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A HISTORY OF THE FOUR GEORGES
by
JUSTIN MCCARTHY, M.P.
Author of "A History of Our Own Times" Etc.
In Four Volumes
VOL. I.
New York Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square 1901
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
CHAP. PAGE
I. "MORE, ALAS! THAN THE QUEEN'S LIFE!" . . . . . . . 1 II. PARTIES AND LEADERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 III. "LOST FOR WANT OF SPIRIT" . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 IV. THE KING COMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 V. WHAT THE KING CAME TO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 VI. OXFORD'S HALL; BOLINGBKOKE'S FLIGHT . . . . . . . 91 VII. THE WHITE COCKADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 VIII. AFTER THE REBELLION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 IX. "MALICE DOMESTIC.--FOREIGN LEVY" . . . . . . . . . 158 X. HOME AFFAIRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 XI. "THE EARTH HATH BUBBLES" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 XII. AFTER THE STORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 XIII. THE BANISHMENT OF ATTERBURY . . . . . . . . . . . 211 XIV. WALPOLE IN POWER AS WELL AS OFFICE . . . . . . . . 224 XV. THE DRAPIER'S LETTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 XVI. THE OPPOSITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 XVII. "OSNABRUCK! OSNABRUCK!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 XVIII. GEORGE THE SECOND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 XIX. "THE PATRIOTS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 XX. A VICTORY FOR THE PATRIOTS . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A History of the Four Georges, Volume I
- 2: Was one claimant to the throne
- 3: The Electress Sophia was the mother of George
- 4: Belonged to the House of Guelf
- 5: The owner of the ladies Schulemberg and Kilmansegge
- 6: Unlike Juliet she was not beautiful
- 7: And wooden shoes and warming pans
- 8: Sully gave Henry several evidences
- 9: Somerville declares with great justice that mildness
- 10: These wrangling jars of Whig and Tory
- 11: And the Low Churchmen were Whigs
- 12: Bolingbroke soon after was in exile
- 13: At a time when Marlborough was unpopular
- 14: Granard not merely refused to enter into the conspiracy
- 15: Sidenote 1714 Bolingbroke Henry St
- 16: And more especially the poets of the days of Bolingbroke
- 17: At a time when William detested Marlborough
- 18: A school fellow at Eton of Bolingbroke
- 19: Althorp said he ought to have been a grazier
- 20: Where Bolingbroke was richest Walpole was poorest
- 21: It was at the house of a clergyman at Upper Letcomb
- 22: Addison held many high political offices
- 23: But the Count de Chambord put away his chance deliberately
- 24: The Duke of Shrewsbury had taken his seat
- 25: The virgin widow of Lord Ogle and Tom Thynne of Longleat
- 26: Admits that Argyll was gallant
- 27: Lecky among more recent historians
- 28: On August 3d Bolingbroke wrote a letter to Dean Swift
- 29: In 1709 10 Harcourt was the leading counsel for Sacheverell
- 30: Countless caricatures of Bolingbroke
- 31: And should be transmitted to posterity with infamy
- 32: And orderly walks of Herrenhausen
- 33: Aldworth was almost immediately killed
- 34: Fortunately for the Hanoverian dynasty
- 35: But in prosaic North of England towns
- 36: Fashion was already moving westward in the metropolis
- 37: Sidenote 1714 Old London Most of the streets in the St
- 38: In 1714 there was a rectangular enclosure in the centre
- 39: Some few houses in Queen Square
- 40: Did not always cast their cataracts clear of the pavement
- 41: Sidenote 1714 Clubs The Fleet Ditch
- 42: If the Kit Kat patriots had saved the country
- 43: And dragon or right Jamree canes
- 44: Sidenote 1714 Principal towns It is only fair
- 45: The next town in population to London was Bristol
- 46: Was then the little village of Chappell Isoud
- 47: That Sarsfield consented to accept the terms
- 48: Edinburgh was still a walled city
- 49: Sidenote 1714 Lowland agriculture Glasgow
- 50: When the famine had but just subsided
- 51: He was going to govern on Whig principles
- 52: In making the peace the Catalans were wholly forgotten
- 53: Sidenote 1714 The new Ministry Never
- 54: All the attacks on Marlborough were inspired by Bolingbroke
- 55: 99 Sidenote 1714 Lord Townshend Lord Townshend
- 56: Was the reception awaiting Oxford and Bolingbroke
- 57: Bolingbroke and Oxford were both present
- 58: Bolingbroke sought out Marlborough
- 59: And uncle of the much more celebrated Speaker Onslow
- 60: And Coningsby impeached the justice
- 61: Aislabie impeached Lord Strafford not of high treason
- 62: Then Ormond himself fled to France
- 63: Bolingbroke had some consolation of a sham kind
- 64: According to Bolingbroke himself
- 65: Acting against the advice of his best counsellors
- 66: Stout Jacobites toasted a mysterious person called Job
- 67: On Bagshot Heath or Finchley Common
- 68: The clans were got together at Braemar
- 69: He was characteristically late for Sheriffmuir
- 70: Among the Scottish clansmen on the verge of rebellion
- 71: If then Marlborough gave his advice in London
- 72: Had the conspirators been in time
- 73: Have got rid of Bolingbroke forever
- 74: Bolingbroke re appeared again and again in England
- 75: Who had been a conspicuous Jacobite
- 76: A letter from Lady Nithisdale herself
- 77: Then Lady Nithisdale dismissed her
- 78: And Lord Nithisdale escaped to Calais
- 79: The reign perhaps of one sovereign
- 80: And a different kind of Triennial Parliament Bill
- 81: As well as a sort of rebuke to Bolingbroke
- 82: Then came the Constantinople embassy
- 83: Horace Walpole indeed avenged the offended poet
- 84: Or else abandon his visit to dear Herrenhausen
- 85: Dubois had a profound knowledge of foreign affairs
- 86: Sidenote 1716 Alberoni Giulio Alberoni
- 87: Alberoni intrigued against the Regent
- 88: Sidenote 1714 1718 The Triple Alliance Alberoni
- 89: Concocted by the Regent and Stanhope and Dubois
- 90: Walpole himself must have felt satisfied on the point
- 91: Walpole was not in the administration
- 92: Lately the scene of the impeachment of Somers
- 93: ' said the Bishop of Peterborough
- 94: And was dissuaded from this intention by Sunderland
- 95: If the Peerage Bill had become law
- 96: Must either have been an unambitious bachelor
- 97: Sidenote 1718 Death of William Penn The protest
- 98: Walpole consented to join the administration
- 99: He has a project for the recovery of drowned land
- 100: And made Controller general of the finances of France
- 101: The cloisters and pillars have gone
- 102: Sidenote 1720 The bank competes Hundreds of schemes
- 103: The Chancellor of the Exchequer
- 104: For a general insurance against fire
- 105: Such a humiliation to the Whigs
- 106: Walpole had made money by the South Sea scheme
- 107: Sunderland had too many friends
- 108: That these calamities are not displeasing to me
- 109: That which was written in 1721
- 110: Desired the petitioners to clear the lobbies
- 111: Lord Sunderland suddenly died of heart disease
- 112: And dies the conqueror of Blenheim
- 113: Sidenote 1722 Funeral of Marlborough On Thursday
- 114: The career of Atterbury went out as well
- 115: Atterbury was charged with having taken a prominent if not
- 116: The plot was evidently a Popish plot
- 117: Sidenote 1723 Charges against Atterbury This
- 118: Atterbury appears to have been described now as Mr
- 119: Illington being in grief for the loss of his dog Harlequin
- 120: The foreign policy of Walpole was
- 121: Stair bowed and entered the carriage
- 122: Had issued his famous Pragmatic Sanction
- 123: Nearly accomplished the financial task Walpole would
- 124: He was even in that sense incorruptible
- 125: John Carteret was born April 22
- 126: Like Sardanapalus leaping up to the inevitable fight
- 127: Sir Luke Schaub was in close understanding with Carteret
- 128: The recall of Schaub involved the fall of Carteret
- 129: Concerning the brass halfpence coined by one William Wood
- 130: Swift was not an Irish patriot
- 131: And Wood's halfpence the tones of profoundest conviction
- 132: Bewitched the Irish Parliament and the Irish people
- 133: Walpole now strove to deal with the question
- 134: The Duke of Roxburgh had to resign
- 135: But Pulteney proved a much more pertinacious
- 136: Pulteney contemptuously refused the peerage
- 137: Pulteney had his friends and Walpole his enemies
- 138: As the late Viscount Bolingbroke
- 139: The Craftsman was started in 1726
- 140: Macclesfield retired from the world
- 141: An Alberoni of the opera bouffe
- 142: Lord Townshend came on to Osnabrueck
- 143: This was the unfortunate Princess Sophia
- 144: He had a certain prosaic honesty
- 145: Landor was not wrong when he described George the Second as
- 146: Walpole good naturedly came to his assistance
- 147: The result was that Walpole was retained in office
- 148: And Lord Chesterfield moved for an address of condolence
- 149: Sidenote 1727 Honest Shippen On Monday
- 150: Arthur Onslow was born in 1691
- 151: And Bolingbroke against Harley
- 152: It stood Pulteney instead of the more modern newspaper
- 153: And who were led by Sir William Wyndham
- 154: Shippen was nothing of a statesman
- 155: Sir William Wyndham supported Pulteney
- 156: The Treaty of Vienna led to the Treaty of Hanover
- 157: Cared a rush about the question of the Campeachy logwood
- 158: William Congreve and Richard Steele both died in 1729
- 159: Steele was doing this with Congreve's picture of Aspasia
- 160: It must clearly be Walpole and Townshend
- 161: Succeeded Townshend as Secretary of State
- 162: And has none but beasts and blockheads for his penmen
- 163: Hervey was an admirer of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- 164: 309 Sidenote 1730 The Sinking Fund Walpole was
- 165: The story of the pelican was reversed
- 166: In 1732 he revived the salt tax
- 167: I mean that monster the excise
- 168: Sidenote 1733 Walpole's scheme Accordingly
- 169: Nothing will be able to resist the inquisitorial exciseman
- 170: Petitioned against the excise scheme
- 171: Commander in Chief for Scotland
- 172: Demands prosecution of rioters
- 173: Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga
- 174: Caricatures of Napoleon Bonaparte
- 175: Moves motion for removal of Walpole
- 176: Advances against Suraj ud Dowlah
- 177: Lord Chancellor Condemns South Sea Bill
- 178: Admiral Lord Camperdown Deserted by squadron
- 179: Attitude towards French Revolution
- 180: Attitude towards Catholic Emancipation
- 181: Grafton Augustus Henry Fitzroy
- 182: Attitude towards electoral reform
- 183: On Walpole being indispensable
- 184: Impressment for Navy abolished
- 185: Jacobite demonstration in England
- 186: Places Stanislaus Leszczynski on throne of Poland
- 187: Meer Jaffier conspires against Suraj ud Dowlah
- 188: Nizam of Deccan and Mahratta States
- 189: Earl of Committed to Tower
- 190: Spencer Chancellor of Exchequer
- 191: Population of Great Britain 1714
- 192: Reforms Parliamentary representation
- 193: Sir Walter Interview with George IV
- 194: On Government measure for Irish Tithe Question
- 195: Accusations against Townshend and Walpole
- 196: Viscount Accompanies King to Hanover
- 197: Earl of Orford Accepts war policy
- 198: Attitude towards Parliamentary reform
- 199: Attitude towards Ministry 1831
