General fate of affairs. Poland. Ruffia. Retrospective view of the war, Latter Fruitless iffue of the negociations for a peace at Bucharest. Nature of the T 4 СНАР. CHA P. III. army. State of the Ottoman Empire at the opening of the congress at Bucharest. Abilities of the Grand Vizir; time of the ceffation profitably employed; un-wearied perfeverance in establishing order and difcipline in the French conful at the Dardanelles becomes a renegade, and establishes a military fchool. War in Syria. Ali Bey reduces Joppa, and marches at the head of an army for the recovery of Egypt; is defeated in a bloody battle near Cairo, and taken prifoner by Mahomet Bey Aboudaab; bis death. Tribute fent from Egypt; good confequences of the reduction of Cheik Daber. Armaments in the Black Sea. Some account of Hoffein Bey. Dreadful plague at Bagdat and Baffora. Ruffia. Ob Jervations on the armistice. Migration of the Torgut tribe of Tartars. Flect in the Baltic; alliance with Denmark; ceffion of Holstein. Grand Duke's marriage. Duke of Courland. Rujan marine. Iue of the war in Georgia. Silver mines difcovered. Magnanimity of the Empress ; conduct with respect to the commercial failures; attention and regard to the English merchants. Parties in Ruffa. [23 that country. CHA P. IV. King of Poland's circular letter. The grand council of the nation affembled at Warfare. Meafores for the holding of the diet. Articles prefented by the minifters of the partitioning powers. Memorial; threats; anfwer; declaration from the Pruffian minifter. Ferment in the dist. Marjaw jurrounded by the foreign troops. Protefts against the diet. New confederacy, under the aufpices of the allied powers. Foreign troops enter the city, and are quartered in the palaces of the principal nobility. Heavy contributions threatened to be impofed. Peremptory order to the diet, to conclude the act of ceffion within eight days. The ac poffed, in the diet and fenate, and figned by the King. Delegates appointed, and the diet breaks up. New stem of government propofed. Treaties concluded by the delegation with the minifters of the allied powers, and ratified by the king. Some particulars of the treaty with the King of Pruffia. Emperor. Dearth, and depopulation in Bohemia. Court of Berlin; condi a objerved with respect to the new provinces; Jews; Dantzick; fortitude of the citizens of Thorn; feluits protested. Deamark; treaty with Refi Sweden; calamities in the provinces; preparations; Finland peajants ; letter from the King to the Count de llopken. CH A P. V. Naval preparations in the French and Spanish ports. Pacific difpofition of the French king. Marriage of the Count de Artcis. Spain; conduct with respect to England; scheme fer establishing a direct trade with the ErftIndies. Portugal; edict to prevent flavery from being perpetual. Court of of Rome; abolition of the Jefuits; charges against them in the Pope's bull; conduct of the Italian ftates, with refpect to the ecclefiaftical power in their dominions. Death of the King of Sardinia; no appearance hitherto of its caufing any change in the public affairs of Italy. Infurrection at Palermo. [51 CHA P. VI. General state of public affairs previous to the meeting of parliament. Miniftry. Parties. State of the East-India Company; fhort review of its affairs, with the causes of its prefent embarrassment; fupervifion; application to government for a loan. Parliament meets. King's Speech. Secret committee. Debates on the establishment for the navy. Report from the Secret committee. Bill for reftraining the Eaft-India Company, with reSpect to the fupervifion; debates; witnesses; counsel; fecond report from the Jecret committee. Bill paled in both houses. Proteft. CHA P. VII. [62 Expedition against the Caribbs in the island of St. Vincent. Some account of thefe people; black and yellow Caribbs; ceffion of the island by the late treaty of peace. The Caribbs refufe to have their lands furveyed, and to Submit to the propofed transplantation. New proposals made, and rejected. Troops ordered from North-America; propofal for tranfporting the Caribbs to the coaft of Africa. Enquiry fet on foot in the House of Commons, as tò the nature and causes of the expedition; witneffes examined; debates; refolutions moved, and rejected upon a divifion." Treaty concluded with the Caribbs. Petition from the captains of the navy for an addition to their balf-pay, oppofition to the Petition; received, upon a divifion, and the request complied with. Fate of the Diffenters Bill. Motion relative to tefts required in the Universities; rejected by a great maority. CHA P. VIII. [*82 Proposals from the Eaft-India Company for a loan. Papers. Refolutions relative to the loan. Right to the territorial poffeffions questioned. Rejolutions for reftraining the dividend, contrary to the propojals delivered by the Company; great delates thereon. Refolutions for continuing the territorial acquifitions in the Company for fix years, and relative to the future participation and difpofal of the furplus profits. Debates. Exportation of teas duty-free. Petition from the East-India Company against the foregoing refolutions. Bill for regulating the affairs of the Eaft-India Company, as well in India as in Europe. Lord Clive's conduct in India arraigned. Refolutions. Final resolution in his favour. Petitions, from the Eaft-India Company, the city of London, and the proprietors of less than 1000l. capital flock, against the regulation bill; counfel heard against it; great debates; bill paffed. Protefts. Speech from the throne. [93 The Some Account of the Proceedings at Westminster-Hall, on the Trial of Lord - [178 Some Account of the Trial between Antonio Fabrigas, a Native of Minorca, [182 Abstract of an Act for the better preventing the counterfeiting, clipping, and otherwife diminishing the Gold Coin of this Kingdom. Abstract of an Act for the better regulating of the Affize and making of Bread. Extract from the Codicil annexed to the Laft Will and Teftament of Robert North, late of Scarborough in the County of York, Efq. Account of the Diftrefs of the London Eaft-Indiaman, in the Hurricane on the [201 An Account of the Naval Review at Portsmouth. [202 The bumble Addrefs, Petition, and Remonftrance, of the Lord-Mayor, Alder- men, and Livery, of the City of London, in Common-Hall affembled; with The bumble Petition of the United Company of Merchants truding to the Eaft- Indies, prefented to the Hon. House of Commons. Meffage from a Committee, appointed by the General Court of the Eaft-India Company, to the Right Hon. the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of the City of London, in Common-Hall affembled. The humble Petition of the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of the City of London, to the Hon. the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament aj- fembled, against the Eaft-India Regulating Bill. The bumble Petition of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the Eaft-Indies, prefented to the Hon. Houfe of Commons, May 28. [ibid. - [215 The humble Petition of feveral Proprietors of the Eaft India Company, Account of the Honours paid by the Affembly and Council of Jamaica, to the Memory of the late Sir William Trelawney, Bart. Governor of that Ifland. Address of the Council of Jamaica to Lady Trelawney. State of the Export Linen and Linen Yarn Trade of Ireland for the laft Seventy Account of the total Quantities of British and Irish Linens exported from England, from the Commencement of the Bounty, to January 1772, diftin- Account of the Quantity of Linens ftamped in Scotland in the Years 1727, Account of the total Quantities of foreign Linens imported into England, and the Duties paid thereon from 1762 to 1771, both inclufive. Account of the progreffive Increase of the Revenue of the Poft-Office. The Addreffes of both Houses of Parliament in Ireland to his Majefty. [234 His Majefty's Anfwers to the Addresses of both Houses of Parliament in Ireland. The Thanks of both Houses of Parliament in Ireland for his Majefty's most gracious Answer to their Addrefes. The Addreffes of both Houses of Parliament in Ireland to his Excellency the The Lords Proteft against the East-India regulating Bill. Second Proteft of the Lords, upon the Rejection of the Duke of Richmond's A Defcription of the land of Otaheite; with many Particulars of its Produce and Inhabitants, their Drefs, Habitations, Food, Domeftic Life, Amufe- |