
Appendix to the Chronicle
- Extract of a letter from the Hon. Vice-Admiral Barrington
to Mr. Stephens, dated on board the Britannia,
at St. Helens, April 25, 1782, giving and account
of taking the Pegasé, a French 74 gun ship,
by Capt. Jervis, in the Foudroyant; with Capt.
Jervis’s own account of the same action (p.
249).
- Extract of a letter from Count de Guichen to the
Marquis de Castries, giving an account of his having
taken a fleet of eighteen English merchant ships (p.
257).
- Extract of a letter from Sir Edward Hughes to Mr.
Stephens, containing an account his engagement with
the French fleet under Mons. Sufferein in the East
Indies, on the 17th of Feb. 1782 (p. 268).
- Extract of a letter from the same to the same, containing
the particulars of another engagement with the French
fleet, on the 12th of April 1782 (p. 272).
- Extract of a letter from James Luttrel, Esq. commander
of his Majesty’s ship Mediator, to Mr. Stephens,
giving an account of his engagement with several French
armed ships, and taking two of tem (p. 274).
State Papers
- Letter from Mons. du Portail, a French officer in
the service of America, to the Comte de St. Germain,
secretary of state for the war department in France
(p. 304).
- Authentic copies of the preliminary articles of peace
between his Britannic Majesty and the Most Christian
King, signed at Versailles Jan. 20, 1783 (p. 315).
Characters
- Extract from the Confessions of J. J. Rousseau (p.
25).
Miscellaneous Essays
- Some account of the French African islands (p. 174).
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