for the Scots Maqazın CH-DERICKiliking or FRUSSIA. ELECTOR of BRANDENBURG SUPREME DUKE of SILE SIA. wc. ko. vc. THE SCOTS MAGAZINE. JANUARY, 1762. CONTENTS. HISTORY. A fummary or recapitulation of the New Books, with remarks and extracts. Lord public affairs of last year 1.-8. Death of the Czarina and acceffion of Peter III. 49. Declaration of war by the King of Spain against G. Britain 50. • Martinico invested by a British fleet 52. - The King's fpeech to parliament, notifying the declaration of war against Spain 52. ----- The declaration of war aga⋅nft Spain noti› ‹fied to the parliament of Ireland 93. A militia proposed to be established in Scotland 53. The cash-accounts of the banks a bridged 54. Encouragement offered to artificers ib. Arguments for and against the establishment of a MILITIA in Scotland 8-16. An account of the difpute between the British Anecdotes of the prefent King of SPAIN 43- Kaims's elements of criticism 21 Chandler's treatife of the difeafe called a cold 26. J. Langhorne's Solyman and Almena 29. The 5th and 6th volumes of Tristram shandy 33. Mr Hume's dif ourfe of money ib Confiderations relating to the order of the banks for abridging their calh accounts 39. Dr Dick's fermon 41. POETRY. c. Dr Wall's account of Mife Whateley 45. Her letter to Miss Loggin ib. Her poem in prafe of Liberty ab. To Happinefs, an ode 46. Mr Tickel to a lady before marriage 47. Epitaph for Mr Richardfon ib. Sponfis morigerus 48 The early ri fer ib. On an unfealed letter ib. Epitaph for Mr Thompson's monument ib LISTS, &c. A fhort view of the royal navy of G Britain 55. Captures ib. Births i Deaths ib. Preferments 56 Edinburgh mortality-bill ib. The number of patients in the Edinburgh infirmary last year ib. The quantity and value of linen cloth stamped for fate in Scotland last year ib. F A fummary or recapitulation of the As we have formerly obferved, the PUBLIC AFFAIRS of the year 1761. grand confederacy, confifting of the Auftrians, the Ruflians, and the French, with their allies the Swedes, and the King of Poland, Elector of Saxony, all atlifted by what is called the execution-army of the Empire, have been acting, ever fince the commencement of the prefent war, though the degrees of their zeal and steadinels have been very different, with the declared defign of reducing the exorbitant power of his Prullian Majetty within proper bounds, and indemnifying themselves for the trouble and expence of doing it. The two Emprefles have been all along greatly animated against that monarch, both difdaining to admit the thought that he was more than a match for either of A them, French, commanded by Marshal Broglio, who on the 2d of January made themfelves masters of Duderstadt; but they were foon driven thence with lofs. 01 the 26th and 27th of that fame month, M. Broglio's troops attacked the line of the Allies on both ends, and gained some advantages, which were very differently reprefented. It is certain, however, that, by furprife, they took several hundreds of men prisoners. them, and one of them having her resentment in that view heightened by the lofs of Silefia, that valuable duchy which fhe was obliged to cede to him in the last war. It is well known, that whatever the pretences of the French King were for entering into the grand confederacy, notwithstanding the inveterate hatred of his house against that of Auftria, and the advantages he had formerly reaped from having connections with the King of Pruffia, his real intention was, that he might have Pr. Ferdinand next became the aggref a colourable pretext for marching troops for in his turn. On the 11th of February, into Germany, and in confequence feizing the main body of his army put on march, the electorate of Hanover, belonging to in four columns, by way of Warburg, Liehis Britannic Majesty, the Pruflian mo- benau, Siefen, and Dringelbur,, towards narch's ally, and with whom the Moft Chri- Caflel. At the fame time there was a boftian King had drawn on a war in all the dy of 12 or 15,000 Prulians in Thuringia, different quarters of the globe. It could to co-operate with them. M. Brogio's hardly have been imagined but that fo ma- troops in Heffe every where retired, leany powers, leveral of them feparately fo ving fome finall garrifons behind them, beformidable, would jointly have been able fides the large ones in Caffel and Gottinto gain their ends in Germany within the gen. By this precipitate retreat they loft courle of a campaign or two. But it did most of their magazines, which were einot fo turn out in event. At the begin ther deftroyed by themselves, or feized by ning of last year, the French were in pof- the purfuers. By the 28th of that month fettion of Prullian Guelderland, the duchy the greater part of the Allies had advanof Cleves, and the county of Marcke, all ced fo far, that they were put into quarbelonging to his Pruflian Majefty on the ters of cantonment between the rivers Lower Rhine; of the landgraviate of Hefle, Schwalme and Ohme. About that time and county of Hanau, the domains of one M. Broglio fixed his headquarters within of his Britannic Majefty's allies; and a no great diftance of Francfort; and it was fmall part of the electorate of Hanover, neceflary for many of his harassed troops in which they had a garrison at Gottin- to go into the hofpitals. gen; while Prince Ferdinand of Brunfwick, who commanded the allied ariny oppoled to the French, had his troops partly in Hanover, partly in the bifhopricks of Paderborn and Munfter The King of Pruf. fia, baving early in the war gotten poffeflion of Saxony, ftill kept most of it last year; the other part being occupied by an Auftrian army, commanded by Marshal Daun, whole headquarters were at Drelden, the capital of that electorate. The Austrians under Marfhal Laudohn had been obliged again to leave almoft the whole of Silefia in the pofletion of his Prulian Majefty's troops, and retire to the county of Glatz and Bohemia. Mean while all the Ruffians, except a few, had by that time, as in former years, returned to the banks of the Viftula in Poland. The Swedes, as ufual, bad retired to Stralfund and its neighbourhood; and a small body of Pruffians had again taken poffeflion of the duchy of Mecklenburg, where they railed contributions and recruits. The operations of last year, on the frontiers of Hanover, were begun by the Pr. Ferdinand's principal aim feems to have been, to make himself master of Caffel; by which means he might have been enabled to make a stand till Gottingen alfo had been reduced. The fiege of the former place was accordingly begun, by Count La Lippe, the 1ft of March. Mean while quick progrefs in it could not be made, as it was neceflary to fpare the body of the city, being the capital of an allied power, and the works were defended by a garrison of seventeen battalions. Immediately upon M. Broglio's beginning to give way before the Allies, he fent for reinforcements from the Lower Rhine, which marched with all expedition to join him. About the middle of March he put in motion to advance again on his fide. The army then under Pr. Ferdinand's command, was greatly weakened by the feparation of that employed in the fiege of Caffel, and befides was in a country exhaufted by both friends and foes. He was therefore obliged to fall back gradually, and relinquith all the places he had gotten poffeflion of. The army he had Jan. 1762: A fummary of the public affairs in 1761. Ahad before Caffel began to withdraw fron The court of Verfailles had given the ftrongest affurances to all her allies, that The would push on the war in Germany laft campaign with the greatest vigour. Yet the Prince de Soubife, who had received the command of the army on the Lower Rhine, did not move forward till the 12th of June; nor did M. Broglio leave Francfort till the 18th. This may indeed be faid for them, without taking the loss of their magazines into confideration, that they might think they had plenty of time for all the business to be done, agreeably to the vaunting of their friends in many places, that either of them had an army able to drive the whole Allies before it. Major Scheiter, of the hereditary Prince of Brunswick's corps, which was about Munfter, took the first opportunity of the Prince de Soubife's being at fome diftance, to cross the Rhine, with a few horfe, and, in the duchy of Cleve and its neighbourhood, to destroy feveral large magazines, with a good many boats and Waggons carrying provifions. Pr. Ferdiand put in motion from Paderborn the 21t, and made several attempts to bring The two French generals, having led That there was a thorough mifunderftanding between those two generals, might be easily feen: for notwithstanding the C |