lham.....
Change in the Ministry..... New Parliament assembled and
prorogued..... Disputes in the Irish Parliament.....
Transactions in the East Indies..... Account of the English
Settlements on the Malabar and Coromandel Coast.....
Disputes about the Government of Arcot..... Mahommed Ali
Khan supported by the English..... Mr. Clive takes
Arcot..... and defeats the Enemy in the Plains of Arani, and
at Koveripauk..... He reduces three Forts, and takes M.
d'Anteuil..... Chunda Saib taken and put to Death, and his
Army routed...... Convention between the East India
Companies of England and France..... General View of the
British Colonies in North America..... New England and New
York..... New Jersey..... Pennsylvania..... Maryland.....
Virginia..... The two Carolinas..... Georgia..... The
French surprise Logs-Town, on the Ohio..... Conference with
the Indians at Albany..... Colonel Washington defeated and
taken by the French on the Ohio..... Divisions among the
British Colonies..... The hereditary Prince of Hesse-Cassel
professes the Roman Catholic Religion..... Parliament of
Paris recalled from Exile..... Affairs of Spain and
Portugal..... Session opened..... Supplies granted..... Bill
in behalf or Chelsea Pensioners..... Oxfordshire
Election..... Message from the King to the House of
Commons..... Court of Versailles amuses the English
Ministry..... Session closed_

AMBITIOUS SCHEMES OF THE FRENCH.

While the British ministry depended upon the success of the conferences
between the commissaries of the two crowns at Paris, the French were
actually employed in executing their plans of encroachment upon the
British colonies of North America. Their scheme was to engross the whole
fur trade of that continent; and they had already made great progress
in extending a chain of forts, connecting their settlements on the river
Mississippi with their possessions in Canada, along the great lakes
of Erie and Ontario, which last issues into the river St. Lawrence. By
these means they hoped to exclude the English from all communication and
traffic with the Indian nations, even those that lay contiguous to the
British settlements, and confine them within a line of their drawing,
beyond which they should neither extend their trade nor plantations.
Their commercial spirit did not keep pace with the gigantic