[ibid.]the departure of the American commiffioners from England on April the 21ft, 1778, [177]-the amount of the coach revenue for 1777, [184] a general embargo was laid on all thipping in May 1778, [185]~~~ the new regulation which was made in the punishment of deferters, in a transportation for life to the Eaft Indies, or on the coaft of Africa, [192] letters of marque granted Auguft aith, 1778, [196]the value of the French Welt Indiamen taken fince the commencement of the prefent difputes, was estimated in October 1778, at 600,000l. sterling, [207] account of the gold brought into the Mint in this country and in Ireland, by the proclamations in 1773, 1774, and 1776, [231, 232]authentic extracts from the corn-register, of corn and grain exported from, and imported into, England and Scotland, for 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, and 1778, [275-282*] the state of the war in North America from September the 8th, 1778, to December in the fame year, xxii. [1-18]-a review of conciliatory meatures purfped by the commiffioners for reftoring peace in America in 1778, defcribing the progress and fruitless iffue of thefe meafures, [18-28]the ftate and progrefs of the British and French armies and navy in the Weft Indies, from September to December 1778, [36-49] -the critical fituation of affairs in this kingdom in the year 1778, [50,51] -the fubftance of the addrefs and petition from the city, of London to his majefty, March the 1sth, 1778, [53, 54]-the measures taken for carrying into effect the plan for putting this ifland into a state of defence, by embodying the militia, by forming camps in various parts of the country, and by the equipment of a grand fleet for the home fervice, with the appointment of admiral Keppel to command it, [54, 55]-the peculiar fituation of that com mander, at the time he failed from St. Helens, June 13, 1778, [5558] -the French frigate named Licorne is ftopped and detained by the British fleet, with an account of the blameable conduct of the captain of the French frigate in firing unexpectedly into the America man of war, 58, $91- -the defperate engagement be tween the Arethufa and ti the Belle Poule frigates, [59, 60]a French fchooner bravely taken by the Alert frigate, and another French frigate, falling in with the British fleet, is, to-gether with the Licorne and fchooner, brought to England, [60]· the difficulties the British flect had to contend with, and the fatal confequences which would have attended a defeat, at the time the British admiral engaged the French fleet of very fuperior force on July the 27th, 1778, [61-65]- -account of the engagement, and view of thofe circumftances which were fuppofed to have prevented the engagement from being decifive, [65-72] French fleet efcape in the night, and return to Breft, [72]- -the prudent and temperate conduct obferved by the British admiral, and his return to Plymouth to refit; after which he proceeds again to fea, but cannot meet the French feet, [72-74]the trial of admiral Keppel at Portsmouth, where he was honourably acquitted, [108] and [254-294]-admiral Keppel receives the thanks of both houses of parliament, [110] and [294-296] of the remarkable memorial, figned by twelve admirals, which was prefented to his majefty, December the 30th, 1778, [108, 109]--the general, public, and unufual rejoicings on the acquittal of admiral Keppel, [10, 11]vice admiral fir Hugh Pallifer refigns all his employments, and his feat in parliament,[111, 112] refignations which were made by two great naval commanders, and various naval officers, at the beginning 1779, [121]a proclamation was iffued July the 9th, 1779, charging all officers civil and military, in cafe of an invafion, to caufe all horses, oxen, cattle, and provifions, to be driven from the fea-coaft to, places of fecurity, that the fame might not fall into the hands of the enemy, [219] -the number of prifoners of war, according to an estimate taken about Auguft or September 1779, in England, amounted to 12,000 men; of whom, 600 were Spaniards, 2200 Americans, and the remainder French, that is to fay, taken in the French prizes, [228]- an exact account of the cargo of the Spanifh fhip the N. S. de Piedat, taken by an English privateer, [232, 233]authentic extracla extracts from the corn-register, giving an account of the quantities of all corn and grain exported from, and imported into, England and ScotTand, with the bounties and drawback's paid, and the duties received thereon for one year, ended the 5th of January 1780, [323, 324]-the very critical and alarming fituation of this country, fubfequent to the recess of parliament in the year 1779; when the French and Spanish flags were Teen flying triumphant in the British feas, and their fleets braving the British fhores with impunity; when the mighty acceffion of the whole weight of the Spanish monarchy to that dangerous confederacy which was already formed against this country, could not but deeply fink a fcale, which (without that acceffion) was apparently on a level with our own; and when the refiftance of this country to that mighty combination filled all thofe parts of Europe which looked on with aftonishment and refpect; particularly when they faw, that the resources of the English feemed to grow with their neceffities, and that the alarm (excited by the preceding combination) had caufed a great exertion in England, which, from a ftate very much unprepared, became at length powerfully armed and able to refift all the united force of her powerful enemies, xxiii. [1517 proclamations for reprisals on Spain, and for defenfive measures in cafe of an invafion, [17]—various, manifeftos, and public pieces, iffued by the belligerent powers of France and Spain, against this country; and fome obfervations on the charges exhibited by Spain in particular; and the fecret and prime motive, to which all thefe oftenfible caufes of the war on the part of Spain were only fubfervient, [17-20]—the general and public difcontent at the profecution of the American war; the want of union among the miniftry; and the accumulated ftrength of the oppofition: the fubfcriptions which were 'made at this time for raifing troops and other public purpofes; and the bounties granted by the Eaft India company for raifing 6000 feamen, and undertaking to build three fhips of the line as an augmentation to the royal navy, [33-36]-the county meetings, petitions and affociations ་ which began to take place the latter end of the year 1779, and the be ginning of the year 1780, with an account of the York petition to parliament,which became a model to others, and was prefented to the house by fir George Saville, [85-90]-the fuccefs which attended fir George Rodney in going to the relief of Gibraltar, when he took a valuable Spanish convoy, fell in with a Spanish fquadron under the command of Don Juan de Langara, takes the admiral with feveral men of war, and destroys others; then effectually relieves Gibraltar, fupplies Minorca, and proceeds on his deftined voyage to the West Indies, [201-204*]-admiral Digby, being left with the command of the remaining part of the fleet at Gibraltar, proceeds from thence with the Spanish prizes on his way to England, meets with the Prothee French man of war of 64 guns, and takes her, [204]--Dutch convoy under the conduct of count Byland ftopped and examined by 'commodore Fielding; count Byland comes to Spithead with his fquadron and convoy; and the confequences of that, and of other precedent and fubfequent measures with this country and Holland, [204*, 205*] the dangers which this country had to apprehend from the manifefto, or declaration, iffued by the court of Petersburgh February the 26th, 1780, which laid the foundation for that formidable naval and military alliance and confederacy between the northern powers in Europe, under the name of an armed neutrality, [205*, 206*]. - the determinations and measures purfued by this country, not only to prevent the republic of Holland from acceding to this northern confederacy, but like wife to induce that ftate to afford the fuccours ftipulated by treaty to England, and which all negociation had hitherto failed of obtaining; in confequence of which a royal proclamation was iffued, April the 17th, 1780, which fufpended provifionally, and till further order, all the particular ftipulations respecting the fùbjects of the states-general, contained in the feveral treaties now fubfifting, particularly that treaty which was concluded at London on the 11th of December, 1674, [206, 207*]→→ account of the riots in the cities of London London and Westminster in June 1780; the abstract of the act which was the oftenfible caufe of thefe riots; copies of the letters which paffed between the fecretaries of ftate, the lord prefident of the council, the commander in chief, and the lord mayor and aldermen of the city of London, and alfo of the king's pro clamation, relative to the faid riots; the proceedings on the trials of the ri oters, [254287]--remarkable actions at fea in the year 1780, [287292]an account of the quantities of all corn and grain exported from, and imported into, England and Scotland, with the bounties and drawbacks paid, and the duties received thereon for one year, ended the 5th of January 1781, [305, 306]-prices of stock for the year 1780, in which the higheft and lowest prices which each stock bore during the course of any month, is put down oppofite to that month, [307]-For DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES, fee the CHRONICLE; for STORMS, &c. &c. fee England, under the head NATURAL HISTORY English miniftry, defcription of its ftate, the characters and defigns of the feveral factions, and a coalition of parties, and the general fatisfaction it produced in 1757, i. 3.9—13—difference among them, arifing from the unprecedented behaviour of Spain during the pacific negociation in 1761, between the courts of London and Verfailles, and the treaty which followed between France and Spain; the refignation of mr. Pitt; and the difputes concerning the refignation, iv. [41-48]--the ftate of parties among them, and competition between the D. of N. and the E. of B. at the time the negociation for peace was renewed in 1762, v. [45-47]the fudden refignation of the E. of B. in 1763, and the various conjectures about the cause of, and reflections upon it; the fuppofed political principles of the fucceeding miniftry and the extraordinary negociation faid to be carried on at that time for a coalition of parties, vi. [38-43]~ the violent oppofition to their mea fures, particularly to the general warrants they iffued out against the author of the North Briton, No. 45, which broke out in 1764, and the fuccefs of the miniftry upon this occafion, vii. [18-337-their down the fal expected, and the manner in which they were fupported by antiminifterial doctrines, viii. [16-18] --the offer they made to the colonies of giving them an opportunity to chufe any other tax in lieu of the ftamp tax, unanimously rejected by them, [33,34]-the coolness fhew ed to them in 1765 by the King, and the reafons affigned for it; the dif ficulty in replacing them; objections to the new ministry; and the severe glance at them, in an address of the city of London, [42-47] new miniftry appointed July 10th, 1765, [109]--the very critical fituation of the miniftry created in 1765; the ftate of parties; the formidable oppofition they had to encounter; the caufes which produced their removal in July 1766; the dif intereftedness they fhewed at their refignation, and the great popularity they justly acquired upon this and other accounts, ix. [32-34] [47, 48] and [124] [126]the ftate of the miniftry appointed in July 1766, [48] --remarkable proofs of the fluctuating state of the miniftry from September 18th, 1761, to February 1766, [63]- a lift of the changes faid to have happened during the reign of his prefent majefty, as was published in 1767, x. [83]--the firft appointment of lord North, as chancellor of the exchequer, in the room of the honourable Charles Townfhend, who died in September 1767, and the coadjutors to his lordship in the miniftry previous to the meeting of parliament, xi. [75, 76*]-the popular torrent against the miniftry, the caufes which produced it, and the confequences that followed, in the refignation of the earl of Shelburne and the earl of Chatham, previous to the fecond feffion of the parliament in 1768, xii. [62. 64]--the cenfure thrown on their conduct and character in obtaining addreffes, fupporting the decifion in 1769 on the Middlesex election; the general difcontent, and the petitions fignifying the general diffatisfaction at fuch measures; and the refignation of feveral of the miniftry a few days after the meeting of parliament in the winter of 1769, xiii. [56-64]--the apparent fecurity of the miniftry previous to the meeting of parliament for the feffion for 1771, though parties ran high against them, xiv. [12-17] fome changes which took place during the recefs of parliament at Chriftmas 1770, particularly in the admiralty, and the principal departments in the law, [45, 46]their great ftrength in the clole of the feffion of parliament for 1771 was manifest from the prodigious majority which attended all their meafures, and made an oppofition to them fruitless, xv. [80, 81*]——the apparent decline of the oppofition, by feveral of the late mr. Grenville's friends, and other gentlemen, coming over to the miniftry in 1772, [83]-- -the union and firmnefs which prevailed amongst them previous to the meeting of parliament for the feffion in the year 1773, when the general fyftem of adminiftration continued the fame as in the former feffion, and triumphed over all oppofition, without any alteration from the change in office which happened at this time in the fecretary for the American department, xvi. [62, 63]--the want of unjon, which blunted the edge and weakened the force of oppofition, added strength to the hands of adminiftration, whofe ftability was increased even by the nature of the meafures they adopted; which, as they were unlikely to fucceed, became more fplendid by the fuccefs of the undertaking, xvii. [44] the difficulties they had to contend with previous to the meeting of parliament, and the caufes which produced thefe difficulties in 1775, and the ftate of parties at that time, fo far as it could he collected from the petitions and addreffes from various parts of the kingdom, xix. [36-48]. the very unexpected oppofition to. the American meafures purfued by administration, and the fubftance of the fpeech juftifying this oppofition, which appeared in the duke of Grafton, whilft at the head of adminiftration, and previous to his refignation, which took place in November 1775, [69, 70] and [92] fome other changes which happened about the fame time, and the noblemen who fucceeded to the vacancies, [93]the fecurity which they poffeffed, and the uncontroulable power with which they carried every measure, previous to the meeting of parliament in November 1777, xxi. [38]--the remarkable irrefolution and indecifion which prevailed in the councils and measures taken by adminiftration in 1778, with an enquiry into the causes which produced it, xxii. [50-53]--the general difOntent which appeared against them 1779, for prolecuting the American war; the very remarkable want of union among themfelves; the accumulated ftrength of the feveral parties in oppofition to them; the defection of those who formerly compofed what is called the Bedford party, by the refignation of earl Gower and lord Weymouth; and the general defection of other parties which was expected, previous to the meeting of parliament on November the 25th, 1779, xxiii. [35-37] English parliamentary debates in 1758, concerning the preference of the continental or marine fyftem of politics, i. 3, 4. 65, 66————debates on the fame fubject in 1760, heightened by the fufferings of the British troops in Germany, iii. [51-55]--the fcheme for the fupplies in 1763, opposed; arguments against the lotteries, excife, &c. particularly the cyder excife, with the arguments in favour of the excife, and the fituation of the minority at that time, vi. [32-43] [96] and [147-155]--the ftate of the three factions which prevailed in 1764; the nature of general warrants; their conftant ufage from the time of the Revolution; with the violent oppofition they firlt met with in 1764, and the proceedings against the author of the North Briton, No. 45, till he retired to France, and was expelled the house of commons, of which he was a member, vii. [18-25] parliamentary debates upon the queftion of general warrants; the ftate of the national fupplies, and oppofition to the fcheme for raifing them; with obfervations on the controverfy between adminiftration and the oppofition in 1764, [26-33]parliamentary debates on the fubject of general warrants in 1765, viii. [26321-debates previous to the ftamp duty being impofed on the colonies, till it paffed both houfes, and received the royal affent by commif fion, March 22d, 1765, [34-38]debates on the regency bill, the amendments to it propofed and carried, and the royal affent it received, May May 15th, 1765, [38-41]an abftract of the debates in 1766, on the right of taxing the colonies, which is at length confirmed and afcertained, and the fubftance of the petitions prefented to his majefty and parliament from the trading and manufacturing towns upon this occafion, ix. [35 45]the nature of, and debates on, the bill of indemnity for those concerned in the embargo laid on wheat in 1766, x. [44-48]- -the bill for reftraining all acts of the affembly of New York, and the caufe which produced it, [48]the bill (in 1766) for agreeing with the proposals made by the East-India Company for an accommodation with government, and the bill (in 1767) for regulating India dividends, with the debates thereon, [41-45 --the nature of thefe bills explained, [104]-two hundred and nine bills, viz. ninety-five public, and one hundred and fourteen private, received the royal affent in 1767, the greateft number that has been paffed in one feffion for leveral years, [107]-proceedings and debates on the methods that were to be taken to relieve the diftreffes of the people, xi. [76*] debates on the bill for reftraining Eaft-India dividends 78+] debates on the nullum bill, [78-83*]the bill for limiting the duration of the Irish parliaments, called the octennial bill, and the great fatisfaction it gave to that kingdom, [83]-debates on the addreffes prefented to his majesty, in anfwer to his fpeech November 8th, 1768, xii. [64]--the bill for extending the prohibition on the exportation of corn, [49]-proceedings relating to mr. Wilkes; and the affairs of Corfica, [49*51*] debates, proceedings, refolutions, and fubftance of the addrefs pre-` fented to his majefty on the turbulent ftate of affairs in North America, [52*61*]the agreement made to continue the charter of the Eaft India Company for five years beyond the term already granted by government; and the annual fum of. 400,000l. which the Company stipulated to pay to government, [61*,62*] the refolution for payment of the debts on the civil lift, with the fum granted to pay the fame, and the arrears, to the 5th of January, 1769, [62-64*]- -the expulfion and final incapacitation of mr. Wilkes, in 1769, argued and refolved on, [64* 73*] the general discontent which was produced by this power of declaring incapacities in the house of commons; debates on the petitions declaratory of this difcontent; and the refignation of many perfons in adminiftration, which followed in confequence of this difcontent foon after the meeting of parliament in the winter of 1769, xiii. [58-64]-motion for defining the jurifdiction of the commons in cafes of contefted elections, negatived, [64, 65*]--debates of the lords on the expulfion and final incapacitation of mr. Wilkes, and on the queftion agitated in the commons, which terminated in the fame manner as in the commons, not without two of the moft remarkable protefts that ever were known, [65* -68*] and [193-199] -debates on the motion for difqualifying certain. officers of the revenue from voting for members of parliament, which was at length negatived, [69*—71*1 -debates on the civil lift, [71*73*]-debates on the partial repeal of the American taxes in 1770, [73* 77-the nature and utility of mr. Grenville's bill in the cafe of controverted elections, paffed in March 1770, [77]-great debates on the remonftrance of the city of London relating to the Middlefex election, and the proceedings of parliament with respect to it, and the addrefs to his majefty which it produced in oppofition to the remonftrance, and the debates upon this addrefs, [79*-84*] [93*, 94*]—debates on the affairs of Ireland, in 1770, with a concife state of affairs in that country, [85*90*] motions and refolutions relative to American affairs over-ruled, [90* -92*] [94*, 95*]-debates on lord Chatham's bill for reverfing the adjudication relating to the incapacitation of mr. Wilkes, which was rejected, not without a folemn proteft, [92] and [197-199]—the nature of the lottery bill paffed in April 1770, 101, 102]the fubftance of the addreffes in anfwer to the speech from the throne, at the opening of the feffions for 1771, with the debates upon the contents of the fpeech, xiv. [17-21-debates upon the motion to addrefs his majefty for the Spanish D 2 papers, |