Chapter VI: Characters of the Ministers

THE NUMBER OF STANDING FORCES REDUCED TO TEN THOUSAND.

CIVIL LIST ESTABLISHED, &c.

COGNIZANCE TAKEN OF FRAUDULENT ENDORSEMENTS OF EXCHEQUER BILLS.

A NEW EAST INDIA COMPANY CONSTITUTED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.

SOCIETY FOR THE REFOrMATION OF MANNERS.

THE EARL OF PORTLAND RESIGNS.

THE KING DISOWNS THE SCOTTISH TRADING COMPANY.

HE EMBARKS FOR HOLLAND.

FIRST TREATY OF PARTITION.

INTRIGUES OF FRANCE AT THE COURT OF MADRID.

THE COMMONS ADDRESS THE KING.

THE SCOTTISH COMPANY MAKE A SETTLEMENT ON THE ISTHMUS OF DARIEN.

REMONSTRANCES OF THE SPANISH COURT.

THE COMMONS PERSIST IN THEIR RESOLUTIONS.

INQUIRY INTO THE EXPEDITION Of CAPTAIN KIDD.

INQUIRY INTO THE IRISH FORFEITURES.

THE COMMONS PASS A BILL OF RESUMPTION.

A SEVERE BILL PASSED AGAINST THE PAPISTS.

LORD SOMERS DISMISSED.

SECOND TREATY OF PARTITION.

A FLEET SENT INTO THE BALTIC.

SECOND TREATY OF PARTITION.

THE FRENCH INTEREST PREVAILS AT THE COURT OF SPAIN.

DEATH OF THE KING OF SPAIN.

PHILIP ACKNOWLEDGED KING OF SPAIN.

A NEW MINISTRY, AND A NEW PARLIAMENT.

AN INTERCEPTED LETTER.

SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN SETTLED.

INEFFECTUAL NEGOTIATION with FRANCE.

SEVERE ADDRESSES FROM BOTH HOUSES.

WILLIAM IS OBLIGED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE KING OF SPAIN.

EARL OF ORFORD, &c, IMPEACHED.

DISPUTES BETWEEN THE TWO HOUSES.

THE IMPEACHED LORDS ACQUITTED.

PETITION OF KENT.

PROGRESS OF PRINCE EUGENE.

SITUATION OF AFFAIRS IN EUROPE.

TREATY OF ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE EMPEROR AND THE MARITIME POWERS.

DEATH OF KING JAMES.

LOUIS OWNS THE PRETENDED PRINCE OF WALES AS KING OF ENGLAND.

THE KING�S LAST SPEECH TO BOTH HOUSES.

THE BILL OF ABJURATION PASSED.

AFFAIRS OF IRELAND.

THE KING RECOMMENDS AN UNION.

HE FALLS FROM HIS HORSE.

HIS DEATH AND CHARACTER.

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