THE

SCOTS MAGAZINE.

MDCCLXXXII

VOLUME XLIV.

Ne quid falfi dicere audeat, ne quid vøri non audeat.

PUBLIC

EDINBURGH;

Printed by MURRAY and COCHRAN.

To each article is annexed the number of the page of this volume in which it is to be found.

1781. Aug. During this month and September feveral engagements happened in the East Indies between Sir Eyre Coote and Hyder Ally, p. 318.

Nov. 12. The Dutch fort of Negapatam in the Eaft Indies furrenders to the British forces, p. 270.

Wilmington in North Carolina evacuated by the British troops, p. 28.

26. & 27. The islands of St Euftatius and St Martin's in the West Indies taken by the French, under the command of the Marquis de Bouille, p. 29.

Dec. 21. The Barrier Towns in the Netherlands ordered to be dismantled, p. 48.

1782. Jan. 4. Gen. Meadows arrives at Bombay with land forces, convoyed by three fhips of the line, p. 317.

8. Tellicherry in the Eaft Indies relieved by Maj. Abingdon, who defeated the befiegers, took 60 cannon, so elephants, and a great booty in rupees, p. 317.

11. Trincamale in the East Indies taken by Adm. Hughes, with two Dutch spice-ships, richly laden, several small veffels, and a great quantity of ordnance, p. 273.

The Hannibal of 50 guns taken by the French on the west coast of Sumatra, p. 663. 25. Adm. Hood, attempting to relieve St Chriftopher's, with twenty-two fail of the line, beat off Count de Graffe with twenty-nine fail three times, p. 154.

31. Demerary and Iffequibo in South America taken by the French, p. 157.

Feb. 3. Eighty houses and stores deftroyed by fire at Kingston in Jamaica, p. 211.

5. Fort St Philip on the island of Minorca furrendered to the French and Spaniards, p.158. 11. The islands of St Christopher's and Nevis taken by the French, p. 211.

13. Calicut, on the Malabar coaft, taken by Maj. Abingdon, p. 495.

16. Col. Braithwaite, with a detachment of British, taken by Hyder Ally's troops, p. 495. 16. 17. Adm. Hughes, off Madras, took a valuable French ftore-fhip, retook five country fhips, and beat off, with nine fhips, Monf. Suffrein with eleven, p. 662.

22. Montferrat in the Weft Indies furrenders to the French, p. 214.

March 4. The House of Commons addrefs the King to put a stop to the American war, 1.135.

10. A prodigious quantity of fnow falls at Edinburgh, p. 162.

11. The river Clyde rifes to an extraordinary height at Glasgow, by which a great deal of damage is done, p. 162.

12. Religious restraints taken off in Germany, p. 210.

22. The Pope arrives at Vienna, p. 211.

30. The Marquis of Rockingham appointed first Lord of the Treafury, p. 166.

During this month happened a total change in administration, p. 222.

April 8. A great number of the inhabitants of Geneva take aims and affume the government, confining their magistrates; but on foine troops of France, Sardinia, and Berne, laying fiege to the city, they deliver it up, July 1. and peace is afterwards restored, p. 489. 9. A partial engagement between the British and French fleets off Guadaloupe in the Weft Indies, p. 269.

12. Adm. Rodney, with thirty-feven fail of the line, near Dominica, in the Weft Indies, defeated the French fleet of thirty-fix fail of the line, under Count de Graffe, taking the Ville de Paris of 104 guns, with the Count on board, the Glorieux, Hector, and Cæfar of 74, and Ardent of 64, and funk the Diadem of 74. The Cæfar was burnt in the night after the engagement, p. 267.

12. Adm. Hughes, near Trincamale, on the island of Ceylon, with eleven fhips, beat off the French Admiral Suffreio, with twelve fhips of the line, after a fevere engagement, in which both fleets loft a great number of men, p. 664.

19. The Caton and Jason of 64 guns, l'Aimable of 32, and Ceres of 18, taken from the French By Adm. Hood in the Mona paffage, p. 317.

Their High Mightineffes the States-General acknowledge the independence of America, and admit Mr Adams in quality of minister, p. 209.

20. The Pegafe of 74 guns, L'Actionnaire of 64, and ten fail of a convoy of eighteen taken from the French off Ufhant, by Adm. Barrington, p. 214.

Forts Mauree, Cormantyne, Apam, and Berricoc, on the coaft of Africa, taken by the British, p. 434.

May 8. The Bahama islands taken by the Spaniards, p. 384.

27. Twenty thousand feamen for the British navy voted by the Commons of Ireland, 7.438.

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