Chapter 4 No.4

State of the Court of Saint Germains

Feeling of the Jacobites; Compounders and Noncompounders

Change of Ministry at Saint Germains; Middleton

New Declaration put forth by James

Effect of the new Declaration

French Preparations for the Campaign; Institution of the Order of Saint Lewis

Middleton's Account of Versailles

William's Preparations for the Campaign

Lewis takes the Field

Lewis returns to Versailles

Manoeuvres of Luxemburg

Battle of Landen

Miscarriage of the Smyrna Fleet

Excitement in London

Jacobite Libels; William Anderton

Writings and Artifices of the Jacobites

Conduct of Caermarthen

Now Charter granted to the East India Company

Return of William to England; Military Successes of France

Distress of France

A Ministry necessary to Parliamentary Government

The First Ministry gradually formed

Sunderland

Sunderland advises the King to give the Preference to the Whigs

Reasons for preferring the Whigs

Chiefs of the Whig Party; Russell

Somers

Montague

Wharton

Chiefs of the Tory Party; Harley

Foley

Howe

Meeting of Parliament

Debates about the Naval Miscarriages

Russell First Lord of the Admiralty; Retirement of Nottingham

Shrewsbury refuses Office

Debates about the Trade with India

Bill for the Regulation of Trials in Cases of Treason

Triennial Bill

Place Bill

Bill for the Naturalisation of Foreign Protestants

Supply

Ways and Means; Lottery Loan

The Bank of England

Prorogation of Parliament; Ministerial Arrangements; Shrewsbury Secretary of State

New Titles bestowed

French Plan of War; English Plan of War

Expedition against Brest

Naval Operations in the Mediterranean

War by Land

Complaints of Trenchard's Administration

The Lancashire Prosecutions

Meeting of the Parliament; Death of Tillotson

Tenison Archbishop of Canterbury; Debates on the Lancashire Prosecutions

Place Bill

Bill for the Regulation of Trials in Cases of Treason; the Triennial Bill passed

Death of Mary

Funeral of Mary

Greenwich Hospital founded