1758. of DRESDEN, a neceffary PROCEEDING. lighted waggon, the children thrown into the fire, these are fo many horrible lies, which will fall of themselves when the aforefaid certificates of the court and magiftrates, and the judges of the fuburbs, are feen. The order given to the burghers to remain quiet in their houses was intimated only to the magiftrates of the city in the month of July, and not to thofe of the fuburbs; and there was nothing in this but what is ufual. What hath been faid to the contrary, is, in fhort, fo false, that the court of Drefden was pleased to thank the governor for the good order he caused to be obferved during thofe troubles, as will appear by the annexed letter of De Bofe the chief cup-bearer. 683 known character did not permit it to be believed that fuch cruelties were committed by his order; and therefore to demand to whom they were to be afcribed: That as to the deftruction of the fuburbs, colonel Savoifky had already carried an anAfwer on that head to the marshal; but that this opportunity was taken to declare to his excellency, that if he defired to fave the rest of the fuburbs, he must hinder his troops from appearing in them; that no body had the prefervation of the town and fuburbs more at heart, than the governor, B as far as was confiftent with his duty and his honour; that the houses would not have been fet on fire, had not the troops of his army forced their way into the fuIt only remains that we fhould fay fome- burbs, and even fired feveral cannon into thing of the meffage that paffed between the town (which marshal Daun pretended marshal Daun and count Schmettau, by not to know, faying, that it had been the intervention of colonel Saviosky. Af C done without his orders;) and that the ter the first compliments, M. de Savoiíky combustible matters were ready to confume told the governor, that marfhal Dawn what was left of the fuburb, in cafe his was extremely furprised at the burning of troops fhould again enter it. The court the fuburbs; that he (Savoifky) was de- took advantage of this meffage to ask a fired to enquire whether it was by order paffport from marshal Daun for bringing that this was done in a royal refidence, fome fheep and fire-wood into the town. which was a thing unheard of among Chri- D His excellency anfwered to thefe three ftians; and that he hoped the city of heads, that he had no irregular troops with Drefden would not be treated in the fame him; and that he had forbid any perfon manner. The marshal then made his of his army to approach the suburbs; compliments to the court; and added, that he did not apprehend any exceffes that the governor should be refponfible in had been committed; but in cafe there his perfon for what had been done, or for had, he defired to know the number of the what might be done, against this royal E perfons maffacred; that he was the more refidence. aftonished at thofe complaints, as he never fuffered fuch diforders; that he abhorred them, and that perhaps the burghers had no foundation for what they had faid. As to the fuburbs, marthal Daun answered that he would not fuffer rules to be prefcribed to him; that it depended upon him to fend troops into the fuburb as he fhould judge proper, and the governor might do as he pleased; but that he hoped that, in the mean while, no more families would be made wretched; and that he had forbid his troops, on severe penalties, to enter the fuburbs to pillage. As to the demand made by the court, he answered, that he would particularly attend to it; and affured them of his profound respects. F The colonel received før answer, in prefence of lieutenant-general Itzenblitz, that the governor had the honour to be known to the marshal; that he had orders to defend the town to the last man: That his excellency was too well acquainted with war, to be ignorant that the deftruction of the fuburbs, which the marshal had attacked, was according to rule: That as to what concerned the town, it depended upon his excellency, fince if he attacked it, the governor would defend himself from house to houfe, and from street to Areet; G and that the whole infantry of the army was ready to defend the city. On the 11th, the governor having learnt from feveral burghers of the fuburbs, who, at their own request, had been brought into the town with their effects by water, that the enemy had thrown into the flames, H or massacred without pity, fome defenceJefs people belonging to the Pruffian army, who had remained behind, particu larly a furgeon, fent at noon capt. Collas with a trumpet to the marshal, with orders to tell him, that his excellency's well On the 12th his excellency fent an officer with a permit to deliver the sheep and fire-wood for the court, which were to be brought into the town by Pruffians; and capt. Collas was fent to regulate this affair. The captain, in paffing through the fuburbs, thewed the lieutenant, fent by marhal Daun, the maroders of his troops, both foot and Huffars, who exceeded 200; and the officer promised to make a re port 684 HISTORY port of it to the marshal. The rest of the time, to the 26th, that the enemy's army retired, palled in amazing tranquility. Drefden, Dec. 5, 1758. C. Count de Schmittau. The vouchers referred to in the memorial ftrengthen the facts contained therein pas any contradiction. Account of the BRITISH COLONIES in the of ST. KITTS. App. Toledo, to drive both English and French out of this inland. The don first attacked the French, who, without entering into any concert with the English, for their mutual defence, cowardly deferted their fettlements and the island, and A retired in their fhips to the other islands in the neighbourhood. The Englith being thus deferted by their allies, and unable to ftand alone against the Spaniards, many of them fled up to the moun tains in the middle of the ifland, which are very inacceffible, and the reft fubmitted at difcretion to the don, who took fuch of them as he thought would be useful to him along with him, and the rest he permitted to stay in the ifland until they could get hips to carry them off, with a pofitive menace of immediate death, if he found any of them there, upon his next C vitit. Come next to the history of our Leeward Ifands, in which I fhall be very B fnort. The fit of them wherein we made any fettlement, was that of St. Chriftopher's, which ifland was first difcovered by Christopher Columbus, who gave it this name; not from his own, as Some imagine, but from the popifh Saint Christopher, who, in their fabulous pictures, is reprefented as a giant, with our infant Saviour on his back; and as the Spaniards, in their approach to this land, obferved a large high mountain, which feemed to carry a leffer one upon its back, they from thence took occafion to give this faint's name to the island, D which it has ever fince retained. But the Spaniards never thought it worth their while to make any settlement here. Towards the end of the year 1626, Sir Thomas Warnery one of our English ad venturers in fearch of new worlds, landed on this ifland, with about 300 of his countrymen, and took poffeffion of it in the name of the king of England. In the month of January following, Monheur d'Efnambuc, a French gentleman, landed on another part of the island, with about the fame number of his countrymen, and took poffeffion of it in the name of the French king. As the island 9 but 75 miles in circumference, it could not be long before thefe two colonies difcovered each other, and they might have difputed the right of poffeffion; but as the inland was large enough for both, as they were of equal force, and as they were both afraid of being attacked and cut off by the native Indians, of whom the ifland was then full, they agreed to divide the ifland between them, and to be affifting to each other against the natives, whom they at laft drove quite out of the fland. By this means the two colonies foon began to flourish, and, by supplies from Europe, became fo numerous as to give jealouly to the Spaniards, who, in the year 1629, fent out a ftrong squadron, with a number of regular troops on board, under the cominand of don Frederick de E However, as foon as he was departed with his fleet from the ifland, the brave part of the English inhabitants who had Hed to the mountains, and expofed themfelves to the danger of ftarving, rather than fubmit to the enemy, returned to their ruined habitations, and by their perfuafion the rest were induced to stay; fo they all together went about rebuilding their houfes, and repairing their plantations, in order to provide fome immediatė fupport, until they thould receive a fupply from England. The French, upon hearing of this refolution in the English, took the courage to return to their former habitations, and reaffumed poffeffion of that part of the ifland which formerly belonged to them; and this the English fubmitted to, though they had good reason to exclude them as F cowardly deferters; but this they were not in a condition to infift on, especially as they were in danger of being invaded by the native Indians from the other Caribbee Idlands, as well as of a fecond vifit from the Spaniards; but against this laft they were foon fecured, by a treaty of G peace, which was the next year concluded between king Charles I. and the king of Spain; and as our people foon poffeffed themselves of, and drove the natives out of the next adjacent islands of Nevis, Montferrat, and Antego, this fecured St. Chriftopher's against the danger of being invaded by the natives, fo that both the French and they lived peaceably, and for the most part cordially together, until the year 1689. H [To be continued in our Magazine for January.} ADDITIONS 1758. A OCCURRENCES.-MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, &c. ADDITIONS to DECEMBER. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 27. T the general cour of the Foundlinghofpital, the following noblemen and gentlemen were eleaed governors of that hofpital: The Rt. Hon. the earl Temple. Earl Verney. Earl Shelburne. Lord vifcount Chetwynd. Dr. Thomas, lord bishop of Lincoln. Dr. Yonge, lord bishop of Briftol, Hon. James Grenville. Sir Francis Dashwood, Sir William Lee, Barts. The Hon. Sir William Stanhope. John Anfell, Robert Barber, Hugh Barker Bell, Richard Wilbraham Bootle, Thomas Bowes, John Bond, Richard Brodrepp, George Browne, Charles Brune, John Callard, John Calvert, Nicholas Carey, George Richard Carter, George Chefin, Aunfham Churchill, Charles Churchill, William. Churchill, George Clavill, Wenham Coke. John Damer, Robert Dormer, Efqrs. The Rev. Richard Dorrell, L. L. D. The Rev. Thomas Drake. William Drake, Thomas Earle Drax, Edward Drax, Thomas Freke, John Gundry, Radford Gundry, William Guy, William Hanham, Wardel Hanmer, Edward Hooper, Richard Hopkins, Philip Howe, John Jennings, Richard Ingolfby, Matthew Knapp, William Ifaack Kops, William Lifle, Thomas Lockyer, Henry Lovibond, Richard Lowndes, Charles Lowndes, William Lowndes, Robert Lowndes, John Mason, James Mathias, John Meeche, Thomas Meeche, John Milward, Richard Mitchell, David Ro. bert Mitchell, Daniel Moore, Jocelyn Pickard, George Pitt, Edmund Morton Pleydell, Efqrs. The Rev. John Potter, D. D, John Revett, James Revett, John Ridout, Coulon Chottowe, Humphrey Strut, George Trenchard, John Tucker, of Naith, John Tucker, of Weymouth, Richard Tucker, John Van Hatten, Edmund Waller, Ralph Willet, Efqrs. On the third of November, the Buckingham man of war of 64 guns, capt. Tyrrell, had a bloody engagement with the Floriffant, a French man of war, of 74 guns, and two frigates of 38 and 20, who were convoying a fleet of merchantmen from St. Euftatia to Martinico, whom he obliged to fheer off; but was prevented from following them, his rigging being greatly damaged. Capt. Tyrrell had the misfortune to lofe three of his fingers from his right hand, and received feveral contufions in his head, arms, and body. Lieut. Marshal, a brave and gallant officer was killed; lieut. Harris, of the marines, and Mr. Winterborne, the master, were dangerously wounded. In all, the Buckingham had feven men killed and 46 wounded, two of whom are fince dead. The above French men of war are got into the Granadoes, and the Floriffant is an entire wreck, her whole fide being one port. The French confefs they loft 120 men, but 685 it is imagined they have loft upwards of 200. Extra of a Letter from a Gentleman at Colchefter, December 31. "On Friday evening, about feven or eight o'clock, a few miles from this town, as was riding gently home, on a fudden I was furrounded with a very glaring light, which at first I imagined might be a fath of light ning; but on its continuing fome feconds of time, I quickly turned myfelf round, and faw a great ball of fire (apparently about the bignefs of a common foot-ball) defcending from the heavens. Is direction was north caft, its motion much like what is vulgarly called the shooting of a ftar. It vanished in the fame manner as a fquib that makes no report. There were feveral people clofe by me, who were greatly errified at this unufuai phænomenon. And the fame account was related to me the fame evening by a perfon who was about fix miles diftant another way." Dec. 29. A MARRIAGE BRAHAM Pitches, an emis nent merchant, was married to Mifs Jane Haffel, of Nottingham, with a fortune of 12,000!. 30. Hon. Mifs Sophia Neville, fifter of lord Abergavenny. Lady Cotton, mother of Sir Lynch Cotton Bart. aged 90. 31. Mifs Eliz. Phillips, fecond daughter of Sir John Phillips, Bart. Alexander Stephenfon, of Bellie, in Bamffhire, aged 107. Janet Harper, of Bains-hole, of Foudland, in North-Britain, aged 106. STOCKS. 30, Bank Stock 117. South-Sea Annui ties old firft fubfcription 90 4. Reduced Bank annuities 90. India bonds l. 18. Bank circulation il. ros. Weather at London cloudy. Wind at Deal fouth. 31. Sunday, Weather, rain; Wind fouth, LIST of SHIPS taken from the French, continued from p. 529. H EUREUX, a privateer of four guns A privateer of 14 guns and 120 men. men. 'Cigne, a privateer of fix guns and 58 men. Guardaloupe. from Corunna, for Lisbon. Maria Therefa, a Dutch ship. , of 200 tons, from St. Domingo, for Havre. A privateer of 16 guns and 80 men. Prince 686 SHIPS taken on both SIDES. Prince de Croy, a privateer of four carriage Brilliant, from Bourdeaux, for Louisbourgh. A Dutch hip from Port l'Orient, with Eaft- Sauvage, from Quebeck, for Rochelle. A fnow from Martinico, for Bourdeaux. A Dutch (now, with fugar, cotton, &c. A Spanish veffel, from Cadiz. for Oftend. Neptune, laden with fish. Diamond of 14 guns, and 70 men, blown Intrepide, a privateer of 14 guns and 130 Roi Davide, from St. Domingo, for Bour- Madufeé, From St. Domingo, for Ro- Profperous, from ditto, for Brest. Hazard, from Breft, for Louisbourg. Amitie, from Rochelle, for ditto. Fils Unique, from Bourdeaux, for ditto. Firme, Amphitrite, FromSt. Domingo, for Havre. A privateer of 20 guns. Actif, a privateer of 11 guns and 120 men. Marie, from ditto, for Nantz. A floop from ditto, for ditto. App: Decreased in the Burials this Year 3737. Between a and 5971 1795 717 10 and 20 556 Rince George, Lear, from Boston, for An- 50 and 60 1368 60 and 70 1208 Humphreys, tigua. from Philadelphia, for do. Lovely Jane, Forster, from Belfast, for Ja- maica. Cockermouth, —, from Bristol, for Oporto. 17576 INDEX INDEX to the PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY, to the ESSAYS, Convexo. Accidents 97, 312, 370, 426, 481, 482 595, 650 Africa, trade to, monopolized Afylum, girls admitted into Africans, their genius and government 361 Agate, Mr. his odd faft fermon 143 140 212 515 Age, great, inftances of 52, 185, 260, 314, 328 370 Athenians, their degeneracy in the time of 236 Atterbury, bishop, his letters against admi- form 163, 164 Auguftine, St. defcribed 21. General Ogle- 408, 409 Authentick documents. See Documents. act to regulate them Bar iron from America, reafons for import- |