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SCOTS MAGAZINE.

MDCCLXXXIII. ▾

VOLUME XLV,

NEW YORK

1983

LIBRARY

Ne quid falfi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat,

EDINBURGH:

Printed by MURRAY and COCHRAN.

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A CHRONOLOGICAL SERIES of Events, continued from our preceding volume.

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

1782 April 4. Cuddalore in the Eaft-Indies furrenders to the French 212.
May 22. A prodigious whirlwind and inundation in the island of Formosa 493.

Jane Hyder Ally attacks Sir Eyre Coote's army, near Arnee, in the Carnatic, and is repulfed 214.

8. Sir Eyre Coote's grand guard drawn into an ambuscade, and totally cut off, by 6000 of Hyder Ally's chofen horse 214

23 The Earl of Dartmouth East Indiaman, having on board a cargo worth 200,000 1. loft on one of the Nicobar islands in the Bay of Bengal, and a great many of the crew drowned 155.

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July 6. An obftinate engagement between the French and British fleets, near Negapatnam in the Eaft-Indies, in which 77 British were killed and 233 wounded, p. 215. French loss was 178 killed, and 601 wounded, p. 221.

Aug. 4 The Grofvenor Eaft Indiaman loft on the coaft of Africa 453 · 521.

31. Trincomale in the island of Ceylon furrenders to the French forces 215.

Sept. 3. Another obftinate engagement between the British and French fleets in the EastIndies, in which the British had 51 killed and 283 wounded, but no ships were taken on either fide 219

8. A dreadful famine rages in the Carnatic 221.

Dec. 19. Charlestown evacuated by the British troops 106.

20. Peace finally ratified with the Marattas 492.

1783. Jan. 27. Hyder-Nagur and the Bedanure country in the East-Indies taken by Gen. Matthews 492.

20. The preliminary articles of peace between Great Britain, France, and Spain, figned at Versailles 1.

The officers of the Scots Brigade who refused to take the oaths to the States-General difmiffed their fervice, and receive half pay from Great Britain, vol. 44. p. 702. vol. 45. p. 107. 27. The 77th regiment of foot mutiny at Portsmouth, and refufe to imbark for the Eaft-Indies 46.

Feb. Lt-Gen. James Murray tried for the furrender of Fort St Philip in Minorca 88. 125.

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March 11. The Knights of St Patrick invested with the dignity of their order, and inftalled on the 17th 160.

29. Lord Shelburne reûigus his office of First Lord of the Treasury, and is succeeded by the Duke of Portland 223.

29. The Society of antiquaries of Scotland obtain a Royal Charter 445.

During this month and February, the city of Meffina and Calabria Ulterior were destroyed by earthquakes, and lives loft to the amount of 40,000. p. 113. 209. 393. 466. 525. April 7. An elegant monument erected in the church-yard of Portfea, Portsmouth, to the memory of Adm. Kempenfelt and the crew who perished in the Royal George 277. 8. The Empress of Russia publishes a manifesto upon her troops entering the Crimea 435. 8. The Ranger, Lieut. Pruen, taken by the Maratta fleet, after an obftinate engagement, in which Col. Humberston was killed, and a great many officers wounded 606.

June a Charles Spalding the celebrated diver, and Ebenezer Watson, fuffocated in the diving bell near Dublin 324

3. Gen. Matthews's army, confifting of about 600 Europeans and 1600 fepoys, furrenders to Tippoo Saib at Bedaure in the East-Indies 607.

5. The air balloon invented by M. Montgolfier, a Frenchman 491. 649.

13. The French forces driven from their out-pofts before Cuddalore in the East-Indies 682.

18. Gen. Washington tranfmits a circular letter to the Governors of the different States, upon the subject of the peace, &c. before he retires from the service 494.

20. A fevere engagement between the British and French fleets in the Eaft-Indies 686. 31. The American army mutiny, and commit fuch outrages at Philadelphia, as obliges the Congress to remove to Princetown 383. 437

19 An interview between the King of Sweden and the Empress of Ruffia at Frederick fham 490.

A new inland rifes out of the fea near Iceland 339.

July

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