The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . ers should be drawn up in general terms, and that no nameshould be mentioned. It was in vain that the ministers of the Housesof Stuart and Bourbon adjured him to take a more decided course. God knows, he exclaimed on one occasion, that I w^ould gladlyshed my blood to restore the King of England. But what can I do ?If I stir, I am told that I am favouring the French, and helping themto set up an universal monarchy. I am not like the old Popes. Kingswill not listen to me as they listened to m\ predecessors. There isno religion now,
The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . ers should be drawn up in general terms, and that no nameshould be mentioned. It was in vain that the ministers of the Housesof Stuart and Bourbon adjured him to take a more decided course. God knows, he exclaimed on one occasion, that I w^ould gladlyshed my blood to restore the King of England. But what can I do ?If I stir, I am told that I am favouring the French, and helping themto set up an universal monarchy. I am not like the old Popes. Kingswill not listen to me as they listened to m\ predecessors. There isno religion now, nothing but wicked, worldly, policy. The Prince ofOrange is master. He governs us all. He has got such a hold on the ^William to Heinsius, ^l\. \ 1691. ^ Ibid. Jan. ^§. 1692. ^ His letters to Heinsius are full of this subject. ^.-k&j^-. J />>;> ? ? 7 - ? • ? \ ^; , / / ? I ^ fh//-/rf,[jn/i(Vj)> cy/ui GEORGE LEWIS, OF BRUNSWICK, AFTERWARDS GEORGE IFrom a mezzotint by J. Smith, after a painting by J. Hirseinan 2218 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, xix ? Emperor and on the Kin<j^ of Spain that neither of them dares to dis- iplease him. God help us! lie alone can help us. And, as the oldman spoke, he beat the table with his hand in an agony of impotentgrief and indignation.^ To keep the German princes steady was no easy task : hut it wasaccomplished. Money was distributed among them, much less indeedthan the\- asked, but much more than they had any decent pretence forasking. With the Elector of a composition was made. He ihad, together with a strong appetite for subsidies, a great desire to be a !member of the most select and illustrious orders of knighthood. It ?seems that, instead of the four hundred thousand rixdollars which he ,had demanded, he consented to accept one hundred
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