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CHAPTER X.-A.D. 1703 to A.D. 1707.
Scotland.- New Parliament assembled in 1703.- Irritation against England.- Proposal for
a Treaty of Union.--Meeting of Commissioners of each nation.--Articles agreed upon
by the Commissioners.-Charges of Corruption.-Demonstrations against the Union.
-Debates in the Scottish Parliament.-Lord Belhaven's oration.-Material interests
of Scotland.-Views of the Union by Seton of Pitmedden.-Provision for the
Church of Scotland.-Riots.-Demonstration of the Cameronians.—The Act of
Union passed in Scotland. - The Act passed in England.
Page 176–195
CHAPTER XI.-A.D. 1707 to A.D. 1709.
Warlike Addresses of Parliament.--Reverses.--Battle of Almanza.-Marlborough's visit
to Charles XII, of Sweden.-Indecisive Campaign of 1707.--Siege of Toulon.-Wreck
of Sir Cloudesley Shovel.-- Naval miscarriages.--Complaints in Parliament.--Dis-
contents in Scotland.-- Jacobite Plots.--Attempted invasion. --Dismissal of Harley
and St. John from the ministry.--Campaign of 1708.--Ghent surrendered to the
French. --Battle of Oudenarde.--Sardinia and Minorca surrendered to the Alles.--
Death of the Prince of Denmark.-Surrender of Lille.-- Proposals of France for
Peace.--Campaign of 1709.-Surrender of Tournay.-Battle of Malplaquet. 196-215
CHAPTER XII.-A.D. 1709 to A.D. 1710.,
Impeachment of Dr. Sacheverel.-- Proceedings in Westminster Hall. - Articles of the
Impeachment.-Passages from the Speeches of the Managers.- Popular Manifesta.
tions.-Sentence upon Sacheverel.--Sentence regarded as a triumph of the High
Church.-Prosecutions of Rioters for High Treason.-Trials of Rioters --Progress of-
Sacheverel.-His character.
216–232
CHAPTER XIII.-A.D. 1710 to A.D. 1712.
Conferences at Gertruydenberg.-Negotiations for peace broken off.- Despotism and
Limited Monarchy.-The Whigs dismissed from office.- New Parliament.-Duchess
of Marlborough dismissed from her offices.-Disasters in Spain. --Surrender of Gen-
eral Stanhope.-Hostility to Marlborough.–Party use of the Press.-Swift, the
great party writer.- Property qualification for members of Parliament. -Harley stab
bed by Guiscard.-Marlborough's last campaign. Parliament. Prospect of Peace.-
The ministry defeated in the House of Lords.-Marlborough dismissed from all his
offices.- New peers created.-Negotiations at Utrecht.-Note to Chapter xxiv.-Table
of Treaties
233—265
CHAPTER XIV.-A.D. 1712 to A.D. 1714.
Prince Eugene in London.-Opening of the Campaign under Ormond and Eugene.-Or-
inond's Secret Instructions.—The Allied army deserted by the British forces
Subsequent disasters of the Allies.-The Lords' Protest published.---Laws proposed
against the Press. - The first Stamp duty on Periodical Works. – Terms of peace an-
nounced to Parliament.--Bolingbroke's embassy to Paris.-Treaty of Utrecht com-
pleted —Tteaty of Commerce with France rejected by Parliament.--Dissolution of
Parliament.-Jacobite Intrigues. The new Parliament.--Libels. -Swift.--Steele.-
Death of the Princess Sophia of Hanover-The Schism Act.-Oxford dismissed from
office.-Death of the Queen.
266278 Hogarth as the historian of manners in the transition-time between Anne and George
CHAPTER XV.-A.D. 1709 to A.D. 1742.
Literature and Manners of the earlier part of the eighteenth century.—The Tatler.-
News-writers and Pamphleteers.-Dunton's "Athenian Gazette."-Defoe's Review.
-The Spectator and the Guardian.-Influence and objects of the Essayists.- Low
state of education.-The Essayists diffusers of knowledge. - Joint labours of Steele
and Addison.-The Spectator's Club.-Fiction.-Reading for females. --Literary
Piracy,—Copyright Act.- Literature as a Profession. The Poets.- Alexander
Pope.
Page 279-297
CHAPTER XVI.-A.D. 1709 to A.D. 1742.
Female Politicians.-Female Employments.-Dress.– The Hoop-Petticoat.-Literary
estimate of the Female Character.–The Stage estimate.-Congreve.-Swift's Polite
Conversation.- Pope.-The Rape of the Lock. -Prude and Coquette.-Puppet
Plays.—The Opera.—The Masquerade.-Young.–Fashionable Vices.- Drinking.-
Extravagant dinners.-Duelling.– The Club Life of London.-Gaming.–The Bear.
garden. - Popular Superstitions.-Witchcraft.--Ignorance of the Lower Classes.-
Sports.-National taste for Music gone out. -The Small-Coal Man. 298-316
CHAPTER XVII.-A.D. 1709 to A.D. 1742.
Intellectual activity in every department of knowledge.-A Reading Public.—Poetical
translations of classical authors.-Pope's Homer.-The popular element shown in
the attacks of the wits upon some pursuits of learning.-- Battle of the Books.-Pope's
ridicule of Dennis.- Martinus Scriblerus.- Small Poets. - The Dupciad.- Com.
mentators. Public Schools. — Universities.— Travelling.– Entomologists and Flor-
ists.— The abuses of knowledge only deserving the poet's ridicule, -The popular
element in the mental philosophy of the age.-Locke.-Character of Swift's genius.-
Tale of a Tub.-Gulliver's Travels.-Robinson Crusoe.-Defoe.
317-330
CHAPTER XVIII.-A.D. 1709 to A.D. 1742.
View of the State of the Arts from the Revolution of 1688 to the Accession of the House
of Brunswick.--Architecture.-Wren.-Rebuilding of London.-St. Paul's.-Wren's
Parish Churches.-Wren's Miscellaneous Buildings. -Vanbrugh.-Character as an
Architect.--Hawksmoor and Gibbs.-Burlington.-Sculpture.-Gibbons.--Cibber.-
Roubiliac.- Painting.- Portrait Painting in England. -Kneller.-Jervas. -Verrio and
Laguerre.-Thornhill.--Other Painters.-Hogarth.
331-350
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CHAPTER XIX.-A.D. 1709 to A.D. 1742.
III.-His art essentially dramatic.--Society, in Hogarth's pictures, appears a sort of
chaos.---The life of the streets.-The anarchy out-doors a type of the disorder in houses
of public resort.--Genteel debauchery.-Low profligacy and crime. --The Cockpit.
The Gaming-House.--The prison.-Bedlam. - The Rake's Levee.-The lady's
public toilette.-Marriage à-la-mode.—The Election Prints. The sleeping Congrega.
tion.-Fanaticism.
351-359 452–465 Charles Edward retreats from Derby.-The retreating army pursued.-Skirmish of Clit-
CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER XX.-A.D. 1714 to A.D. 1716.
Proceedings on the death of queen Anne --George 1. proclaimed king.–His arrival in
England.-Sophia, princess of Zell. --Ministerial arrangements.-Parliament.-Im.
peachments of queen Anne's late ministers.-Riots in England. -Insurrection in Scot-
land.-Insurrection in England. -The march to Preston.-Surrender of the rebels at
Preston.-Battle of Sheriffmuir.-The Pretender in Scotland.-His flight to France.
-Impeachments of the rebel lords.- Executions and escapes of leaders.-Fate of the
humbler insurgents.
Page 360-385
CHAPTER XXI.-A.D. 1716'to A.D. 1719.
The Pretender in Paris.-He discards Bolingbroke.— The Septennial Act.-The king
leaves for Germany.-His foreign predilections.- Negotiations at Hanover for a
French alliance. --The king's jealousy of the prince of Wales.-Lord Townshend dis-
missed from his office of Secretary of State.-Arrest of the Swedish ambassador.-
Schism in the ministry.--Stanhope prime minister.-Trial of the earl of Oxford. -
The Quadruple Alliance.--Open quarrel between the king and the prince of Wales.
-Byog's destruction of the Spanish fleet.-Measures of toleration proposed by
Stanhope.-Spanish expedition to Scotland.-Successes of France and England in
Spain.-Alberoni disgraced.-Spain accedes to the Quadruple Alliance.—The Peer-
386—405
age Bill.
CHAPTER XXII.-A.D. 1719 to A.D. 1727.
The South Sea scheme.-Public infatuation. The bubble bursts.-Parliamentary meas-
ures.-Session of 1722.- Plot for Invasion and Insurrection-Trial of Atterbury, bishop
of Rochester-His banishment.-Wood's Patent for a Copper Coinage in Ireland.
- The Drapier's Letters.--The Ale-duty in Scotland.-Riot at Glasgow.-Impeach-
ment of Lord-Chancellor Macclesfield.-Foreign Affairs.- Treaty of Hanover.-
Siege of Gibraltar.- Peace. -Death of George I.
406—428
CHAPTER XXIII.-A.D. 1727 to A.D. 1734.
Accession of George II. -Walpole confirmed in power. Frederick, the heir-apparent.-
Course of foreign policy.-The Stuarts.- Arrival in England of prince Frederick.-
Townshend leaves office. What is History? - The Dissenters - Inquiry into the
state of the Gaols.-Law proceedings in English.-Party Quarrels and Libels.-
Parliamentary Opposition.-The Salt-tax.—
The Excise Scheme.—Wars in Europe.-
Neutrality of Great Britain.-Motion for the Repeal of the Septennial Act.-Wynd-
ham's character of Walpole.-Walpole's character of Bolingbroke.-Bolingbroke
quits England.
429-451
CHAPTER XXIV.-A.D. 1735 to A.D. 1737.
New Parliament of 1735.—Peace of Vienna. - The Gin-Act. --The Porteous Riots.-
Parliamentary proceedings on these Riots.-Unpopularity of the king.–Marriage of the
prince of Wales.-Royal animosities.--Birth of a princess.-Illness of queen Caroline.
-Death of queen Caroline.
CHAPTER XXV.-A.D. 1737 to A.D. 1742.
Act for Licensing Plays.-Birth of a prince, afterwards George III.- Commercial dis.
putes with Spain.—Popular war-cry.--Jenkins's ear.-A Convention with Spain
denounced in Parliament.-Walpole is driven into war.-His struggle to retain
power.--Capture of Porto Bello.-- Attack upon Carthagena.-Anson and Byron.-
Extension of the field of war.-Motion to remove Walpole from the king's councils.
- Walpole resigns. He is created earl of Orford.-Parliamentary inquiry into his
administration.
Page 466-484
CHAPTER XXVI.-A.D, 1741 to A.D. 1745.
Maria Theresa.-Her succession disputed.-Claim of Frederick II. upon Silesia.--He
invades Silesia.--Battle of Malwitz.-The French in Bavaria.--Maria Theresa in
Hungary.- Elector of Bavaria chosen Emperor.--Prussia obtains Silesia.-Change
in the English ministry. --Ascendency of Carteret.-Hanoverian troops in English
pay,- The Stuarts. -- Projected descent on the British coasts.---Battle of Dettingen.--
Administration of the Pelhams.-Battle of Fontenoy.-Statute against the sons of the
Pretender.- Jacobitism of England and Scotland.-Charles Edward in France.
Note on the Battle of Dettingen. -Table of treaties.
485-503
CHAPTER XXVII.-A.D. 1745.
Prince Charles Edward arrives at Eriska.-Lands at Borodale.-His interviews with
chiefs of clans.—The gathering at Glenfinnan.-Military resources of the government.
--Sir John Cope.-Highland arny marches to Perth.- Preparations for defence at
Edinburgh. -Charles Edward at Holyrood-house.--Cope's army lands at Dumbar.-
Battle at Preston-Pans.-Charles Edward's sojourn at Edinburgh.--Siege of the
Castle.- English opinions of the Rebellion.-Note on the Highland Costume.
503-518
CHAPTER XXVIII.-A.D. 1745.
Meeting of the British Parliament.--New regiments to be raised by Peers.-Divided
counsels in the Cabinet and in Parliament.— The insurgent army crosses the Border.
-Siege of Carlisle.--State of Public Intelligence.-The continued march into Eng.
land.-Manchester recruits.-Roman Catholic families in Manchester.-Thę rebel
army reaches Derby.--The duke of Cumberland's army close at hand. The retreat
of the rebels resolved upon.- Public feeling in London.—The populace. The com- mercial and moneyed classes.-Suspicions attached to Scotsmen in London.-Andrew
Drummond, the banker.- Proceedings against Popish priests.
519-538
CHAPTER XXIX.-A.D. 1745 to A.D. 1746.
ton.--Bombardment and capitulation of Carlisle.-Charles Edward in Scotland.
General Hawley takes the command of the king's troops. - Battle of Falkirk.-Re-
treat of Hawley to Edinburgh.Lord Lovat.--The duke of Cumberland in Scotland.
-Flight of the Highland army from Stirling.
539-550
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CHAPTER XXX.-A.D. 1746.
Charles Edward at Inverness.—The duke of Cumberland at Aberdeen.—The passage of
the Spey.-The duke at Nairn.—The prince at Culloden.–Projected night attack on
the king's camp.-The victory of Culloden.- Barbarities after Culloden.--Impolicy
of the treatment of the rebels.—Trials and executions.—Trials of the rebel lords.-
Their demeanour.-Balmerino, Kilmarnock, and Lovat.-Hidings of Charles Ed.
ward. - His return to France.
Page 551-564
CHAPTER XXXI.-A.D. 1747 to A.D. 1753.
Parliamentary calm. -Mr. Pelham and the Duke of Newcastle. -Mr. Pitt.-Naval suc-
cesses. -Defeats by land.-- Battle of Lauffeld.-Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle.-Charles
Edward sent out of France. -Pacification of the Highlands.—The peace regarded as
a hard necessity for Britain.—Measures of the Parliament. -Reduction of Interest
on the National Debt.-Combination Laws.—Parliamentary Privilege.-Reform of
the Calendar.-Death of Frederick, prince of Wales.-Official changes.-Act for
dissection in cases of murder.- Act for preventing Thefts and Robberies, and for reg-
ulating Places of Public Entertainment.-Gin Act.-The Jew Bill.—The Marriage
Act.-Note on the Stuart Family.
565-587
CHAPTER XXXII.-A.D. 1754 to A.D. 1755.
Death of Mr. Pelham.- Newcastle's Ministry.- Negotiations with Fox.-Pitt passed
over.---Parliament meets.-Fox a Cabinet Minister.-Retrospect of Indian Affairs
Clives-Capture and Defence of Arcot.-North American Colonies.-Contests on the
Ohio.-Naval Victories.-Subsidies agreed upon by the king. - Parliament. -Great
Debate.-Single-Speech Hamilton.-Pitt.–Fox Secretary of State.-Pitt dismissed
from his office of Paymaster.-Earthquake at Lisbon.
588-602
603-604
TABLE OF CONTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS.
APPENDIX.
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