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Beneficio quàm metu obligare homines malit; exterafque gentes fide ac focietate
junctas habere, quam trifti fubjectas fervitio.
LIV. lib. 26.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR G. G. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
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CONTENTS.
BOOK XIX:
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
19
15
16
Petitions to Parliament on the Subject of Public Economy 17
Famous Motion of Mr. Dunning, affirming the Increase of
Regal Influence....
24
Other Motions carried in Opposition to the Court.... 26-28
Illness of the Speaker.
The Efforts of the Patriots prove finally abortive..
Riots in London excited by the Catholic Act...
Laudable Conduct of the King.....
Sanguinary Severities of Lord Loughborough.
Duke of Richmond's Proposition for Annual Parliaments 36
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
West Florida conquered by the Spaniards..
Fortress of Omoa captured by the English...
East and West India Fleets taken by the Spaniards....
Military Operations in America...
Philanthropic Act passed by the Legislature of Pennsyl-
vania....
Defection of General Arnold.
Victory gained by Lord Cornwallis at Camden.
Defeat of Major, Ferguson at King's Mountain.
Extravagant Exultation of the Court Faction in England..
Rupture with Holland.
Dissolution of Parliament::
Remarkable Address of Sir George Saville....
Meeting of the New Parliament, October 1780.
Mr. Cornwall Speaker...
Debates on the Declaration of War against Holland....
Reform Bill of Mr. Burke revived and rejected........
Corrupt and extravagant Loan of Lord North..
Pacificatory Motion of Mr. Fox....
45
46
48
50
52
54
58
8 8 8 8
69
72
73
Review of the Administration of Mr. Hastings in India..
Confederacy of the Powers of India against the English.. 134
Death of Hyder Ali-Disasters in Mysore...
Resignation of Mr. Hastings-His Character...
212
225
235
236
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241
243
246
247
Eustatia retaken by the French.....
Naval and Military Operations in America
Colonel Tarleton defeated at the Cowpens.
Victory of Lord Cornwallis at Guildford..
General Green's masterly Conduct....
Military Character of General Green..
Lord Cornwallis's Successes in Virginia...
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
Spirited Proceedings of the Parliament and People of
Ireland ....
258
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