Possession of Dresden, and blocks up the King of Poland at
Pirna..... Prussian Army penetrates into Bohemia, and fights
the Battle of Lowoschutz..... Saxon Army surrenders.....
King of Poland's Memorial to the States-General.....
Imperial Decrees published against the King of Prussia.....
Declarations of different Powers..... His Prussian Majesty's
Answer to the Saxon Memorial..... and Justification of his
Conduct..... Remarks on both those Pieces...... Disputes
between the Parliament of Paris and the Clergy..... Dearth
of Corn in England..... Hanoverian Auxiliaries sent
back..... Session opened..... Debates on the Address.....
Bill passed for prohibiting the Exportation of Corn.....
Message to the House concerning Admiral Byng..... Supplies
granted..... Reflections on the Continental War......
Message from the King to the Parliament..... Measures taken
to remove the Scarcity of Corn..... Militia Bill.....
Petitions for and against it..... Altered by the Lords.....
Bill for quartering the Foreign Troops, and for regulating
the Marines while on Shore..... Bill for the more speedy
recruiting the Land-Forces and Marines..... Act relating to
Pawnbrokers and Gaming-Houses..... Laws relating to the
Wages of Weavers, and to the Improvement of the British
Fishery..... Act for importing American Iron Duty free.....
Regulations with respect to the Importation of Silk.....
Smugglers encouraged to enter into his Majesty's
Service..... Inquiry into the Scarcity of Corn.....
Investigation of the Loss of Minorca..... Examination of the
American Contract..... Inquiry into the Conduct of Admiral
Snowies, as Governor of Jamaica..... Resolutions concerning
Milford-Haven..... Session closed..... Trial of Admiral
Byng..... Recommended to Mercy..... Message from the King to
the Parliament respecting the Sentence..... Bill to release
the Members of the Court-Martial from their Oath of
Secrecy..... Execution of Admiral Byng..... Paper delivered
by him to the Marshal of the Admiralty..... Remarks on his
Fate_

MOTIVES OF THE WAR IN GERMANY.

Having thus, to the best of our power, given a faithful and exact detail
of every material event in which Great Britain was concerned, either at
home, or in her settlements abroad, during the greatest part of the year