THE ORIGIN OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR (1741-1748) 61
THE '45: I. LANDING OF THE YOUNG PRETENDER; THE RAISING OF THE STANDARD; SURRENDER OF EDINBURGH 65 II. TREATMENT OF THE VANQUISHED-- (_a_) AFTER PRESTON PANS 74 (_b_) AFTER CULLODEN 76 III. COLLINS'S "ODE WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1746" 79 IV. AN ADVENTURE OF CHARLES EDWARD 79
TREATY OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE (1748): I. LORD BOLINGBROKE ON THE PRELIMINARIES 84 II. THE ARTICLES OF PEACE 86 III. A CONTEMPORARY VIEW OF THE PEACE 88
LORD CHESTERFIELD'S ACT FOR THE REFORM OF THE CALENDAR (1751): I. HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE BILL 89 II. LORD CHESTERFIELD'S OWN ACCOUNT 93
SMOLLETT'S CHARACTER OF THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE 94
THE TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF ADMIRAL BYNG (1759): I. HORACE WALPOLE TO SIR HORACE MANN 97 II. THOMAS POTTER TO MR. GRENVILLE 101
THE ENGLISH IN INDIA (1757-1759): I. THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA DESCRIBED BY A SURVIVOR 103 II. CLIVE TO PITT ON ENGLAND'S OPPORTUNITY 105
THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM, SEPTEMBER 13, 1759: I. THE NIGHT ATTACK 109 II. THE BATTLE 110
"THE HEAVEN-BORN MINISTER": HORACE WALPOLE's HOMAGE TO PITT: I. IN THE GREAT YEAR (1759) 113 II. CHARACTER OF WILLIAM PITT DESCRIBED IN THE LIGHT OF SUBSEQUENT HISTORY 114
APPENDIX: LONDON IN 1725-1736: (_a_) DEFOE'S DESCRIPTION OF LONDON IN 1725 117 (_b_) PRESENTMENT OF THE MIDDLESEX GRAND JURY (1736) 119
STATE OF PARTIES AT THE QUEEN'S DEATH (1714).
+Source.+--_Letter to Sir William Windham_, Bolingbroke's Works, 1754. Vol. i., pp. 28-31.
The thunder had long grumbled in the air, and yet when the bolt [the Queen's death] fell, most of our party appeared as much surprised as if they had had no reason to expect it. There was a perfect calm and universal submission throughout the whole kingdom. The Chevalier indeed set out as if his design had been to gain the coast and to embark for Great Britain, and the Court of France made a merit to themselves of stopping him and obliging him to return. But this, to my certain knowledge, was a farce acted by concert, to keep up an opinion of his character, when all opinion of his cause seemed to be at an end. He owned this concert to me at Bar, on the occasion of my telling him that he would have found no party ready to receive him, and that the enterprise would have been to the last degree extravagant. He was at this time far from having any encouragement: no party, numerous enough to make the least disturbance, was formed in his favour. On the King's arrival the storm arose. The menaces of the Whigs, backed by some very rash declarations, by little circumstances of humor which frequently offend more than real injuries, and by the entire change of all the persons in employment, blew up the coals.