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Cafile. Is gallantly attacked in the town by Major Picrfon. French

commander falls, and his remaining troops furrender prisoners of war.

Major Pierfon unfortunately flain in the inftant of victory. Neceffities of

the inhabitants and garrison of Gibraltar. Extraordinary prices of

provifions and neceffaries. Admiral Darby fails with the grand feet

and a large convoy to its relief. Spanish fleet retires into Cadiz at the

approach. Gun-boats. Dreadful cannonade and bombardment of the

town and garrifon from the Spanish camp. Town deftroyed, and many

of the inhabitants perifh. Convoy from St. Euftatius taken by M. de la

Motte Piquet. Secret expedition, under Commodore Johnstone and Gen.

Meadores. Fleet attacked in Port Praya Bay by M. de Suffrein French

repulfed. M. de Suffrein's timely arrival at the Cape of Good Hope,

fruftrates the defign upon that place. Dutch Ships taken by Mr. John-

fone in Saldanha Bay. General Elliot's grand fally from Gibraltar, by

which he deftroys the enemy's batteries and works. Invafion of the island

of Minorca. Combined fleets return from that fervice, to cruize at the

mouth of the Channel. Propofal for attacking Admiral Darby at Torbay,

overruled in a council of war. Enemy, fruftrated in all their views,

retire to their refpe&ive ports. State of the war with Holland, in

Europe. Admiral Hyde Parker fails with a small squadron for the pro-

tection of the Baltic trade. Upon his return, falls in with Admiral

Zoutman, with a great Dutch convoy, and a fuperior force. Defperate

engagement on the Dogger-Bank.
Dutch Fleet and convoy return in

great diforder to their own coafts. Hollandia of 68 guns funk. Confe

quences of the action. Royal vifit to Admiral Parker at the Nore. Ad-

miral Kempenfeldt fails to intercept a great convoy fitted out at Bref,

with troops, flores, and fupplies for the French fleets and armies in the

Eaft and Weft Indies. Falls in with and takes feveral of the convey;

but difcovers the enemy to be fo greatly fuperior in force, that he could

not profecute the defign farther

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State of parties at the meeting of Parliament. Debates on the Speech from the
throne Addrefes moved in both Houses, and amendments propofed and rejected.
Debate refumed on the report of the addrefs from the committee. Motion fo
granting a fupply to his Majesty oppofed by Mr. T. Pitt, and after a warm de-
bate carried, on a divifion, in the affirmative. Mr. Burke's motion for a commit-
tee of the whole Houfe to inquire into the confifcation and fale of the effects and mer-
chandize taken on the island of St. Euftatious, rejected. Motion by Mr. Huffey

for adding 10,000 feamen to the number moved for by government for the fervice

the year 1782. Sir James Lowther's motion for putting an end to the American

war rejected, after a long debate, by a majority of only 41. Debate on the army

eftimates. Converfation relative to the exchange of prisoners with America. De-

bate on the motion for adjournment. Petition from Mr. Laurens, prefented by

Mr Burke. Recess

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CHAP. VIII.

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Retrospective view of affairs in North America and the West Indies in the year 1781. South Carolina. Battle at the Eutaw Springs. Col. Stuart, with the British forces, retires to Charles-town. Island of St. Euftatius furprised and taken by the Marquis de Bouille. Dutch fettlements of Demerary and Ffequibo recovered by France. Marquis de Bouille invades the island of St. Chriftopher, with 8,000 men in the beginning of the year 1782, and is fupported by the Count de Graffe, with a great feet. Gen. Frafer and the governor, with the few troops on the island, retire to Brimstone-hill. Gallant attempt made by Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, with a very inferior force to fave the island: draws the enemy out to fea, and then feizes the anchorage-ground in Baffeterre road, which they had juft quitted. French feet repeatedly attack the English fquadron, and are repulfed with lofs. Works on Brimflone-hill in no degree anferable to the firength of the fituation. Gallant defence made by the garrifen. All the attempts made by the Admiral, and by Gen. Prefcot, for the relief of the place, prove ineffectual. The works and buildings in the top of the hill being almost entirely deftroyed, Gen. Frafer and Gov. Shirley are obliged to capitulate, and obtain conditions High honourable to the garrifen, and advantageous to the ifland. Engi fquadron flip their cables, and return to Barbadoes. Nevis ara Montferrat follow the fortune of St. Chriftopher. Formida preparations by France and Spain for the invafion of Jamaica. miral Sir George Rodney arrives with a firong reinforcement from England, and takes the command of the fleet. Fails in his defign of intercepting the French convoy from Breft. Puts into St. Lucia efit, and to watch the motions of the enemy. Objects, and refpccine force of the commanders on both fides. Perilous fiate of the Engi affairs in the West Indies. M. de Graffe proceeds with his fe and a great convoy from Fort Royal, in order to form a juntius with the French and Spanish forces at Hifpaniola. Is immediate pursued by Sir George Rodney. Partial engagement between the French fleet and the van of the English, on the 9th of April. Great fea fight on the 12th, which lafts from fun rife to fun fet. Gal iantry difplayed on both fides. French fleet entirely routed. The Count de Graffe taken in the Ville de Paris. Four other fhips the line take, and one funk. Various particulars of the actin Cefar, one of the French prizes, blown up on the night of the batt Admiral Sir Samuel Hood detached with a fquadron, in purtat f the enemy. Takes two French frips of the line and two frigates in the Mona paffage. Sir George Rodney proceeds with the Coust

de Graffe and the prizes to Jamaica. Confequences of the late
victory. Honours to the fuccessful commenders. Lord Rodney
returns to England, and is fucceeded by Admiral Pigot. Inactivity
of the oppofite armies in North America, confirmed by the refolutions
of parliament, and by the fubfequent negociations for peace [189

land.

CHA P. X.

great

Minorca. Siege of Fort St. Philip. Fatal progrefs of the fcurvy
and other diforders in the garrison. Il'eakness in point of number.
Successful attack on the Duke de Crillon's head-quarters at Cape-
Mola. Powder-magazines blown up, bomb-battery destroyed,
and a fhip funk, by the fire from the fortress. Garrison being
reduced by fickness, General Murray fubmits to the neceffity of a
capitulation. Humanity and tenderness of the enemy to the fick.
Coasts of these kingdoms threatened by the enemy. Admiral Bar-
rington fails with a fquadron to the Bay, and falls in with a French
convoy. Captain Jarvis takes the Pegafé of 74 guns. Most of
the convoy taken. L'Actionnaire of 64 guns, taken by Capt. Mait-
Lord Howe fails to the coaft of Holland. Dutch fleet
returns to the Texel upon his approach. Combined fleets, in their
way from Cadiz, fall in with the Newfoundland and Quebec convoy,
and take feveral veffels. Combined ficets approach the Channel.
Lord Howe fails with a very inferior force to protect the
Famaica convoy. Enemy return to port, without effecting a june-
tion with the Dutch, or being able to intercept the convoy. Pre-
harations for the relief of Gibraltar. Royal George man of
loft at Portfmouth; Admiral Kempenfeldt, feveral officers, with a
great number of people, unfortunately perifh. Lord Howe Jails for
the relief of Gibraltar. Stare of the fortress. Vaft preparations
by fea and land for its attack, by the combined frets and armies of
France and Spain. Confidence placed in the new-conftructed bat-
tering fhips contrived by the Chevalier de Arcon. Some account
of thofe formidable machines. Arrival of the French Princes of
the blood in the camp before Gibraltar. Letter between the Duke
de Crillon and General Elliot. Unexpected and violent cannonade
and bombardment from the garrifon, by which the enemy's works
Suffer greatly. Violent fire on the fortress. Combined fleets arrive
at Ageziras. Grand attack. Dreadful cannonade and bombard-
ment from the lines, the battering fhips, and the garrison. Adıni-
ral's fhip, and another, at length fet on fire, and blow up in the
night. General conflagration. Extraordinary exertions of gal
lantry and humanity difplayed by Captain Curtis and his feamen in

the

the gun-boats, in faving the enemy from the flames. Battering
Ships entirely deftroyed. Storm in the Bay of Gibraltar. Spanish
hip of the line driven under the batteries, and taken by the
garrifon. British fleet arrives in the Straits. Most of the ftore-
Ships mifs the Bay, and pass with the fleet into the Mediterranean.
Combined fleets follow, but avoid action. Lord Howe, having
landed the troops and fuccefsfully relieved Gibraltar, repasses the
Straits. Followed by the combined fleets. Diflant cannonade, and
partial action in the Atlantic

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General Murray's account of the fiege of Fort St. Philip, articles of
capitulation, and returns of the fate of the garrison and ar
tillery
[241
Extract of a letter from the Hon. Vice-Admiral Barrington to Mr.
Stephens, dated on board the Britannia, at St. Helens, April 25,
1782, giving an account of taking the Pegafé,a French 74 gun ship,by
Capt. Jervis, in the Foudroyant; with Capt. Jervis's own account
of the fame action

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[249
Copy of a letter from Capt. Pole, of his Majesty's fhip Success, of 32
guns and 220 men, to Mr. Stephens; giving an account of his taking
the Santa Catalina, a Spanifh fhip of 34 guns
[250
Copies of difpatches from Admiral Sir George Bridges Rodney, Bart.
containing the particulars of two engagements with the French fleet
under M. de Graffe in the West Indies, on the 9th and 12th of
April, 1782
(252
Extract of a letter from Count de Guichen to the Marquis de Cafiries,
giving an account of his having taken a fleet of eighteen Engli
merchant hips
[257
Copies and Extract of letters from_General Eliott, Governor of
Gibraltar, to the Rt. Hon. Thomas Townshend, giving an account of
the attack and defence of that fortress on the 13th of Sept. 1782. [258
Extracts of two Letters from Lord Viscount Howe to Mr. Stephens,
containing an account of his proceedings for the relief of Gibraltar,

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