Chapter I: Front Matter

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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. II.

New York Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square 1901

NOTE.

While this volume was passing through the press, _The English Historical Review_ published an interesting article by Prof. J. K. Laughton on the subject of Jenkins's Ear. Professor Laughton, while lately making some researches in the Admiralty records, came on certain correspondence which appears to have escaped notice up to that time, and he regards it as incidentally confirming the story of Jenkins's Ear, "which for certainly more than a hundred years has generally been believed to be a fable." The correspondence, in my opinion, leaves the story exactly as it found it. We only learn from it that Jenkins made a complaint about his ear to the English naval commander at Port Royal, who received the tale with a certain incredulity, but nevertheless sent formal report of it to the Admiralty, and addressed a remonstrance to the Spanish authorities. But as Jenkins told his story to every one he met, it is not very surprising that he should have told it to the English admiral. No one doubts that a part of one of Jenkins's ears was cut off; it will be seen in this volume that he actually at one time exhibited the severed part; but the question is, How did it come to be severed? It might have been cut off in the ordinary course of a scuffle with the Spanish revenue-officers who tried to search his vessel. The point of the story is that Jenkins said the ear was deliberately severed, and that the severed part was flung in his face, with the insulting injunction to take that home to his king. Whether Jenkins told the simple truth or indulged in a little fable is a question which the recently published correspondence does not in any way help us to settle.

J. McC.

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

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XXI. BOLINGBROKE ROUTED AGAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
XXII. THE "FAMILY COMPACT" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
XXIII. ROYAL FAMILY AFFAIRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
XXIV. THE PORTEOUS RIOTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
XXV. FAMILY JARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
XXVI. A PERILOUS VICTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
XXVII. "ROGUES AND VAGABONDS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
XXVIII. THE BANISHED PRINCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
XXIX. THE QUEEN'S DEATH-BED . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
XXX. THE WESLEYAN MOVEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
XXXI. ENGLAND'S HONOR AND JENKINS'S EAR . . . . . . . 147
XXXII. WALPOLE YIELDS TO WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
XXXIII. "AND WHEN HE FALLS----" . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
XXXIV. "THE FORTY-FIVE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
XXXV. THE MARCH SOUTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
XXXVI. CULLODEN--AND AFTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
XXXVII. CHESTERFIELD IN DUBLIN CASTLE . . . . . . . . . 289
XXXVIII. PRIMUS IN INDIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
XXXIX. CHANGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
XL. CANADA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
XLI. THE CLOSE OF THE REIGN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

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A HISTORY

OF

THE FOUR GEORGES.