THE SCOTS MAGAZINE. MDCCLX X X I. VOLUM E XLIII. Ne quid falfi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. EDINBURGH: Printed by A. MURRAY and J. COCHRAN. To each article is annexed the number of the page of this volume in which it is to be found. 1780. Sept. 10. Lt-Col. Baillie defeated and taken prisoner by Hyder Ally 315. 545. 1781. Jan. 1. A mutiny in the American army at Morristown 25. 4. Fort St Juan de Nicaragua evacuated by the British 314. s. M. de la Motte, a French spy, apprehended 49. Tried 337. Executed 405. 6. The French make a descent upon the land of Jerfey 44. 17. Lt-Col. Tarleton defeated by Gen. Morgan near Ninety-fix 191. . 29. Wilmington in North Carolina 'taken poffeffion of by Maj. Craig and Capt. Barkley 193. Feb. 3. St Euftaria taken by Adm. Rodney and Gen. Vaughan 195. 4. Capt. Reynolds of the Monarch falls in with and takes a Dutch convoy off the inland of Saba 197. 5. St-Martin and Saba surrender to the British 197. 5. Lord George Gordon tried for high treason 113. -- 26. A Spanish squadron greatly damaged by a hurricane off the Havannah 313. March 1. The Dutch colonies of Demarary and Íssequibo furrender to the British 198. 6. The civil government of Georgia pafs an act granting to his Majesty certain duties upon wares and merchandises 250. 12. The Dutch iffue a counter manifesto in answer to the British 128. 15. Lord Cornwallis defeats the American army under Gen. Greene at Guildford 261. 299. 15. The island of St Bartholomew furrenders to the British 306. 16. Engagement between the British and French fleets off the Chesapeak 255. 21. The foundation-stone of St Andrew's church at Edinburgh laid 120. April 6. The Spanish rebel Tupac in South America defeated and taken 657. 12. The British fleet under Adm. Darby relieves Gibraltar 319. 478. — 16. Com. Johnfion attacked by a French fleet in Port Prayo road, St Jago, 310., -18. &c. Gen. Arnold destroys great quantities of tobacco in Virginia 301. 25. Lord Rawdon defeats the American army under Gen. Greene near Camden 265. 29. An engagement between the British and French fleets off Fort Royal, Martinico, 397-:377: May 1. A dangerous infurrection at Freebourg in Switzerland 311. 2. M. de la Motte Piquet's squadron falls in with and takes great part of a fleet of merchantmen from St Euftatia for England 312. 8. Camden in South Carolina evacuated by the British 425. 9. The colony of Weft Florida furrenders to the Spaniards 375. 427. 526. 10. The French make a defcent upon St Lucia 380. 23. A French privateer, commanded by G. Fall, cannonades the town of Arbroath 348. June 2. The illand of Tobago furrenders to the French 381. 428. 470. 11. Gen. Greene repulfed in an attempt to ftorm Ninety-fix 466. A great fleet in Leith road 329. 29. The King of Pruffia accedes to the armed neutrality 433. ~July 1. Sir Eyre Coote defeats Hyder Ally-between Porto Novo and Mooteapollam 659. 17. The folema inauguration of the Emperor of Germany performed at Bruffels 438. 21. Com. Johnston takes five Dutch East-India ships in Saldanha bay $47. Aug. 5. An obftinate engagement between the British and Dutch fleets on the Dogger bank 489. 19. American and French troops march from Gen. Washington's camp for Virginia 633. 24. American civil government established in Georgia 643. 24. The combined fleets of France and Spain appear in the English channel 494. 26. The Count de Graffe, with twenty feven fhips of the line and 3000 land-forces, arrives in the Chesapeak 592. 633. 39. A whale taken in the Thames above London bridge 498. Sept. s. The Sept. 5. The British and French fleets engage at the mouth of the Chefapeak 524. 5856. Gen. Arnold lands in Connecticut, takes Fort Grifwold, and destroys part of New London 587. 8. Gen. Greene attacks Lt-Col. Stewart near Eutaw's Springs in South Carolina 644. 11. Count de Graffe is joined in the Chesapeak by the Count de Barras, with fix fail of the line and 2000 land-forces 592. The court of London accept of the Emprefs of Ruffia's mediation for bringing about a peace with Holland 662. and refuses the mediation of the King of Sweden 664. 25. American and French troops arrive at Williamsburgh 593. 08. Emperor of Germany grants toleration to all kinds of religion 603. All children born of flaves in Portugal after Jan. 1. 1781 declared free 605. 19. Adm. Graves fails from Sandy Hook with troops on board his fleet to relieve Lord Cornwallis 591. 19. Lord Cornwallis furrenders his posts at York and Gloucester to the armies of America and France 635. 30. The Emperor of Germany accedes to the armed neutrality 656. Nov. 27. The befieged make a fally from Gibraltar, and destroy the Spanish batteries 660. Dec. 12. Adm. Kempenfelt falls in with a French fleet, and takes fifteen transports 661. 25. Capt. Caldwell of the Agamemnon takes five French transports laden with warlike ftores, &c. 662. 31. Henry Laurens, late President of Congress, liberated from the Tower of London upon bail 665. Figures inclofed thus [ ] direct to places of this Collection; the firft number directing to the volume, the fecond or following numbers to the page or pages. If different volumes be referred to, they are feparated by a fhort line ; of both which there are examples, p 2. col. 1. lin, 39. and p. 3. col. 2. lin. 56. of this voluine. - Vol. 1. answers to the year 1739, vol. 2. to the year 1740, and so on, a volume every year. A fingle number refers to the volume in which the reference is made; of which fee an example in p. 85. col. 1. lin. 1. These references anfwer, in good measure, the purposes of an appendix to a hiftory, by directing to vouchers, &c. as in p. 625. col. 1. lin. 42. and p. 626. col. I. lin. 5.& 40. Notes inclosed thus [ for explaining or illuftrating any thing in a paper or extract, as in p. 34. are generally our own. Notes added by the authors, or by the compilers of the works from which we take them, are not so inclosed, as in p. 477. Pag. col. lin. ERRATA. 36. for GOLDSMITH. read HAWKESWORTH. 8. for Lond. Gaz. Extraordinary, March 13. read London Gazette, March 31. 10. read will be no more 56. read Dr Brownlow North, now Bishop of Worcester, 18. delete that and the three following lines, it being a report without foundation. 30. for Robert Dun read John Kay 53. for Jench, read Touch, 4. from the bottom, for Mourice. read Mounie. |