these supplies, and assured them they should be duly
applied to the purposes for which they had been given. Finally, he
recommended to both houses the continuance of that union and good
harmony which he had observed with so much pleasure, and from which
he had derived such important effects. He desired they would study to
promote these desirable objects, to support the king's government, and
the good order of their respective counties, and consult their own real
happiness and prosperity.

CHAPTER XIX.

_Remarkable Detection of a Murder by William Andrew
Horne..... Popular Clamor against Lord George Sackville.....
His Address to the Public..... He demands a Court-
martial..... Substance of the charge against him..... His
Defence..... Remarks on it..... Sentence of the Court-
martial..... Earl Ferrers apprehended for Murder..... Tried
by the House of Peers..... Convicted, and executed at
Tyburn..... Assassination of Mr. Matthews, by one Stirn, a
Hessian..... New Bridge begun at Blackfriars.....
Conflagration in Portsmouth Yard..... Number of Ships taken
by the Enemy..... Progress of Monsieur Thurot..... He makes
a Descent at Carrickfergus..... Is slain, and his Ships
taken..... Exploit of Captain Kennedy..... Remarkable
Adventure of five Irish Seamen..... The Ramillies Man of War
wrecked upon the Bolthead..... Treaty with the
Cherokees..... Hostilities recommenced..... Their Towns
destroyed by Colonel Montgomery..... His Expedition to the
Middle Settlements..... Pate of the Garrison at Port
Loudoun..... The British Interest established on the
Ohio..... The French undertake the Siege of Quebec.....
Defeat Brigadier Murray, and oblige him to retire into the
Town..... Quebec besieged..... The Enemy's Shipping
destroyed..... They abandon the Siege..... General Amherst
reduces the French Port at the Isle Royale..... and takes
Montreal..... French Ships destroyed in the Bay of
Chaleurs..... Total Reduction of Canada..... Demolition of
Louisbourg..... Insurrection of the Negroes in Jamaica.....
Action at Sea off Hispaniola..... Gallant Behaviour of
Captains O'Brien and Taylor in the Leeward Islands.....
Transactions in the East Indies..... Achievements in the Bay
of Quiberon..... Admiral Rodney destroys some Vessels on the
Coast of France..... Preparations for