CHAPTER XI.

Letter from M. Rouillé to the Secretary of State..... The
two Nations recriminate on each other..... The French
threaten Great Britain with an Invasion..... Requisition of
six thousand Dutch Troops according to Treaty..... Message
from the King to the Parliament..... A Body of Hessians and
Hanoverians transported into England..... French
Preparations at Toulon..... Admiral Byng sails for the
Mediterranean..... He arrives at Gibraltar..... engages M.
de la Galissonniere off Minorca..... and returns to
Gibraltar..... Ferment of the People at Home..... Admiral
Byng superseded and sent home Prisoner..... Account of the
Siege of St. Philip’s Fort in Minorca..... Precautions taken
by General Blakeney..... Siege commenced..... English
Squadron appears..... General Attack of the Works..... The
Garrison capitulates..... Sir Edward Hawke sails to
Minorca..... Rejoicings in France, and Clamours in
England..... Gallantry of Fortunatus Wright..... General
Blakeney created a Baron..... Measures taken for the Defence
of Great Britain..... Proclamation..... Earl of Loudon
appointed Commander-in-Chief in America..... His Britannic
Majesty’s Declaration of War..... Substance of the French
King’s Declaration..... Address of the City of London.....
Trial of General Fowke..... Affairs of America..... Colonel
Bradstreet defeats a Body of French on the River
Onondaga..... Earl of Loudon arrives at New York..... Oswego
reduced by the Enemy..... Further Proceedings in
America..... Naval Operations in that Country.....
Transactions in the East Indies..... Calcutta besieged by
the Viceroy of Bengal..... Deplorable Fate of those who
perished in the Dungeon there..... Additional Cruelties
exercised on Mr. Holwell..... Resolution against Angria.....
Port of Geriah taken by Admiral Watson and Mr. Clive.....
Their subsequent Proceedings in the River Ganges