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-

vilions,

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

F

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

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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.

H.

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,

i. 27.

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

the