nning to fail, several vigorous sallies being made by the
forces of the king of Tanjour, and the place well defended by European
gunners, sent from the English garrison at Trichinopoly, he found
himself obliged to raise the siege, and retreat with precipitation,
leaving his cannon behind. He arrived at Carical about the middle
of August, and from thence retired to Pondicherry towards the end of
September. He afterwards cantoned his troops in the pre vince of Arcot,
entered the city without opposition, and began to make preparations for
the siege of Madras, which shall be recorded among the incidents of the
succeeding year. In the meantime, the land-forces belonging to the East
India company were so much out-numbered by the reinforcements which
arrived with Mr. Lally, that they could not pretend to keep the field,
out were obliged to remain on the defensive, and provide as well as they
could for the security of fort St. George, and the other settlements in
that part of India.

TRANSACTIONS on the CONTINENT of EUROPE.

Having particularized the events of the war which distinguished this
year in America, Africa, and Asia--those remote scenes in which the
interest of Great Britain was immediately and intimately concerned--it
now remains to record the incidents of the military operations in
Germany, supported by British subsidies, and enforced by British
troops, to favour the abominable designs of an ally, from whose solitary
friendship the British nation can never reap any solid benefit; and to
defend a foreign elector, in whose behalf she had already lavished an
immensity of treasure. Notwithstanding the bloodshed and lavages which
had signalized the former campaign, the mutual losses of the belligerent
powers, the incredible expense of money, the difficulty of recruiting
armies thinned by sword and distemper, the scarcity of forage and
provisions, the distresses of Saxony in particular, and the calamities
of war, which desolated the greatest part of the empire--no proposition
of peace was hinted by either of the parties concerned; but the powers
at variance seemed to be exasperated against each other with the most
implacable resentment. Jarring interests were harmonized, old prejudices
rooted up, inveterate jealousies assuaged, and even inconsistencies
reconciled, in connecting the confederacy which was now formed and
established against the king of Prussia; and, on the other hand, the
king of Great Britain seemed