NAVAL AND MILITARY

MEMOIRS

OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

FROM

1727 TO 1783.

BY

ROBERT BEATSON, Esq. L.L.D.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. V.

London:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES AND ORME,

NO. 39. PATERNOSTER-ROW;

W. J. AND J. RICHARDSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE;
A. CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH;
AND A. BROWN, ABERDEEN.

1804.

輝

J. Burnett, Printer, Aberdeen.

1780. THE Parliament meets November 25th, 1779-His

Majefty's fpeech to both Houses, 1. The addreffes to his Majefty

meet with great oppofition-number of feamen voted, 2. Great

preparations made for carrying on the war, 2. A promotion of

flag-officers, 2. A great military force affembled before Gib-

raltar-a fleet under Admiral Rodney ordered for the relief of

that fortrefs, 4. A mutiny difcovered on board the Invincible of

74 guns at Spithead-the cause of it, 5. Sir Henry Clinton and

Admiral Arbuthnot determine to proceed against Charlestown,

South Carolina, 8. Congress fends General Lincoln to oppose

them-he folicits aid from the Spanish Governor of the Havannah,

11. Steps taken by General Lincoln for defending Charlestown,

11. British troops disembarked on the islands near Charlestown,

13. Defiance of 64 guns loft, 13. Sir Henry Clinton lands

army on Charlestown-neck, 15. The British fleet en-
ters the harbour of Charlestown, 16. The rebels form a corps

in the country with a defign of relieving Charlestown-are de-

feated by Colonel Webster, 20. The rebel forts at Mount Plea

fant and Fort Moultrie taken, 22 and 23. Earl Cornwallis

defeats feveral rebel corps in the neighbourhood of Charlestown,

24. Sir Henry Clinton fummons General Lincoln to furrender-

who agreed to give up the place by capitulation, 25. The rebels'

fhips of war purchafed by Government, and added to the royal

navy, 27. Earl Cornwallis appointed Governor of Charlestown

and South Carolina-Sir Henry Clinton and Admiral Arbuthnot

with the