Parliament..... Session closed.....
Preparations for War..... Death of the Princess of Orange
and Princess Elizabeth Caroline..... Examples made of
Pirates..... Accounts of some remarkable Murders..... Murder
of Daniel Clarke..... Majority of the Prince of Wales.....
Resolutions concerning a new Bridge at Blackfriars..... Pire
in Cornhill..... Method contrived to find out the
Longitude..... Installation at Oxford..... Deplorable
Incident at Sea..... Captures made by separate Cruisers.....
Captain Hood takes the Bellona..... and Captain Barrington
the Count do St. Florentin..... Captain Falkner takes a
French East Indiaman..... Prize taken in the West
Indies..... Engagement between the Hercules and the
Florissant..... Havre-de-Grace bombarded by Admiral
Rodney..... Admiral Boscawen defeats M. de la Clue.....
Preparations made by the French for invading England.....
Account of Thurot..... French Fleet sails from Brest.....
Admiral Hawke defeats M. de Conflans..... Proceedings of the
Irish Parliament..... Loyalty of the Irish-Catholics.....
Dangerous Insurrection in Dublin..... Alarm of a Descent in
Scotland_

While the operations of the war were prosecuted through the four
quarters of the globe, the island of Great Britain, which may be termed
the centre that gave motion to this vast machine, enjoyed all the
tranquillity of the most profound peace, and saw nothing of war but the
preparations and trophies, which served only to animate the nation to
a desire of further conquest; for the dejection occasioned by the
misfortune at St. Cas soon vanished before the prospect of victory and
success. Considering the agitation naturally produced among the common
people, by the practice of pressing men into the service of the navy,
which, in the beginning of the year, had been carried on with unusual
violence, the levy of so many new corps of soldiers, and the endeavours
used in forming the national militia, very few disturbances happened
to interrupt the internal repose of the nation. From private acts
of malice, fraud, violence, and rapine, no community whatsoever is
exempted. In the month of April, the temporary wooden bridge over the
Thames, built for the conveniency of carriages and passengers, while the
workmen should be employed in widening and repairing London bridge, was
maliciously set on fire in the night, and continue