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CONTENTS.
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 Allies.--
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-
mond'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-Treaty 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
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
Page 279-297
Pope.
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.
CHAPTER XVII.-A.D. 1709 to A.D. 1742.
298-316
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 Dunciad.-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
CHAPTER XIX.-A.D. 1709 to A.D. 1742.
Hogarth as the historian of manners in the transition-time between Anne and George
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-
351-359
tion.-Fanaticism.
CHAPTER XX.-A.D. 1714 to A.D. 1716.
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Proceedings on the death of queen Anne-George I. 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.
-Byng'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-
age Bill. 386-405
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.
CHAPTER XXIII.-A.D. 1727 to A.D. 1734.
406-428
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.
CHAPTER XXIV.-A.D. 1735 to A.D. 1737.
429-451
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
-Death of queen Caroline.
queen Caroline.
452-465
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 Molwitz.-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. 485-502
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 army marches to Perth.-Preparations for defence at
Edinburgh.-Charles Edward at Holyrood-house.--Cope's army lands at Dunbar.-
Battle at Preston-Pans.-Charles Edward's sojourn at Edinburgh.-Siege of the
Castle.-English opinions of the Rebellion.-Note on the Highland Costume.
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.-The 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.
CHAPTER XXIX.-A.D. 1745 to A.D. 1746.
519-538
Charles Edward retreats from Derby.-The retreating army pursued.-Skirmish of Clif-
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
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-
Clive.-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.
Table of Contemporary Sovereigns.
APPENDIX.
588-602
603-604
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