. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . benefit to both countries. His breach withthe Whigs was now final and irrevocable. As Queen Annes healthsteadily dechned it was plain that St. John had nothing to hope froma Hanoverian succession, which would inevitably make them omni-potent, and he therefore opened negotiations with the would not commit himself to the bold measures which alonecould ensure success, and St. John, who had been created ViscountBolingbroke in 1712, began to intrigue with Lady Masham for hiscolleagues overthrow. Eventually Oxford was dism
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . benefit to both countries. His breach withthe Whigs was now final and irrevocable. As Queen Annes healthsteadily dechned it was plain that St. John had nothing to hope froma Hanoverian succession, which would inevitably make them omni-potent, and he therefore opened negotiations with the would not commit himself to the bold measures which alonecould ensure success, and St. John, who had been created ViscountBolingbroke in 1712, began to intrigue with Lady Masham for hiscolleagues overthrow. Eventually Oxford was dismissed on July 27,1714, but Anne died five da^s later, before Bolingbrokes plans wereyet ripe. He summed up the situation to Swift with his usualphilosophy, Oxford was removed on Tuesday, the Queen died onSunday. What a world this is! and how does fortune banter us!At the age of thirty-five his career as a statesman was of the first actions of the Whig ministers was to attack theauthors of the treaty of Utrecht, and Bolingbroke fled in disguise to. HKNRY , VISCOUNT IJOLINGBROKi;From the portrait by H. Rigaud in the National Portrait Gallery face f>, 282 HENRY SAINT-jOHN 283 France. An Act of Attainder was passed and his name was erasedfrom the roll of peers. His only refuge was the Court of the exiledJames III, where he obtained the position of Secretary of extravagant and ill laid schemes of the exiles revolted hispractical sense as much as their religion stirred his cynical for a time he worked in the interests of James, because the}coincided with his own, until his wise efforts to hinder Mars risingbrought upon him a charge of treachery. With little reluctance heparted from the Jacobites for ever. He continued to live in France,amusing himself with literary compositions and the study of philo-soph}-. In 1720, his first wife having died, he married Madame deXillette, and bought a small estate near Orleans. He also madethe acquainta
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