.... Evacuation of
Philadelphia by the British, &c...... Disgrace of General
Lee..... Unsuccessful Attack, by the Americans and French,
on Rhode Island..... Operations of the British Army.....
Attack of the Savages on the Settlement of Wyoming, &c......
Arrival of the French Envoy at Philadelphia.....
Movements of the British and French Fleets..... Capture of
Dominica by the French..... Capture of St. Lucie by the
British..... Re-capture of the Islands of St. Pierre and
Miquelon..... French Plans regarding Canada counteracted by
Washington..... Capture of Savannah by the British.....
Meeting of Parliament..... Affair respecting Admiral Keppel
and Sir Hugh Falliser.
DEMONSTRATION OF PUBLIC SPIRIT IN ENGLAND.
During the recess, the government party and the opposition were equally
zealous in securing the public opinion, and, consequently, the success
of its future schemes. The intelligence of Burgoyne's defeat seems to
have had a momentary effect on the minds of the people, which favoured
the views of opposition, but while a few politicians declaimed on the
necessity of ending a ruinous war by recognising the independence of the
United States, and others advised a cessation of arms and conciliation,
the vast majority of the nation soon burned with ardour to blot out the
recollection of Burgoyne's disgrace, by deeds of arms, and by reducing
the colonies to their original subjection to the mother country.
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