CHAPTER XIII.

Affair of Wood's Patent

Dissatisfaction in Ireland

Exertions of Swift

The Drapier's Letters ...................................................

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99

ib.

The popular ferment increases ........................................................................................

Arrival of Lord Carteret.........................................................

His ineffectual measures

The Government is compelled to yield.................. 100

The Malt Tax in Scotland

Tumult at Glasgow....

Combination of Brewers at Edinburgh.....

1725. Prudent measures of Walpole and Lord Isla

Tranquillity restored among the Scots........

Lord Chancellor Macclesfield impeached

Partial restoration of Lord Bolingbroke

Opposed by the ardent Whigs ....

And also by the ardent Jacobites

William Pulteney........................................

His league with Bolingbroke

The City Act............

The Order of the Bath revived.....

State of Foreign Affairs...............

The Infanta sent back from France

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105

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... ib.

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Resentment of the King and Queen of Spain ......... 119

Failure of the Spaniards ....

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Preliminaries of Peace signed at Paris .................. 161

Intrigues of Bolingbroke with the Duchess of Kendal 162

His interview with the King.......

The King sets out for Hanover.........

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His illness and death, on his journey .................. 165

Account of his Consort, Sophia-Dorothea of Zell...... 166

His Majesty's Will.

168

Preliminaries signed with Spain ...

The Congress of Soissons

Arrival in England of Frederick, Prince of Wales

1729. Resolutions against reporting debates

Demand of Gibraltar by the Spaniards

Views of Earl Stanhope in 1720....

His policy pursued by Lord Townshend

Letter of George the First ......

Impatience of the Queen of Spain.......................

Debates in Parliament upon this subject

Mission of William Stanhope to Spain

He concludes the Treaty of Seville

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Duel between Pulteney and Lord Hervey

1733. Inroad upon the Sinking Fund

Views of the Fundholders at this time

The Excise Scheme

Speech of Walpole

Replies of Barnard and Wyndham

The "Sturdy Beggars

99

Strong popular ferment

Meeting of Ministerial Members

The Bill is dropped

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236

Rejoicing throughout the country

Conduct of Lord Chesterfield

His dismissal from office