CHAPTER VIII.
GEORGE III. 1777-1778
Letters of Marque granted..... Bill for Detaining Persons in Prison charged with High-treason..... Miscellaneous Debates..... Spirited Address of the Speaker to the King..... Lord Chatham’s Motion for Concessions to America..... Parliament Prorogued..... Successes of Washington..... British Expedition up the Hudson River..... American Expedition to Long Island..... Capture of General Prescot, &c...... Battle of the Brandywine, &c..... Capture of Philadelphia..... Opening of the Delaware..... Close of Howe’s Campaign..... Expedition and Capture of Burgoyne..... Clinton’s Expedition up the Hudson..... Meeting of Parliament..... Debates on America..... Duke of Richmond’s Motion for Inquiring into the State of the Nation..... Fox’s Motion for Inquiring into the State of the Nation..... Army and Navy Estimates..... Intelligence of Burgoyne’s Defeat..... Royal Assent to Several Bills..... Parliament Adjourned.
A.D. 1777