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During the recess of Parliament, a dispute occurred with Spain regarding the Falkland Islands, which led to the very verge of war. In 1764 the French, under Bougainville, made a settlement on Falkland Sound; but Spain putting in a claim that these isles were part of her South American territory, Choiseul, the French Minister, abandoned the settlement, and the Spaniards changed its name from Port Louis to Port Soledad. The very next year, 1765, Commodore Byron was sent to form a settlement on another of the islands, which he named Port Egmont, in honour of Lord Egmont, First Lord of the Admiralty. Such were the distant islets to which, in 1769, Spain began to assert her claim. The Governor of Port Soledad sent repeated messages to Captain Hunt, of the Tamar, stationed at Port Egmont, requiring the abandonment of the place. When the notices were succeeded by threats, Captain Hunt sailed home to lay the matter before his Government. He landed at Portsmouth in June, 1770, and made known the Spanish interference to the Cabinet. Meanwhile, the Spaniards, taking advantage of Hunt's absence, had, about the time that he arrived in England, dispatched to the Falklands Buccarelli, the Governor of Buenos Ayres, with five frigates and one thousand six hundred men. Having entered the port on pretence of wanting water, and finding the Tamar absent, and only two armed sloops there, and a mere handful of soldiers, Buccarelli landed his force, and, after the firing of a few shots for form's sake, the English surrendered, and were permitted to depart with all the honours of war.

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During the summer a French squadron stretched away across the Atlantic with six sail of the line, and finding our Newfoundland coasts almost wholly unprotected, destroyed and plundered the fishermen's huts and fishing stages, as well as their vessels, and then, returning, picked up a considerable number of our merchantmen at sea, and was lucky enough to make a retreat, by favour of a fog, through our watching squadrons, into Brest. After this clever exploit, they joined the great Brest fleet, which sailed for Ireland on the 15th of December. This consisted of no fewer than forty-three sail, seventeen of them of the line, four frigates, six corvettes and brigs, with six transports. On board the transports were twenty-five thousand men, who had been well tried in the war of La Vend��e, and abundance of arms and ammunition, as well as extra arms to put into the hands of the disaffected Irish, for to Ireland the armament was bound. General Hoche, who had terminated the Vend��an war, was appointed to terminate all the woes of Ireland, and convert that sacred island into another French paradise. Besides Hoche, Generals Grouchy, Hombert, and Bruix were attached to the expedition. The fleet sailed out and anchored in Camaret Bay, but no British fleet was visible to intercept them. But no sooner did the armament put out to sea again the next day, than it was assailed by a tempest and the ships were driven different ways. One of them was forced immediately on the Grand Stenet rock, and wrecked��out of one thousand four hundred souls on board only sixty were rescued. Seven ships of the line, and ten of the vessels commanded by Rear-Admiral Bouvet, managed to reach Bantry Bay on the 24th of December, but there the storms continued to batter them. There being no sign of an insurrection, and no other part of the fleet appearing, they sailed back and reached Brest on the 1st of January, 1797. When they were gone, another portion of the fleet arrived in Bantry Bay, but only to be tossed and driven about without rest, to lose several of the ships, and to put back again. As for Hoche, he never saw Ireland; the greater part of the fleet being driven about and swamped in the Channel. Of the forty-three sail, only thirty-one returned, and thousands of the soldiers were drowned in the foundering transports. Sir Edward Pellew, in the Indefatigable, of forty-four guns, and Captain Reynolds, in the Amazon, of thirty-six guns, fell in with the Droits de l'Homme, of seventy-four guns, and after a severe fight close in Audierne Bay, south of Ushant, left her a wreck aground, where, of the one thousand eight hundred men aboard, scarcely more than three hundred were saved, notwithstanding the greatest exertions of the British seamen to rescue them. Meanwhile the Whigs were anxious to add fresh security to their own lease of office. At the last election they had procured the return of a powerful majority; but two years out of the triennial term had expired, and they looked with apprehension to the end of the next year, when a dissolution must take place. They were aware that there were still strong plottings and secret agitations for the restoration of the banished dynasty. By both the king and his Ministers all Tories were regarded as Jacobites, and it was resolved to keep them out of office, and, as much as possible, out of Parliament. They had the power in their own hands in this Parliament, and, in order to keep it, they did not hesitate to destroy that Triennial Act for which their own party had claimed so much credit in 1694, and substitute a Septennial Act in its place. They would thereby give to their own party in Parliament more than a double term of the present legal possession of their seats. Instead of one year, they would be able to look forward four years without any fear of[33] Tory increase of power through a new election. On the 10th of April, Devonshire, Lord Steward of the Household, moved the repeal of the Triennial Act, long lauded as one of the bulwarks of our liberties, under the now convenient plea that it had been "found very grievous and burthensome, by occasioning much greater and more continued expenses in order to elections of members to serve in Parliament, and more lasting heats and animosities amongst the subjects of this realm than ever were known before the said clause was enacted." Meeting of Parliament��Lord Chatham's Amendment to the Address��The News of Saratoga��Treaty between France and America��Washington in Valley Forge��Intrigues against him��Violation of Burgoyne's Convention��Debates in Parliament��Attempt to bring Chatham into the Ministry��Lord North's Conciliation Bills��The French Note��Patriotism of the Nation��The King refuses to send for Chatham��His last Speech and Death��Honours to his Memory��Burke's Measure of Irish Relief��Repeal of Laws against Roman Catholics��Explosion of Scottish Bigotry��Turgot's Warnings��Naval Engagement off Ushant��Failure of Lafayette's Canadian Expedition��Clinton compelled to evacuate Philadelphia��Failure of Lord North's Commissioners��D'Estaing and Sullivan attempt to take Rhode Island��Subsequent Proceedings of D'Estaing��Courts-martial of Keppel and Palliser��The Irish Volunteers��Spain declares War��Military Preparations��Junction of the French and Spanish Fleets��They retire from the Channel��D'Estaing in the West Indies��His Attempt on Savannah��Weakness of Lord North's Ministry��Meeting of Parliament��Lord North's Irish Bill��Richmond, Shelburne, and Burke attempt Economic Reforms��The Meeting at York petitions for Reform of Parliament��Burke's Economic Scheme��North's Man?uvre��Further Attempts at Reform��The Westminster Meeting��Dunning's Motion��Defeat of his later Resolutions��"No Popery" in Scotland��Lord George Gordon's Agitation��The Riots and their Progress��Their Suppression��Trial of the Prisoners��Rodney relieves Gibraltar��Destruction of English Merchantmen��Disputes with Holland��The Armed Neutrality of the North��Capture of Charleston��Declaration of South Carolina��Battle of Camden��Expedition into North Carolina��Arrival of the French Squadron��Rodney in the West Indies��Arnold's Treachery��Trial and Death of Andr��Breach with Holland��Attacks on Jersey and Gibraltar��Mutiny in the Army of Washington��Arnold's Raids in Virginia��Cornwallis in North Carolina��His Engagements with Greene��His March into Virginia��Rawdon and Greene��Battle of Eutaw Springs��Siege of York Town��The American Armies close round him��Cornwallis compelled to Surrender."You give your horse a sore back whenever you go far, and you always bring him back in a lather."��We can prove it��come on!��

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