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The Government is compelled to yield.................. 100
The Malt Tax in Scotland
Tumult at Glasgow
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Combination of Brewers at Edinburgh ......
... 101
..... 103
104
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1725. Prudent measures of Walpole and Lord Isla .... 105
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..............
108
109
110
111
... 113
.... 115
The Order of the Bath revived.........
State of Foreign Affairs........
The Infanta sent back from France
Resentment of the King and Queen of Spain
Conclusion of the Treaty of Vienna
Counter-Alliance at Hanover
Clamours of the Opposition..............
First rivalry of Walpole and Townshend
CHAPTER XIV.
Jacobite intrigues.....
State of the Highlanders
Influence of Colonel Hay (Lord Inverness)............ 133
Quarrel between James and his Consort
134
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1725. She retires to a convent at Rome
1726. Ill effects to the Jacobite cause
The Duke of Wharton openly joins it..................................
Proceeds on a mission to Madrid
His strange behaviour
Ripperda, the Spanish Prime Minister
His fickleness and falsehood ......
Dismissed from office ...
He takes refuge in the house of Mr. Stanhope
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But is arrested .....
147
His escape from the Castle of Segovia......
His adventures in England...................................
148
Goes to Marocco, and becomes a Bashaw
149
His death.......
150
Death of the Czarina.........................
The Marquis de Villadarias
Failure of the Spaniards
Character of Cardinal Fleury.....................
He becomes Prime Minister.......
Horace Walpole, ambassador at Paris
1727. Cabals of M. Palm in England.............
Preparations for the siege of Gibraltar ...................................
Preliminaries of Peace signed at Paris .................. 161
Intrigues of Bolingbroke with the Duchess of Kendal 162
His interview with the King.
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The King sets out for Hanover............
.... 163
...... 164
His illness and death, on his journey .................. 165
Account of his Consort, Sophia-Dorothea of Zell...... 166
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CHAPTER XVI.
1731. Ascendency of Walpole in the Cabinet
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226
English substituted for Latin in legal proceedings ... 227
Inquiry into the Public Prisons
... ..........
Lord Harrington, Secretary of State
The Duke of Newcastle, his colleague
Weakness of the Opposition
Duel between Pulteney and Lord Hervey
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228
231
233
236
238
239
Views of the Fundholders at this time..................... 241
1733. Inroad upon the Sinking Fund
Replies of Barnard and Wyndham
The "Sturdy Beggars "
242
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247
249
251
252
253
255
257
258
259
260
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Marshal Berwick is killed
261
Riots at Spitalfields ....
Preliminaries of Peace concluded .....
..... 276
Dispute between the Courts of Spain and Portugal... 277
1736. Correspondence of Walpole with Cardinal Fleury
The Dissenters' attempt to repeal the Test Act
Bill for the relief of Quakers
The Mortmain Act .......
The Gin Act
Two smugglers, Wilson and Robertson, imprisoned at
279
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280
281
282
283
......... 284
Edinburgh
285
Escape of Robertson ...................
286
Execution of Wilson
287
Captain Porteous fires at the mob .......
He is condemned to death..........
288
But reprieved
Popular resentment and tumult at Edinburgh
289
Attack upon the Tolbooth
290
Execution of Porteous by the mob
293
Lord Isla despatched to Scotland .....
295
But fails to discover the ringleaders...
296
1737. Bill of Penalties against the city of Edinburgh......... 297
His plan to reduce the interest of the National Debt 300