TO DUDLEY'S offspring SCHOMBERG ow'd his

birth,*

And well he proved his demi-British worth,
Princely his rank, intrepid, skilful, bold,

In age a youth, in sage experience old;

With him five hundred ting'd the reddening flood; For JAMES near thrice that number shed their

blood!

Louis, pretending to assist King JAMES,
Lights up of civil wars again the flames;
Fruitless his efforts, WILLIAM's star presides,
And each attempt against his crown derides.
When England in her turn the war declares,
For foreign scenes of strife the King prepares;
Plots, still detected, would his life assail,
By worthless means fore-doom'd by fate to fail.
Frequent campaigns the hero's worth proclaim,
Britain and Belgia echo with his name,
And France reluctantly admits his fame.
Yet fortune unalloy'd is not decreed,
Man can, on earth, but partially succeed;

* He was descended of a noble family in the Palatinate, his mother was an English woman, daughter of Lord Dudley; he had served in Holland, England, France, Portugal, and Brandenburgh; he obtained the dignities of Mareschal in France, Grandee in Portugal, Generalissimo in Prussia, and Duke in England.

Amid

Amid great WILLIAM's struggles for renown
His MARY gains an everlasting crown:
Beam'd not the flatterers tear in Britain's eye,
When Heaven's fiat doom'd the Queen to die.*
Genuine the sorrow felt by high and low,
Most genuine his who keenest felt the blow;
Call'd to the field again by Gallic foes,
In war the widow'd King beguiled his woes.
Namur, impregnable esteem'd 'till now,
Before the British standard deigns to bow;
More plots detected, their projector shames,
And history blushes to suppose King JAMES,
Who threats another trial of his right,
Almost-embarks-and then declines it quite !
France sues; NASSAU from his paternal seat,
At BERWICK arbitrates the peace they greet;
France, faithless to her treaties, seizes Spain,
A trick of late she tried, but tried in vain;
The gauntlet iron war accepts again,
Waves his red plume and joyous seeks the plain!

December 28th, 1694, of the small-pox. Solid piety, uncommon goodness, great sweetness of temper, majesty, an air of grandeur untinctured with pride or affectation, and the sincerest affection for her husband, are said to have characterised thi excellent Princess.

When

When chance, or Heaven's high will for ends unknown,

Robs of a brilliant jewel England's throne;

Unites in realms above the royal pair,

For Kings, who bless mankind, find certain blessing there.

SUMMARY

HOUSE OF STUART

SUMMARY OF THE REIGN OF

ANNE.

Anne Stuart, second Daughter of King James II. was born in London, February 6th, 1664. Married July 28th, 1683, to George, Prince of Denmark. Died, without issue, August 1st, 1714. Buried at Westminster.

PRINCIPAL EVENTS.

The

The Union of England and Scotland, by the style and title of Great Britain. The Queen governed by her favorite, the Duchess of Marlborough. The Duke appointed Commander in Chief; is victorious at Blenheim, Ramillies, Ondenarde, Malplaquet, &c. &c. Great successes in Spain: the English take possession of Madrid; Gibraltar surrenders. English defeated at the Battle of Almanza. The Marlborough Administration supposed to be ruined by their prosecution of Dr. Sacheverel. Violent party spirit of the Whigs and Tories, Disgrace of the Great Duke of Marlborough. Peace of Utrecht.

EMINENT PERSONS.

Churchill, Duke of Marlborough; Lord Bolingbroke; Sir William Temple; Boyle, Earl of Orrery; Swift; Sydney, Earl of Godolphin; Harley, Earl of Oxford; Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough; Howard, Earl of Suffolk; D. Finch, Earl of Nottingham; G. Grenville, Lord Lansdowne; Philip, Duke of Wharton; R. Lord Raymond; Lord Chancellor King; T. Lord Paget; Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.

COTEMPORARY

COTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS.

Pope.

Clement XI. 1700.

Emperors.

Of Germany.Leopold, 1658. Joseph I. 1705. Charles

VI. 1711.

Of the Turks.-Mustapha II. 1695. Achmet III. 1703.

Kings.

Of France.-Louis XIV. 1643.
Of Spain.-Philip V. 1700.

Of Portugal.--Pedro II. 1683.

Of Denmark.-Frederic IV. 1699.

Of Sweden.-Charles XII 1697.

Of Prussia-Frederick I. 1701.*

John V. 1707.

* Prussia was this year raised from a Dukedom to a Kingdom.Frederick, in an assembly of the States of the Empire, and by the Emperor's consent, placed a Crown on his own head, and was afterwards acknowledged King of Prussia by all the other Potentates of Europe.

ANNE.