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FABLE VI.

The Mifer and the Mag-pye.

As a mifer fat at his defk, counting over his heaps of gold; a mag-pye leaping from his cage, picked up a guinea, and hopped away with it. The mifer, who never failed to count his money over a fecond time, immediately miffed the piece, and rifing up from his feat in the utmoft confternation, obferved the felon hiding it in a crevice of the floor.

And art thou, cry'd he, that worst of thieves, who halt robbed me of my gold, without the plea of neceffity and without regard to its proper use? But thy life thall atone for fo prepofterous a villany. Soft words, good mafter, quoth the mag-pye. Have I then injured you, in any other fenfe than you defraud the public? And am I not ufing your money in the fame manner you do yourself? If I muft lofe my life for hiding a fingle guinea, what do you, I pray, deferve, who fecrete fo many thoufands?

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HISTORY of the present War.

CHA P. I.

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

Preparations for
Battle of Sillery.

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

. CHA P. III.

St.

Diftrefs of Saxony. M. Broglio commands the main body of the French army.
Germain commands on the Rhine. English army reinforced. K. of Pruffia's loffes.
Theatre of the war in the East of Germany. Pofitions of the Auftrian and Pruffian
armies. Battle of Landsbut. Prussian army under Fouquet deftroyed

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CHA P. IV.

The Auftrians take Glatz. Situation of the Pruffian armies. King of Pruffia
marches towards Silefia, and deceives M. Daun. King of Prufia returns to
Saxony. Siege of Drefden. Town burnt. Return of Daun. Siege raised.
Breflau befieged by the Auftrians. March of Prince Henry. Laudohn retreats [15

VOL. III.

CHAP.

CHA P. V.

Caufe of the flowness of the Allies and French. Advantages on the fide of the French.

Difference between Broglio and St. Germain. Marpurg and Dillenburg taken by

the French. Battle of Corbach. Hereditary Prince wounded. Surprise and de-

fear of Monf. Glaubitz at Ermsdorff. The Allies change their camp. Action at

Warburg
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CHAP. VI.

Landchn blocks up Schweidnitz. Ruffians enter Silefia. March of the King of

Prufa from Saxony to Lignitz. Function of the Auftrian armies in Silefia. The

Ruhans pafs the Oder. Plan of M. Daun. Laudobn defeated near Lignitz.

Daun forms the blockade of Schweidnitz. Compelled to raise it. Action between

General Hulfen and the army of the empire. Intercepted letter from the King of

Prafia to the Marquis d'Argens

CHAP. VII.

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Situation of the French and English armies. Hereditary Prince surprizes a bods of
French in Zierenberg. General Bulow takes Marpurg. Defeated by Monf. Stain-
ville. Gen. Wangenbeim passes and is obliged to repass the Wefer. French retire

from Mulhaufen to Caffel. Hereditary Prince marches to the Rhine, passes that

river. Cleves taken. Wefel besieged. English expedition. M. Caftries forms

an army on the Rhine. Siege of Wefel xaifed. Death and eulogium of George II.

Accefion of George III. and bis refolution of fupporting bis Allies

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CHAP. VIII.

Ruffians and Auftrians'enter Brandenburg. General Hulfen retreats from Saxony to

Berlin. Evacuates it. The city capitulates. Berlin defcribed. King's palaces

plundered. Enemy retires out of Brandenburg after having pillaged it

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С НА Р. ІХ.

Imperialis make themselves mafters of Mifnia. M. Stainville enters Halberstadt.

Ruffians befiege Colberg. Laudobn befieges Cofel. King of Pruffa and M. Daun

march into Saxony. Baule of Torgau. M. Daun wounded. The towns in M:f

nia retaken. Siege of Colberg raijed. Swedes driven back

CHA P. X.

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The Allies raife the fiege of Gottingen. Winter quarters and fufferings of the British

CHAP. XI.

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Thurot fails from Dunkirk. Puts into Go wenburg and Bergen. Puts into the iflè of

Ilay. He takes Carrickfergus. Sails from thence. He is killed, and his bole

Squadron

Squadron taken. War in America. General Amberft gres down the river St.
Lawrence. General Murray marches from Quebec. Montreal furrenders. Che,
rokee war. Affairs of the Eaft Indies. Lally defeated by Coote