. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . long been the central point ofopposition to the government. We have seenhow far the unhappy estrangement of theprince from his parents was carried before thedeath of queen Caroline. Tears had passedover, and yet the animosities between thereigning king and the heir-apparent were neversubdued. In 1751 George II., although a hale!iian, was in his sixty-eighth year. The wor-- .ippers of the rising sun grew bolder in theirdevotion. Bubb Doddington, the treasurer oftlie na
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . long been the central point ofopposition to the government. We have seenhow far the unhappy estrangement of theprince from his parents was carried before thedeath of queen Caroline. Tears had passedover, and yet the animosities between thereigning king and the heir-apparent were neversubdued. In 1751 George II., although a hale!iian, was in his sixty-eighth year. The wor-- .ippers of the rising sun grew bolder in theirdevotion. Bubb Doddington, the treasurer oftlie navy, resigned his office in , 1749,having received a message from the princethat the principal direction of his royal high-nesss affairs should be put in the skilful in-triguers hands. He saw the prince at Kew,and was told that what he could not do for mein his present situation must be made up tonie in futurity. The prince farther said that he thought a peerage, withthe management of the House of Lords, and the seals of secretary of statefor the southern provinces, would be a proper station for me, if I approved of. Geoiige Bubb DoddiDgtcn. 1751.] OFFICIAL CHANGES. 189 it. * Such was tlie mode in whicli England was to be governed by favoritismhad she endured the misfortune of a king Frederick I. A worthy junto tookcounsel with the prince as to the immediate steps to be taken upon thedemise of the king, more particularly in relation to the Civil List. f Theprince directed the movements of the Opposition through the indefatigableborough-monger who had now the chief direction of his affairs ; suggesting,amongst other modes of embarrassing his fathers ministers, that the businessof Dunkirk was an opportunity to abuse them. J This system was brokenup by the event of the 20th of March. The king felt the premature deathof his son rather keenly ; and appeared desirous tliat the remembrance oftheir differences should pass away. The managers of state ceremonials other-wise interpre
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