great 
 execution ; the foldiers plunder’d their own bag- 
 gage, got drunk with brandy, mutinied againft 
 their officers, and made no diftinflion between 
 friends and foes. 
 
Of the War. 
 
 65 
 
 1758. 
 
 Auguft 27. Lieutenant Colonel Bradftreet took 
 Fort Frontenac ; in which he found 60 pieces of 
 cannon, (half of them mounted) 16 fmall mortars, 
 with an immenfe quantity of provifions and goods, 
 valued by the French at 800,000 livers j he alfo took 
 nine veflels, from 8 to 1 8 guns, one of which was 
 richly laden : feven of thefe vefiels, together with 
 the fort, provifions, artillery, and ftores, were ef- 
 fedually deftroy’d. The garrifon of 1 10 men, fur- 
 render’d prifoners of war, until exchang’d for equal 
 numbers and rank. 
 
 Auguft — The Stork floop of war was taken in 
 the Windward PalTage, by a French man of war of 
 74 guns* 
 
 Auguft — The Garland, a French frigate of 22 
 guns from Breft, was taken by the Renown Cap- 
 tain Mackenzie, in company with the Maidftone 
 and Rochefter. 
 
 September 6 . The fortrefs of Sonnenftein capitu- 
 lated to the Prince de Deux-Ponts, and the Pruflian 
 garrifon of 1442 men were made prifoners of war. 
 10 ftandards, 29 pieces of brafs and nine of iron 
 cannon, with feven iron mortars, were taken. The 
 Pruflians evacuated Pirna the fame day. 
 
 September — General Retzow diflodg’d the Au- 
 ftrian General Laudohn from Filhbach, made 300 
 prifoners, and poffefs’d himfelf of the Auftrian 
 camp. 
 
 September 1 1. At the Re-imbarkation of the En- 
 glilh troops from the Bay of St. Cas, the French 
 fell upon the rear guard and broke it, and kill’d, 
 
 wounded, 
 
64 Chronological AJinals 
 
 wounded, or made prilbners 822 men, officers in- 
 cluded. 
 
 September 14. Major Grant, having march’d 
 with 838 men from Loyal Hannon, and advanc’d 
 clofe to Fort du Quefne, was attack’d, and defeat- 
 ed by the garrifon, who fallied out upon him with 
 fuch fuccefs, that he loft about 300 of his party^ , 
 and was himfelf taken prifoner. 
 
 September — The Ruffians evacuated Stolpe and 
 Butow, and retired into Poland. 
 
 September 15. The Robufte, a Plate of 24 guns, 
 was taken by the Alcide and Adeon ; ffie was laden 
 with fix 24 pounders, twelve 1 8, fix iron mortars/ 
 3000 fliells of 13 inches diameter, cordage, can- 
 vafs, flour, and ftores, for the French fleet at Hif- 
 paniola. 
 
 September 21. The Ruffians evacuated Landf- 
 berg. 
 
 September 28. Major General Wedel attack’d th6 
 Swedes in Fehrbellin, and drove them out of that 
 town, with the lofs of upwards of 500 men, and 
 two fmall pieces of cannon. 
 
 October 2. The Due d’Hanover, a French fri- 
 gate of 14 guns and feveral fwivels, was taken, off 
 Breft, by the Lizard Captain Hartwell : the Cap- 
 tain engaged the Heroine frigate at the fame time, 
 for more than an hour, when ffie made off for the 
 rocks, near the opening of the paflage of Fontenoy. 
 
 OElober 10 The Prince of Soubife, with an army 
 of 30,000 men, attack’d and defeated General 
 
 Oberg, 
 
lysBt Of the War. 65 
 
 Oberg, at Luttenberg or Lanwerenhagen, near 
 Munden. The latter retreated to Gunterlheim in 
 tolerable order, through the defile of Munden, un- 
 der favour of the night •, having loft 1 1 68 men 
 kill’d, wounded, and miffing, eleven pieces of can- 
 non, two colours, one ftandard, and a confiderable 
 
 quantity of artillery and ammunition. 
 
 \ 
 
 12. Eleven hundred French and Indians, 
 commanded by M. de Vetri, attack’d the Englilh 
 poll at Loyal Hannon or Hanning, during the 
 fpace of three hours, when they were happily re- 
 pi-ils’d. The lofs, on the fide of the Englilh, was 
 only 12 kill’d, i8 wounded, and 31 miffing; 29 
 of the latter were upon grafs guards, when the 
 French made this attack. 
 
 OSioher — The Winchelfea man of war of 24 
 guns, was taken, in her'paflage from South Caro- 
 lina, by a French man of war of 64 guns, and a 
 frigate of 36. 
 
 OSfober 14. Marlhal Daun, having march’d- 
 through thick woods, by very difficult roads, with 
 the greateft lecrecy and conduft, came upon the 
 King of Pruffia about 4 o’ clock in the morning, 
 and artfully furpriz;’d him in his camp. At five, all 
 the columns deftin’d for the firft attack, charg’d at 
 once ; before day light, the advanc’d guards of 
 thofe columns, and the corps under M. de Lau- 
 dohn, made thcmfelves mafters of Hoch-Kirchen, 
 and t.he eminences behind the camp ; at day-break, 
 the Auftrian infantry form’d in order of battle in 
 the Pruflian camp. Notwithftanding thefe confi- 
 dArable advantages, the Pruffians fought in every 
 part with an obftinate bravery; they once oblig’d 
 the .Auftrian van guard, and grenadiers, to retire ; 
 
 E they 
 
66 Chkonolooicai. Annals 1758. 
 
 andretookpar of th^ ^ but the 
 
 ter returning Ueuending upon that poft» the 
 
 ^rr!nfmal fo^igLt^ reWce. "that the 
 
 Kin“ depriv’d of all hope of fuccefs, retreated 
 King ciep ^ numerous ar- 
 
 tiUery"Marlhal Keith and Prince Francis of Brunf- 
 Wk were kill'd on the Prufflan Me ; the Prince 
 If Anh”lt Deffau was wounded and taken prrfoner 
 The Auftrians own’d the lofs of loao killd, Md 
 Toes wounded, exclufive of the miffing: they 
 rerLon’d that of the Pruffians at 10,000 , whid 
 the latter, in their accounts of this battle, confi- 
 derably reduced, loi pieces of cannon, 44 co- 
 ver’d and 17 open waggons, with nine chefts of 
 Talu, wereVaken. The camp of the Pruffians «I 
 given up to pillage. 
 
 O^oher 26. The Pruffians attack’d a body of 
 Auftrian cavalry near Gorlitz, broke it, and ma 
 600 prifoners, befides officers. 
 
 Oaober ao. Major Heydon, Governour of Col- 
 bero-, oblig’d the Ruffian General Palmbach to 
 raifc the fiege of that place, after two unfuccefsful 
 affaults on the 13th and 17th, which ^oft him 7oo 
 men, and two more in the night between the 26 h 
 and 27th, in which he was likewile repuls d with 
 very confiderable lofs. The corps of Ruffians con- 
 fifted of 15,000 men. The garnlon was weak, ana 
 the town defended only by a rampart, without 
 outwork whatfoever. The King of Pruffia rais 
 Major Heydon to the rank of Colonel, and con- 
 ferr’d upon him the Order of Merit for this galUtit 
 
 OB, hr 
 
1758* Of the War. ' 67 
 
 October — The York Indiaman was loft in Ma- 
 haree Bay in the County of Kerry. 
 
 Obloher — The Rhinoceros of 36 guns, 700 
 tons, from Quebec, was taken by the Ifis Captain 
 Wheeler, who took out her people and funk her. 
 
 November i. The Belliqueux of 64 guns (pierc’d 
 for 66) with 417 men, was taken in Lundy Road, 
 by the Antelope Captain ' Saumarez, without any 
 refiftance. ^ 
 
 Nov. 3. The Buckingham of 65 guns mounted, 
 and 472 men able to do duty. Captain Richard 
 Tyrrel Commander, attack’d the FlorilTant of 74 
 guns 700 men, a frigate of 38 guns 350 men, and 
 another of 28 guns 250 men. Notwithftanding this 
 difparity of force, the French fliips were oblig’d 
 to Iheer off, after an obftinate engagement. Cap- 
 tain Tyrrel was wounded, and compell’d to leave 
 the deck. Mr. Marlhal, his firft Lieutenant, after 
 he had brought the Buckingham clofe up to the 
 FlorilTant with great gallantry and fpirit, was un- 
 fortunately kill’d by the firft broadfide. The com- 
 mand then devolv’d on the lecond Lieutenant, who 
 l| fought the fliip with equal bravery. Captain Troy, 
 
 ? at the head of the marines, acquitted himfelf like 
 ! an able officer, and did great execution. The lofs of 
 If the Buckingham in Teamen and marines, amounted 
 I to 7 kill’d, 17 dangeroufiy wounded (two of whom 
 died loon afterwards) and 3 1 wounded flightly. 
 
 November 5 and 6. General Flarfch rais’d the 
 i fiege of Neifs with precipitation on the approach of 
 the King of Pruffia, abandoning a large quantity 
 ? of ammunition. 
 
 E 2 
 
 Nov. 
 
68 Chronological Annals 1758. 
 
 J<fov. 8. Marlhal Daun appear’d before Drefdcn. 
 
 Nov. 9 and 10. The Auftrians retir’d from Co- 
 fel, which they had blockaded for 4 months. 
 
 Nov. 12. General Wedel oblig’d the AuftnanGe- 
 neral Haddick to abandon his defign upon Torgau. 
 
 Nov. 14. General Haddick having encamp’d 
 upon an eminence above Eulenburg; with the 
 
 Mulda in his front, and a ? 
 
 town, defended by Pandours-, Major General Ma- 
 lachowlki and Colonel de Hordt attack d and put 
 the Auftrians to flight, made 100 pnfoners, took 
 three pieces of cannon, two ammunition waggons* 
 and fome baggage. After this affair, the Auftrans 
 rais’d the blockade of Leipzick, at which tk 
 Prince de Deux-Ponts commanded, and retir’d to- 
 wards Freyberg : the Pruffians took poffeflion of 
 Frey berg loon afterwards. 
 
 Nov. 16. MarfhalDaun, on the King of Pruf- 
 fia’s arrival at Lauban, rais’d the fiege of Drefden. 
 
 Nov. 22 and 23. The French evacuated Mun- 
 den and Caffel. 
 
 Nov, 24. The French burnt and abandon’d Fort 
 du Qiiefne, of which Brigadier General Forbes 
 took poffeflion the fame evening, and gave it the 
 name of Pittfburg. 
 
 Nov. 29. The Litchfield of 50 guns Captain 
 Barton, having been ftparated from Commodore 
 Keppel’s fquadron by a ftorm off Cape Cantin, was 
 ftranded on the coaft of Barbary. Out of 350 men, 
 130 were loft ; the reft were afterwards carried into 
 flavery. 
 
Of The War. 
 
 1758- 
 
 69 
 
 December i. The Marquis de Caftries took St. 
 Goar and Rhindfels j the garrifon of the latter, 
 confifting of 700 men, furrender’d without oppofi- 
 tion, and were made prifoners of war. 
 
 Dec. 7. The French army in Golconda, confift- 
 ing of 500 Europeans, 8000 Sepoys, befides black 
 troops, with 36 pieces of cannon, and fome mor- 
 tars, under the orders of the Marquis de Conflans, 
 was defeated by Colonel Forde •, who took their 
 camp with all the ordnance, (except 4 field pieces) 
 ammunition, ftores, tents, and camp equipage. The 
 French loft 156 Europeans kill’d and wounded; 
 the Englilh 44. Great numbers of Black forces 
 fell on both fides. 
 
 Dec. 8. Captain Knox took poflellionof the fort 
 of Rajamundry, which is the barrier and key to the 
 Vizagapatam Country : it was given up to the 
 Raja of Vifanapore according to agreement, but 
 afterwards retaken by the French. 
 
 Dec. 29. The ifland of Goree, with its forts, 
 furrender’d at diferetion to his Majefty’s fquadron 
 under the command of Commodore Keppel. 94 
 pieces of cannon of different bores, fome fwivels 
 and mortars, a confiderable quantity of ammuni- 
 tion, with provifions of every fpecies for the fub- 
 fiftence of 400 men for four months, were found 
 in the forts. The French garrifon amounted to 
 300 men. 
 
 Supplies granted by Parliament for the fcrvice of the 
 year 1758. 
 
 Ten million, four hundred eighty fix thoufand, 
 four hundred fifty feven pounds, and one penny. 
 
 E 3 A liji 
 
o 
 
 AUfi of maf^ conftderahle primiem^ &c. and am*d merchantmen^ taken hy his Majeji/s Jhips of 
 wary from the of December 1/57 December i 75 ^* 
 
 January. 
 
 guns. 
 
 men. 
 
 The Machault privateer 
 of Dunkirk 
 
 14 nine pounders 
 
 182 
 
 A privateer of Bayonne 
 
 22 
 
 
 The Adfif privateer of 
 Dunkirk 
 
 12 
 
 70 
 
 A privateer 
 
 c 6 carriage 
 1 4 fwiveh 
 
 56 
 
 A privateer of Dunkirk 
 
 f 4 carriage 
 C 6 fwivels 
 
 4.0 
 
 captors. 
 
 taken by the Adventure arm’d 
 ftiip Captain Bray, who was 
 made Captain of the Princefs 
 Amelia an 8o gun fhip, for his 
 fervices. 
 
 by the Vanguard, Biddeford, and 
 Dolphin. 
 
 by the Chichefler. 
 
 by the Dilpatch Hoop Captain 
 Hodges, 
 
 by the Ranger, Hound, and Peg- 
 gy floops. 
 
 Chronological Annals ^75^* 
 
guns. 
 
 The Vengeance Privateer 
 of St. Maloe, pierced for 
 32 guns, mounting 
 
 24 twelve, and nine 
 pounders : 
 and about 
 20 fwivels. 
 
 La Rayton of Boulogne ^ 
 
 A privateer 
 
 A fmall privateer 6 carriage 
 
 A privateer 
 
 14 
 
 A privateer 16 
 
 February. 
 
 Count d’Argenfon of Ca- 
 lais 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 taken after a fmart engagement of 
 an hour and three quarters, by the 
 Huflar Captain Elliot. In the ac- 
 319 tion, flie had 5 guns difmounted, 
 52 men kill’d and 37 wounded. 
 The Huflar had only 6 men kill’d 
 and 1 5 wounded, 
 
 by the William and Anne arm’d 
 Clip. 
 
 by the Difpatch floop. 
 by the Savage floop. 
 drove aftiore, near Port au Prince, 
 by the Augufta Captain Foreft. 
 carried into Gibraltar by the Mon- 
 ^■^5 mouth. 
 
 by the Wdlian and Anne arm’d 
 Ihip, the Richmond and Flambo- 
 rough. 
 
 So 
 
 1758, Of the War. 
 
A privateer ;OfBoulo^e 
 
 La Fiddle of Havre de 
 Grace 
 
 The Rofton of Bour- 
 deaux, fitted out to take 
 the tartar 
 cutter privateer 
 A privateer 
 Le yiltnure of Dieppe 
 
 guns, 
 
 4 carriage 
 4 fwivels 
 8 carriage 
 8 fwivels 
 
 26 carriage^four of 
 them 20 pound- 
 ers, the reft 14 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 Marche 
 
 * j • - ^ carriage 
 
 A new dogger privateer g . 
 
 The Marquis dc St. Adge g carriage 
 of Dunkirk ° 
 
 April. 
 
 The Nymphe of Granville 
 
 men. captors, 
 
 by the Peregrine, 
 
 48 by the Penguin Captain Man. 
 
 400 by the Torbay and Chichefter, 
 
 50 by the Dilpatch floop. 
 
 by the Badger floop. 
 
 50 by the Fiamborough and Richmond. 
 
 50 by the Hound floop, 
 
 54 by the Grampus & Wolf floops. 
 
 by the Brilliant Captain Parker- 
 
 Chronological Annals 1758. 
 
guns. 
 
 La Vcngeur of Dunkirk 1 2 
 A LtCtter of marque 20 
 
 A veffei from Breft to 
 Cape-Breton laden w-irh 
 ordnance ftores 
 
 A brig *4 
 
 May. 
 
 A privateer 8 
 
 A fhip of 4.00 tons from 
 Bourdeaux to Port au 22 
 Prince 
 
 A privateer 10 
 
 A privateer to 
 
 men. captors, M 
 
 90 Ditto. ^ ^ 
 
 by the Pluto firefliip. 
 
 by the Sutherland Captain Rous. 
 
 by the Boreas frigate. 
 
 100 by the LoweftoHe. 
 
 fent into Antigua by the Weazel 
 fioop Captain Boles. 
 
 taken by the Antigua floop Captain 
 Codrington. 
 
 by a ftiip of Commodore Moore’s 
 fquadrofi. 
 
 va 
 
 00 
 
 Of the War. 
 

 A privateer^ of Bayonne 
 A privateer of Martinico 
 A ftore (hip from Bourdeaux to Lmiifburg. 
 A ftore Ihip with a rich cargo from Bourdeaux 
 
 guns. 
 
 A privateer lo 
 
 A privateer 
 
 Q taken off Lpulfburg by the Boreas 
 ^ frigate the Hon, Capt. Boyle. 
 Quebec j • V' . ' - i 
 
 I 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 lOO by the Seaford. - 
 
 by the Dreadnought, 
 
 A cutter privateer 
 A privateer 
 
 L’ Heureux Mallouin 
 from Martinico to St. 
 Maioe with white fugar, 
 coffee, and cotton. 
 
 6 
 
 Z2 
 
 22 
 
 30 by the Falmouth, 
 
 200 by Commodore Howe’s fquadron. 
 
 by the HulTar, America, and A- 
 7 ° chilles. 
 
 Chroncxlogicai. Annals * 75® 
 
September. 
 
 The Lizard Captain HartweU, engaged the Thetis and Calipfo frigates for 
 two hours near Breft, when the Caliplb ran on Ihore upon the rocks near Point 
 de Leven, and Captain Hartweli concluded fhe would break up^ as the ftruck 
 very hard upon the rocks, and her yards and fails were fhot all to pieces. 
 
 CO 
 
 The Printemps privateer 
 of Dunkirk. 
 
 Due d’Harcourt fnow pri- 
 vateer of Dunkirk 
 Caumartin privateer of 
 Dunkirk, new from the 
 ftocks, of 280 tons 
 
 OSleher. 
 
 guns. 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 16 fix pounders and 
 full of fwiv. and 147 
 mufquetoons 
 
 taken by the Biddeford. 
 by the Unicorn. 
 
 by the Southampton Captain Gil- 
 chrift. 
 
 The Diamond privateer 
 of Martinico 
 A privateer fchooner 
 
 by the Barbadoes (loop, 
 by the Dreadnought, 
 
 VJ 
 
 Crt 
 
 Of the War. 
 
November. 
 
 A large French Ihip 
 bound to Cape Fran- 
 fois, call’d Le Marefchal 
 de Broglio 
 A privateer 
 
 guns. 
 
 full of warlike ftores 
 and provifions . 
 
 5 
 
 December. 
 
 L’Entreprenant of Dun- 
 kirk, with two ranfom- 
 ers on board for fmall 
 fums 
 
 The Gronyard a French 
 Ihip from St. Domingo 
 for Cadiz worth 40,000 
 pounds. 
 
 € 
 
 26 nine pounders 
 
 men. 
 
 50 
 
 130 
 
 M 
 
 captors. 
 
 by the Woolwich Captain Parker. 
 
 by the Antigua floop. 
 
 by the Richmond Captain Han- 
 kerfon. 
 
 by the Favourite man of war, after 
 a fmart engagement. 
 
 Chronological Annals 17^8, 
 
1759 - 
 
 Of the War. 
 
 77 
 
 1759 - 
 
 January i. X^Eneral Dohna took Damgarten, 
 \jr and obliged the Swedifh garri- 
 fon not to ferve againft the King of Pruflia for the 
 fpace of a year •, in five days afterwards, he repof- 
 fefs’d himfelf of Swedilh Pomerania, and forc’d a 
 fuperiour army of the enemy to retire under the 
 cannon of Stralfund. 
 
 January 2 . The Prince de Soubife feiz’d upon 
 Frankfort. 
 
 Jan. 4. The Grantham, a rich Eaft-India man, 
 with diamonds on board to the value of 30,000 
 pounds, was taken by two French men of war, off 
 Cape Falfo. 
 
 January 1 6. Commodore Moore’s fquadron de- 
 ftroy’d the batteries, and drove the French from 
 their intrenchrrients at Point des Negres on the 
 ifland ofMartinico, and landed the troops with- 
 out oppofition the Ikme night : but the following 
 night the troops were reimbarked, on account 
 of the difficulties which attended the tranfporta- 
 tion of heavy cannon, ftores, and provifions, to 
 Fort-Royal, which was defign’d to have been at- 
 tack’d. The lofs at Martinico was 22 kill’d, and 
 47 wounded. 
 
 Jan. 1 7. The Swedifh garrifbn of Demmin ca- 
 pitulated to Lieutenant General Manteuffel j 1275 
 men, officers included, were made ptifoners of 
 
 war : 
 
78 Chronological Annals I/59* 
 
 war : 24 pieces of cannon, 6 pair of colours, and 
 fome warlike ftores and provifions, were found in 
 the place. The garrifon of Anclam, confifting of 
 1421 men, capitulated on the fame footing, but 
 had liberty to return to Sweden, on promifing 
 not to ferve againft the King of Pruffia, or his Al- 
 lies, before they were exchang’d or ranfom’d. 
 238 horfes, 6 pair of colours, and 36 pieces of 
 cannon, mortars, or haubitzers, were taken in An- 
 clam, together with a confiderable magazine. 
 
 Jan. 23 and 24. Commodore Moore, with the 
 fquadron under his command, filenc’d the Fort of 
 Bafleterre on the ifland of Guadalupe, and all the 
 batteries ; and put the land forces under Major 
 General Hopfon, in polTcffion of that fort. The 
 lofs, in this attack, amounted to 1 7 kill’d, and 30 
 wounded. 
 
 30. Two French merchant Ihips, of 300 
 tons each, bound tor Martinico with provifions, 
 fome cloathing, and 500 ftand of arms, were taken 
 by the Brilliant, Captain Lendrick. 
 
 Fel>r. 17. On the 14th of December 1758. M. 
 Lally, a Lieutenant General, at the head of 3500 
 Europeans, 2000 Sepoys, and 2000 horfej took 
 poflTeflion of the Black Town near Madrafs, or Fort 
 St. George, which had been abandon’d by the 
 Englilh. rhe fame day Colonel Draper with 500 
 men and two field pieces, made a fpirited Sally 
 upon the enemy in the Black Town ; but his men 
 a juft obedience to his orders, he was 
 oblig d to retreat, with the lols of nine officers, 
 and upwards of 200 private men, kill’d, wounded, 
 and prifoners ; the French, by their own account, 
 had 30 officers and 220 men kill’d and wounded: 
 
 the 
 
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 79 
 
 the Count D’Eftaing, a Brigadier .General, was 
 taken prifoner in the beginning of the affair. On 
 the 1 8 th of December, Lieutenant Airey, fcnt from 
 Chengalaput by Captain Prefton, deftroy’d a con- 
 voy of itores, confifting of tents fufficient for the 
 covering of 3000 men, a large mortar, two guns, 
 and carried off fome ammunition and bullocks. On 
 the 31ft of December, Captain Prefton repuls’d 
 1000 of the enemy under Colonel Kenelly, who 
 came to attack him on the mount near Madrals, 
 took two guns, kill’d 15 of the French on the fpot, 
 and wounded the Colonel, one Captain, and 25 
 men. On the 2d of January 1759, M. Soupire, a 
 Major General, and fecond in command, attack’d 
 Captain Prefton and Ifouf Cawn near Trevambore, 
 broke their firft divifion, took two guns and fome 
 prifoners ; but the broken troops being rallied by 
 the fecond divifion, the French were put to flight, 
 two officers and 50 Europeans kill’d on the Ipot, 
 and the guns and prifoners were retaken. On the 
 7th of January, three boats, with a Frenchman in 
 each, laden with 150 ffiot of 24 pounds, 1000 
 empty cartridges, 50 fteel caps, 50 barrels of pow- 
 der, and 1500 fand-bags, were carried into Ma- 
 drafs by the boatman, who fecur’d the foldiers 
 whilft they were aflcep. On the 27th of January, 
 Capton Prefton and Ifouf Caun routed, at Pona- 
 malle, the French detachment that was fent againft: 
 them. On the 9th of February, M. Lally lent a 
 grand detachment of 600 Europeans, 1 500 Sepoys, 
 near 300 European dragoons, too Huffars, and 
 1000 Maratta-horfe, with ten pieces of cannon, to 
 diflodge Major Caillaud and Captain Prefton from 
 the mount near Madrafs *, the action lafted feveral 
 hours with various fuccefs ; but, in the end, the 
 French retreated with the lofs of 170 Europeans 
 kill’d and wounded, and near 300 Sepoys. On the 
 
 loth 
 
So Chronological Annals 1759. 
 
 loih of February, the Englifli fleet arriv’d from 
 Bombay, and landed 600 regulars ; upon which the 
 French raifed the fiege on the 17th, after the gar- 
 rifon had been fhut up 67 days, and the enemies 
 batteries had been open 46. During the fiege, 
 fmall parties of the garrifon made fuccefsful Tallies. 
 Colonel Lawrence, and under him, Colonel Dra- 
 per and Major Brereton, commanded the forces; 
 Mr. Pigot was Governor of the town ; Mr. Call, 
 chief engineer. To the abilities of thefe Gentle- 
 men, in their refpeftive employments, the prefer- 
 vation of Madrals, is, under Providence, to be 
 principally attributed. The retreat of M. Lally 
 was fo precipitate, that the Black Town eTcap’d 
 deftruftion ; at the Mount, he ungeneroufly or- 
 der’d three barrels of gunpowder to be lodg’d in 
 Colonel Lawrence’s houle, and blew it up. 
 
 ivir. — Captain Knox took Narfipore in Gol- 
 conda, where the French had a fadtory-, in which 
 place he found two 24 pounders, three 12 pound- 
 ers, and fome fmall guns, with feveral veflels, 
 boats, and marine ftores. 
 
 Fe^r. 21. The Bellona frigate of 32 guns, the 
 Count de Beauhonoir Commander, was taken by 
 the Veftal of 32 guns Captain Samuel Hood, al- 
 ter an engagement of three hours and an half. 
 
 Febr. — The RulTian magazines at Revel were 
 burnt by accident and the damage was computed 
 at five millions of rixbles. A ruble is four Ihillings 
 and fix pence fterjing, ' 
 
 Feb. 26. Captain Maclean took the fmall fort of 
 Concale in GoRonda. 
 
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 Op THE War. 
 
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 Fihr. 28. Erfurth capitulated to the Prufllan 
 General Knobloch, 
 
 Febr. — General Woperfnow took poflefllon of 
 Pofen, and deltroy’d a Riiflian magazine of flour 
 eftablifli’d at that place, fufficient for the fubfiftence 
 of 50,000 men for three months. 
 
 Mar. 1 and 2. Hirfchfeld, Vacha, and all the 
 Heflaan Bailiwicks, were abandon’d by the Auftri- 
 ans, on the approach of a body of the allies. 
 
 Mar, 4. Capta^ Maitland of the Royal regiment 
 of artillery, under the orders of the Prefidency of 
 Bombay, with 850 Europeans, artillery and infan- 
 try, and 1 500 Sepoys, together with the Sunder- 
 land and Newcaftle (part of Admiral Pocock’s fqua- 
 dron) and the company’s arm’d veflels command- 
 ed by Captain Watfon, made himfelf mafter of the 
 caftle of Surat, by compofition : previoufly to this, 
 he had diflodg’d the troops of the place frotn the 
 French garden, after a warm difpute of four hours, 
 and had made a fuccefsful attack upon the Outer- 
 Town. Surat is one of the moft frequented cities 
 in the eaft, and from the concourfe of Indian pil- 
 grims who make it their road to the tomb of Ma- 
 homet, it has been call’d “ the gate of Mecca.” 
 The government of the caftle is independent of 
 that of the city, and held by an appointment from 
 the Great-Mogul : the company obtain’d that ap- 
 pointment, lometime after the reduftioh of the 
 caftle, from that Mogul, who was murder’d by his 
 Vizier juft before the laft revolution at Belli. The 
 lofs of the company, in kill’d and wounded, did 
 not amount to 100 Europeans j but that, from de- 
 fertion, was more confiderable. 
 
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 Mar. 6 . 
 
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 ChroxNologicai. Annals 1759 
 
 Mar. 0 . I'he Pruffians took pofleffion of Fulda. 
 
 Mar. 7. Maflulipatam, in Golconda, was in- 
 veiled by Colonel Forde. 
 
 Mar. 1 5. The Pruffians enter’d Schwerin in the 
 Dutchy of Mecklenbourg. 
 
 Mar. ij. 1 he Imperialifts retook Hirfchfeld. 
 
 Mar 19. La Mignone, a French frigate of 20 
 guns, 143 men, the Chevalier de Turlainville 
 commander, was taken by the .Folus of 32 guns 
 Captain Elliot ; the Aiolus afterwards exchange! 
 fome broadfides with the Blonde of 32 guns, but 
 the latter efcap’d into the Road of Baique. 
 
 Mar. 21. The Allies difarm’d the garrifon of 
 F ulda. 
 
 Mar. 25. Lieutenant General Beck diflodg’d 
 the Pruffians from the poft of Grleffenberg, on the 
 frontier of Silefia, took a magazine, and made Ba- 
 ron Duringfholen, and about Soo Pruffians, pri- 
 foners of war. 
 
 Mar. 26. The Pruffian General Knobloch took 
 pofleffion of Saalfeldt, after a very brilk can- 
 nonade. 
 
 Mar. 27. The Due de Chartres Eaft-Indiaman, 
 outward bound from Port L’Orient to Pondicher- 
 ry, pierced for 60 guns, and mounting 24 French 
 twelve pounders, carrying 294 men, was taken by 
 the Windfor of 60 guns captain Faulkner. Hey 
 loading confiftcd of gunpowder, cordage, flouh 
 
i759‘ Of the War. 
 
 fail-cloth, and wines. Three other fliips of force 
 were in company with the Due de Chartres, but 
 declin’d the engagement^ and made off with full 
 fail. 
 
 Mar. 28. General Linftaedt drove the Auftriana 
 from Hoff. 
 
 Mar.iZ, The Danae, a French frigate of 40 
 guns, 330 men, was taken by the Southampton 
 Captain Gilchrift, and the Melampe Captain Ho- 
 tham, after a briff engagement. Captain Gilchrift 
 was ffot through the right Ihouldcr with a pound 
 ball, and put on lliore at Yarmouth; 
 
 ■Mar. 31. The hereditary Prince of Brunfwick, 
 attack’d, above Melrichftadt, the regiment of Ho- 
 henzollern Cuirafliers, and the battalion of Wurtz- 
 burghers 5 thefe he broke, with only two fquadrons 
 of Prufllan Huffars ; many were kill’d on the fpot, 
 and 185 taken prifoners. 
 
 Mar. 31. The Duke of Holftein diflodg’d the 
 French from Freyenftecnau, and made one Cap- 
 tain, one Lieutenant, and 56 private men pri- 
 foners. ^ 
 
 April I. The hereditary Prince of Brunfwick 
 took the magazines at Meinungen, and made the 
 garrflon of that place, confifting of two batalliohis 
 of Cologn and Munfter, prifoners of war. The fame 
 day a battalion of the regiment of Nagel in Wa- 
 fungen, fhar’d the fate of the garrifon of Meinun- 
 gen. The regiments of Savoy and Pretlack were 
 defeated at Tann, by the Hanoverian hunters, 
 
 and Heffian Huffars, and two rich ftandarda 
 tsjkcn^i 
 
 Fa 
 
 April 4. 
 
84 
 
 Chronological Annals ^ 759 ‘ 
 
 Atril A The Count de Florentine of 6o guns, 
 4o/men,‘ the Sieur de Montay commander, was 
 Taken by the Achilles of 6o guns, the Honourable 
 Captain Barrington, after a 
 
 two hours, in which the French loft 1 1 6 men loll d 
 and wounded V amongft the latter was die Cap- 
 tain, who receiv’d a mufquet ball through his bo- 
 dy, of which he died two days after. 
 
 April 7 and 8. Colonel Forde took Maflulipa- 
 tam, in Golconda, by ftorm. The French had 
 lOO Europeans kill'd during the fiege, and 409 
 made prifoners. Above 150 pieces of cannon were 
 taken, with a great quantity of ammunition.— 
 The French detach’d from Pondicherry four hun- 
 dred men, in the Haarlem of Briftol, under M. 
 Moracin, to the fupport of their army in Golcon- 
 da commanded by M. de Conflans ; but this lup- 
 ply did not arrive till a few days after Maftuhpa- 
 tam had been in the hands of the Engliili. Being 
 reduced foon afterwards to two hundred men by 
 various diftreffes, they went to Cockanara ; where 
 fome of them landed, and were defeated by Cap- 
 tain Fiftier, who took 26 prifoners (among whom 
 were ten officers,) and kill’d many more; upon 
 which the reft that were in the veffels, lail’d for 
 Pondicherry, and feveral of thefe were drown’d. 
 
 April 8. The poll: of Ulrieftein, at the fource 
 of the Horn, was taken by the Prince of Hol- 
 ftein. 
 
 April 10 and ii. The fort of Peenamiinde in 
 Pomerania furrender’d to General Manteuftel ; up 
 wards of 200 men were made prifoners ; 24 pieces 
 of cannon and 4 mortars taken. 
 
 April 13. 
 
* 759 - 
 
 Of the War. 
 
 April 13, Major Brereton, who fucceeded to the 
 command of the troops in the Eaft-Indies on the 
 departure of the Colonels Lawrence and Draper for 
 England, took Conjeveram with the lofs of four 
 officers : he receiv’d himfelf a contufion in his 
 knee ; Major Monfon, in reconnoitring, had a 
 wound from a ball (which enter’d near his ear, 
 pafs’d througK his cheek, and came out near his 
 nofe) without being afterwards attended with any 
 fenfible inconvenience ; Major Caillaud was alfo 
 wounded in the cheek. 
 
 April 13. Prince Ferdinand of Brunfwick, 
 march’d up to the right of the French army com- 
 manded by the Due de Broglio, on the eminences 
 of Bergen, between Franefort and Flanau ; but af- 
 ter three vigorous attacks in the (pace of two hours 
 and an half, he drew off to Ibme rifing ground, 
 behind which he remain’d fome time ; and after- 
 wards amufing the enemy with a frefh difpofition of 
 his forces, he made his retreat in the night to 
 Windechen, without difficulty. The Prince of 
 Ifenbourg was flain, deeply regretted ; and the 
 Generals Gilfoe and Schulembourg were wounded. 
 The whole lofs of the Allies in kill’d, wounded, 
 and miffing, amounted to 2337. The lofs of can- 
 non and men was nearly equal between the two ar- 
 mies. Prince Ferdinand march’d from Windechen, 
 and reach’d Ziegenhayne on the 23d. 
 
 April 15. General Hulfen, with the lofs of 70 
 Pruffians kill’d and wounded, attack’d the Auftri- 
 ans in front and rear at the pal's of Palsberg, drove 
 them out of their intrenchments, made General 
 Renard, 51 officers, and 1800 priv.ate rnen pri- 
 fbners, and took 3 pair of colours, 2 ftandards, and 
 
 F 3 3 pieces 
 
86 Chronological Annals 1759, 
 
 2 pieces of cannon. The Auftrians fet fire to their 
 magazines at Saatz, to prevent their falling into 
 the hands of the Pruflians. About the fame time, 
 another body of Pruflians forc’d the pafs of Peterf- 
 walde, deftroy’d the magazine at Aufig, burnt the 
 boats upon the Elbe, and feiz’d the meal and fo- 
 rage which the Auftrians had left at Lobofehutz, 
 Lieutmeritz, and.Budin. 
 
 jlpril — General Fouquet took Saegrendorf, 
 Ingerndorf, & Troppau, and made 223 men, in 
 the latter, prifoners of war. 
 
 April 20. M. de Blaifel defeated a battalion of 
 grenadiers, betv/een Munfter and Queckeborn; 
 dilpers’d, or took prifoners, two fquadrons of tk 
 regiment of Finckenftein j and obtain’d Tome 0- 
 ther inconftderable advantages over the allied 
 army. 
 
 May I. Colonel Crump landed in March with 
 600 men, betweeq the towns of St. Anne and St. 
 Francis, on Grande Terre, and deftroy’d the French 
 batteries and cannon •, on the goth of that month. 
 General Barrington attack’d the poll of Gofier with 
 300 men, carried the intrenchments and battery, 
 and demolilli’d them, together with the town. 
 This laft detachment forc’d their way to Fort 
 Louis (in which there was an Englifh garrifon) and 
 took pofleflion of a battery of three 24 pounders. 
 Captain Blomer on the firft of April, fallied out of 
 Fort Louis, and fpiked up an eighteen and a twelve 
 pounder upon a battery of the enemy nearly com- 
 pleaied. On the 12 th of April, Brigadier Claver- 
 ing, with 1300 regulars and 150 of the Antigua 
 volunteers, landed near Arnonville on the Guada- 
 lupe lide ; and, after forcing ftrong intrench- 
 ments 
 
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 87 
 
 merits and overcoming great difficulties in his 
 march, he oblig’d the French to abandon the Fort 
 of Petit Bourg, ’though fortified with lines and a 
 redoubt fill’d with cannon. On the 15th Captain 
 Stile, with 100 men, dellroy’d a battery at Guo- 
 yave, and nail’d up feven pieces of cannon. Bri- 
 gadier Crump, at the fame time, burnt an im- 
 menle quantity of provifions landed by the Dutch 
 at Bay Mahaut, where he found the town and bat- 
 teries abandon’d. Brigadier Clavering on the 20th, 
 attack’d the French on the Heights of St. Marie’s, 
 and in fpight of a conftant fire of cannon and muf- 
 quetry, forc’d them to retire in great confufion, 
 abandoning all their artillery. The next day the 
 army enter’d the Capefterre, a fpot the richeft 
 and moft beautiful in the Weft-Indies, water’d by 
 good rivers every mile or two, with a port belong- 
 ing to it, where the whole navy of England might 
 ride fafe ffom hurricanes. In the whole of thefe 
 expeditions, 50 pieces of cannon were taken. On 
 tlie firft of May, an honourable capitulation was 
 granted to the troops and the inhabitants •, im- 
 mediately afterwards, a reinforcement of 600 re- 
 gulars, 2000 buccaneers, and 200 ftand of fpare 
 arms for the inhabitants, arriv’d fronfi Martinico, 
 under convoy of M. Bompart’s fquadron ; on hear- 
 ing the capitulation was fign’d, they reimbark’d. 
 
 The Falcon bomb was loft on fome Hands, 
 
 in a cruize about Guadaloupe, but the crew and 
 
 a few ftores were faved. The Hand of Ma- 
 
 rigalante furrender’d on the 26th of May upon 
 the fame conditions as Guadalupe and Grande- 
 ferre. 
 
 May 2. The Flardi of 20 guns, 150 men, and 
 the Hermione of 26 guns, 170 men, two French 
 frigates richly laden with indigo and the fineft fu- 
 
 gars. 
 
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 Chronological Annals 1759^ 
 
 gars, were taken by the Dreadnought, Seaford, 
 Wager, Peregrine, and Port-Antonio. 
 
 May 8, Prince Henry of PrufTia, oblig’d Gene- 
 ral Maguire, after a fliarp difpute at Afch near 
 Hoff, to retire with lofs towards Egra, 
 
 May II. The Pruflian Lieutenant General Pla- 
 ten, attack’d the regiment of Croneck and the 
 Palatine dragoons, under the command of General 
 Riedefel j and, after great refiftance, made them 
 prifoners of war, 
 
 Alay Major Monfon having gain’d feme 
 
 flight advantages over M. de Lally by his judi- 
 cious behaviour, the latter withdrew to Treva- 
 toor, canton’d his army, and went himfelf to Pon- 
 dicherry. 
 
 May 1 6. Priqce Henry of PrulTia enter’d Bam- 
 berg without oppofition. 
 
 May 1 6. The Glafgow of 20 guns Captain Wil- 
 kinfon, had a fmart engagement with the Oifeau 
 frigate of 26 guns,, which efcap’d into St. Pierre. 
 The Glafgow was obliged to put into Leghorn, 
 and refit. Captain Wilkinfon was afterwards ap- 
 pointed to the command of the Jerfey. 
 
 May 18. Captain Colby in the Thames of 32 
 guns, and Captain Harrifon in the Venus of 36, 
 took the Arethufa frigate of 32 guns (pierced for 
 36) and 270 men, the Marquis de Vaudreuil com- 
 mander, efteem’d the belt failing frigate in the 
 French navy. 
 
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 Of the War. 
 
 89 
 
 May — ■ The Pruflian General Knobloch made 
 himfelf matter of Cronach by a brifk cannonade. 
 
 May — The Swedes retook Damgarten. 
 
 May 30. The Vanguard of the army of the 
 Empire under Count Palfy, was defeated by the 
 PrulTians between Berneck and Gefrees, at a lit- 
 tle dittance from Hott'. 
 
 June 5. The Allies took Erbefeld, kill’d and • 
 wounded many of the garriion, and made 83 pri- 
 foners, among whom were the Chevalier da Mont- 
 fort the Commandant, and eight other Officers. 
 
 June 6. Clermont’s voluntiers took pott at Zie- 
 genhayn, where they found 3 pieces of cannon. 
 
 June 8, General Imhoff abandon’d Fritzlar ; and 
 foon afterwards the French took pofleffion of Caf- 
 fel, Munden, Gottingen, and Eimbeck. 
 
 June — The French enter’d Paderborn ; fome 
 confiderable magazines of the Allies, in different 
 parts, fell into their hands, as they advanc’d. 
 
 June 30. The French took the cattle of Ritberg, . 
 a place of importance, by a coup de main. 
 
 July I. The French regiments of Turpin and 
 Berchini, were defeated by five fquadrons of Pruf- 
 fian Huflars ; 150 were kill’d and taken, and the 
 rett difpers’d. 
 
 July 6 . Rear-Admiral Rodney burnt, at Havre 
 de Grace, part of the magazine of ftores for the 
 
 flat- 
 
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 flat-bottom’d boats, overturn’d and damag’d many 
 of thofe boats, and fet the town on fire feveral 
 times, during a continued bombardment of 52 
 hours. 
 
 July 7. The Hanoverian Chafleurs furpriz’d a 
 French poft at Neven-kirchen, kill’d a Captain 
 and about 15 men, wounded feveral others, and 
 brought into camp 2 officers and 46 private men 
 prifoners, all belonging to the Voluntaires of Cler- 
 mont. About the fame time. Lieutenant Colonel 
 Freytag, with a body of the Hanoverian Chafleurs, 
 fell upon the regiment of the Volontaires d’ Alface 
 near Munden, put many to the fword, oblig’d o- 
 thers to attempt the paflage of the Wefer in Boars, 
 ■where they were drown’d, and made the Com- 
 mander of the corps, 28 officers, and 280 privatt 
 men prifoners. 
 
 July — The poft of Grieffenberg having been 
 retaken by the Pruffians, General Laudohn at- 
 tempted to difpoflefs them of it -, but was repuls’d 
 by General Seydlitz with the lofs of about 300 men 
 kill’d or taken prifoners ; the Auftrian General pe- 
 netrated afterwards into Silefia, by Mai'k-Lifla and 
 Scidenberg. 
 
 • July 9. Minden was taken by aflault. 1500 of 
 the Allies were made prifoners of war. 20 iron 
 cannon, 2 of brafs, 20,000 facks of oats, 40,000 
 of wheat, and 70,000 of meal, fell into the hands 
 of the French. 
 
 July II. The Count des Salos, Colonel of a 
 french regiment of horfe, was made prifoner at 
 Iloltfhaufcn, with 300 troopers of his detachment; 
 1 00 more were kill’d on the fpot. 
 
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 Of the War. 
 
 91 
 
 July 1 1 and 12. The Marquis D’Armentiers loft 
 900 men kill’d, and 1400 wounded, in a fruitlefs 
 attempt upon Munfter. 
 
 July — Colonel Count Hoerdt deftroy’d, be- 
 tween the 7th and i6th, moft of the Ruffian ma- 
 gazines from Pofen to the Viftula, amounting in 
 all to 61,254 bulhels of different forts of grain. 
 
 July 20. Captain Markham of the fhip Eliza- 
 beth, of 8 four pounders, 2 fmall ftern chafe guns, 
 and 14 men, engag’d tlie Revenge, a French fnow 
 privateer of 1 6 fix pounders, 20 fwivels, and 180 
 men. The aftion lafted upwards of four hours, 
 when the Revenge fheer’d off. 
 
 July 23. General Wedel, who fucceeded Count 
 Dohna in the command of the army againft the 
 Ruffians, attack’d General Count Solticoff in the 
 Defile of Kay near Zulicau. After an obftinate 
 difpute, the Pruffians were oblig’d to yield to the 
 fuperiority of their enemy, affifted by every ad- 
 vantage of ground ; they retreated with the lofs of 
 4700 kill’d, prifoners, and deferters ; and 3000 
 wounded, whom they brought off : 3 twelve 
 pounders, 2 obufiers, and 10 field pieces, were 
 taken : .General Woberfnow, an Officer of great 
 ability, fell in the field of battle, and General 
 Manteuffel was wounded. On the fide of the Ruf- 
 fians, about 1 500 were kill’d, among whom was 
 Lieutenant General Demicou, and 3000 wounded: 
 after the adiion, the Ruffians took pofTeffion of 
 Croffen, and Francfort upon the Oder. 
 
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 Chronological Annals 1759. 
 
 July 24. The French abandon’d their lines at 
 I'iconderoga, and let fire to the fort, on the ap- 
 proach of Major General Amherft. 
 
 July 24. Lieutenant Colonel Mafley, under the 
 orders of Sir William Johnfon, (who iucceeded to 
 the command on the death of General Prideaux) 
 with the light infantry, picquets of the line, two 
 companies of grenadiers, part of the 46th regi- 
 ment, and the Indians, was attack’d, near Nia- 
 gara, by 1200 French colledted from Detroit, Ve- 
 nango, and Prefque Ifle, together with a number 
 of Indians, the whole commanded by Meflieurs 
 Aubry and de Lignery. The Brittifh troops in 
 front, and the Indians . in flank, gave the enemy 
 fuch a warm reception, that in an hours time their 
 entire force was compleatly ruin’d : the command- 
 ers, and all the officers, to the number of fcven- 
 teen, were made prilbners, many private men 
 kill’d, and the reft difpers’d among the woods. 
 
 July 25, Sir William Johnfon took pofTeffionof 
 Fort Niagara ; the garrifon of 607 men, exclufive 
 of officers, furrender’d with the honours of war, 
 and were convey’d to New York. 
 
 July 25. The Citadel of Munfter furrender’d-to 
 the Marquis d’Armenticres, and the garrifon of 
 4100 men with Lieutenant General de Zaftrowthe 
 Commandant, capitulated to be prifoners of war 
 till ranfom’d or exchang’d. 
 
 July 28. M. de Schlieffen, under the orders of 
 General Dreves, made himfelf mafter of Ofna- 
 bruck, where the Volontaires de Clermont loft 
 fome men, and two pieces of cannon. 
 
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 Of the War. 
 
 93 
 
 July 31. The Britifh army, commanded by 
 Major General Wolfe, and under him by the Bri- 
 gadiers Monckton, Townfhend, and Murray, land- 
 ed upon the ifle of Orleans in the river St. Lau- 
 rence, on the 27th of June. The fleet employ’d 
 in this important expedition, was under the orders 
 of Vice-Admiral Saunders, who had two Rear Ad- 
 mirals with him, Mr. Durell and Mr. Holmes. 
 On the 28th, feven fire-fliips from Quebec were 
 tow’d aground, without doing the leaft damage to 
 the fltips or tranfports. On the 25th, four batta- 
 lions under Brigadier Monckton, drove the French 
 irregulars from their poll at Point Levi on the 
 fouth fhore. General Wolfe order’d batteries of 
 cannon and mortars to be eredted on that point, 
 which (though acrofs the river) deftroy’d the lower 
 town entirely, and did confiderable damage to the 
 upper. On the night of the 9th of July, the army 
 pafs’d the North Channel, and incamp’d near the 
 left of the French, the river Montmorenci run- 
 ning between the two camps. I'he enemy occu- 
 pied the fhore of Beauport > from the river St. 
 Charles (which falls into that of St. Laurence near 
 Quebec) to the falls of the river Montmorenci 
 abovemention’d, and were intrench’d in every ac- 
 ceflible part. On the loth, a party of Indiarrs de- 
 feated Captain Dank’s company of Rangers, and 
 almoft difabled it for- the reft of the campaign. 
 Some few days afterwards. Colonel Carleton land- 
 ed with a fmall party, at the Point deTrempe above 
 Quebec, brought off fome prifoners, and return’d 
 with little lofs. On the 28th at midnight, the 
 French fent down a raft of fire ftages, which fuc- 
 ceeded no better than the fire fhips. On the 31(1 
 of July, General Wolfe determin’d to attack the 
 intrenchments of the enemy on a commanding e- 
 
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94 Chronological Annals 1759* 
 
 minence ; Brigadier Monckton receiv’d orders to 
 land with his corps from Point Levi, and the BrU 
 gadiers Townlhend and Murray were direfted to 
 be ready to pafs the ford below the falls of Mont- 
 morenci : a great deal of time was unavoidably 
 loft, by an accident of the boats grounding upon 
 a ledge, that ran a conliderable diftance off the 
 fhore ; this difficulty being remov’d, 1 3 companies 
 of grenadiers, and 200 of the fecond royal Ame- 
 rican battalion, got firft on ffiore ; but the grena- 
 diers, by fome miftake, not forming themfelves as 
 they were direded, and running on impetuoufly 
 towards the intrenchments, in the utmoft confu- 
 fion, were check’d by the enemy’s firft fire, forc’d 
 to ffielter themfelves in or about a detach’d re- 
 doubt, near the water’s edge, which the Frendi 
 had abandon’d, and not being able to form under 
 fo hot a fire from the intrenchments, were oblig’d 
 to be call’d off ; this repulfe and delay, the ap- 
 proach of night, a fudden ftorm coming on, and 
 the tide beginning to make, compell’d the Gene- 
 ral to defift from fo difficult an attack, which was 
 attended with the lols of 182 kill’d, 650 wounded, 
 and 17 miffing; in all, 849. 
 
 Augufi I . About 5 o’ clock in the morning, the 
 whole French army under the Marffial de Conta- 
 des, was form’d in order of battle on the plain of 
 Minden. T. he Duke of Broglio’s referve came 
 clofe to the Wefer. The cavalry, occupied the 
 heath in the center. The infantry, on the left, ex- 
 tended to the marffi near the village of Hahlen. 
 -— Prince Ferdinand’s army was difpos’d of in the 
 following manner ; General Wangenheims’s corps 
 was ported, on the left of the whole, near the vil- 
 . lage of Thonhaufen almoft clofe to the Wefer. The 
 cav ry o the right wing of the main army, in 
 
 which 
 
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 17^9* 
 
 95 
 
 which werCi all the Britifti horfe under Lord George 
 Sackville, took up their ground between Hartum 
 and Hahlen. The infantry of the right wing (on 
 the left of the cavalry) compos’d of the Britifli bat- 
 talions and the Hanoverian guards, were drawn up 
 behind a fir wood. The left wing of the main ar- 
 my, was polled at Stemmeren. — ■ Between feveri 
 and eight o’ clock, the two Brigades of Britiih 
 foot, confining of the following regiments, viz. 
 the 1 2th Napier’s, 20th KingQey’s, 23d Huflee’s, 
 25th Home’s, 37thStuart’s, 5 1 ft Brudenel’s, head- 
 ed by the Major Generals Waldegrave and Kingf- 
 ley, together with the Hanoverian guards, and 
 Hardenberg’s regiment, march’d forward to charge 
 the left of the enemy’s cavalry ; and notwith- 
 I, Handing the oppofition of the two batteries, the 
 j repeated attacks of all the cavalry, a fire of muf- 
 quetry well kept up by the French infantry, and 
 j their being expos’d in front and flank, thele afto- 
 nifliing battalions totally routed the whole body of 
 j the French cavalry, and oblig’d the. Saxons who 
 1 came to their afliftance, to retreat. — The re°i- 
 ^ ments du Corps and Hammerftein, (Hanoverian 
 horfe) the Pruflian regiment of Holftein, and the 
 Heffian horfe and grenadiers, diftinguilh’d them- 
 felyes prodigioufly, and repuls’d the attack on the 
 left of the army. — The batteries erefted by the 
 * Count de la Lippe Buckenburg in the front of 
 ' Thonhaufen, made great havock among the Swifs 
 ^ and the grenadiers of France. About nine the 
 French began to give way, at ten they fled in dif- 
 order, and their retreat was cover’d by the Duke 
 of Broglio. The Britiih artillery perform’d won- 
 ders in this adlion. The Britiih cavalry did not en- 
 gage. 25 pieces of cannon, 10 pair of colours, 
 & 7 ftandards were taken. The lofs of the French, 
 in kill’d, wounded, and prifoners, amounted to 
 
 7000 
 
96 Chronological Annals 1759, 
 
 7000 men. That of the allies, to 2800, of which 
 number the Britilh troops made 1394- 
 
 Aug. I. The Hereditary Prince of Brunfwick at- 
 tack’d and defeated the Duke de Brifac, in the 
 mountains of Coveldt. The French loft many of 
 their men, who were made priloners, together with 
 five officers of diftinftion. Six pieces of cannon 
 were taken. Meffieurs Killmanfegg, Dreves, and 
 Bock, contributed greatly to this fecond viftory, 
 by the admirable manoeuvres of the troops under 
 their command. 
 
 Auguft 2. Minden furrender’d to the allies at 
 clifcretion. A great number of wounded officers, 
 and 1533 private men were made prifoners; and a 
 confiderable magazine was taken. 
 
 Auguft 2. The king of Pruffia attack’d the rear 
 guard of the Auftrians under General Haddick, as 
 they were upon their march to join the Ruffians, 
 made 1200 prifoners, and took all the ovens, and 
 300 waggons loaded with flour, together with 50 
 of powder, which were immediately deftroy’d. On 
 the 3d, the prifoners made upon Haddick’s corps 
 amounted to 1 600. 
 
 Auguft 4. The Marquis d’Armentieres raifcd the 
 blockade of Lipftadt. 
 
 0 
 
 Auguft 4. Major General Amherft took poffef- 
 fion of Crown Point, which the French Irad aban- 
 don’d on the firft inftant. A confiderable quantity 
 of ordnance and military ftores was found at this 
 poll, and at Ticonderoga. 
 
 5 - ’I'he city of Leipfic furrender’d to the 
 army of the Empire. 
 
1759 - 
 
 Of the War< 
 
 97 
 
 Auguft 5. Lieutenant General UrfF, furrounded 
 and took prifoners about 800 of the enemy at Dct- 
 mold, and made himfelf mafter of the heavy bag- 
 gage of the French army and the military cheft of 
 the Saxons. Among the papers found on this oc- 
 cafion, there was the famous letter of the Duke 
 / de BelliQe to Marflial de Contades, declaring the 
 inability of the French to carry on the war without 
 great contributions drawn from the countries of the 
 allies, and advifing the Marlhal to make a down- 
 right defart before his line of winter quarters. 
 
 y/uguj^ — The French burnt their forts at Ve- 
 nango, Prelque Ifle, and La Biief, and retir’d to 
 Detroit. 
 
 6. The Allies march’d to Bielveld, where 
 they found a confiderable magazine. 
 
 9' The Allies made 400 prifoners at Pa- 
 derborn, and took another magazine j thofe at 
 Munfter, Dulmen, and Warendrop, were dtftroy’d 
 by the French. 
 
 Auguft 10. The army of the Empire took pof- 
 felTion of Halle, Naumbourg, Zeitz, and Hal- 
 berftadt. 
 
 Augujl 12. The Crefeent Captain Collingwood, 
 engag’d two French frigates, the Amethyfte of 32 
 guns and the Barclay of 20 ; but being difabled in 
 ^er rigging, the former efcap’d ; the latter was 
 taken, and carried into Bafleterrei 
 
 Augujl 12. The King of PrulBa attack’d Count 
 SoltikofF at Cunnerfdorf, about eleven o’ clock in 
 
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 Chronological Annals 1759. 
 
 the morning. For almoft fix hours,* he drove the 
 Ruffians from their ports and intrenchments, with 
 prodigious rtaughter , but making a delperate aL 
 tempt, with his wearied troops, on that laft forn- 
 lied eminence near the Jews Burying Ground, his 
 infantry were twice repuls’d with vart lofs •, his ca- 
 valry met with the fame bad fortune. Night faved 
 the fhatter’d remains of his army. General rut- 
 kammer was kill’d in the field •, mort of his Gene- 
 rals, and inferior Officers were wounded •, almoft 
 his whole artillery taken. By a Ruffian account, 
 publiffi’d fome time after the battle, the lots ot the 
 PrufTians amounted to 133^^ men, exclufive of the 
 wounded. 1 he Pruflians on the contrary, inclu- 
 ding 11,119 wounded, ertimated their total lofs at 
 18604 men. The numbers of the two armies were 
 difproportion’d j that of Priiffia fell ffiort of 50,000 
 effeftive men. The Ruffians, including a large 
 body of Auftrians under General Laiidohn, ex- 
 ceeded 80,000; of thefe, 2571 were kill’d and 
 10,722 wounded. The Emprefs of Ruffia has or- 
 der’d a thankfgiving to be annually obferv’d, for 
 perpetuating the memory of this dreadful viftory. 
 
 Auguji 15. Luckner’s Huflars routed a confi- 
 derable detachment of the French at V^olckmiflen. 
 
 Auguji 1 7. The Duke of Holrtein took an en- 
 tire battalion of the grenadiers Royaux, Iword in 
 hand in fight of the French army. 
 
 Auguji 18 and 19 — Admiral Bofeawen, with the 
 fleet under his command, burnt the Ocean of 80 
 guns, the Redoutable of 74, and took the Centaur 
 of 74, the Temeraire of 74, and the Modefte ot 
 64, off Cape Lagos. M. de la Clue, who com- 
 manded the French fquadron, died of his wouzds 
 
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 fome time afterwards. The Namur’s mizeii maft, 
 and both topfail yards, being fhot away. Admiral 
 Bofcawen was oblig’d to Ihift his flag to the 
 Newark. The French had near 500 men kill’d, 
 and 1 800 taken, on board the feveral fliips; The 
 Captains Bently and Stanhope were knighted by 
 his Majefty for their good behaviour in this ac* 
 tion. 
 
 Augujt 19. The Allies took Caflel with 400 
 men in garrifon, 1500 wounded, and a confidera- 
 ble magazine. 
 
 Auguft 19. The Pruflians were permitted to eva- 
 cuate Torgau, leaving behind them their grand 
 magazine, military cheft, heavy artillery, hoftacfes, 
 prifoners of war, and deferters. ° 
 
 Auguft 21. Wittenberg capitulated to the army 
 of the Empire, and its garrifon join’d the Pruflian 
 forces. Major General de Horn was put under ar- 
 reft by the King’s order, to be tried by a court- 
 martial, for furrendering that place* 
 
 Auguft 23* Lieutenant Colonel Freytagg took 
 Ziegenhayn, and made the garrifon of three or four 
 hundred men prifoners of war* 
 
 Auguft 28. Colonel Wunfch retook Wittenberg 
 by capitulation. ® 
 
 Auguft 28. The troops under the hereditary 
 Prince attack’d Fifcher’s corps at Wetter, diflodg’d 
 It from that poll, kill’d many men, and made 400 
 prifoners of war. 
 
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 ChRONOLOGICAL 
 
 Annals 
 
 I759- 
 
 ^ z. , A detachment of the garrifon of 
 Stetfn fui^riz’d a body of 4 °b Swedes, and kill'd 
 o“ook prifoners the greateft part of it. 
 
 Stp! 1- The hereditary Prince furpriz’d the 
 FrS at Neider- Weimar, made feveral prifoners, 
 and took two pieces ot cannon. 
 
 5^ _ Brigadier Murray landed at De Cham- 
 baiKi on the N?rth Shore, above the town of Que- 
 bec, and burnt a French magazine, in which were 
 feme provifions, ammunition, and all the fpare 
 toes, clothing, arms, and baggage of the army. 
 
 SM 4 Drefden furrendcr’d to the army of the 
 Empire under the Prince de Deux Poms, after 
 having been three years in the hands of the Pruf- 
 
 Bans. 
 
 ^ept. A.. The King of Pruffia diBodg’d a conli- 
 derable detachment of Ruffians Muhlrole, 
 
 where feveral hundreds were taken priloncrs. 
 
 ^ett. 4. The French abandon’d their ftrong 
 camp at Marpurg, and took the route of Gieflen-, 
 having march’d backwards, fince the firft ot A«- 
 guft, about 200 Kngliffi ftatute miles. 
 
 Sept. 6. General Imhoff rais’d the fiege of 
 Munfter. 
 
 Sept. 8. General Wunfch attack’d the army of 
 the Empire near Torgau, (which the Pruffians had 
 retaken fome time before) broke their left wing 
 entirely, took their whole camp, and feven pieces 
 of cannon, purfued them for an hour towards Eu- 
 
 lenburg. 
 
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 * 759 ' War. 
 
 lejiburg, and made upwards of 400 men prifoners 
 of war. 
 
 Sept. 10. Vice-Admiral Pocock, the third time, 
 attack’d and defeated M. d’Ache. The French 
 fleet confifted of three Ihiips of 74 guns, one of 70, 
 four of 64, three of 60, two frigates and two 
 ftore-fliips; in all 15. The Englifli had one fliip 
 of 68 guns, one of 66, one of 64, three of 60, 
 one of 58, two of 50, three frigates, and one fire- 
 fliip ; in all 1 3. Such a force had never before 
 been feen in the Indian Seas. The French had a 
 fuperiority of 192 guns and 2365 men, bcfides a 
 great advantage in the fize of their fhips. The en- 
 gagement lafted from two in the afternoon till 
 four ; when the French rear firft, and foon after 
 the center, began to give way •, then the van made 
 fail, flood on, and bore away with the whole fqua- 
 dron. M. d’Ache having begun theaftion before the 
 Weymouth and Sunderland could clofe, and get 
 properly into the engagement, thofe two fhips were 
 depriv’d, by the nature of that difpofition, of an 
 equal fliare in the glory of the day. The enemy 
 afterwards reach’d Pondicherry, where they landed 
 400 European feamen, 200 coffrees, about two or 
 three lacks of roupees, and the diamonds taken in 
 the Grantham Indiaman, to the value of two lacks 
 more. The lofs 6f the French in the aftion, a- 
 mounted to near 1 500 kill’d and wounded ; that 
 of the Englifli, to 569. Captain Michie of the 
 Newcaflle, Captain Gore of the Marines, the Lieu- 
 tenants Redfliaw and Elliot, were among the 
 kill’d. Captain Somerfet of the Cumberland, was 
 wounded in one of his ankles •, and Captain Bur- 
 ton receiv’d a contufion in his head. All the offi- 
 cers and feamen behav’d with the utmoft gallan- 
 try, and maintain’d the honour of their country 
 
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102 Chronological Annals 1759. 
 
 and the antient reputation of the Britijh flag. The 
 Moras of 50 guns, was faid to have been broken 
 up by the French, before this engagement. 
 
 Sept. 10. The Swedifh fquadron attack d the 
 twelve Pruflian velTels near the ifle of Ufedom, 
 and took eight of them. Ufedom furrender’d, and 
 the garrifon of 600 men were made pnfoners of 
 war. 
 
 Sept. II. The Caftle of Marpurg capitulated, 
 and the garrifon of 857 men, officers included, 
 furrender’d prilbners of war j a great quantity 
 of provifions and ammunition was found in the 
 place. 
 
 ^ept. — The Swedes made themfelves mafters 
 of Tcmplin, near Berlin. 
 
 Septemb. 13. Leipfic was retaken by General 
 Wunfch, and three battalions made prifoners of 
 war. 
 
 Sept. 13. The Britilh army landed, an hour be- 
 fore day-break, on the North Shore, within a 
 league of Cape Diamond, and about a mile and an 
 half above the town of Quebec j having gain’d the 
 top of the hill, that was of a very fteep afcent, and 
 without any path wide enough for two perfons to 
 go a-breafl:, (which oblig’d the troops to pull theni- 
 fclves up by the flumps and boughs of trees that 
 cover’d the Declivity) General Wolfe then fawthc 
 French army, under the Marquis de Montcalm, 
 croffing the river St. Charles ; he immediately 
 form’d his line ; and both armies drew up in order 
 of battle, a little before ten, on the heights of 
 Abraham. The Britifh artillery confifted of one 
 
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 gun only, which was admirably ferv’d ; the French 
 had two twelve pounders with them. The battle 
 was brifle and animated for fome time •, but the 
 Britilh troops having r'eferv’d their fire till they 
 came within forty yards, and continuing it with 
 vivacity, the enemy were oblig’d to give way in 
 every part. The brave General Wolfe tell at the 
 head of Bragg’s and the Louilburg grenadiers, as 
 they were advancing with their bayonets, Briga- 
 dier Monckton receiv’d a wound, about the fame 
 time, at the head of Lafcelles’s, which oblig’d 
 him to quit the field. M. de Montcalm fell in the 
 front of the oppofite battalions j and Brigadier Se- 
 nezergues, the fecond in command, receiv’d a 
 mortal wound. The grenadiers, Bragg’s, and L^f- 
 celles’s, prefs’d on with their Bayonets 5 Brigadier 
 Marray, advancing brifldy with his troops, com- 
 pleated the route on this lide •, The Highlanders, 
 fupported by Anftruther’s, drove part of the ene- 
 my with their broad fwords into the town, and 
 part to their bridge on the river St. Charles. 
 Brigadier Townfhend, upon whom the command 
 now devolv’d, having already prevented the French 
 from flanking the left of the army, where he was 
 pofted, repair’d at this time to the center •, reftor’d 
 order to the troops whom the hurry of fuccefs had 
 put into fome confufion ; watch’d the motions of 
 M. de Bougainville, who with a frelh corps of 
 1500 mefi from Cape- Rouge, feem’d to have a 
 defign upon his rear ; and render’d the victory fe- 
 cure. Two pieces of cannon were taken. The 
 French loft about 1 500 men kill’d and wounded, 
 chiefly regulars ; that of the Englifli was compa- 
 ratively fmall, amounting to no more than 58 
 kill’d, 596 wounded, and 3 miffing ; In all, 657. 
 
 Sep- 
 
104 
 
 Chronological Annals 1759. 
 
 Sept. — Prince Henry of Pruflla made himfelf 
 mafter of the Auftrian magazines at Gorlitz, Ga- 
 beJ, Zittau, and Bomilch-Friedland, on the fron- 
 tiers of Bohemia ■, and Major-General Stutterheim 
 tooH about 700 prifoners. 
 
 Sept. 18. The town of Quebec furrender’d to 
 Vice-Admiral Saunders and Brigadier Townfhend. 
 The garrilbn of near looo men, officers, foldiers, 
 and leamen, capitulated to be imbark’d for the firft 
 port in Prance. A great quantity of artillery and 
 military ftores, was found in the town, and the in- 
 trenchments along the Beauport fliore. 
 
 Sept. 2 1 , General Wunfch with the vanguard of 
 the Pruffian army, gain’d a confiderable advantage 
 near Neuftadt, over the army of the empire com- 
 irtanded by the Prince de Deux-Ponts •, whilll: Ge- 
 neral Rebcntilch, at the head of five battalions 
 and fifteen fquadrons of the right wing, was en- 
 gag’d with the Auftrians under General Haddick 
 near Stroiichen : the Pruffian cavalry were twice re- 
 puls’d by that of the Auftrians; the infantry ftood 
 their ground with great firmnefs, and remain’d on 
 the field of battle ; but General Finck, the com- 
 mander in chief, having reafon to think that the 
 Prince de Deux-Ponts, or General Haddick, in- 
 tended to renew the engagement next day, order’d 
 General Rebentilch to return, at midnight, into the 
 firft line. The Pruffians took one piece of cannon, 
 and loft five of their own, when their cavalry were 
 repuls’d the lecond time. General Finck ftill re- 
 main’d in his Camp at Corbitz near Drelden, on 
 the 2<Jth, when the army of the Empire was re- 
 tiring to Kefleldorf. The lofs of the Pruffians in 
 thpfe two engagements amounted to about 1000 
 
 men; 
 
Of the War. 
 
 I7S9- 
 
 105 
 
 men ; that of the Aullrians and Imperialifts, in 
 kill’d, wounded and Prifoners, exceeded 4000. 
 
 S.pt. 25. Prince Henry of Pruffia left his camp 
 at Hermfdorf near Gorlitz, in the evening of the 
 23d, and took his route by Rothenburg to Hoyerf- 
 werda ; where, after a march of eleven German 
 miles, he furpriz’d General Vehla, kill’d 600 Au- 
 ftrians in the field and in the woods, made near 
 1500 prifoners, among whom was the General 
 himlclf with upwards of 20 Officers, and took 
 three pieces of cannon. 
 
 Sept- 26* Major Brercton took Trivatoor (in the 
 Eafl Indies) and made, one Captain with 22 men 
 of the Lorrain regiment, and 8 HufTars, prifoners 
 of war. 
 
 O^ober i. Major Brereton order’d the Majors 
 Monlbn and Caillaud to attack Wandewalh-Pet- 
 tah (a Pettah is a Village belonging to, and com- 
 monly furrounding, every Indian Fort) at one end 
 with 500 men ; while Major Gordon made another 
 attack, at the fame time, with 200 men between 
 the Fort and the Pettah : the former met with 
 little refiftance in entering the Pettah j but the lat- 
 ter was only able to carry 20 men in with him, his 
 Party having been broke by the fire of the ene- 
 my. At day-break, the French charg’d the En- 
 glifii with vigour, and. after a difpute of near two 
 hours, oblig’d them to abandon the Pettah with 
 the lofs of four guns and 262 men (among whom 
 were eleven Officers ) in the action and retreat. 
 The French fulfer’d equally in point of numbers ; 
 but the lofs of lb many Officers of approved valour 
 and merit, was an eflential advantage to the ene- 
 my. The Englifh return’d to their cantonment at 
 
 Conjc- 
 
io6 Chronological Annals 1759. 
 
 Conjeveram. The French foon afterwards laid 
 fiege to Tagada near Trichinopoly 5 and, having 
 entirely routed Lieutenant Raillard, who came with 
 a fmall party to its relief, obtain’d poffelTion of the 
 tort, which Serjeant Hunterman furrender’d upon 
 honourable terms. After this fuccefs, the French 
 attack’d and carried Seringham, which was gallant- 
 ly defended by two companies of Sepoys, who 
 were cruelly treated for their bravery. 
 
 O5ioher 1 3. The French having a little fleet on 
 Lake Champlain, confifting of a new vefTel of 16 
 guns, a fchooner of 10, and three floops of 8, with 
 fwivels in all of them •, General Amherfl; was oblig’d 
 to defer his expedition againft Mr. Bourlemaque 
 on the Ifle au Noix, till he fhould be able to com- 
 mand that Lake. On the i ith of Odober, the Ge- 
 neral and the troops imbark’d in four Columns on 
 board the batteaus, under convoy of a radeau of 
 fix 24 pounders, and a brigantine of 18 guns and 
 20 fwivels, and a floop of 16 guns and 22 Iwivels, 
 the whole commanded by Captain Loring. The 
 French, on the 1 3th funk two of their floops in 
 five fathom water, and ran the third a-ground, to 
 prevent their falling into Captain Loring’s hands. 
 Contrary winds, and the approach of winter, ob- 
 lig’d General Amherfl to abandon his enterprize 
 againfl: the Ifle au Noix, after he had obtain’d this 
 fuperiority upon the Lake. 
 
 O£loher 14. M. des Eflars in the Conde of 64 
 guns, together with a frigate of 22, and two other 
 vefTels, attack’d and took Gombroon, a defence- 
 lefs faftory about 1 5 degrees weft of Surat. Gom- 
 broon is an liur-opcan name for Bunder-Abbafli, 
 which was built by the great Shaw Abbas Sophi of 
 P erfia, after he had, with the afllftance of the En- 
 
 glilh 
 
*759’ War. 107 
 
 glifh, taken Ormus from the Portiiguefe, and 
 ruin’d it. By the 4th and 6th articles of capitu- 
 lation, M. d’Eftaing, then on board the Conde, 
 made his own exchange, and fet himfelf at liberty 
 from the parole which he gave at Madrafs, and 
 which ran in the ufual form, “ not to ferve dire£l- 
 “ ly or indireftly againft the Englilh, during the 
 “ prefent war, or till he fliould be regularly ex- 
 “ chang’d.” This gentleman, in the lame lliip, de- 
 ftroy’d all the Englilh fettlements on the coaft of 
 Sumatra, in the courfe of the following year ; ot 
 which exploit, a very magnificent account was 
 publilh’d in the Amfterdam Gazette. 
 
 October 23. Colonel Luckner attack’d a ftrong 
 poll of the French at Neider-Brechen, kill’d one 
 Lieutenant Colonel, one Major, two Captains, be- 
 tween 40 and 50 inferiour officers and private 
 men ; made an officer and 7 1 private men pri- 
 foners ; and took 99 horfes, together with 112 
 waggons loaded with forage. 
 
 October — The Swedes were driven from Pafle- 
 walk and Demmin by General Manteuffel, who 
 feiz’d their military cheft at the latter place. 
 
 OEtober 29. Baron Gemminghen, who command- 
 ed the rear-guard of the Duke d’Aremberg’s 
 troops, was defeated near Pretfch, by the Generals 
 Rebentilch and Wunfch, under the orders of Prince 
 Henry. The Auftrians loft part of their tents,' a 
 large quantity of baggage, and fome cannon in the 
 engagement ; Baron Gemminghen, 20 officers, 
 and 1200 private men were made prifoners. The 
 next day General Finck made more prifoners at 
 Dabem. 
 
 November 
 
io8 Chronological Annals i 7 S 9 * 
 
 November 5. The Swedes abandon’d Anclam, 
 and repafs’d the Peene. 
 
 Nov. 20. M. de Gayon, having obtain’d on the 
 20th the terms he demanded from the Count de 
 la Lippe, march’d out of the town of Munfter on 
 the 2 1 ft, and General Imhoff enter’d it on the 22d. 
 
 Nov. 20 and 2 1. At Maxen, not far from Strup- 
 pen, in the neighbourhood of the famous camp of 
 Pirna ; Marfhal Daun furpriz’d, furrounded, and 
 made prifoners 124,762 Pruflians, including Officers 
 and Generals ; took 24 ftandards, 96 colours, j 
 pair of lilver-kettle drums, one of brafs, and 70 
 pieces of cannon of different bores- The Auftrians 
 loft about 1000 men. The names of the hine 
 Pruffian Generals were, Finck, Rebentiich,Wunfch, 
 Placten, Lindftaedt, Mofel, Bredow, Fafult, and 
 Gerfdorff. 
 
 Nov. 20. The French fleet under Marflial Con- 
 flans, (having been reinforc’d by draughts from 
 M. Bompart’s fquadron, which arriv’d on the 8th 
 of November, after the violence of the wind had 
 driven Sir Edward Flawke into Torbay) fet fail on 
 the 1 4th, from the harbour of Breft. M. Conflans 
 dilcQver’d Commodore Duff’s fquadron of frigates 
 at four o’ clock in the morning of the 20th, but 
 chafing it in a line. Sir Edward Hawke appear’d 
 in fight time enough to prevent its capture. About 
 halt an hour paft two in the afternoon, the engage- 
 ment began between the two fleets, to the fouth- 
 ward of Bellifle. About four, the Formidable of 
 80 guns 1000 men, ftruck after a defperate re- 
 ftftance. A little after this, the Thefee of 74 guns 
 815 men, a new ihip, uninjur’d by the fire of the' 
 
Of the War. 
 
 ^ 759 - 
 
 109 
 
 Britifh fleet, rowl’d feveral times in deep plunges 
 and funk on her broadfide. The Superbe of 70 
 guns 800 men, which had likewife receiv’d no in- 
 jury in the adlion, funk inftantly like a ftone ; out 
 of the crews of thefe two (hips, 50 only were fa- 
 ved. By day-break, on the 1 iff, the Refolution of 
 74 guns Captain Speke, was difcover’d difmafted 
 on a large fand bank call’d “ the Four.” 7 he El- 
 fcx of 64 guns Captain Obrian, having been or- 
 der’d to flip, and purfue the French Heros of 74 
 guns, and the Soleil Royal of 80 guns (which un- 
 der cover of the night had anchor’d among the 
 Brltifli fleet, and then cut, and run alhore, to the 
 weftward of Croizie ) alfo unfortunately ftruck 
 upon the fame bank. Both thefe fliips were irre- 
 coverably loft, and their remains fet on fire. About 
 fourfcore of the Refolution’s company, in fpite of 
 the Captain’s remonftrances, made rafts, put off, 
 and were driven out to fea : one Lieutenant, with 
 a boat’s crew, belonging to the Eflex, was driven 
 on the French ftiore : the reft of the crew, in both 
 {hips were preferv’d. On the zzd, the Soleil-Royal 
 and the Heros were deftroy’d •, the former by the 
 French, the latter by the Englifh. Seven or eight 
 of the French line of battle Ihips got into the river 
 Vilaine ; the remainder put out to fea the night of 
 the aftion, and afterwards retir’d into one of the 
 ports in the ifle of Aix, from whence they were 
 brought into the river Charante. The Heros 
 having ftruck to the Magnanime, before ihe was 
 deftroy’d ; Lord Howe demanded the crew, as his 
 prifoners, at the Due d’Aiguillon’s table : the faff 
 was acknowledg’d, but the difeuflion of fo nice a 
 point, was left to their refpeftive Sovereigns. Only 
 nine of the Britilh ftiips had any {hare in this vic- 
 tory. The Jufte, a French {hip of 70 guns, was 
 , afterwards loft in that narrow and dangerous paf- 
 
 fage 
 
no Caronological Annals ^ 759 - 
 
 fage between the Four and Croizie j of 800 men, 
 a tenth only was favcd. The French fleet confifted 
 of 25 fliips, four of which were frigates-, the 
 Englifli, of 33 ; ten of which were frigates from 
 50 to 28 guns. His Majefty to recompence this 
 important fervice, granted a penfion of 2000 
 pounds per annum to Sir Edward Hawke, for his 
 life, and for the lives of his two fons, and the fur- 
 vivor of them and Sir Edward afterwards receiv’d 
 the unanimous thanks of the Houfe of Commons. 
 
 Nov. 24. The Calcutta Captain Wilfon, Duke 
 of Dorfet Captain Forrefter, and Hardwick Cap- 
 tain Sampfon, having demanded, of the Dutch 
 Commodore, an Englifli fno.w, and four or five 
 floops, which he had arbitrarily flopp’d in the rivet 
 Bengal, and that demand not being complied with, 
 began a bold and refolute engagement with the 
 feven Dutch fliips under the Commodore’s orders. 
 After an aftion of two hours, the Commodore 
 flruck, with three other fliips ; the remaining three 
 ran down the river, and fell into the hands of the 
 Royal George and the Oxford Indiamen 
 
 Nov. 24. Colonel Forde, with 350 Europeans, 
 1500 Sepoys, 20 Gentlemen of the independent 
 Company mounted, 50 Perfian horfe, and about 
 30 Volunteers, intending to halt at Chandanagore ; 
 was fif’d upon by the Dutch troops, which had occu- 
 pied that place ; the Colonel immediately diflodg’d 
 them, kill’d near 50, and purfued the refl to the walls 
 of their own Fort Chincura : he took upon this oc- 
 cafion four field pieces and all their baggage. 
 
 Nov. 25. The Dutch army, compos’d of Euro- 
 peans and Buggefles, having advanc’d from their 
 fliips near to Chincura, Colonel Forde met them 
 
1759 * 
 
 Of the War. 
 
 lit 
 
 in a neighbouring plain, gave them battle, and put 
 them to flight in fuch a manner, that very few ef- 
 cap’d being kill’d or taken prifoners. In confe- 
 quence of this viftory, a treaty was concluded be- 
 tween the Englifh and the Direftor and Council of 
 Chincura, to the advantage of the former. 
 
 Nov. 30 The hereditary Prince of Brunfwick, 
 and Prince Charles of Bevern, defeated, near Fulda, 
 three battalions of grenadiers, and the regiment of 
 Wernick, being part of the army of the Duke of 
 Wirtemberg. A confiderable number of thefe bat- 
 talions was cut to pieces, the reft threw down their 
 arms, and were made prifoners of war, with all 
 their officers •, the hereditary Prince took from 
 them, two pieces of cannon, two pair of colours, 
 their baggage, and beft cloathes, in which they 
 were drels’d that day for a feu de joye. 
 
 Nov. 30. The garrifon of Wondivafh (in the 
 Eaft Indies ) confifting of 5 fubaltern Officers, 63 
 private Europeans, and 500 Sepoys, furrender’d 
 prifoners of war to Colonel Coote ; 49 pieces of 
 cannon were taken, with a great quantity of Am- 
 munition. 
 
 Dec. 4. The Mermaid of 24 guns ftruck on Wal- 
 ker’s, Key, one of the moft northern of the Baha- 
 mas, and was loft ; the' crew were faved, 
 
 Dec. 3 and 4. Lieutenant General Beck, under 
 the orders of Marffial Daun, attack’d and defeated 
 a confiderable body of Pruffians, near Meiflen, 
 commanded by General Diercke ; many of the 
 Pruffians were cut to pieces •, Major Gen. Diercke 
 himfelf, 55 Officers, and the three battalions of 
 Haufen, Canitz, and Bernbourg, befides dragoons 
 
 
1 12 Chronological Annals 1759. 
 
 and Huflars, were made prifoners ; 8 pieces of 
 cannon, 61 brafs drums, all the baggage, and a 
 confiderable number of horfes were taken, 
 
 Dec. 10. The fort of Carangoly (in the Eaft In- 
 dies) furrender’d to Colonel Cootc upon honourable 
 terms j five out of nine guns were difmounted. 
 
 Dec. — The Hunter and Efther cutters, ftation’d 
 off Havre de Grace, were taken by a French fri- 
 gate that came out of Havre for that purpofe. 
 
 Dec. 2 5. The hereditary Prince of Brunfwich ar- 
 riv’d at Chemnitz' in Saxony, with a body of 10 or 
 12,000 men, detach’d from the army of Prince 
 Ferdinand, to the aflillance of the King of Prullia. 
 
 Dec. 26. Governour Littleton concluded a treaty 
 of peace and friendlhip, at Fort Prince George in 
 South Carolina, with Attakullakulla or the little 
 Carpenter, Deputy of the whole Cherokee Nation, 
 and other principal Cherokees, which that Nation 
 foon afterwards violated in the moll open and 
 fhameful manner. 
 
 Dec. 29, Colonel Luckner with his Chafieurs, 
 cut to pieces or made prifoners, a body of 400 
 French volunteers, (excepting 22 men only, who 
 cfcap’d) and took one piece of cannon. 
 
 • Dec. — M. Scheiter pafs’d the Rhine, furpriz’d 
 a French Detachment, burnt a large m.agazine, 
 and took the whole baggage of the Swifs regiment 
 of Jenner, without any lofs on his fide. 
 
 Supplies granted by Parliament for the fervice of the 
 year 1759. 
 
 Twelve million, feven hundred forty nine thou* 
 fand, eight hundred and fixty pounds, 
 
 ' Aiif 
 
.4 /ifi of (onjiderahlt privateers^ &c, and arm*d tnerchantmen^ taken hy his Majefifs Jhips of 
 war, from the of December to the of December 1759. 
 
 January. 
 
 The Machaolt of Gran- 
 ville 
 
 The St. MichaeJ of Dun- 
 kirk, with a ranfomer on 
 board. 
 
 A privateer 
 
 A privateer 
 
 The Marquis de Marigny 
 ® of Granville j 
 
 February. 
 
 > The Moras of St. Maloe 
 
 A privateer 
 
 The Hardl Mehdiant of 
 Dunkirk 
 
 guns. 
 
 men. 
 
 captors. 
 
 24 nine pounders. 
 
 240 
 
 taken by the Juno Captain Phillips. 
 
 • 
 
 6 
 
 50 
 
 by the Saphire, » ^ 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 
 by the Antigua fioop. 
 
 ao 
 
 194 
 
 by the Montague Captain Parker. 
 
 22 
 
 202 
 
 by the Unicorn Captain Graves, 
 by a man of war,, and lent into 
 Cork. 
 
 3 
 
 60 
 
 by the Mountague Captain Parker. 
 
 >JVAA 3HX JO '6Sii 
 
guns. 
 
 La Mouche of Havre _ 8 
 
 F 
 
 March. 
 
 The Cabriolet of Dun- ^ 
 
 kirk 
 
 A privateer of St, Maloe 22 nine pounders. 
 La Maria Catherine 8 
 
 J^ril 
 
 ' A cutter, of Dunkirk 
 Marquis de Baraii cff 
 Dunkirk 
 
 iThh^tiatillortbur of Dun- 
 h kirk 
 
 tCdnqberaht of Cherburg 
 
 ChaCfeur of Dunkirk 
 
 8 
 
 *4 
 
 8 ' 
 
 6 carriage 
 10 fwivels 
 
 ‘ 6 carriage 
 
 men. 
 
 80 
 
 58 
 
 250 
 
 60 
 
 104 - 
 
 60 
 
 29 
 
 41 
 
 captors. 
 
 by the Coventry and Thames. 
 
 by the Jamaica {loop. 
 
 by the Adventure of 32 guns Cap- 
 tain Moore. 
 
 by the Ama?on Captain Norton. 
 
 by one of his Majefty’s cutters. 
 
 by the Brilliant and Deptford. 
 
 by the Grace cutter and the Ro- 
 cheftcr’s boats. 
 
 by the Tamer frigateCapt. Hughes. 
 
 CHRONOtoeiCAi. Annals 1759. 
 
H 2 
 
 Dilpatch of Morlaix 
 
 Bafque of Bayonne 
 Le Vieux of Bourdeaux 
 
 guns. 
 
 10 carri^e 
 8 fwivels 
 22 carriage 
 8 carriage 
 
 Le Velour from St. Do- 
 mingo 
 
 24 
 
 1 
 
 : May. 
 
 A privateer 
 
 8 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 
 LaDunkerquoife of Dun- 
 kirk 
 
 The Countefs of Serfe of 
 
 8 carriage 
 
 Dunkirk with two ran- 
 fomers, pierc’d for 22 
 guns 
 
 i 3 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 by the Diligence floop Capt, Eaft-J 
 wood. 
 
 210 by the Brilliant Captain Parker. 
 
 36 by the Surprize Captain Antrobus. 
 by the Favourite of 20 guns, of a 
 much inferiour weight of raetal, 
 Captain Edwards commander i the 
 ^ engagement continued for 2 hours 
 
 and an half. Captain Edwards had 
 been Lieutenant of the Tartar. 
 
 52 by the Liverpool Captain Knight, 
 52 by the Stag Captain Angel. 
 
 187 
 
 
 by the Adventure Captain Moore. 
 
 1759 * Of the War. 
 
'.i 
 
 
 The Bona Eiperanza 
 rivateer ' 
 
 guns. 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 by the Penguin, 
 bv the Adventure. 
 
 6 carriage 
 
 35 by the Liverpool Captain Knight. 
 
 
 Lanouvelle Hirondelle of 
 'Dunkirk with one ran- ^ iVivefs 
 
 Two Dutch fliips» of about 350 tons each, loaded with 73 tons of bifcuit, 51 quarters of 
 beef and pork, 200 barrels of powder, and a vaft quantity of cannon ball, and bombs 
 taken by the Succefs. 
 
 Aiigufi. 
 
 Two privateers by the Antelope and Jamaica (loop. 
 
 A privateer, M. Palanqui by the Lively Honourable brede- 
 
 '^con^ntander rick INdaitland. ^ 
 
 The Favourite Hoop from Pondicherry to Mauritius was taken by the Royal George India- 
 ^ man' Captain BeamiJh, and carried ititoMadrafs-, Ihe had two Colonels and a Captain on 
 bC)'ard;”and 40,000 rupees faj 4jJ to sd each) in Cpecie. ■ 
 
 Chronological Annals 1755. 
 
Septmher. guns. 
 
 The Mercury fchooner, a 
 tender to the Breft-fleet 
 
 The Aimiable Granadina ^ 
 of Port au Prince ^ 
 
 Two French Privateers 
 
 4 
 
 i 
 
 OSioher. 
 
 A privateer ' 6 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 taken from under Gameret-fort by 
 36 the boats of Sir Edward Hawke’s 
 fquadron. 
 
 by the (loop Mars (a tender to the 
 Marlborough ) James Paterfon 
 commander; after an engagement 
 of an hour and an half. 
 
 run alhore at Guadalupe, and burnt 
 by the Fortune floop of 10 guns, 
 commanded by Mr. Rott firft 
 Lieutenant to Commodore Moore. 
 
 driven afhore at Point Noir in Gua- 
 daloupc, by the Antigua floop. 
 
 November. ■ 
 
 *P' 'U!T TTjOi: 'US 
 
 The Sene£terre, Duke de Ftonfac, and Solcil-Royal, ftruck'on a fand bank in St. Lawrence 
 river, below Quebec, and were loft. 
 
 * 759 * War. 
 
•DAcemhtri 
 
 A cutter of Boulogne 
 
 Tlje Chefaria of -500 
 tons, with fix guns un- 
 mounted in her hold 
 
 ^uns. 
 
 18 
 
 The Infernal 
 
 10 
 
 men. 
 
 100 
 
 •captors. 
 
 taken bjr two of his Majefty’s cut- 
 ters. 
 
 by the Rippon. £he fail’d from 
 
 a place twenty leagues above 
 Quebec 
 
 carried into Barbadoes by the A- 
 mazon. 
 
 J18 Chronologicai- Annals 1759, 
 
Of the War. 
 
 1760. 
 
 119 
 
 1760. 
 
 January — A ^ advanc’d poft of the Allies at 
 Herborn, confifting of a Captain 
 and too men, was obliged to fubmit to the French 
 after a vigorous refiftance. 
 
 Jan. 7. M. de Derenthal reliev’d the Callle of 
 Dillenbourg, made 40 French officers and 700 pri- 
 vate men prilbners, and took feven pair of colours, 
 with two pieces of cannon. 
 
 Jan. 7. Major Keith’s Highlanders and Luck- 
 ner’sHuflars, attack’d Baufremont’s dragoons in the 
 village of Eybach, kill’d and difpers’d great part 
 of them, made about 80 prifoners, and took near 
 200 horfes with the baggage of the regiment. The 
 Highlanders greatly dittinguilh’d themfelves on 
 this occafion. 
 
 Jan. II. The Marquifs of Granby bomb-ketch, 
 was run down by the Bird tender, to the eaft-ward 
 of the iHand of May in the Firth of Forth, and 
 funk immediately to the bottom. 
 
 Jan. — A French Eaft-Indiaman, taken about 
 two years before by the Proteftor, a ffiip belong- 
 ing to the Engliffi Eaft-India Company, was con- 
 demn’d in Doctors Commons as a lawful capture. 
 
 Jan. 22. Colonel Eyre Coote defeated Lieute- 
 nant General Lally near Wondivaffi. The French 
 
 force 
 
1-20 Chronological Annals 1760; 
 
 force was compos’d of 2200 European^, 300 Cof- 
 feries or Caffres frorn Madagafcar, and between 9’ 
 and 10,000 black troops. The Englilh amounted 
 to 1700 Europeans and 3500 black troops. The 
 French, in their own account, own’d the lofs of 
 8oo men kill’d arid wounded, 200 of whom the 
 Conquerors buried in the field. Among the pri- 
 foners.were Brigadier General Bully, Lc Chevdicf 
 Godp.Y'iJJe quarter matter general. Lieutenant Co- 
 lonel Murphy, of Lally’s regiment, Le Chevalier 
 de Poete Knight of Malta (who afterwards died of 
 his wounds) three Captains, five Lieutenants, and 
 two Enfigns. Twelve pieces of iron cannon, and 
 ten of .brafs were taken, together with a quantity 
 of Ihot, and all implements belonging to the train. 
 T he lofs of the viftorious army amounted to 192 
 Eumpeans and 70 Blacks kill’d and wounded. The 
 gallant Major Brereton died of his wounds. M. 
 Lally blew up a large magazine of powder in his 
 rind foon afterwards recall’d all his troops 
 from Seringham, epofitting of near 500 European 
 horfe and foot. After this viftory. Colonel Coote 
 detach d Captain de Vaflerot to lay watte the 
 bounds, of Pondicherry, who brought off a booty 
 of 4000-head of cattlcv 
 lo' . 
 
 .■^7 and 28. Count Ferfcn, the Swe- 
 
 dittv Gc{)eral, furpriz’d the Prufllans.in. the fuburb- 
 pfi AoRlfttn, drove them into the town, and enter’d 
 it..wjth them, took, General Manteuffel prifoner 
 ’With, about 3Q0 men, kill’d 13, wounded la, and 
 rnadc/hitTilelt matter of .3 pieces of cannon: Ma)orw 
 §tutterheim collcdfed the fcatter’d Prul- 
 firii} 4 , ^1 obliged the Swedes to retire.^' 
 ilol fb‘’ ■ 
 
 Le Chevalier, de Tilly furreader’d Chit- 
 .Colonel Coote. Four Qffioers, 127: Euro-, 
 
 peans, 
 
1760. Of the War. 121 
 
 peans, and 300 Seap6ys were made" prifoners ; arid' 
 nine guriS talcen, with a quantity of ammunition.' 
 About this time Captain Wood inverted Arcot, got 
 pofleflion of the Pettah, routed Zulapherzing’s' 
 Forces, and toofc'his whole camp. 
 
 Jan. 30; Captain Smith, with a detachment, in- 
 tercepted a' party of the enemy going from Arcot 
 to Gingey, and' took one Captain of the Lorrain 
 regiment, 3 Commiffaries, 10 Europeans, 50 Sea- 
 poys, and 2 pieces of brafs cannon 8 pounders. 
 
 Jan. 30. By a-lift publirti’d on this day in An- 
 tigua, it appear’d that the fquadron under Commo- 
 dore Moore, from the 30th of Augurt 1757 to the 
 26th of December i759,'had taken 53 French pri- 
 vateers, drove 3 afhore, and retaken 24 Englilh 
 veflels. 
 
 Fek. 2. Timmery furrender’d to Major Mohfonj 
 one Serjeant, 20 Europeans, 6o'Seapoys, and fix 
 pieces of cannon were taken. ^ - 
 
 Feh. 10. Arcot furrender’d to Colonel Coote." 
 3 Captains, 8 Subalterns, 236 Europeans, and be- 
 tween 2 and 300 Seapoys, were made prifoners of 
 war, 4 mortars, and 2 a pieces of cannon were 
 taken, together with a great quantity of all mili- 
 tary rtores. The very day that Arcot furrendePdi ‘ 
 27 Huflars del'erted, with their horfes and arnK, 
 and came over to Colonel Cootfe ; not long rftdr- ‘ 
 wards, the whole body of European cavalry, in the' 
 French King’s- fervice, follow’d that ekample.' In 
 this whole expedition from the 30th of November 
 to the loth of February inclufive, the French loft 
 1081 Europeans kill’d, wounded, and prifoners j 
 27 deferters, 1360 Seajxiys, 114 pieces of cannon 
 
122 Chronological Annals 1760. 
 
 in iron and brafs, 4 mortars, and a very confidcr- 
 able quantity of ammunition. 
 
 Pehr. — The Falmouth, a Ihip belonging to 
 Admiral Cornilh’s fquadron, obliged the Haerlem 
 to run afhore, two leagues to the northward of Pon- 
 dicherry. — The garrifons of Pcrmaqoil and A- 
 lemparve, furrender’d Prifoners of War. 
 
 Febr. 15. In the night, the Ramilies of 90 guns, 
 734 men Captain Taylor, dalh’d to pieces, in a 
 violent ftorm, againft a rock between the Start 
 Point and Plymouth. One midlhipman aud 26 fea- 
 men were faved ; the Captain and all the reft of 
 the crew unfortunately perifh’d. — The Hawke 
 cutter with one officer and 12 men was loft in the 
 fame terrible ftorm. 
 
 Febr. 20. The Auftrians, under General Beck, 
 attack’d the Pruffians, under General Czette- 
 ritz, near Torgau ; the lofs in this affair was of 
 no great importance, but the Pruffian General had 
 the misfortune to be taken prifoner, with two fqua- 
 drons of light cavalry. 
 
 Febr. 21. The caftle of Carrickfergus capitu- 
 lated to Brigadier General Flobert at the head of 
 1000 French troops-, and Lieutenant Colonel Jen- 
 nings furrender’d himlelf prifoner of war, together 
 with four companies of Major General Strode’s re- 
 giment. Colonel Jennings bravely repuls’d the e- 
 nemy in their firft attack upon the Caftle, which 
 they .endeavour’d to take by aftault ; but the place 
 being abfolutely untenable, and the foldicrs in 
 want of ball, he was obliged tor propofe terms of 
 capitulation. M. Flobert was wounded in the leg, 
 and' left at Carrickfergus when the troops reim- 
 
 bark’d 
 
1760. Of the War. 123 
 
 bark’d. Colonel Jennings receiv’d the thanks of 
 the Irifli Houfe of Commons for his bravery and 
 conduct. ’ 
 
 Febr. — The Thames Captain Richard Saun- 
 ders, from Leghorn to London, valued at 100,000 
 pounds fterling, was taken by the Fulvie privateer 
 of Dunkirk and her confort, each of them pierc’d 
 for 22 guns and mounting 18, after an engage- 
 ment of two hours. 
 
 Febr. 29. Captain Elliot iathe iEolus of 32 guns 
 220 men, together with Captain Clements in the 
 Pallas of 36 guns 240 men, and Captain Logie in 
 the Brilliant of 36 guns 240 men, attack’d and 
 took the Marfhal Bellifle of 44 guns 545 men 
 (troops included) Captain Thurot, La Blonde 32 
 guns 400 men Captain La Kayce, and the Terp- 
 fichore 26 guns 300 men Captairv Defrauaudais : 
 the engagement was between the Mull of Gallo- 
 way and the Ifle of Man, and lafted upwards of an 
 hour and an half. The French had near 300 kill’d 
 and wounded ; the Englilh, no more than 5 kill’d 
 and 31 wounded. Captain Elliot and his gallant 
 companions receiv’d the thanks of the Irifh Houfe 
 of Commons for this important Service. M, Thu- 
 rot, who fell in the aftion, was an excellent fea- 
 man, a brave officer, and a generous enemy; 
 
 March la. M^oir Podewills, with 300 Pruflian 
 dragoons and Hiiflars, furpriz’d 1400 Coflacks at 
 Arenfwalde, kill’d a Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, 
 and 80 men, made 30 prifoners, and brought away 
 40 horfcs. ^ 
 
 Mar. 
 
 
124 
 
 Chronological Annals 1760. 
 
 ' March 15 and 16, General Laudohn, with a 
 cohfiderable force, attack’d, near Newftadt, the 
 Captains Blumenthal and Zirtzwitz, with the regt 
 ment of ManteuSel, and a fquadron of the dra* 
 gropns of Bareith, under their command. Five co- 
 ver’d waggons laden with baggage, and 1 8 cam 
 with meal and oats, fell into the hands of the Au- 
 ftrians, who fuffer’d neverthelefs in the engage- 
 ment, lofing 28 officers and near 1000 men kiU’d 
 and wounded ; the total lofs of the Pruffians did 
 not exceed 200 men. The Auftrians abandon’d 
 Newftadt on the 1 7th. 
 
 March 16 and 17. A body of light troops of the 
 arrny of the Empire, under the orders of General 
 Luckzinlki, furpriz’d at Zeitz, and carried off, 8 
 officers and too private men of a Pruffian regiment 
 o’f' Carabineers. 
 
 March — The Tartar’s prize, a frigate of 20 
 gun% founder’d in the Mediterranean, but the of- 
 ficers and crew were taken up by a Danifli ftiip, 
 and .carried into Malta- 
 
 March 2S- The Penguin frigate of 20 guns, 
 Captain Harris, was taken and funk, off Vigo, by 
 the Malicieufe of 36 guns and the Opale of 32. 
 
 jlpril 2. The Conde Eaft-Indiaman of 36 guns 
 and a frigate of 18 with 800 men under the Count 
 .oblig’d the crew of the Denham India- 
 Sr .7 tQ her, and afterwards deftroy’d the 
 
 fcttlements on the coaft of Sumatra. 
 
 A 
 
1760. Of the War. i ?5 
 
 April 4. The Biddeford of 20 guns . Captain 
 Skinner, and' the Flam borough Of 24' guns, Cap- 
 tain Kennedy, engag’d the Opale of 32 guns; 250 
 men the Marquis d’Ars commander, and the Mar 
 Ucieuft of 36 guns 25b men M. de Goimpy com- 
 mander. The battle lafted between three and four 
 hours, when the French frigates fled with all the 
 fail they could make. Captain Skinner was unfor- 
 tunately kill’d in the a< 5 tion, ~and his Lieutenant 
 Mr. Knollys died of his wounds loon afterwards. 
 Mr. Stace the Mailer, fought the Ihip till the ene- 
 my made olF. This engagement did great honour 
 to the Britilh Marine. 
 
 April 5. Carical in the Eall-lndies, a fmall pen- 
 tagon, but of great llrength, and built exaftly on 
 the plan of Lille, furrender’d to the land and Tea 
 Officers under Rear Admiral Cornilh and Major 
 * Monfon. 
 
 April 28. The regiment of M. D’Apchbn',^foge- 
 thcr with fome Volunteers, attack’d Colonel Frey- 
 tagg in Vacha, who was obliged to abandon that 
 town ; but taking poll upon a rifing ground, he 
 kept the French in play, till two battalions gre- 
 nadiers came to his AlTillance-, the French tRen re^ 
 tir’d, but were purfued for three leagues, attat^^d 
 and drove from Geifa, where they had intended to 
 quarter that night. 
 
 • April %%. The Chevalier de Levis, at the head 
 of 10,000 French and Canadians, and 500 Indians, 
 was attack’d by Brigadier General Murray, with 
 3000 men only, near Quebec. The adtidn lafted 
 an hour and three quarters, when General Murray 
 was -oblig’d to retreat, after having loft 2 59 kill’d, 
 
 13 pri- 
 
126 Chronological Annals 1760. 
 
 igprifoners, and 832 wounded and miffing. Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel Burton, Major Dalling, and Cap- 
 tain Ince, were mention’d with honour in the Ge- 
 neral’s account ot this battle. All the officers and 
 foldiers did their Duty. The French, by their own 
 confeffion, had 2500 men kill’d and wounded. The 
 cannon, which could not be brought off, were 
 nail’d up. The feverity of the climate, and the 
 fcurvy, had already deftroy’d 1000 of the garrifon, 
 and rendred 2000 more totally unfit for any fer- 
 vice, 
 
 Apr. 29. The Prince of Wales, a rich ffiipfrora 
 Genoa and Leghorn, valued at 50,000 pounds, was 
 taken by a French frigate. 
 
 May 2 and 3. — Two hundred pick’d men of 
 the Pruffian army, who were fent to mark out a 
 camp near the Elbe, were taken prifoners by Ge- 
 neral Lalci, after a gallant defence. 
 
 ^ May 5. The Pruffians abandon’d Noffen, and fet 
 fire to their magazine ; but the Auftrians came up 
 time enough to lave part of it. 
 
 May .16 and 17. In the night of the 28th of 
 April, the French open’d trenches againft the town 
 of Quebec j but retir’d with precipitation between 
 .the 16 and 17 th of May, on the arrival of part of 
 the Britilh fleet. They left behind them, their 
 camp {landing, all their baggage, {lores, maga- 
 zines of provilions and ammunitiort ; 34 pieces of 
 battering-cannon, (4 of which were brafs twelve 
 pounders) i o field pieces, 6 mortars, 4 petards, a 
 large quantity of fcaling ladders, and intrenching 
 tools beyond number. The day before this retreat, 
 Captain Schomberg of the Diana and Captain 
 
 Ueane 
 
1760. Of the War. 127 
 
 Deane of the Loweftoffe, had been order’d by 
 Commodore Swanton, to attack two frigates, two 
 arm’d fliips, and many fmaller veflels, which lay 
 above the town. The French fled in the greateft 
 confufion j the Pomona frigate was driven on 
 Ihore above Cape Diamond ; the Atalanta ran her- 
 felf afhore, and was burnt at Point au Tremble, 
 about 10 leagues above Qiiebec •, Moft of the o- 
 ther fliips and velfels were hkewife driven alhore, 
 or effeftually deftroy’d. The Loweftoffe, in pur- 
 fuit of thefe frigates, was loft upon fome unknown 
 rocks, but the officers and men were faved. In 
 confequence of thefe fucceffes, a nation of Indians 
 furrender’d themfelves to the Englilh, and enter’d 
 into an alliance with them. 
 
 , May 24. The French garrifon, of 500 men, 
 under Brigadier Waldener, at Butzbach, were de- 
 feated by Colonel Luckner ; four officers and 100 
 private men were made prifoners ; the reft were 
 either cut to pieces, or difpers’d. 
 
 I May 29. A company of grenadiers of the regi- 
 ment Dauphine, were made prifoners of war by the 
 Black Huffars of the allies, in a flight flcirmilh near 
 Fulda. 
 
 June I. Colonel Montgomery and Major Grant 
 deftroy’d Eftato, Sugar-Town, and every village 
 ' and houfe in the lower Nation of the Cherokees. 
 
 Jun. I.. By an account colleded from Lloyd’s 
 lifts, it appear’d, that between the firft of June 
 1756, and the firft of June 1760, the number of 
 Ihips taken by the French amounted to 2539, in- 
 cluding 7S privateers : of this number 321 were 
 I retaken. During tlie fame fpace of time, the num- 
 ' ... ber 
 
 
12 $ Chronological Annals 17601 
 
 ber of mips taken by the Englifh amounted to 944, 
 of which 243 were privateers. 
 
 ^yune— The Ruffian General Tottleben made 
 200 Pruffians prifoners of war near Coffin^ and 
 routed two independent battalions. 
 
 ytine — General Woherlclorf, under the orders 
 of General Laudohn, took pofleffion of the almoa 
 impregnable lines of Landlhut, and of the fortrefs 
 of that name, which were abandon’d by General 
 Fouquet. 
 
 June 17. General Fouquet repoflefs’d himfelfof 
 Landlhut, and all the neighbouring heights. 
 
 June 17 and 18. General Laudohn with a body 
 of 12000 volunteers, made a general aflault upon 
 the town of Glatz, but was repuls’d by Colonel 
 D’O, who commanded in that fortrefs, with confi- 
 derable lofs. 
 
 June — The Pruffians under General Forcade 
 obliged the Ruffian General Tottleben to retire, 
 after a fmart engagement ; but the latter being re- 
 inforc’d by part of the vanguard of the army de- 
 ftin’d for Pomerania, General Forcade was attack’d 
 in his turn, and defeated, with the lofs of 500 
 men kill’d, befides prifoners and deferters. 
 
 June 23. General Laudohn, at the head of near 
 50,000 men, attack’d the Pruffians under General 
 Fouquet, near Landfliut *, and drove them from 
 their different ports, in which they were ftrongly 
 intrench’d : the aftion began at a quarter before 
 two in the morning ; in lefs than an hour, the 
 Aurtrians carried the intrenchments on the emi- 
 nences 
 
1760. Of the War. 129 
 
 nences of Buckberg and Dodorfberg ; the line of 
 communication between thofe eminences was after- 
 wards forced ; and the Pruflians, having been fuc- 
 cefllvely diflodged from their remaining polls, were 
 at laft obliged to lay down their arms in the field 
 about eight o’ clock in the morning, and alk for 
 quarter. 7800 men (almoft the whole of the Pruf- 
 fian army that furviv’d the engagenlent) were made 
 prifoners of war, and 49 pieces of ordnance of dif- 
 ferent bores, 9 haubitzers, 24 ammunition wag- 
 gons, 34 pair of colours, 2 llandards, one pair of 
 lilver kettle drums, fell into the hands of the con- 
 querors. TJre Aullrians acknowledged only the lofs 
 of 767 kill’d, 2087 wounded, and 351 mifling. 
 General Laudohn, in his particular detail of this 
 vidory, diftinguilh’d the merit and fervices of his 
 Generals and Officers in fo handfome a manner, 
 that he deferv’d to be as much elleem’d for his 
 modefty, as he had been admir’d for his military 
 abilities. 
 
 June 30. The caftle of Marburg furrender’d to 
 the French, and the garrifon of near 400 men 
 were made prifoners of war. 
 
 July i. -Between the 24th of June and the ill of 
 July, Colonel Archibald Montgomery, with a de- 
 tachment of the royal regiment of foot, the High- 
 land regiment, and a part of the South-Carolina 
 provincials, march’d to the town of Etchoey in the 
 middle fettlements of the Cherokee nation, and 
 return’d back again to his camp at Fort Prince 
 George, being, in all, 160 miles : on the 27th of 
 June he engag’d with, and repuls’d, the Indians 
 who oppos’d themfelves to his march. The dan- 
 gerous paffages through narrow defiles, and gaps 
 of mountains, might have enabled an handful of 
 
 1 men 
 
 
130 Chronological Annals 1760. j 
 
 men to refift the efforts of a whole army ; but in 
 fpi^^ht of thefe difficulties, Colonel Montgomery 
 deitroy’d the Cherokee fettlement at Etchoey (in 
 which he found 500 buffiels of Indian corn) with 
 the lofs only of 20 men kill’d and 77 wounded. 
 
 ^uly s- A fire broke out in the dockyard at 
 Portfmouth, and deftroy’d the rope-houfe, fpin- 
 ning-houfe, bemp-houfe, and one of the ftore- 
 hoides. XhB accident was fuppos’d to have been 
 the effeft of lightning. ( 
 
 yu/y 8. Captain Byron in the Fame, together j! 
 with the Dorletffiire, Achilles, Scarborough, and I 
 Repulfe, deftroy’d, in Chaleurs Bay, the Machaux 
 frigate of 30 guns, two large ftorefliips, nineteen 
 fail of fmaller veliels, two batteries, and two hun- 
 dred houfes. 
 
 yu/y 10. The hereditary Prince of Brunfwick 
 engag’d a very confiderable body of the French 
 army on the heights of Corbach •, but, after a vi- 
 gorous difpute, was oblig’d to retire in fome con- 
 tufion. General Count Kielmanfegge, Major Ge- 
 neral Griffin, and the two battalions of Brudenel 
 and Carr, greatly diftinguifti’d themfeives in this |. 
 affair : the hereditary Prince, putting himfelf at the 1 
 head of a fquadron of Blands (commanded by Ma- | 
 jor Mill ) and Howard’s Regiment of dragoons, 1 
 charg’d the enemy fo furioufly and effe<ffually with 
 thefe brave troops, that he enabled his infantry 10 
 make a fafe retreat ; he receiv’d a flight wound in 
 the flioulder. Twelve pieces of cannon, four hau- 
 bitzers, and thirty ammunition waggons fell into 
 the hands of the French, whofe lofs in kill’d and 
 wounded was computed at 700 men. The total 
 
 .lofs 
 
1760. Of the War« iji 
 
 lofs of the Allies, in kill’d, wounded and miffing, 
 amounted to 824. 
 
 July 1 6. The caftle of Dillingbourg, after an ho- 
 nourable defence, furrender’d to the French ; and 
 the garrilon, confiding of near 250 men, were 
 made prilbners of war. 
 
 July 16. The hereditary Prince of Brunfwick 
 furpriz’d and defeated a body of the French under 
 Major General Glaubitz, near the village of Erx- 
 doif at fome diftance from Ziegenhayn. Two bat- 
 talions of Royal Baviere, three of Anhalt, together 
 with the Major General himfelf and the Prince of 
 Anhalt Coethen, were made prilbners of war; five 
 pieces of artillery, one hautbitzer, and all their 
 arms and baggage, were taken. Elliot’s regiment 
 of light-horle under Major Erfkine, behav’d with 
 remarkable intrepidity. The whole number of pri- 
 foners amounted to 177 officers and 2482 private 
 men. The lofs on the part of the Allies, did not 
 exceed 85 kill’d, 95 wounded, and 6 miffing. 
 
 July 18. The Allies evacuated Paderborn, of 
 which the French took polTeffion. 
 
 July — A French frigate of 28 guns and 180 
 men, bound to Quebec with ftores, was loft on the 
 ifland of Flora, and all the men, except about 284 
 were drown’d. 
 
 July 22. — Between the fecond and feventh of 
 July, the King of PrufTia, having march’d with his 
 army to Koningfbruck, Lichtenberg, and Marien- 
 ftern, pafs’d the river Sprehe near Grofs-Dobrau, 
 and occupied the camp at Doberfchutz about half 
 a German mile from Bautzen, making a feint to 
 
 I 2 pufh 
 
132 Chronological Annals 1760, 
 
 ruHi forward into Silefia : on receiving intelligence 
 that Marllial Daun had gain’d two marches upon 
 him he ftruck his tents at eight o clock m the 
 evening of the eighth, repafs’d the Sprehe near 
 Bautzen, and on the 13th, fix’d his head-quarters 
 at Grunau, behind the Great-Garden near Dref- 
 den • as the King approach’d the Elbe, he was 
 ioin’d by General Hulfen with his corps from Meii- 
 fen From the 13th to the 19th, the King befieged 
 Drcdden vigoroufly ; but Marllial Daun being now 
 arriv’d with his army, and. incamp d within a league 
 of the city, his Majelly drew off his forces on the 
 2 2d, and rais’d the liege. In the night between the 
 ^ j jjjid 2zd, lixteen battalions, lent through the 
 town by Marflial Daun, fallied out upon the Pruf 
 fians, and, at firft, obtain’d feme advantage j but 
 were, in the end, repuls d and purlued with lols. 
 
 July 26. The old fortrefs of Glatz was taken 
 fword in hand, and the new one furrender’d at dif- 
 cretion the Auftrians made themfelves mailers of 
 a confiderable magazine ; their total lofs, by their 
 own account, did not exceed four officers and fixty- 
 four private men kill’d, leven officers and 138 men 
 wounded. 
 
 Ji^ly 3 1 , The hereditary Prince of Brunfwick, 
 General Sporcken, and the Marquis of Granby, at- 
 tack’d and. defeated the referve of the French army 
 commanded by the Chevalier de Muy, near War- 
 bourg. The Swifs regiment of Lockmann, wasfe- 
 verely treated by the Britifh cavalry, which charg’d 
 the enemy’s cavalry and infantry, feveral times, 
 with fuccefs, notwithllanding a long march of near 
 five miles upon a full trott. Befides the Britilh 
 cavalry under General Moftyn ; the battalion of 
 Maxwell’s grenadier^. Colonel Beckwith with his 
 
1760. Of the War. 133 
 
 brigade of Englifli gl'enadiers and Scotch High- 
 landers, and Captain Philips with the artillery, dif- 
 tirtguifli’d themfelves by their conduifl and intrepi- 
 dity. Many of the enemy were drown’d in the Dy- 
 mel ; they left near 1 500 men on the field of bat- 
 tle, and ten pieces of cannon ; the prilbners ex- 
 ceeded the number of the .flaih the P'rench bri- 
 gades of Bourbonnois, , La Couronne, Rochfort, 
 and Planta, with the regiment of Rovergue, and 
 Fifcher’s corps, were the principal fulferers in this 
 engagement. The total lofs of the Britifli forces 
 amounted to 590 men ; no return was made pub- 
 lick, of the kill’d, wounded, and miffing, in the 
 other troops of the allied army. 
 
 Auguft I. The French under Prince Xavier of 
 Saxony, took Munden fword in hand, where they 
 found a magazine; the garrifon, confiding of 350 
 men, were made prifoners of war. Gaflel and Got- 
 tingen furrender’d at the fame time. 
 
 Augufi 4. General Laudohn, after having bom- 
 barded Breflau without effcfl ; retired from that 
 city, on the approach of Prince Henry of Prulfia. 
 
 Augufi 4. General Werner attack’d, and defeat- 
 ed, a body of 2000 Auftrians under General Cara- 
 melli, kill’d great part of the Arch-Duke Jofeph’s 
 regiment of dragoons, and made 7 officers, with 
 370 private men, prifoners. 
 
 Augufi 9. The garrifon of Fort Loudon, march’d 
 out of that place with their arms and amunition, 
 according to capitulation ; but the next day the 
 treacherous Cherokees, to the number of 700, fur- 
 rounded them, pour’d in vollies of fmall arms, and 
 {bowers of arrows, from every fide, and obliged 
 
 I 3 them 
 
134 Chronological Annals 1760. 
 
 them to furrender at difcretion. All the officers, 
 (except Captain Stuart) and between 30 and 40 
 private men'were kill’d, many wounded, and the 
 reft carried into a miferable captivity. 
 
 Augufi 10, Major General Luckner made a 
 French detachment at Nordheim, confifting of 
 332 men, prilbners of war. The fame day Colonel 
 Donnop attack’d a body of 2000 volunteers of the 
 French army, in the wood of Sababourg, from 
 which he diflodg’d them with the lofs of near 500 
 men, and 3 pieces of cannon, which were taken by 
 the Pruffian huflars. 
 
 Auguft II. The Caftle of Ziegenhayn furren- 
 der’d to the French, and the garrifon of 750 men 
 were made prifoners of War, 
 
 Aug. 1 5. The King of Pruffia decamp’d on the 
 3d, from the borders of the Elbe, and having 
 reach’d Lignitz on the loth, he found the Au- 
 ftrians pofted in a very advantageous fituation, oc- 
 cupying all the ground between Parchwitz and 
 Coftendau ; Marffial Daun was in the center. Ge- 
 neral Laudohn on the right, and General Beck on 
 the left. The King march’d in the night of the 
 iith, in hopes of turning the enemy, and reach- 
 ing Javer; in this march, he difcovered a new 
 corps of the Auftrians under General Lafci, which 
 afterwards join’d Marfhal Daun, in fpight of the 
 King’s difpofitions to prevent that junftion. On the 
 13th, his Majefty return’d to the camp at Lignitz, 
 where he heard that Count Czernichew had laid a 
 bridge over the Oder at Auras, and was to pafs 
 that river the fame day with 24000 Ruffians. Time 
 prefs’d, and the danger grew more formidable 
 every moment. By ope judicious movement, the 
 
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 1760. 
 
 13s 
 
 King preferved his whole army ; on the 1 4th, he 
 quitted Lignitz, and poflefled himfelf of the 
 heights of Ffaffendorf; he receiv’d intelligence, 
 near two o’ clock the next morning, of General 
 Laudohn’s march, by Bennowitz, towards thofe 
 heights : the King immediately divided his army 
 into two bodies ; the right remain’d upon tlie 
 ground, which was well defended by batteries to 
 prevent the approach of Marlhal Daun, while the 
 left fell upon Laudohn’s corps about three o’ clock 
 in the morning, and drove it, fighting, almoft to 
 the river Katzbach, In this critical aflion, the 
 Auftrians loft 82 pieces of cannon, 23 pair of co- 
 lours, and 10,000 men. The King of Pruffia’s total 
 lofs fell fhort of 2000. Immediately after the battle, 
 his Majefty pafs’d the defile of Parchwitz, and the 
 next day moved forwards to Neumarck. The Ruf- 
 fians retir’d over the Oder. The Auftrians, in 
 their own account of this atflion, confefs’d that they 
 had 6043 kill’d, wounded, and miffing, and 
 68 pieces of cannon taken. 
 
 Augtift — Anclam and Demmin were evacuated 
 by the Pruffians. 
 
 Augufi 20. Lieutenant General Hulfen defeated 
 the Prince of Deux Ponts and General Haddicke, 
 near Strela. The Prince of Naflau Ufingen Colo- 
 nel of the regiment of Deux Ponts, 39 officers, 
 and i2i4priyate men were taken prifoners j up- 
 wards of 2000 Auftrians were kill’d and wounded 
 in this engagement. The Pruffians took one piece 
 of cannon, two pair of colours, and two ftandards ; 
 their lofs did not exceed 15 office.is and 658 pri- 
 vate men. The enemy made themfelves mafters of 
 one three pounder ; and two other broken and dif- 
 
 mounted 
 
136 Chronological Annals 1760. 
 
 mounted pieces of cannon, were oblig’d to be left 
 behind. 
 
 Augujl2S- The French drove the Hanoverians 
 out of Gottingen. 
 
 Jiigujl 26. The Coflacks under General Tottle- 
 ben, attack’d the Pruflians under General Goltze, 
 cut to pieces a fquadron of the Huflars of Dingel- 
 ftadt, and obtain’d other confiderable advantages. 
 
 Augujt — The Eurus frigate, Captain Bateman, 
 was loft in the river St. Laurence, but the crew 
 were all faved. 
 
 Auguji — The tender, belonging to the Dublin 
 man of war, was loft in the Weft-Indies, with 100 
 chofen men on board, who all perilh’d. 
 
 September — The corps under General Luzin- 
 fki, took poflefllon of Halle. 
 
 Sept. 4. Lord Howe in the Magnanime, toge- 
 ther with the Prince Frederick and Bedford, at- 
 tack’d and reduced a fort on the Ifle Du met, gar- 
 rifon’d by a company of 54 men of the regiment 
 pf Bourbon ; he found, in the fort, nine pieces of 
 cannon of 18 and 22 pounders. , 
 
 Sept. 6. The hereditary Prince, at two o’ clock 
 in the morning, lurpriz’d the voluntiers of Dau- 
 phine and Clermont in the town of Zierenberg, 
 kill d and wounded a confiderable number of them, 
 off two pieces of cannon, and made 42 
 officers w'ith 300 private men prifoners ; among 
 the officers, w'ere M. de Norman Brigadier, who 
 commanded the volunteers of Dauphine and M. de 
 
 Co- 
 
1760. Of the War. 137 
 
 Comeiras Colonel of thofe of Clermont. The Al- 
 lies loft no more than ten men kill’d and wounded 
 in this affair. General Griffin was wounded in the 
 breaft by the bayonet of one of his own men, ow- 
 ing to an unhappy miftake, occafion’d by his talk- 
 ing in the French language, to a prifoncr who re- 
 ful'ed to quit his firelock. The confequeuces of 
 ^ this wound, were felt by the General, many months 
 ^ after his return to England. 
 
 Sept. 8. General Amherft having oblig’d M. 
 K Pauchet to furrender the poft and fort of Ifle 
 * Royal below la Galette, on the 2 5th of Auguft j 
 and the French having abandon’d the Ifle au Noix 
 on the 28 th of that month, upon the approach of 
 Hi a corps of troops under the command of Colonel 
 i Haviland ; Montreal capitulated on the eighth of 
 September : the garrifons of that place, Trois Ri- 
 vieres, Jacques Quartieres, the ifland of St. Helen, 
 li together with all the troops in the field, agreed to 
 lay down their arms and to be tranfported to Old 
 France at the expence of his Britannick Majefty, 
 ;i and engaged not to ferve during the prefent war. 
 (i All magazines of warlike ftores and provifions j and 
 j: all charts of the country were to be given up iond 
 
 jr fide. The exercife of the Roman Religion was al- 
 ls lowed. Thus fell Canada. Brigadier General Gage 
 and Sir William Johnfon commanded under Gene- 
 ral Amherft. It is remarkable, that General Mur- 
 I'j ray with the troops from Quebec, landed below 
 Ij Montreal on the 7th of September ■, and the next 
 day Colonel Haviland, from the Ifle au Noix, 
 reach’d the South Shore, oppofite General Am- 
 herft’s camp •, uniting, in this manner the whole 
 colleftive force of the Englifli, againft Montreal. 
 
 i Sept. 
 
138 Chronological Annads 1760. 
 
 Sept. 12. The corps under General Beck, was 
 attack’d and defeated by the left wing of the Pruf- 
 fian army, and purfued by their cavalry almoft as 
 far as Striegau ; on this occalion between 7 and 
 800 Pandours were made prifoners of war. 
 
 Sept. 12. The Count de Stainville defeated a 
 body of 4 or 5000 men of the allied army near 
 Munden upon the River Orcke. Colonel Ferfen, 
 and many of the cavalry, were made prifoners, and 
 8 pieces of cannon taken ; the reft of the troops, 
 under the command of Major Bulow (who had fuc- 
 ceeded in his expedition againft Marburg, 'made 
 fome prifoners, and taken a confiderable booty) fe- 
 cured their retreat under favour of the night. 
 
 Sept. 17. The Pruflian General Neuwied, occu- 
 pied the heights of Gerfdorf, having driven away 
 the Auftrian fquadrons which poflefs’d them ; He 
 afterwards attack’d and repuls’d fome battalions of 
 grenadiers, which march’d againft him, and took 
 300 men prifoners, together with 16 pieces of 
 cannon. 
 
 Sept. 18. General Werner, by a march of eleven 
 days from Glogau, rais’d the fiege of Colberg. 
 The Ruffians retir’d with the grcateft precipita- 
 tion, abandoning tents, cannon, ammunition, bag- 
 forage, and provifions in very great quanti- 
 ties, to the Pruffians. 
 
 Sept, ip, Marfhal Broglio and Prince Xavier of 
 Saxony, attempted to ftirprize General Waggen- 
 heim in his camp at Lawentzhagen •, but that able 
 General made good his retreat, notwithftanding 
 ms inferiour numbers, with the lofs only of 150 
 
 men 
 
Of the War. 
 
 1760. 
 
 139 
 
 men kill’d, wounded, and prifoners', and 4 pieces 
 of cannon. 
 
 Sept. 23. M. de Luckner beat a detachment of 
 the French cavalry near Norten, and took prifoners 
 one Lieutenant Colonel, feveral fubalterns, and 
 ^ 107 dragoons. 
 
 , Sept. — Colonel Belling furpriz’d a body of 
 2000 Swedes in the neighbourhood of Prentzlow, 
 ® and made 2 officers, 6 fubalterns, and 250 pri- 
 • vate men, prifoners of war. 
 
 I Sept. — ■ The Temple and Griffin, part of the 
 “ fquadron under the orders of Sir James Douglafs, 
 t cut out feven veffels from tl>e Grenades, (amongli; 
 
 which was his Majefty’s floop Virgin, taken, in 
 i April laft, by the French) after filencing the bat- 
 > teries which defended them ; thefe ffiips, in their 
 I paffage from the Grenades to Antigua, fell in with 
 t and took thirteen other vcflcls laden with provi- 
 s fions for Martinico. 
 c 
 
 Sept. 27. Tprgau furrender’d to the army of the 
 Empire under the command of the Prince de 
 { Deux Ponts, and the Pruffian garrifon of 2400 
 men were made prifoners of war. 
 f ' 
 
 OSioher 2. The army of the Empire, gain’d a 
 confiderable advantage over the corps of Pruf- 
 fians, commanded by General Hulfen, near Wit- 
 tenberg. 
 
 I OHoher 3. General Werner attack’d the Swedilh 
 corps under General Ehrenfch^erdt, at or near 
 Pafewalch, made 16 officers and 500 private men 
 prifoners, and took 6 pieces of cannon. 
 
 October 
 
140 Chronological Annals 1760. 
 
 OStoher 3. The caftle of Cleves capitulated to the 
 troops of the hereditary Prince of Brunfwick ; and 
 M. de Barral, with about 500 men, was made 
 prilbner of war. 
 
 OHoher 4 and 5. The PrulTian Garrifon eva- 
 cuated Leipfick, and march’d by Halle, to Magde- 
 •burg. 
 
 OBoher — The Lyme man of war founder’d in 
 the Baltick, and the carpenter, with about 22 men 
 perifli’d. 
 
 OBober 9. The city of Berlin capitulated to Ge- 
 neral Tottleben, and agreed to pay 200,000 crowns 
 the next day, as a gratuity to the troops, and to 
 give letters of exchange for the fum of 1,500,000 
 crowns, demanded by the Ruffians under the tide 
 of a contribution. Three incomplete battalions, a- 
 mounting to 1200 men, were made prifoners of 
 war. Independent of the fums abovemention’d, 
 the damage done to the city, and its neighbour- 
 hood, by this irruption of the enemy, was vcit 
 confiderable. 
 
 OBober 13. Wittenberg capitulated to the Count 
 de Gualco under the Orders of the Prince de Deux 
 Ponts. Two Battalions of Plotho, and one of 
 Grollman, were made prifoners of war. Thirty one 
 pieces of cannon, and a quantity of ammunition, 
 were found in the place, 
 
 OBober 14.. The corps of Fifcher, detach’d from 
 the hrench army under the command of the Mar- 
 quis de Caflries, obliged an advanc’d poll of Ha- 
 novenans to retire from Rhineberg, with the lofs 
 ©f 1 80 men. ® 
 
 OBohet 
 
 ' 
 
1760. 
 
 Of the War. 
 
 141 
 
 O^lober 16. The hereditary Prince of Brunfwick 
 attack’d the army of the Marquis de Cailries, 
 which was confiderably fuperiour in number to his 
 own, and advantageoufly ported in a wood near 
 the convent of Campen. The action continued 
 i with great brilknefs for four hours •, when the 
 1 Prince finding it impoflible to force the wood, gave 
 orders for a retreat about nine o’ clock in the morn- 
 ing : this was happily executed, without a brifk 
 purfuit from the enemy. The Major-Generals Grif- 
 ' fin and Elliot, and Lieutenant Colonel Harvey, 
 were wounded. Lieutenant Colonel Pitt, and Lord 
 Downe, were wounded and taken prifoners •, the 
 ; latter died of his wounds. On the part of the 
 ; French, Lieutenant-General Segur, Brigadier-Ge- 
 j neral Wangen, feveral officers, and fome hundred 
 private men, were made prifoners ; two pieces of 
 '' cannon and one pair of colours, taken. The diffi- 
 ? culty of the ground did not permit more than five 
 f French regiments to engage : thefe were the regi- 
 ** ments of Normandie, Auvergne, la Tour du-Pin, 
 Briqueville. andAlface; they took from the Al- 
 I lies one piece of cannon, and fourteen ammunition 
 ® waggons. Both the Marquis de Cartries and the 
 hereditary Prince were flightly wounded in the en- 
 gagement. The French own’d the lofs of 841 
 kill’d and 1 795 wounded ; the Englifh acknow- 
 s ledg’d no more than 247 kill’d, 925 wounded, and 
 1 442 prifoners. 
 
 I* 
 
 ; OSloher 18 and ig. The Sirenne Commodore 
 M’Cartip of 32 guns and 280 men, rtruck to the 
 Boreas Captain Uvedale, of 28 guns and 170 
 men, after an engagement of three hours. — The 
 ( Valeur Captain Talbot, of 20 guns and 160 men, 
 rtruck to the Lively, the Honourable Captain 
 
 Mait- 
 
 
142 Chronological Annals , 1760. j 
 
 Maitland, of 20 guns, and 160 men, after an 
 aelion of an hour and an half. Both thefe were 
 King’s frigates. — The Prince Edward, a mer- 1 
 chant frigate. Captain Dubois, pf 32 guns and 180 1 
 
 men ; and the Fleur de Lis, a King’s frigate, Cap- ! 
 tain Diguarty, of 32 guns and 190 men, were | 
 burnt and deftroy’d by the Hamplhire, Captain 
 Norbury, of 50 guns and 350 men. — All the 
 four frigates were failing from Cape Francois, and 
 were loaded with indigo and fugar. His Majefty’s 
 three fhips adbed under the orders of Rear-Admi- 
 ral Flolmes. 
 
 I 
 
 October 25. King George the 2d died fuddenly, 
 between 7 and 8 o’ clock in the morning, in the 
 77th year of his age, and the 34th of his reign j 
 the oldeft Prince that ever fate upon the Englilh 
 Throne, and the oldeft crown’d Head in Europe, 
 excepting Stanillaus King of Poland Duke of Lor- 
 rain and Barr. 
 
 Obiober 26. The Conqueror of 74 guns, ran on 
 St. Nicholas’s Ifland, and was loft. 
 
 OSiober — General Hulfen and Prince Eugent 
 of Wirtemberg, made 500 men of the Duke of 
 Wirtemberg’s troops prifoners at Cothen, and ob- • 
 liged the Duke himfeif to retire to Leipfic. * 
 
 ObJober — W ittenberg and Leipfic were reco- 
 ver d by the Pruflians ; and 400 Pandours fcrving 
 in the army of the Empire, were made prifoners 
 of war. 
 
 ^ovemher 2. Phe Pruflians attack’d iccoHorfc 
 under General Brentano near Lang-Reichcnback 
 
 be- 
 
Of the War. 
 
 1760. 
 
 '43 
 
 between Schilda and Torgau, and made 400 Pri- 
 foners. 
 
 Nov, 3. The King of Pruflla, having previoufly 
 taken or difpers’d St. Ignon’s regiment of dra- 
 goons, in a wood near Torgau, gave battle at Sip- 
 • litz to the Aultrian grand army under the com- 
 mand of Marihal Daun. The Marflial prefented a 
 front defended by 200 pieces of cannon, which 
 : play’d brilkly upon the PrulTians ; the vidlory was 
 
 difputed with obftinacy and bloodfhed from about 
 a quarter after two in the afternoon, till near eight 
 in the evening ; during which time, the advantage 
 was, for the moft part, with the Auftrians : but 
 between ten and eleven, the Pruffians, under Ge- 
 neral Ziethen, made an attempt to polTefs them- 
 [ felves of the little eminences of Siplitz, which en- 
 i tircly commanded the army of the enemy ; in this 
 they fucceeded, and fortified the ground in fuch a 
 manner, as to prevent every effort of the Auftrians 
 to diQodge them. Under thefe circumftances the 
 I latter were obliged to abandon the field of battle at 
 day- break, and leave Torgau to the Pruffians, 
 who enter’d that fortrefs early in the morning. 
 <1 I'he King of Pruffia receiv’d a flight contufion on 
 . the breaft by a mufket-fhot in the engagement ; 
 , Marflial Daun was wounded, and forced to be car- 
 ried off the field of battle ; and to leave the com- 
 mand of the army to General O Donnel. 
 
 rhe 
 
144 Chronological Annals 1760. 
 
 ^ht Aujlrian account of the lofs on both /ides in the 
 aSlion near T organ. 
 
 Aujirians. 
 
 Kill’d Generals 2 
 
 Inferiour Officers and pri- 
 vate men 
 
 wounded Generals 
 
 Officers 
 
 Inferiour Officers and pri- 
 vate men 
 
 prifoners 
 miffing — j 
 
 Officer 
 
 Inferiour Officers and pri- , 
 vate men 
 
 37 pieces of cannon taken by the Pruflians, 
 
 1541 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 3649 
 
 4 
 1 
 
 Prufftans. 
 
 ' (exclufive of the kill’d and wounded.) 
 
 Prifoners. — — Generals 
 Colonels 
 Officers 
 
 private men near 
 39 colours 
 . 2 ftandards 
 
 taken < 8 pieces of cannon (which 
 were afterwards left behind 
 in the retreat) 
 
 1 - 
 
 2 
 
 95 
 
 4000 
 
 by the 
 Auftrians. 
 
1760. 
 
 Of the War. 
 
 H5 
 
 The Prufflan account of the lofs on both fides in the 
 fame aSHon, 
 
 Prujfmis. 
 
 Kill’d 
 
 wounded 
 prifoners 
 
 Generals 
 
 2500 
 
 4900 
 
 2 
 
 
 many Officers 
 private men 
 
 % 
 
 150Q 
 
 Aujirians. 
 
 ( 
 
 (exclufive of the kill’d and wounded.) 
 Prifoners Generals 4 
 
 Officers 212 
 
 privare men ; up- 
 
 , , , wards of 8000 
 
 taken by the Pruffians — 50 pieces of cannon. 
 
 Prom thefe dfficrent accounts it may be con.- 
 
 loft on Z i. the toli 
 
 iols on both Tides, m this very deftrudive battle 
 
 did not fall Ihon of thirty thoul'and men. 
 
 Pruffians took pofleffion ofLand- 
 which the Auftrians had^ previoufly aban- 
 
 Nov. ~ The Epreuve, a French frigate of 200 
 Niger 
 
 Nov. 29. 
 Jiead of two 
 
 Major General Breidenbach, at the 
 Manoverian regiments, the Brunf- 
 ^ wick 
 
1^6 Chronological Annals 1760. 
 
 wick guards, and a detachment of cavaH at- 
 tack’d the poft of Heidemunden upon the Werra, 
 and carried the town •, but not being able to make 
 himfelf matter of an intrenchment which cover d 
 the paffage of the river, he retired at midnight af- 
 fpr the lols of 161 men, officers included. 
 
 Nov IQ. M. de Luckner, having in vain can- 
 nonaded and attack’d the cattle of Arnftein, de- 
 fended by M.' de Vertuil, was obliged to retire 
 with his corps towards Friedland. 
 
 Dec. 1 6. A large magazine of hay and ttraw at 
 Prague was accidentally fet on fire, and intirely 
 confum’d. This magazine was intended to have 
 fupplied the Auttrian army, for the greatett partol 
 the winter. 
 
 Dec. 21. The cargo of the Prince Edward mer- 
 chant-ihip, from Leghorn, taken by the French, 
 was fold at Toulon •, the utmott value of Ihip and 
 caro-o together could not amount to more than 
 5000 pounds tterling, though the French accounts 
 pompoufly rais’d it to 568,750 pounds. 
 
 Dec. 23. Count Broglio with 10,000 men, at- 
 tempted to furround a body of between three and 
 four thoufand of the Allies under M. de Luckner, 
 in the town of Heilingeftadt ; but the road lead- 
 ing to Witzenhaufen not being invetted, the Ha- 
 noverian Genera! made his retreat, by that villag^ 
 to Scharfienttein -, in this affair, the French loft 
 300 men ; the Allies had only fome few men 
 wounded, and not a fingle horfe kill’d or taken. 
 The French troops of the right, miffed their way, 
 and did not come in time to their point of attack, 
 
 which 
 
1760. Of the War. 147 
 
 which occafion’d the mifcarriage C)f this well-con- 
 certed Defign. 
 
 Supplies granted by Parliament for the fervice of the 
 year 1760. 
 
 Fifteen millions, five hundred three thoufand, 
 five hundred fixty four pounds, fifteen Ihillings, 
 and nine pence half-penny. 
 
 K a A lijl 
 
 
A m of mam conftierahle privateers, &c. and arn^d merchantmen, taken hy bis Majejifs Jhips of 
 ^ ^ ^voar, frm the of December 1^9 3i/ of December 1760. 
 
 January. . guns. 
 
 The Fame privateer 
 
 A privateer of lo 
 
 A privateer of ^ 4 
 
 Feh'uary. 
 
 A fliallop privateer 
 A privateer floop 
 
 March. 
 
 A privateer of St. Maloe 
 Fox prh'ateer of Dunkirk 
 
 Ocean of St. Maloe 
 
 Le Chevalier Barro of 
 
 Bayonne 
 
 12 
 
 I four pounder 
 8 fwivels 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 carried into Leghorn by the Am- 
 bufcade Captain Bafiet. 
 t carried into Barbadoes by the Cref- 
 l cent and Barbadoes frigates. 
 
 taken by a man of war. 
 
 by the Hampfhire Capt. Norbury. 
 
 by the Jafbn. 
 
 by the Roaft Beef arm’d Ihip. 
 by the Cumberland cutter and tl 
 cuftom houfe boat of Plymouth. 
 
 14.6 by the Repulfe. 
 
 
 148 Chronologicai;- Annals 1760 . 
 
A privateer of 
 
 A fliallop privateer of 
 A privateer of 
 A privateer of 
 April. 
 
 Le Chevalier de GrolTelle 
 
 ^The Hazard of Brieux. 
 
 The Viileginie of St. Ma- 
 loc 
 
 Count de Nancjr of St. 
 Maloe 
 
 guns. 
 
 3 ^ 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 2 carriage 
 4 fwivels 
 8 fwivels 
 
 12 carriage 
 6 Iwivels 
 
 4 carriage 
 
 A privateer 
 
 men. 
 
 400 
 
 120 
 
 24 
 
 26 
 
 60 
 
 39 
 
 captors. 
 
 by fome of the men of war bound 
 to Quebec, 
 
 drove on fliore by two cutters near 
 Callais, where flie bulged, 
 lent into Antigua by the Echo, 
 lunk by the Levant, and the crew 
 perifli’d. 
 
 taken by the Launcefton. 
 
 by the Peggy floop. 
 
 by the Antelope. This privateer 
 had done confiderable milchief to 
 the Britilh trade. 
 
 by the Vengeance. 
 
 overfet in a frelh gale, and went to 
 the bottom, after having been 
 chas’d by the Minerva, 
 
 4 *^ 
 
 <0 
 
 1760. Of the War 
 
Le Solid Off Bourdeaux of 
 360 tons 
 
 The Margaret of Rochelle 
 A frigate of 
 
 The Providence of St. 
 Maloe 
 
 A Ichooner privateer 
 
 L,e Chauve Souris of 
 Cherburg 
 
 Mercury of Rochelle 
 
 Cutter privateer 
 
 Pallas of Bayonne 
 Brocanteur from St. Do- 
 mingo, worth 10,900 
 
 pounds. 
 
 guns. 
 
 m 
 
 12 
 
 8 
 
 26 
 
 men. 
 70 fold. 
 45 fail. 
 
 58 
 
 4 
 
 32 
 
 4 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 
 38 
 
 - 
 
 17 
 
 10 carriage 
 10 fwivels 
 
 90 
 
 4 carriage 
 
 48 
 
 14 
 
 18 
 
 100 
 
 (fourteen thrown o- 36 
 
 verboarU^ 
 
 captors. ^ 
 
 taken by the Adventure, Lieute- ^ 
 nant Norwood, 
 by the Orford. 
 
 reported to have been taken by the 
 Juno off Bilboa. 
 
 by the Lynn, 
 by the Rochefter. 
 by the Kingfton, 
 
 by the Carcals Hoop. 
 
 by the Diipatch floop and Grace 
 cutter. 
 
 by die Fame and Achilles, 
 by the Niger, 
 
 Chronological Annals 1760. 
 
guns. 
 
 A fhip of 400 tons 
 
 May. 
 
 Temeraire, a new fioop 
 
 4 carriage 
 
 of Sl Maloe 
 
 6 fwivels 
 
 A privateer 
 
 8 carriage 
 
 A privateer 
 
 
 A privateer 
 
 2 
 
 A privateer 
 
 
 Viftory of St. Maloe 
 
 24 
 
 Jafon of St. Maloe 
 
 8 
 
 A privateer 
 
 t 
 
 Sampfon of Bayonne 
 
 24 
 
 A privateer 
 
 
 A privateer 
 
 
 men, captors. 
 
 driven on fhore by the Pallas on the 
 black rock off the entrance of the 
 Bay Douverne; the Ihip, cargo, 
 and crew, were loft. 
 
 38 taken by the Lynn, 
 
 by the Venus, 
 by the Speedwell, 
 by the Tamer, 
 by the Mars. 
 
 by the Rainbow and Thetis. 
 
 52 by the Niger. 
 
 15 by the Cruizer cutter, 
 
 by the Juno, 
 by the Dover cutter, 
 chaced by the Melampe off Uftiant, w 
 overfet, and went to the bottom. « 
 
 1760. Of the War. 
 

 
 guns. 
 
 St. John privateer. 
 
 14 
 
 Contabre privateer 
 
 8 carriage 
 1 0 fwivels 
 
 June. 
 
 A privateer 
 
 
 Filo j of Dunkirk. 
 
 6 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 
 A privateer, the Hardi of 
 
 2 carriage 
 
 St, Maloe 
 
 2 fwivels 
 
 Free Mafon of Dunkirk 
 
 4 fwivels 
 
 A privateer 
 
 14 carriage 
 
 A privateer fehooner 
 
 4 fix pounders 
 12 fwivels 
 
 A privateer 
 
 8 carriage 
 
 A pettiaugre 
 
 8 fwivels 
 
 A privateer 
 
 10 carriage 
 
 A privateer 
 A privateer 
 
 6 
 
 men, 
 
 47 
 
 52 
 
 34 
 
 26 
 
 *5 
 
 50 
 
 9 
 
 captors. _ ^ 
 
 brought into Port Royal by the ^ 
 Cerberus and Lively, 
 taken by the Antigua, Captain 
 Innes. 
 
 taken by the Tartar, 
 by the Eftlier cutter. Lieutenant 
 Pinfold, 
 
 by the Bafililk. 
 
 by the Hornet Captain Jolinftone. 
 by the Aftive. 
 
 by the Prince of Orange in Tadu- 
 fac river. 
 
 by the Antigua floop. 
 by ditto, 
 by the Crefcent. 
 by the Emerald, 
 by tile JSftber cutter- 
 
 CHRONotoc^ic At Annals 
 
guns. 
 
 Manderony privateer 
 
 
 Menette of BourdeauK 
 
 4 carriage 
 8 fwivek 
 
 A privateer 
 A privateer 
 A privateer 
 A floop 
 
 T4 carriage 
 
 A privateer 
 
 r carriage 
 2 fwiveis 
 
 'July. 
 
 
 Revenge privateer 
 A privateer of Dunkirk 
 Heureux privateer of 
 Dunkirk 
 
 L’Heureux Retour of 
 
 8 carriage 
 10 
 
 2 carriage 
 2 fwiveis 
 
 8 carriage 
 
 Marfeilles 
 
 A privateer 
 Three privateers 
 
 ^4 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 by the Hind Captain Bond, 
 by the .^olus ^ Ihe founder’d foon 
 after fhe was taken. 
 
 / cut out out of Rofeau and Grand 
 > Ance in Dominica, by the Mon- 
 \ tagu and Belliqueux, 
 
 taken by tlie Leveret tender Lieu- 
 tenant Bell. 
 
 44 by the Arethufa frigate 
 
 5 2 by the Deal Caftle. 
 
 27 by the Fowey. 
 
 56 by the Valeur. 
 
 by the Echo frigate 
 by the Echo and Levant frigates. 
 
 1760. Op tfiE War 
 
Augufi. 
 
 La Catherina privateer 
 A privateer with 12 ran- 
 fomers 
 
 St. Antoine 0/ Granville 
 
 Due d’ Ayen 
 A vefTel commanded by 
 M. la Broquerie 
 
 La Pic privateer 
 L’Elperance fehooner 
 Sepmher. 
 
 Count de Guiche privat. 
 Elizabeth of St. Maloe 
 St. Antony privateer 
 
 intrique privateer 
 
 guns, 
 
 7 fwivels 
 
 2 carriage 
 4 fwivels 
 
 7 carriage 
 
 12 ten pounders 
 4 fwivels 
 4 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 6 carriage 
 
 8 fwivels 
 
 8 carriage 
 6 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 8 carriage 
 
 JO 
 
 men. captors. ^ 
 
 2j by the Bafililk (loop. 
 
 by the Ranger floop. 
 
 25 by the Launcefton. 
 
 ^5 by the Hazard floop. 
 
 by Colonel "Williamfon with five 
 row gallics, olF La Galette. 
 
 25 by the Antigua, Captain Bagfter. 
 
 37 by the Antigua, Captain Bagfter. 
 
 34 by the Fiamborough Cap. Kennedy. 
 
 41 by the Tweed. 
 
 by the Crefcent, 
 by the BelJiqueux, 
 
 Chronological Annals 1760. 
 
La Fleche privateer 
 Le Mod die privateer 
 Phenix of Morlaix 
 
 Countefs d’Ayen privateer 
 
 A privateer floop 
 
 Bien Aime of Dunkirk 
 
 Tavignoti privat. pierc’d 
 for 26 guns, mounting 
 
 guns. 
 
 3 carriage 
 fwivels 
 8 carriage 
 12 carriage 
 1 2 fwivels 
 8 carriage 
 8 fwivels 
 
 12 nine pounders 
 14 fwivels 
 
 i8 carriage 
 
 OSioier, 
 
 A privateer. 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 22 by the Antigua, Captain Nott. 
 
 by the Antigua Captain Nott. 
 
 120 by the Adlaeon Captain Ourry. 
 
 ^2 ' by the Alarm cutter. 
 
 by the Renown, off Cape Nicholoa. 
 
 J12 by the Thames, Captain Colby. 
 
 carried into St. John’s Newfound- 
 land, by two frigates. 
 
 taken by the Tw’ced, Captain Paf- 
 ton. 
 
 
 Of the War 
 
November. guns. 
 
 Angelique of Bayonne 6 
 
 A privateer i6 
 
 Determine of Nantz. 
 D’lgoville of P. L’Orient 
 
 A privateer 
 
 A privateer 
 Two privateers 
 
 A fchooner 
 
 A large floop from St. 
 Euftatia to Martinico. 
 
 I carriage 
 3 fwivels 
 14 carriage 
 6 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 12 mufquetoons 
 30 fmall arms 
 10 carriage 
 
 6 carriage 
 12 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 60 taken by the Hero. 
 
 driven on fliorc between Cape Bar- 
 zoo fieur and la Hogue, and effedlual- 
 
 iy deftroy’d, by the Adteon. 
 
 20 taken by the Torbay. 
 
 123 by the Torbay. 
 
 by the Burton arm’d floop, in the 
 ^ river St, Laurence. 
 
 by the Levant, 
 by the Hero. 
 
 by Capt. Doblbn in a floop mann’d 
 with forty foldiers from f^ebec. 
 
 60 by the Emerald Captain Middleton. 
 
 CHRON6LO6ICAL Annals 1760, 
 
A privateer 
 A privateer 
 A. privateer 
 A privateer 
 A pcttie augre 
 
 Q^tlS. 
 
 o 
 
 lO 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 I o fwivels 
 
 December. 
 
 Fortune privateer of Bay- 
 onne 
 
 A cutter privateer 
 Grivois of Sr. Maloe 
 A privateer of Dunkirk 
 Favourite of St. Maloe 
 A brig privateer 
 T wo French Turkey fhips 
 
 6 carriage 
 
 lO 
 
 lo carriage 
 lo fwivels 
 xo carriage 
 
 6 carriage 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 all three by the Emerald. 
 
 both by the Echo. 
 
 5 ° 
 
 52 
 
 So 
 
 54 
 
 60 
 
 taken by the Flero. 
 by Admiral Rodney’s fquadron. 
 
 by the A£ta:on 
 
 by the Anfon cutter, 
 by the Diligence (loop Captain Of- 
 borne. 
 
 funk by the AcElaeon. 
 carried into Leghorn by an Eng- 
 lilh privateer. 
 
 M 
 
 1760. Of the War 
 
Phoenix privateer 
 Vainquer 
 
 . Mackau 
 Gueipe 
 
 guns. 
 
 men. 
 
 18 
 
 125 
 
 10 carriage 
 
 
 16 fwivels 
 
 90 
 
 6 fwivels 
 
 15 1 
 
 8 carriage 
 
 86 
 
 captors. 
 
 taken by the Quebec, Captain Le- 
 vifon Gower, 
 
 taken by the boats of the Trent and 
 Boreas in Cumberland Harbour, 
 commanded by Lieutenants Mil- 
 lar and Stewart. 
 
 deftroy’d by the French, to prevent 
 her from failing into the hands of 
 the officers before-mendon’d. 
 
 N.B. ^he reader may perhaps have ohferv’d^ that feme few events are mentiorCd in this work, 
 which, injlrillnefs offpeecb, have no immediate conneSHon with the fuhjeSt of it-, hut as 
 they feem'd to regard the trade and commerce of tbefe Kingdoms, it is hoped the infertion of 
 them will be eafdy sxcufed. r j j 
 
 158 Chronological Annals 1760. 
 
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 I 
 
 CHRONOLOGICAL ANNALS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 w 
 
 A 
 
 R. 
 
 PART 
 
 THE 
 
 SECOND. 
 
 1 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 P j H E extraordlnafy and unexpe<fled 
 g Turn of political Affairs fince the 
 
 J[ Clofe of the Year 1760, makes it 
 
 neceffary to prefix a fhort Preface 
 to this fecond Part. A Congrefs having been 
 appointed, with the Confent of all the Powers 
 concern’d, to be held at Augjburg, for termi- 
 nating the War in Germany ^ and for re-efta- 
 blifhing a General Peace ; Great Britain and 
 France agreed to difcufs their particular Inte- 
 refts in a diftin6t and feparate Negotiation. 
 The Duke de ChoiJeul\ Letter to Mr. Pitt^ 
 and the French King’s Memorial, both of the 
 26th of March 1761, carried all the Appear- 
 ance of Candor and Sincerity. A Counter- 
 Letter and Memorial were return’d, on the 
 Part of Great Britain, upon the 8 th of ApriL 
 In the latter End of May, M. BuJJy arriv’d at 
 Lonaon, and Mr. Stanley at Marly, with ple- 
 nipotentiary Powers trom their refpedlive 
 Courts. In the Courfe of the Negotiation, 
 the Difficulties feem’d to be reduced ta three 
 Points. Firft, A Recompence for the Cap- 
 tures made upon the French Merchants be- 
 fore the Declaration of War; 2dly, The Re- 
 ftitution of Wefel and Gueldres, with the Ter- 
 
 L ritories 
 
,62 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ritorics dependant on them, to the King of 
 Prujia; and gdly. The withdrawing dl Af- 
 fiftance in Men or Subfidies, irmtually and 
 bond Fide, from their Allies in Germany. 
 The firft was ftrongly infifted upon by France,- 
 and as peremptorily refufed by England-, the 
 fecond was demanded by England, and re- 
 iedted by France; for the third, it was no 
 eafy Matter to find a Temperament, which 
 would equally fatisfy both Parties. By the 
 other Articles, it was propos’d, on one Side 
 or the other, — That England Ihould retain 
 all Canada according to its moft extenfive Li- 
 mits, including the Courfe of the Ohto.-- 
 That Lines fhould be traced out, marking 
 the Nations to be accounted neutral and in- 
 dependent, between Canada, Carolina, and 
 Louiftana.^Th^l the French fhould exercife 
 the Right of fifhing and of drying Filh on 
 the Coaft and Banks of Newfoundland, agrea- 
 bly to the 13th Article of the Treaty a 
 Utrecht j and that the Ifles of St. Pierre ani 
 Michelon, without any Fortification or mili- 
 tary Eftablifhment, fliould be ceded to her 
 for the Ufes of her Fifhery. — That the 
 Works added to the Port of Dunkirk, fince 
 the Commencement of the War, fliould k 
 effeilually demolifli’d. — That there fliould be 
 an equal Partition of F’abago, St. Lucie, Do- 
 fninica, and St. Vincent, commonly called the 
 Neutral IJlands. — That Senegal and Gcw 
 fhould be guarantied to Great Britain; w 
 Return for which the Settlements of Anaina- 
 
INTRODUCTION. 163 
 
 hoo and Akrci on the Coaft of Ulrica fliould 
 be guarantied to France. — That the French 
 and Englijh Eaji-India Company fhould en- 
 ter upon an immediate Treaty concerning 
 their mutual Differences, to be adjufled and 
 concluded at the fame time with the Treaty 
 between the two Nations. — That Minorca 
 fhould be reftored to Great Britain, with all 
 the Artillery &c. found in Fort St. Philip at 
 the time of its Surrender. — That Bellijle, 
 Guadalupe, and Marigalante, fhould be given 
 
 up in like Manner to France That the 
 
 Landgraviate of Hefe, County of Hanau, and 
 Town of Gottingen, fhould be evacuated and 
 reftored to their refpedive Sovereigns. — That 
 the French King fhould declare he never had 
 any Intention of keeping PofTeffion of Nieu- 
 port and OJlend after the Conclufion of a Ge- 
 neral Peace. — But the determin’d Firmnefs 
 maintain’d on each Side, in Reference to the 
 three difficult Articles already fpecified, ren- 
 dered all the reft ineffedlual. The Negotia- 
 tion was finally broke off towards the Clofe 
 of September 1761, and the two Minifters re- 
 turn’d to their refpedlive Courts. Some time 
 afterwards the French Miniftry publifh’d their 
 biftorical Memorial of this Negotiation, which 
 may be confider’d as an Appeal to their own 
 People, and to Europe, againft the Court of 
 London. A fimilar Step was taken by France 
 in 1709. By the 37th Article of the famous 
 Preliminaries, debated at the Hague in that 
 Year, Lewis the XIV was required to aflift 
 
 L 2 the 
 
,64 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the Allies in compelling the Spaniards to 
 abandon King Philipy and to come under the 
 Obedience of King Charles j M. de Porcy a- 
 greed to this Article, but the King refufed to 
 ratify it ; He faid “ If he muft make War, 
 « he had rather make it upon his Enemies, 
 “ than upon his Children and he then ad- 
 drefs’d, for the firft Time, a circular Letter 
 to his Subjedls, calculated to excite their Re- 
 fcntment, their Honour, and even their Com- 
 paffion itfelf ; This Letter wrought powerful- 
 ly upon the French Nation. The Politicians 
 of thofe Days thought, that M. de T'orcy'% 
 humiliating Journey to the Hague was made 
 only with a Defign to expofe the Haughti- 
 nefs of the Allies in rejedling the Conceffions 
 of France^ and to animate his languiihing 
 Countrymen with new Zeal in the Profecu- 
 tion of the War. Volt air e, in his Age of 
 Lewis the XIV, is of the contrary Opinion; 
 and alTerts that Peace was the fingle Objcd 
 of M. de Lorcys Views. The fame Varietj 
 of Sentiment feems to have taken Place in 
 Regard to the late Negotiation : Some have 
 concluded that all the Conceffions on the Part 
 of France^ were Nothing but a pretended 
 Difplay of Moderation to conciliate the Af- 
 fedlions of Furope, whilft a Demand was 
 ftrenuoufly infifted upon, which no viftorious 
 People could fubmit to with Honour ; fuch 
 was the tenth Article of the Ultimatum of 
 France relative to the Captures made before 
 the Declaration of War, to which if th® 
 
 Court 
 
INTRODUCTION. 165 
 
 Court of 'London had confented, it had avow- 
 ed national Perfidy and Violence before all 
 Europe. Others notwithftanding were per- 
 luaded, that the French Offers were perfedl- 
 ly fincere, and didated by public Diftrefs. 
 Be this as it will ; the Fadls which I now 
 proceed to mention lead me to think, that 
 a Peace at that particular Period would hive 
 been unfortunate, if not deftrudlive, to Great 
 Britain-, and would have reftor’d to France 
 at leaft 20,000 Sailors, to have been employ- 
 ed in a new War, in which She might have 
 almofi: inftantly engaged herfelf as the Ally of 
 Spain. In the fifth Article of the French 
 Memorial, dated the 15th of July 1761, 
 there are thefe W^ords “ England fliall enter 
 “ into PofTefllon, as Sovereign over the Ifland 
 of Labago, in the fame Manner as France 
 “ over that of St. Lucie, faving at all Times 
 the Right of a third Perfbn, with whom 
 the two Crowns will explain themlelves, if 
 “ fuch a Right exifts.” This was the prepa- 
 ratory Step to an Introdudlion of the SpaniJlj 
 Demands into the Negotiation, which were 
 fully open’d in the private Memorial oi France 
 of the fame Date, and were reduced to thefe 
 three Articles; Firfi:, The Reftitution of fbme 
 Captures made upon the Spanijlo Flag, adly. 
 The Privilege of fifliing on the Banks of 
 Newfoundland. 3dly, The Demolition of the’ 
 Settlements in the Bay of Honduras. 
 M. BuJJy reprefented to Mr. Pitt, that it 
 would be very dangerous to determine the 
 
 L 3 Fate 
 
i66 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Fate of the neutral Iflands, without attend- 
 ing to the Claims of Spain, with which the 
 Catholic King had recently acquainted the 
 Court of Verjailles, but which might be eafi- 
 ly relinquilhed, if the other three Articles 
 were adjufted to the Satisfadion of that Mo- 
 narch. This blending of the Concerns of 
 Spain with the feparate Treaty between Great 
 Britain and France, though furprizing at that 
 time to the Court of London, was afterwards 
 clear’d up ; when it appear’d, that the Courts 
 cf Verjailles and Madrid had, even then, been 
 negotiating a Family Compact, in full Con- 
 tradiction to the Spirit of the Treaty of 
 Utrecht, and in exprefs Violation of the Rights 
 of Commerce which Great Britain ought to 
 enjoy. This famous CompaCt was figned at 
 • Verjailles on the 1 5th of Auguji, and ratified 
 on the 8th of September, twelve Days before 
 Mr. Stanley broke off the Negotiation with 
 the Duke de Choijeul. By It, the whole 
 Houfe of Bourbon was to a^ as one Man ; 1 
 perpetual League, offenfive and defenfive was 
 eflablifh’d againft all the World j a recipro- 
 cal Naturalization w^as to take Place between 
 the Kingdoms of France, Spain, and the two 
 Sicilies', all the commercial Nations were to 
 be informed, that they were no longer to ex- 
 peCt the fame Privileges in Trade which they 
 formerly polTefs’d, but which were now con- 
 ferred exclufively upon the SubjeCls of the 
 three contracting Powders ; No Prince, who 
 did not defeend in the Male Line from the 
 
INTRODUCTION. 167 
 
 Auguft Houfe of Bourbon, was ever to be ad- 
 mitted into this Family Compadt; the mu- 
 tual Guaranty of the Dominions of France 
 and Spain was agreed to ; with a Declaration, 
 that it extended only to thofe Dominions, of 
 which France Ihould be in adlual Poffeffion 
 at the General Peace. It is fufficiently evi- 
 dent from the whole Tenor of this Compadf, 
 that any Treaty between Great Britain and 
 France, made at that Juncture, muft have 
 been delufive, if not momentary; unlefs the 
 Dignity and Interefts of the former had been 
 tamely facrihced to the Demands of Spain. 
 On the 1 8th of September, Lord 1 ‘emple and 
 Mr. Pitt, deliver’d their Advice in Writing 
 to his Majelly relative to the Condudl of 
 Spain and the Meafures to be purfued in 
 Confequence of it ; that Advice, being not 
 conformable to the Sentiments of the reft of 
 his Majefty’s Servants, was rejedled ; upon 
 which, they refign’d their refpedlive Employ- 
 ments. Previoully to this Refignation, Mr. 
 Pitt, in his Letter of the 28th of July, had 
 diredted Lord Brijloh in the King’s Name, 
 to demand of Mr. Wall a full and explicite 
 Explanation of the Tendency of the Spanijh 
 Armaments, and of the Views of that Court 
 in Relation to Great Britain. Mr. Wall ac- 
 quainted Lord Brijiol, that France had made 
 a voluntary Offer of aflifting Spain with all 
 her Force, in Cafe of a future Rupture be- 
 tween the Courts of London and Madrid', 
 and that the King his Mafter had received fo 
 
 friendly 
 
i68 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 friendly an Offer with Cordiality; but that 
 Spain was not looking out for an Occafion of 
 quarrelling with Great Britain in the Time 
 of her greateft Glory and Power ; on the 
 contrary. She was defirous of cementing a 
 mutual Friendfhip. Lord Brijlol wrote, in 
 his Letter of the 28th of September, that he 
 was prefs’d by Mr. Wall, to give the ftrong- 
 eft Affurances at home, of their Readinefs to 
 adjuft their Differences with Us, if We would 
 only abandon our recent Settlements on the 
 Coafl of Honduras, to fave the Spanijh Pun- 
 tondor, or Point of Honour. Lord Egremont, 
 in two Letters of the 28th of OSlober gave 
 Directions, by the King’s Order, to Lord 
 Brijlol, to demand a Communication of the 
 Treaty of Verfailles, or, at leafl, of thofe Ar- 
 ticles of it, which had any immeditate ordif- 
 tant Reference to the Interefts of Great Bri- 
 tain ; and to couch that Demand in the moll 
 polite and friendly Terms, not fp much ur- 
 ging his Arguments, as infinuating them. Be- 
 fore the Receipt of thefe. Lord Brjiol in- 
 form’d Lord Egremont, in his Letter of the 
 2d of November, of a. great Alteration in Mr. 
 Wair% Style and Sentiments ; who faid, We 
 were intoxicated with our Succeffes, and had 
 therefore refafed the reafonable ConceffioiK 
 offered Us by France', that We intended in 
 the firft Place to ruin the French, and then to 
 crufh the Spanijlo Power ; that he would be 
 the firft to advife his Mafter not to let his 
 Subje^s faft without Arn^s in their Hands; 
 
 thaf 
 
INTRODUCTION. 169 
 
 that it was high time for ^pain to open her 
 Eyes, and not to fuffer a Neighbour, an Ally, 
 a Parent, and a Friend, to receive rigid Laws 
 from an infulting Conqueror ; that the Court 
 of Verfailles had communicated to that of 
 Madrid, pundually and minutely, every Step 
 taken at Paris and London during the Nego- 
 tiation for Peace j and that his Catholic Ma- 
 jefty had judg’d it expedient to renew his Fa- 
 mily Compafts with the moft Chriftian King. 
 This animated Difcourfe was occafioned by 
 the Advice which Spain had receiv’d of Mr. 
 Pitt’s Refignation, and of the Motives which 
 produced it. The whole Court was imme- 
 diately in a Ferment, having always confi- 
 der’d themfelves as the aggriev’d Party, and 
 never imagining that the Englijh would be 
 the firR to propofe or begin the War. In 
 Anfwer to this Letter, Lord Brijiol was or- 
 der’d to infift, in the King’s Name, on an 
 immediate, clear, precife, and categorical An- 
 fwer from the Spanijh Court to this Qi^eftion, 
 “ What were their Intentions relative to Great 
 ** Britain V' At the fame time his Lordfliip 
 was diredled, to avoid all Harfhnefs in the 
 Manner, while he maintain’d a becoming 
 Firmnefs in the Matter of the Demand ; and 
 to aft, forUter in Re, fuaviter in Modo. If 
 he did not receive proper Satisfaftion, he was 
 then to come away from Madrid without ta- 
 king Leave. In Obedience to thefe Orders, 
 Lord BriJlol waited upon Mr. Wall, with 
 whonj he had a cool and candid Conference j 
 
 that 
 
1 
 
 170 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 that Minifter himfelf acknowledged the Cau- 
 tion We had ufed, in declining the Attack of 
 thofe French Settlements which had anyCon- 
 neaion with the Territory of Spain, and a- 
 greed with Lord Brijlol concerning the public 
 Nature of what had pafs’d in the Britijh 
 Councils on the Change of the Miniftry; but , 
 yet he declar’d that the Copy, which he had 
 already given, of his own Difpatch to the 
 Count de Fuentes, was the only Anfwer he 
 was at Liberty to make to his Lordfhfp’s En- 
 quiries. In this Copy, Mr. Wall ufed thefe 
 Words “ You know how eafy it would be for 
 “ the King to give a pofitive Anfwer, but his 
 own Dignity hinders him from it ; confider- 
 *‘ing this Demand as a necelTary Condition 
 “ for entering upon a Negotiation with Spain, 
 
 “ on Differences which, they own, have fub- 
 “ fifted a long time.” Upon the whole, Mr. 
 Wall ftrongly exprefs’d his Wifhes that feme 
 Temperament might be found out for adjuft- 
 ing their mutual Difputes ; and he promis’d 
 to lay before the King, faithfully and minute- 
 ly, the Difpofition and Sentiments of his Bri- 
 tannic Majefty. Two Days after Mr. Wall 
 acquainted Lord Brijlol in a fecond Confe- 
 rence, that the King of Spain was fenfible of 
 all the AfTurances of Friendfhip and Marks of 
 Attention, which had been convey’d through 
 his Means ; but that his Catholic Majefty did 
 not think it expedient to give any other An- 
 fwer with Regard to the Treaty, than that 
 which had been communicated in the Dif- 
 
INTRODUCTION. 171 
 
 patch of the Count de Fuentes : Lord Brijlol 
 then found himfelf obliged, to apply, in Form, 
 for that full categorical Anfwer, which the 
 Court of London had order’d him to demand ; 
 and he prefs’d Mr. Wall, with Addrefs and 
 Energy, to go in Perfon to his Catholic Ma- 
 jefty, and to enlarge upon all thofe Argu- 
 ments in Favour of his Demand, which he 
 had employed with him in their feveral Con- 
 ferences. On the tenth of December, Mr. Wall 
 inform’d Lord Brifiol by I^etter, that fince he 
 had demanded in Writing a pofitive and ca- 
 tegorical Anfwer to this Qi^ftion “ If Spam 
 “ thought of joining herfelf with France a- 
 “ againft England?” and had declar’d at the 
 fame time that he fhould look upon the Re- 
 fufal as a Declaration of War, and, in Con- 
 fequence, leave the Court of Madrid ; he 
 was therefore to acquaint him, that the Spirit 
 of Haughtinefs and of Difcord which had 
 didlated that incondderate Step, and which, 
 for the Misfortune of Mankind, ftill reign’d 
 fo much in the Britijh Government, was 
 what made, in the fame Inftant, the Decla- 
 ration of War, and attack’d the King’s Dig- 
 nity; that he might retire when, and how, 
 it was convenient to him, which was the on- 
 ly Anfwer his Majefty had order’d him to 
 give. A Copy of this Letter was receiv’d in 
 London on the 24th of December ; the next 
 Day, the Count de Fuentes deliver’d his Me- 
 morial to Lord Egremont ; in which, Mr. 
 Wall's Words were recited, the Conduit of 
 
 the 
 
172 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the Minifter Pitt was arraign’d, who (it was 
 falfly and indecently faid) flill appear’d to hold 
 the Reins of Government by another Hand, 
 and a Declaration was made in the Name, 
 and by the exprefs Order of the King of 
 Spain, that the Treaty in Queftion contain’d 
 Nothing in it which had the leaft Relation 
 to the prefent War. Thus the ever-memo- 
 rable Puntondor of the Spanifi Court, preci- 
 pitated the two Nations into the Calarnities 
 of a War, the Events of which will be found 
 in the following Colledlion. Lord Egremont 
 anfwer’d the Count de Puentes on the 31ft of 
 December, with the Spirit that became a Mi- 
 niffer of a beloved Monarch, whole Honour 
 had been infulted by the Terms of that Me- 
 morial, and with the Moderation due to the 
 Charafter of great Sovereigns. In Regard to 
 the public Declaration of his Catholic Ma- 
 jefty, made when it could no longer be of 
 Ufe to either People, his Lorddiip juftly ob- 
 fery d, that the Terms in which the Decla- 
 ration was conceived, fpared the Britip} Na- 
 tion the Regret of not having receiv’d it 
 fboner ; for the Demand was, “ If the Court 
 “ of Spain intended to join the French our 
 Enemies — to make War oxxXyreat Britain 
 ‘ depart from their Neutrality?” 
 
 Rut the Anfwer related only to one Treaty of 
 the 15th of Aitgujl, without explaining, in 
 ^y Manner, the Intention of Spain towards 
 Great Britain, or the further Engagements 
 She might have contrafted in fuch a Crifis. 
 
 On 
 
INTRODUCTION. 173 
 
 On the 2d of ’January 1762, the King in 
 Council ligned a Declaration of War againft 
 Spain, 
 
 It may not be improper to remark in this 
 Place, that the War between the Emprefs 
 Queen and the King of PruJJia commenc’d, 
 on the former’s evading an Explanation of 
 the Tendency of her military Preparations, 
 and refufing to give an Affurance to the lat- 
 ter, that he fhould not be attack’d by her, 
 during the then prefent (1756) or in the 
 Courie of the fucceeding Year. The Court 
 of Berlin made three Applications to that of 
 Vienna, for obtaining this Explanation and 
 Afliirance j To the firft, it was anfwer’d, that 
 confidering the violent general Crifis in which 
 Europe was at that time, the Emprefs Qi^en’s 
 Duty, and the Dignity of her Crown, re- 
 quir’d her to take fufficient Meafures for her 
 own Security, as well as for the Safety of her 
 Friends and Allies •, On the fecond, the Court 
 of Vienna eluded the Demand, denying only 
 the Exiftence of a fuppofed Concert againll 
 the King of PruJJia j But when the third Ap- 
 plieation was made, the Emprefs Queen flat- 
 ly refufed any further Explanation. 
 
 Among the feveral Evils which the prefent 
 War has brought upon Mankind, this pro- 
 bably may be reckon’d of the moft lalting 
 Confequence, that the Law of Nations has 
 been publickly invaded with a violent and 
 
 wanton 
 
174 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 wanton Cruelty: Many learned Men have 
 compos’d large Treatifes upon this Law, in 
 Hopes of circumfcribing the interefted Ambi- 
 tion of Princes within thofe Limits of gene- 
 ral Equity, which even they themfelves would 
 be afham’d to pafs, in a Matter of particular 
 Right. But cool Precepts of moral Honefly, 
 feldom find Admiffion into the Cabinets of 
 Princes. An abfurd and an infamous Diftin- 
 6lion feems long to have taken Place, be- 
 tween the Morality of the Governors and the 
 Governed : The very fame Condud: which 
 would fix an indelible Stain of Infamy upon 
 the latter, too often refleds a Luftre upon 
 the former, that dazzles a vulgar Eye. To 
 this State-Cafuiftry we are greatly indebted 
 for all political Injuftice ; of which there ne- 
 ver was a more flagrant and outrageous In- 
 ftance, than in the Behaviour of the King of 
 Spain to his Portugueze, Majelty. All the 
 Arguments advanc’d in the Spanijh Memo- 
 rials to palliate the Invafion of Portugal ate 
 a daring Inful t upon Common-Senfe, and be- 
 tray a Weaknefs of Judgment, almofl: equal 
 to the Iniquity of the Meafurc which they 
 were intended to fupport. Inftead of con- 
 futing what fo effedually confutes itfelf, I 
 Jfhall now only lay before the Reader a com- 
 pendious Account of the Claims which his 
 Catholic Majefly may perhaps make upon his 
 Brother in Law, and of the principal Events 
 which happened in the celebrated War be- 
 tween the two Nations, on the Duke of Bra- 
 
 gan^d^ 
 
INTRODUCTION. 175 
 
 gangds afcending the Throne of Portugal un- 
 der the Name of Don yohn the fourth. Don 
 Henry, Cardinal- A rchbifliop of Evora, came 
 to the Crown upon the Death of the unfor- 
 tunate Don Sebaftian, and reign’d a Year and 
 an half : He was the laft of the Royal Blood 
 of Portugal in the male Line. The Title to 
 the SuccefTion lay between the IfTue of Mary 
 and Catherine, Daughters of Prince Ed- 
 ward the Son of King Emanuel, and be- 
 tween Philip the 2d of Spain, Son of the 
 Princefs Isabella the Daughter of that King. 
 Mary was married to the Duke of Parma, 
 from whom the prefent King of Spatn is ma- 
 ternally defcended ; but the General Affem- 
 bly of the States of Portugal pafs’d a famous 
 Law at Lamego, in 1 1 39, by which it was 
 enadled, that the eldefl; Daughter of the King, 
 in Cafe of Failure of IfTue Male, fhould have 
 tlie Right of SuccefTion in her, if flie mar- 
 ried a Portugueze Nobleman j but if fhe 
 married a Prince or Nobleman of any foreign 
 Nation, fhe fhould then forfeit all that Right. 
 The Reafon of this Limitation is thus ex- 
 plain’d: “Because our People fhall not be 
 “ obliged to obey a King who is not a Por- 
 “ tugueze by Birth j fince they were our own 
 “ Subjects and Countrymen who ^ave Us a 
 “ King, without any foreign AfTiltance, by 
 “ their own Valour, and at the Expence of 
 “ their Blood.” This is a fundamental Law 
 of Portugal, and Philip the 2d admitted the 
 Validity of it, when he himfelf infilled that 
 
 a Spam~ 
 
176 introduction. 
 
 a Spaniard was no Foreigner. Catherine, 
 the younger Sifter of Mary., became the Wife 
 of the Duke of Braganga, from whom the 
 prefent King of Portugal is lineally defcend- 
 ed. Such was the State of the feveral Claims. 
 Whoever had the faireft Pretenfions, Philip 
 had indifputably the greateft Power. His 
 Wealth ; His eftablifli’d Charadter for politi- 
 cal Abilities; and, above all, his Situation; 
 enabled him to take Pofleflion of Portugal in 
 the Clofe of 1580; and that Kingdom re- 
 main’d in his Family till 1640, when the 
 Tyranny of the Spaniards, and the Spirit of 
 the Portugueze, rais’d the Duke of Braganga 
 to the Throne. The Battle of Montijo in 
 1644; that of St. Miguel in 1658 ; the vi- 
 gorous Attack made upon the Spanijh Lines 
 before Rivas by the Marquis of Marialva in 
 1659 ; all thefe, were Proofs of the Refolu- 
 tion and P'ortune, with which the PortU' 
 gueze Troops adted, in the Aflertion of theif 
 recover’d Freedom. The Spaniards, exhauft- 
 ed by the Succefs of France, having ended 
 their War with that Nation by the Peace of 
 the Piremies, were left at Liberty to bring 
 their whole Force againft Portugal. The 
 Adlions of Canal and of Amexial in 1663, 
 were ft ill favourable to the Portugueze ; but 
 General Schomberg (afterwards Count of Mer- 
 tola in Portugal, Marfhal of France, Duke 
 Schomberg in England, and Duke of Leinjht 
 in Ireland)^ was the Perfbn who put a Pe- 
 riod to the flattering Expedbations of Spaw. 
 
 He 
 
INTRODUCTIO N.^ 177 
 
 He came, with 4000 French Troops, into 
 Portugal i which were hir’d in the Name of 
 that King, and paid, in Reality, by the King 
 of France. With this choice Body of expe- 
 ; rienc’d Soldiers, he join’d, in 1665, the Por- 
 tugueze Forces under the Marquis of Mari- 
 aha, gain’d a complete Vidlory, at Montes 
 Claros, over the Spanifi Army commanded 
 by the Marquis of Carracena, and fix’d the 
 ^ Throne in the Houfe of Bragan^a. The 
 ‘ Firmnefs, Conftancy, and Zeal of the Portu- 
 \ gueze, were confpicuous in the whole Courfc 
 ‘ of this War, which lafted 28 Years. The 
 : Marquis of Marialva, their fortunate Gene- 
 ral, who was one of the Nobles that pro- 
 ■ claim’d King 'John, defir’d his Heart might 
 be placed near the Body of that Monarch, 
 where it was accordingly depofited with this 
 “ Infcription. 
 
 j Hie, ubt Lufiadum jacet Injlaurator in 
 5 Urna, 
 
 5 Pignus hab'et pojitum Cor, Marialva, 
 
 j fuum ; 
 
 I Ufque fuum fequitur Regem Marialva fe- 
 pultus, 
 
 Ut Fit am credas, non per iff e Fidem. 
 
 It is eafy to imagine how v6ry difficult a 
 Work it muft prove, notwithftanding almoll 
 any Advantages, to force the Necks of fuch a 
 People into a Yoke which they have once 
 fliook off; and to bring thofe again into Sub- 
 Jedion, who are equally animated by a De- 
 
 M > teftation 
 
,73 introduction. 
 teftation of their Enemy, and a Remembrance 
 of their former Glory. 
 
 Another great Event, which happen’d in 
 the Beginning of the Year 1762, occafiond a 
 remarkable Alteration in the Affairs of Eu- 
 rope, and was attended with lenous Confe- 
 qiiences. This was the Death of the Em- 
 prefs of Rujia. By a Treaty concluded at St. 
 Peterjburgy on the 30th of September 1755, 
 She had engaged to maintain 40,000 Foot and 
 I c,ooo Horfe for the Defence of Hanover, 
 during the Space of four Years, and to take 
 upon herfelf alone the whole Charge of their 
 Subfiftence. In Confideration of this exped* 
 ed Succour, it was ftipulated, that flie fhould 
 receive 100,000 per Hnnum in Advance whilft 
 her Troops remain d upon her own Territory; 
 and ^00,000 per Annum as foon as they 
 fhould be drawn out into adtual Service. At 
 this Time We were afraid of the King of 
 Prujia : In the Fludluation of political Coun- 
 cils we fhifted our Plan, and enter’d into a 
 clofe Alliance with that Monarch. Thus the 
 Treaty of St. Peferjburg became a blank Pa- 
 per! But the Emprefs of RuJJta, fixed in her 
 Refolution, invaded the Prujfian Dominions 
 as, the Ally of the Emprefs Queen of Hunga- 
 ry, which file was not able to invade as the 
 Ally of Great Britain. The Death of this 
 powerful and fortunate Princefs deliver d 
 the King of PruJJia, who was reduced al- 
 moft to the laft Diftrefs, from a formidable 
 
1 N T R O O U C T I O N. 179 
 
 and determin’d Enemy. Peter the third, her 
 Succeflbr, adopted, not only a different, but 
 an oppofite, Syftem. Soon after his Accef- 
 fion, he agreed to a mutual Exchange of Pri- 
 foners without Ranfom, and to a general Suf- 
 penfion of Arms; He offer’d to facrifice his 
 own Conquefts to the Re-eftablifhment of 
 Peace, and invited all his Allies to follow his 
 Example. By the Accounts which were pub* 
 lifh’d of his early Proceedings, he feem’d, at 
 leaft, to attend to the domeffic Happinefs of 
 his Subjedlsj for he conferr’d upon his No- 
 bility the fame Independence which that Or- 
 der enjoys in the other Monarchies of 
 ro/>e ; and he lower’d the heavy Duties upon 
 Salt in Favour of the Commonalty. Thus 
 gratifying both the greateft and meaneft of 
 his People, he appear’d to thofe at a Dif- 
 tance to be ffrengthening himfelf in the 
 Hearts of the RuJJiam, and to be ambitious 
 ot a Popularity equal to that which had been 
 beftow’d upon any of his Predeceffors. 
 
 This was only the Judgment of Perfons at 
 a Uiftance j thofe who were nearer the Scene 
 were ha^ly able to perceive any Thing but 
 a blind Precipitation in Affairs of Moment, 
 blended with a Zeal for Trifles, The diver- 
 lined Errors of his Government made it be-- 
 heved, that he was meditating the Defign of 
 fetting afide the Great Duke Paul, in Favour 
 of the depofed Prince Ivan. A Defign of fuch 
 a Nature muft have arifen either from ex- 
 
 M 2 treme 
 
i8o 
 
 INTRODUCTION, 
 
 treme Madnefs, or from fome Family-Sufpi- 
 c on J which it would not become me to m- 
 We. He had hardly made Peace wuh 
 FrujRa, before he threatened Denmark with 
 a War, on Account of his Ptetenfions to Part 
 of the Dutchy of Holjiein-Schlefwtck m Ger- 
 many. He drove every Thing before him 
 with an extravagant and thoughtlefs Rapidi- 
 ty. Inftead of courting the Affedhons of his 
 Guards, who had made and unmade the Mo- 
 narchs of Rujia; Some of thefe he flighted, 
 All, perhaps, he affronted, by taking a ridi- 
 culous Pleafure in the Uniform of his Prw> 
 fi'an Regiment, and by placing zn idle Confi- 
 dence in his Holjlein Troops. He was obh- 
 eed to communicate with the Greek Church, 
 vet he infulted the Rites of it; and fliftm- 
 guifh’d the Faft-Days by a large Piece of 
 Beef He had not the Virtues of the private 
 Man to compenfate for the Defeds of the 
 Prince. His Propenfity to the Northern Vice 
 of Intemperance in Drinking betray’d him 
 into a Difcovery of his ill-concerted Mea- 
 fures ; whilfl; an open Difregard of the Fm- 
 prefs his Confort confirm’d her Apprehen- 
 fions of Danger, and taught her to confiilt 
 her own Security. The memorable Event o 
 this fatal Condudl is known to all the World. 
 Among the Confpirators were, the Empre s, 
 and the Veit Marfhal Rofamowjky Hetman of 
 the CoJJ'acks, whom the Emperor had, a lit- 
 tle time before, declar’d Colonel of one o 
 the Regiments of Foot Guards. The Em- 
 
INTRODUCTION. i8i 
 
 prefs, in her famous Manifefto publifh’d after 
 her Hufband’s Death, brought a Variety of 
 AcCufations againft him ; the charg’d him 
 with Ingratidude to the Emprefs 'Elizabeth 
 his Aunt j with Incapacity ; an Abufe of 
 Power ; a Contempt of Religion and Law ; 
 a Scheme to remove the Gra,^'»-Duke from 
 the Succeffion ; to fettle it in Favour of a 
 Stranger ; and even to put herfelf to Death. 
 
 Thus We have feen a foverign Prince of 
 Holjiciny great Nephew ol Charles the twelfth j 
 Grandfon of Peter the firll, and Heir of thole 
 rival Monarchs, once eleiled Succeflbr to the 
 Crown of Sweden , adlually afcending the 
 Throne of Rujiay hurl’d down, after a lliort 
 Reign of lix Months, from all his Greatnefs, 
 by the Intrigues of a Woman and the Re- 
 fentments of a Handing Force, fupported by 
 the Concurrence of an offended Nation j leav- 
 ing an important Leflbn to abfolute Princes, 
 of the Inftability of human Grandeur, and of 
 the certain Danger of an eftablilh’d military 
 Power under a weak and capricious Govern- 
 ment. This very unhappy Monarch died 
 within eight Days after his Depolition. The 
 Sufpicion of the World, warranted by hifto- 
 rical Examples, has concluded that his Death 
 was violent : Indeed it has been report- 
 
 ed, that whilll he was Great Duke, a Mi- 
 nifter of State declared in Words to this Ef- 
 fedl. That Nothing could cure him but a 
 black Dofe : Neverthelefs, I would willingly 
 
 M 3 hope 
 
i 82 introduction. 
 
 hope fuch a Sufpicion was ill grounded. A 
 depofed Prince may be hated ; but a mur^ 
 der’d one is pitied, and excufed. The Dic- 
 tates of Policy are attended to, when thofe 
 of Humanity are forgot : And furely it is not 
 highly improbable, that Vexation and An- 
 guilh of Mind, preying upon a diforder’d 
 Conftitutioni might bring on that Diftemper 
 which carried him to his Grave. 
 
 It does not appear, that the Interefts of 
 the King of Frujjia have greatly fuffer’d by 
 this fudden Revolution. If the Ruffians are 
 no longer his Friends, neither are they any 
 longer his Enemies ; and in his critical Situa- 
 tion, the very ceafing tO a€t againft him, is 
 to ad for him. 
 
 That the Reader may entertain a clearer 
 Idea of the former Revolutions, and of thofe 
 which may hereafter take Place, in this un- 
 quiet Empire ; I have fubjoin’d a genealogi- 
 cal Table of the royal Family of Ruffia, from 
 1613 to the prefent Time, 
 

 ‘PEDIGRE.R of the Imperial Ruffian Family. 
 
 .-V 
 
 :, 9 i 3 
 
 
 Foedore Romanow, furnamed Philaretes, 
 Patriarch of Rujpa, married to Schtremto^M. 
 
 L Michrel Foedorowitz married Eu^/oda Stre/dnenv' 
 
 ■i"' , , ' : : isO boj He was elefted Czar in an Affembly of the principal 
 
 ; b-i. ; Jicjanr m 1613, and defcended in the female Line 
 . -nnfi from the ancient 
 
 Maria ^ Alexius Michaelowitz. ~Czar in 1645. = Natalia Kiriu^na harijkin. 
 
 his firft Wife. 
 
 III. Foedore Alexiowitz, Czar 
 in 1676. He died without 
 IfTue. And appointed his 
 Brother Peter to fucceed him 
 in the Empire. 
 
 
 his fecond Wife. 
 
 Catherine Iuuan(nvna, married 
 Duke of Mecklenburg. 
 
 IV» Ivan Alexiowitz, Czar 
 in 168 2, -and affociatcd with 
 Peter in the Government by 
 the Strelitxes, He married 
 Profctyvia Foedorvma Soltikof. 
 
 — A 
 
 Eudocia Foede - : 
 rowana .Lapu^ 
 chin his firfl 
 Wife. 
 
 the 
 
 Anne of Mecklenburg^ married Prince 
 Antony Vlric of Bmnfiwick Be^ 
 'vern, 
 
 / ^ 
 
 VIII. Ivan the fecond, Emperor in 
 
 Oaober ly^Op and depos’d 
 Dec. 6. 1741. This Prince 
 has two Brothers and two 
 Sikers. 
 
 Vll. Anma Iwanowna, 
 married the Duke 
 of Courland, Em- 
 prcfsini73o. She 
 diej without I/Tue. 
 
 IV. Peter ALfexiowiTz the Great. = 
 Czar in 1682, with hkBro- 
 oj ther I^an, afterwards foie Em- 
 peror of yi the Ru^as. 
 
 Alexfs PetrerwitZy the Czarowitz, 
 who died in the Life- time of 
 his Father. He married Char- 
 lotto houifa of Brunfyoick li^ol- 
 fenbuftle. 
 
 A — ^ ^ , 
 
 VI. Peter Alexowitz the fe- 
 cond, Emperor in 1727. 
 
 = V . Martha Theifenhau- 
 fevy a young Li<vbnian 
 Prifoner, taien at A/<«. 
 rienburgy with whom 
 he publickly declared 
 his Marriage in I710. 
 Afterwards Cathe- 
 rine the firft, Em- 
 prefs in 1725. 
 
 — -^ 1 
 
 IX. Eliza BETH A Pe- 
 trowna Em- 
 prefs in 1741. 
 
 
 Anna Petrtrwnay elder Sifter to the Emprefs 
 Elizabethy married the Duke of Holflein. 
 r ; — .A ^ 
 
 X. Peter the Third, 'Emperor Januay 1762, 
 depofed by his Wife, July 9. 1762. He 
 married Catherine Alexi^weina of Anhalt 
 Zerbtz, 
 
 XL Catherine the Second, Emprefs in 
 July 1762. 
 
 r- ■ \ 
 
 Paul Petroivit», the Great Duke. 
 
BSZum 
 
CHRONOLOGICAL ANNALS 
 OF THE WAR. 
 PART THE SECOND. 
 
 1761. 
 
 January 2. Eneral M&nfberg having been 
 
 I Y attack’d by the Count de Brog- 
 V.-^ lio and M. de Stainville in the 
 town of Duderftadt, retir’d to the neighbouring 
 heights, where he maintain’d himfelf till the next 
 day, when he was afTifted by the Generals Kiel- 
 manfegge and Luckner, who drove the French 
 from the town, and purfued them as far as Wit- 
 zenhaufen. The Allies loft 190 men*, and the 
 French, by their own Accounts, 600 : among 
 whonp, three complete companies of grenadiers 
 were made prifoners. 
 
 Jan. 8 . A detachment of 1 50 horfc, and 2 corri- 
 panies of grenadiers, under the command of the 
 Vifcount de Belfunce, march’d out of Gottingen, 
 attack’d a poll of the Allies near Gibelhaufen, and 
 made about 100 men prifoners, among whom were 
 four officers. 
 
 Jan. 8. The Unicorn of 28 guns, 200 men. 
 Captain Hunt, engaged the Veftal, a French fri- 
 gate of 30 guns (twelve, nine, and fix, pounders) 
 and 220 men, M. Boilbertelot commander. The 
 aftion lafted near two hours*, in which both the 
 Captains were mortally wounded. Lieutenant Sy- 
 mons, after his Captain was difabled, fought the 
 ftiip with courage and conduct, took the Veftal, 
 
 and 
 
184 Chronological Annals 1761. 
 
 and was rewarded with the command of the Mor. 
 tar noop. The Veftal, had many men kill d and 
 wounded; the Unicorn only five kill’d ; fix dan- 
 gerouliy, and four more fiighdy, wounded. 
 
 Tan. lO. Captain James Smith of the Seahorfc 
 of 10 guns and 160 men, fought with the Opale 
 frigate of 36 guns and 350 men, the Marquis 
 d’Ars commander, at the diftance of 34 leagues 
 S. W. from the Start ; after a warm engagement 
 of an hour and a quarter, in which the fiiips were 
 board and board three different times) the enemy 
 left the Seahorfe with great precipitation, upon the 
 approach of the Unicorn. The lofs of the Opale 
 amounted to near 150 kill’d and wounded, among 
 the former of whom was the Captain ; that of the 
 Seahorfe confifted in eleven kill’d, and thirty eight 
 wounded, many of the latter very dangeroufly. 
 Captain Smith was afterwards detain’d at home, to 
 be prefer’d to the command of a larger fhip the 
 'firft opportunity. 
 
 Jan. 10. The Venus of 36 guns, 240 men, 
 Captain Harrifon, engaged the Brune, a French 
 frigate of 32 guns and 316 men ; for upwards of 
 two hours ; when the Juno of 32 guns coming up, 
 and firing a few guns, the Brune ftruck ; having 
 had 19 kill’d and 39 wounded. The Captain, firft 
 Lieutenant, and Mafter of the Venus, with 15 
 private feamen, were wounded ; but four only 
 were kill’d. Two failors were wounded on board 
 the Juno. 
 
 Jan. 13. The Annemame and Sardoine, King’s 
 frigates, arm’d for war by the merchants, carry- 
 ing each 14 guns and 1 30 men, and prime failors, 
 ^v€re taken by the Mars and Orford. 
 
 Jan. - 
 
Of the War. 
 
 1761. 
 
 
 Jan, — Ten thoufand Rudians under Count 
 Tottleben, enter’d lower Pomerania, and took pol- 
 feffion of New Stetin and Burwalde, 
 
 « 
 
 Jan. 15. The Mogul’s Troops, faid tohavecon- 
 fifted of 80,000 men, headed by Shah Zadda, and 
 fupported by a fmall number of French troops un- 
 der M. Law, were totally defeated, near Patna, 
 by Major John Carnack at the Head of 500 Euro- 
 peans, 2500 Seapoys, and 20,000 black Troops, 
 with 1 2 pieces of cannon. M. Law, and moll of 
 the French, were taken prifoners. 
 
 Jan. 15. Pondicherry, the capital of the French 
 fettlements on the coaft of Coromandel, furrender’d 
 at diferetion to Colonel Eyre Coote. An amazing 
 quantity of artillery and amunition was found in 
 the fort, and on the works 5 among which there 
 were no lefs than 81 ferviceablc pieces of brafs, 
 and 436 of iron ordnance. The fum total of the 
 Prifoners (inclufive of the King’s troops, compa- 
 ny’s troops, and inhabitants) amounted to 2072. 
 All thefe were reduced to the extremity of famine, 
 having devour’d every Animal from an elephant 
 to a moufe. Camels, dogs, and cats, had been 
 for fome time their common food. Even rats fold 
 for 1 3 pence a piece. Before they furrendcr’d they 
 ate, by dint of boiling, their leathern jars (call’d 
 Dame Joan’s) ufed for keeping oil and butter. 
 The joy arifing from this important conqueft, was 
 damp’d by the misfortune which happen’d to our 
 fleet in a ftorm on the firfl: of this month. The 
 Duke of Aquitaine and the Sunderland of 64 guns 
 each, founder’d ; only one man from the former, 
 and eight from the latter, were faved. The New- 
 caftle of 50 guns, and Queenborough cf 20, toge- 
 
iS 6 Chronological Annals 1761, 1 
 
 ther with the Proteftor firelhip, were drove on 
 Ihore and loft; but the people, the ordnance, and 
 great part of the ftores and provifions were pre- ! 
 ftrv’d. In the preceding Year, the Cumberland of 
 54 guns was loft off Goa. During the blockade of j 
 Pondicherry, the boats of the fleet, under Captain 
 Newfon of the South-Sea-Caftle, cut out the Bal- . 
 leine a frigate of 36 guns, and the Hermione fliip; j 
 and the Medway and Newcaftle took, from under j 
 the guns of the Danilh Fort at Trincambar, a fhip 
 call’d La Compagnie des Indes ; fhe was pierced 
 for 54 guns, and had efcaped out of the harbour I 
 of Pondicherry. 
 
 Jan. 20. The Griffin Indiaman, homeward bound * 
 through the ftraights of Sapy, ftruck upon a rock, 
 and was loft ; the crew were faved, 
 
 Jan. 23. Captain Hood in the Minerva of 32 j 
 guns and 220 men, fought with, and took the 
 Warwick of 34 guns (pierced for 60) M. le Veger ; 
 de Belair commander, having 295 men onboard, 
 
 74 of whom were foldiers. She was bound to the 
 Ifle of France and Bourbon, with proviflons, am- 
 munition, and ftores, and had 14 men kill’d and 
 32 wounded in the action. The Minerva had the 
 fame number kill’d, and 34 wounded ; three of the 
 latter died foon afterwards. The Minerva luffer’d 
 alfo confiderably in all her mafts, from the confe- 
 quences of this lharp engagement. 
 
 ya». 24. The Fell cite, a French frigate of 32 
 guns. Captain Donell, bound to Martinico with a 
 cargo worth 30,000 pounds fterling, was attack’d, 
 drove on Ihore on the coaft of Holland, and entire- 
 ly deftroy’d by the Richmond of 32 guns and 220 
 men, Captain Elphinfton. The French Commander 
 
Of the War. 
 
 1761. 
 
 fell in the engagement, and near too of his crew 
 were kill’d or wounded. The aftion lafted two 
 hours, when the enemy fled from their quarters, 
 left their Ihip, and efcaped. The Hermione, con- 
 Ibrc to the Felicite of the fame force and value, was 
 loft coming out of Dunkirk. 
 
 *]an. 26. Prince Xavier of Saxony beat up the 
 quarters of the Prufllans at Sonderlhaufen, and 
 carried off part of Wunfch’s battalion from Ebel- 
 eben. General Luckner purfued the F'rench in 
 their retreat beyond Langenfaltzen, took one of 
 their magazines at Deifwitz, and made the guard 
 of two officers and thirty men prifoners of war. 
 
 'Jan. 27. The French, vinder M. dc St. Viftor, 
 furpriz’d the poft of Stadbergen. Major Delaune, 
 who commanded the garrifon compos’d of part of 
 Lane’s battalion, was kill’d in his chamber. 
 
 Feb. 10. M. Louet furrender’d the fort of 
 Mahe, on the coaft of Malabar, to Mr. Hodges 
 commander at Tellicherry, and to Mr. Munro 
 commander of the King’s and Company’s troops 
 employed in that expedition. 
 
 March — The Ajax Eaft-Indiaman, homeward 
 bound, of 750 tons 26 guns, and 100 men, with 
 a valuable cargo on board worth 200,000 pounds 
 fterling, was taken by the Prothee of 64 guns cap- 
 tain Cornei commander. 
 
 Mar. 13. The Entreprenant, pierced for 44 
 guns, carrying only 26 (twelve and fix pounders) 
 with 203 men, arm’d for war and merchandize, 
 and loaded with various goods for St. Domingo, 
 was taken by the Vengeance Captain Nightingale 
 
i88 Chronological Annals 1761. 
 
 of 28 guns (nine and four pounders) and 200 
 men. The engagement continued, at three different 
 times, for three hours and a quarter. The Entre- 
 prenant had 15 men. kill’d, and 24 wounded j the 
 Vengeance, 6 kill’d and 27 wounded, molt of them 
 dangeroufly. 
 
 Mar. 26. The Chevalier d’Origny made a bat- 
 talion of the Britannic legion prifoners at Wolf- 
 Ihagen, where he took one piece of cannon and a 
 magazine. The fame day the French Royal Le- 
 gion made 300 Englifh prifoners at Alsfelt, who 
 had been left there for their recovery. — A batta- 
 lion of Hanoverians, that block’d up the caftle of 
 Arolfen, was, for the moft pm-t, taken or deftroy’d. 
 
 Mar. I'j. Colonel Colignon abandon’d Nord- 
 heim to the French garrifon of Gottingen, and loft 
 220 men, with two pieces of cannon, in his re- 
 treat. 
 
 From Fehr. ii. to March 27 and 28. inclufive. 
 The allied army, on the nth of February began 
 their march to the attack of the French pofts. 1 he 
 principal events of this attack, in the courfe of fe- 
 ven weeks, are thrown together in the following 
 account. Fritzlar capitulated to the hereditary 
 Prince of Brunfwick. Lieutenant General Breiden- 
 bach was kill’d in an unfuccefsful attempt upon 
 Marpourg. Guderfberg furrender’d to Lord Gran- 
 by. The Generals Sporcken and Sybourg gave a 
 fignal defeat to the Saxons near Langenfaltzen, 
 made 5000 prifoners, and took fome cannon. Lieu- 
 tenant General D’Oheim defeated M. de Maupeou’s 
 advanc’d guard near Sachfenberg, and made that 
 General prifoner. At Rofenthal, Fritzlar, and 
 Melfungen, a large quantity of meal and fpragc 
 
 was 
 
1761. Of the War. 189 
 
 was dcftroy’d. A confiderable magazine was found 
 at Ober-Morl'chen 5 80,000 facks of meal, 50,000 
 facks of oats, and a million of rations of hay, were 
 taken or ruin’d at Hirfchfeld. -At Fulda the French 
 burnt a magazine of hay, and the Allies took a 
 very great magazine ot flour and oats. Another 
 largd magazine was found at Eyfenach. Count la 
 Lippe open’d the trenches before CaflTel in the night 
 of the firil of March. The garrifon of CalTel fome 
 days afterwards made a fuccefsful falley on the be- 
 fiegers, enter’d the trenches, and nail’d up one 
 piece of cannon, carried off four mortars, and de- 
 ftroyed the works of the grand battery.- The 
 French fet fire to their magazines at Friedberg. 
 Luckner pufli’d his corps as far as Afchaffenbourg, 
 of which he took poflelTion. From this time, every 
 thing went retrograde. A detachment from the 
 garrifon of Gottingen obliged the Hanoverian 
 garrifon of Duderitadt to furrender prilbners of 
 war. Major General Baron Clofen, under the or- 
 ders of M. Broglio, defeated the hereditary Prince 
 of Brunfwick near Grunberg, made near 2000 pri- 
 foners, and took 12 or 13 pieces of cannon. M. 
 de Monchenu beat a party of the Allies juft above 
 Ziegenhayn, took 400 prifoners, befides fome Of- 
 ficers of diftinftion. In the night between the 27th 
 and 28th of March, the Allies raifed the fiege of 
 Caflel ; after which, the French went into quarters 
 of cantonment in Hefle, and the Allies into their 
 own behind the Dymel. The feveral French ma- 
 gazines, which were taken or deftroy’d before the 
 Allies repafs’d the Dymel, amounted, according to 
 fome valuations, to leven millions of florins. 
 
 Mar. 30. The Count de Broglio, having march’d 
 out of CaflTel with his garrifon, attack’d the rear 
 guard of the Hannoverians with fuccefs, took four 
 
 pieces 
 
190 
 
 Chronological Annals 1761. 
 
 pieces of cannon, feveral ammunition waggons, 
 and many prifoners. 
 
 April I. The Oriflame of 40 guns mounted, 
 twenty fix of which were 1 2 pounders, and four- 
 teen 18 pounders, with upwards of 370 men, was 
 taken by the Ifis commanded by Lieutenant Cun- 
 ningham, after a running engagemenC of four 
 hours and an half. The Ifis had only 4 men killed, 
 and nine wounded ; Captain Wheeler who com- 
 manded her, was kill’d in the beginning of the 
 adlion. The lofs of the Oriflame, in killed and 
 wounded, amounted to between 40 and 50 Ihe 
 failed remarkably well, and had redeived a tho- 
 rough repair. 
 
 Aprils. The Imperialifls, to the amount of 6 
 battalions and 800 horfe, under the command of 
 two Generals, were attack’d, routed, and dilpers’d, 
 by the Pruflian Generals SchenkendortF and Sy- 
 bourg, near Saalfeld. One Colonel, one Major, 
 twenty nine officers, and 800 private men were 
 made prifoners; four pair of colours and fix pieces 
 of cannon were taken. Ziethen’s Hulfars, under 
 Major Hundt, particularly dillinguilh’d them- 
 felves. 
 
 April 2. Tlie Berten, an Eaft-Indiaman, bound 
 from Port L’Orient to the Ille of France and Pon- 
 dicherry, pierced for 64 guns, mounting 28, and 
 manned with 353 men, of whom 93 were foldiers, 
 laden with ordnance, naval ftores, merchandize, 
 and 24000 dollars in fpecie, was taken by the Hero 
 Captain William Fortefeue and the Venus Captain 
 Harrifon. The entire cargo of this prize, was va- 
 lued by her Captain at 90,000 pounds fterling. 
 
 Jpril 3. 
 
Of the War. 
 
 1761. 
 
 191 
 
 April 3. The Kings of Great-Britain and Pruflia 
 accepted the propofal of the belligerant Powers, 
 contain’d in their declaration of the 26th of March, 
 for opening a congrefs at Augfburg, in order to ne- 
 gotiate a general peace. 
 
 April — The Pheafant, a French frigate of 1 6 
 guns 125 men, was taken by the Albany floop 
 Captain Brograve *, the Pheafant threw 14 of her 
 guns overboard in the chace. 
 
 I 
 
 April 6. A PrufTian detachment attack’d a corps 
 of Imperialifts under General Guafco, near Plaven 
 in the Voigtland, and took one Colonel, eight of- 
 ficers, 150 men, four pieces of cannon, and all 
 the baggage. The Pruffians loft the brave Major 
 Hundt of Ziethen’s Huflars, one Lieutenant, and 
 30 private men. 
 
 April 7. Between the 14th of February and this 
 day, the garrilbn of Gottingen alone made 1 600 of 
 the Allies prifoners of war. 
 
 April 8. Major General Hodgfon and Commo- 
 dore Keppel attempted to difimbark the Britifh 
 troops at St. Andro near Point Lomaria ; but the 
 French were fo ftrongly intrenched on each fide of 
 the hill, which was excefiively fteep, and the foot 
 of it fcarp’d away, that after repeated efforts they 
 were oblig’d to defift. Major General Crawford 
 and Brigadier Carlton exerted themfelves with a- 
 bility on this occafion, and the latter was wounded 
 in the thigh. One of the flat-bottom’d boats land- 
 ed fixty of Erfkinc’s grenadiers, commanded by 
 Captain Ofborne, who gain’d the top of the hills 
 by a very difficult afcenr ■, but being attack’d as 
 
192 Chronological Annals 1761. 
 
 foon as they were form’d, by a numerous force, 
 they were routed before it was poffible to fend 
 them any effeaual affiftance ; twenty of this party 
 were brought back from the rocks by the boats. 
 The lofs of the Britilh troops, in kill’d, wounded, 
 and prifoners, amounted to 434. 
 
 April iz- The Auftrian General Reid attack’d 
 the Pruflian line, which was form’d before Miltitz, 
 forced that poft, kill’d and wounded 100 men, and 
 made 40 prifoners. 
 
 April 21. A magazine of hay which the French 
 had form’d at Wefek accidentally took Ere, and 
 was confumed. It confifted of 1,250,000 rations, 
 and was valued at two millions of livres. 
 
 April 22. Beauclerk’s grenadiers under Captain 
 Paterfon, boldly climb’d up a rock, and made 
 good their landing upon Bellille againft 300 of the 
 enemy, till the remainder of the corps under Briga- 
 dier Lambert were enabled to come to their af- 
 fiftance. The reft of the troops afterwards landed 
 without difficulty. Captain Paterfon loft his arm 
 in this gallant fervice. Mr. Lambdrt was ftrongly 
 recommended by General Hodgfon to his Majefty’s 
 favour, for the condu<fl and fpirit which he ffiewed 
 on this memorable occafion. The French loft three 
 brafs field pieces, and fome of their wounded were 
 made prifoners. 
 
 April — The Speedwell cutter of eight guns, 
 ftation’d off Oporto, was taken by two french 
 men of war on the coaft of Spain, and fent into 
 Vigo. 
 
 
 April 
 
1761* 
 
 Of the War. 
 
 193 
 
 April 23. A detachment of 3000 men from the 
 garrifon of Gottingen attack’d a battalion of the 
 Britifli legion in the village of Feldhaven,near Uf- 
 lar, and made 100 prilbners. They were afterwards 
 diflodged from that poll by the Hanoverians, who 
 took above 50 dragoons. 
 
 May 5. General Luckner with 100 Huflars 
 came up with 300 horfe of the garrifon of Gottin- 
 gen, entirely routed -them, made one officer and 
 thirty troopers prifoners, and took fixty one horfes. 
 — Captain Brinlky attack’d them the lame day, on 
 their return, with 100 Huflars and 50 of the Brunf- 
 wick cavalry, drove them before him into Gottin- 
 gen, and made three officers and 53 dragoons pri- 
 foners ; the Vicomte'de Belfunce their commander 
 narrowly efcaped being taken in the purluit. The 
 village of Spielen beyond the Fulda was taken by 
 Captain Riedefel with 100 men of the Brunfwick 
 Huflars, and the garrifon of 50 men were kill’d 
 or made prifoners, with little lofs on the part of 
 the Allies. 
 
 May — The Auftrians abandon’d Freyberg on 
 the approach of Colonel Kleift, who took 84 men 
 and 100 horfes. 
 
 I 
 
 May^ — The King of Pruffia took an Auftrian 
 magazine of meal at Bautzen. 
 
 May 1 7. Colonel Kleift attack’d part of General 
 Guafco’s corps at Schellenberg, and took ii8 
 men together with three officers. 
 
 May 2 1 . General Beck attack’d a body of Pruf- 
 Cans on the Qucifs near Greiflfcnberg, kill’d and 
 
 N wounded 
 
,04 Chronoiogical Annals 1761. 
 
 mounded 600 men, took near the faine number 
 prKoners, and made himlelf matter of four pieces 
 of cannon. 
 
 May — One hundred horfe of the Allied armj^ 
 took, near Nor^heim, a French Lieutenant Colo- 
 nel, 34 dragoons, and 40 horfe. M. de Belfunce 
 himfelf narrowly efcaped. 
 
 ^itne 6 Aoord Rollo and Colonel Melyil, fup- 
 norted by the fquadron under Commodore Sir 
 James Douglafs, landed their troops on the iHand 
 if Dominicl, attack’d and drove the French from 
 four different intrench ments, one above another, 
 Upon the face of a fteep hill, and ^riade M. de 
 Lono-pric the Commandant, and M. de Couche 
 the Iccond Officer, prifoners of war. Having thus 
 taken the idand by aifault, Lord Rollo granted the 
 inhabitants a proteftion till his M^jefty s pleafure 
 ffiould be further known. Dominica is well wood- 
 ed and water’d, and fupplied the French with 
 quantities of coffee, cocoa, and cotton ; the foil in 
 many places is rich, and the land very high, 
 which makes it capable of producing exceUent 
 fugar-cane, if properly cultivated. 
 
 June 7. The citadel of Palais furrender’d to Ge- 
 neral Hodgfon and Commodore Keppel. The 
 Chevalier de St. Croix and his garrifon obtain’d ^ 
 the honours of war, and were tranfported to the 
 Continent at the Expence of his Britannick Ma- 
 jefty. The Britifh prifoners were declar’d to be 
 free from the moment of the capitulation, but the 
 French prifoners were to be exchang d according 
 to the cartel of Sluys. It is difficult to afeertain the 
 exaft lofs of the Britifh troops in this long and 
 well difputed fiege. Some accounts 
 

 Of the War. 
 
 ^95 
 
 kill’d amount to near 2000 men. The Captains 
 Bell, Wightwick, and Collins, of the Marines, 
 were promoted to the rank of Majors in the army, 
 for their gallant behaviour. The number of French 
 troops in the citadel, when it was invefted, a- 
 mounted to 2600, of whom 922 were kill’d* 
 wounded, or made prifoners, during the fiege^ 
 
 June 13. The Hampfliire and Centaur, part of 
 Hear Admiral Holmes’s fquadron, took the Sr. 
 Anne, pierced for 64 guns, having on board fix 24 
 pounders, twenty fix 12 pounders and eight 8 
 pounders, with 389 perfons. She was commanded 
 by M. D’Aguillon, and her cargo confifted of in- 
 digo, coffee, and fugar, to the value of one milliort 
 of French livres. 
 
 June 16. General Luckner took 84 oxen imdet 
 the walls of Gottingen, drove back the garrifon* 
 killkl and wounded too men, and made one Cap-s 
 tain and 14 private men prifoners. 
 
 June 17. M. Scheiter crofs’d the Rhine with 
 only 36 horfe, and in the fpace of 93 hours, fet 
 fire to the French magazines at Xantcn, and other 
 places, and plunder’d a great quantity of baggage. 
 The magazines which he deftroyed, amounted to 
 i,635ooo fations of hay and flraw, near 6000 facks 
 and feveral thoufand rations of oats. 
 
 June — The French made 245 prifoners at 
 Luhnen and Kamen, and took two pieces of can- 
 non. 
 
 June 20, Two thoufand Auftrians furpriz’d a 
 flying camp of the Pruffians near Schweidnitz, made 
 
 N a 
 
 200 
 
,^6 Chronological Annals 1761. 
 
 .00 prifoners, and carried off 300 horfe with fonre 
 Other booty. 
 
 yune— Marlhal Broglio took poffeffion of War- 
 bour» and Paderborn r General Sporcken loft a 
 & number of men and fome cannon ,n hrsre- 
 
 treat from the former place. 
 
 ,8 and 20. The detach’d corps of M. 
 BroscUo’s army, made between four and five hun- 
 dred of the Allies prifoners of war, and took 19 
 pieces of cannon with 4 haubitzers. 
 
 From June 10 to June 30. V^ieu^^^^ 
 
 Colonel Grant of the 40th regiment of foot with 
 the troops under his command, penewated mt 
 the middle and back fettlements of the Cherokees, 
 burn? 1 5 towns, deftroy’d above 1400 acres 0 
 coL beans, and peafe, and drove 5000 people 
 Sto the woods and^ mountains, where they would 
 be neceflarily reduced to great diftrefs for want of 
 fubfiftence. — His lofs in this expedition amount- 
 ed only to one fubaltern, one ferjeant, and nine 
 private men kill’d, four fubalterns, one drummer, 
 and forty feven private men wounded. 
 
 July Le Beaumont, a French Eaft-Indiaman 
 
 bound for the Ifie of Bourbon, of 600 tons, 22 
 o-uns nine pounders and 280 men, was take y 
 The King George privateer of 24 guns j^elve an 
 Bine pounders and 240 men Captain Reid com- 
 mander, after an obftinate engagement of fevw 
 hours, in which the former had upwards ot 00 
 men kill’d and the latter 25. . ' 
 
 July 8. General Ziethen reconnoitred the Ru^ 
 
 fian army, Ikirmifli’d with an advanced poll, kill cl 
 ' 200 
 
1761. Of the War. 197 
 
 200 men, and afterwards retreated in good order 
 to his camp at Storkneft in Poland. 
 
 July 13. A body of French troops under the 
 command of M. Chabot, intending to furprize M. 
 IjUckner, near •Samle, was attack’d and defeated 
 by that General 5 1 50 men were made prifoners, 
 and 200 horfes taken. 
 
 July 14. The Captains Kampen and Engel, Cap- 
 tain Lieutenant Sanders, and Lieutenant Muller, 
 with 220 horfe in different detachments, burnt up- 
 wards of 30 carriages of bacon and provifions, de- 
 ftroy’d or gave away a prodigious quantity of bread 
 and meal, took 700 horfes, ruin’d 2000 more, and 
 in their return to the allied army made prifoners 
 2 50 recover’d men of the enemy’s troops. 
 
 July 1 5 and 1 6. Marlhal Broglio decamp d on 
 the 15th at day-break from Erwite, and attack’d 
 Lord Granby’s camp in the evening with great 
 briflvnefs : his Lordlhip fuftain’d the efforts of the 
 enemy with refolution and fuccefs, till the arrival 
 of Lieutenant General Wutgenau, who had re- 
 ceived orders to march to his lupport. The French 
 being now taken in flank, they could no longer 
 withfland the> firmnefs of thele Generals, with 
 whom Prince Ferdinand was in perfon, but were 
 driven back into the woods, after a fire of artillery 
 and fmall arms which lafted till late in the night. 
 The adtion was renewed at three the next morn- 
 ing, and continued till nine j M, Wutgenau’s 
 corps, againft which the French made redoubled 
 attacks, maintain’d its ground with intrepidity, 
 at lafl M. Broglio appear’d to have a dcfign of 
 planting lome batteries upon an eminence, oppo- 
 flte to Lord Granby’s camp, which was not in- 
 
 N 3 clofed 
 
igS Chronological Annals 1761, 
 
 Clofed within the lines : to prevent the bad confe- 
 quLce of fuch a defign, Prince Ferdinand order d 
 ?he neareft troops to advance upon the enemy 
 which they did with fuch courage, that the French 
 foon gave way, and retreated precipitately, aban- 
 doning their dead and wounded. Maxwell s batta- 
 lion of grenadiers took prifoners the regirnent o 
 Rouge, confifting of four battalions, with their 
 cannon and colours. Upon the news of this defeat 
 on tlie right, the left of the French army under the 
 Prince de Soubife, which was oppoled to the here- 
 ditary prince, defifted from the attack ; 200 men, 
 commanded by Major Limburg, defended the 
 village of Scheidingen, on that fide •, againit all the 
 attempts of the enemy. The lofs of the French in 
 kiird, wounded, and prifoners, was computed at 
 about 5000 men •, nine pieces of cannon and lix 
 pair of colours were taken. The brigades of the 
 King, Auvergne, Belfunce, aud Naflau, fufferd 
 the moft. The Duke of Havre and his fon in law 
 the Marquis of Cirrac, the Marquis of Rouge Lieu- 
 tenant General and his fon the Colonel, were 
 kill’d : their lofs in Officers was very confiderable. 
 This battle was fought in the field of Kirch-Denc- 
 kern, near Hiltrup, and at no great diftance from 
 Ham. The Allies had 31 1 men kill’d, loii 
 wounded, 192 made prifoners, and three pieces of 
 tannon taken. 
 
 “July 17. The Achilles of 64 guns and the BulFon 
 
 of 32, were taken at the diftance of 19 leagues 
 from Cadiz, by the Thunderer of 74 guns Cap- 
 tain Proby, and the Ttietis ftorelhip Captain Mou- 
 tray, after a bloody combat of half an hour, in 
 which the Thunderer had 17 men kill’d and 113 
 wounded, 1 7 of whom died foon afterwards ; Cap- 
 tain Proby was ftightly wounded in the hand. 1 he 
 
 French 
 
1761. Of the War. 199 
 
 French frigate did not ftrike till after the Modefte 
 had come up, and fired fome guns into her. 1 hefe 
 two fliips carried upwards of 900 men between 
 them. The Captain of the Achilles was gently 
 cenfur’d, the Lieuteftant degraded from his Nobi- 
 lity and imprifon’d, and the Enfign lliot, for their 
 behaviour in this engagement. 
 
 July — . A great convoy of provifions was de- 
 ftroy’d by Colonel Freytag, between Caflel and 
 Warbourg •, the Brunfwick Huflkrs ruin’d two 
 French magazines upon the Werra, and Major Ge- 
 neral Luckner, in his retreat from Neuhaus near 
 Paderborn (which he had forced on the 17th) had 
 a fmart engagement with the enemy, and made 
 1 50 prifoners. 
 
 July 18. Marflial Butterlin having detach’d fome 
 regiments of Huflars from his head-quarters at 
 Pnllawe, to cut off the retreat of Colonel Loflbw, 
 who had been reconnoitring the Ruffians-, the lat-. 
 ter fell upon them by furprize, kill’d io men, 
 made 2 officers, 14 fubalterns, 2 furgeons, and 106 
 private men prifoners, took 100 horfes, and dif- 
 pers’d the reft. 
 
 July 20. Colonel Belling, and Lieutenant Colo- 
 nel Goltz, gain’d fome advantage over the Swedes 
 at Verchen. 
 
 July 19 to 21. Colonel Freytag, in a fecond ex- 
 pedition, deftroy’d a great quantity of ammuni- 
 tion and corn belonging to the French, on the 
 p-uld and the Werra, without the lofs of a man. 
 
 July 21. The Swedes took Demmin, and made 
 100 men of Hordt’s Battalion priibners of wan At 
 
 Mai- 
 
200 Chronological Annals 1761. 
 
 Malchin, the Prufllan Lieutenant Colonel Goltz 
 loft foo men j and at Damgarten, a Lieutenant 
 and 20 Pruffian Huflars were taken prifoners. 
 
 Juiy '% 1 . The King of Pruffia attack’d General 
 Bren^ano’s cavalry near Munfterbcrg, and made 
 150 Fouriers prifoners. 
 
 July 38 and 29. Part of Commodore Keppel’s 
 fqyadron under Sir Thomas Stanhope, demolilk’d 
 the works and fortifications on the ifle of Aix : 
 Captain Chaplin of the Furnace bomb diftin- 
 guifh’d himfelf on this occafion. 
 
 July 30. General Luckner attack’d Marlhal 
 Broglio’s rear-guard at Lipfprinck, and deftroy’d 
 the corps of Volontaires de Broglio. 
 
 Augujl 2. The Ruffians attack’d a Pruffian maga- 
 zine between Welda and the Oder, but were re- 
 puls’d with confiderable lofs. 
 
 Augujl 3. The King of Pruffia p'afs’d the Neifie, 
 drove part of the Auftrian army as far as Hoff in 
 Moravia, and made 100 prifoners. 
 
 Augujl 5. Prince Ferdinand attack’d Lieutenant 
 Gpneral de Stainville, who had between 16 and 18 
 battalions and as many fquadrons under his com- 
 mand, and obliged him, after a difpute of three 
 or four hours, to abandon the poll of Stadtbergen. 
 
 Augufi 6. A convoy of 250 waggons going to- 
 wards the Wefer,^was taken by a detachment of 
 Hunters belonging to Colonel Freytag’s corps. 
 The defertion, at this time, was very great in the 
 French army. 
 
 AuguJ 
 
Of the War. 
 
 201 
 
 J761. 
 
 Auguft 7. Thirty men of the allied army under 
 the Chevalier de Donccel, attack’d near Stockern, 
 and difpers’d a guard of 70 Auftrians that was 
 placed for the protedlion of 65 pontoons, and af- 
 terwards burnt the pontoons together with a fmall 
 French magazine. 
 
 Auguft. 7. The Subtile, a French frigate belong- 
 ing to the Fall India company, of 16 guns 84 
 men, and of about 300 tons burthen, bound from 
 Mauritius to L’Orient, was taken by the Aquilon 
 Captain Chaloner Ogle. 
 
 Auguft 14. Lieutenant General Diemar, with a 
 garrifon of 300 men, gallantly and fuccefsfully de- 
 fended the fmall town of Horn againft 8000 French 
 and 6 pieces of cannon. 
 
 Auguft 14 and 15. General Luckner, having ar- 
 rived with his corps on the heights near Dallel, de- 
 tach’d his own regiment towards the right wing of 
 the French, and Colonel Freytag, with all the 
 light horfe, towards their left. The enemy, under 
 the command of M. Belfunce, drew back their 
 forces towards the foreft of Soiling, after detach- 
 ing a large body of horfe and foot to the high road 
 that leads to Eimbeck •, this body was inftantly 
 charg’d and totally routed by Luckner’s Huflars. 
 In front. General Luckner himfelf attack’d the 
 French, whom he found drawn up in order of bat- 
 tle, but they foon retired and drew nearer to the 
 foreft of Soiling; Colonel Freytag obliged their 
 light horfe to difperfe themfelves in the foreft, 
 where they were prefently follow’d by General 
 Luckner : Lieutenant Colonel de Stockhaufen, 
 who had previoufly pofted himfelf in the Soiling 
 
 with 
 
i02 Chronological Annals 1761, 
 
 with his hunters, then engaged with, and defeat- 
 ed, the French infantry, and the Brunfwick Huf- 
 fars purfued them with fuccefs. In thefe different 
 attacks, 44 officers and 759 private men were 
 made prifoners ; three pair of colours and 800 
 horfes were taken. 
 
 Augufi 15. Some Pruffian regiments, among 
 which were thofe of Finkenftein and Czelteritz, at- 
 tack’d near Lignitz in Silefia, 30 fquadrons of 
 Auftrian cavalry and 10 battalions of grenadiers 
 who were on their march to join the Ruffians ; 
 thefe regiments took a great number of prifoners, 
 and difpers’d the enemy in fuch a manner, that 
 only 10 fquadrons were enabled to effedt the in- 
 tended junftion. About the fame time. General 
 Knoblock made two regiments of Ruffian infantry 
 prifoners in their retreat towards the Oder. 
 
 Auguft 15. Captain Faulkner in the Bellonaof 
 74 guns, and Captain Loggie in the Brilliant of 
 36, came up with the Courageux of 74 guns Cap- 
 tain du Gue Lambert, the Malicieux of 32 guns 
 Captain Longueville, and the Hermione of 32 
 guns Captain Montigney. The Bellona attack’d 
 the Courageux, and the Brilliant the two frigates. 
 After an engagement of three quarters of an hour, 
 the Courageux ftruck, having loft the amazing 
 number of 240 men kill’d, and no wounded. The 
 French frigates bore away from the Brilliant 23 
 minutes after the Courageux was taken. The Bel- 
 lona had only 6 men kill’d and 28 v/ounded; the 
 Brilliant 5 kill’d and 16 wounded. 
 
 Augufi 18. The Caftle of Waldeck furrender’d 
 to the French. 
 
 Jugujl 
 
203 
 
 I 
 
 1761. Of the War. 
 
 uiuguft iS. The Marquis de Conflans attack’d 
 the rear-guard of a detachinent of the allied army, 
 in its march from Munlfer to the lower Embs, 
 made fome prifoners, and took the tents belonging 
 to Scheiter’s cavalry, together with 30 baggage 
 waggons, 
 
 Augujl 19. General Romanzow took poflellion 
 of the town of Collin near Colberg in Pomerania. 
 
 Auguft— The Fatalakim, a lliip belonging to 
 the Eaft India company, bound from Fort St. 
 George to Calcutta in Bengal, was wreck’d in her 
 paffage, and only 27 perlbns were faved ; among 
 thofe who perifli’d were, live lieutenants, two en- 
 figns, two furgeon’s mates, one volunteer, fixteen 
 fergeants, one drummer, and 218 rank and file, 
 belonging to the 84th regiment of foot command- 
 ed by Colonel Eyre Coote. Major Gordon, Cap- 
 tain Scott, Enfign Ogilvie, and Mr. Browne the 
 Surgeon, efcaped on Ihore, but died with the fa- 
 tigue of their journey, in attempting to reach Cal- 
 cutta. 
 
 Augujl 25. The Auftrian army join’d that of the 
 Ruffians in Silefia. 
 
 Augujl 30. A body of the allied army furpriz’d 
 Dorften, and made M. Vierlet with the lirft batta- 
 lion of his regiment, and feveral piquets, prifoners 
 of war. Next day the light troops took 300 wag- 
 gons, many equipages, and the different patroles 
 of French horfc that were polled along the Lippe. 
 
 Augajl 31. The corps, under the Generals Luck- 
 ner and Freytag, and Colonel Stockhaufen, were 
 
204 Chronological Annals 1761. 
 
 attack’d by the French, and obliged to abandon 
 feveral ports in the defiles of the Hartz mountains. 
 
 September 3. — The vanguard of the Prince of 
 Soubife’s army recover’d Dorrten, made 180 of the 
 Allies prifoners, and took one piece of cannon. 
 
 Sept. 15. The Prullian General Platen deftroy’d 
 fome considerable Ruffian magazines at Coblin and 
 Goftin, attack’d 5000 waggons at a Convent near 
 the latter place, defeated the convoy of 4000 men, 
 kill’d many, and made 2000 prifoners, including 
 Brigadier General Czerapow, 3 Majors, and 20 in- 
 feriour officers. Five haubitzers and 2 pieces of 
 cannon were taken. 
 
 September 19. General Romanzow having at- 
 tack’d and carried a redoubt which cover’d one of 
 the flanks of the Prince of Wurtemberg’s Camp, 
 he made another attempt on the Prince’s intrench- 
 inents, but was repuls’d with the lofs of near 3000 
 men, officers included, and the Prince recover’d 
 the redoubt that was taken the preceeding day. 
 
 September — A body of Ruffians repuls’d the 
 Pruffian Lieutenant General Werner near Treptow 
 in Pomerania, and took the General himfelf pri- 
 foner, whilrt he was endeavouring to rally the re- 
 giment of Wurtemberg which had been put into 
 confufion. 
 
 September 22. General Romanzow failed in an- 
 other attempt upon the Pruffian intrcnchments be- 
 fore Colberg. 
 
 September 24. The Marquis de Conflans made 
 himfelf marter of Embden, where he raifed large 
 
 con- 
 
J761. Of the War. 205 
 
 contributions •, 200 Englifh invalids who compos’d 
 the garrifon, obtain’d an advantageous capitula- 
 tion, and embark’d for Bremen. 
 
 September — The French enter’d Ofnabrug, and 
 levied exorbitant contributions. 
 
 O^ober i. The Auftrians, under the orders of M. 
 de Laudohn, made themfelves mafters of Schweid- 
 nitz by a coup de main. Lieutenant General Zaftrow 
 oovernour of the fortrefs, and 3771 men were made 
 prifoners of war. A large magazine of powder 
 blew up in the attack, which did equal damage to 
 the Prufiians and the Enemy. 181 pieces ot can- 
 non were found in the place. The lofs of the Au- 
 ttrians confifted in 279 kill’d 1007 wounded and 
 140 miffing. Of the Ruffians (who were engaged . 
 in this affault) 51 were kill’d and 45 wounded. The 
 grenadiers of that corps particularly diftinguilh d 
 themfelves. 
 
 October — The ftrong Caftle of Scharsfels in the 
 Hartze mountains furrender’d to the French after a 
 fiege of eight days, who demolilh’d its . fortifica- 
 tions j Meppen capitulated to the Prince of Conde 
 on the 3d, in which 500 of the Allies were made 
 prifoners of war. 
 
 Oaober 7. Part of the army of the Empire took 
 pofleffion of Halle, but quitted it again on the 
 
 tenth. 
 
 Oblober 10. Wolfenbuttel capitulated to Prince 
 Xavier of Saxony, after a five days fiege. 
 
 Oblober ii. Three French frigates mann’d fix 
 
 large boats, in hopes of boarding and taking the 
 c> ' * T .ivelv 
 
2 o 6 Chronological Annals 1761* 
 
 Lively frigate, which lay at anchor in view of the 
 o-arrifon of BelliQe ; but a detachment of 85 men, 
 compofed of Morgan’s light infantry, together 
 with' fome Marines, fet off in four boats, attack’d 
 the enemy with brilknefs, kill’d 15 men and 
 wounded 1 9, and brought five of their boats back 
 with them to Bellifle. 
 
 O£iober 13. Prince Frederic of Brunfwick at- 
 tack’d, and forced, the French, in the intrench- 
 ments which they had thrown up, at the Pafs of 
 Oelpher, for covering the fiege of Brunfwick, Ma- 
 ny of the enemy were kill’d •, and one Major Gene- 
 ral, feveral officers, upwards of 200 private men, 
 and one piece of cannon were taken. In confe- 
 quence of this fuccefs, the' French rais’d the fiege 
 of Brunfwick, and abandon’d Wolfenbuttcl. 
 
 Obleber 20, 21 and 22, The Ruffians made fu- 
 rious attacks both upon Colberg and the Prince of 
 Wirtemburg’s intrenchments, but without any 
 effeft. 
 
 OStober ii. The Ruffians took two Pruffian de- 
 tachments, which ferv’d as a convoy to a tranfport 
 from Stetin laden with provifions for Colberg. Ge- 
 neral de Platen, who march’d to Golnow with a 
 view to protefl and cover that tranfport, was ob- 
 liged to fend it back to Dam, after which he re- 
 tired himfclf to Stargard. The Ruffian light troops 
 having, on the 13th, blown up 85 waggons load- 
 ed with bombs and gunpowder, ajid deltroy’d too 
 more fill’d with provifions and other ftores, they 
 afterwards made themfelves mailers of the town of 
 Golnow, and burnt the fuburbs. 40,000 bombs 
 and balls were found in Golnow. 
 
 Obiebtr 
 
1761. 
 
 Of the WaU 
 
 207 
 
 OHoher The Roflians, detach’d ’ by General 
 Romanzow from Cojberg, made themfelves mailers 
 of Treptow, and obliged General Knobloch with 
 three battalions and a corps of cavalry, amounting 
 to 4000 men, to furrender prifoners of war. The 
 Pruflians alfo loft fix colours and ten cannon. 
 
 OSlob. 25. The Griffin of 28 guns, captain Tay- 
 lor, was loft off the Bermuda illands, and 50 of the 
 crew were drown’d. 
 
 O£loher 29. The Prufiians were diflodged from 
 Stepnitz by the Ruffians j and General Berg fur- 
 priz’d Colonel Combiere at the village of Sanglow 
 near Golnow, whom he made prifoner, together 
 with 3 6 officers and 1 000 men ; fix pieces ot can- 
 non were taken on this occafion. Colonel Combiere 
 commanded the van guard of General Platen’s 
 troops, which, to the number of 6000 men, had 
 unfortunately penetrated as far as Golnow. 
 
 November 2. The Ruffian General Berg attack’d 
 General Platen between Stargard and Pyritz, but 
 was repuls’d with the lofs of 500 men kill’d and 
 wounded. 
 
 November 5. Prince Ferdinand form’d a judi- 
 cious plan for furprizing 1 5 battalions under the 
 Count de Chabot at Efcherffiaufen. The Marquis 
 of Granby reach’d Wickenfen, on the 5th, to block 
 up the defile leading from Efcherlhaufen to Eim- 
 beck, having previoufly forced the Poll of Cap- 
 pelnhagen ; the fame day General Conway and Gr^ 
 neral Scheele join’d at Halle, in the morning : 
 the Count de Chabot perceiv’d he had no other 
 way to efcape but by turning to the right, towards 
 
2 o 8 Chronological Annals 1761. 
 
 Stad-Odendorp ; this road would have been alfo 
 block’d up by General Hardenberg, if he had not 
 been retarded in his march by the overturning of 
 his pontoons in a hollow way •, by this accident the 
 French General was enabled to make his efcape to 
 Eimbeck. 
 
 November 7. Count Broglio attack’d the Mar- 
 quis of Granby and General Conway, juft as they 
 were beginning to encamp at Foorwohle, after a 
 fatiguing night-march through fnow and difficult 
 roads : an advanced body of Chaffeurs under Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel Maxwell, at firft very prudently re- 
 tir’d •, but, on being fupported, they return’d to 
 the charge with vigour and condu6l ; the French 
 were repuls’d with great fpirit, and driven back al- 
 moft to their very camp. 
 
 November 9. The Marquis of Granby was again 
 attack’d by the Enemy, and he again repuls’d them 
 with confiderable lofs. Major Frafer diftinguiffi’d 
 himfelf greatly on this occafion. Marlhal Broglio 
 perceiving that Prince F’erdinand had already gain’d 
 his flank, and was partly in his rear, thought fit to 
 decline a general engagement, and abandon’d Eini- 
 beck in tbe night, and all the adjacent country; 
 
 November — Captain M’Kenzie of Fort-Cuin- 
 berland arm’d two vefTels at Bay Verte, and pro- 
 ceeded with them to Bay Chaleurs, where he broke 
 up a fettlement of plunderers that had done confi- 
 derable mifchief to the Britilh navigation in thofe 
 parts. 240 men, women, and children, were car- 
 ried away prifoners to Bay Vert, together with 8 
 or 10 velTels laden with their effefts 5 ail their other 
 fmall-craft was deftroy’d. 
 
Of the War. 
 
 209 
 
 iy6t. 
 
 November — The Ruffians repeated their at- 
 tack upon the Prince of Wirtemburg’s intrench- 
 ments, with the fame indifferenc fuccel's. 
 
 '1 
 
 November 13. The Hereditary Prince of Brnnf- . 
 wick attack’d near Katlenbourg, and routed, a 
 ® large detachment of cavalry commanded by M. de 
 4 Clofen. 
 
 I- 
 
 ^ November 15. General Romanzow took the fort 
 
 ^ of Munde at the entrance of the river Perfarite, 
 ^!- and cut off all communication by w’ater between 
 
 Stetin and Colberg. 
 
 E 
 
 December i. A Silefian Gentleman, of the Name 
 of Wargotfch, form’d a plan for feizing the King 
 of Pruffia in the fuburbs of Strehlen, by rmploy- 
 i? ing a refolute body of cavalry to fee Hre to thole 
 14 fuburbs, and then to lecure his Majefty’s perfon in 
 gt the confufion, Wargotfeh’s fervant detefted the 
 
 te confpiracy; for having been fent with a letter from 
 
 ft his mafter to a popifh Prieft, by whom it was to be 
 lit: forwarded to an Auftrian Lieutenant Colonel, and 
 
 having remark’d a particular agitation in the deli- 
 ffl very of it, he immediately concluded that the con- 
 tents were dangerous, and therefore carried the let- 
 ter to a Pruffian officer in .Strehlen. Wargotfch 
 idr and the Prieft were arrefted, but afterwards made 
 their efcape, 
 
 II oi December — The fort of Munden, under Col- 
 
 j{i berg, towards the Sea, was taker! by the Ruffians ; 
 it by the lofs of which, the entry of any Ruffian vef- 
 jjj fel with provifions, into Colberg, was rendered un- 
 certain and dangerous. 
 
 De^ 
 
 O 
 
ii. 
 
 210 Chronological Annals 1761. 
 
 The Ruffians made an unfuccefsful 
 attempt to take Colberg by ftorm. 
 
 -December 10. The nine principal Headmen of 
 the Cherokee nation arrived in Charles Town, and 
 in a few days afterwards the treaty between that 
 LL and ie province of South 
 nallv ratified, in all its forms, by the Lieutenant 
 Governour and thofe nine Indians refpedively. 
 
 December 12. The Prince of Wirtemburg was 
 deS by a detachment of General Romanzows 
 
 army. 
 
 Becemher 13. The Ruffians gave a vigorous af- 
 fault to Colberg, and were beat back with confi- 
 derable lofs. 
 
 December 17. Colberg furrender’d to the Ruffians, 
 „h? S InJ wSl= Jey lay before pl« 
 The brave garrifon, confifting of 79 officer 
 2000 private men, were made pnfoners of war. 
 146 pieces of cannon were found in the arfenah 
 40 pair of colours and 4 ftandards were taken, 
 lonel Heyden acquir’d great honour by his J5jtite 
 defence of this fortrefs, during a fiege which lafted 
 
 upwards of five months. General 
 
 cording to the Ruffian account, made 8000 pri- 
 foners in the courfe ot the campaign, exclufive 
 5000 deferters. 
 
 Becemher 19. An article of this date from We- 
 fel, mention’d the deftru6bion of mimenfe maga- 
 zines belonging to the allied army m Weftphal a 
 and Eaft-Frizcland, during the latter part ot th 
 campaign. The Amfterdam Gazette gave the pub^ 
 
 r 
 
Of the War. 
 
 211 
 
 1761. 
 
 lick a more minute and early account of thofe 
 which were ruin’d in Eaft-Frizeland, amounting to 
 upwards of two millions of rations. Notwithftand- 
 ing which, the London gazette firmly and pofitive- 
 ly denied the truth of that relation, and affirm’d 
 that the lofs of their magazines in Weftphalia and 
 Eaft-Frizeland was greatly exaggerated, nothing 
 being more certain that the Allies had little of 
 confequence in thofe parts. 
 
 December 26. The French frigate Hermione, of 
 36 guns, was loft on the bar of Vigo. 
 
 December 27. The Boulogne of 20 guns 140 
 men, M. de St. Romain commander, bound from 
 the Ifle of Bourbon to Port L’Orient, laden with 
 coffee and pepper, and valued at 40,000 pounds, 
 was taken by the Venus Captain Harrifon. 
 
 December 30. The Biddeford of 24 guns Captain 
 Gordon, was loft off the Yarmouth fands. Out of 
 160 men, only the Lieutenant, Mafter, Surgeon, 
 Lieutenant of the Marines, and about 70 private 
 men were favcd. 
 
 Supplies granted by Parliament for the fervice of the 
 year 1761. 
 
 Eighteen millions, eight hundred and fixteen 
 thoufand, one hundred and nineteen pounds, nine- 
 teen (hillings and nine pence three farthings. 
 
 O 2 
 
 A lift 
 
A up of marty confdsrahle pn 
 wary from ihs 
 
 January. 
 
 Le Chevalkr a’ArthelTay 
 of Granville 
 
 TheValeur ofSt. Maloe 
 
 A privateer of St. Maloe 
 
 The Maria Therefa of St. 
 Maloe. 
 
 The Revenge cutter pri- 
 vateer of Dieppe, taken 
 after an engagement of 
 an hour and an half. 
 
 L’Ecureuil of Bayonne 
 
 Le Bien Aime, laden with 
 I'ugar and coffee 
 
 wateersy &c. and arm’d merchantmen, taken hy hh Majeffs pips of » 
 31/ of December 1760 to the 31/ of December 1761. 
 
 guns. 
 
 mea. 
 
 captors. 
 
 8 carriage 
 6 fwiveis 
 
 58 
 
 taken by the Hornet floop. 
 
 4 carriage 
 1 4 fwivels 
 
 28 
 
 — by the Swallow floop. 
 
 6 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 
 39 
 
 — by the Venus Captain Harrilbn. 
 
 1 0 carriage 
 
 75 
 
 — by the Aquilon Captain Ogle. 
 
 6 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 
 
 — by the Hunter arm’d cutter 
 Lieutenant Jarvis. 
 
 14 carriage' 
 
 122 
 
 — by the Minerva Captain Hood. 
 
 20 
 
 85 
 
 — by the Trent Captain Lindfay. 
 
 Chronological Annals 1761. 
 

 guns. 
 
 men 
 
 The Royal Cantabre -of 
 
 4 carriage 
 
 65 
 
 of St. Maloe 
 
 6 fwivels 
 
 The Count de Valence of 
 
 lO carriage 
 
 70 
 
 Boulogne 
 
 
 Le Chevert of Dunkirk 
 
 1 8 fix pounders 
 
 i- 6 o 
 
 The Minerva of Dunkirk 
 The Dutchefs of Gramont 
 
 6 carriage 
 4 fwivels 
 
 42 
 
 of St. Maloe, late his 
 
 12 carriage 
 
 
 Majefty’s floop Hawke. 
 The Society of St. Maloe. 
 Le Compte de Gramont 
 
 6 carriage 
 20 
 
 60 
 
 117 
 
 of Bayonne 
 
 February. 
 
 
 
 A French cutter privateer 
 
 
 
 funk off Beachy Head, 
 and ail the crew drown’d 
 
 10 
 
 
 captors. 
 
 o 
 
 taken by tlie Aquilon. 
 
 — by the Stag Captain Angel. 
 
 — by the Amazon and Solebay. 
 
 •— by the Vengeance Capt. Night- 
 ingale. 
 
 — by the Juno Captain Towry, 
 
 — by the Hornet Capt. Johnftone. 
 
 — by the Aquilon Captain Ogle. 
 
 > 
 
 ( 
 
 
 — by the Grace cutter. 
 
 Of the 
 
guns. 
 
 The Duke of Mazarine 
 privateer 
 
 A cutter privateer of Ca- g 
 lais 
 
 Aprivateer driven OvT fhore 
 between the {even iQands 
 and Brehat, when the lo 
 
 crew quitted her, and {he 
 bulged foon afterwards. 
 
 A privateer * 4 
 
 The St. Tofcph and St. 
 
 Antoine. 
 
 A large veflfel of 400 tons 
 bound from Bourdeaux 18 . 
 
 to St. Domingo 
 
 March. 
 
 The Sultan of Bayonne i o 
 
 The Augufte of St. Maloe 1 2 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 - taken by the Niger Captain Fitz- 
 herbert. 
 
 — by the Arethufa Honourable 
 Captain Vane. 
 
 1 
 
 — by the Wafp floop Captain 
 Yates. 
 
 140 — by the Jerfey. 
 
 — by the Favourite, Captain Pow- 
 nail. . 
 
 — by the Blonde, Captain Ken- 
 nedy. 
 
 73 — by the Swallow (loop. 
 
 67 — by the Vengeance. 
 
 Chronological Annals 1761. 
 
The Chamiilant 
 
 The Hazard 
 
 A fliallop privateer 
 
 The Hard! of Bayonne 
 The'Zephire 
 
 ’The Marflial Broglio of 
 Bi*eft 
 
 Le Lutine. 
 
 The Marquis of Chartres 
 of St. Maloe. 
 
 A privateer of St. Maloe. 
 
 ^ April. 
 
 Le Carnival, 
 
 The Bienhroynon of Di- 
 eppe. 
 
 guns, 
 
 4 carriage 
 2 fwivels 
 6 fwivels 
 2 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 10 carriage 
 12 
 
 8 
 
 «» 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 4 carriage 
 4 fwivels 
 
 4 carriage 
 lo fwivels 
 1 carriage 
 12 fwivels 
 
 men. 
 
 15 
 
 22 
 
 24 
 
 125 
 
 80 
 
 68 
 
 76 
 
 45 
 
 64 
 
 35 
 
 captors. 
 
 taken by the Biddeford, Captain r* 
 Howe. 
 
 — by the Albany Capt. Brograye. 
 
 by the Grace arm’d cotter. Lieu- 
 tenant M’ Bride. 
 
 by the Tweed Captain Pafton, 
 
 — by the Aquilon. 
 
 — by the Unicorn and Tweed. 
 
 — by the Alarm Capt. Rulhworth. 
 
 — by the Niger. 
 
 — by the Vengeance 
 
 — by the .ffiolus Captain Elliot. 
 
 — by the Terpfichore, Sir Thomas w 
 
 Adams, Baronet. en 
 
 Of the War. 
 
The Lion of Bayonne 
 
 The Auguftine 
 A privateer 
 
 I’he Grand Cyprus of 
 Bayonne 
 
 The Fidelle of Bayonne 
 
 The Admiral of Bayonne 
 
 Two French Turkey llrips 
 I'wo large Martinico men 
 outward bound 
 Le Grand Serpent. 
 
 A privateer 
 
 Tlie Pomona Merchant 
 flrip of Bourdeaux. 
 
 guns. 
 
 6 carriage 
 1 2 fwivels 
 8 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 22 carriage 
 
 12 
 
 4 carriage 
 17 fwivels 
 12 carriage 
 1 6 fwivels 
 
 8 carriage 
 8 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 85 taken by the Venus. 
 
 61 — by the Blddeford. 
 
 — by the Actaeon, 
 
 1 1 6 — by the Blonde. 
 
 '4^ — by the Milford, Captain Man, 
 
 65 — by the Milford. 
 
 — by the Sheernefs. 
 
 — by the Firme. 
 
 — by the Blonde Captain Kennedy, 
 
 — by the Belliqueux. 
 
 — by the Danae Captain Martin. 
 
 ON 
 
 *-4 
 
 0 
 
 Chronological Annals 
 
May. 
 
 The Marquis de Bering- 
 hen of Dieppe 
 
 The Quemper 
 
 A privateer 
 
 The Franfois 
 
 A fnow privateer 
 
 The Holy Family bound 
 from Smyrna to Mar- 
 feilles. 
 
 The St, Anthony of Pa- 
 dua from ditto to ditto. 
 7««e. 
 
 The Marihal Duke de Bi- 
 ron of Dunkirk, pierc’d 
 for 20 guns, with ranfo- 
 mers for 4605 pounds. 
 
 guns. 
 
 8 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 8 carriage 
 8 fwivels 
 
 36 carriage 
 
 8 
 
 16 
 
 15 carriage 
 j 2 fwivels 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 60 taken by the Biddeford, 
 
 — by the Arethufa Captain Keeler. 
 
 — reported to have been taken by 
 the Tartar. 
 
 5 1 — by the Jamaica Captain Burdon. 
 
 driven on fliore in an attack upon 
 James Fort in the river Gambia, 
 
 taken by the Pallas. 
 
 — by the Veftal. 
 
 109 — by the Argo Captain King. 
 
 Of the War. 
 
A privateer of Dunkirk. 
 
 A privateer of ditto 
 
 The Ruffian of Bayonne 
 
 A (hip from Martinico to 
 Naples 
 
 The St. Gregory from 
 Martinico laden with lii- 
 gar, coffee, and cotton. 
 A privateer 
 A fmall privateer (loop 
 
 Six privateers and a flout 
 Martinico (hip. 
 
 Jidy. 
 
 La Fleur of Dunkirk 
 
 guns, 
 r carriage 
 (a nine pounder) 
 lo fwivels 
 2 carriage 
 6 carriage 
 1 6 fwivels 
 
 13 carriage 
 
 18 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 30 taken I 
 
 >by an arm’d cutter. 
 
 24 deftroy’d J 
 
 46 taken by the Fowey Capt. Tonyn. 
 
 2y — by the Repulfe Captain Alien. 
 
 ►Hf 
 
 — by the Blonde. 
 
 - — by the Cygnet Captain Napier. 
 
 — by the Favourite. 
 
 reported to have been taken the be- 
 ginning of this month, and carried 
 into Jamaica by the Trent Captain 
 Lindfay. 
 
 29 taken and funk by the Swan. 
 
 Chronological Annals 1761. 
 
The Loop of Dunkirk, 
 with five ranfomers 
 The Triumphant of Cher- 
 bourg 
 
 A rich Domingo Ihip of 
 300 tons 
 
 A ftiip from For t au Prince 
 of 200 tons, with fugar, 
 coffee, and indigo 
 Le Faucheur with one 
 ranfomer 
 
 Augujl.. 
 
 The Due de Noailles 
 A dogger privateer 
 The Aurora of Rochelle 
 
 guns. 
 
 men. 
 
 12 carriage 
 8 fwivcls 
 
 70 
 
 ^ carriage 
 
 18 
 
 6 carriage 
 8 fwivels 
 
 40 
 
 12 carriage 
 
 10 59 
 
 10 75 
 
 captors. 
 
 taken by the Badger Captain Scott. 
 
 — by the Cholmondelcy cutter. 
 
 — by the Burford. 
 
 — by die Thames frigate. 
 
 — by the Richmond Captain El- 
 phinftone. 
 
 — by the Richmond, 
 cut out of Dunkirk Road by the 
 boats of the Maidftone and Me- 
 lampe under the command of Lieu- 
 tenant M’Bride.^ 
 taken by the Aquilon, 
 
 *761. Of the War. 2 * 9 ' 
 
A fmall privateer. 
 
 The Hazard of Dunkirk 
 The Maria Therefa of ditto. 
 September, 
 
 The Colibry of Dunkirk, 
 with three ranfomers 
 The Benjamin of Granville 
 A privateer driven afhore 
 near Dunkirk 
 
 I'he Amarante of St. Maloe 
 The Two Brothers 
 OSiober. 
 
 Twenty two merchant fhips 
 at Monte Chrifti 
 
 A lloop 
 
 The Heureux privateer 
 The Henry of Bayonno 
 A privateer 
 
 guns. 
 
 6 fwivels 
 
 1 6 carriage 
 
 i8 
 
 14 
 
 15 
 
 10 
 
 14 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 taken by the Diligence Hoop. 
 
 15 taken ? by the Fly arm’d cutter 
 deftroy’d i Lieutenant Barkley 
 
 1 10 taken by the Danae. 
 
 — by the Diligence floop. 
 by the Leoftoffe cutter. 
 
 137 —by the Mars. 
 
 — by the Raifonable. 
 
 — by Admiral Holmes’s fquadron, 
 and carried into Jamaica. 
 
 carried into Antigua by an Engiiflx 
 frigate. 
 
 50 taken by the Hornet. 
 
 58 — by the Dorfetfliire. 
 
 — by the Antigua brig. 
 
 220 Chronological Annals 1761. 
 
Nevmber. 
 
 The Due de Noialles 
 
 A privateer cutter of Havre 
 T’Epreveir of Calais 
 
 TheErneftine of Dunkirk 
 
 A floop laden with fugar 
 December. 
 
 L’Aimable Gabrielle of St. 
 Jean de Luz 
 
 A privateer of St. Maloe 
 
 The Pierrler of Bayonne 
 
 The French took 814 
 
 guns. 
 
 men. 
 
 6 carriage 
 16 fwivels 
 
 143 
 
 8 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 
 37 
 
 20 
 
 1 0 carriage 
 
 67 
 
 10 
 
 52 
 
 14 
 
 108 
 
 12 carriage 
 12 fwivels 
 
 75 
 
 6 carriage 
 
 80 
 
 Ihips from the En 
 
 glifli, i 
 
 — by the Granada. 
 
 — by the Liverpool Capt. Knight. 
 
 — by the Richmond. 
 
 — by the Syren, Unicorn, and 
 Martin floop. 
 
 fent into St, John’s in Antigua, by 
 the Virgin. 
 
 f' 
 
 — by the Efcorte. 
 
 — by the Scorpion floop. 
 
 — by the ^olus Captain Hotham. 
 
 o 
 
 Op the War. 221 
 
222 
 
 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 ^ 1762. 
 
 January 5. T?>Lizabeth Emprefs of Ruflla died, 
 r j in the 52d year of her age, and in 
 the 22d of her reign. 
 
 January ii and 12. The French frigate La Ze- 
 nobie, M. de Sage commander, a new^ftiip, car- 
 rying 22 nine pounders, and 210 men, with pro- 
 vifions on board for fix months, was wreck’d on 
 Portland Beach, and only 71 men were faved. 
 
 January 12. The Pruflian Generals Platen and 
 Wunfch, after having taken feveral places, pene- 
 trated within a league of Naumbourg, which the 
 army of the Empire quitted, and retir’d towards 
 Weimar, with the lofs of men and baggage. 
 Prince Henry’s winter quarters were enlarged by 
 this expedition. 
 
 January 1 6. General Monckton landed his troops 
 without moleftation near the Cafe des Navires in the 
 inland of Martinico, between Pointe des Negres 
 and la Cafe Pilote, at the diftance of little more 
 than a league from Fort Royal, the ihips of war 
 under Admiral Rodney, having previoufly filenc’d 
 the batteries that were above the place of landing. 
 The Railbnable of 64 guns was loft, on the 7th, 
 upon a little reef of rocks in St. Anne’s Bay, as 
 five was leading in for one of the enemy’s batte- 
 ries : all the people and ftores were faved. 
 
1762. 
 
 Of the War. 
 
 223 
 
 ^January 2 1 . M. Reid attack’d the advanc’d ports 
 of the PrufEans in Saxony, in which the latter loft 
 near 1000 men in kill’d, wounded, and deferters, 
 together with four pieces of cannon. 
 
 ' January 25. The Chevalier de Vofleil, with a 
 detachment of 65 men, obliged 300 Pruflians to 
 lay down their arms. He was afterwards made a 
 Lieutenant Colonel for his bravery and conduit. 
 
 January 30. Mr. William Hay firft Lieutenant 
 and Commander (in the abfence of Captain Martin) 
 of the Danae of 36 guns, engaged a large French 
 fhip of force, yard arm and yard arm, for an hour 
 and an half ; the latter got off in a flutter’d condi- 
 tion with the lofs of numbers kill’d and wounded. 
 Seventy men were kill’d and wounded on board of 
 the Danae. 
 
 February 3. An Auftrian detachment attack’d 
 L’Abadies independent Battalion at Grofs Parda 
 near Grimm, kill’d the greateft part of it, and 
 took many prifoners. 
 
 February 4. The citadel of Fort-Royal capitu- 
 lated to General Monckton and Admiral Rodney. 
 — Previoufly to this important event. General 
 Monckton order’d the Morne Tartenfon to be at- 
 tack’d on the 24th of January at day-break. The 
 grenadiers under Brigadier Grant, fupported by 
 Lord Rollo’s brigade, charg’d the Enemy’s ad- 
 vanc’d ports. Bi igadier Rufane, with his brigade 
 and the Marines, attack’d the redoubts on the 
 right, along the coafts -, 1000 feamen in the flat- 
 bottom’d boats, row’d up, as he advanc’d. The 
 light infantry under Lieutenant Colonel Scott, fup- 
 ported by brigadier Walfli’s brigade, poflfefs’d 
 
 them- 
 

 
 Chronological Annals 176^4 
 
 themlelves of a plantation on the left, and got 
 round the French. —The attack was carried on 
 with fuch vigour and impetuofity, that the troops 
 carried the Ibong poll of Morne Tartenfon by nine 
 o’ clock, the Enemy retir’d in the greateft confu-* 
 fion to Fort Royal and Morne Gamier ; fome of 
 the grenadiers follow’d them to the bridge of the 
 Town, and brought off a few prifoners. The Ge- 
 neral, in purluit of his plan, order’d Walfh’s bri- 
 gade, and the divifion of grenadiers under Grant, 
 to take a plantation more to the left ; Scott’s light- 
 infantry made themfelves matters of an advanta- 
 geous pott oppofite to Morne Gamier •, Brigadier 
 Haviland’s corps fupported them on their right •, 
 Wallli’s brigade, and the grenadiers, communi- 
 cated with the latter ; and the Marines cover’d the 
 road between the two plantations. — This was the 
 fituation of things, when the General found it ab- 
 folutely neceflary to attack the Morne Gamier, 
 which extremely incommoded him in his prepara- 
 tions for the fiege of the citadel Morne Gamier 
 ftands higher than Morne Tartenfon, from which 
 it is feparated only by a deep ravine cover’d with a 
 thick brufli, and by a rivulet in the bottom : art 
 and nature join’d to render it almott impregnable. 
 The Enemy, on the 27th, prevented General 
 Monckton in his attempt, and march’d at four in 
 the afternoon, under the protedion of their batte- 
 ries, a.o-aintt the light-infantry and Haviland’s bri- 
 gade •, °thefe repuls’d the French immediately, 
 pafs’d the ravine at their heels, and (being rein- 
 forc’d by Walfh’s brigade and Grant’s grenadiers) 
 feiz’d the French batteries, and took pott. The 
 Enemy’s regulars retir’d into the town and citadel. 
 The militia difpers’d themlelves in the country. The 
 Britifli troops avail’d themfelves of this terror and 
 confufion, and became entire matters of Morne 
 
 Gar- 
 
1762. Of the War. 225 
 
 Gamier by nine o’ clock at night. — The citadel 
 being now commanded, the town in the pofleffion 
 of the troops ; and Morne Capuchin, at the fmall 
 diftance of 400 yards from the citadel, being after- 
 wards taken •, the garrifon to the number of 800 
 men, beat the chamade on the 3d of February, 
 and furrender’d the next day. The regulars were 
 put on board the fleet, to be fent to France ; the 
 other forces were made prifoners of war till the fi- 
 nal reduction of the ifland. Thefe feveral attacks 
 coft the French 1000 men, in kill’d, wounded, and 
 prifoners. The lofs of the Britifli troops amounted 
 to no more than 96 kill’d including feven oflicers, 
 389 wounded including thirty two officers, and 
 eleven private men miffing. Four, rank and file, 
 died afterwards of their wounds. The gallant fai- 
 lors made no difficulty in carrying mortars and the 
 heavieft (hip’s cannon up fteep mountains, and 
 even acrofs the French line of fire. — On the yth 
 of February, Pidgeon ifland, one of the defences 
 of the harbour, furrender’d ; and nine quarters of 
 the ifland capitulated, on terms advantageous to the 
 inhabitants, and honourable to the conquerors. 
 Fourteen flout privateers were taken in Fort-Royal 
 Bay ; and many more, in the different ports of the 
 ifland, were to be delivered up, agreably to the ca- 
 pitulation. The artillery and flores, taken in this 
 conquefl, were confidcrable. — The grenadiers in 
 three divifions, headed by the Lieutenant Colonels 
 Fletcher, Maffey, and Vaughan, together with the 
 light-infantry and rangers under the command of 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Scott, Major Leland, and Cap- 
 tain Kennedy, had the greatefl fliare in the courfe 
 of this fuccefs. Indeed all the troops that compos’d 
 this brave army, exerted the fame fpirit, which the 
 feveral corps of it had before fo providentially dif- 
 play’d, in the redudion of Louifburg, Crown- 
 
 P Point, 
 
226 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 Point, Quebec, Montreal, Guadaloupe, and Bel- 
 liHe. ’ 
 
 February 4. The Adason Captain Ourry, under 
 the Orders of Admiral Rodney, fell in with off 
 Tabago, and took, a large Spanifh ftore fliip of 
 800 tons burthen, laden with cannon, powder, 
 fmall arms, and ordnance ftores, for la Guayra. 
 
 ' February 9. Prince Lobkowitz diflodg’d the 
 Pruflians from Pegau, who loft, on that occafion, 
 about 400 men. The Auftrians had only 20 men 
 kill’d, 26 wounded, and 15 miffing. 
 
 February ii. The Boutin, a trench Eaft-India 
 man of 460 tons, 1 89 men, and 20 guns, was taken 
 by the Blonde Captain Kennedy. She came from 
 the Mauritius, was laden with coffee and fome pep- 
 per, and afterwards fold for upwards of 23,000 
 pounds. 
 
 February 1 6. General Monckton took poffeffion 
 of Fort St. Pierre and the reft of the IQand of Mar- 
 tinico, in virtue of a capitulation form’d and fign’d 
 on the 13th and 14. — 'I'hc defedlion of the in- 
 habitants, by compelling the furrender of the fort, 
 faved the town from deftrudfion. 320 grenadiers 
 march’d out with the honours of war, to be em- 
 bark’d immediately for France : M. le Vaffor de la 
 Touche Governor General, Monfieur Rouille 
 Lieutenant Governor, and the ftaff, were to follow 
 them foon after. In the forts. Royal and St. Pi- 
 erre, the redoubts, and the batteries, there were 
 found 436 pieces of ferviceable cannon of different 
 fizes, and' 1463 ferviceable barrels of powder, in- 
 cluding fill’d cartridges for cannon, together with 
 a proportionable quantity of all other ftores, am- 
 munition, 
 
Of the War. 
 
 1762. 
 
 227 
 
 munition, and implements of war. Few places, fo 
 ttrong and important as Martinico, have been en- 
 tirely fubdued with fuch an inconfiderable lofs on 
 the part of the vidlors. Soon after this conqueft, 
 the ifland of Santa Lucia furrender’d to Captain 
 Hervey at difcretion. 
 
 February 19. The Dromedaire, a French Eaft 
 Indiaman, bound from Port L’Orient to the Ifle of 
 France, was wreck’d on St. Vincent, one ot the 
 Cape de Verd Iflands. Out of 150 men, 86 only 
 were faved, among whom there were three officers. 
 
 February 20. The Auftrians and Imperialifts dif- 
 lodg’d the Pruffians from the poll of Lomatfeh, 
 and burnt a magazine. 
 
 March 3. A Spaniffi (hip, taken by the Rich- 
 mond, Captain Elphinftone, in her paflage to the 
 Weft-Indies, was brought into Madeira. This fhip 
 came from the Havannah, and had, on board, 100 
 tons of Campeachy logwood, 2000 raw hides, and 
 about 70,000 dollars, bclides indigo, coffee, and 
 bale goods. She was call’d II Caftill de la Marr, 
 and her Captain offered to ranfom her for 60,000 
 pounds fterling. 
 
 March 4 and 5. The Ifland of Grenada, toge- 
 ther with the Grenadillas and their dependencies, 
 furrender’d to.Brigadier General Walffi and Com- 
 modore Swanton, upon the terms granted to Mar- 
 tinico. This conqueft was made without the lofs 
 of a man •, though the fort, and the intrench’d 
 hills above it, might have been more obftinately 
 defended. Brigadier Walffi afterwards took pof- 
 feffion of the ifland of St. Vincent. 
 
 P 2 
 
 March 
 
228 
 
 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 March 11. The St. Prieft, a French Eaft-India 
 man of 700 tons burthen, carrying 230 men, paf- 
 ieneers included, bound from the Ilk of Bourbon 
 to Port L’Orient, was taken by the Valiant Com- 
 modore Keppel, (one of Sir George Pococke s fqua- 
 dron) and brought into Plymouth, by the Burford, 
 Captain Gambier. Her cargo confiftcd principally 
 of coffee and pepper. 
 
 March 13 and 14. A Spanilh frigate, call’d la 
 Ventura, of 26 guns (12 pounders) on one deck, 
 and 300 men, commanded by Captain Don Joleph 
 de las Cafas, attacked, and was taken by, the Fowey 
 of 24 guns (nine pounders) having on board only 
 1 34 men, two of whom were fick and incapable of 
 fervice, Jofeph Mead Efquire commander. The 
 frigate was on her return to the Havannah, from 
 whence Ihe had been Ibnt with money for the pay- 
 ment of the Catholick King’s troops at Porto Rico 
 and St. Domingo. The engagement began at the 
 diftance of fix or feven leagues from Cape Tibe- 
 rone, and lafted for about an hour and an half, 
 when both Ihips Hieer’d off to repair the damages 
 they had received i at ten o’ clock at night. Cap- 
 tain Mead bore down a fecond time upon the Ven- 
 tura, and exchang’d a few broadfides with her; 
 but the darknefs preventing him from forming a 
 fatisfaftory judgment of her motions and difiance, 
 he made fail to windward, and kept his men at 
 quarters to obferve her, as clofely as poflible, during 
 the night. On the dawn of the next morning, the 
 engagement was renewed for the third time, when 
 the Fowey went as near to the Ventura as (he could 
 do, without falling on board of her : the dilpute 
 was long, and well maintain’d ; at laft, about halt 
 an hour oaft eight, the Spanifli frigate ftruck her 
 
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1762. Of the War. 229 
 
 colours ; flie was reduced almoft to a wreck, and 
 had receiv’d feveral fliot between wind and water, 
 one of which was afterwards difcover’d to have pe- 
 netrated into her magazine. The Fowey was fo 
 much damag’d in her mails and rigging, that fhe 
 was obliged to undergo a thorough repair at Ja- 
 maica. When the Ventura ftruck, neither fliip had 
 a boat that would fwim, or tackles left to hoift one 
 out with. By nailing a tarpaulin over the fhot- 
 holes of a fmall boat. Captain Mead contriv’d to 
 get a Midfliipman and fix men on board the prize, 
 and to receive the Captain of the fhip, the Captain 
 of the foldiers, and fix or leven more priloners on 
 board the Fowey. The Midfliipman employ’d good 
 ufage, and fome finefle, to induce the Spaniards 
 to co-operate with him in bringing the Ventura 
 into Port-Royal harbour. The Ventura loll about 
 40 or 50 men in this aclion. The Fowey had 10 
 killed and 24 wounded ; two of the latter, died foon 
 afterwards of their wounds. The Lieutenant, two 
 Mates, and 24 private failors, were in the har- 
 bour. The Matter got drunk, and difappointed 
 the Captain of his aflittance, and the gunner was 
 wounded in the firft part of the engagement. Un- 
 der all thefe difadvantages, the capture ot fo ftrong 
 a frigate, may be juttly reckon’d among the gal- 
 lant adlions of the war. Mr. Mead, when he was 
 an inferiour Officer, ierv’d under Mr. Moftyn, and 
 was the inventor of a machine for cleaning a fliip’s 
 bottom at lea, known to the failors by the name 
 of Mead’s Hog. While he commanded the Crown 
 ttore ffiip, he gave repeated proofs ol his diligence 
 and conduft. He is the Atithor of a little pam- 
 phlet, intituled “ An efay cn currents at fea for 
 which he receiv’d the thanks of the Lords of the 
 
 Admiralty. , , , 
 
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230 
 
 Chronological Annals 17^2# 
 
 March 1 7. The fquadron which failed from Breft 
 on the 24th of January, under the orders of the 
 Count de Blenac, arriv’d at Cape Franfois in Hif- 
 paniola. It was compos’d ot one (hip of 80 guns, 
 three of 74, three of 64, three of 32, and one of 
 1 6-, and had on board, the regiments of Foix, 
 Quercy, and BouHonois, amounting to 2000 men, 
 commanded by the Vifeount de Bellunce, the Che- 
 valier de St. Croix, and the Count de la Tour Au- 
 vergne. The Dragon of 64 guns, belonging to 
 this fquadron, was loft in attempting to enter the 
 harbour, but the men, artillery, and (lores, were 
 faved. 
 
 j^pril 3 and 4. The Hu(Tar frigate attack d four 
 (hips, lying under a fort in Tiberone Bay •, one of 
 them of 16 guns was burnt, another of 14 funk, 
 the third of 1 6, and the 4th of twelve, laden with 
 flour and indigo, were cut out, and carried into 
 Jamaica. The Huffar had one man kill’d and 12 
 wounded. The French, 17 kill’d and 35 wounded. 
 The crews of the Enemy’s (hips, got on (here in 
 their boats, during the engagement. 
 
 Jpril 6 . General Luckner at the head of 1600 
 horfe, came up with the Marquis de Lortange 
 who was retreating to Gottingen with 1 800 horfe 
 and 2000 foot, and immediately fell upon the 
 rear of this corps, kill’d 30? took 80 prifoners, 
 and brought of 100 horfes. About the fame time, 
 a French Officer and 50 Hufiars, were taken by 
 Major Wintzingerode, in the Country of Eichsfeld. 
 
 Jpril 19. The Caftle of Arenlberg, defended by 
 M. Muret, furrender’d at diferetion to the Here- 
 ditary Prince of Brunfwick. 231 men, exclufive of 
 ^ ‘ 9 Ofii- 
 
Of the War. 
 
 1762. 
 
 231 
 
 9 Officers, were made prifoners, and 26 pieces of 
 cannon taken. 
 
 May — The Huflar frigate Captain Carket be- 
 ing on a cruize off Hilpaniola, ftruck upon the 
 ffiore, and was loft ; three men were drowned •, 
 the Captain and the reft of the crew were taken 
 prifoners. 
 
 May 5. A treaty of peace was fign’d at Peteri- 
 bourg, by the Baron de Goltze in the name of the 
 King of Pruffia, and by the Count de Woronzof 
 Great-Chancellor, in the name of the Emperor of 
 Ruflia. 
 
 May 7. The Achilles, Captain Teague, with a 
 cargo valued at 60 or 70,000 pounds, was burnt, 
 by accident, off Carthagena. 
 
 May 9. By accounts receiv’d from Duffeldorp of 
 this date, it appear’d that the Hereditary Prince of 
 Brunfwick had difpers’d the corps of M. Conflans 
 which was at Elberfeld, and had taken hoftages to 
 fecure the payment of thofe contributions, which 
 he had demanded of the Duchy of Berg. 
 
 May 9. A powder magazine having blown up 
 at Miranda de Douro, a city of Portugal in the pro- 
 vince of Tralos Montes, whilft the Marquis de 
 Sarria, commander of the Spaniffi forces, was pre- 
 paring to befiege it •, the Portugueze Governor de- 
 termin’d to capitulate. Upwards of 800 men, were 
 either deftroy’d by the explofion, or obliged to fur- 
 render prifoners of war. 
 
 May 12, 13, 14. Prince Henry of Pruffia fur- 
 priz’d the left wing of the Auftrians near Debt In in 
 ^ Saxony, 
 
232 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 Saxony, and took General Zetwitz, 43 officers, 
 and 1536 men prifoners, together with three pieces 
 of cannon. He afterwards made himfelf mafter of 
 Freyberg, where he found a confiderable maga- 
 zine. The Auftrian General Maquire retir’d from 
 Freyberg to Dippoldfwalda. The account, receiv’d 
 in England, of fome fubfequent fuccefles, was ne- 
 ver confirm’d. 
 
 May 21. The A6tive frigate Captain Sawyer, 
 and the Favourite floop Captain Pownal, took off 
 Cape St. Vincent, and carried into Gibraltar, the 
 Hermione, a Spanilh regifter fhip of 26 or 28 guns, 
 bound from Lima to Cadiz. On board this Ihip 
 there were 2,600,000 hard dollars, regiftred for 
 the Court of Madrid. Her whole cargo was of an 
 immenfe value. 
 
 May 2 1 . General de Luzinfky poflefs’d himfelf 
 of Chemnitz, after having defeated the Pruffian 
 Major General de Bandemer, and taken one Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel, 14 Officers, and about five or fix 
 hundred private men prifoners. The Auftrians ob- 
 tain’d other confiderable advantages, on that day 
 and the 24th, near Wilfdruf. 
 
 May 22. A treaty of peace was fign’d at Ham- 
 burgh, berween the Kings of Sweden and Pruffia, 
 by their refpedtive Plenipotentiaries. 
 
 May 23. Portugal declared war againft Spain and 
 France ; and foon afterwards Spain declared war a- 
 gainft Portugal. 
 
 May 25. La Lagera, one of the King of Spain’s 
 galleys was driven on Ihore by the Warfpight, af- 
 terwards 
 
1762. Of the War. 233 
 
 terwards brought off by the fliip’s boats, and car- 
 ried into Gibraltar, 
 
 May 26. Lieutenant Colonel de Belgrady with 
 300 men, under the orders of Colonel Torreck, 
 fell upon three Pruflian fquadrons and 200 foot, 
 by furprize, near Frey berg ; kill’d many, made 
 near 80 prifoners, difpers’d the reft, and took all 
 their Baggage. 
 
 May 29. M. de Magyary attack’d a Pruffian poft 
 at Schluben, cut in pieces 21 men, made 69 pri- 
 foners, officers included, moft of them belonging 
 to the regiment of Dingelftcdt, and took 145 
 horfes. 
 
 'May 31. Major General M. de Kleefeld, under 
 the orders of General de Luzinlki, attack’d Colo- 
 nel Dingelftedt, near Gerinfwalde, and oblig’d him 
 to retreat to the poft of Waldheim, with the loft 
 of 1 89 men made prifoners, including five officers. 
 The Auftrians had only 6 kill’d, and 40 wounded. 
 
 yune 2. The Pruffian advanc’d pofts in Saxony, 
 were attack’d by Marlhal Serbelloni and General 
 Reid. According to letters from Prince Henry’s 
 army, the Pruffians repulfed the enemy, with the 
 fmall loft of 200 men •, but the Auftrian account 
 feem’d to be the moft authentic, which faid, that 
 the loft of the Pruffians confifted in 3 Majors, 26 
 officers, and upwards of 450 private men made 
 prifoners, near 500 deferters, and two pieces of 
 cannon taken. 
 
 June — The garrifon of Tefchen in upper Sile- 
 fia, confifting of 200 men, furrcnder’d to the Prul- 
 fian General Werner. 
 
 yune 
 
234 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 June 10 and ii. Colonel de Torreck made 60 
 Prulfian HulTars prifoncrs, near Mitweyda. 
 
 June 20. The Brilliant privateer, Captain Crich- 
 ton, together with the York privateer of Briftol, a 
 (loop of 10 three pounders, filenc’d a fort upon 
 Cape Finiiferre, mounting two 18 pounders and 
 eight 9 pounders, ftruck the Spanilh, and hoiked 
 Englifli colours, funk two veflels in the harbour, 
 and brought away four others laden with wine for 
 the Spanifh fleet at Ferrol. The privateers had 2 
 men kill’d and 12 wounded. 
 
 June 20. France declar’d War againfl: Portugal. 
 
 June 24. Prince Ferdinand furprifed and defeat- 
 ed the French army commanded by the Marflials 
 D’Etrees and Soubife, in their camp at Graeben- 
 ftein. General Luckner with fix battalions of gre- 
 nadiers, four fquadrons of dragoons, and his own 
 regiment of Huflars, marched from Hollenftadt 
 near the Leine to Marie'ndorf, formed between the 
 laft place and Udenhaufen, and attacked the Mar- 
 quis de Cartries in the rear, who was ported at 
 Carlfdorf to cover the right wing of the French : 
 at the fame time General Sporcken, with twelve 
 Hanoverian battalions and a body of cavalry, 
 charged this corps of the enemy in flank 5 having 
 marched from Sielem, over the Dymel, and form- 
 ed between Hombrexen and Udenhaufen. The 
 Marquis de Caftries retired with fmall lofs ; and the 
 two Hanoverian Generals continued their march, 
 in order to take the camp at Graebenftein both in 
 flank and rear : Lord Granby with the rcferve un- 
 der his command, crofiTed the Dym.el at Warbourg, 
 and pairing by Zieremberg and Zieberfhaufen, pof- 
 
1762. Of the War. 235 
 
 fefled himfelf of an eminence oppofite to Furften- 
 wald, and was prepared to fall upon the enemy s 
 left wing: Prince Ferdinand palfed the Dymel, 
 marched through the Langenberg, and came upon 
 the centre of the French which occupied ari advan- 
 tageous eminence. In this critical fnuation, the 
 enemy ftruclc their tents and retreated. M. de 
 Stainville preferved their whole army by throwing 
 himfelf into the woods of Wilhelmftahl, and facri- 
 ficino’ the flower of his infantry to covei the re- 
 treat? The grenadiers of France, the royal grena- 
 niers, and the regiment ot Aquitane, fuffered fe- 
 verely in this adion. M. Reidefel intirely routed 
 the regiment of Fitz- James, horfe. 
 troops conllfted of the grenadier guards, the nru, 
 fecond, and third battalions of guards, WelA’s and 
 Maxwell’s grenadiers, Hodgfon’s and Barrington s 
 remments, Keith’s and Campbell’s Highlanders, 
 Fr'afer’s Chaffeurs, the blues, and Elliot’s horfe. 
 The firft battalion of grenadiers belonging to Co- 
 lonel Beckwith’s brigade diftinguifh’d itfelf ex- 
 tremely. Lord Granby behaved with his ufual in- 
 trepidity, and had a great lhare in the vidory. The 
 lofs of the Allies amounted to 108 killed, 27* 
 wounded, and 318 mifllng •, in all, 697 ; of whom 
 437 were Britifh. Two pieces of cannon and three 
 ammunition waggons were taken by the Enemy. 
 Some ftandards and colours fell into the hands of 
 the Allies. Lieutenant Colonel Townfhend of 
 the firft regiment of Foot Guards, was the only 
 Officer of diftindion who fell in this engagement. 
 The French retreated under the cannon of Caftel \ 
 and a great part of their army afterwards pafled 
 haftily over the Fulda. They owned the lofs of 
 near 900 men killed and wounded •, and it appear- 
 ed, by an account in the London Gazette, that 
 
 the number of their prifoners amounted to 2732, 
 
 anions 
 
236 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 among whom there were 5 Colonels of the grena- 
 diers of France, the Vifcount de Broglie, and 156 
 other Officers. The Chevalier de Narbonne Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel in the Royal grenadiers, was killed. 
 The Due de Picquigny and the Marquifles of 
 Peyne and la Roche Lambert were wounded. The 
 Chevalier de Muy and many general officers loft 
 their baggage. The corps de referve under Prince 
 Xavier of Saxony, which was encamped near Dranf- 
 feld in the territory of Hanover, retired over the 
 Werra and joined the French main army, with the 
 lofs of its hofpital, baggage, medicines, and the 
 efcorte that condufted them. After the adion. 
 Prince Ferdinand occupied Fritzlar, Feltzberg, 
 Lohr, and Gudenfberg. 
 
 June 25. The Hereditary Prince of Brunrwick 
 at the head of 400 horfe, attacked the French troop 
 of Conflans at Recklinghaufen, but was repulfed 
 with the lofs of 20 men killed and 200 taken pri- 
 foners. 
 
 June — Major General Grant, Commandant of 
 Neifle in Silefia, defeated an Auftrian corps near 
 Otmachau ; and made General Dralkowitz and fe- 
 veral officers, together with 400 men, prifoners of 
 war. , 
 
 June 27. The Robufte of 74 guns, L’Eveille of 
 64, La Garonne of 44, and the Licorne of 30, to- 
 gether with a bomb ketch, landed a body of troops 
 under the Count de Hanfonville in the bay of Bulls 
 in Newfoundland ; and after pofleffing themfelves 
 of the fmall fettlcment in that bay, they march'd 
 directly for St. John’s Fort, which furrendered on 
 the 27th •, the garrifon and inhabitants capitulating 
 to be prifoners during the war, unlefs fooner ex- 
 changed, 
 
1762. Of the War. 237 
 
 changed, and to be fecure in their perfons and pro- 
 perties. Every thing in the Northern Harbors of 
 fervice to the filhery was deftroyed. Thefe fhips 
 commanded by M. de Ternay, fell in, on the ele- 
 venth of May, with the Eaft India, Weft India, 
 and North American fleets, under convoy of the 
 Supcrbe of 74 guns, the Gofport of 44, and the 
 Danac of 38 ; but the French, notwithftanding the 
 fuperiority of their force, declined an engagement; 
 in order to referve their full ftrength for the expe- 
 dition againft Newfoundland. 
 
 July I. The brigades of infantry and cavalry un- 
 der M. de Rochambeau near Hombourg, were at- 
 tacked and defeated by the brigade of the Britilh 
 grenadiers, Elliot’s horfe, the Blues, and four Ha- 
 noverian fquadrons, all commanded by Lord 
 Granby. Elliot’s regiment made the firft charge, 
 and was in great danger ; till Colonel Harvey at 
 the head of the Blues palTcd the village of Hom- 
 bourg on full gallop, overthrew every thing in his 
 way, and came fealonably to its relcue. Xhele two 
 gallant regiments m.aintained an unequal combat 
 till the arrival of the infantry, when the Enemy re- 
 treated in the utmoft hurry. The lofs of the Al- 
 lies in killed, wounded and taken, fell fhortof 100 
 men ; that of the French was confiderable ; the 
 number of prifoners alone amounting to upwards of 
 250. Lord Frederic Cavendifh’s corps came up 
 during the retreat •, and the Huflars of Baver and 
 Reidcfel pufti’d on to Rothenbourg, where they 
 deftroyed a confiderable magazine. The Colonels 
 Harvey and Erfldne, and the Majors Forbes and 
 Ainfley, diftinguifti’d themfelves greatly in this en- 
 gagement. 
 
 July 
 
238 
 
 Chronological Annals 
 
 1762. 
 
 July 2. Lieutenant Colonel Riedefel burnt 
 1 CO 000 rations of hay, 40,000 rations of oats, 
 and’ carried off 70 fat oxen belonging to the 
 French. 
 
 July The army under the Prince of Conde, 
 made Major Scheiter, two officers, and upwards of 
 120 men, prifoners of war; and afterwards took 
 the little village of Rhene where they found fomc 
 fmall magazines. 
 
 jyly — Captain Bonell of the Harriot packet- 
 boat was attacked in his paflage from New York to 
 Falmouth, by a French privateer of a much fupe- 
 rior force in guns and men, which he repulfed two 
 different times, and at laft got clear off. The poft- 
 office acknowledged the Captain’s bravery by pro- 
 motino- him to the command of a Lifbon packet, 
 and by making him a prelent of 100 guineas which 
 he generoafly diftributed among the crew. 
 
 July 6. General Neuwiedt, or the Count dc 
 Wied, made three unfuccefsful attacks upon the 
 Auftrian General Brentano, who guarded the de- 
 files of Adelfbach with 8000 men. The cannonade 
 continued from three in the morning till after eight. 
 His Pruffian Majefty was prefent, and much ex- 
 pofed during the whole attack : he loft upwards of 
 1000 men in killed, wounded, and prifoners. The 
 Baron de Tillier, Mr. de Riefe, and Mr. de Fa- 
 bris, diftinguiffied themfelves on the part of the 
 Auftrians. 
 
 July 6 and 7. According to accounts from the 
 French army, M. de Viomenil under the orders of 
 the- Prince of Conde ruined, without the lofs of a 
 
 man, 
 
Of the War. 
 
 239 
 
 J762. 
 
 man, many magazines of the allied army upon the 
 lower Embs and the Haze, to the amount of 76 
 loaded waggons, 62,800 facks of grain, 46,880 
 facks of oats, and 400,000 rations of hay. I'he to- 
 tal lofs was computed ar^four millions of livres. A 
 very fmall party of the French deftroy’d, foon af- 
 terwards, one of the largeft magazines on the 
 Embs, confining of near two millions of rations of 
 forage. 
 
 July 7. The Count de Wied penetrated to 
 WeilTe in Bohemia, and made 300 Auftrians pri- 
 foners. 
 
 July jj. The corps under General de Brentano 
 on their march to cover Braunau, engaged a' fu- 
 periour number of Prufllans near Ditterlbach ; kill- 
 ed many men, and took feveral prifoners, with lit- 
 tle lofs on their fide. 
 
 July — The Count de Vaux attacked and de- 
 feated a large party of M. de Luckner’s corps near 
 Uflar-, made one Lieutenant Colonel, one Cap- 
 tain, and 8 1 private men prifoners, and took many 
 horfes. 
 
 July — The French Partizan Monet wdth his 
 whole corps was taken by General de Luckner, at 
 Schaffhoff, at the diftance of 200 paces from Caf- 
 fel. 
 
 July 9. The Emprefs of Ruflia was declared 
 reigning Sovereign and Autocratrix of that exten- 
 five Empire, in the room ot her hufband Peter the 
 third. 
 
240 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 July 10. The Marquis de Chamborant deftroyed 
 part of the Britifh bakery and provifion waggons 
 near Warbourg •, rendered 20 horfes unfit for fer- 
 vice, took 210, and made the Englifh Commiflary, 
 together with 83 other perfons, prifoner of war.. 
 
 July 10 and ii. The Pruflian irregulars fet fire 
 to, and pillaged, the towns of Jaromirz and Ko- 
 nigfgratz in Bohemia. A large magazine, and fome 
 fmall ones, were burnt or deftroyed at the latter 
 place. 
 
 July II. The Caftle of Waldeck, eleven leagues 
 from Caffel, fui rendered to General Conway, and 
 tlie garrifon of 160 men capitulated on the terms 
 of not ferving againft Great-Britain or her Allies for 
 one year. 
 
 July 12 and 13. Five hundred marines of Com- 
 modore Young’s fquadron made a defeent upon the 
 banks of the river Orne in lower Normandy, with 
 a defign to deftroy 13 veflels guarded by two bat- 
 teries at the mouth of that river : they fucceeded 
 in nailing up the cannon of the batteries, but were 
 obliged to reimbark without making any attempt 
 upon the velTels. 
 
 July 16 and 17. M. de Valliere took 400 horfes 
 from the Allied army, and entirely defeated one of 
 their detachments near Ulfen. 
 
 July 18. The Pruflian General Kleift attacked 
 General Plunket near Einfiedel, took 500 pri- 
 foners, and obliged him to retire to Auffig. 
 
1762. 
 
 Of THE War. 
 
 241 
 
 July 21. Five Tranfports, being Part of the fe- 
 cond divifion from New York for the Havannah, 
 having on board 350 regulars of Anftruther’s re- 
 giment and 1 50 provincials, were taken near the 
 paflage between Maya Guanna and the North 
 Caicos, by two French fliips of the line, three fri- 
 gates and fix fail of brigantines and floops. 
 
 21. The King of PrufTia attacked and made 
 himfelf mailer of the fortified heights and Villages 
 where the right of Marfhal Daun’s army was polled 
 under M. de Brentano. The Auflrians loll a bat- 
 tery of 14 cannons at Ditmanfdorf, and near 1000 
 men were made prifoncrs in the feveral attacks, 
 1000 dd'erters returned to the Pruflian Colours. 
 The King of Pruflia’s lofs was comparatively in- 
 confiderable. The Auflrians ellimated their own 
 at near 1400 men and 13 pieces of cannon of dif- 
 ferent bores. Schweidnitz was left to be defended 
 by its proper force. The Ruflians were not in this 
 aftion, but remained quiet in their camp. 
 
 yufy 21. General Seidlitz came up with the ar- 
 my of the Empire near Averbach, obliged one 
 part to retire to Plaven and the other to Ey ben- 
 flock, made upwards of 300 men prifoners, and 
 took a quantity of baggage. . 
 
 yu/y 23. A body of Hanoverian and Heflian 
 Troops under the command of the Generals Zaf- 
 trow and Gilfen, defeated part of the right wing 
 of the French army intrenched at Lutterberg and 
 commanded by the Count de Luface. The Allies 
 marched through the Fulda up to their wafts, clam- 
 bered up the mountain, took four palifaded re- 
 doubts, and drove the Saxons from ail their in- 
 
 Q_ trenchfnents. 
 
242 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 trenchments. In the mean time Major General 
 Walthaufen gained the rear of their right flank,: 
 and took or deftroyed a whole regiment of Saxon 
 horfe The Enemy had many men killed in this 
 <.allant attack, and iioo were made pnfoners; a- 
 mons the latter was the Prince of Ifenbourg. 
 
 , . pieces of cannon and two ftandards were taken 
 Prince Frederic of Brunfwic entered and demolifced 
 theftrong lines on the heights of Kratzberg, which 
 were abandoned by the French upon the defeat ot 
 the Count de Luface. The enemy in their account 
 of this affair deminifhed their own number and 
 lofs, and almoft claimed the vidory.. They de- 
 clared pofitively that they had taken, on their part, 
 near 500 prifoners. The intrepidity and fpirit of 
 the Allies cannot be difputed on this occafion •, but 
 their fuccefs was not attended, at that time, with 
 any very advantageous confequences. 
 
 •July 23. The Prince of Bevern and General 
 Werner abandoned Troppau and Gratz. 
 
 July 23. The Pallas Captain Clements, attacked 
 two Spanifh Chebecks at the entrance of the Bay 
 of Cadiz, one of which was of 34 guns and the 
 other of 24, and obliged them both to fhelter 
 themfelves under the cannon of their own forts 
 with confiderable lofs. 
 
 7a/v23. The auxiliary corps of Ruffians com- 
 manded by General de Czernichef, having Icpa- 
 rated itfelf from the Pruffian army, repaired the 
 Oder at Auras on their return to the Vilfula. 
 
 :iijuly 24. The Chcfterfield of 44 guns and four 
 
 tranfports ran on-Cayo Confite, the entrance of the 
 
 • Bahatna ftreightscon the Cuba fide, an hour 
 
1762* A Op the War. 245 
 
 day-light, and were llranded ; all the feamen and 
 troops got on (hore, and were afterwards tranf- 
 ported fafe to the Havannah. 
 
 ‘July 25. Prince Ferdinand marched up to the 
 main Body of the French army with an intention 
 to attack them; but finding their pofition too 
 ftrong, he drew off his Troops after a cannonade 
 of two hours. The French repaffed the Fulda in 
 the night according to Prince Ferdinand’s cxpedta- 
 tions, and Lord Granby took poffeflion of the 
 heights of Melfungen, a poll which the enemy 
 had declared to be impregnable. 
 
 ‘July 25. General Stainville with four regiments 
 of Dragoons fell into an ambufcade at Morfchen. 
 Thefe regiments were routed and difperfed with 
 great lofs by General Frey tag, whofe troops made 
 a confidcrable booty on the occafion. 
 
 July 25. General Luckner miade himfelf matter 
 of Fulda, took 200 prifoners, and carried off a 
 booty confiding of 300 oxen, a confidcrable 
 quantity of wine, and a contribution of 70,000 
 florins. jv.i 
 
 July 28. The Count de Stainville defeated 400 
 light troops of the Allies near Vacha. 
 
 ■ — Meff". de Rochechouart and de Lof- 
 
 tanges difperled a detachment of the Allies near 
 Uttar, and made near 200 prifoners: they after- 
 wards divided their forces, and took or deftroyed, 
 at Carllhaven and Beverungen, one magazine and 
 09. large boats laden with provifions. About the 
 fame time Mr, de Verteuil ruined another maga- 
 zine at Brackel, and took 120 horfcs together 
 - 0^2 with 
 
*44 
 
 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 with '60 foldiers and fame officers. The Baron du 
 Blaifel marched from Gieffen to Amoeneburg, and 
 ffirprifcd 400 of the Allies whom he made pri- 
 
 foner 3 ‘of war. 
 
 .lEllc: .11-; rc^ 
 
 AmuH 2. The French made an unfuccefsful at- 
 tack^^^at Neu-merflen, upon the troops command- 
 ed by General Frey tag. 
 
 tn 
 
 - AutuH 2. ThePruffians to the number of 12090 
 under the command of the Generals Seidlitz and 
 Kleift, attacked the Prince of Loweftem at the head 
 of 8000 Auftrians near the village pt Gradrop at a 
 fmall diftance from Toplitz in Bohemia, Alter a 
 warm difpute, the former were obliged to retire 
 with the lofs of 500 killed between 3 and 4Q0 
 -made prifoners, and 400 deferters. General Kleift 
 renewed the attack the next day but with the fame 
 bad fuccefs i upon which he evacuated Bohemia. 
 The Pruffians gave a different account of this at- 
 feiri -afferting that they engaged the enemy with 
 an inferiour force, that they had taken >00 
 prifoners, and that their whole lofs in killed, 
 wounded, and miffing, amounted only to 200 
 men. The Auftrian relation appeared to be the 
 moft credible. 
 
 Augujl 2, 3 ,. 4 - The Pruffians plundered the town 
 of Dux in Bohemia •, the damages they occafioned 
 fo the inhabitants amounted to 80, OOD florins with 
 little advantage to themfelves. , 
 
 Augujl 4. The Tyger frigate Captain Fabre, 
 froth St. Domingo for Bourdeaujc, of 26 nine 
 pounders and near 240 men» valued at between 
 two and three millions of UvreSi wa^;taken by the 
 Kine George privateer Captain Read of 20 nine 
 . . ° pounders 
 
 1 
 
iy62. Of the War. 245 
 
 pounders and 130 men, after an engagement of 
 two hours and an half. The Tyger had about, 80 
 men killed and wounded ; the King George only 
 three killed and thirty two wounded. This, anir 
 portant Service was not the firil which the gallant 
 Captain Read had rendered to his Counti*y,' v 
 
 .A it 
 
 Augujl 7. Eight hundred Men under the Count 
 de Stainville threw red hot balls into the caftle of 
 Friedwalde, made the garrilon of 50 rnen prifoners 
 
 •of war, plundered the village, and ftripped the, 
 
 habitants of all their fubftancei This callle is three 
 leagues diftant from Hirfchfcld. 
 
 Augujl — The St. Peter, a packet of 14 guns 
 and 60 men, bound from St. Seballians to the Ca- 
 raccas^ was taken by the Dreadnought privateer ot 
 Briftol. 
 
 Augujl^. Prince Frederic of Brunfwick poflefled 
 
 •himfdfof Muhlhaufen, Efchwege, and Wanfried, 
 behind the French army. 
 
 ,Ci 
 
 - Augujl 7 and 8. M. de Gbnflans attacked the 
 town and redoubt of Pattenberg, took pofleflion 
 of that poft, and made 72 men prifoners of war. 
 
 Augujl 8» Eight battalions of regulars and looo 
 Croats rallied out upon the Pruffians before Schweid- 
 nitz, routed the battalion of Falkenhayn, made 
 the Colonel and fome officers prifoners, and killra 
 and wounded 100 men. 
 
 Augujl 9. Lieutenant General D’Affry made 
 himftlf mafter of the caftle of Ulrichftein, and the 
 garrifon of iio men furrendered at difcretion. 
 
 ' 0^3 Augujl 
 
246 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 Juguli 10. M. de Gonflans carried Frankenberg 
 by affault, made 143 men prlfoners, three officers 
 included, and took four pieces of cannon. 
 
 Auguft — M. de Rome, under the orders of the 
 Marquis de Loftanges, took at Stadt-^Vorbes five 
 officers, 133 grenadiers, 26 horfes, the military 
 cheft of the Turkilh regiment, and many car- 
 riages loaded with bread tor the Allies. 
 
 - Augujl 1 3. The Havannah, with all its depen- 
 dencies, and the fhips of war and merchandize in 
 the harbour, furrendered by capitulation to Sir 
 George Pocock and the Earl of Albemarle. Sir 
 George palled through the old ftreights of Bahama 
 with his whole fquadron, confifting of 19 Ihips of 
 the line, feveral frigates, and a large- number of 
 tranlports, between the 27 th of May and the even- 
 ing of the 5th of June. On the 2d of June the 
 Alarm, Captain Aimes, engaged and took the 
 Thetis of 22 guns 180 men, and the Phoenix ftore^ 
 fhip of 18 guns 75 inen, together with a brigan- 
 tine and a fchooncr, all bound to Segoa in the 
 Streights, to load with timber for the ufe of the 
 fleet at the Havannah. The Thetis had 10 men 
 killed and 14 wounded j the Alarm 7 men killed 
 and 10 wounded. The army under Lord Albe- 
 marle landed on the 7th of June without oppofi- 
 tion between two forts on -the rivers Bocanao and 
 Coximar, about fix miles to the eaftward of Moro 
 Caftle. Captain Hervey in the Dragon filenced 
 Coximar Caftle ajid enabled the army to pafs that 
 river unmolefted. On the 8 th a fmall corps under 
 Colonel Carleton repulfed and difperfed the Spanilh 
 regiments of Edinburgh dragoons, two companies 
 of grenadiers and many officers, together with a 
 
1762, 
 
 Of the War* t 
 
 247 
 
 body of militia on horfeback, the whole amount- 
 ing to neap 6000 men advantageoufly poftfd t^on 
 a rifing ground between the BritHh army and the 
 village of Guanamacoa. On the iith the fort of 
 Chorera (on the weft fide) was abandoned by the 
 Spaniards after having been battered by the JEfelliQe 
 Captain Knight ; and Colonel Carleton attacked a 
 redoubt upon the Cavannos (an Hill above Moro 
 Caftle) which he carried with little refiflancc and 
 iofs : A poft was eftablifhed here under the name 
 of the Spanilh Redoubt. By the 12th the Spa- 
 niards had funk three fliips of the line in tl« en- 
 trance of the harbour’s mouth, by which it was 
 effeftually blocked up and fecured. On the 15th 
 a detachment of 1200 men under Colonel Howe 
 and 800 marines under the Majors Campbel and 
 Collins were landed and encamped at Chorera a- 
 bout feven miles to the weftward of the Havannah, 
 where they engaged the attention of the enemy and 
 proved of confiderable fervice. After the previous 
 and neceffary preparations were compleated, which 
 employed the time of the army from the 12th of 
 June to the firft of July, the artillery began to play 
 upon Moro Caftle. The enemy landed on, the 
 29th of June two detachments from the Havannah 
 of 500 men each, confifting of grenadiers and cho- 
 fcn troops together with armed Negroes and Mu- 
 lattoes, to interrupt the befiegers in their opera- 
 tions. One of thefe detachments marched upon 
 the right under the Moroj the other upon the left 
 . near the Lime-kiln, where the Befiegers had .raifcd 
 one or two batteries to rernove the (hipping tp a 
 greater diftanfe which had annoyed them confid^ra- 
 , bly : the picquets . and advanced pofts roppUed 
 thefe detachments, wounded many, and killed or 
 took pfifoners 200 men, with the lofs only of. 10 
 
 men killed a^d wounded op their fide. On the firft 
 " ‘ of 
 
24.8 CHRONOLOeiGAli 4t^KALS 1 762 . 
 
 of July the Cambrid^ .of 80 guns. Dragon of 74, 
 and Marlborough of :$6, all under tho: command 
 of Captain Hervey, -atta,cked the north-eaft part of 
 Mojo .Caftle for the fpace of near fix hours, when 
 they were called off> The two former Ihips re- 
 ceived great damage from the height of the fort, 
 whiili; the, fort itfelf; fuffered very little from their 
 fire. This attack divided the attention of the gar- 
 xifon^ and enabled the army to obtain a fuperiority 
 of guns on the land^ fide. Captain Gooftry of the 
 Cambridge’was killed in the beginning of the en- 
 gagement-, and his place was fupplied by Captain 
 Lindfay of the Trent, ..who acquitted himfelf with 
 honour during the remainder of tho:a^iQn‘ .. The 
 condudt of Captain Caropbell of the SfU'lingjCaftle 
 was ceniured fiy Captain Hervey^ and ordered to 
 be examined into by a court martial. 42 feamen 
 were killed and 1 40 yvounded in this defperate fer- 
 vice. Captain Maokenaie of the Defiance brought 
 the Venganza frigate of .26 guns and^the Marteof 
 18 out of the harbour of Port Manek after fome 
 firing. . All but -ae mgnJiad left them,. The. har- 
 bour of )?ort Mariel. i^, about feven leagues to the 
 leeward, of Chorera* afterwards taken pof- 
 
 feliion of by Sir George Pocoek as a place of fecut 
 rity.fpr .the fhipping,againl^ thje; dangers. ;of the fear 
 fon,.. ji}; which he was;.at; that .time.adv^anced. : A 
 fchopnet loaded. witl^,epffe.e,. and bound . from Hifi 
 panioja^to New Qjleafffl) .feil into the; liaftds of the 
 cfuizers. belonging to:che;fie8t> OU; the* 2.4 of Jvdy 
 the fgrand battery fftiagllt firc> and.the . labour of 
 5 or, 6p;0 ,men,^ifor feyepteen days. yya? deftroyedi 
 Had not. thus accyepjijifttervened, th/t.caftle would 
 probahiy-have beeqtf^pcfd in.a fboftejime. 
 the utfi th.e;:oreidpns i^ .tbe grand battery again 
 caught; fire, and>{th,e .ydtplo wa 
 Awedfs and thfi-uoibcers 
 
rs ^ 
 
 ’ Of -fHE-WAR.' 249 
 
 ruptect'c6rhmunlcation which the caftle maintained 
 with the' town of the Havanhah and the Ihlps, to- 
 gether with the nature of the foil which 'Hzi all 
 -rocky, and the eonfequent neceffity of carrying on 
 all the approaches above ground, the fiege^ proved 
 a work of time. From the 17th to the^aad the 
 befiegers proceeded againft the Moro by lap anti 
 mines. About four in the Morning of the aid, 
 fifteen hundred men made a Tally from the HaV^i- 
 nah, divided into three parties ; two of thefe par- 
 ties were repulfed and driven back into the town-; 
 the third retreated without venturing upon an en- 
 gagement. Lieutenant Colonel Stuart of the 90th 
 Iregiment at the head of 30 men only, fuftained the 
 attack of one of thefe parties for an hour, when 
 he was fupported by about ibo Tappers and the 3d 
 battalion of royal Americans. The lofs of the Spa- 
 iliards was computed at nearO}.oo men in killed, 
 drowned and taken : That of the Britifti trodjK 
 
 amounted to about 50 killed and wounded Bri- 
 gadier Carleton was among the latter. On thfe 
 26th a two decked Spanift merchant fliip 'was 
 funk by an Howitzer; and on the 28th a large 
 merchant Ihip was deftroyed by lightening in tlic 
 harbour. The works were continued from the i3d 
 to the 30th, and the ufual advances were made', 
 ftep by ftep ; on the 30th two mines were fprung; 
 one in the counterfcarp, the other in the' right 
 baftion •, the latter had the moft confiderable cffefti 
 and made a prafticable breach. Orders were irt- 
 mediarely given for the aflault. Twenty two of- 
 ficers, i5 fet3eants, and 281 rank and file’ ebrni 
 manded by the gallant Lieutenant Colonel Stuart 
 of the 90th regiment, together with 150 fappefs 
 under a Captain’s command f all fuftained by 
 officers, 14 lerjeanis, and 15O rank and filey making 
 ii) the whole *^9 men ; mounted with the gi^eatcfii 
 
250 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 refolution, formed expeditioufly on the top of the 
 breach, drove the enemy from every part of the 
 ramparts, and planted his Majefty’s ftandard upon 
 the baftion. Thus fell Moro Caftle after a fiege 
 of 29 days. Of the Spaniards, Don Louis de Ve- 
 lafco. Captain of the Reyna, Colonel and Com- 
 mander in chief of the caftle, was mortally wound- 
 ed in defending the colours Iword in hand •, a brave 
 officer, defervedly regretted both by friends and ene- 
 mies ; the Marquis Gonzales Captain of the Aqui- 
 lon. Colonel and fecond in command in the caffie, 
 was killed ; their lofs in the affault amounted to 
 343 killed or drowned, 37 wounded, and 326 made 
 pnloners -, in all, 706. The lofs of the Britilh 
 troops was trifling, confifting in 14 killed and 28 
 wounded. On the loth of Auguft in the morning, 
 the batteries being prepared to play from the Ca- 
 vannos on the eaft fide, and ground being ready 
 to be opened on the weft fide. Lord Albemarle 
 fummoned the Governor of the Havannah to capi- 
 tulate, who returned a civil but refolute anfwer-, 
 the next day, the artillery men and failors filenccd, 
 in about fix hours, all the guns in thePunta Fort 
 and the north baftion of the town. The Governor 
 hung out a white flag and beat a parley. The ca- 
 pitulation was figned on the 13th, by which the 
 town of Havannah with all its dependencies fur- 
 rendered to his .Majefty’s arms ; <?// fiiips in the 
 harbour, .all money and t^tQ.s w.hatev^ belong- 
 ing to the King of Spain.;: all the artillery, arms, 
 ammunition, and nayafftores without referve, and 
 all the Catholick King’s flayesi were to .be, deli- 
 vered up to Sir George Tocock and Lord Albe- 
 marle; the regular troops, failors and marines, all 
 making part of the. garrifon, were /to be tranf- 
 ported to the neareft port of old Spain at the eje- 
 pence of his Britannic, Majeftyi., and. the, militia 
 
 were 
 
1762. Of the War. 
 
 were to deliver v\p their arms to the Commiflary 
 appointed to receive them. The Tigre, Reyna, 
 
 ' Soverano, Infante, and Aquilon of 7*^ gtips, the 
 
 America, Conqueftado, San Genaro and Sant° 
 Antonio of 60 guns, fell into the hands of 
 the conquerors •, the Neptuno of yoy the Afia 
 of 64, and the Europa of 60, were funk 
 entrance of the harbour ; there were two more mips 
 s of war on the Itocks, and feveral merchant fhips. 
 
 The regulars who capitulated, were compofed of 
 i the fecond regiment of Spain, the fecond regiment 
 
 Ki of Arragon, the Havannah regiment, artillery 
 
 K companies, Edingburgh and Havannah dragoons, 
 
 amounting to 936, excluhve of the pnfoncrs on 
 r board the men of war, and the fick and wouiided 
 
 ra on fliore. In the courle of the fiege, the lofs or 
 
 1 k[ the BritiQi troops confifted in eleven officers, 15 
 
 d fergeants, 4 drummers, and 260 rank and file 
 
 M killed; 19 officers, 49 fergeants, 6 drummers, and 
 
 )C 576 rank and file wounded; 39 officers, *4 Rr- 
 
 oifi geants, eleven drummers, and 632 rank and file 
 
 itjj dead of difeafes and the climate; and one fcrgeant, 
 
 tj[i 4 drummers, with 125 rank and file miffing ; 4 
 
 M officers, I drummer, and 51 rank and file died 
 
 ^ of their wounds. The whole amounted to ^ 
 
 iol,t The officers of note were, the Lieutenant Colo- 
 
 nels Thomas, Gordon, and Leith ; the Majors 
 A/T> ‘NTpH Mirrip. and Ferron ; the Captains Suttie, 
 
a 52 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 partiCiMl-; and, in geiiml, every officer, foldicr- 
 and'faifo?, carried on’ tde fervice with the grcatcft 
 fpirirand Zeal. The i^amen chearfally affiftcd in 
 landing' bnnon and ordnance ftores, manning bat- 
 terib, ffi-akihg fafcineS, and fupplying the army 
 with water. The -unanimity which fubfifted be- 
 tweeri the army and fleet cannot be better defcribed 
 thaii Ih Sir George Pocock’s own Words. “ In- 
 deed," fays he, “ it is doing injuftice m both, to 
 “motion them as two corps; fince each has en- 
 ** dbvbured, with the molt conftant and chearful 
 “enTuiation, to render it but one; uniting in the 
 “fame principles of honour and glory for their 
 “King and Country’s fervice.” This capture of 
 12 great fliips of the line, ( Including the^ three 
 which were iunk ) befides two men of war on tlife 
 ftocks, three frigates, and an armed ftorefliip, was 
 a more fevere blow to Spain than that which (lie 
 felt from England in 1718, when Sir George Byng 
 and Captain Walton took or burnt off Cape Paffaro 
 and on the coaft of Sicily, one Ibip of 74 guns, one 
 of 70, four of 60, two of 54, one of 44, three of 
 40, one (tf 36, one of 30, and one of 24 ; in all, 
 15; And if the fituation of the Havannah, and the 
 treafure found in ir,' are confidered ; perhaps it 
 may be fafely affirmed, that the Spaniards have 
 not fuffered fuch a'fenfible and humiliating lofe 
 fincc the defeat of their celebrated Armada. — An 
 account of the killed afid werunded feamen had not 
 been collected, when the exprefe left- the Havan- 
 nah. —The narrow pafs between the ' town and 
 caflde having been clofeijrwatched, a letter was in- 
 tercepted from the Governor of the former ter tire 
 Governor of the latter, defiring him ^to maintain 
 hirnfelf in the pofleflioh of the caftle, and eXprelT- 
 ihg his own inability to make any defehee. After 
 the caftld was gallantly- taken by aflault,- tord Ai- 
 
 beniarle 
 
1762. 
 
 Op the War.. 
 
 253 
 
 bemarle acquainted the Governor of the town that 
 he had been .well infornied of the. weak ftafe S^the 
 place, and. that it would Ikvo .much bld<^qj(ped. ,to 
 furrender-i tkis was refufed.. Lord 
 terwards fent his own letter to hiinj 
 diately brought on the capitulation. 
 
 r,k-7J h1i- 
 
 Auguji 16. The corps of the Duke of’^eyera 
 polled upon the heights of Peile beyond Rwghen- 
 bach, was attacked about 5 ^ clock, in th^.a^pr- 
 noon by 33 battalions, eleven, regiments of , paval- 
 ry, and three of Huflars,. commanded by thc Ge- 
 nerals Beck, Brentano, Lafcy, and Odonel,^ under 
 the orders of Marlhal Daun : the view of the Au- 
 ftrians was to relieve Schweidnitz. The Ddke w 
 Bevern maintained his ground with relolutiMi till 
 the King of Pruffia came in Perfpn to his affiftance, 
 with 30 battalions and 8 fquadrqns. His Majefty 
 charged and defeated the five regiments of cavalry 
 under General Odonel, after a, warm and O-bftinate 
 dii'pute. Night coming on, the Aullrians aban- 
 doned their defign. According to the Prufllan 
 account, the total lofs of the A.uftrians,.ejcceeded 
 2.000 men. Five ftandards fell, into the hands of 
 the conquerors. The Aulltians aflerted that, on 
 their part, they had taken 1500 prifoners, and two 
 pieces of cannon, and reduced their own lofs, to. 1 7 
 officers wounded or prifoners, 131 private men 
 killed, 354 wounded, and 336 miffing, ^,i(>. all 
 1838. They, owned that the Pruffians had made 
 
 themfelves mailers of three llandards. It was ^d 
 
 that General Lauhdon commanded the vanquilhcd 
 troops. 
 
 Auguji 16. The garrifon of Gottingen dellroyed 
 the fortifications of thatplape, and retired to Wit- 
 
 zenhaufen i having firll fet fire to the powder ma- 
 gazine. 
 
254 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 f azine, by the explofion of which 50 Saxons were 
 illed. The enemy left \ in Gottingen three brafs 
 guns and a great quantity Of ammunition of all 
 kinds. 
 
 Auguft 17. The French abandoned Munden in 
 the night. 
 
 Auguft — M. Conflans was diflodged from Pad« 
 berg or Pattenberg by Colonel Riedefel, with the 
 lofs of a Captain, feventy private men, and many 
 horfes. 
 
 Auguft 22. The hereditary Prince of Brunfwick 
 charged the vanguard of the Prince of Conde un* 
 der the orders of M. de Levis. The French loft 
 about 150 men on this occafion. 
 
 Auguft 25. The Marquis d’Auvet bombarded 
 Ham, ruined fcveral houfes, and retreated upon 
 the approach of 4000 men from the allied army. 
 
 Auguft 2 5. The Prince of Conde gained an in* 
 confiderable advantage over the hereditary Prince 
 of Brunfwick, and obliged him to retreat after a 
 fmart cannonade, with the lofs of three field 
 pieces. 
 
 Auguft 25. The principal operations of the Spa- 
 niards from their firft invafion of Portugal to this 
 date, may be related in few words. They made 
 themfelves matters of Miranda, Braganza, tt'orre 
 di Moncorvo, and Chaves. They demolilhed.thc 
 fortifications of the two former cities, and left a 
 ftrong garrifon in the latter. They divided their 
 forces,, which were in the Province of Tras-os* 
 Montes, into three parts j the principal body was 
 
 en- 
 
1762. Of the War. 255 
 
 encamped near Miranda •, the fecond, confifting of 
 5000 meny at Torre di Moncorvo ; the third of 
 the fame number near Chaves. Another corps of 
 8000 men entered the Portugeze frontier near Al- 
 meyda ; this corps fuffered by defertion, and its 
 detached parties were often repulfed by the militia 
 of the country. The fummer months in that warm 
 climate are unfavourable to military expeditions ; 
 and the Spaniards could do little more than chaf- 
 tife the peafants of leveral villages, whole ^ natural 
 averfion. overcame the oath of obedience whichi they 
 had taken, and who did every thing in their power 
 to cut off the convoys of provifions defigned for 
 their camp : 'Thefe^ and the Portugueze companies 
 called auxiliaries, were eafily defeated and dif- 
 perfed. At laft the Spaniards formed the fiege of 
 Almeyda, a frontier town in the province of Tras- 
 os-montes, 1 6 miles diftant from the Spanilh city 
 of Gividad Rodrigo. On the 25th of Auguft the 
 fortrefs was furrendered, after a fiege of nine days, 
 and before a prafticable breach had been made, by 
 the Governor Alexandro de Pallares Coello de Bri- 
 to,. for which he was afterwards put under confine- 
 ment at Coimbra. 1500 regulars and 2000 pea- 
 fants were permitted to retire with the honours of 
 war, on the condition of not ferving again!!: the. 
 King of Spain or his Allies for fix months. 83 
 pieces of brafs cannon, eleven of iron *, 9 brafs 
 mortars for bombs ; 3 1 brafs mortars and one of 
 iron for grenades ; 700 quintals of powder and 
 other implements of war, together with a quantity 
 of ammunition and provifions, were found in the 
 place. 
 
 Attrujl 26. The Hunter fioop cruifing off the 
 Texel, fell in with four Dutch ftiips under convoy 
 of a man of war, and defired leave to fearch them ; 
 
 but 
 
2^6 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 but was refufed : the Hunter, on proper fignals 
 beino- made, was joined between the 23d and the 
 26th by the Trial floop, the Diana, and the 
 Chefter, and two cutters. Captain Adams of the 
 Diana, afting as Commodore, politely demanded 
 the ufual permiflion to fearch the merchantmen ; 
 but the Commander of the Dutch man of war per- 
 fifted in his refufal •, upon this Captain Adams pre- 
 pared himfelf for force, and ordered the boats of 
 the fhips, with an Englifli jack hoifted in each of 
 them, to fearch the convoy, threatening the Dutch 
 Captain with a broadfide if he infulted the Englilh 
 flag. The Dutchman immediately fired two (hot 
 at the Elunter’s boat, which were anfwered by a 
 Angle (hot from Captain Adams, and returned by 
 the Dutchman’s whole broadfide. Thus the en- 
 gagement commenced between them, which lafted 
 about 1 5 minutes •, the man of war and convoy 
 ftruck, and were brought into the Downs. Not 
 one man was killed or wounded on board the 
 Diana ; two men were killed on board the Dutch- 
 man i and the Captain, with two others wounded. 
 The frigate was called the Dankbaarheld of 26 
 guns, commanded by Solomon Dedel the younger; 
 flie did not ftrike, according to the Dutch account, 
 till Ihe had received the fire of the Chefter. 
 
 Auguji 27. Brigadier General Burgoine, ordered 
 part of his regiment of light, dragoons to pulh into 
 the Spanifh [town of Valenfa d’ Alcantara fword 
 in hand. The guards in the fquare were all killed 
 or made p.nfoners before they could ufe their arms ; 
 after the body of the Englifh regiment was come 
 up and formed in the fquare, fome dcfperate par- 
 ties attempted an attack ; but all of them were de- 
 ftroyed or taken. The General gave no quarter 
 ~to thofe who fired Angle ftiots from the windows 
 
1762. Of tHE War. 257 
 
 of the houfes ; at laft he forced fome Priefts 
 through the town, to declare to the people that he 
 was determined to fet fire to it at the four corners, 
 unlefs all the doors and windows were inftantly 
 thrown open. This menace had the defircd effeft. 
 Major General Don Michael d’ Irumberri and Ba- 
 lan^a, with his Aid de Camp j one Colonel and his 
 Adjutant; two Captains, 17 Subalterns, and 59 
 private men were made prifoners *, the reft of the 
 regiment of Seville were deftroyed. Three colours 
 were taken. The dragoons were fent into the coun- 
 try to bring in all who had efcaped. A detached 
 fervant, and fix men only, fell in with a Spanilh 
 fubaltern and <25 dragoons, who were unbroken 
 and prepared to receive them ; of thefe, they kill- 
 ed fix, made the reft prifoners, and took every 
 horfe. The lofs of the Englifti in the attack of Va- 
 len9a was inconfidcrable ; one Lieutenant, one Ser- 
 jeant, and three private men were killed ; two 
 Serjeants, one Drummer, and 18 private men were 
 wounded. Ten hoifes were killed, and two wound- 
 ed. Brigadier Burgoyne and Colonel Somerville 
 gallantly conduced the troops in perfon ; the Bri- 
 tilh grenadiers under the command of Lord Pulte- 
 ney difiodged the enemy’s infantry from the 
 houfes ; and Captain Singleton diftinguiftied him- 
 felf in this affair. The Spanilh officers themfelves 
 publickly commended the generofity of General 
 Burgoyne in handfome terms. 
 
 Augiift 30. The hereditary Prince of Brunfwick 
 and General Luckner with 19 battalions and 40 
 fquadrons, engaged the different corps under the 
 Prince of Conde, Count Stainville, and the Cheva- 
 lier de Levis, near Ncuheim and Friedberg. The 
 French were at firft driven from the fteep moun- 
 tain. of Johannes-berg into the plain below, by the 
 
 R vigorous 
 
2^8 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 vigorous charge of the allies ; but the grand army 
 of France under the Marlhals D Etrees and Sou- 
 bife having fent them a confiderable reinforcement, 
 the attack was renewed with vivacity and fuccefs. 
 The Allies, repulfed in their turn, were obliged to 
 repafs the Wetter. The hereditary Prince was 
 wounded in the hip, whilft he was endeavouring 
 to rally his difordered troops. Prince Ferdinand, 
 bettei informed of the fituation of the trench ar- 
 my than the hereditary Prince appears to have 
 been, marched with a confiderable part of his 
 forces from his camp at Nidda to the fupport ot 
 the Allies j he came in time to prevent t^ Ene- 
 my from pufliing their advantage. Major General 
 Elliot’s dragoons and the chafleurs under Lord Fre- 
 derick Cavendifh were the only Brittilh troops con- 
 cerned in this aaion. Colonel Clinton was wound- 
 ed • yet he continued with the gallant hereditary 
 Prince two hours afterwards •, and did not difcover 
 his misfortune, till the Prince defired him to carry 
 an account of the battle to Prince f erdinand, which 
 obliged him to acknowledge that he was r^oered 
 incapable of executing his commands. On the 
 part of the enemy, M. de la Guiche Lieutenant 
 General and Commander of the brigade of Boilge- 
 lin was taken prifoner. The French troops in ge- 
 neral exerted themfelves on this occafion with in- 
 trepidity and fpirit. The regiment of Boifgelin 
 had a particular lhare in the fuflferings and glory or 
 the day. The lofs of the enemy, according to their 
 own eftimate, did not exceed 500 men in killed 
 and wounded > whilft they calculated . that of the 
 allies at about 600 lulled and 1500 pnfoners (in- 
 cluding 400 wounded) befides two ftandards and 
 fifteen pieces of cannon talcen. A letter from 
 Prince Ferdinand’s head quarters confefled only 
 the lofs of 1398 men killed, wounded, and pri- 
 
 foners. 
 
1762. Of the War. 259 
 
 foners, together with ten fmall pieces of cannon. 
 The French, accuftomed to defeat, demonftrated 
 their fenfe of this Viftory by publick rejoycings. 
 M. de Boifgelin, Colonel of the regiment of his 
 own name, who carried the news to Verfailles, 
 was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. 
 
 September 1. The Duke de Nivernois was ap- 
 pointed Minifter Plenipotentiary to Great Britain. 
 
 September 2. Captain Lebras in the Lion, took 
 the Zephyr frigate of 26 guns, which had on 
 board 200 troops, brafs mortars and cannon, am- 
 munition and ftores, and was bound from Breft for 
 St; John’s in Newfoundland. 
 
 September 2. The St. Jofeph, a Spanllh fliip of 
 above 1200 tons, capable of carrying 60 guns and 
 mounting 32, bound from the Caraccas to Port 
 Paflage with a cargo of hides and cocoa, was at- 
 tacked in Aviles Bay by the jEoIus Captain 
 Hotham. The enemy took to their boats, and 
 abandoned the fhip, after a very faint refiftance. 
 The Ihip being now in the pofleffion of the En- 
 glifh, the Spaniards quitted a battery of three 
 guns erefted upon an eminence, and Lieutenant 
 Campbell with a party of marines went on Ihore in 
 the evening and ^iked the guns. This valuable 
 
 E rize unfortunately bulged in the night, and was 
 urnt by the orders of Captain Hotham. 
 
 September 4. TJie Duke of Bedford was appoint- 
 ed Minifter Plenipotentiary to France. 
 
 September 9 and 10. A detachment of the French 
 army harafied the Allies in their retreat, drove 
 
 R a two 
 
260 Chronological Annals 1763. 
 
 two battalions out of Laubacb, and took fome pon- 
 toons and baggage. 
 
 September ii. The Auftrian Colonel de Lanius 
 attacked, with an inferior force, the Frufiian Ge- 
 neral le Grand, Commandant of Neiffe, near 
 SandhubeU and obliged him to retreat with preci- 
 pitation to Neiffe after the lofs of 12 1 killed, 103 
 made prifoners, and two pieces of cannon taken. 
 Only 7 Auftrians were killed and 40 wounded. 
 
 September 13. The Pruffians under General 
 Schmettau took Zittau, after having permitted the 
 o-arrifon to retire to Gabel : they abandoned it the 
 next day, carried away hoftages with them from 
 that town and the neighbouring places, and re- 
 turned to Gorlitz, of which they had taken poffd- 
 fion juft before. 
 
 September — General Freytag defeated, between 
 Alsfelt and Newftadt, a body of the French under 
 M. de St. Viftor, which had attempted to inter- 
 cept the bread-waggon train. 
 
 September 16. Prince Ferdinand marched to Wet- 
 ter through the fame routes which the Prince of 
 Conde had opened for the French army i and on 
 the 1 6th he drove the enemy’s garrilbn out of that 
 place, and obliged the Prince of Cond6 to repafs 
 the Lahne. On the fame day tlie French abandon d 
 Schweinfburg. 
 
 September 18, The Hurnber 6f 40 guns ran on 
 the foLith of Happyfborough fahds, and was en- 
 tirely loft. 
 
 Sep- 
 
1762. 
 
 Of the War. 
 
 261 
 
 September 18. Lieutenant Colonel Amherft, un- 
 d'er the orders of Sir Jeffery Amherft, failed with 
 the tranfports from New York and got into the 
 > harbour of l lalifax on the 26th of Auguft, after 
 
 j the Fleet under Lord Colville had left it. Not 
 
 1' having a fufficient number of tranfports with him, 
 
 C he took up lliipping to the amount of 400 tons, 
 
 ^ reached Louifburg on the 5th of September, and 
 
 failed out of that harbour on the 7th with his whole 
 embarkation. On the eleventh he joined Lord Col- 
 f ville a few leagues to the fouthward of Sr. John’s ; 
 
 on the 13th he landed his troops at Torbay about 
 \ three leagues to the northward of St. John’s, drove 
 the enemy from an hill on the oppofite fide of 
 . Kitty Vitty river, and took Poft. On the j 5th the 
 f® enemy were difiodged with great refolution by Cap- 
 
 tain M’ Donell, from a fteep and difficult hill in 
 the front of Colonel Amhcrft’s advanced polls i 
 Lieutenant Schuyler was killed, and the Captain 
 * himfelf wounded in this gallant affair : in the night 
 
 the French fleet under M. de Ternay, equal in num- 
 ber to the Brltifli fquadron, and fuperior in guns 
 and men, made their efcape by a fliameful flight, 
 after having been blocked up by Lord Colville in 
 the harbour of St. John’s for three Weeks •, they 
 •“j. afterwards got fafe to Corunna. On the 1 6th Colonel 
 
 Amherft acquainted the Count d’ Haulfonville b'y 
 f letter, that in cafe he fhould execute his intended 
 
 defign of blowing up the fort when he quitted it, 
 every man of the garrifon fliould then be put to the 
 fword. On the night of the .1 7th a mortar battery 
 was opened againft the fort; and the next day it 
 capitulated, before any other batteries had begun 
 to play. M. de Ternay, flying in the utmoll con- 
 fufion, left his anchors and the grenadiers of the 
 ? army behind him. The garrifon amounted to 689 
 
 R 3 nien, 
 
262 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 men, ftafF and other officers included : they capi- 
 tulated on the terms of furrendering prifoners of 
 war, and of being tranfported to the co^ of Brit- 
 tany at the expence of his Britannick Majefty. The 
 total number of prifoners made on this occafion did 
 not fall much ffiort of 800 •, a very fine body of 
 men, and almoft as numerous as the regulars of the 
 Britiffi army. On the part of the conquerors, one 
 Lieutenant and eleven rank and file were killed ; 
 
 3 Captains, 2 fcrjeants, i drummer, and 32 rank 
 and file were wounded ; in all, 50. Lieutenant 
 Colonel Tullikin and Captain M’ Donell were ho- 
 nourably mentioned by Mr. iVqiherft. 
 
 September 20. The French attacked, and made 
 themfelves mafters of a redoubt and a miU fituated 
 upon the left bank of the river Ohm, at the foot of 
 the mountain of Amoeneburg. 
 
 September 21. The French, favoured by a fog, 
 opened a branch of a trench before Amoeneburg 
 on the 20th, and efiabliffied their batteries ^ainft 
 that caftle, which was occupied by a battalion of 
 the Britiffi legion and a detachment of 200 men 
 from the referve of the allied army. The ftone 
 bridge over the Ohm at the Brucker-Muhl, was 
 guarded by 200 men of Hardenberg’s regiment; 
 the greateft part of which were polled in a ftnall 
 ^vork on the right of the bridge. The enemy were 
 alfo in pofieffion of a little work beyond the bridge. 
 About thefe two polls there commenced a warm 
 and bloody adlion on the 21ft, which continued 
 from fix in the rporning till dark night. A fire of 
 cannon and finall arms was kept up on both fides 
 for fourteen hours with the utmoll feverity and the 
 moll determin’d relblution. There was no attempt 
 on either part to pafs the bridge. Freffi troops 
 
 were 
 
1762. ' ‘ Of the War. 263 
 
 were reciprocally fenf to fupport the polls which 
 each maintained on the oppofite banks of the river, 
 as fall as the feveral reliefs had expended their am- 
 munition. The mill occupied by the enemy, -at- 
 forded rather more Ihelter to them, than the re- 
 doubt did to the allies. Hiftory hardly furnilhes an 
 inftance of fuch an obftinate difpute. The execution 
 of near 50 pieces of cannon was confined to the 
 fpace of near 400 paces. The fire of the artillery 
 and mufquetry was not intermitted one fingle mo- 
 ment. On the part of the allies, 17 complex bat- 
 talions were employed, at different times, in this 
 deftruftive fervice. Lieutenant Colonel Manlove, 
 Major M’ Lean, the Captains Twifleton and Rey- 
 nell, and Enfign Clive brother to Lord Clive, were 
 killed *, Lieutenant Colonel Hale, the Captains 
 Peter Campbell and Wyvil, together with feven m- 
 feriour officers were wounded. The total lofs (in- 
 cluding that of the Hanoverian corps) ^ounted 
 to 1 61 killed, 460 wounded, and 17 miffing; in 
 
 all, 628. A fubfequent general account increalca 
 
 it to near 800. 1 9 horfes were killed, and 4 pieces 
 
 of cannon were rendered unferviceable. The French 
 acknowledged the lofs of 300 killed and near boo 
 wounded ; among the latter were the Marquis de 
 Caftries and the Chevalier de Sarsfield. Letters 
 from Frankfort to the Hague, received in England, 
 made the wounded on the part ot the trench a- 
 mount to near 2000 men. 
 
 September 1%. A prafticable breach having been 
 made, the Caftle of Amoeneburg furrendcred to 
 the French •, and the garrifon were made prifoners 
 of war, to the number of eleven officers and 553 
 private men. 
 
 Sep- 
 
Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 September 27. A fmall corps of the enemy under 
 M. de Poyanne was attacked, defeated, and pur- 
 fued to Alsfeldt, by Major General Freytag, 
 The total lofs of the French upon this occafion 
 amounted to near 400 men. 
 
 September 27, 28, and 29. The Auftrians and 
 Imperialifts under the orders of General Haddick, 
 obliged the Pruflians under Prince Henry to aban- 
 don their advantageous fituation at Willdruf, 
 Pretfchendorf, Fravenftein, and Burckenheim. The 
 attack and defence were vigorous, and the lofs on 
 each fide confiderable. In the night between the 
 29th and 30th, Prince Henry made the whole Pruf 
 fian army repafs the Mulda, which they did with 
 fuccefs, and ranged themfelves the next morning 
 in order of battle on the other fide of that river. 
 The Prince afterwards retired to Freyberg, and 
 General Hullen towards Katzenhaufen. 
 
 September 30. Major General Freytag diflodged 
 the French from Bergemunden. 
 
 OSloher — The Scorpion floop was loft on the 
 Liverpool ftation. 
 
 October 5 and 6. The Marquis de Sarria having 
 folicited and obtained his difmifiion from the com- 
 mand of the Spanilh army in Portugal, with the 
 Order of the Golden Fleece in recompence of his 
 paft fervices, the Count d’Aranda fucceeded to the 
 poll of General in chief of his Catholic Majefty’s 
 Forces. On the 28 th of September the Portugueze 
 abandoned Celurico ; the Spaniards afterwards 
 took pofleflion of Penamacor, Salvaterra, and Se- 
 gura i in the fecond of thefe places there was a 
 
 gar- 
 
1762. Of the War, 265 
 
 garrifon of upwards of 400 men, which capitu- 
 lated on the condition of not ferving againft the 
 Catholic King or his allies for the term of fix 
 months. Early in Oftober the Spaniards made 
 themfelves matters of the Defile of St. Simon, and 
 and of Villa Velha a Moorifh cattle near the Ta- 
 gus : The latter was lupported for fome time by 
 Brigadier Burgoyne acrols the river. Three hun- 
 dred men and upwards, of whom the garrifon was 
 compofed, furrendered prifoners of war. The Por- 
 tuguefe infantry under the Count de St. lago be- 
 ing obliged to file oft by the road of Sobreira For- 
 mofa. Lord Loudoun with four Britifh regiments, 
 fix companies of Portuguefe grenadiers, fome light 
 dragoons and Portugueze cavalry, brought up the 
 rear guard and kept the Spaniards in awe : The 
 Portugueze grenadiers merited upon this occafion 
 the approbation of Lord Loudoun, who fpake of 
 them in very handfome terms. Between the 5th 
 and 6th of Oftober, Colonel Lee with 100 grena- 
 diers, 200 royal volunteers, 50 Britilh dragoons 
 and 50 of St. Payo’s horfe, all under the orders of 
 Brigadier General Burgoyne, marched up to, at- 
 tacked, and forced, a fmall Spanifti encampment 
 near Villa Velha, burnt fome magazines, fpiked up 
 fix pieces of cannon, brought off about 60 artillery 
 mules, a few prifoners, and a quantity of valuable 
 baggage. Lieutenant Maitland of Burgoyne’s dra- 
 goons dittinguifhed himfelf in this affair, and re- 
 pulfed the enemy’s cavalry. The lofs of the Britifh 
 troops confitted in one corporal killed, 8 private 
 men wounded, and one miffing. By the Spanifh 
 account, one Colonel and one Enfign were wound- 
 ed on their part, two Lieutenants killed, one Cap- 
 tain and one Sub-Lieutenant taken prifoners. The 
 lofs of their private men is uncertain. The dexte- 
 rity of General Burgoyne, and the relblution ot the 
 ^ Britifh 
 
266 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 Britilh troops commanded by Colonel Lee, de- 
 ^ ferved great commendation. 
 
 OSlober 9. Schweidnitz capitulated to the King 
 of Pruflia, when the trenches had been opened be- 
 fore it for two months and two daysi Lieutenant 
 General^uafco and his brave garrifon were ob- 
 liged to furrender prifoners of war, after having 
 made feveral fruitlefs eftbrts to obtain more fa- 
 vourable terms. On the 8 th of Oftober a grenade 
 from the befiegefs fell upon a magazine of powder, 
 did great damage to the fort N°. 2, and blew up 
 205 men officers included. A mine took full ef- 
 fect in the night between the 8th and 9th, carried 
 away part of the rampart, made a conliderabie 
 breach in the covered way, and filled up the ditch 
 with the riibbiffi. The garrifon marched out of the 
 fortrefs with all military honours, layed down their 
 arms and were made prifoners of war, and were 
 promifed the preference in cale of an exchange: 
 In the courfe of the fiege they had 32 officers and 
 1249 foldiers killed ; 53 officers and 2223 foldiers 
 wounded •, and the number of the prifoners of every 
 denomination, including the lick and wounded, 
 amounted to 238 officers and 8784 private men •, 
 in all, 10303. The artillery and military ftores 
 found in the place were confiderabic. The lofs of 
 the Pruffians confifted in 25 officers and 1084. fub- 
 alterns-and private men killed or dead ot their 
 wounds, and in 61 officers and 1845 fubalterns or 
 private men wounded : in all, 86 officers and 2929 
 foldiers. M. de Griboval afted as engineer to the 
 garrifon ; and M. Le Fevre to the befiegers. 1 hus 
 Schweidnitz changed its mafter for the fourth time 
 in the progrefs of the war. The Emprefs Queen 
 took it on the 12th of November 1757 * 
 days of open trenches ; the King of Pruffia reco- 
 vered 
 
1762, Of THE War. 267 
 
 vered it on the 17th of April 1758, upon the 17th 
 day after the opening of the trenches ; General 
 Laudohn made himfelf mailer of it by alTault be- 
 tween the 30th of September and the ill of 0 £lo- 
 ber 1761, and the King of Prullia is now once 
 more in poflelTion of it, after a long, memorable, 
 and dellruilive fiege. 
 
 O£lobet 14 and 15. General Haddick and the 
 Prince of Stolberg, attacked General Belling on 
 the 14th in the Rathfwald or the Wood of Raths, 
 and dillodgcd him from that poll ; but the latter 
 receiving a confiderable reinforcement from Prince 
 Henry, repulled the enemy in his turn : On the 
 15th the Prulfian General was charged again by 
 the Auftrians and Imperialills, before he had fuffi- 
 cient time to refume his polls. The difpute was 
 lharp and continued, but in the end the Pruflians 
 were driven from the wood with lols. The regi- 
 ments of Kleill and Salmouth luffered feverely in 
 the engagement. Freyberg was abandoned in con- 
 fequence of this fucceis. Prince Henry retired in two 
 columns towards Noflen and Rofwein. The Impe- 
 rialills behaved with fpirit. Near 2000 Pruflians 
 were made prilbners ; eight or nine pieces of can- 
 non, eight colours and two Itandards were taken. 
 The Hungarian regiment of Giulay performed 
 wonders in this engagement. The conduct and 
 military arrangements of General Haddick and the 
 Prince of Stolberg were fpoken of by the Auftrians 
 in high terms of praife. 
 
 OSloher — The Aullrian General de Zollern fur- 
 prifed, at Kirchayn in lower Lufatia, part of a 
 regiment of cavalry under the orders of General 
 Dmgelftedt, made 300 prifoners, and took fome 
 horfes belonging to the baggage. 
 
 O£lo- 
 
268 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
 OHoher 20. La Folk, a French frigate of 24 
 guns and 250 men, was taken by the Phoenix 
 Captain Bethel), after a chafe of fix hours. 
 
 Ollober 29. Prince Henry .of PrufTia attacked, 
 near Freyberg, and defeated the combined army 
 of Auftrians and Imperialifts, v/hich was command, 
 ed by the Prince de Stolberg in the abfence of Ge- 
 neral Haddick. According to the Pruffian account, 
 the aftion began at day-break and lafted'till two in 
 the afternoon, when the enemy was entirely rout- 
 ed, obliged to abandon the field of battle and the 
 town of Freyberg to the PrulTians, and to retire to 
 Dippoldfwalde. On the part of the vanquifhed, ac- 
 cording to the fame account. Lieutenant General 
 Baron de Rodt, one Colonel, one Major, 24 Cap- 
 tains, 41 Lieutenants, eleven Enfigns, 1 59 under 
 officers, and 4174 private men were made pri- 
 foners ; 27 pieces of cannon were taken, together 
 with nine ftandards and colours. As the aftion 
 continued many hours, it is reafonable to prefume 
 that the lofs on both fides, in killed and wounded, 
 could ngt be inconfiderable. 
 
 ^ OSloher 50 and 31. The French Partizan Cam- 
 befort took and plundered the City of Ofnabrug, 
 which had no garrifon to defend it. 
 
 November i . Caflfel furrendered to Prince Frede- 
 ric of Brunfwick, after the trenches had been open- 
 ed before it from the night of the 16th of Ofto- 
 ber. The garrifon obtained all the honours of war, 
 and were efcorted to the French army under the 
 command of the Marftials P’Etrees and Soubife. 
 
1762. 
 
 Op the War. 
 
 269 
 
 November 3. The preliminaries of peace were 
 figned at Fontainebleau by the Count de Choifeul, 
 Secretary of State for foreign affairs, on the part 
 of France ; by the Duke of Bedford Minifter Ple- 
 nipotentiary on the part of Great-Britain ; and by 
 the. Marquis de Grimaldi Arabaffador F.xtraordi- 
 nary and Plenipotentiary from the Court of Ma- 
 drid, on the part ©f Spain. The moft Chnftian 
 King rewarded the fervices of the Count de Choi- 
 feul in this negotiation, by creating him a Duke 
 and Peep of France with the title of Due de 
 Praflin. - 
 
A. lift of many conjtdemhle pTivateefs snd afftied ttterchantKetif take/t ^ bis Mujejiy s Jbips of war o 
 from the of JDecsiubsr 17^1 tbs pvoUinitutrios of peace, . 
 
 . January. guns. 
 
 Due d*Ayen of Dunkirk 16 
 
 A fmali French privateer 
 
 r,.i ^ ./• r> T. 14 carriage 
 
 The Bearnoife of Bayonne ^ ^ fwivela 
 
 February, 
 
 The Efpecance of Bayonne 6 carriage 
 
 The Creole of Bayonne. 8 
 
 The Perla Catalana de Barcelona 
 from Spain to St. Domingo, re- 
 ported to have had 100,000 
 dollars on board 
 
 Le Guerrier ol Bourdeaux of 
 500 tons 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 120 taken by the Tweed C.. Pafton. 
 Tartuffe cutter;^ 
 
 82. Richmond Capt. Elphinftone. 
 
 60 jffiolus Captain Hotham. 
 
 84 Venus Captain Harrifon. 
 
 carried into Gibraltar by a man 
 of war. 
 
 Arcthufa Captain Vane.. 
 
 Chronological Annals 
 
guns. 
 
 Aimabie Marie from Bourdeaux 
 to, Domingo, of 250 tons 
 with wine and provilions. 
 
 The Foudroyant, a letter of 
 marc^ue of 45® tons from Bour- 
 deapx to St. Domingo, with 
 wine, provilions, and dry goods. 
 
 March. 
 
 4 carriage 
 
 yEfperance 6 fwivels 
 
 Le Bien Aime 4 carriage 
 
 L’ Efcureuil frigate ^c> 
 
 Le Villeveau from the ifles of 
 Bourbon for L’ Orient, with 
 4000 bales of coffee. 
 
 Le Soujon , * 
 
 Count Heronvillc 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 - Ot* 
 
 I^ame and Lyon. 
 
 45 Effex Captain Schomberg. 
 
 52 ditto. 
 
 80 Fame and LySn. 
 
 ditto. 
 
 Renown Captain Maitland, 
 ditto. V 
 
 45 
 
 129 
 
The Cerbere of St. Maloe 
 
 The Auguftin of ditto 
 The Romain of Dunkirk 
 Snow privateer of Bayonne 
 Amabiie Jofepha Spanilh priva- 
 teer of St. Sebaftians 
 Amabiie Maria of Bourdeaux 
 bound to St. Domingo 
 
 The Sequier of Dunkirk 
 L*Audacieux of Breft. 
 
 Eagle of Breft 
 Ea Mannen of St. Maloe. 
 
 U Efperance of St. Maloe. 
 
 guns. 
 
 I a carriage 
 1 6 fwivels 
 lo carriage 
 20 
 12 
 
 14 - 
 
 12 fwivels 
 lo carriage 
 lo carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 2 carriage 
 I o fwivels 
 6 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 6 carriage 
 6 ftvivels 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 105 Tartar Captain Knight. 
 
 .80 ditto. 
 
 1 30 Effex. 
 
 120 Bellona Captain Dennis. 
 
 183 Venus Captain Harrifon. 
 
 ditto. 
 
 99 Adventure Captain Middleton. 
 
 104 Coventry Captain Carpenter. 
 
 50 Diligence and Albany floops. 
 
 50 Looe Captain Penny. 
 
 66 Brilliant Captain Loggie. 
 
 CHRoMOLOGiCAt Annals 1762. 
 
Auguftine of Dunkirk 
 Le Gloire of Bourdeaux with 
 wine, flour, brandy, and. bale 
 goods 
 
 The Domervllle 
 
 The Guerrier of Bayonne 
 A French privateer 
 
 A French privateer 
 
 ^A valuable French Merchant- 
 man from St, John de Acre 
 
 The Bien Acquis of 250 tons 
 from Bourdeaux to the Mi.flif- 
 fippi 
 
 /ipril. ® 
 
 A privateer of St. Maloe 
 
 guns. 
 
 men. 
 
 1 2 carriage 
 16 carriage 
 
 80 
 
 fix pounders. 
 
 94 
 
 10 fwivels 
 
 
 8 carriage 
 8 fwivels 
 
 64 
 
 10 carriage 
 
 120 
 
 22 
 
 240 
 
 18 
 
 
 10 
 
 160 
 
 amongft whom there 
 were feveral principal 
 officers 
 
 6 carriage ' - ‘ 
 
 4 fwivels 
 
 captors. 
 
 E^x. 
 
 Milford C. Mann — The Captain 
 and firft Lieutenant were killed 
 in the Engagement. 
 
 Renown Captain Maitland. 
 
 Coventry Capt, Carpenter. 
 
 Adif. 
 
 carried into Leghorne by the Gi- 
 braltar frigate, 
 
 carried into Leghorne by the 
 Quebec. 
 
 • ^ 
 
 carried into Barbadoes by the 
 Edgar. . . ' Q 
 
 Diligence Capt. Olborne. vj 
 
 1762. Of the War.’ 
 
guns. 
 
 The Curieiix of Sf. Maloe 6 carriage 
 
 The Maiouin of ditto lo 
 
 The Mignion of Bayonne 8 
 
 The Grand Admiral of Bayonne lo 
 
 Neuftra Senhora de la Piedad g 
 
 alias Golondrina 
 
 The Due de Fronfac armed fliip 
 of 420 torts (afterwards foM for 
 2810 pounds) with 89 regulars 
 for Louifiaiia ^ 
 
 Another fhip of 250 tons bound 
 for Louifiana 
 
 A.Spanilh packet boat of St. Se- 
 ‘Baftian’s with iron and flour for 14 
 
 the Havannah 
 
 Lc Baillen of Rochelle , 14 
 
 La Minx of Rochelle ■ 10 
 
 The Fortune from Smyrna to 
 Marfeilles 
 
 men. 
 
 33 
 
 80 
 
 ^3 
 
 85 
 
 65 
 
 59 
 
 160 
 
 68 
 
 captors, 
 
 ^olus and BrUli4m.’qet‘ 
 
 Ditto, :-'i o^_ TO feiiUJ' 
 
 Ditto. _ 
 
 Liverpool Captain Knight. 
 
 Aldborough Captain Graham. 
 '«T . /jcuer 
 
 Mermaid. 
 
 Ditto. 
 
 Royal William. 
 
 Royal William. 
 
 , t- u <-• 
 
 carried into Leghorne by the Gi- 
 braltar. 
 
 . (A 
 'sj 
 
 CHRONOtOGICAl. AWNAtS I762 
 
guns. 
 
 L’Etoile de la Mer, a Spanifh 
 Regifter fliip from; Campeachy, 
 
 ■worth 200,000 piaftres. Apiaf- 
 tre amoutits to 3* and y** fter- 
 
 Alt'..' i‘ 
 
 .it ■ r: ,o®t 
 
 . j r 
 
 22mne and fix 
 
 The Jupiter of Bayonne pounders. 
 
 '!■ '2 -ynj 3 t.. jQ fwivels. 
 
 t^Two large French (loops and 
 ^ fnow valued at upwards of 
 1 0,000 pounds 
 
 A Spanilh (hip of 500 tons,having 
 a part of her loading on board 
 eftimated at upwards of 30,000*, carriage 
 
 taken near Pon Omoha at the ^ 
 
 entrance of the' Golfodolcc in 
 the Bay of Honduras 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 ... ~ 
 
 A frigate. 
 
 ? V 
 
 185 Looe Captain Penny. 
 
 Alarm Captain Aimes. 
 
 .^bisTO ip'Jty 
 
 Port-Royal fioop L^tenant ^ 
 Duff, together with the Weft- 
 inorland privateer of 16 guns, 
 
 C. Balfour Commander. ^ 
 
 'CVbtui; ^ 
 
 
 17621 ’ -^Of the' War;' 
 
guns- 
 
 A French (hip valued at upwards 
 
 
 of 10,000 pounds 
 The Micollet of Bayonne 
 
 14 
 
 A French privateer 
 
 12 ^ 
 
 Ditto 
 
 14 > 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Two large pramcs deftroyed off 
 
 12 y 
 
 Dunkirk 
 
 
 A privateer brig of Cape Fmn- 
 
 
 jois 
 
 
 Noftra Senhora de Begonia of 
 
 I 0 
 
 fix pounders 
 
 Bilboa. 
 
 20 fwlvcls 
 
 ^une. 
 
 The Revenge of Marleilles 
 
 JO 
 
 Le Volage of Dunkirk 
 
 2 carriage 
 Ibme fwivels 
 
 The Mars of Marfeilles 
 
 10 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 carried into Guadalupe by the 
 Foudroyant. 
 
 136 Venus Captain Harrifon. 
 
 Echo. 
 
 LoweftofFe Captain Stirling, 
 Levant. 
 
 155 Venus. 
 
 62 Pallas Captain Clements. 
 
 65 Alarm cutter Lieut. Anningfon. 
 
 Dolphin Captain Keeler. 
 
 276 Chronological Annals 1762. 
 
The Maria and Jofeph Spanifh 
 privateer, p 
 
 Le Serviceable of Morlaix 
 The Skuer lugfail privarcer 
 
 A rich Spanifli fnow 
 
 The Due de Broglio, with fix 
 ranfonaers on board 
 A Domingo merchant-man and 
 ■ four Spanifh fnows laden with 
 • wine and provifipns 
 
 I.e Jacques French privateer 
 
 Tl>e Savage cutter privateer of 
 
 Dunkirk 
 
 •1 
 
 guns. 
 
 4 carriage 
 
 8 
 
 2 carriage 
 6 fwivcls 
 
 14 carriage 
 
 2 carriage 
 8 fwivels 
 
 4 fwivels 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 30 Looe Captain Pennj'. 
 
 50 Mermaid Captain Watfon. 
 
 46 Liverpool Captain Knight. 
 
 fent into Oporto by Sir Edward 
 Hawke’s fleet. 
 
 80 Difpatch, floop Captain Bertie. 
 Shannon frigate. 
 
 41 Liverpool. 
 
 taken and funk by the Hazard 
 ^5 floop Captain St. John. 
 
 1762:, Of the War. 
 
^ngufi. 
 
 La Dunkerqualfe of Dunkirk, 
 with ranfomers on board for 
 800 guineas 
 
 A fmall French privateer 
 A French lugfail privateer 
 A merchantman from St. Do- 
 jLmingo, richly laden. 
 
 A itndl privateer and two 
 fchooners 
 
 September. 
 
 The Carnabcl privateer of St. 
 Sebaftians 
 
 La Galga of St. Sebaftian’s 
 Due de Penthievre, of Bayonne 
 The Count de Flandre of Dun- 
 kirk 
 
 The Galgo Spanifti privateer, 
 pierced for 1 8 guns. 
 
 guns. 
 
 4 carriage 
 4 fwivels 
 
 8 carriage 
 
 6 
 
 14 
 
 10 
 
 14 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 30 Diana Captain Adams. 
 
 deftroy’d by the Grace cutter. 
 Lyon cutter Lieutenant Reeves. 
 
 Lynn. 
 
 carried . into Jamaica by the Fo- 
 wey Captain Mead.. 
 
 ' ■ *l3 ' 
 
 80 Venus and Lark. 
 
 56 Juno Captain Falconer. 
 
 106 Venus and Lark. 
 
 yo Diana. 
 
 136 Venus and Lark. 
 
 Chronoj-ogicai. Annals 1762. 
 
^ \ I guns. 
 
 The Cantabria Spanifli privateer 14 
 
 A large French ftigate with mi- l O 
 
 . iitary fibres for Newfoundland _ 
 
 OSloifr. 
 
 La Parfaite Spanifh privateer i 
 
 Le Charlequint 
 The Levrecte of Nantz 
 The Crozon 
 
 The Amitie f/'O 1 
 
 Le Vidoire of Bayonne 12 
 
 November, 
 Le Hercule 
 
 2 carriage 
 6 fwivels 
 
 « CO 'O ^ GO 
 
 men. captors. 
 
 1 1 5 Looe Captain Penny. 
 
 iSragbn Captain Hervey. 
 
 , / ■ -1^ 
 
 U . 1 JCT 
 
 103 Arethufa Captan Vane. 
 
 30 Grace and Endeavour cutters. 
 55 Cornwall Captain Mann. 
 
 ^6 Venus Captain Harrifon. 
 
 yy Arethufa. ,, 
 
 77 
 
 19 Martin floop Captain CaldwaiL 
 
 VI 
 
 so 
 
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 •viBinab 
 
The CONCLUSION. 
 
 H aving brought down thefe Annals to 
 the figning of the Prelinunaries of 
 Peace between Greot-Britainy France^ 
 and Spain ; I lhall now conclude with fome 
 particular Obfervations. But, in the firft 
 Place, I hope the candid Reader will pardon 
 me, when I inform him, that I have not de- 
 fcended into a minute Relation of every Cir- 
 cumftance which may have diftinguiuied the 
 feveral Engagements by Land and Sea. A 
 very entertaining French Biographer has de- 
 clared, that “ We ought to be diffident of 
 thofe Perfons who enter into a full Det^l 
 « of modern Hiftory, and penetrate into the 
 « Secrets of the Cabinet ; who pretend to give 
 Us an exaft Account of every Battle, when 
 even the Generals themfelves would find 
 much Difficulty in doing it.” 'The only 
 Thing which I dare affert, is, that I have 
 taken fome Delight in tracing the Succeues ot 
 my Country, without forming the fmalleft 
 Pretenfions to the Copioufnefs and dignity of 
 an Hiftorian. 
 
 — Summa Jequor FaJHgta Kerwn. 
 
 Thofe who defire a more diffufed Account, 
 may be led, by the Dates, to the Store-Houfe 
 of the public Papers, from which this Epi 
 tome has been generally extraared. It will be 
 enough for the Annalift, if at lead: he rnay be 
 thought not to have abufed his own idle le- 
 ® dentary 
 
282 Chronological Annals 
 
 dentary Hours, whilft he was employing them 
 in this Recapitulatbn of the many gallant 
 Services performed by his Fellow Citizens in 
 an; adtive Military Life. 
 
 Tshe Peace is yet in its Infancy ; and before 
 we venture to determine peremptorily upon 
 its Stability and Continuance, it may be pro- 
 per to wait till the mutual Animofities of the 
 contending Parties have cooled by infcnfible 
 Degrees. The Sea continues in Agitation af- 
 ter the Storm is over; and the Waves do not 
 immediately fubfide into a perfedl Calm r Or, 
 to exprefs mylelf in the Lines of Statius, 
 
 Ut Ji quando ruit, debellatafque retiquk 
 'Eurus Aquas, pax ipsa tumet, Eon- 
 tumque jacentem 
 Exanimis jam vohit Hicsns. 
 
 One Thing however may be aflerted with 
 Confidence; which is, that the Poverty and 
 Diftrefs of the principal Powers of Europe 
 will be flronger Guarantees of Peace than the 
 Faith of a modern Treaty. 
 
 Upwards of two hundred pitched Battles 
 have been fought in Europe within the fpace 
 of fourfcore Years c Few have been more 
 bloody and lefs decifive than thofe of the War 
 which I have been commemorating. The 
 Fruits of the Vidtory near Prague were loft 
 in the Defeat ^tKolin. The celebrated Adtions 
 of Rojbach Lijj a, together with the Re- 
 
 dudtion oiBreJlau and Scl3weidnitz, co&. the E- 
 nemies of the King of PruJJia 50,000 effedlive 
 
 Men ; 
 
Of the War. 283 
 
 Men j Yet that very Monarch received two 
 fevere Checks from xh.t^‘jiujirians in the 
 Courfe of the following Year. T he other 
 Battles were attended with a Diverfity of Suc- 
 ccfs, and only enabled the cxafperated Adter- 
 faries to ravage and depopulate the moft fruit- 
 ful Provinces. The RuJJians were conquered 
 at Zorndorfi at Ziilicau and Cunnerf(hrJ-ixht'i 
 triumphed in their Turn: Thoufands fell 
 
 upon thoufands in thole long and defpcrate 
 Engagements. The Swedes and PruJJians in 
 Pomei-ania, were more innocent Antagonifts ; 
 confining their Views principally to the taking 
 and retaking of Anclam and Demmin, two 
 weak and defencelefs Places. The moft dif- 
 tinguiftied Adtions of the War between the 
 French and the Allies were included in a 
 fmall Tradl of Country : The feveral Arrhies 
 marched again and again over the fame fpot 
 of Ground : In the mean time the Troops 
 fuffered from Fatigue and Want, and the 
 plundered Inhabitants died of Famine. Through 
 the Extent of the largeft Part of Germany, it 
 feemed a Matter of Emulation who fliould oc- 
 cafion the greateft Diftrefs. The Operations 
 of a Campaign were feldom determined by the 
 Severity of the Seafon. Confiderable Marches 
 were made, and Battles given, in the Winter 
 Months. In 1759. fourthoufand Men in the 
 Aujlrian and Imperial Armies perilhcd 
 through the Cold j and, without Doubt, the 
 PrnJJians fuffered in the fame Proportion. Ac- 
 cording to an Account in the public Papers, 
 
284 
 
 Chronological Annals 
 
 the Auflrian Party in Holland confeffed that 
 they had loft 56,000 Men in that Year. The 
 Bruffells Gazette, which was favourable e- 
 nough to the French, acknowledged that, in 
 1 7.^ I , France expended between feven and 
 eight Millions Sterling upon the German War. 
 Fro|n this fummary Relation, it appears with 
 fufficLent Evidence, that the principal Powers 
 concerned in the War had Reafon to wilh for 
 the return of Peace, ip refped; to their own 
 particular Sufferings, as well as to the general 
 Mifery of Mankind. 
 
 The partial Spaniard entered late into the 
 Difputej but in the fhort Courfe of an un- 
 equal Conteft, he became in a very literal 
 Senfe of the Words, , 
 
 Dedecorum pretiofus Emptor. 
 
 The Rcafons whidi the Court of Madrid 
 publifhed to the World, to juftify their In va- 
 {\on oi Portugal, are hardly to be paralleled 
 but by thofe which Peter the Great alledged 
 agdnft Charles the twelfth j viz. that he, the 
 Czar, had not received fufticient Honours 
 when he palfed incognito through Riga, and 
 that Proviftons had been fold too dear to his 
 Ambaffadors. Under the Pretext of thefe cu- 
 rious Grievances, Peter ravaged Ingria with 
 100,000 Men. Voltaire obferves, that the 
 young King of Sweden did not dream of a dif- 
 ferent Morality for Princes and private Per- 
 fons. In Truth, the Laws of Morality are 
 equally obligatory upon Both ; and Kings may 
 be as vli'tuous as the meaneft of their Sub- 
 
 jedls : 
 
Op THE War. 2^5 
 
 jefts : In Fadt, to the Shame of Chriftiati ah4 
 Catholic Monarchs, la ^eJHon de Morateje- 
 mele peu de la Conduite des Souverains 
 mily Connedtions, and the various PiAreffes 
 of Portugaly ought to have prevented the t)e- 
 folation of that Kingdom ; But Ambition a- 
 vails itfelf t>f thofe Calamities which Nature 
 reverences. A fatal Earthquake j a daring 
 and wicked Attempt upon the Life of the So- 
 vereign ; the very dreadful Punilhment after- 
 wards inflidted upon the noble Families which 
 were concerned in that Attempt; the Expul- 
 fion and total Ruin of the Jefuits ; all thefe 
 working together, had weakened to a great 
 Degree that reciprocal Affedtion and Confi- 
 dence, which conftitute the true Happinefs 
 both of Prince and People. In this Ferment 
 of Men’s Minds, the Confequences of an Ir- 
 ruption on the Part of Spain were dubious. 
 Such an Irruption, unprovoked and cruel as it 
 was, might have given Spirit and Power to • 
 Difaffedlion ; or it might have called back the 
 Attention of the Court and Nation to their 
 mutual Intereft, and have at lead: united a 
 wretched Country before it was fubdued. Up- 
 on the whole, it feems to have done neither ; 
 The King maintained his Prerogative, and 
 the Subjedt abandoned himfelf to his Cow- 
 ardice. The Portugiceze, (fome of the Pea- 
 fants and Regulars excepted) anfwered the 
 Charadter which Lord Peterborough gave of 
 them in one of his Letters from Valencia-, 
 “You may have received (fays he) by Italy, 
 
 “ be- 
 
286 Chronological Annals 
 
 before thefe come to Hand, fome Letters 
 “ which I writ in the Uncertainty of what the 
 “ Portuguefes might do. By all Accounts, the 
 ‘‘lead: Oppofition would have made them 
 turn. back. It was hard enough to make 
 “ them 'walk to Madrid, hho’ meeting no Re- 
 <f £liance.” — In the Introduftion to the fe- 
 cond Part of thefe Annals, I expatiated with 
 Plfcafure upon the bright Pages of their Hif- 
 tory ; I wifli they had afforded me frefli Mat' 
 ter of Praife. The following Extrail: out of a 
 little printed Defcription of Portugal, which 
 I read when I was in that Country, ought to 
 make a modern Portuguese blufh, upon the 
 Comparifon of his Anceftors Virtue with his 
 
 own Degeneracy. Refoheo-Je el Rey D. Joao 
 a bufcar o Exe?-cito CaRe\hano,Jeguindo o pare- 
 cer do Condejlavel •, Marchou com poucos e va~ 
 
 lerofos Soldados, e fe toparao os dous Exercitos 
 
 na conhecida Campanha de Algibarrota. V irao os 
 Caftelhanos o Exercito Portuguez com Defprezo, 
 
 e teve entao Dijculpa, a fua Vaidade, fundada no 
 feu Poder. Era tao deftgual o Numero da nojfa 
 
 Gente, que fe pode duvidar,Je foy mayor Ac^ao 
 refolver a Batalha, ou veneer. A 14 de Agojlo 
 do Anno de 1385, Dia fempre faufto na nojfa 
 Memoria, garihamos aquella celebre ViBoria, que 
 
 confejfao felmente as Hijiorias de Cajiella, ejere- 
 vem com Efpanto as ejlrangeiras, e referem as 
 nojfas com Modejlia. “ The King Don John, 
 following the Advice of the Conftable, de- 
 \ * termined 
 
T A 
 
 Of the War. 287 
 
 ** terniineci to go in Search of the Army of 
 Cajiile marched with a fmall Body of 
 valiant Soldiers ; the two Armies placed 
 themfelves in the well-known Plain of j^/- 
 ^\bdrrot(X. The Cdjlilicins looked upon the 
 ** Forces of Portugal with Contempt ; and, at 
 « that Time, their Pride, founded on their 
 “ Power, received a jult Punifliment. The 
 Number of our Troops was fo unequal, that 
 « it may be a Matter of Doubt, whether it was 
 “ a greater Adion to refolve upon the Battle, 
 
 “ or to conquer. On the 14th of Auguji in 
 “the Year 1385, a Day always to be ftampt 
 “ as a fortunate one upon our Memory, v/e 
 “ gained that famous Vidory, which is con- 
 “ feffed faithfully in the Hiftories of Cajlile, 
 recorded with Aftoniftiment in thole of fo- 
 ** reign Nations, and related with Modclly. in 
 “ our own.” — Whenever the Portugueze 
 lhall again rife into the fame Adivity and Vi- 
 gour by which they were diftinguifl'icd during 
 this Ihining Period, or during that fuccelsful 
 War (termed by them th War cj the Accla- 
 mation) which they commenced againft Spain 
 in 1640 j it will then be prudent in us to lup- 
 port their elTential Interefts with our Treafure 
 and our Blood : And they ought to consider 
 with themfelves, that neither the Spaniards 
 may be always deftitute of Provifions, nor the 
 Rains always fall in a critical Sealbn But 
 whilft their military Genius continues in its 
 prcfent feeble and langullhing State, I cannot 
 but be poncerued when I refleft, that their 
 
288 Chronological Annals 
 
 only Neighbour may once more become thelf 
 worft Enemy, and that we are obliged to be 
 their Friends. 
 
 Providence was fo wonderfully favourable 
 to us, in the whole Courfe of the War, that 
 we felt but a fmall Part of thofe Calamities 
 which diftrefled the Continent. Our Succeffes 
 were often improved and heightened by the 
 little Lofs with which they were obtained. 
 Admiral Bofcawen purchafed his naval Con- 
 queft at the Expence only of 56 Men killed 
 and 196 wounded. Frefli Gales, heavy Squalls, 
 and an horrid Coaft, did not prevent Sir Ed- 
 ward Hawke from making a fhort Winter’s 
 Day for ever glorious in the Annals of his 
 Country. On the 20th of November and the 
 following Days, the number of the French 
 killed, wounded, and drowned, amounted to 
 between three and four thoufand j that of the 
 Englip fell Ihort of 350. The Danger of the 
 Iflands and Shoals which the Britijh Fleet ef- 
 caped, is always to be remembered with Gra- 
 titude for had not the. Admiral brought to 
 when he did, the whole Squadron by general 
 Confeflion had been loft in lefs than half an 
 Hour. Our very Defeats feemed only to en- 
 hance the Pleafure of our ViBories. The Ad- 
 vantage which attended the French at Cor- 
 bacb was more than balanced by the Sur- 
 prize at Erxdorf. The FortrelTes of Munjier 
 znd Minden, with their large Garrifons, fur- 
 rendered to the Enemy ; and our Fears were 
 alarmed for Hanover. The Battle of Mtnden 
 
 drove 
 
Of the War. 
 
 289 
 
 drove the French from the Banks of the V/efer, 
 almoft to the Maine, We had hardly Time to 
 read the Account of our Misfortune at the 
 Falls of Montmorenci before we received the 
 News of a Viftory on the Heights of Abraham^ 
 and of the Surrender of ^ehec. A Letter from 
 General Murray informed us of the Lofs of a 
 Battle near the fame Height^ ; We were im- 
 mediately in Pain for our new Conquefl : A 
 fecond Letter from the fame General, allured 
 us that the Siege of ^ebec was ralfed with the 
 utmoft Precipitation. Our Repulfe before Bet- 
 Icifle, and our fuccefsful Landing upon that 
 Hiand, made only the Difference of fourteen 
 Days: To thefe I may add the important Re- 
 duction of the Havannah, after the inevitable 
 Delays of an obftinate and lingering Siege, by 
 which our Hopes and Fears had been alternate- 
 ly agitated for many W eeks. In this, and every 
 limilar Inftance, Ipfa Solicitudo commendat £- 
 ventum, et quaji lenocinatur Voluptati. 
 
 The domeftic Concerns of RuJJia will pro- 
 bably engage the Attention of that Govern- 
 ment, and leave it neither Liberty nor Incli- 
 nation to take a large Share in the Affairs of 
 Europe. The People may be kept in their 
 Obedience by the Clergy ; and the Clergy may 
 be treated with Refpedt : Peter the third ex- 
 perienced the fatal Effefts of a different Con- 
 duft; and the femprefs Catherine will ftudy to 
 avoid the Errors and Misfortunes of her. Huf- 
 band ; The interiour Qmet of this Country 
 
 T may 
 
2 go Chronological Annals 
 
 may be fecured by equal Laws, and a fenfible 
 SdLiniftration ; Yet, granting a« *cfe Things 
 
 are done, many Regulations muft be ftill wan - 
 
 ing, to civiliae the Rujiam themfelves, and to 
 refine them into a polilhed and cultivated Pto- 
 nle. That vaft Empire is in Length from 
 to Eaft, upwards of 6000 Miles j and in Breadth 
 from North to South, about 2400: But it is 
 very thinly inhabited in P^oP^^tion to its Ex- 
 tent : Nothing will more diftmguifh the Ca- 
 pacity of the Sovereign, or give a greater Luf- 
 tre to her Reign, than a regular and deter- 
 min’d Syftem of Policy ; by which Commerce 
 may flourifli, Manufadures increafe. Arts re- 
 ceive freih Life and Vigour, and Number 
 of the People augment equally with the Riches 
 of the State. A Plan of this kind is vaftly 
 to be preferred to the Acquifition of foreip 
 Conquefts; as it is infinitely more glorious for 
 Princes to encourage the Wealth and I opul^<- 
 nefs of their own Country, than to bring 
 ftruaion and Slavery upon any other 1 eople. 
 
 The reigning Emprefs has faithfully execu- 
 ted the Treaty, which the late Emperor con- 
 cluded with the King of Prujia, in its niate- 
 rial Articles; and has evactiated Prujta and 
 Pomerania. The keeping of the Ru£im 5 a 
 their prefent Diftance from Germany will 
 deferve the Confideration of Etirope: It has 
 ■already been too long the Cuftom to invite them 
 into it, upon any important Difference between 
 rival Powers. The Allies who attacked 
 
Of the War. 291 
 
 the 1 2th of Sweden in the Decline of his For- 
 tune, watched their Confederate Peter the 
 Great with a rational Jealoufy, and would not 
 fufFer him to get the leaft Footing in the Em- 
 pire. They did not know how foon fuch a 
 formidable Prince might aim at the firft Dig- 
 nity in Germany, to the Oppreffion of every 
 Sovereignty but his own: The unfortunate 
 Charles the Sixth, the laft Heir Male of the 
 Houfe of Aujiria, was the Perfon who intro- 
 duced the Ruffians into the Empire, by calling 
 them to his Affiftance in the War of 1733. 
 A large Body of them adfually marched to the 
 Rhine at his Requeft j and the Czarina Anne 
 promifed another of the fame Force, in Cafe 
 of Neceffity. Towards the clofe of the War 
 of 1741, Rujfia made a relpedlable Figure; 
 and, according to fome Politicians, contribu- 
 ted not a little to the Peace of Aix la ChapelJe. 
 Thirty feven thoufand Negotiators of this Na- 
 tion came into Germany j The firft Column of 
 them reached Furth j The fecond, Ehel/'eld, in 
 the Bifhoprick of Bamberg-, The third advan- 
 ced beyond Hoffm Moravia. A Jundfion was 
 originally intended between thefe Troops and 
 the Allies in the Low Countries ; but France 
 arrefted them in their Progrefs, by a Conven- 
 tion, which file made at Aix with Great-^Bri~ 
 tain and the States General, on the 2d of Au- 
 gujl 1748. She flipulated on her lide to fend 
 a proportionate Number of her Forces, which 
 were then in the Low Countries, , into the in- 
 teriour Parts of her Dominions, upon theim- 
 T 2 mediate 
 
292 CHROljOLOGICAL AnNALS 
 
 mediate Signature, , bF this Convention ; and 
 to ditand the lame Trpops or ah equal Num- 
 bei- wihin dncMolith after fhe had received au- 
 ScVnteUigence of the Departure of thefe 
 RiSm Auxiliaries'from Germany, towards thar 
 own Country. In the War of 1756, the i?#- 
 
 added Difcipline to Valour; and brought 
 Se firft Prince in Germany to the very Verge 
 of Ruin. Let therefore the Mimfters of every 
 fouthern Potentate think with Scrioufnefs, be- 
 fore they fpread frelh Temptations m the way 
 of thefe^Northern Heroes, which may prevail 
 upon them in the End to exchange a cold un- 
 comfortable Climate for an advantageous Set- 
 tlement in a mild and temperate Country. 
 
 It does not appear that iht Swedes had any 
 private or perfonal Quarrel with the Brother ot 
 their Queen : Their only real one was with the 
 Treat^hich they concluded zt Stockholm on 
 the 2ift of January 1720 N. S. By this Trea- 
 ty a Part of Swedjh Pomerania was ceded to 
 the Ploufe of Brandenburg. To give a clearer 
 Idea of the Motives which prevailed upon Swe- 
 den to enter into the War, 
 proper to mention the Swedip and 
 Pretenfions to that Province. Upon the Death 
 of Bolejlaus, Duke of Pomerania, whofe Fa- 
 mily had enjoyed this Dutchy 700 Years, the 
 leeal Right of Succeffion to all Pomerania 
 devolved upon the Houfe of Brandenburg: 
 But Gujiavus Adolphus had already taken Fol- 
 
 feffion of it, and the Power of the Swedes was 
 
 in- 
 
Of the War. 
 
 293 
 
 vincible. The Eledlor, who was the Anceftor 
 of the prefent King of Prujia , . afferted his 
 Claim in a curious and lingular Manner : He 
 fent a Trumpet to the States of the Dutchy, 
 and ordered them to fall upon the Troops of 
 Sweden : He was afterwards obliged to fubmit 
 to Necelllty, and to cede the heft and moft 
 fruitful Part of Pomerania to his Conapetitor, 
 by the Treaty of JVeftphalia. Upon the Defeat 
 of Charles the twelfth at Pultowa, it was natu- 
 ral to expedl that the Affairs of Sweden would 
 be brought into a miferable lituation. In F aft, 
 tliey were fo : KuJJianSy D/ines, Prujjtans, and 
 Saxo 7 is, united to crulh a, falling Power. Fre- 
 deric IVilUam King of PruJJia paid 400, 000 
 Crowns \.oDenmark ^nAPuffia for Stetin, which 
 he agreed to hold in Sequeffration : The Re- 
 gency oi Sweden confented to this Bargain; but 
 Charles, untraftable in every Fortune, refufed 
 to ratify it. The King of Pruffin. afterwards 
 offered to deliver up Stetin^t On the Re-payment 
 of the 400, opo Crowas, and on a P'romife 
 from the King of Sweden, that, he would not 
 invade either Saxony or Pqland through Pome- 
 rania : But this Offer never took Effeft. Charles 
 the twelfth being killed in 1718 at the Siege 
 of Frederickjiaat.m Norway, the Swedes 
 great Sacrifices for the Sake of Peace : By the 
 third and nineteenth Articles of theTieaty of 
 Stockholm, they granted the City of Stetih, the 
 ' Diftrift between the Oder and the Pehne, the 
 Hies of WoUin and 'UJedopi (which command 
 the Navigation of the Oder) together with the 
 ° T 3 Cities 
 
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 Cities of Damm and Golnaw fituated beyond 
 the Oder, to the King of Prttjia in Perpetuity; 
 to be poffeffed by that Monarch, exaftly as they 
 had been by Sweden, according to the tenth 
 Article of the Treaty of Wejlphalia. The King 
 of PrvMa, on his Part, engaged to pay two 
 MUlions of Rixdollars to the Q^een of Sweden, 
 Things remained upon the Footing of this 
 Treaty till 1757, when the Danger which fur- 
 rounded and threatened the prefent King of 
 PruJJia on every Side, feeiiied to point out to 
 Sweden the cntical Opportunity of recovering 
 the Places which fhc had relinqiiifhed : She 
 therefore entered into a fecret Convention with 
 the Court of Vienna, ftipulated to make a Di- 
 verfion in Favour of the Enemies of PruJJia, 
 and was promifed, in Return, the PofTeflion of 
 a Part of Pomerania, This Faft was infifted 
 upon in the Memorial of the Court of herlin. 
 The King knew (fays that Memorial) that it 
 was the Acquifition of this Province, ceded 
 by the moft folemn Treaties, and fold for con- 
 fiderable Sums to the late King of PruJJia, 
 which was the Objedl of the Ambition of 
 Sweden, and the Reafon of her Enterprize, 
 whilft the Peace of Wejlphalta was to be the 
 Pretejet. — After a Conteft equally tedious and 
 infignificant, Sweden was difpofed to leave off 
 juft where fhe had begun: This firft, and baf- 
 fled Attempt, will in all Probability deter her 
 from entertaining any Thoughts of a fecond, 
 for niany Years to come. 
 
 The 
 
Of the War. .. 
 
 The prefent Century has, been fatal 
 ny : Her Diftrelfes indeed are extreme, ^itd 
 more properly a Subjeft for Pity, thap for 
 Dilfertation. Under King Augujius the Father* 
 the Elcdlorate became a Prey to Charles 
 twelfth, who made it his military Cheft, and 
 fubfiftedhis Army out of its Revenues. The 
 Repartee of King Augujius deferves to be re- 
 peated here t ^Vhe^ P atkel the Livonian^, who 
 haxl ferved as an Officer in the Saxon Troops, 
 was condemned by the Senate of Stockholm to 
 lofe his Head for High Treafon, he endeavour- 
 ed to obtain his Pardon by pretending to com- 
 municate the Secret of the Philofopher s Stone. 
 Charles rejeded the Applications which were 
 made in his Favour : Upon which Augujius 
 obferved, “ that it was no Wonder the King 
 “ of Sweden fhewed fiich Indifference about 
 “ the Philofopher’s Stone, fince he had found 
 “ it in Saxony.” Under Augujius the Sm,. 
 
 this Eled:orate has t^ice fek the Superiority of 
 PruJJia’, and there is hardly a Tingle Calamity 
 of War, to wliich it is a Stranger ; It has af- 
 forded a cqnvincing Proof to the World, that 
 in thcnDiTputes between the. Houfes of Aujiria 
 
 and Brandenburg, _ : 
 
 imparibiis Je immijeuit Arms. 
 
 For' ffiree Years, the King of Prujicf main- 
 tained, himfelf in the Poffeffion of Brejden : 
 ■During that Time, this rich and harraffed 
 Country was obliged to anfwer every Demand 
 which the Neceffities of aConqueror preferib’d. 
 
 Saxony 
 
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 Saxon^Mnovf divided between its Friends and 
 Enemies ; Drefden is yet in the Hands of the 
 Aujirians, and Leipjick in thofe of PruJJia. 
 General Haddkk and the Prince of Stolberg 
 had obtain’d fome important Advantages over 
 Prince Henry in the middle of lad OSlober ; 
 They flattered themfelves that thofe Advanta- 
 ges! would have been permanent, for the Sea- 
 Ion of' the Year had already proved fliarp and 
 rigorous ; a Quantity of Snow had fallen the 
 very Day after their Succefs, which was dri- 
 ven by a Wind fo cold, as to pervade the warm- 
 ed Cloathing : But all their promifing Expec-^ 
 rations were of a fhort Duration. Prince Henry., 
 at the. Head of an inferiour Force, fupported 
 by the Abilities and Intrepidity of the Gene- 
 rals S.t'idlitz.,<^tutterheim the Elder, and 
 
 Belh'ngt gzve z cotnpleat Defeat to the Aujiri- 
 ans and Imperialijls under the Prince of ^tol- 
 redored the Honour -of th&PruJJan Arms,- 
 and edabliflied hindelf firmly in his Part.oi> 
 the Ele<dorate. The Lofs of the Enemy at a 
 moderate Computation amounted to 7000 Men; : 
 whild that of the Conqueror hardly exceeded 
 1400. When Peace is once more concluded 
 in Germany, we may flatter ourfelves that King 
 Augujius, reclaimed , by Experience, will take 
 a Leflbn from his Misfortunes, and prevent a. 
 Repetition of thefe Evils by a total Change of 
 his political Sydem* Nothing lefs than a fet- 
 tled and perfedl Tranquility, can ever repair 
 the Delblation, which his hereditary Domini- 
 ons have fufferedi or enable him to recover 
 
 his 
 
,1 
 
 Of the Wa"?.. 297 ' 
 
 his ConfideratiDn and Influence amongft the 
 Princes of ftlie Empire. 
 
 Volhtir^Vi'XS dated the Nature of thofe Claims, 
 which the King of firft made upon Si- 
 
 lefia, with 'an elegant Brevity. “ II y pr^ten- 
 “ doit quatre ’Duches, dont-fa Maifon avoit 
 “ 4te, autrefois en PolTeflion, par des Achats 
 *• & par des A'ftes de Confraternite. Ses Ayeux 
 “ avoient- renortee a routes leurs Pretenlions 
 “ par des Trartfadions reiterees parce qu’ ils 
 
 etoient foibles ; II fe trouva puilfant, & il les 
 “ reclama.’- Si/^/a is, at prefetit, in no Dan- 
 ger of changing its Mailer : Aujlna left to her-^ 
 felf alone wilt manage with Difficulty an un- 
 equal War. It is to be wiflied, rather than ex- 
 pefted, that the Emprefs Queen of Hungary y 
 and the King of Prujia, Would at lail drop the 
 Memory of their old Provocations, and permit 
 the true Interell of their refpedlive Countries 
 to prevail over the mutual Injuries which they 
 have done and fuftered. A firm and cordial 
 Friendlhip between two fuch powerful Sove- 
 reigns would foon heal the W^ounds of Cr^r- 
 tnany : Political Dillradlions, intermixed with 
 religious Difi^rences, have long w'eakened the 
 Empire; and the W^eaknels of the Empire has 
 been the Strength of France. — The following 
 extraordinary Anecdote is too remarkable to be 
 omitted in this Place, efpecially as it rells upon 
 fufficient Authority; but whether it moll di^ 
 llinguilhes the Spirit or the Art of the Em- 
 prefs Queen, I will not take upon me to deter- 
 * mine. 
 
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 mine. In the Year 1758, while the King of 
 Pruffia was befieging Olmutz; the FnencA Am- 
 baffador, alarmed at the probable Confcquen- 
 ces of that King's SuCcefs, was defirous of per- 
 fuading the Emprefs Queen to think of fome 
 Terms of Accommodation. He ventured to 
 alk her, if, in Cafe of bad Fortune, ihe would 
 wait for her vidlorious Enemy at Vienna, and 
 ftand a Siege in her Capital? No, Sir, faid that 
 Princefs ; when he advances to Vienna, I wiU 
 retreat to Prejburg : And what. Madam, re- 
 plied the Ambaffador, if Vienna ihould not.be,, 
 able to arreft the Conqueror in his Progrefs'ii 
 You will hardly throw yourfelfinto the Armsi; 
 of the T'urk. That I will never do, anfwer d 
 the Emprefs ; I will colled: my faithful Hun- 
 garians, and perhaps I may give battle to th6i 
 King before Prejburg: Should I be defeated,’ 
 I will write a Letter to him, in which I will 
 let him know that our Differences are inexpia- 
 ble', That therefore I will meet him, at a Phee 
 to be named, in my Poft-Chaife, with a Brace 
 of Piftols; That we will draw up near to each 
 other, and He lhall then perceive, that I have 
 a Courage above my Fortune, and a Relolution 
 fuperiour to my Sex. 
 
 The general Happinefs of Mankind w'^ould 
 tempt me to delire ^if fuch a Delire correfpond- 
 ed with the eftablifhed Conflitution of Things) 
 that fomething limilar to the laji Determination 
 of our Houfe of Commons, in the Cafe of a con- 
 troverted Eledion, might effedually take Place 
 
\t 
 
 I 
 
 i- 
 
 r. 
 
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 Of the War. 299 
 
 5n the public Concerns of Rurope ; And that 
 all future Treaties of Peace might carry- with 
 them a cert-ain and perpetual Obligation upon 
 the contrading Parties. Extenfive Power has- 
 indeed been too frequently founded upon U-' 
 furpation and Violence; But it the pillaged- 
 States were never to be fatisfied, till they had 
 obtained the Reditution of their difmembred 
 Provinces, there could not be any fuch Thing- 
 as Peace in the World : War tranfers the Pro- 
 perty of the vanquiibed: And it is better to ac- 
 quiefce at once, even under an Ad of profpe- 
 rous Iniuftice, than to be involved in a cruel 
 and endiefs Struggle upon a Difpute ot Right. 
 
 It has been aflerted upon fair Grounds of 
 Probability, that France was drawn with Re- 
 ludance into herclofe Connedions with Spaim 
 That Ihe did not care to increafe the Load of 
 her own Difficulties, by taking thofe of another 
 upon herfelf; That flie would have finally de- 
 fined from her Pretenfions to a Satisfadion for 
 the Captures made upon her before the Decla- 
 ration of War, and that flie would not have 
 played her laft deep Game of the Family Cotn- 
 pad, if fhe had not previoufly loft the hope of ob- 
 taininga Peace upon thofe Conceffions, tovvhich 
 fhe had determined her Submiflion. Spam, on 
 the contrary, encouraged a Continuation of the 
 War; flattering herfelf with the Expedation 
 of Seeing us at laft bend under our enor- 
 mous and growing Debt, and of feizing upon 
 that favourable Opportunity to 
 
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 Peftru<5tion. With a View to this Policy, the 
 Marquis Grimaldi privately threw every Ob- 
 llacld in the Way of Mr. Stanley, which could 
 ferve to interrupt the Courfe of the Negotiati- 
 on. If thefe material Fa< 5 ts Ihould ever be clear- 
 ly, afcertained, it will be no eafy Matter to com- 
 prehend how or wherejore Peace came to crop 
 through our Hands in 1761. Nor let it be 
 imagined that Great-Brttam and Frafice were 
 moving on pan pt^Ju, to Ruin : had Glory 
 
 and Credit to lofe; France had loft: both long 
 before: The Conftitution of our. happy Govern- 
 ment fecures theFortune of the Suhje^. Britons 
 are free in the nobleft Senfe of the Word 
 
 Soli magnis agitant j'ub Legihus'. JErcum. 
 
 Amongft us, Lidividuals are rich in the midft 
 of national Poverty : In France, the public 
 Wants will be fupplied, whatever may be the 
 P'ate of private Property. 
 
 I defire to be ranked in the Number of thofe 
 who refpedt a late Adminiftration. I confefs 
 with Pleafure, that we were awakened from 
 a Lethargy of Defpairj that a new. Life ani- 
 mated our Meafures, to the Amazement ofour- 
 felves, and the Confulion of our Enemies; that 
 the Gentleman who took the Lead at this cri- 
 tical Seafon, formed and executed bis Defigns 
 with the fame Spirit; that he was neither ftart- 
 led at Difficulties, nor intimidated by Expence; 
 that during the entire Continuance of his acti- 
 vity, Succefs attended, like an obedient Hand- 
 maid, upon his vigorous Councils : To him 
 .»• therefore 
 
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 therefore I may addrefs myfelf with Propriety, 
 in the Words of a Panegyrift, “ Initium La- 
 “ boris nureVi anFinenif Multutn ejl (^uod 
 “ fever aJHy Plus t amen, quod non timnifti ne 
 “ perfeverare non pofes." This able Minifter 
 withdrew himfelf attewards from the Condutft 
 of public Affairs : And I cannot help thinking 
 that he defcended one Moment from his Gre^- 
 nefs, when he voluntarily charged himfelf with 
 a fuppofed Fault, and indiredlly cenfured thofe, 
 who might be obliged to venture upon the Re- 
 petition of it} For he willingly owned, thathe 
 had departed from his private Judgment at the 
 Time of his confenting to reftore to the French 
 the Liberty of fifhing upon the Banks of Mew- 
 founland: He owned too that he had yielded in 
 this important Article, to prove his Readinefs 
 and Praiticability in the Courfe of the Nego- 
 tiation; Yet he declared that the Expences of 
 another Year would be amply fatisfied, by ob- 
 taining an exclufive Right to the whole Fifhery 
 on thofe Banks. What he did, gave the French 
 an Advantage, which I am perfuaded, they 
 would have never parted with; Whathey^/«, 
 could not fail of being a Stumbling Block m 
 the Way of any other Minifter. 
 
 The glorious Events which marked the Pro- 
 grefs of our late War ftill left behind them a 
 Weight and Oppreflion of Debt, which grew 
 heavier Year after Year, beyond the Experience 
 
 rhaps beyond the 
 Times. Govern- 
 ment 
 
 and Belief of the paft, and pe 
 pofhble Ability of fucceeding 
 
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 ment no longer impofes Taxes upon the Luxu- 
 ries or Comforts of Life; It has now reached 
 the Neceffities of it. Real and fenfible Wants 
 will raife the Price of Labour ; The Price of 
 Labour will advance that of the Manufadture; 
 And the advanced Price of the Manufadlure, 
 will enable the Rivals of our Trade to underfell 
 us in a foreign Market. The Failure of our 
 Negotiation in 1761. coft us many Millions; 
 The Failure of it in 1762. would have coft us 
 as many more ; And the nearer we approach- 
 ed our Deftrudlion, the Submiflion of our 
 Enemies would, I am afraid, have been at the 
 greater Diftance. Policy, Reafon, Duty to 
 the prefent and to every future Generation, all 
 called upon us to ftop here. A Peace well ad- 
 jufted, and well adminiftred, might relieve us 
 from fome of thofe Burthens, which a Conti- 
 nuation of the War would have certainly in- 
 ereafed : And that Peace, confidered in a civil 
 or religious View, would probably be the moft 
 durable, which left enough for ourfelves, and 
 yet gave fomething to our Enemies. There is 
 a Defpotifm by Sea as well as by Land ; And 
 if we had affedled to be upon the Ocean, what 
 we have often accufed France of labouring to 
 be upon the Continent; Our averfiori would 
 not have been to the Power, but only to the 
 Hand which held it. Like a victorious Wreft- 
 ler at the old Olympic Games, we are deferved- 
 ly proud of thofe mighty Efforts, which we 
 have made ; Like him too, we fhould remem- 
 ber, that we are weakened and debilitated 
 
 ' even 
 
Of the Wbr 
 
 303 
 
 even by the very Exertion of our Strength : 
 Time and undillurbed Reft are neceflary to 
 refrefh and recruit our exhaufted Spirits. Let 
 us therefore refled with a grateful Satisfadion, 
 that the Conquefts which we have retain’d, will, 
 under the Protedion of Providence, place our 
 Colonies beyond the Reach of future Infult, and 
 will extend our Navigation and Commerce; 
 Whilft thofe which we have reftored, will 
 ferve as a convincing Proof to the World, that 
 we have been fighting for Security, not Am- 
 bition. Permit me therefore to apply to my 
 Country, the exprefiive Words which Fliny 
 applied to 'Trajati. “ Vt ipfa nolis pugnarCy 
 “ Moderatio ; Fortitudo tua prajiaty ut nequt 
 “ Hojies tui velinty 
 
 The Study of the Roman Hiftory generally 
 makes a Part of our early Education; And the 
 dangerous Merits of thofe Republicans are fo 
 deeply imprelled upon our tender Minds, that 
 we are apt to confider every Thing which re- 
 lates to them under an habitual Prejudice. Yet 
 Rome, in Fad, was the Tyrant, and the Op- 
 preflbr of Mankind: Her Ambition and her 
 Valour were equally unbounded ; One Con- 
 queft was the Prelude to another; And her 
 own particular Gloiy became the Caufe of 
 univerfal Milery. We feemed, not long ago, 
 to be ading upon the fame Principles, and to 
 influenced by the fame domineering Spirit; 
 But we did not recoiled, that in the brighteft 
 Times of the Commonwealth, Roverty was 
 
 com- 
 
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 compatible with Greatnefs. Confuls aud Dida- 
 tors defpifed Wealth as heartily as they de- 
 
 fpiled an Enemy. 
 
 Privatus Hits Cenfus erat brevis 
 
 Commune magnum. 
 
 The Cafe of this Country is unfortunately 
 the Reverfe ; And I hope we fliall never imi- 
 tate Roman Pride, without the fnialleft Preten- 
 fion to Roman Virtue. If we are ready enough 
 to admire the military Perfedions of Rome ; 
 we are not lefs fo to boaft of her Laws and 
 of her Liberty : But by one of the Laws of 
 the ^voelve fahlesy a capital Puniihment was 
 enaded againft the Publiflicrs of defamatory 
 Compofitions: It is contained in few Words; 
 Si quis Carmen occentajjit, quod alteri Flagitium 
 faxit, Capital ejio. Cicero declareshis full Appro- 
 bation of this Law; Pr cedar e-, Judicis enim ac 
 Magijiratuum Difceptationibus legitimis, propo- 
 Jitam Vitam, non Poet arum Inge nits, habere de- 
 bemus’y nec Probrum audire, niji ed Lege, ut 
 refpondere liceat, et yudtcio defendere. Our own 
 Laws are particularly tender of every Man’s 
 Reputation : The Reafon is fenfible and evident; 
 The Charader of a Man is his Property ; and 
 it is the nobleft that he can poflibly acquire ; 
 A Jury of Lnglijhmen will in moft Gales con- 
 lider any great Injuny done to the F^me in the 
 fame Manner as if it had been done to the 
 Fortune of another. If a fair and honefl; Name 
 is dear to the meaned; Individual, I prefume 
 it is equallly fo tQ tlipfe who fill an high Station, 
 
Of the War. 3®| 
 
 and ate charged with the Affairs of 
 ment. Succefsful Obloquy, in the liifffer Ifti- 
 ftance, is of a worfe Complexion} btk-ahftit 
 fpreads a fatal Poifon far and wide, add riiafces 
 even the Virtues of our ruperiours ditfigerOus 
 to thcmfelves, and ufelefs to their Country. 
 I with the Gentlemen who indulge khd (?h^’ifh 
 a Fault of this Malignity, would confider both 
 its Guilt and its Aggravations. 
 
 It is one of the cleareft and moft indifputa- 
 ble Principles of Liberty, that the Governed 
 have a Right to interpofe their Opinion upOn 
 every Subject of national Importance} \et the 
 more important the Subjedt is, the greater 
 ought to be the Decency and Candour with 
 which it is debated. A fober Appeal to the 
 Rcafon of the People will always be attended 
 to with Pleafure, and often with Convidtion i 
 But an inflammatory Addrefs to their Weak- 
 nefies, or their Prejudices, is nothing better 
 than a Libel upon Freedom itfelf. It turns 
 into Poifon the very Food which was intended 
 for our Nourilhment, and fhakes our whole 
 political Syftem under the Pretence of preferv- 
 ing it: And I could almofl: venture to alk my 
 Countrymen in their cooler and more difpafh- 
 onate Moments, if the popular Sufpicion and 
 Jealoufy which brake out with fo much Fury 
 on the firft Report of the negotiating of the 
 Preliminaries, did not offer Violence to the 
 acknowledged Prerogative of the Crown, af- 
 front the Virtues of the Prince who wears it, 
 jj and 
 
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 and proftitute, to the Purpofes of Fadion, the 
 boaftcd Liberty of the Frefs ? What the con- 
 ftitutionai Liberty of the Prefs is, it may be 
 diificvdt to fay with Precifion : Perhaps, like 
 the Privilege of the Peerage, it is more fecurc 
 bvE hbl being ftridly and minutely defined : 
 And e'v-ery one who wifhes well to diis Liber- 
 ty,,' ^! a8 I very cordially do) ihould wifli alfo 
 that the Blafphemy and Licentioufiiefs of the 
 prelent Age, the wanton Abufe of. Religion 
 and Government, may not render it neceffary 
 for the Legillature to determine its Boundaries 
 by a clear and pofitive Law. ■ 
 
 in Vitium Libert as excidat, et Vim 
 
 Dignam Lege regi. 
 
 \s _ . 
 
 But I think it is eafy to fay what is not the 
 cortftitutional Liberty of the Prefs. It is not 
 then the Overflowing of perfonal Calumny and 
 -Invedlive ; It is not the Sowing of Sedition in 
 the Hearts of the People, and the feducing of 
 their Affedlions from their native Sovereign ; 
 *^t is not the torturing of Texts of Scripture to 
 ihe mofl; profane Senfes, in equal Defiance of 
 -the Laws of God and Man. Whoever com- 
 .mits thefe enormous Offences againll his Coun- 
 try, and yet pretends to Ihelter himfclf under 
 the Privilege of the Prefs, appears, to , me to 
 ,be adting the Part of another Clodius, who 
 firfl; deftroyed the Houfe of Cicero, and aftcr- 
 .wards had the Affurance to confecrate the 
 
 whole 
 
Of the War. 307 
 
 whole Area upon which it Hood to the God- 
 defs Liberty. 
 
 The Mafic of public Zeal covers the Deformi- 
 ty of private Refentment, “ Potetitia aptidUnumi 
 “ Odium, apudOmnes^' is an Axiom pradically 
 recommended by modern Politicians ; Lcicitus 
 applies it to alow and worthlefsCharadler; They 
 are for giving to it a free and unlimited Appli- 
 cation. He who enjoys the Power, ought in- 
 deed to guard againft the Hatred, with every 
 Degree of Circumfpeftion and Addrefs. If the 
 Hatred muft neceflarily purfue him. Hill Com- 
 mon Senfe will perfua’de him to tread careful- 
 ly a flippery Path ; and ter make the Effeds of 
 fuch an Hatred juftly chargeable upon the 
 Condudl of his Adverfaries, not his own. He 
 Will never difguft Equals by Haughtinels, or 
 Inferiours by Contempt 5 For that would be 
 to brave an impetuous Torrent, which nothing 
 can oppofe. A Strength able to defeat Refift- 
 ance, is only to be maftered by Dexterity. 
 
 I do not know, even by Sight, the noble 
 Lord who has long been honoured with' the 
 Confidence of his Prince; I am willing to be- 
 lieve that he has not yet deferved to forfeit this 
 Confidence, by vitiating the Mind of his Ma- 
 fler with falfe Knowledge, or licentious Opi- 
 nions * It has been afferted, that he was better 
 qualified to aft the Part of a SchoolmaHer, 
 than of a Minifter: Let him therefore be 
 intitled to the Credit of having encouraged 
 U 2 thofe 
 
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 thofe happy Principles which he found in his 
 royal Scholar, and which have already render- 
 ed him the Delightof his Subjedls: And when 
 this Credit fhall ripen more and more by the 
 improving Teftimony of his Majefty’s Virtues, 
 perhaps it may at laft be rewarded with the 
 Approbation of a grateful People. 
 
 Abilities and Integrity are the great Quali- 
 fications which the Spirit of our Conftitution 
 requires in thofe who are nominated to the firft 
 Offices of Government : If there is no Defi- 
 ciency here, it will be a Matter of extreme In- 
 difference to me. Who are Minifters; Only 
 Duty and Inclination oblige me to refpeSl the 
 Choice of my Sovereign : But if once the Na- 
 tion is worked up into a Difpute, not about 
 Things, but about Perfonsj If Pretenfions to 
 Truft -and Influence fhall be regarded as a Right 
 of Prefcription under one Man, and fliall yet 
 be deemed haughty and tyrannical under ano- 
 ther j I cannot then but lament the Infatuati- 
 on of my Countrymen, who have countenan- 
 ced fuch a Variety of incendiary Papers, to 
 prove this particular Perfon a Favourite, and 
 to promote the Views, of an infolent Ariflocra- 
 cy. The Law is a Stranger both to the one and 
 the other ; But there is this eflential Difference 
 between them; An Ariftocracy is always for- 
 midable; A Favourite isfeldom fo, when the 
 AfFe<3;ions and Interefts of the Prince areknown 
 to be infcparably united with the Public Good. 
 And let us not be deceived by an idle Notion, 
 
 that 
 
Of the War. 309 
 
 that the Ereftion of an Ariftocratical Power in 
 this Kingdom will ftifle the Rage of Party- 
 Divilions amongft us. The Confederacy of 
 great Men is dillblved, as foon as the Rival 
 Authority which connedted it is fubdued. 
 An honed: Irijhrnan once ventured to (hut fomc 
 Game Cocks up together, becauje they were 
 matched on the fame Side-, But upon his return- 
 ing to feed them, he difcoveTed with Afto- 
 nilhment, that for Want of an Enemy, they 
 had begun the Battle amongft themfelveS, and 
 were adtually picking out each other’s Eyes. 
 
 The fame Perfons who have clamoured 
 loudeft againft the Preliminaries of Peace, 
 might perhaps have exalted their Voices againft 
 the Continuance of the War? fuch Gentlemen 
 even Impofllbilities would not fatisfy. A fair 
 and temperate Judgment of the Merit or De- 
 merit of any Peace is not to be formed upon 
 the lingle Confideration of the Articles thcm- 
 felves, but upon an exadt Knowledge of the 
 Comparative Situation and Ability of the con- 
 tending Parties at that particular Point of 
 Time in which the Peace is made. — A War 
 upon the Continent, incapable of being main- 
 tained or relinquifhed ; An unfortunate Ally, 
 whom it was equally dangerous to abandon or 
 to defend; A gallant Nation, confuming itfelf 
 between Hanover and Portugal, and almoft 
 overpowered by a full Tide of Succefs; Thefe 
 Circumftances, combined together, obliged us 
 to confult our immediate and future Safety. 
 
 U 3 The 
 
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 The Reader may perceive the gradual Increafe 
 of our annual Expeuce, if he will caft his Eye 
 upon the following Account. Having been 
 niilled myfelf by erroneous Calculations of the 
 Supplies granted by Parliament during theWar, 
 and having printed thcfe Calculations at the 
 End of the refpedfive Years j it is particularly 
 incumbent upon me to correct iriy own Mif- 
 takes: Ihave therefore faithfully extraded this 
 Account from the Several appropriating Ads, 
 and from thole alone. 
 
 Years. Supplies. 
 
 4,520,327. 12 8 
 
 ■ 7 ’ 9 ' 5 ’ 43 °- 4 61 
 
 330^906. 6 si 
 
 10,475, 7. o I 
 
 12,705^339- 3 8| 
 
 14,636,930. 15 9I 
 
 17,301,119. 19 9! 
 
 16,794,153. 18 III 
 
 Total 92,679,215. 02 ’ 
 
 The Supplies granted by 
 Parliament for the Service of 
 theYear 1 754 (which was the 
 lart: Year of Peace) amounted 
 to two Millions two hundred 
 fixty five thoufandaiid fixteen 
 Pounds tenShillingsand two- 
 pence ; If the Reader multi- 
 plies this Sum by eight (the 
 
 1755 
 
 1756 
 
 1757 
 
 1758 
 
 »759 
 
 1760 
 
 1761 
 
 1762 
 
 Years 
 
Of the War. 3* * 
 
 Years of the War) it will ,v| , 
 
 come to — 18, 120, 132. ,1^ 
 
 And the multiplied Sum 
 being dedudled from the : : 
 
 great Total above, the Re- 
 mainder will be 74 > 559 >o« 3 - 0 8? 
 
 This Remainder is, to a 
 Trifle, the extraordinary Ex- , , 
 
 pencewhlch the Government 
 has incurred in the Profecu- i 
 
 tion of the late War. T welve 
 Millions more at leaft (I am 
 afraid) are ftill wanting, and 
 mufl: be raifed, to enable the 
 Publick to re-enter upon its 
 own ftanding Revenue, and 
 to difeharge Anticipations, 
 
 Exchequer- Bills, the Navy- 
 Debt, the bringing home of 
 our Armies and Fleets from 
 the different Parts of the 
 World, and the fubfequent 
 difbanding of them. Thefe 
 Twelve Millions being added 
 to the Account, the War 
 will, upon the whole, have 
 cofl: this Nation the ama- 
 zing Sum of 86,559^083. o 8 , 
 
 In 
 
CHRON'OLt)GICAL AnNALS 
 
 3^2 
 
 It is impoffible to fuppofe that the ordinary 
 Charge of Government in Time of Peace, can 
 be cii^umfcribed within the Limits of that Sum 
 which Was raifed in the Year 1754. Our ad- 
 ditional Poffeflions^ demand an additional Ex- 
 pence! But we may hope, that the regular 
 Commerce flowing in upon us from our Con- 
 quefts- and the Ceflions made to us, will in a 
 few Years anfwer this Expence, by a propor- 
 tionate Increale of the finking Fund. Portugal 
 may alfo favour our Trade, either by taking 
 off the Duty which the impofed upon it fooii 
 after the Earthquake, or by abolifliing the late 
 Monopoly of Brandy i We have not ungene- 
 roufly worked upon the Fears of a dijlreffed 
 Kingdom ; and we may reafonably expedt a 
 Recompence, from the Gratitude oi one which 
 we have relieved. 
 
 In this State of Things, the Preliminaries of 
 Peace have been figned and ratified : By the. 
 feveral Articles of the. Preliminaries, the moft 
 Chriftian King guaranties to Great'r Britain in 
 the mofl; ample Form, the following Tradts of 
 Country in America^: Nova-Scotia-, or Acadia, 
 with all its Dependencies j Canada, with all 
 its Depedencies ; The Ifland of Cape-Breton, 
 with all the other Iflands in the Gulph and 
 River of St. Lawrence ; The River and Port 
 of Mobile, and every Thing that the faid King 
 does or ought to poffefs on the left or Eafl: Side 
 of the River MiJJtJJippi-, (the Town and Ifland 
 
Gf the War. 
 
 
 ot New-Orleans only excepted j) fixing irre- 
 vocably the Boundaries.of the Fmcb 
 tifh Dominions upon the Continent of FlortU- 
 America, by a Line drawn along the middle 
 of the River MiMJippi from its Source dowa 
 to the River Iberville, and by another: -Line, 
 drawn along the middle of the latter Riv^y 
 and of the Lakes Maurepas znd Pontebartram 
 to the Sea or Gulph of Mexico ; declaring the 
 Navigation of the MiMippi to be exempted-, 
 from every Duty, and entirely free and open 
 to the Subjeds of both Nations in its wboW 
 Breadth and Length, from Source to the 
 Ikid Sea or Gulph of Mexico, and that ^rt 
 exprejly which is between the liland of 
 Orleais and the right or weft Bank of tl e 
 
 Mijjiffippu together with the _ 
 
 and ouT of the Mouth of that River -The 
 moft Chriftian King g^^tanties m lite M^aur 
 ner, to Great Britain, the Iflands of Grenada, 
 GrenadiUas, St. Vincent, Domtniea, 
 tro. — In Africa, Senegal guarantied to 
 In AJia, the moft Chriftian King renounc^. 
 
 the Acquifitions which he has made on the 
 Coaft of Coromandel, fince the Commence- 
 ment of Hoftilities between the two 
 niesin 1749; and engages not to eredny 
 Fortifications, or to keep any Troops ^ 
 
 By this Engagement, the Territory and Tiade 
 of the Eng/i/b EaftTndia Company fecu- 
 redi- both which have been enlarged fince t 
 Year 1749, hf the Power of Their own Arms, 
 and the NeceiTilies of the Subas of Bengal. 
 
Chronological Annals 
 
 3‘4 
 
 In Europe, the moft Chriftian. King promifes 
 to rellore Minorca to Great-Britain j and all 
 the Conquefts which he has made upon the 
 Dominions of Hanover, HeJJe, Brunfwick,znA. 
 Lippe^Buckebourg, to their refpedtive Sove- 
 reigns i and to replace faithfully all the Artil- 
 lery- that fliall have been removed from the 
 feveral Fortreffes : He engages alfo to evacuate 
 OJiend and Nieuporty together with Cleves, 
 Wefel, Gueldres, and, in general, all the Coun- 
 tries belonging to the King of Prujfia. This 
 Stipulation in Favour of his PruJJian Majefty, 
 and the Sum of 2,680,000/. Sterling which 
 that Prince has received from our Generofity, 
 by the feveral Conventions of the Eleventh of 
 jlpril and the feventh of December i 75 ^> 
 ninth of November 1759, and the Twelfth of 
 December 1760, will be fuHicient Proofs to 
 Europe, that Great-Britain has not been a 
 barren and an unprofitable Ally. — The Town 
 and Port of Dunkirk are to be put into the 
 State fixed by the laft Treaty ol Ain la Chapelle, 
 and by former Treaties : The Cunette is to 
 remain in its prefent Condition, if the Brttijl} 
 Engineers fhall declare that it is only of Ufe 
 for the wholfomnefs of the Air and the Health 
 of the Inhabitants. 
 
 In Regard to Great-Britain and Spain, the 
 Catholic King defifts from his Pretenfion to 
 the Right of Fifhing about the Ifland of New- 
 foundland fubmits the Validity of the Prizes 
 made upon his Subjedts in Time of Peace, to 
 
Of the War. 3^5 
 
 the Determination of the Courts of Juftice of 
 Great-Britain ; Andaffurcsto the 5n///6Subjedls 
 trading for Logwood in the Bay of Hondaras, or 
 ellewhere, the free lixercifc of that Bratic<h6f 
 Commerce, with the Liberty of buildingHott^s 
 and Magazines; on this foie Condition, that the 
 Fortifications erefted in theBay.andinthe tJther'- 
 Parts of the Spcnijli Territory, fhould be de- 
 molifhed within four Months after the Ratifi- 
 cation of the definitive Treaty. — The Catho- 
 lic King guaranties iikewife to Great-Bntam 
 all Florida, or the Poffellions of Spam upon 
 the Continent of North- America to the Ealt 
 or to the South-Eaft of the River Mrffifftppt: 
 By this Ceffion, the vail Territory of Great- 
 Britain upon that Continent is entirely and 
 perfedlly connedled : Fort-Augujhne, which 
 in former Wars committed frequent Depre- 
 dations upon the Trade of Charles-Fown 
 South-Car olina, will be put into our Hands; 
 and a fenfible Service will be rendered to the 
 Commerce of that very flourifliing and impor- 
 tant Colony. 
 
 The King of Portugal is exprefly included 
 in thefe Preliminaries, as the Ally of Great- 
 Britain : Every Thing taken from him in Eu- 
 rope or America is to be reftored; and ne 
 Peace and Friendlhip which before fnbfiited 
 between France, Spain, and Portugal, are to 
 be re-eflabliflied. 
 
 The 
 
316 Chronolo6ical Annals 
 
 i-i 
 
 The Prifoners made on each Side during 
 the War are to be releafed : And the Sove- 
 reign of the Country in which they fhall have 
 been detained, is to receive Satisfaftion for the 
 Subliftance and Maintenance which he has 
 aifbrded to them. 
 
 Great-Britain and France mutually engage 
 themfelves to caufe all their Troops in Germany 
 to retire as foon as poihble into the Territories 
 of their refpedtive Sovereigns, and not to fur- 
 nilh any Succour of any Kind to their Allies 
 in the Empire ; with this Exception, that the 
 moft Chriftian King fhall be at Liberty to ac- 
 quit all the Arrears of his former Sublidies. 
 
 By the latter Part of the Sixth Article of 
 the Treaty of Utrecht, the Frenih King con- . 
 fented and engaged, that he would not for the^ 
 Interefts of his Subjefts hereafter endea\'bur to*’ 
 obtain, or accept of, any other Ufage of Navi- 
 gation and Trade to Spain and the Spanijh-^ 
 J^'ejl-Iudtes, than what was pra<3:ifed in the 
 Reign of the late King Charles the Second of , 
 Spam, or than what fhould be likewife fully^ 
 given and granted, at the fame time, to other . 
 Nations- and People concerned in Trade.; The 
 Treaty of Utrecht is a Treaty which exifted 
 before the late War; And the prefeht Preli- 
 minaries renew and confirm all the Treaties, 
 of what Nature foever, which exifted before 
 the War; as well between Great-Britain and 
 
 France, 
 
Of THE War. 317 
 
 France, as between Grcat-Britain and Spefin, 
 as alio between either of them and Portugal, 
 notwit hjlanding whatever may have been ftipu^ 
 lated to the contrary by any of the high contrast*' 
 ing Parties-, And all the laid Parties declare, 
 that they will not fuffer any Privilege, Favour, 
 or Indulgence to JuhfiJi, contrary to the Trea- 
 ties above confirmed. Thus the Danger, with 
 which the Family Compaft menaced our com- 
 mercial Interefts, is, I hope, elFedlually re- 
 moved. 
 
 To recompence the Reftitutions and Ceffi- 
 ons made on the Part of France, Great-Bri’^ 
 tain confents that the Subjefts of the moft 
 Chriftian King (hall have the Liberty of filh-' 
 ing and drying their Fifh on a Part of the 
 Coafts of Newfoundland, agreeably to the 13'“ 
 Article of the Treaty of Vtrecht, and alfo of 
 filhing in the Gulph of <S/. Laurence-, with 
 this Referve, that the French lhall, in the Ex- 
 ercife of thefe Fifheries, keep at the Difiance 
 of three Leagues from all the Coafis of the 
 Continent, or of the Iflands in the Gulph of 
 St. Laurence, and at the Diftance of 1 5- Leagues 
 from the Coafis of the Ifland of Cape Breton. 
 The Iflands of St. Pierre and Miquelon (the 
 former three Miles broad, and the latter fix) 
 are to be ceded to France for the Ufea of her 
 Fifiiery, the mofi Chrifiian King obliging him- 
 felf upori, his royal IVord to ereft no- Fortifi- 
 cations, and to maintain only a fmall Gua-rd 
 of 50 Men for the Police, — Guadeloupe, Ma- 
 
 riegalante 
 
•ji8 Chronological Annals 
 
 riegalante, Dejirada, MartinicOy and S". Lucie 
 or Santa-Lucia, are given back to France. 
 ThelOi are the Terms granted to that Crown 
 in America. — In AfricUy France recovers the 
 Pofleffion of Goree. — In Ajiay Pondicherry 
 rumit de fond en comblcy is redored to her ; 
 together with the feveral Comptoirs which be- 
 longed to her EajF India . Comp-iny in BengaU 
 and on the Coafts of Malabar and Coromandel. 
 This Reftitution fupei-fedes that Part of the 
 Treaty concluded between the Nabob and the 
 Company in 1757, in which the 
 were for ever prohibited from fettling in tlie 
 three Provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orixa. 
 In Europey the Ifland of Belleijle is given back 
 to France. 
 
 The King of Great- Britain redo res to Spain 
 all that he has conquered in the Ifland of 
 Cuba. 
 
 The Time reciprocally permitted to the In- 
 habitants of the ceded Countries for their E- 
 migration, is fixed to Eighteen Months from 
 the Ratification of the definitive Treaty. 
 
 Between the Rupture of the Negotiation in 
 1761, and the Signature of the prefent Preli- 
 minaries, Great-Britain had acquired Marti- 
 nico, Santa Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, the 
 Grenadillas, and the Havannah. I do not re- 
 coiled! that we took any formal jPolTeflion in 
 Tobago. 
 
 , Portugal 
 
Of the War. 
 
 3^9 
 
 Portugal relieved, Florida ceded, and our 
 Dlfputes adjufted with Spain, are a reafonable 
 and Iblid Equivalent for the Havarmah. 
 
 In Return for Martinico, we have obtained 
 the French Poffeffions on the left or Eaft Bank 
 of the Mijiffippi, and the Cell'ion of Grenada 
 with the Grenadillas. 
 
 The following appear to me to be the mod; 
 material Variations between the Articles which 
 mifearried in 1761, and thefe which have been 
 now brought to Maturity. 
 
 In 1761, the Lakes Huron, Michigan, and 
 Superiour, were to be comprehended within 
 the Limits of Canada ; and thefe Limits were 
 to be further deferibed and diftinguiflied by a 
 Line traced from the Lake Rouge, and taking 
 in, by a winding Courfe, the River Ouabache, 
 to its lundtion with the Ohio-, and from that 
 Junaion, the faid Line was to continue along 
 the Ohio to its Point of Confluence with the 
 Miffiffippi: But the two Crowns were not per- 
 fedlly agreed in Regard to the Indian Nations 
 fituated between the Britijh Settlements and 
 the MijJiJJippi^ — All Difl-'erences about the 
 Boundaries and the Indian Nations are now 
 happily terminated j The moft extenfive and 
 the cleardt Limits are given to our Poircffions 
 on the Continent of North- America, beyond 
 the Reach of future Sophiflryand Debate. 
 
Chronological Annals 
 
 In 1761, it was ftipulated that the Subjefts 
 of France fliotild exercife their Cod-Fifhery 
 on a Part of the Coafts of Newjoundland 
 and in the River St. Laurence, according to 
 the Tenor of the is'" Article of the Treaty 
 of Utrecht, abftaining from every other tart 
 of the Coafts belonging to Great- Britain, 
 whether of the Continent, or of the Ijlands. 
 The Ifland of St. Pierre, without Fortificati- 
 ons, was to have been ceded to them for the 
 foie Purpofes of their own Fiftiery, fubjeded 
 to the Refidence and Infpedion of an Englijh 
 Commiffary. — The Ifland of Miquelon is now 
 addTtothltofS.. Pierre: The moft Chrifti- 
 an King*s royal ^Vord is preferred to the keep- 
 ing of an Englijh Commiffary upon the Spot; 
 but the French are not permitted to fifli with- 
 in a certain fpecijied Dijiance of our Coafts. 
 
 In 1761, the French demanded .^kra and 
 Anamaboo in Exchange for Gorh and Senegal-, 
 or Senegal m Exchange for Goree.—Now they 
 have obtained Gorie. 
 
 In 1761, we confented to treat of an equal 
 Partition of the four neutral Iflands; but 
 France infifted that Santa Lucia ftiould be de- 
 clared a Part of her Divifion. — Santa Lucia 
 is no%o reftored to France, and the other three 
 remain with Great-Britain. 
 
 In 
 
Of the War. 
 
 321 
 
 In 1761, the French conftantly and per- 
 emptorily refufed to evacuate and reftore the 
 Territory of the King of Frujjia. Now they 
 have confented to evacuate it. 
 
 In 1761, the Difputes between the two 
 Companies in the Eaji- Indies were to be fettled 
 bjr Commiflaries, and to be concluded at the 
 fame time with the Negotiation between the 
 two Crowns. Now thefe Difputes are cffe£tu- 
 ally determined. 
 
 In 1761, the French propofed and we re- 
 iedted a mutual and abfolute Renunciation of 
 the German W^ar. Now this Meafure will 
 be carried into Execution. 
 
 In 1761, the French demanded Satisfadtion 
 for the Captures made upon their T rade before 
 the Declaration of W ar. — Now this Demand 
 is pafled over in profound Silence. 
 
 In 1761, the Prifoners were to be recipro- 
 cally fet at Liberty without Ranfom. Now 
 Satisfadlion is to be made for their Mainte- 
 nance and Support. 
 
 In 1761, France declared that fhe would 
 preferve the Cunette of Dunkirk for the Sa]u. 
 brity of the Air and the Health of the Inha- 
 bitants. — This Cunette is now fubjedled to 
 
 X the 
 
222 CHRONOL6QICAL AnNALS 
 
 the Infpeaion and Judgment of the BritiJIx 
 Engineers. ’ 
 
 I In 1761, the Term of Emigration for th^ 
 Inhabitants of theceded Gemntries waA confined 
 to one Year.— It is now enlarged to Eighteen 
 
 Months. ' 
 
 Nothing can be rejloredt which has not been 
 firft lojl. If therefore we coniadcr our Glory 
 and Acquifitions as dearly bought with the 
 Millions which they have coft us; What mhft 
 the French think or fay> who have purchafed 
 Dilgrace and Lolles at fuch an enorriaous Ex- 
 pence ? 
 
 But it is now Time to difinifs the Reader ; 
 and I hope he will pardon me, if I difinifs 
 him with a fhort Refledtion. It was a daring 
 and infamous Saying of a Marflial of Francet 
 Le bon Dieu e toujours du Goti des grofs 
 “ Battalions I perfuade myfelf that the un- 
 exampled Succefs of the late War; the “ con- 
 “ teSH ceedibus Camph et hifeSta ViBoriis Ma- 
 “ ria" have left a ferious Impreflion upon our 
 Minds, and infirudled us to glory in acknow- 
 ledging that “ through God we have done thefe 
 «« great Adis, and that it was He who trod 
 down our Enemies.” Yet fomething more is 
 wanting to perfedl our Gratitude; which is, 
 to exprefs it in our whole Condudi : Peace and 
 War, Life and Death, are in his Hands, Nati- 
 ons are rewarded and puniflied in this World. 
 
 Public 
 
Of the War. 323 
 
 Public Reformation belongs to our Governors j 
 Private, to every Individual in the Kingdom: 
 And let it be always remembred, that among 
 the various Bleffings which are promifed to the 
 virtuous Perfon, this alfo is particularly men- 
 tioned, that, ** He Jloall fee Jerufalem in Pro- 
 ** fperity all his Life long.” Thus will the beft 
 Man, be, in Fa<5t, the beft Citizen: and the 
 lincereft Obferver of divine and human Laws, 
 will approve himfelf the trueft Friend to the 
 Pteace and Happineft of his Country. 
 
 /(a 9 /. rt ^ 
 
 /iC, AVeyf 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
%> 
 
 ADVERTISEMEjN T. “ 
 
 ■ < U 
 
 The Reader is defired to obferve, that any fupl 
 pofed Ambiguity in the wording the Prelinii- 
 nary Articles, may, and doubtlefs will, be explain* 
 ed and removed by the Definitive Treaty : For his 
 Majcfty has been gracioufly pleas’d to declare, that, 
 in what remains to be done, the Publick may de- 
 pend upon the utmoft Care and Attention on his 
 Part to fettle every Thing which concerns the Inte- 
 refts of his Kingdoms upon a folid and durable 
 Foundation. The Affair of the Antigallican’s 
 Prize (to which forrie of the News-Papers have re- 
 ferred) could not have been introduced into the 
 Preliminaries with any Propriety, becaufe the Fif- 
 teenth Article fubmits the Validity of all Prizes 
 made upon Spain in Time of Peace, to the Deter- 
 mination of our own Courts. 
 
 iioo 
 
 The Compiler is fo diffident of himfclf, and lo 
 fearful of impofing upon the Reader, that he muft 
 entreat him not to take any of his Remarks upon 
 Truft, but to depend upon his own Judgment and 
 a more' accurate Information. 
 
 L ?.i«. 
 
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 loqu abiawr ■ ' r- : ; —D ^ - 
 
 !fi eldanofi - - ^ 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 T hese Annals terminating with the 
 Signature of the Preliminaries, the 
 Compiler of them is excufed from taking No- 
 tice of any Fadts under a more recent Date. 
 But it will not be imputed to him as a Fault, 
 if he obferves that the Ratifications of the Pre- 
 liminaries were exchanged at Verfaillest with 
 the Duke of Bedford, by the Minifters Pleni- 
 potentiary of France and Spain, on the 2 2d 
 of Novetnher j and that a Cellation of Arms 
 was publifhed in Great-Britain, by Proclama- 
 tion, on the 26th of the fame Month. 
 
 The following Accounts are prior to, or 
 of the fame Date, with the third of November. 
 
 October 26. The Sheernefs of 24 guns, Captain 
 Clarke, put into Villa Franca in the Mediterranean, 
 after having been purfued by a French fliip of 64 
 guns, and two frigates. Thefe three men of war 
 came to an anchor in the fame harbour, foon after 
 the arrival of the Sheernefs. The Miriervc, one of 
 the frigates of 24 guns, ftruck upon a rock, ■ and 
 was loft in Jefs than two hours. A very high fea pre- 
 vented all aiilftance from the ftiore, but did not in- 
 timidate Captain Clarke *, who fent his people to the 
 relief of their enemy. Tb^ Britifh Tailors exerted 
 themfelves fo effedfually, that the whole French 
 crew, about 25 only excepted, ( who were earned 
 away by the violence of the furt ) were preferved. 
 The French Commodore waited afterwards upon 
 Capfain Clarke, to thank him for his feafonable ab 
 ^ X 3 fiftance. 
 
326 appendix. 
 
 fiftance, and to cxprefs the great fenfe which he en- 
 tertained of fueh benevolence and generofity. 
 
 November 2. The Marquis de Marigriy, bound 
 from Bourdeaux to Cape-Fran^ois pierced for 24 
 guns, and mounting 20 nine pounders with 148 
 men, was taken by the Terpfichore Captain Ruth- 
 ven, after a fmart Engagement. 
 
 November 3. General Kleift penetrated into Bo- 
 hemia, by Enfiedel. 
 
 November 3. The Auftrians began to abandon 
 their Camp at Fravenftein in Saxony. 
 
 N. B. It is highly probable, that the city of 
 Manila, the capital of the ifland of Luconia, and 
 the chief of the Philippines, will be in our poffeffion 
 before the expiration of the term limited for a cef- 
 fation of hoftilitles in that part of the world. Per- 
 haps the Portugueze forts and fettlements on the 
 Rio de Janeiro in Brafil, may alfo be in the hands 
 of the French and Spaniards. If either of thefe 
 events fhould be found to have happened before the 
 third of November 1762, the reader will be fo good 
 as to fupply the place of this unavoidable deficiency. 
 
 The following fhips are reported to have been 
 taken, loft, deftroyed, or retaken, which are not 
 tOjibe found in this colleftion, 
 
 F REN C H. 
 
 , _ Ships, 
 Northumberland 
 
 Guns. 
 
 of 79 loft, 
 
 of 60 loft, 
 
 FRENCH, 
 
APPENDIX. 327 
 
 F R 
 
 E N C 
 
 H. 
 
 Ships. 
 
 Guns. 
 
 
 Alegon 
 
 of 50 
 
 deftroyed. 
 
 Aigle 
 
 of 50 
 
 loft. 
 
 Chariot Royal 
 
 of 36 
 
 taken. 
 
 Comette 
 
 of 32 
 
 taken. 
 
 Sauvage 
 
 of 30 
 
 loft. 
 
 Emeraude 
 
 of 28 
 
 taken. 
 
 Oifeau 
 
 of 26 
 
 taken and carried 
 into Gibraltar, 
 
 • 
 
 
 by the Blonde, 
 Capt. Tonyn. 
 
 Bienfaifant 
 
 of 22 
 
 deftroyed. 
 
 Marquis Marloye 
 
 of 18 
 
 deftroyed. 
 
 ENGLISH. 
 
 Ships. 
 
 Guns. 
 
 loft. 
 
 loft. 
 
 fctaken. 
 
 taken. 
 
 Mars (formerly French) of 64 
 
 Harwich of 5 ® 
 
 Winchelfea ^ of 24 
 
 Gramont (formerly French) 
 
 of 20 
 
 A floop of war from the 
 Havannah 
 
 Ferret of 
 
 Pheafant (formerly French) 
 
 of 16 
 
 Peregrine of 1 6 
 
 Diligence of 14 
 
 Duke (in the fervice of the 
 
 Eaft India Company) . 
 
 ABomb Yeflel and two armed Ships detained or taken 
 
 ot 
 
 
 taken. 
 
 loft. 
 
 loft. 
 
 loft, 
 loft. 
 
 loft. 
 
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A GENERAL INDEX of the Battles; 
 Naval Engagements; Ships of war and 
 the moft confiderable Merchantmen, Taken, 
 Loft or Deflroyed; Sfurmishes of Importance ; 
 and Fortresses Befieged, Taken, Relieved^ 
 or Evacuated, 
 
 BATTLES. 
 
 EUROPE. 
 
 Lowofchitz, page lo 
 Prague, (near) 17 
 Kollin, 18 
 
 Hattenbeck, 23 ^nd 24 
 Grofs laegcrfdorf gr Norkit- 
 ten, 25 
 Rosbach, 29 
 Breflau, (near) 30 
 Leuthen or LifTa, 3 1 
 Crdvelt, 5 5 
 
 Sanderhaufen or Sangerhau- 
 fen, 57 
 ^mdorf, 62 
 
 Luttenberg or Lanwerenha- 
 gen, 65 
 
 Hoch-Kirchen, 65 and 66 
 Bergen, 85 
 
 Kay near Zulicau, 91 
 Minden, 94 and 95 
 CunneHdorf, 97 and 98 
 Maxen, 108 
 LandQiut, 128 and 129 
 Warbourg, 132 and 133 
 PfafFendorf, between the King 
 of Pruffia and General Lau- 
 dohn, 1 34 and 135 
 Campen, 141 
 
 Torgap or ^ipliiz, I 43 > * 44 > 
 and 145 
 
 Langcnfaltzcn, 188 
 
 Grunberg, page 189 
 Kirch Denckern, 197 and 198 
 Wilhelmftahl, 234 and 235 
 Peile beyond Reichcnback, 253 
 Neuheim, ^57 and 258 
 Bruckcr-MuhJ, 262 and 263 
 Wilfdruf, &c. 264 
 Raihfwald, or the woo 4 of 
 Raths, 267 
 
 Freyberg, (near) 268, 296 
 
 AMERICA. 
 
 Fort Duquefne, (near) 2 
 « Lake George, 4 
 Ticonderoga, 57 
 Montmorenci, (near Quebec) 
 93 and 94 
 
 Heights of Abraham, (near Que- 
 bec) 10?, 103, 125 and 126 
 
 ASIA. 
 
 Between Colonel Clive and the 
 Nabob, 15 
 Plaifley, 19 
 
 Between the Marquis de Con- 
 Ban$ and Colonel in 
 
 Golconda, 69 
 
 Chincura, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Chiucura, (near) page no and 
 III 
 
 Wohdivafli, iig and 120 
 Patna, 185 
 
 Naval Engagement^. 
 
 EUROPE. 
 
 OfF Rochfort, between the 
 Colchcfter and the Lyme on 
 one fide, and the Aquilon and 
 Fiddle on the other, 6 and 7 
 In the Mediterranean, between 
 Admiral Byng and the Mar- 
 quis de la Galiflbniere, 7. 
 Between the Terrible and Ven- 
 geance Privateers, 14 
 Between the King George pri- 
 vateer and the Hironddle, \ 4 
 Between the Britannia and Gran- 
 ville Privateers, 21 
 OfF the High-land of St. Albans, 
 between the Southampton and 
 five French vefTels, 23 
 OfF Ollend, between tire Sea- 
 horfe frigate, Raven and Bo- 
 netta floops, and two French 
 frigates, 24 
 
 30 leagues from Scilly, between 
 the Prince Edward, and a 
 large French frigate, 25 
 Off Cape de Gatt, between part 
 of Admiral Osborne’s Squa-* 
 dron and part of the Frenrh 
 Squadron under M. de la 
 Clue, 47 
 
 In the Mediterranean, between 
 the Glafgow and Oifeau fri- 
 gates, 88 
 
 Off^ape Lagos, between Admi- 
 ral Bofeawen and M. de la 
 Clue, 98, 99 and 288 
 Between Sir Edward Hawke, 
 
 and Marfhal Conflans, page 
 108 and 109, page 288 
 Between Captain Elliot and M. 
 Thurot, 123 
 
 Between the Biddeford and 
 Flamborough on the one fide, 
 and the Opale and Malicieufc 
 on the other, 1 2 3 
 Between the Danae and t 
 French frigate, 223 i 
 
 Between the Harriot packet- 
 boat . and a French Privateer, 
 238 
 
 Between the Pallas and two 
 Spanifli Chebecks, at the en- 
 trance of the bay of Cadi?, 
 242 
 
 AMERICA, 
 
 Off Cape Race, between part 
 of Admiral Bofeawen’s fqua- 
 dron, and part of the French 
 fquadron under M, du Bois 
 de la Mothe, 1 and 2 
 Off Louisburg, between Captain 
 Holmes and M Beauflier, 9 
 Off Cape Fran9ois, betw'een 
 three Britifli men of war un- 
 der Captain Forreft, and four 
 French men of war togethef 
 with three frigates under M, 
 de Kerfin, 28 and 29 
 Near Guadaliipe and Montferat, 
 between th^ Buckingham on 
 the o'ne’fidS idd the iFlUrif- 
 
 fant. Sec. on the other, 67 
 
 ASIA. 
 
I N 
 
 D . E X. 
 
 ASIA. 
 
 OfF Alamparvey, between Ad- 
 miral Pocock and M. d’ Ache, 
 page 5 1 
 
 OfF Caric^ botw.een Admiral 
 Pocoek, and M.d’ Ache, page 
 59 and 6o 
 
 Between Admiral Pocock and 
 M. d’Ache, loi 
 Between the Engjifti and Dutch 
 in the river Bengal, no 
 
 S H I p s of War, and the moft confiderable 
 Merchantmen, Taken, Loft, or Deftroyed. 
 
 ENGLISH. 
 
 Doddington Indiaman, page 3, 
 Warwick, 6, 186 
 Greenwich, 14, 46 
 Merlin floop, 18, 25 
 Tilbury, 28 
 Invintible, 46 
 Prince George, 50 
 Bridgewater, 50 
 Triton, 50 
 Bolton Tender, 53 
 Stork floop, 63 
 Winchelfea, '65 
 York Indiaman, 67 
 Litchfield, 68 
 Grantham Indiaman, 77 
 Falcon Bomb, 87 
 Refplution, 109 
 Eflex, 109 
 Mermaid, in 
 Hunter Cutter, 1 1 2 
 Efther Cutter, 112 
 Marquisof Granby Bonjb Ketch 
 119 
 
 Ramillies, 122 
 Hawke Cutter, 1 22 
 
 Thames Merchantman, 123 
 Tartar’s prize, 124 
 Penquin, 1 M 
 Pepham Indiamau, 
 
 Prince of Wales Merchantman, 
 page 126 
 LoweftofFc, 1 27 
 Eurus, 136 
 Dublin Tender, 136 
 Virgin floop, 139 
 Lyme, 140 
 Cofiqucrot, 142 
 Duke of Aquitain, 1S5 
 Sunderland, 185 
 Newcaftle, 185 
 Qneenborough, 185 
 Proteflor, j 86 
 Cumberland, 186 
 Gi‘iffin Indiaman, 186 
 Ajax Indiaman, 187 , 
 Speedwell Cutter, 192 
 Fatalalam Indiaman, 203 
 Griffin, 207 
 Biddeford, 21 1 
 Raifonable, 222 
 Huflar, 231 
 
 Achilles Merchantman. '231 
 Chcfterfield, 242 
 Humber, 260 
 Scorpion floop, 264 
 HaVvke floop retaktnr, 213 
 
 FRENCH, 
 
IN D EX." 
 
 Mundenupon tke Orcke, 138 
 Witzenhauzeru 1.83 
 Saalfeld, 190 
 
 Queifs near GreifFenberg, 1 93 
 The- Soiling, 201 
 Convent near Goftin, page 204 
 Colberg, (near) ^04 
 Trcptovv, 207 
 Sanglow near Golnow, 207 
 Dobeln, (near) 231 and 232 
 Chemnitz, (near) 232 
 
 Hombourg, (near) 237 
 Adelsbach, (near) 238 
 Ditmansdorf (Heights of) 241 
 Lutterberg, 241 and 242 
 Gradrop near T oplitz, 244 
 
 AMERICA. 
 
 Loyal Hannon, page 65 
 Niagara, 92 
 
 Fortresses Befieged, Taken, Relieved, or 
 Evacuated. 
 
 EUROPE. 
 
 Fort St. Philip in Minorca, 
 page 9 
 
 Bielfeld, 18, 97 
 EMBDEN, 22, 48,204 
 Memel, 22 
 
 CASS EL, 22, 49,68, 89, 
 99, 133, 1.89, 268 
 Gottingen, 22, 59, 89, 133, 
 136, 253, and 2^4 
 Oftend and Newport, 22 
 Gabel, 23 
 Zittau, 23, 260 
 Hamelen, 24 
 HANOVER, 24, 47 
 Minden, 24, 48^, 90, 96 
 Brunfwick, 25 
 
 Wolfenbwttie, 25, 205, 206 
 Verden, 25 
 Gueldres, 25 
 Bremen, 26, 46 
 Bautzen, 26 
 Gorlitz, 27, 260 
 Aix, (Fort of) 27, 20a 
 BERLIN, 28, 140 
 Lignitz, 28, 32, 202 
 SCHWEIDNITZ, 30, 50, 
 203, 245, 266 and 267 
 BRESLAU, 30, 31, 32 and 133 
 Harburg, 32 
 
 Demmin, 32, 77, 107,135, I99 
 Anclam, 32, 78, 108, 12Q, 
 
 lagerndorf, 32, 86 
 Troppau, 32,46, 86, 242 
 Tefschen, 32, 233 
 Rottenburg, 46 
 Konitigsberg, 45 
 Zell, 47 
 
 Pennamunde, (Fort) 48, 59, 84 
 Munden, 48, 68, 89, 92, 133, 
 
 MUNSTER, 49, 91, 100, 108 
 Paderborn, 49, 89, 97^ 131, 
 196 
 
 Liplladf, 49, 96 
 Vechte, (Caftle of) 49, 
 
 Kaifcr worth, 54 ' ' ' 
 
 Clevcs,54, 140 
 Nuys, 56 
 Olmutz, 56 
 Duffeldorf, 56, 61 
 Ufedoin, (Ifle of )'59,' 102 
 Nordheim, 59, 134, 1-88 
 Ruremonde, 60 
 Cherburg, 61 
 
 Wachtendonck (poft of ) 60 
 Cuflrin, 62 
 Sonneftein, 63 
 Landfperg, 64 
 Fehrbellin, 64 
 
 COLBERG, 
 

 k 
 
 
 I 
 
 \ 
 
 f 
 
 I N D E 
 
 CO LB ERG, 66, 138, 204, 
 206, 2^9 and 210 
 Coflin, 203 
 NciiTe, "67 
 Cofel, 68 
 
 Torgau, 68, 99, 100, 139 
 LEIPSICK, 68, 96, 102, 140, 
 142 
 
 Preytcrg, 63 , 193, 232, 267 
 268 
 
 DRESDEN, 68, loo, 132 
 St. Goar and Rhindfels, 69 
 Damgartcn^ 77, 89, 200 
 Francforr, 77 
 Erfiirth, 81 
 Pofen, 81 
 
 Hirfchfeld, 81, 82, 189 
 Vacha, 81, 243 
 Fulda, 189 
 Schwerin, 82 
 GricfFenberg, 82, 90 
 Saalfeldt, 82 
 Hoff, 83 
 Meinungen, 83 
 Ulridlein, 84, 245 
 Bamberg, 88 
 Cronach, 89 
 Erbefeld, 89 
 Ziegenhayn, 89, 99, 134 
 Fritzlar, 89, i88^ 236 
 Eimbcck, 89, 208 
 Ritberg, (Caftle of) 89 
 Havre dc Grace, 89 and 90 
 Ofnabruck, 92, 205, 268 
 Detmold, 97 
 Halle, 97, 1 36, 205 
 Naumbourg, 97, 222 
 Zeitz, 97, 1 24 
 Halb^adt, 97 
 
 Wittenberg, 99, 139, 140, 142 
 Templin, 102 
 Paffewalk, 107, 139 
 Dillenbourg, 1x9, 131 
 Carrickfergus,' 122 
 Noffen, 126 
 Landihut, 128, 145 
 Glaiz, 128, 132 
 
 MARPURG, lOQ, u)2, 1^20. 
 
 138, iB8' ^ 
 
 llle Dumet, 136 
 Zierenberg, 136 
 New Stetin, 1 85 
 Burwalde, 185 
 Stadtbergen, 187, 209 
 AfehaffenbUrg, 189 
 Gudersberg, ig8, 236 
 Duderftadt, 189 
 BELLEISLE, 191 and 192, 
 * 94 . 195. 206 
 Warbourg, 196 
 Horn, 201 
 Waldeck, 202, 240 
 Dorften, 203, 204 
 Treptow, 204, 207 
 Scharsfels, 205 
 Golnow, 206 
 Stepnitz, 207 
 Munde, (Fort) 209 
 Munden, (Fort) 209 
 Arensberg, 230 
 Miranda de Douro, 23 1 
 Chemnitz, 232 
 
 Cape Finiflerrc, (Fort on) 234 
 Amoeneburg, 244, 263 
 Friedwalde, 245 
 Pattenberg orPadberg,245, 254 
 Frankenberg, 246 
 Braganza, 254 
 Torre di Moncorvo, 234 
 Chaves, 254 
 ALMEYDA, 235 
 Valenja d’Alcantara, 256 an 4 
 257 
 
 Laubach, 260 
 Wetter, 260 
 Bergemunden, 264 
 Celorico, 264 
 Penamacor, 264 
 Salvaterra, 264 
 Segura, 264 
 Villa Velha, 265 
 
 AMERICA. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 AMERICA. 
 
 ASIA. 
 
 Monongahela, (Fort) Introduft. 
 
 Log’s Town (Fort) Introd. 1 3 
 Fort-Neceflity, Introdudl. 13 
 Beaufejour, (Fort) 2 
 Gafperau, (Fort) 2 
 St. John, (Fort) 2 
 Bull, (Fort) 6 
 OSWEGO, (Fort) 9 
 Fort William Henry, 15 and 
 16, 24 
 
 Grand Ance Bay, (Fort of) 45 
 LOUISBURG, 57 and 58 
 Fort Frontenac, 63 
 Fortdu Quefne, 64, 68 
 
 MARTINICO, 77, 222, 223, 
 224, 225, 226, 227 
 GUADALOUPE, 78, 86 and 
 
 87 
 
 Marigalante, 87 
 Ticonderoga, 92 
 Niagara, 92 
 Crown Point, 96 
 
 Venango, 97 
 Prefque Ifle, 97 
 La Buef, 97 
 
 QUEBEC, 104, 126, and 127 
 Eftatoe, 127 
 
 Sugar Town, 127 
 Etchoey, 129 and 130 
 Fort Loudon, 1 33 and 134 
 MONTREAL, 137 
 Dominica, 194 
 Cherokee-Nation, 196,210 
 Santa Lucia or S'*.Luci^, 227 
 Grenada and Grenadillas, 227 
 
 St. Vincent, 227 
 NEWFOUNDLAND, 236, 
 'and 237, 261 and 262 
 HAVANNAH, 241,243, 
 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 
 251, 252, 253 
 
 Sevemdroog, (Fort) page l 
 Goa, (Fort) i ' 
 
 Bancote i 
 Gcriah, (Fort) 5 
 Coflimbuzar, { Factory) 7 
 Calcutta or Fort William, 8, 1 3 
 Busbudigia, (Fort) 12 
 Hughley, 13 
 Chandenagore, 16 
 Cutwa, (Fort) 18 
 Vizagapatam, 20 
 Cuddalore or Gondelour, 53 
 Fort Sc David. 54 
 Davecotah, 54 
 Tanjore, 6i 
 
 MADRASS, 78 and 79 
 Narfipore, 80 
 Concale,8o 
 Surat, 81 
 
 Maffulipatam, 82, 84 
 Conjeveram, 85 
 Trivatoor, 105 
 Wandewafh-Pettah, 1 05, xil 
 Seringham, 106 
 Gombroon, 106 
 SUMATRA, (Coaftof) 107. 
 124 
 
 Carangoly, 1 12 
 Chittiput, 120 
 Timmery, itt 
 Arcot, 12I 
 Carical, 125 
 PONDICHERRY, 185 
 Mahe, 187 
 
 AFRICA. 
 
 Fort Lewis* on the River Sene- 
 gal) page 53 
 GOREE, 53,69 
 
 THE END. 
 
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