CHAP. IV. Gaufes of the early meeting of parliament declared in the king's fpeech; difs putes in the United Provinces; intended interference of France; declaration of the court of Great Britain; treaty with Heffe Caffel; fuccefs of the Pruffian forces; final accommodation. Speech of lord Fielding upon the works of Cherburgh; of Mr. Fox upon continental alliances; upon the difpofitions of the French court; upon the fubfidiary treaty; the increase of the army; and the appointment of admiral Pigot. Mr. Pitt's reply to Mr. Fox on thofe fubjects. Speeches in the house of lords; of the bishop of Llandaff, upon our right of interference in Holland, and upon the balance of power; of lord Stormont, upon the fame Jubject, and the negligence of minifters. Addreffes in both houses, nem. con. State papers laid before parliament. Mr. Fox complains of the retention of the French notification; answered by Mr. Pitt ; motion for an addrefs for that paper negatived. Debate on the fubfidiary treaty objections of Mr. Fox; Mr. Pitt's defence. Opinion of Mr. Burke upon foreign alliances, and upon the merits of the treaty. Debate on the augmentation of the land forces; objected to by Mr. Fitzpatrick and Mr. Fox; defended by Mr. Pitt. Debate on the ordnance estimates; on the plan of fortifying the Weft India islands; on the government manufacture of gunpowder; on the new corps of artificers. Account of the impeachment of Mr. Haftings and Sir Elijah Impey in the feventh chapter. CHA P. V. [83 Cafe of the late promotion of officers to the flag; motion relative thereto, by lord Rawdon; defended by lord Howe, as expedient and agreeable to precedents; the motion fupported by lord Hawke; objected to by the earl of Sandwich, on the general ground of inexpediency. His account of the establishment of the fuperannuated lift; anfwered by lord Rawdon; motion rejected Mr. Baftard's motion on the fame fubject in the boufe of commons; oppofed by Mr. Beaufoy and Mr. Pitt; different opinions of naval officers upon the jubject; motion withdrawn. Second motion of Mr. Baftard, for a committee of enquiry; detail of the cafes of the rejected captains; defence of the board of admiralty; the promotion defended by captain Berkeley; condemned by Mr. Fox; opinions of feveral military officers; of country gentlemen; charge of partiality against lord Howe; denied by his friends; motion rejected by a majority of only 16. Third motion, on the fame fubject, by Mr. Baftard; Speakers in the debate; rejected by a majority of 49. Debates on the India declaratory bill; occafion of bringing in the bill; objected to, upon the general principles of declaratory bills, as unparliamentary, unjust, and as a dangerous precedent; motion for bringing in the bill defended by Mr. Pitt, on the plea of neceffity; answered by Mr. Flood; India company heard by counsel on the fecond reading; bill oppofed on two grounds; ift, as not containing the true sense of the original act of 1784; 2dly, as wefting an arbitrary power in the board of controul, and authorizing a measure injurious to the company, [98 CHA P. VI. The claufe in the mutiny bill, for incorporating in the army the new corps CHAP. CHA P. VII. Proceedings upon the impeachment of Mr. Haflings. His answer delivered at the bar of the house of lords; fent to the commons; replication of the commons. Managers appointed. Debate upon the rejection of Mr. Francis. Trial commences Feb. 13th. Counfel for the defendant. Aftant counfel to the managers. First and fecond days confumed in reading the articles and anfwers. Third day, Mr. Burke begins his opening of the charge, and conludes on the fixth. Propofal from the managers to hear each article of charge and the defence, fingly. Objected to by the defendant's counsel, and decided in the negative by the houfe of lords. Seventh day, obfervations by Mr. Fox on the decifion of the peers. He opens the Benares charge. Eighth day, Mr. Grey States and applies the evidence to be adduced. Four following days taken up in reading evidence, and examining witnesses. Debate upon matsers of evidence. Thirteenth day, Mr. Anftruther fums up the evidence on the Benares charge. Fourteenth day, Mr. Adam opens the fecond charge, relative to the princefjes of Oude. Fifteenth day, Mr. Pelham ftates the evidence. Sixteen following days, evidence heard and examined. Thirty-fecond, thirty-third, and thirty-fourth days, Mr. Sheridan fums up the evidence. Trial adjourned to the next feffion. Debates in the house of commons upon the expences incurred in confequence of the impeachment. Account of the proceeding upon the impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey. Six charges exhibited against him by Sir Gilbert Elliott. Sir Elijah heard at the bar in his defence upon the first charge, relative to the putting Nundcomar to death. Evidence produced. Mr. Francis's vindication of himself against infinuations of Sir Elijah Impey. Debates on the first charge. Rejected. Confideration of the other charges deferred. [140 CHA P. VIII. Some obfervations on the probable, as well as oftenfible caufes and motives, which induced Denmark to take part with Ruffia in the war against Sweden. Great attention paid by the King of Sweden, to remove all traces of the jealoufy, which fome acts at the commencement of his reign had excited on the fide of Denmark; and to renew and cement the greatest friendship between both kingdoms. His unexpected vifit at Copenhagen, near the close of the year 1787. Fails in his endeavours to render that court a convert to, his political opinions, and a party in his defigns. Farther applications of the King to Prince Charles of Heffe, and to the Prince Royal of Denmark, pon their arrival in Norway, prove cq. all, inefficacious. Notice given by the court of Copenhagen to the foreign minifiers (while the King of Sweden was conducting the campaign in Finland) of her determination to supply Rufia with a confiderable auxiliary fer.e. Hafty return of the King from Finland. Critical and dangerous flate of his affairs. Matincus army in Finland Finland fend a deputation to Petersburgh, after the King's departure, and without his confent, to conclude an armistice with the Emprefs. Sudden arrival of the King at Stockholm, prevents the measures pursued by the fenate, for convening a diet, from taking effect. Enthusiasm of the citizens, upon the King's entrusting the defence of the capital, and the protection of the court, to their courage and loyalty. Memorial to the court of Copenhagen. Anfwer by Count Bernstorff. Fortunate event for the King, that the newly-allied Powers of England, Pruffia, and Holland, were not difpofed to fuffer Sweden to be crushed by a combination of hoftile power. King indefatigable in his endeavours to provide for refifting his new enemy. Proceeds to Dalecarlia, and obtains an aid of 3,000 volunteers from that brave people. Prince Charles of Heffe invades Sweden, on the fide of Norway, at the head of a body of 12,000 auxiliaries. Takes Stromstadt, Udevalla, and other places. Surrounds a small body of Swedish forces under Colonel Tranefield, who, after a flight engagement, are forced to furrender prisoners of war: Advances towards Gottenburgh. Governor of that place fummons a meeting of the inhabitants, at which it is agreed upon to furrender. King arrives unexpectedly, difplaces the Governor, and brings the inhabitants to a determination to defend the city, at all rifques; to the last extremity. That place ftill in great danger, and the King's fituation very critical, when the timely and happy intervention of the mediating Powers prevents the dreaded effects. Mr. Elliot, the British minifter at Copenhagen, passes over to Sweden, as delegate from the allied powers, and by his zeal and ability procures an armiflice for eight days. Mr. Elliot is joined by the Baron de Borcke, minifter from the King of Prussia. Second armistice passed for a month; and a third, after many difficulties, for fix months. Danish army vithdraws into Norway. [173 [235 Copies of the letters received by the council of Brabant, the 2zd of January, from bis excellency count de Trauttmansdorff Account of a dreadful inundation of the fea at Ingeram, on the coast of Coromantel, in the East Indies. In a letter from Mr. William Parfon to Alexander Dalrymple, Eiq. [23 Particulars - Particulars relative to lord Mansfield's refignation of his office of chief justice Lift of the Swedish fleet of the Ruffian fleet [242 245 [246 [247 Subftance of admiral Greig's letter to the court of Petersburgh, giving an ac- [ibid. Some particulars of the naval engagement between the Turks and Ruffians, in the Black Sea, extracted from a letter, dated from prince Potemkin's head An account of the Jubilee, to celebrate the centenary of the Revolution, at [249 - [251 Prayer used in all the Jewish fynagogues, on the fame occafion An account of the quantities of all corn and grain exported from, and im- ported into, England and Scotland, with the bounties and drawbacks paid, and the duties received thereon, for one year, ending the 5th of Ja- Extract of a letter from Rome, containing a particular account of the funeral of the late count of Albany, commonly called the Pretender A general bill of all the chriftenings and burials, in the cities of London and |