SCOTS MAGAZINE; OR GENERAL REPOSITORY. OF LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND POLITICS, FOR THE YEAR M,DCCCI. Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. PRINTED BY ALEX. CHAPMAN AND CO. FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE, HIGH STREET; SOLD BY MESSRS RICHARDSONS, AND MURRAY & HIGHLY, LONDON. OF THE MOST REMARKABLE EVENTS of the YEAR 1801. January. 1. This day the union of the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland took place. His Majefty held a Grand Council to give the neceffary folemnity to the measure, and to fwear in his privy council of the united kingdom. The Park and Tower guns were fired, the bells of the different churches were rung, and the Royal Union Standard difplayed on the occafion. A new Great Seal was at the fame time prefented, and adopted by his Majefty. The Emperor Paul of Ruffia, in a paroxyfin of infanity, published, at Petersburgh, a challenge to all the Princes of Europe to fight with him in barriers closed up. 6. Accounts were received of a general engagement having taken place on the Danube, on the 18th December, between the French army under General Moreau, and the Auftrian army under the Archduke Charles, which terminated in the defeat of the latter; after which proposals of peace were made to Moreau; and an armistice for thirty days was agreed upon; and directions were fent by the Emperor to Count Cobentzel, at Luneville, to fign a peace with France. News was received of the French army of Italy, under General Brune, having defeated that of Austria under General Bellegarde, and that the Auftrians loft twenty-four pieces of cannon and 12,000 men. Four perfons, convicted of having confpired against the life of the First Conful of France, fentenced to fuffer. death, and a great number ordered to be tranfported. 13.The Pruffian Miniftry declared that they meant to favour the cause of the Northern Confederacy. 14. An order of Council iffued for detaining all Ruffian, Danish, and Swedith fhips and veffels, in confequence of thofe powers having entered to a confederacy against the maritime interefts of Great Britain. 15. A fufpenfion of arms agreed upon in Italy between the French General Brune, and the Auftrian General Bellegarde, by which a number of fortreffes were furrendered into the hands VOL. LXIII. of the French, and the war in Italy was terminated. 22. The Imperial Parliament met for the first time, pursuant to his Majesty's proclamation, when the Right Hon. Henry Addington was unanimously lected Speaker. 23. A French fquadron of seven fail of the line, two frigates, a lugger, and fome other veffels, with four thousand troops on board, under the command of Admiral Gantheaume, failed from Breft for Egypt. February. 9. A change of Miniftry took place, but the whole of the arrangements were not for fome time after settled. Mr Addington fucceeded Mr Pitt, as First Lord of the Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer; and Earl St Vincent, Lord Spencer, as First Lord the Admiralty. Peace between Auftria and France, figned at Luneville, by Count Cobentzel and Jofeph Bonaparte. 11. Sir John Mitford elected Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, in the room of Mr Addington. Mr Waddington was brought up to the Court of King's Bench, after have ing been convicted of foreftalling hops, and was fentenced to pay a fine of sool. and be imprisoned three months. 14. A General Fast and Humiliation throughout Scotland pursuant to Royal Proclamation. 18. Mr Pitt opened the Budget in the Houfe of Commons, Mr Addington not having yet taken his seat as Chancellor of the Excnequer. 20. His Majefty was feized with a cold and fever, which continued for fome time. Marcb. 2. Advice received at the IndiaHoufe of the capture of the Kent Indiaman, by a French frigate, in the Bay of Bengal, after a fevere action of nearly two hours. 8. The British army, under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby, effected a landing at Aboukir, drove in the. enemy's detachments, and advanced within a few miles of Alexandria. 10. The French frigate Africaine captured in the Mediteranean by his Ma jefty's jefy's fhip Phœbe, after a fmart ac tion. 11. His Majefty's Phyficians declared his recovery, and ftated that a fhort time only was neceffary to reftore his ufual health and firength. 12. Admiral Sir Hyde Parker and Vice-Admiral Lord Nelfon, failed from Yarmouth Roads, with a fleet of seventeen fail of the line, and a number of frigates, bomb-veffels, gun brigs, and fire-fhips, for the Baltic, to attack the coalefced powers of Denmark, Sweden and Ruffia. An alarming fire broke out in Invernefs, which communicated to fome barrels of gunpowder, which blew up, and did, great damage. Several perfons were killed. 13. The British troops ftationed near Alexandria, in Egypt, attacked by the garrifon of that place. The action lafted four hours, and ended in the enemy being repulfed. 16. His Majefty's fhip Invincible, Rear-Admiral Totty, wrecked on a ridge of fand, called Hamordfburg, on the Norfolk coaft, on her way to join the Baltic fleet, and upwards of 400 of her crew, befides the Captain and fe,veral of the other officers, unfortunate? ly perished. 17. The whole of the members of the New Adminiftration, entered upon the duties of their refpective offices, and Lord Hardwicke was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the room of the Marquis Cornwallis. 18. The garrison of Aboukir, in Egypt, furrendered to the British arms. 20. Peace between Austria and France formally proclaimed at Paris. 21. The British Army in Egypt, attacked by the principal part of the French forces under the immediate orders of General Menou, before Alexandria. The conteft latted for feveral hours, and ended in the enemy's being completely repulsed, with the lofs of about 3000 men; that of the British, in killed, wounded, and prifoners, ainoubted to 1500. The brave General Sir Ralph Abercromby, who command ed the British army in perfon, was wounded on this occafion, and died a few days after, univerfally lamented by the army and his country. He was fucceeded in the chief command by General Hutchinson. The Emperor Paul of Ruffia died fuddenly. Report ftated, that he was affaflinated by fome Officers of State. He was fucceeded by Alexander I. his fon. 25. A negociation for peace opened between England and France. 28. Peace between France and Naples fined at Florence. 29. A Danish army took poffeffion of Hamburgh. April. 2. A divifion of the Baltic fleet, under the orders of Lord Nelfon, attacked and completely defeated and destroyed the Danish fleet and batteries stationed before Copenhagen. The loss of the British on this occafion, amounted to 943 men, killed and wounded; that of the Danes is supposed to have amounted to upwards of 2000. A ceffation of hoftilities was immediately after agreed to. 3. All British property at Hamburgh fequeftrated by the Danes. 8. Napper Tandy found guilty of high treafon, at Lifford, in Ireland, and fentenced to suffer death; which fentence, however, was afterwards commuted to transportation to Botany Bay. 9. A convention figned between England and Denmark for 14 weeks, which was afterwards prolonged. The Pruffian troops took poffeffion of Hanover, and the banks of the Wefer and the Ems. 16. Admiral Parker proceeded into the Baltic with his fleet, towards the Swedish port of Carlferona. 19. Rofetta, in Egypt, furrendered. to the British arms, and Damietta tu thofe of the Turks. 25. The British fleet returned to Copenhagen roads from the Baltic, the Courts of Petersburgh and Stockholm having agreed to fettle the exiting difficulties by treaty. Lord St Helens was in confequence fent to Petersburgh, as British Plenipotentiary. f troops, the greater part of the enemy having previoufly evacuated the place. 11. Official advices received of the capture of the Swedish islands of St Martin and St Bartholomew, and the Danish islands of St Thomas and St Croix, in the Weft Indies, by the British forces under the orders of General Trigge and Admiral Duckworth. 14. General Hutchinson captured a valuable convoy between Rhamanie and Alexandria, destined for the latter garrison. The foundation ftone of the new wet dock at Leith laid by Robert Dundas, Efq. of Melville, Deputy Grand Mafter of Scotland. 16. The Turkish army, commanded by the Grand Vizier, attacked near Belbies, in Egypt, by the French troops from Cairo. After a fevere action, the enemy were repulfed with confiderable lofs. 18. The House of Commons voted 1 a fubfidy of three hundred thousand pounds to the Court of Lisbon, to enable her Most Faithful Majesty to refft the invasion of the Spanish army. A vote of thanks paffed both Houses of Parliament, to all the officers and troops engaged in the expedition to Egypt. At the fame time a monument was ordered to be erected to the memory of the late General Sir Ralph Abercromby, and his Majefty bestowed the title of Baronefs Abercromby of Aboukir on his Lady, with a pension of 2000l. per annum. 23. Hamburgh evacuated by the Danifh troops, under the command of Prince Charles of Heffe. June. 3. Earl St Vincent informed the Lord Mayor of London, by letter, that the embargo had been taken off all British veffels in the ports of Ruffia. 6. An Order of Council iffued for taking off the embargo on all Ruffian and Danish veffels in the ports of Great Britain. A treaty of peace between Spain and Portugal figned at Badajos, by which the latter agreed to cede to Spain the province of Olivenza, and the ports of Portugal were agreed to be fhut againft the trade of England. 17. A convention figned at Petersburgh, by Lord St Helen's and the Ruffian Minifter, by which all differ-. ences between Great Britain and Ruffia were amicably adjusted. 24. His Majefty's fhip Swiftfure, of by Admiral Gantheaume's fquadron, 74 guns, captured in the Mediteranean the African coaft, where Gantheaume. which was on its return to France from ineffectually attempted to land a body. of troops to reinforce the French army in Egypt. 25. The Marquis Cornwallis and Lord Nelfon, appointed to command the military and naval forces along the Eaftern coaft. the Commanders of the British and July. 2. The Parliament was prorogued by commiffion. 6. A fquadron, under the command confifting of seven ships of the line, atof Rear-Admiral Sir James Saumarez, tacked in Algeziras Bay, a French fquadron of three thips of the line, and a large frigate, protected by the formi dable batteries in the bay. The attack the Hannibal, of 74 guns, going infide was made in the true British ftyle; but grounded, and being immoveable, the of the enemy's fhips, unfortunately was of neceffity, but not until after the moft, gallant defence, abandoned remaining part of the crew furrenderto the enemy. Captain Ferris and the ed themselves prifoners of war. Bay, reinforced by five Spanish line of 10. The Pruffian troops evacuated 12. The combined French and Spanthe line, put to fea from Algeziras ifh force, amounting in all to 10 fail of Bay. Sir James Saumarez, lying with had gone to repair the damages fuftainhis fquadron at Gibraltar, whither he ly put to lea after them with five fhips ed in the battle of the 6th, immediateof the line, determined to oppose their paffage to Cadiz, whither they seemed bound. At 11 P. M. the Superb, the ed her fire upon the enemy-the Cæfar van fhip of the British squadron, openSir James's flag fhip, clofely following, was about to open upon a three decker of the enemy, which was perceived to |