Fort furprised and taken. Sombreuil and other Emigrants condemned and executed. Charette's Proclamation. A fecond Defcent attempted on the Coaft of France. L'Ile Dieu taken. Evacuated. Campaign in Germany. Surrender of Luxemburg. Siege of Mentz. French pafs the Rhine. Take poffeffion of Manheim. Reverfe of Fortune. Blockade of Mentz raifed. French defeated near Mentz. Manheim retaken. Armistice on the Rhine. Caufes of the French Difafters. Weft-Indies. Reduction of Tiburon by the French. Of St. Euftatius. Ambitious Projects of the French in the Weft Indies. Infurrection in St. Lucia. In Grenada. In Dominica. In St. Vincent's. Fire at Montego Bay, in Jamaica. War with the Maroons in that land. Cape of Good Hope taken by the British. Mediterranean Convoy intercepted by the French, &c. Reflections on the Prefent State of Europe, 239 PRINCIPAL OCCURRENCE S. (3) PUBLIC PAPER S. (81) His Majesty's Speech to both Houfes of Parliament, December 30, 1794, (80) Addrefs to his Majefty moved for in the Houfe of Commons by Sir Edward Knatchbull, Dec. 30, 1794, with the Amendment thereunto propofed by Mr., Wilberforce, Proteft by Earl Stanhope, Jan. 6, 1795, against the Motion for Adjournment, by which his propofed Refolution, "That this Country ought not, and will not, interfere in the internal Affairs of France, and that it is expedient explicitly to declare the fame," was negatived; fixty-one Peers voting for the Adjournment, and his Lordship alone against it, (84) Mr. Grey's Motion in the House of Commons, Jan. 26, 1795, with the fubfequent Amendments thereunto, (86) The Duke of Bedford's Motion in the Houfe of Lords, Jan. 27. (87) (ibid.) (ibid.) Addrefs to the King moved for in the House of Lords, by the Earl of Lauderdale, June 5, (88) Petition of the Livery of the City of London, in Common Hall affembled, prefented to the Houfe of Commons, Jan. 26, (91) Address of the City of London to his Majesty, prefented Jan. 28, (ibid.) Proteft against the Bill for continuing the Sufpenfion of the Habeas Corpus Act, Feb. 4, (92) His Majesty's Speech to both Houses of Parliament, June 27, (93) (94) Copy of the Proclamation iffued, Oct. 31, in Pursuance of the foregoing Addrefs, The Joint Address of both Houses of Parliament to his Majefy, on the daring Outrages offered to his Majefty in his Way to and from the Parliament Houfe, prefented Oct. 31, (95) (96) (97) Copy of a Proclamation against Seditious Meetings, Nov. 4, (98) Refolutions paffed at an extraordinary Meeting of the Whis Club, Nov. 11, (99) Proceedings of Aficiated Livery of the City of London, at the Antwerp Tavern, Proceedings of a Meeting held at the Paul's Head Tavern, in Cateaton Street, Petition to the House of Commons, agreed upon at a Meeting of the Electors of the City of Weiminfter, in New Palace-yard, Nov. 16, Proceedings of the Livery of the City of London, in Common Hall affembled, Proceedings of a Meeting held at Grocers' Hall, Dec. 2, Proteft against the Bill entitled "An Act for the Safety and Pr. his Majefty's Perfon and Government against 1reafonable and Seditious Speech of his Excellency Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to both Houfes of Parliament, Jan. 22, Anfwer of his Excellency Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to the Addrefs of Thanks prefented by the Commons for his Speech to both Houjes of Speech of the Right Hon. John Foster, Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, to his Excellency Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on prefenting the Money Bills that had been returned from England, March 24, (ibid.) Speech of his Excellency Earl Camden, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to both Speech of his Excellency Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bart. Viceroy of Corfica, to the Chamber of Parliament, at the Opening of the Sellion, Feb. 9, 1795, (118) Treaty of Alliance, offenfive and defenfive, concluded between the Republic of France and the Republic of the Seven United Provinces, Treaty of Defenfive Alliance between his Britannic Majefty and the Em prefs of all the Ruffias, Feb. 18, Convention between his Britannic Majefty and the Emperor of Germany, May 4, Proclamation by the Grand Duke of Tufcany, March 1, Treaty of Peace between the French Republic and the King of Pruffia, April 5, Declaration of his Majesty the King of Pruffia to his mofi Serene and Illujirious Co-fiates Co-fates of the Empire relative to the Treaty of Peace concluded with the French Republic on the 5th of April, 1795, Refeript of the Emperor, prefented by the Imperial Minister to the States of the Germanic Empire, in Diet affembled, at Ratisbon, on the 4th of May, (146) Treaty of alliance, Offenfive and Defenfive, concluded between the Republic of France and the Republic of the United Provinces, Proces Verbal of the Opening of the Body of the Son of the Deceafed Louis Speech of George Washington, Prefident of the United States of America, to both Houfes of Congress, Nov. 19, 1794, Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between his Britannic Majefty and the United States of America, by their Prefident, with the Advice and Confent of their Senate, Nov. 19, 1794, The Speech of the Prejident of the United States of America, to both Houses of Account of fome of the Singularities of Mr. Howard, Particulars of the Life and pinions of Dr. Horne, Sketch of the Life and Character of the late Dr. Kippis, Philofophical Account of the Tartar Tribes fubject to Ruffia, View of the Government and Religion of the Japanese, Religion, Government, Manners, and Character of the Dahomans, Prefent State of the Government, Manners, &c. in the Republic of Method of preparing a Sulphureous Medicinal Water, ANTIQUITIE S. [147] [149] Sketch of the Military Hiftory of France, [156] Morals, &c. in Britain about the Cl fe of the XVth Century, [163] [167] Obfervations on the Grafting of Trees, MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. Bucknall's Communications relative to Orcharding, POETRY. [171] [174] [177] [179] Ode to the Furies avho afferted the Conftitutional Rights of the Subjet, on Ode for the New Year, by Henry James Pye, Efq. the late State Trials, Sonnet to the Peoples' Advocates, Eulogium, by the Genius of the Eaft, on Sir William Jones, [183] Lines on the Death of the Reverend Dr. Kippis, by Helen Maria Williams, [184] Tranflation of a Hymn, written by La Source and Sillery, and fung by them every Night, when imprifoned in the Luxembourg, in expectation of Death, [185] Ode on his Majesty's Birth Day, by Henry James Pye, Efq. [186] War Elegy, by Jofeph Fawcett, [187] Sonnet on Fame, by William Ashburnham, Jun. Efq. [189] The Wish, by Robert Lovell, [190] Morning, a poetical Sketch in irregular Verfe, by Ann Batten Criftall, [191] March of the Guards to Greenwich, Feb. 25th, 1793, THE HISTORY O F KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, AND TASTE, IN IN GREAT BRITAIN, During the Reign of King CHARLES the First. 'N the Hiftory of the Progrefs of Knowledge, Learning, and Tafte, with which our annual volume ufually commences, the first place has generally been affigned to Theo-. logy. In no age indeed could fuch an arrangement have more propriety than in that of which we have now to treat: it was a period in which religious controverfy engaged the minds of all, and mingled with almoft every occurrence in focial, or civil life. The adoption of the tenets of Arminius, by feveral of the most celebrated divines in the reign of James, has been already mentioned; and thefe prelates happening to be, from their fituation, temper, or prejudices, fupporters of the prerogative of the crown, and attached to ecclefiaftical power and oftentatious ceremonies, were regarded by the greater part of the nation with jealouty and diftruft, though, ftrictly speaking, the tenets of their philofophy had no tendency to favour either civil or ecclefiaftical - tyranny. They were, however, branded by the nation with the names of heretics and innovators; and the houfe of com mons, |