by JUSTIN MCCARTHY and JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY In Four Volumes Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London 1901 Copyright, 1901, by Harper & Brothers, All rights reserved....

For six and forty years England had been ruled by German princes. One Elector of Hanover named George had been succeeded by another Elector of Hanover named George, and George the First and George the Second, George the father and George the son, resembled each other in being by nature German rather than English, and by inclination Electors of Hanover rather than Kings of England. Against each of them a Stuart prince had raised a standard and an army. George the First had his James Francis Edwar

{350}   Abernethy, Dr., death, iv. 282.   Act for better securing the Dependency of Ireland, i. 177.   Act of Settlement, i. 4.   Act of Union passed, iii. 327, 330.   Acts of Trade, iii. 82, 84, 86, 105.   Adams, John:     Conduct towards Colonel Preston, iii. 152.     Opposes dominion of England, iii. 85.   Adams, Samuel, protests against Stamp Act, iii. 90.   Addington, Henry, Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister, iii. 337.   Addison, Joseph:     M. P. for Malmesbury, i. 52.     Secretary of Sta

by and In Four Volumes Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London 1901 Copyright, 1901, by Harper & Brothers. All rights reserved....

The closest student of history would find it hard indeed to turn to the account of any other royal reign which opened under conditions so peculiar and so unpropitious as those which accompanied the succession of George the Fourth to the English throne. Even in the pages of Gibbon one might look in vain for the story of a reign thus singularly darkened in its earliest chapters. George the Fourth had hardly gone through the State ceremonials which asserted his royal position when he was seized by

[Sidenote: 1830—The career of William the Fourth] William the Fourth, as the Duke of Clarence had now become, was nearing the completion of his sixty-fifth year when the death of his brother raised him to the throne. He had surely had full time in which to prepare himself for the business of a monarch, for during a long period it was well known that nothing was likely to stand between him and the succession except the life of his elder brother, the Duke of York. But William's tastes did not allu

by Author of "A History of Our Own Times" Etc. In Four Volumes New York Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square 1901...

"The Queen is pretty well," Swift wrote to Lord Peterborough on May 18, 1714, "at present, but the least disorder she has puts all in alarm." Swift goes on to tell his correspondent that "when it is over we act as if she were immortal; neither is it possible to persuade people to make any preparations against an evil day." Yet on the condition of Queen Anne's health depended to all appearance the continuance of peace in England. While Anne was sinking down to death, rival claimants were planning

{322}   Abernethy, Dr., death, iv. 282.   Act for better securing the Dependency of Ireland, i. 177.   Act of Settlement, i. 4.   Act of Union passed, iii. 327, 330.   Acts of Trade, iii. 82, 84, 86, 105.   Adams, John:     Conduct towards Colonel Preston, iii. 152.     Opposes dominion of England, iii. 85.   Adams, Samuel, protests against Stamp Act, iii. 90.   Addington, Henry, Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister, iii. 337.   Addison, Joseph:     M. P. for Malmesbury, i. 52.     Secretary of Sta

by Author of "A History of Our Own Times" Etc. In Four Volumes New York Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square 1901 While this volume was passing through the press, The English Historical Review published an interesting article by Prof. J. K. Laughton on the subject of Jenkins's Ear. Professor Laughton, while lately making some researches in the Admiralty records, came on certain correspondence which appears to have escaped notice up to that time, and he regards it as incidentally confirming

{306}   Abernethy, Dr., death, iv. 282.   Act for better securing the Dependency of Ireland, i. 177.   Act of Settlement, i. 4.   Act of Union passed, iii. 327, 330.   Acts of Trade, iii. 82, 84, 86, 105.   Adams, John:     Conduct towards Colonel Preston, iii. 152.     Opposes dominion of England, iii. 85.   Adams, Samuel, protests against Stamp Act, iii. 90.   Addington, Henry, Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister, iii. 337.   Addison, Joseph:     M. P. for Malmesbury, i. 52.     Secretary of Sta