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Beneficio quàm metu obligare homines malit; exterafque gentes fide ac focietate

junctas habere, quàm trifti subjectas 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..

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Petitions to Parliament on the Subject of Public Economy 17

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Famous Motion of Mr. Dunning, affirming the Increase of

Regal Influence..

Illness of the Speaker.

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Other Motions carried in Opposition to the Court.... 26-28

The Efforts of the Patriots prove finally abortive.

Riots in London excited by the Catholic Act.

Laudable Conduct of the King...

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Sanguinary Severities of Lord Loughborough..

Duke of Richmond's Proposition for Annual Parliaments
Alliance with Holland dissolved.

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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..

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West Florida conquered by the Spaniards...

45

Fortress of Omoa captured by the English...

45

East and West India Fleets taken by the Spaniards......

45

45

Military Operations in America....

Philanthropic Aet 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...

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Extravagant Exultation of the Court Faction in England.. 53

Rupture with Holland

Dissolution of Parliament::..

Remarkable Address' of Sir George Saville..

Meeting of the New Parliament, October 1780.

Mr. Cornwall Speaker....

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Debates on the Declaration of War against Holland....

Corrupt and extravagant Loan of Lord North..

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Reform Bill of Mr. Burke revived and rejected..

Pacificatory Motion of Mr. Fox....

Review of the Administration of Mr. Hastings in India.. 73 Confederacy of the Powers of India against the English.. 134

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Death of Hyder Ali-Disasters in Mysore..

Resignatiou of Mr. Hastings-His Character.......... 225

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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...

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

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Hope.....

256

Obstinate Engagement between the English and Dutch
Fleets off the Dogger Bank....

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Motion of Censure on the Earl of Sandwich, by Mr. Fox 277

Lord George Germaine advanced to the Peerage.

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Protest of the Lords against it...

279

Mr. Fox renews his Motion of Censure on the Earl of

Sandwich

280

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