a secret
Expedition..... Astronomers sent to the East Indies.....
Earthquakes in Syria..... Wise Conduct of the Catholic
King..... Affairs of Portugal..... Turkish Ship of the Line
carried into Malta..... Patriotic Schemes of the King of
Denmark..... Memorial presented by the British Ambassador to
the States-General..... State of the Powers at War.....
Death of the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel..... Offers made by
the Neutral Powers of a Place for holding a Congress.....
Skirmishes in Westphalia during the Winter..... Exactions by
the French in Westphalia..... Skirmish to the Advantage of
the Allies at Vacha..... Situation of the French Armies.....
Exploit of Colonel Luckner at Butzback..... The French
advance to Neustadt..... The Hereditary Prince of Brunswick
defeated at Corback..... but retrieves his honour at
Exdorf..... Victory obtained by the Allies at Warbourg.....
The Hereditary Prince beats up the Quarters of the French at
Zeirenberg..... Petty Advantages on both sides..... The
Hereditary Prince marches to the Lower Rhine..... Is worsted
at Canipen..... and repasses the Rhine..... Attempt of the
Enemy against him..... Advantages gained by M. de
Stainville..... The Allies and French go into Winter-
quarters_

DETECTION OF A MURDER.

The successes of the last campaign had flushed the whole nation with the
most elevated hope of future conquest, and the government was enabled
to take every step which appeared necessary to realize that sanguine
expectation; but the war became every day more and more Germanised.
Notwithstanding the immense sums that were raised for the expenses
of the current year; notwithstanding the great number of land-forces
maintained in the service, and the numerous fleets that filled the
harbours of Great Britain; we do not find that one fresh effort was made
to improve the advantages she had gained upon her own clement, or for
pushing the war on national principles: for the reduction of Canada was
no more than the consequence of the measures which had been taken in the
preceding campaign. But, before we record the progress of the war, it
may be necessary to specify some domestic occurrences that for a little
while engrossed the public attention. In the month of December, in the
preceding year, William Andrew Home, a gentleman of some fortune in
Derbyshire, was executed at Notti