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HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. 



XXXVll 



The Abbe Rochon read a 



memoir on Optics to the French 

 Academy on the 4tii of May, 

 in which he aflerts, that M. 

 Caroch/"z has made a tekfcope 

 fuperior to that of M. Hcr- 

 fchel's. 



M. Legun has demonftrated 

 to the French Academy, that 

 a man lofes three pounds of 

 moifture daily by traufpiration, 

 and that he confumes About 21 

 cubical feet of vital aii in the 

 fame time. 



M. Delalande has attempted 

 to prove, that the Niger runs 

 from Eaft to Weft, and not in 

 the contrary direction, as has 

 been aflcrted by Danville, and 

 all the geographers. 



The Duke of York airived 

 in perfed health at Potfdam, 

 on the i6thofMay. His Royal 

 Highncfs was gracioully receiv- 

 ed by the King of Pruflia. He 

 I lent tiie Duke two fine charg- 

 I crs as a prelent, and the re- 

 views took place the two fol- 

 lowing days. 



General Wadiington, while 

 making a tour of America, was 

 on the 25th of March nearly 

 loft within a mile of the city of 

 Annapolis. The vefTel in which 

 he and his retinue were em- 

 barked ftruck on the rock in 

 the ni^ht, and continued in the 

 moft perilous fituation for near- 

 ly eight hours. 



Great advantages are expeiS- 

 ed from the proximity of our 

 new Colony on the N. W. lide 

 of Botany-Bay to the Coa.t of 

 Coromandel ; it being nearer 

 from this part of South Wales 

 to Madras than from the ille 

 of Mauritius to Pondicherrv. 



T-he Princcfs Royal Eaft- In- 

 diaman is arrived at London 

 from Bombay, and brings the 

 pleafing intcliigcnce of the Bri- 

 tifh forces having been joined 

 by the whole country of the 

 Mahrattas. 



Colonel Hartley had on the 

 loth of December laft, with 

 his detachment, attacked a 

 body of Tippoo's forces, con- 

 fifting of 13,000 men, defeated 

 them, killed a great number, 

 and took 900 prifoners. Our 

 lofs during this adtion was very 

 ?nconl;Jer3ble : No officers kil- 

 led. Among the wounded are 

 Captains Lawman and Blach- 

 ford, Lieut. Steuart, and Lieut. 

 Fireworker Jowel ; none of 

 them dangeroufly, except the 

 latter, who it is feared vviil lofe 

 his arm. 



On the part of the enemy, 

 belides the capture, the lof'^ is 

 eftimated at about 1000 killed 

 aiid wounded. 



Their commanding officer 

 Huflcin Ally Cawn was taken. 

 Golawn Maracen (the fame 

 who commanded at Pailiacat- 

 cherry againft Colonel Ham-, 

 berftone) was killed in the ditch 

 of the fort, endeavouring to 

 get in. — Ruflram Sair, another 

 great Sirdar, is wounded and 

 taken. We have alfo taken up- 

 wards of 5000 pagoda? in cai;i, 

 2 tumbrils, and i field-piece, 

 and feveral guns in the fort, 

 fome horfes, and a good niun- 

 ber of excellent draught and 

 carriage bullocks. 



The only man of confc- 

 quence that efcaped was Mu- 

 tab Cawn, who retreated to 

 Fcrukabad, or New Callicut, a 



