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 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