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CONTENTS

OF

THE FOURTH VOLUME.

A. D.

CHAPTER XXXI.

1749. State of parties after the Peace of Aix La Chapelle

Subsidies to Foreign Powers

Grant to the Town Council of Glasgow

City of Halifax founded -

Half-Pay Officers and soldiers

New Clause in the Mutiny Bill -

1750. Growing dissatisfaction of the people

Temporary revival of Jacobitism

Prince Charles Stuart secretly in London

Account of his expedition by himself

And by Dr. King

1751. Death of the Prince of Wales

Death of Lord Bolingbroke

1752. New treaties of Subsidy

Mr. Alexander Murray -

His committal to Newgate

Privileges of the House of Commons in that age

Leicester House

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Recrimination between Lord Hardwicke and Mr. Fox

A female Quaker on the King's Throne

The British Museum founded

Execution of Dr. Cameron

Sir Thomas Robinson becomes Secretary of State

Resentment of Pitt

His marriage

The Parliament dissolved

Combination between Pitt and Fox

Fox resigns the Seals

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Murray appointed Lord Chief Justice

Retirement of Newcastle and Hardwicke

Conference between Fox and Pitt

The Duke of Devonshire, First Lord of the Treasury

Pitt, Secretary of State

Meeting of Parliament

Dismissal of the Hanoverian troops from England
Earl Temple's speech on the Address

Corn Laws

1757. Highland regiments raised

Militia Bills

Vote of money for the defence of Hanover

Court Martial on Byng

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CHAPTER XXXIV.

Dissatisfaction of the King with his Ministers

His complaints to Lord Waldegrave

The Duke of Newcastle -

Pitt and Lord Temple dismissed -

Inquiry on the loss of Minorca

Public Ferment -

"It rains gold boxes

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Various attempts to form a Government

Chesterfield called upon as Mediator

Pitt and Newcastle combine

Thus also Fox and Waldegrave

Conference between Newcastle and Waldegrave -

New administration

Pitt and Newcastle again in office

Fox as Paymaster

Expedition against Rochefort

Sir John Mordaunt

The expedition unsuccessful

Offer to restore Gibraltar to Spain

Campaign in North America

And in Germany

Battle of Prague -

Fall of Marshal Schwerin

Defeat of the Prussians at Kolin -

Fortitude of King Frederick

Defeat of the Duke of Cumberland at Hastenbeck

Convention of Closter-Seven

The Duke returns to England

Resigns all his employments

Frederick marches against the Prince de Soubise

Battle of Rosbach

He gains another victory at Leuthen

Close of his campaign

1758. Subsidy to him voted in the House of Commons

Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick

The Habeas Cornus Bill

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