Intimation
given by the King of Prussia to the States of
Westphalia..... King of Poland's Remonstrance..... Reduction
of Pondicherry..... Part of the British Squadron wrecked in
a Storm..... Death of King George II..... His Character.....
Recapitulation of the principal Events of his Reign..... His
Death universally lamented..... Account of the Commerce of
Great Britain..... State of Religion and Philosophy.....
Fanaticism..... Metaphysics and Medicine..... Mechanics.....
Genius..... Music..... Painting, and Sculpture_

EXPLOIT OF THE SWEDES IN POMERANIA.

The king of Prussia, after all his labours, notwithstanding the great
talents he had displayed, and the incredible efforts he had made, still
found himself surrounded by his enemies, and in danger of being-crushed
by their closing and contracting their circle. Even the Swedes, who had
languished so long, seemed to be roused to exertion in Pomerania, during
the severity of the winter season. The Prussian general Manteuffel had,
on the twentieth day of January, passed the river Peene, overthrown the
advanced posts of the enemy at Ziethen, and penetrated as far as the
neighbourhood of Griessewalde; but finding the Swedes on their guard,
he returned to Anclam, where his head-quarters were established. This
insult was soon retaliated with interest. On the twenty-eighth day
of the month, at five in the morning, a body of Swedes attacked the
Prussian troops posted in the suburbs of Anclam, on the other side of
the Peene, and drove them into the city, which they entered pell-mell.
General Manteuffel, being alarmed, endeavoured to rally the troops; but
was wounded and taken, with about two hundred men, and three pieces of
cannon. The victors, having achieved this exploit, returned to their own
quarters. As for the Russian army, which had wintered on the other side
of the Vistula, the season was pretty far advanced before it could take
the field; though general Tottleben was detached from it, about the
beginning of June, at the head of ten thousand cossacks, and other light
troops, with which he made an irruption into Pomerania, and established
his head-quarters at Belgarden.

SKIRMISHES BETWEEN THE PRUSSIANS AND

AUSTRIANS IN SAXONY.

At the beginning of the campaign, the king of Prussia's chief aim was
to take measures for the preservation of Silesia, the conquest of which
seemed to be the principal object with t