OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

FROM THΣ

REVOLUTION, 1688,

TO THE CONCLUSION OF

THE TREATY OF AMIENS, 1802.

BY WILLIAM BELSHAM.

IN TWELVE VOLUMES.

Ac mihi quidem videntur huc omnia esse referenda ab iis qui præsunt aliis:
ut ii qui eorum in imperio erunt, sint quam beatissimi.

CICERO.

Beneficio quam metu obligare homines malit; exterasque gentes fide ac
societate junctas habere, quam tristi subjectas servitio. LIVY, lib. 26.

VOL. VII.

LONDON,

PRINTED FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS,

NO. 6, BRIDGE-STREET, BLACK-FRIARS.

1805.

R. TAYLOR and Co. Printers, 38, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street.

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CONTENTS.

BOOK ΧΙΧ.

Session of Parliament in November 1779...........

Lord Rockingham's spirited Amendment to the Address..

Earl of Ossory's Motion.respecting Ireland.

Humiliating Confession of Earl Gower.

Lord North's Propositions respecting Ireland.

Estimate of the National Force...

Page

2

3

13

15

15

16

Petitions to Parliament on the Subject of Public Economy 17

Reform Bills introduced by Mr. Burke.

Commission of Accounts instituted

Earl of Shelburne's Motion of Reform.

Famous Motion of Mr. Dunning, affirming the Increase of

Regal Influence.

Other Motions carried in Opposition to the Court.

19

20

20

24

26-28

Illness of the Speaker.

29

The Efforts of the Patriots prove finally abortive...

Riots in London excited by the Catholic Act.

29

31

Laudable Conduct of the King.

34

Sanguinary Severities of Lord Loughborough..

Duke of Richmond's Proposition for Annual Parliaments 36

35

Alliance with Holland dissolved.

40

Armed Neutrality.........

41

Victory of Sir George Rodney over the Spanish Fleet off

Cape St. Vincent

43

Indecisive Engagements in the West Indies, between Sir

George Rodney and the Count de Guichen..........

44

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West Florida conquered by the Spaniards........

Fortress of Omoa captured by the English......

45

45

East and West India Fleets taken by the Spaniards......

Military Operations in America...

45

45

Philanthropic Act passed by the Legislature of Pennsyl-

vania

Defection of General Arnold

Victory gained by Lord Cornwallis at Camden.

46

48

50

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52

Defeat of Major Ferguson at King's Mountain.

Extravagant Exultation of the Court Faction in England.. 53

Corrupt and extravagant Loan of Lord North..

Pacificatory Motion of Mr. Fox...

Review of the Administration of Mr. Hastings in India.. 73

Confederacy of the Powers of India against the English.. 134

BOOK XX.

69

72

Death of Hyder Ali-Disasters in Mysore............ 212

Resignatiou of Mr. Hastings-His Character.

........ 225

Reverse of Fortune-Retreat to York Town........ 248, 249

Lord Cornwallis and his Army made Prisoners of War... 254

Solemn Thanksgiving throughout the States of the Union 255

Commodore Johnstone's Expedition to the Cape of Good

Hope..

256

Obstinate Engagement between the English and Dutch

Fleets off the Dogger Bank...

...

257

Motion of Censure on the Earl of Sandwich, by Mr. Fox 277

Lord George Germaine advanced to the Peerage........ 278

Protest of the Lords against it........

279

Mr. Fox renews his Motion of Censure on the Earl of

Sandwich

..

280