Annual Register

and reprifal. Articles of confederation propofed by the Continental Congrefs. Commercial refolution, fufpending in certain cafes the prohibition with respect to exportation and importation. Declaration in answer to the royal proclamation of the 23d of Auguft. [17

State of affairs previous to the meeting of parliament. City public tranf actions. Letter from New-York. Addreffes from the guild of merchants in Dublin, to Lord Effingham, and to the protesting peers. Refolutions of the Sheriffs and commons of the city of Dublin. Riot of the failors at Liverpoole. Petition from the American Congress, prefented by Mr. Penn. Addrelles. State of parties. Ancient animofities revived. Petitions. Newfoundland. Negociations for foreign troops. Great fupplies of provifions fent for the fupport of the army in Boston. Vaft expences of that fervice. Reports circulated for fome time before the opening of the feffion. Confpiracy. Mr. Sayre fent to the Tower.

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Speech from the throne. Addrefs. Motion for an amendment. Great debates. Amendment rejected, and the original addrefs paffed by a great majority. Debates renewed upon receiving the report. Motion for recommitment, withdrawn. Motion for a new amendment, fubftituted in its place. Amendment rejected, after long debates, and the original addrefs paffed. Motion for an amendment to the addrefs in the House of Lords. Great debates. Original addrefs paffed. Proteft. [55

CHA P. V.

Duke of Manchester's motion relative to the Hanoverian troops. Debates. Previous queflion carried by a great majority. Similar motion by Sir James Lowther in the Houfe of Commons. Debates. Previous question put and carried. Debates on the Militia Bill. Army estimates. Motion for returns rejected. 28,000 feamen voted. Motion for an address on American affairs rejected. 55,000 men voted for the land fervice. [75

CHA P. VI.

Refignation of the Duke of Grafton. Lord George Germaine appointed to the American department, in the room of the Earl of Dartmouth, who receives the privy feal. Lord Weymouth appointed Secretary of State for the Southern department, in the room of the Earl of Rochford, who retires. Other promotions and changes. Petition from the American Congrefs laid before the Lords. Duke of Richmond's motions. Mr. Penn's examination. Motion relative to the petition. Great debates. Motion rejected. Four fbillings in the pound land tax voted. Debates on the Militia Bill. Amendment propofed and rejected. Several motions propofed by the Duke of Grafton, and rejected. Mr. Burk's Conciliatory Bill. Great debates. Motion for bringing in the bill rejected. American Prohibitory Bill brought into the House of Commons by the minifter. Motion for an amendment. Great debates. Motion rejected. Debaies upon the fecond reading, and in

the committee. Various motions made, and amendments propofed. The

bill paffed in the Houfe of Commons. Mr. Fox's motion for information

relative to the ftate of the forces in North America. Militia Bill passed.

Indemnity Bill paffed. Motion for an addrefs, in conformity to the in-

ftructions from the city of London to its reprefentatives. Mr. Hartley's

conciliatory propofitions. Indemnity Bill rejected by the Lords.

oppofition to the Prohibitory Bill. Proteft. Duke of Manchester's motion

for deferring the commitment till after the holydays. Marquis of Rocking-

hams's motion for an amendment. Bill paffed by the Lords.
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CHA P. VII.

Great

Petition from the colony of Nova Scotia. Refolutions passed, but no bill

brought in. Motion and debates relative to a meffage fent to the parlia-

ment of Ireland. Motion for an enquiry into the causes of the ill fuccefs in

North America. Great debates. German treaties laid before the House

of Commons, and produce long debates. Duke of Richmond's motion for an

addrefs relative to the German treaties. Great debates. Motion rejected.

Proteft. Confiderable debates in the Committee of Supply. Motion for

extraordinary expences carried by a great majority. Duke of Grafton's

motion for an addrefs relative to the colonies. Debates. Motion rejected.

Progress of the bill for a militia in Scotland. Bill at length rejected.

Enquiry into licences granted to ships bound to North America. Speech

from the throne.
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CHAP VIII.

Lord,

Diftreffes of the army at Boften during the winter. New batteries opened.
and the town bombarded. Embarkation. Gen. Howe departs with the
army to Halifax. Siege of Quebec raised. Rebels repulfed at Three Rivers.
Montreal, Chamblee, and St. John's retaken; all Canada recovered,
Regulators and Emigrants totally defeated and difperfed in North Caro-
lina. Hopkins ftrips the Bahama Islands of stores and artillery, Lord
Dunmore abandons the coafts of Virginia; Fugitives difperfed. Sir Peter
Parker's Squadron, with Lord Cornwallis and troops, arrive at Cape
Fear, where they meet Gen. Clinton; proceed to Charlestown. Attack on

Sullivan's Ifland. Circular letter from the Congrefs for the establishment

of new governments in the colonies. Declaration of Independency.

and Gen. Howe appointed Commissioners for restoring Peace in the Colo-

nies. Gen. Howe, with the army, land at Staten Island. Circular

Letter, fent by Lord Howe to the Continent, and published by the Con-

grefs. Letter to Gen. Washington, refufed. Conference between Adju

tant Gen. Patterson, and Gen. Washington. Plots at New York, and Al-

bany. Army landed at Long Island. Americans defeated with great

lofs. Retire filently from their Camp, and quit the Island. Gen. Sulli-

van fent upon parole with a message from Lord Howe to the Congress.

Fruitless conference between his Lordship and a Committee of the Congress.

Defcent on York Island; City of New York taken; Jet on fire, and a great

part burnt. Army pass through the dangerous navigation called Hell

Gate;

Forts

Gate; land at Frogs Neck; Skirmish at the White Plains.

Washington and Lee taken, and the whole of York Island reduced. Fer-

feys overrun. Rhode Island reduced.

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General conduct of European powers with respect to the American troubles.
France. Military preparations. Count de St. Germain placed at the
head of the war department. Mufquetaires reduced. Mr. Necker placed
at the bead of the Finances. Spain. Extraordinary military preparations.
Difpute with Portugal. Improvements. Difcoveries in the Southern
Ocean. New Academy. Vienna. Torture abolished. Toleration en-
larged. Bohemia peasants on the royal demefnes freed from their former
ftate of villainage. Attempt to open a trade with the East Indies.
Ruffia. Endeavours to people the uncultivated parts of the Empire.
Grand Duchefs dies. Grand Duke marries the Princess of Wirtemberg.
Porte. Bafora taken by the Perfians. Northern kingdoms, Holland

THE CHRONICLE.

Births for the year 1776.

Marriages.

Principal Promotions.

Deaths.

APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE.

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Summary of the trial of Elizabeth, filing herself Duchess of Kingfion, for

bigamy, before the House of Lords of Great-Britain, in Westminster-Hall,

on Monday the 15th of April, and feveral fucceeding days.

A fhort Review of Mr. Garrick's theatrical reign, with fome particulars of

the former part of his life, &c.

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Supplies of 1775 and 1776 compared.

Heads of an Act passed on the 23d of May, 1776, being the last day of the

laft jeffion of parliament, for the relief of Infolvent Debtors.

Remarkable Address of the prefent Governors and Directors of the poor of the

parish of Saint Andrew Holborn above the Bars, and Saint George the
Martyr, united, to the inhabitants of faid parish.

Some account of the public trials made by David Hartley, Efq; to evince the

efficacy of a new, cheap, and easy method invented by him, for preferving

houses, ships, &c, from fire; with the proceedings of the Lord Mayor,

&c. of the city of London, relative thereto.

Supplies granted for the fervice of the year 1776, with the ways and means

His majesty's meffage to the House of Commons, for a vote of credit. [251

STATE

STATE PAPER S.

Petition of the city of London, prefented, feparately, to both Houfes of Par-

liament, at the opening of the fecond feffion of the fourteenth parliament of

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Great-Britain

Proteft of feveral of the Lords against their House's Addrefs, in answer to the

King's Speech, at the opening of the aforefaid feffion of parliament. [252

Letter from Commodore Sir Henry Parker, to W. Tryon, Efq; Governor of

New York.
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Proclamation by General Carleton for the relief of the fugitive Provincials,

after they had been driven from before Quebec.

Subftance of the speech made by Sir Fletcher Norton, Speaker of the House of

Commons, to his Majefty, previous to that, by which his Majefty, on the

23d of May, put an end to the Second feffion of the 14th parliament of

Great-Britain.

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The King's most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Thursday

the 23d of May, when his Majefty put an end to the forefaid feffion of

parliament.
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Circular letter written by Lord Howe, to the Governors of the American

provinces, and an inclojed declaration addreffed to the inhabitants; with

the refolutions and proceedings of the Continental Congress relative to

both.

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Singular refolutions agreed to in the Council of Safety, at Savannah, in
Georgia, to defroy their houfes and shipping, rather than let them fall

into the hands of their enemies.

Decree of his most faithful Majefty the King of Portugal, relative to the re-

volt of the British North American colonies.

Subftance of a letter, written by the Marquis De Grimaldi, to the Governor

of Bilboa relative to an American corfair, which had taken five English

Jhips, and had been detained thereupon at that port, at the request of the

English Vice-Conful.

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Reafons affigned by the Continental Congress, for the American colonies and
provinces withdrawing their allegiance to the King of Great-Britain.

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Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the united States of

America,

CHARACTER S.

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Pilure of the condition and manners of the people of Rome, when firfl pillaged
by the Barbarians; collected from different cotemporary writers.
Curious particulars relating to the ancient Academy and Philofophers of
Athens; with fome account of the manners, customs, &c. of the modern
inhabitants of that city and its territory.

Sketch of the manners and customs of the old Mexicans; with fome account

of their remaining genuiae defcendants..

Some

Some Account of the late inhabitants of Acadia, in North America, called by

Some authors Neutral French, but confidered as rebels by the British govern-

ment.

Singular Adventures of a German Princess, confort of Alexis, the unfortu-

nate fon of the Czar Peter the Great.

A Sketch of the character of the late George Lord Lyttelton.

New Anecdotes of Sir Ifaac Newton.