Chapter I: THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE (concluded). PAGE

Meeting of Parliament--Eugene's Visit to England--Ministerial
Attacks on the Dutch--Meeting of the Negotiators at Utrecht--The
Question of the Spanish Throne--Sham Fighting against the
French--Debates on the Peace in Parliament--Withdrawal of the
English Troops--Consequent Triumph of the French--Bolingbroke's
Visit to Paris--Break-up of the Grand Alliance--More Negotiations
with the Pretender--Death of Godolphin--Marlborough retires
to the Continent--Signature of the Peace--The Treaty of
Commerce--Its Rejection by the Commons--The Whereabouts
of the Pretender--Dissolution of Parliament--The General
Election--Intrigues with St. Germains--Bolingbroke's Activity--His
Friends in Office--The Empire and Spain make Peace--The Pretender
declines Overtures to Change his Religion--Illness of the
Queen--Tax on Newspapers--Attack upon the "Public Spirit of the
Whigs"--Steele expelled the House--Proposals against the Pretender
and for bringing over the Electoral Prince--Counter-scheme for
bringing over the Pretender--Obstacles to the Scheme--The Queen's
Letter to the Elector--Death of the Electress Sophia--The Schism
Bill--Its Progress through the Houses--Reward for the Apprehension
of the Pretender--Fall of Oxford--Bolingbroke's Jacobite
Cabinet--Illness of the Queen--The Whig _Coup d'État_--Ruin and
Desperation of the Jacobites--Death of Anne--Proclamation of George
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