of Corfica to the French, May the 28th, 1768, when this republic deli- vered the city of Baltia, and whatever elfe the Genoele poffeffed in Corfica, into the hands of the French com- mandant, xi. [46. 131]-the nature and articles of the treaty between the French king and this republic for the ceffion of the island of Corfica, [284] -A defeription of the claims which were revived in 1769, by the court of Vienna upon the Marquifate of Final, and by the king of Sardinia upon fome other parts of the Gencefe territories, and the reafons why thefe claims were made upon the republic at this time, xii. [40]
George, St. Fort, English raise the fiege of, iii. [63]
Georgia (in America) parliamentary grants to, In 1758, i. 129-In 1759,
. 174-In 1761, v. [156] in 1762, [167]-In 1763, vi, [179]—In 1764, vii. [160]-In 1765, viii. [238]—In 1766, ix. [202]-In 1767, x. [218] -In 1768, xi. [262, 263]-In 1769, xii. [91. 219] In 1770, xiii. [235] -In 1771, xiv. [223]-In 1772, XV. [210]-In 1773, xvi. [227]—In 1774, xvii. [252]—In 1775, xviii. [244]— In 1777, xx. [268]-In 1778, xxi. [278] In 1779, xxii. [329] Georgia (in America), all claimants of
German-Town, famous engagement at, xx. [135.37]
Germany, origin of the war between se- veral European powers in this country, arole from the mutual claims of the houfes of Auftria and Brandenbourg on the duchy of Silefia, i. 2. 6. 9-a recapitulation of the events of the fa- mous campaigns in this country in 1757 and 1758, 27, 28. 62. 64-Superior to France in military knowledge and difcipline, and the reason affigned, ii. 6-military operations in 1759, 7- 11. 15. 21. 23. 29. 45. 50-Mili- tary operations in 1760, iile [9. 39- 42. 52]-generous relief fent to the British troops, [67]-lits of the forces of the feveral belligerent powers in it in 1760, [88. 106]-disputes made by the British officers, and anfwered, on account of the chief command of their forces being vested in a German, and not an Englishman, [125, 126]-State of the campaign in 1761, iv. [7. 12. 24.37]-propofals of the court of Ver- failles relating to her allies in this country, during the negotiation for a peace in 1761, [20. 22. 39]—State of the campaign in 1762, v. [23. 28. 48. 53]-Nature and articles of the peace between his Pruffian majetty and her Imperial majefty in 1762, [63. 247. 249]-translation of a letter wrote at the clofe of the war by prince Fer- dinand to general Sporcken, on refign- ing to him the command of the allied army in this country; containing the thanks of his ferene highnefs to the faid army, and likewife his Britannic majefty's letter of thanks to his ferene highness, [123, 124]-The zealous en- deavours of the empress queen of Hun- gary (whofe dominions are faid to have loft fifty millions of florins, and half a million of men during the laft war), and the king of Pruffia to re- ward military merit, and to repair the damages fuftained by their fubjects in the courfe of that war, as well as to punish fuch misbehaviour in their of- ficers as was attended with any con- fiderable influence upon their affairs, vi. [97, 98]-The conftitution of this country and that of Poland compar- ed, [44]-the furprifing number of bankruptcies in fome of the princi- pal towns in this country, and the probable cause which occafioned them, [102,103]-The manner of liquidating the demands of all who had loft pro-
land ordered to make good their title before the governor of, iii. [77]- Progrefs of the culture of filk in 1762, V. [104]-State of the exports from January 5th, 1762, to January 5th, 1763, vi. [92]-Sudden diffolution of the house of affembly, and the cause, xii. [75] Revolts from the mother- country, aud joins the confederacy of the United Colonies in Congrefs, xviii. [141*]-recovered from the Ameri- cans, furrenders to the British army, xxii. [29. 35]-the attempts made by count d'Eftaign and general Lincoln to recover this colony from the English in 1779, who are repulfed with great, flaughter, when the French retire to their fhips, and totally abandon the coafts of America, [207*. 214*]-See allo NATURAL HISTORY. Georgia (in Afia), ftate of the infurrec-
tion and military tranfactions against the Ottoman empire, iv. [116, 117. 147]-viii. [158]—ix. [3]—xiii. [26] -xvi. [33.92]
Germain, St. palace defcribed, by the countess of Pembroke, xvi. 196. 198.
vifions, horfes, liveries, fhirts, &c. in the fervice of the allied army, vii. [67]-The pacific ftate of this conntry not interrupted (as formerly) by the acceffion of a new emperor in 1765, and the reafon affigned for it,viii. [2, 3] -German emigrants, the arrival of, from England, and the great encouragement given to them, at Hillsborough town in South Carolina, where they fettled, [98, 99] an account of the proceedings on the death and burial of the emperor Francis I. and the acceffion of Jofeph II. in Auguft 1765, [123. 125]-the fire which happened at Murhard, which confumed 153 houfes, [126]-the petty war which commenced between the Teutonic order, and the fovereign houses of Oettingen, and Spielberg, in this country, on account of the mourning for the emperor Francis I. [139]— An account of the treaty made with the empress of Ruffia in 1766, for the reciprocal defence of their respective dominions against the common enemy of Chriftendom, ix. [53]-the very remarkable drought in 1766, equal to that which happened in 1476, [155] -the pacific appearance of affairs in 1767, and the great attention paid to domeftic and internal happiness, x. [4, 5]—The apparent neutrality of the emperor, and the king of Pruffia, relative to the affairs of Poland in 1767, xi. [7]-feveral wife regulations in the army and military arrangements, which thewed a conftant attention to the affairs of Europe, without any vifible defign to embroil them, [35, 36]-the dreadful fire at Lanfperg, May the 31st, 1768, which in three hours burnt down two hundred and fifty-five houfes, [117]-the diffatisfaction which the emperor fhewed at the condition in which he found the works and fortifications of most of the places in Hungary, notwithstanding the great fums which have been lately appropriated for the reparatinn of them, [123]-The mysterious conduft obferved by the emperor relative to the affairs of Poland, with armies large, complete, and ready for action, xii. [6,7]—the great harmony fubfifting between the great powers of the empire, which flourished in all the arts and bleffings of peace, one place excepted, which was Aix-la-Chapelle, that was taken and quitted by the Elector Palatine; with an account of
the accident which produced this temporary violation and infraction of the general peace, [33. 35]-The perfect neutrality which continued to be obferved by the great powers in this country in 1770, with refpect to the
events of the war between Ruffia and the Turks, although the attention they pay to their respective military depart ments, and the excellent condition of their armies, feem to indicate fome great defign in view, xiii. [42]—the various conjectures formed in confequence of the interview between the emperor of Germany and the king of Pruffia, whofe mutual behaviour to each other was fo cordial and affectionate as greatly to affect the beholders, particularly fuch as remembered and had experienced the fatal confequences of the animofity which had fo long fubfifted between the two families, [42, 43]-particulars of this interview, which was held at Newstadt September the 34, 1770, [148]—The uncommon calamities which this country experienced in 1771, from dearth and inundations, and the confequences which they produced in Bohemia, at Hamburgh, at Prague, and in Bavaria, xiv. [83.85*]-the military appearances at two very powerful courts in this country, which ended in becoming mediators between the belligerent powers of Ruffia and the Porte, [85*] -the great evils experienced by the want of provifions at Franckfort, and in the circle of Swabia, [99, 100]-at Munich and at Ratifbon, [117, 118] at Drefden in Saxony, [120]-The bad effects which are likely to be produced in the free ftates and cities in this country by the extraordinary partition of Poland in 1772, xv. · [ 3, 4] — a fummary view of the conduct of the feverol partitioning powers, previous to the dismemberment of Poland, at the time it took place, and fubfequent to it, in the courfe of the year 1772, [20. 45]-the meafures which were taken by the house of Auftria to establish magazines of corn in the molt commodious places of this country, [7]-the proceedings of the houfe of Auftria in difarming the peasants of this country, and the reafons affigned for it, [71]-Some conjectures on the motions of the emperor's troops to the Turkish frontiers in 1773, xvi. [7]the nature of fome obfolete and antiquated claims on Hamburgh and on Holland
Holland in 1773, [8]-the precarious fituation of the political fyftem of this country, [9]-the nature of the great commercial failures which were felt in this country in 1773, [9, 10]- the remarkable attention fhewed by the emperor to the incrcafe and difci- pline of his army, [42]-the eccle- fiaftical reforms, and decline of the papal power which appeared in 1773, [43]-the measures taken to prevent the calamities occafioned by the dearth in Bohemia, and fome other of the hereditary countries, ever happening again, fo far as human forefight can prevent, [43, 44]-The difpute be- tween the emperor of Germany and the republic of Venice, and the me- thod taken by the emperor to fettle it, by marching a body of troops into the Venetian Dalmatia in 1774, xvii. [22. 24]the nature of fome dif- putes and jealoufies which took place between the court of Vienna and the regency of Hanover, [24, 25]-the alarm taken by the Helvetic ftates in this country at the rapid progress of defpotifin throughout Europe, and the epidemic rage for exterminating the remains of liberty, [25]-The in- furrection and devaftation of the pea- fants in Bohemia and Moravia were of a very alarming nature in the year 1775, but were at length fuppreffed by the prudent and lenient meafures taken by the emperor, and by the grand commiffion appointed for this purpofe, which reftored pence and tranquillity to the kingdem, and fecu- rity and happine's to the peasants, xviii. [151*. 153] - orders were given at Hamburgh in 1775, to pre- vent the merchants from fupplying the piratical states of Barbary with cannon and other warlike ftores, [83] -the ordinance published at Vienna, September the 15th, 1775, extending to all the hereditary Itates, which greatly diminished the right of afylum in churches, cloytters, and other places, with a defcription of thofe inalefactors who were deprived of this afylum, [158]-The happy ftate of that part of the country which was fubject to the emperor in 1776, when his imperial ma'city abolished the tor- ture, with all its horrors, (within his hereditary, dominions) and granted a moft liberal religious toleration, xix. [1881-the laudable attention fhewed by his imperial majefty to the welfare,
and happiness of his people, as well as regard to the general rights of man- kind, in the province of Bohemia, where the pealants who were depen- dent on the royal demefnes, were freed (in 1776) from their former villenage, [186]-the revival of the long aban- doned fcheme of inftituting a company, and opening a trade to the Eaft Indies, which took place this year, [188*, 189]-The pacific and flourishing ftate of this country in general in 1777 defcribed, xx. [187*, 188 * ] — Vifit of the emperor to the court of France, [187, 188*]-The dread- ful fire at Bonn in this country, by which the lofs was estimated at up- wards of 200,000l. [168, 169]—An enquiry into the political state of this country, and the reafons which have preferved its tranquillity for a longer fpace of time than the appearances of things feemed to indicate, or men in general feem to have expected; till the peace and tranquillity of this country were interrupted in 1778, by the dif- putes which arofe between the emperor of Germany and the king of Pruffia about Bavaria, with an account of the proceedings which paffed between the emperor and his Pruffian majesty till they proceeded to ads of hoftility, xxi. [1. 18.]a particular and au- thentic narrative of the beginning and progrefs of the campaign between the emperor and his Pruflian majefty, till the king evacuted Bohemia in Sep- tember, and the Pruffians over-ran the Auitrian Silefia in the fame month, [19.35]-The event of this campaign induces a kind of langour and weari- fomeness in the belligerent powers, which is foon followed by a difpofi- tion favourable to the pacific views of the empreis queen, that are aided and feconded by the mediation of Ruffia and France, xxiii. [1. 4]— this mediation produced a fufpenfion of arms to be published, and a con- greis to be affembled at Tefchen for negotiating a peace; where the con- grefs, after having fat about two months, concludes the peace on May 13th, 1779, which was conducted and concluded upon the moft just and equi- table principles. [5, 6]-See alfo NA- TURAL HISTORY.
Gibraltar, parliamentary grants to, in 1758, i. 127—In 1759, ii. 171—In 1760, ii. [183]-In 1762, v. [152. 164]-In 1763, vi. [177, 178]-In
1754, vii. [157]—In 1765, viii. [236] -In 1766, 1x. [200]-In 1767, x. [216]-in 1768, xi. [261]-In 1769, xi. [218]-In 1770, xiii. [234]-In 1771, xiv. [222]—In 1772, XV. [209] -In 1773, xvi. [226]—In 1774, xvii. [250]-In 1776, xix. [250]-In 1777, xx. [266]-In 1778, xxi. [276]—In 1779, xxii. [325, 326]—In 1780, xxiii. [309]
Gibraltar, hoftilities against this place by the Spaniards commenced in June 1779, and was foon after very clefely blockaded, and in part befieged by them, xxiii. [10. 201*]-fir George Rodney proceeds to the relief of this place in January 1780, and in his voyage thither takes a valuable Spanish convoy on January the 8th; falls in with the Spanish fquadron off Cape St. Vincent, January the 16th, under the command of Don Juan de Langara; takes the admiral with feveral men of war, and destroys others; he then relieves Gibraltar, fupplies Minorca, and proceeds on his destined voyage to the West Indies, [201*. 204*].-See alfo for ftorms, &c. NaTURAL HISTORY.
Glatz, its fortifications defcribed, iii. [15]-taken by the Auftrians, with immenfe magazines of provifion and military ftores, and the difficulties to which the Pruffian army were expofed in confequence of this lofs, [15]-Reftored to his Pruflian majetty in the fame ftate it was in at the time it was taken, v. [248, 249] Gluckstadt declared by his Danish ma
jesty a free port in 1774, xvi. [138] Goa, the capital of the Portuguese lettlements in the East Indies, attacked, and taken by the Blacks, iv. [59, 60] -Proceedings against the governor, when brought to Portugal in 1767, x. [53] Gold and filver exported from England
to India, from the year 1753 to 1758, and from 1758 to 1764, vii. [68] Gombroon destroyed by the French in 1760, iii. [140]
Goree furrendered with all its forts to the English in 1758, i. 75-with the defcription of the military operations and capture of it, number of prifoners and value of the ftores, by the honourable commodore Keppel, ii. .63, 64-An account of a dreadful fire in 1761, iv. [154]-Reftored to France at the general peace in the condition it was when conquered, v. [61. 238]
-Complaints made against the illegal proceedings of the French governor, in attempting to establish a fe tlement near the river Gambia; the difpprobation of his conduct by the French court, which, on receiving a nemorial from the earl of Hertford (en ambaffador from England) ordered his recal to give an account of his irregular behaviour, vii. [108]-The contract (in 1766) by the merchants trading to this place with the Havannah company for an annual fupply of flaves from the Coaft of Africa, ix. [55]
Golpel, the generous benefaction and contributions to propagate the gospel among the Indian tribes, xi. [147] Gottenburgh, number and value of merchant hips arrived at, in 1760, iv. [59]-Exports in 1763, vii. [61] Gottingen clofely belieged by the allies in 1760, who, after they had fuffered incredible fatigues and hardships, are compelled to raise it, iii. [50]—Evacuated by the French, who fuffer vaious difappointments in 1761, v. [27, 28]
Graebenftein, (a town on the frontiers of Heffe) the defeat of the French at this place, and the fad confequences of this defeat, which were not recovered the whole campaign, v. [25, 26.] Greece, a particular account of the conftitution of antient, i. 460. Greenland, the ftate of the fishery in it for 1760, ii. [129]-Propofal for employing the feamen difcharged at the peace in the Greenland fishery, vi. [59]-the state of it in the year 1763, [96]-In 1768, xi. [204]
Grenades, the, taken by the English, v. [35]—guarantied to the English at the general peace, [58. 237, 238]-Encouragement to new fettlers in, vii. [57]-Infurrection of the negroes, x. [88]-Dreadful fire in 1772, xv. [85, 86, 109] Remarkable difpute relating to the taxation of, by his Britannic majefty, xvii. [164, 165]-Dreadful fire in 1775, xviii. [169. 190]-Surrenders to the French in July 1779, xxii. [201, 202*] Guadaloupe, origin of its name, its extent, natural advantages and produce, and first plantation of this colony by the French in 1632, ii. 12, 13-unfuccefsful attacks upon it by the English in 1691 and 1703, 13-military operations againít, and capture of it, by the English in 1759, 13. 15-the great
great difficulties fuftained by the En- glith, and the gallant defence made by the inhabitants, particularly madame Ducharmey, on this occafion, 15-the first import of the produce of this country into England fince its con- queft, 108-The riot which gave rise to the report of a confpiracy in 1760, iii. [88, 89]-Reitored to France at the general peace in 1763, V. [58. 237] -The order of the French court, for- bidding any English fhips entering into the ports of this ifland, x. [165] Guernsey, parliamentary grants to, in 1758, i. 127-In 1759, ii. 171-In 1760, iii. [182]—In 1762, V. [152] -In 1763, vi. [177, 178]-In 1764,- vii. [157]-In 1765, viii. [236]—In 1766, ix. [200]-In 1769, xii. [99] -In 1770, xiii. [234]-In 1771, xiv. [222]-In 1772, xv. [209]—In 1777, xx. [265]-In 1778, xxi. [275]-In 1779, xxii. [325]-In 1780, xxii. [308]-See alfo for ftorms, &c. in this iland under NATURAL HISTORY.
HALBERSTADT, state of the war in, iii. [45]
Hamburgh, a general afylum to the dif- treffed and oppreffed Germans in the German war, iv. [29. 186, 187]- Loan extorted from it by his Danish majefty, v. [15]-Chamber of infu- rance for fhips instituted in 1765, viii. [68]-Sum raifed for the fufferers by the inundation in Germany in 1771, xiv. [139]-Obfolete and antiquated claims made on, in 1773, xvi. [8]— Grievous tax impofed by the king of Pruffia, [154, 155]-An edict for- bidding the merchants to fupply the piratical tates of Barbary with cannon and other warlike ftores, xviii. [83]- Great encouragement given to the bufi- nefs of recruiting, xix. [124]-For bills of mortality in this city, fce Na- TURAL HISTORY.
Hanau plundered by the French, iii. [80] -Bill of mortality in this city for 1764, viii. [160] Hanover defolated by the duke de Riche- lieu and his army, which were guilty of great rapacioufness aad oppreffion, till it was evacuated by the French on the approach of prince Ferdinand, i. 26, 27. 33. 35-Reflections on the ftrange reverie of fortune experienced by the French and Hanoverians fince the famous capitulation at Clofter
Seven, iii. [1, 2]-The restoration of all the countries belonging to this elec- torate that were poffeffed by the French in the German war, v. [54. 238]— The great damages done by the inun- dations in 1771, xiv. [130]-The na- ture of fome difputes and jealoufies which took place between the court of Vienna and this regency in 1774, xvii. [24, 25]
Hanoverians, their arrival in England at the time of the threatened inva- fion by the French in 1756, i. 5.- marched as auxiliaries to the king of Pruffia in 1757, 15—their defeat at Hattenbeck, and the melancholy effects it produced to their native country, 19, 26, 27-refume their arms under the command of prince Ferdinand, 27. 33. 35-For their military operations in Germany, fee the ALLIED ARMY. Harbourg, the manner and event of the fiege of its caftle by prince Ferdinand,
Harvard College in New England de- ftroyed by fire in 1764, vii. 116. Havannah, the powerful armament and expedition undertaken by the English against this place, under the command of the earl of Albemarle, admiral Po- cocke, and fir James Douglas, failed from Portsmouth the 5th of March, 1762; they pursue their paffage through the Old Streights of Bahama, v. [36, 37-a defeription of the town and harbour of the Havannah, the siege of Fort More, which is cannonaded by captain Hervey, the diftrefs of the English forces, which are relieved by fuccours from North America, the ftorming of Fort Moro, operations against the town, the furrender of the town, and the very great advantages of this acquifition, which contributed not a little to the haftening of a peace, [37. 44]—ceded to the Spaniards at the general peace in 1763, [58. 239, 240]-A litt of the prize goods taken at the capture of this place, with the plunder, &c. vi. [78]-The fecond divifion of the prize money, and the proportions in which it was divided among the perfons concerned in the conqueft, vii. [64] the applica- tion from the English merchants to the e-of A--for the repayment of the duties impofed on them by his authority at this place, while in pof- feffion of the British nation with his lordship's anfwer on that fubject, [104]-Proceedings in Spain against feveral of the officers employed in
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