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THE

Hiftory of the present War.

CHAP. I.

Nothing decided in the war. State of the feveral powers concerned. Great
Britain and Pruffia propofe an accommodation. Difficulties in concluding
a peace. The condition and hopes of France. Demands on the King of
Pruffia. Treaty faid to be between Russia and Auftria

CHA P. II.

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State of the English garrison at Quebec. Defigns of Monf. Levi. Prepara-

tions for a fiege. French army marches from Montreal. Their strength.

Battle of Sillery. Gen. Murray defeated. Quebec befieged. The English

fleet under lord Colville arrives. French veffels destroyed. Levi raifes

the fiege

CHA P. III.

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Diftrefs of Saxony. M. Broglio commands the main body of the French ar-

my. St. Germain commands on the Rhine. English army reinforced. King

of Pruffia's loffes. Theatre of war in the east of Germany. Pofitions of

the Auftrian and Pruffian armies. Battle of Landshut. Prufian army

under Fouquet deftroyed

CHAP. IV.

The Auftrians take Glatz. Situation of the Pruffian armies. King of Pruf-

fia marches towards Silefia and deceives M. Daun. King of Pruffia re-

turns to Saxony. Siege of Drefden. Town burned. Return of Daun.

Siege raifed. Breslau befieged by the Auftrians. March of Prince Henry.

Laudobn retreats

СНАР.

CHAP. 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. Surprize and defeat of Monf. Glaubitz at Ermfdorff. The

Allies change their camp. Action at Warburg
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CHAP. VI.

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

of Pruffia from Saxony to Lignitz. Function of the Auftrian army in

Silefia. The Ruffians pass the Oder. Plan of M. Daun. Laudobn de-

feated near Lignitz. Daun forms the blockade of Schweidnitz. Com-

pelled to raife it. Action between General Hulfen and the army of the

empire. Intercepted letter from the King of Pruffia to the Marquis

d'Argens

CHAP. VII.

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Situation of the French and English armies. Hereditary Prince Surprizes a

body of French in Zierenberg. General Bulow takes Marpurg. Defeated

by Monf. Stainville. Gen. Wangenheim paffes and is obliged to repass the

Wefer. French retire from Mulhaufen to Caffel. Hereditary Prince marches

to the Rhine, paffes that river. Cleves taken. Wefel befieged. English

expedition. M. Caftries forms an army on the Rhine. Battle of Campen.

Allies defeated. Hereditary Prince repaffes the Rhine. Siege of Wefel

raifed. Death and eulogium of George II. Acceffion of George III.

and his refolution of fupporting his Allies

CHAP. VIII.

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Rufians and Auftrians enter Brandenburgh. General Hulfen retreats from

Saxony to Berlin. Evacuates it. The city capitulates. Berlin defcribed.

King's palace plundered. Enemy retires out of Brandenburgh after having

pillaged it

CHA P. IX.

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Imperialists make themselves mafters of Mifnia. M. Stainville enters Hal-

berfadt. Ruffians befiege Colberg. Laudohn befieges Cofel. King of

Pruffia and M. Daun march into Saxony. Battle of Torgau. M. Daun

wounded. The towns in Mifnia retaken. Siege of Colberg raifed. Swedes

driven back

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The Allies raise the Siege of Gottingen. Winter quarters and fufferings of the

British troops. Popular debates in England concerning the German war [50

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CHA P. XI.

Thurot fails from Dunkirk. Puts into Gottenburg and Bergen. Puts into

the Ife of Ilay. He takes Carrickfergus. Sails from thence. He is killed,

and his whole fquadron taken. War in America. General Amberft goes

down the river St. Laurence. General Murray marches from Quebec.

Montreal furrenders. Cherokee war. Affairs of the Eaft Indies. Lally

defeated by Coote

The CHRONICLE.

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S

ome account of the frauds which occafioned the late Act of Parliament for

the better regulation of the Fishery

[164

A brief account of the Act for better fupplying the cities of London and Weft-

minfter with Fish

[166

The feafons wherein feveral fort of Fifß are allowed to be taken, and the fizet

Fish expofed for fale ought to be of

[168

Regulations of the Fifb-markets in general in Holland, and particularly that

at the Hague

[170

Openings to be made in the City of London, pursuant to the late Act of Parlia-

ment paffed for that purpose

[171

Hiftory of the London brewery, from the beginning of King William's reign

to the prefent time

[173

A compendious ftate of the cafe of Lord George Sackville, as it appears from

the trial published by his own direction

[175

Supplies granted by Parliament for the year 1760

Particulars relating to the interment of his late Majefty King George II. of

blessed memory

[178

182

State of the national debt, as it stood Jan.11, 1759, and Jan. 11,1760 [196

STATE PAPERS.

A tranflation of the Declaration delivered by the Auftrian minifter refiding at

the Hague, to his Serene Highness Prince Lewis of Brunswick [203

Offers made by feveral neutral powers, to the powers at war, of places in

their countries, to hold a congrefs in

[204

Tranflation of a convention between the King of England and the King of

Pruffia, &c.

[205

Letter from M. Berryer to M. de la Broffe

Declaration of the King of Pruffia to his co-eftates of the circle of Weft-

phalia, &c.

[206

[208

[ibid.

Memorial of the King of Poland, on raifing the fiege of Drefden

An account of the barbarous manner in which the Auftrian, Ruffian, and

Saxon troops wafted the Marche of Brandenburgh, &c.

Anfwer to the foregoing relation, c.

T 2

[210

[217

Tran-

[218

Tranflation of a very extraordinary Letter, addressed to the Canadian mi-
litia, &c.
Articles of capitulation agreed upon and affented to by Captain Paul Demere,
commanding at Fort Loudon, and the headmen and warriors of the Over-
hill Cherokee towns

[219
Copy of a Letter from Mr. Secretary Pitt, to the feveral governors and coun-
cils in North America, &c.

Papers relative to the final reduction of Canada

[ibid.

[220

Articles of capitulation between General Amberft and the Marquis of Vau-
dreuil, Governor of Canada and Montreal
A brief Account of the Negotiation between Governor Lyttelton and Atta-
kullakulla (or the Little Carpenter) Deputy of the whole Cherokee nation,
and other headmen and warriors of that nation.
Treaty of Peace and Friendship concluded by his Excellency William Henry
Lyttelton, Efq, aith Attakullakulla, &c.

[222

[231

[232

Papers relating to the late affair between the English and Dutch in the Eaft-

[235

Indies

The Subftance of the Memorial prefented by General Yorke to the States
General, concerning the foregoing affair

[237

The Speech of the Lords Commiffioners appointed by his Majefty for holding this
Parliament

[238

The humble Addrefs of the University of Oxford

The humble Address of the Chancellor, Mafters, and Scholars of the Univer
fity of Cambridge

The King's Proclamation, for the encouragement of Piety and Virtue, and
for preventing and punishing of Vice, Profaneness, and Immorality [241
Copy of a Letter from the Bishop of L----n to the King

The humble Addrefs of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City
of London, to the King

[240

[243

The bumble Address of the people called Quakers

[247

The bumble Addrefs of the Lords fpiritual and temporal

The King's most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament

[248

[250

The bumble Addrefs of the House of Commons to the King

[253

Difpofition of his Majefty's Forces, about the middle of the year 1760
Difpofition of his Majesty's fleet

[255

[257

Complete authentic Lift of men of war, both of France and England, taken,
funk, or cafually left, fince the commencement of the prefent hoftilities [258

CHARACTERS,

Account of the Lacedemonians, from the celebrated Prefident Goguet's Origin
of Larus, Arts, and Sciences, among the Nations of Antiquity
An Account of the Life of George Frederick Handel, Efq;

A Letter to Mr.

The Anfwer

from Mr. C. of Lancaster, to the Rev. Mr. B--
from Mr. W.

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