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Th' unconquer'd, conquering foe of France;
His country's glory, and her friend,
Beholds adversity, with years advance,
And, strangely doom'd to fade away
With most unmerited neglect,

By those deserted he could once protect,
In imbecility awaits his end!

Peace, sign'd at Utrecht, gives the nation rest,
And peace we idlers always think is best;
ANNE'S ministers, to their disgrace,

With ill-bred warmth, before her face,
Assail each other.-Pens of old

Say, grief that parties shou'd prevail;

'Ere

yet her

years were fully told, Shorten'd her being, and, of course, my tale. Two sons, four daughters, prematurely died; And BRUNSWICK'S LINE Our hope and pride, (Long may it flourish good and great!) Succeeded to the vacant state.

No reign than ANNE's in war more justly crown'd, No reign for learning justly more renown'd; ELIZABETH, a SHAKESPEARE own'd:

CHARLES Could a MILTON boast;

But ANNE SAW NEWTON high enthroned,

Amid the heavenly host!

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ANNE,

ANNE, who with reason had been vain,
Had NEWTON only graced her reign:
But names like BURNETT, TILLOSTON,
With ATTERBURY, CLARENDON,
SWIFT, ADDISON, and BOLINGbroke,
With BOYLE, might envy well provoke.
And tho' succeeding monarchs knew
Their worth, yet at this time they grew,
Nurtured by freedom as by taste,

While, no less vigorous than chaste,
Each Muse finds ev'ry succeeding age

Proud to admire and imitate her page!

END OF PART THE ELEVENTIĮ.

ENGLAND.

ENGLAND.

PART THE TWELFTH.

From the Accession of the House of Brunswick, to the
Regency of the Prince of Wales in 1812.

CONTENTS.

George I.-Attempts in favour of the Pretender.-Septennial Parliaments.-South Sea Bubble, &c.-George II.-Plan for a general Excise.-Battle of Culloden.-Death of Admiral Byng.-Pitt Administration.-Victories of Clive, Hawke, Boscawen, &c.-George III.-Independence of America.-French Revolution.-Glorious successes of the Navy, and of our Armies in Egypt, Sicily, Spain, &c.— Party disputes.-Regency of the Prince of Wales.-Chronological Table.

HOUSE

HOUSE OF BRUNSWICK.

SUMMARY OF THE REIGN OF

GEORGE THE FIRST.

George Lewis, Elector of Hanover, eldest Son of Ernest Augustus, first Duke and afterwards Elector, of Hanover, and Duke of Brunswick Lunenburgh, (by Princess Sophia, Daughter of Frederick V. Elector Palatine and King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth, eldest Daughter of King James I.) was born May 28th, 1660, at Hanover, succeeded his father in the Electorate in 1698, was crowned King of Great Britain, October 20th, 1714. Married Sophia Dorothea, Daughter and Heiress of the Duke of Zell, by whom he had issue, George, who succeeded him, and one Daughter, Mother to Frederick III. King of Prussia. The Princess of Zell died in confinement at the Castle of Ahlen, in Brunswick Lunenburgh. The King died on the Continent, June 11th, 1727, in the 68th Year of his age, and Thirteenth of his Reign; he had been suddenly seized with a lethargic disorder the day before, while travelling in his coach, and, reclining on a Gentleman, said, "C'en est fait de moi"-" It is all over with me." He arrived that night at the Palace of his Brother, the Duke of York, at Osnaburgh, and expired next morning.— His body, wrapped in lead, was privately interred among the remains of his ancestors.

PRINCIPAL EVENTS.

Oxford, Bolingbroke, and Ormond, impeached. Rebellion in Scotland in favor of the Stuarts. An Act passed for Sep

tennial

tennial Parliaments. The South-Sea project, by which many thousand families are ruined. Layers' Plot. Bishop Atterbury banished. War in Sicily, and at Gibraltar. Miscarriage of Admiral Roper.

EMINENT PERSONS.

Sir William Windham; Sir Robert Walpole; William Pulteney; Francis, Bishop Atterbury; John Lord Hervey; John Perceval, Earl of Egmont, &c. &c.

COTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS.

Popes.

Clement XI. 1700. Innocent XIII. 1721. Benedict XIII. 1724.

Emperors.

Of Germany.-Charles VI. 1711.

Of the Turks.-Achmet III. 1703.

Of Russia.-Peter the Great, first Emperor.*

Empress of Russia.-Catherine I. 1725.

Kings.

Of France.-Louis XIV. 1643.

Louis XV. 1715.

Of Spain.-Philip V. 1700.

Of Portugal.-John V. 1707.

Of Denmark.-Frederick IV. 1699.

King and Queen of Sweden.-Charles XII. 1697. Ulrica Leonora, 1718.

King of Prussia.-Frederick II. 1713,

The foundation of the extensive Empire of Russia was laid by the valour and policy of Peter, who took the title of Emperor this year, and was recognized by all the powers of Europe in 1725.

GEORGE

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