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--and many

lives were sacrificed, and much misery was occasioned. King William died

on Sunday, the seventh of March, one thousand seven hundred and two, of

the consequences of an accident occasioned by his horse stumbling with

him. He was always a brave, patriotic Prince, and a man of remarkable

abilities. His manner was cold, and he made but few friends; but he had

truly loved his queen. When he was dead, a lock of her hair, in a ring,

was found tied with a black ribbon round his left arm.

He was succeeded by the PRINCESS ANNE, a popular Queen, who reigned

twelve years. In her reign, in the month of May, one thousand seven

hundred and seven, the Union between England and Scotland was effected,

and the two countries were incorporated under the name of GREAT BRITAIN.

Then, from the year one thousand seven hundred and fourteen to the year

one thousand, eight hundred and thirty, reigned the four GEORGES.

It was in the reign of George the Second, one thousand seven hundred and

forty-five, that the Pretender did his last mischief, and made his last

appearance. Being an old man by that time, he and the Jacobites--as his

friends were called--put forward his son, CHARLES EDWARD, known as the

young Chevalier. The Highlanders of Scotland, an extremely troublesome

and wrong-headed race on the subject of the Stuarts, espoused his cause,

and he joined them, and there was a Scottish rebellion to make him king,

in which many gallant and devoted gentlemen lost their lives. It was a

hard matter for Charles Edward to escape abroad again, with a high price

on his head; but the Scottish people were extraordinarily faithful to

him, and, after undergoing many romantic adventures, not unlike those of

Charles the Second, he escaped to France. A number of charming stories

and delightful songs arose out of the Jacobite feelings, and belong to

the Jacobite times. Otherwise I think the Stuarts were a public nuisance

altogether.

It was in the reign of George the Third that England lost North America,

by persisting in taxing her without her own consent. That immense

country, made independent under WASHINGTON, and left to itself, became

the United States; one of the greatest nations of the earth. In these

times in which I write, it is honourably remarkable for protecting its

subjects, wherever they may travel, with a dignity and a determination

which is a model for England. Between you and me, England has rather

lost ground in this respect since the days of Oliver Cromwell.

The Union of Great Britain with Ireland--which had been getting on very

ill by itself--took place in the reign of George the Third, on the second

of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.

WILLIAM THE FOURTH succeeded George the Fourth, in the year one thousand

eight hundred and thirty, and reigned seven years. QUEEN VICTORIA, his

niece, the only child of the Duke of Kent, the fourth son of George the

Third, came to the throne on the twentieth of June, one thousand eight

hundred and thirty-seven. She was married to PRINCE ALBERT of Saxe Gotha

on the tenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty. She is

very good, and much beloved. So I end, like the crier, with

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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