Ontario High School History of England . and methodical. But hismind was narrow, and his vanityridiculous. Georges wife, Caro-line of Anspach, was a remark-able woman. In 1720 Walpole had helped her to makemoney out of the South Sea craze. The two remainedfast friends, and together they were able to manage GeorgeII. Frederick William, king of Prussia, called George acomedian, and this quality appears in his everlasting posingand bluster. Snappings and snubbings were the stapleof his talk with his queen; he would call her a fool to herface, and denounce her friends as scoundrels, puppies, orimb
Ontario High School History of England . and methodical. But hismind was narrow, and his vanityridiculous. Georges wife, Caro-line of Anspach, was a remark-able woman. In 1720 Walpole had helped her to makemoney out of the South Sea craze. The two remainedfast friends, and together they were able to manage GeorgeII. Frederick William, king of Prussia, called George acomedian, and this quality appears in his everlasting posingand bluster. Snappings and snubbings were the stapleof his talk with his queen; he would call her a fool to herface, and denounce her friends as scoundrels, puppies, orimbeciles; yet he spent seven or eight hours daily in hersociety, wrote her interminable letters whenever they wereseparated, and was broken-hearted when she died in never appeared to differ from him, but quietly suggestedideas, knowing that George would adopt them as his would sneer at kings who had been ruled by wives orfavourites, and ask with absurd complacency who it wasthat governed him. Most men understood very well. George II (1683-1760) 376 HISTORY OF ENGLAND that it was Caroline of Anspach; when Walpole persuadedher, he had really persuaded the king. The Excise Bill, 1733.—Walpole tried to make but onegreat reform. The chief burden of taxation was on the land,and the squires grumbled at having to pay as much some-times as two shillings on each pound of rent which they re-ceived. Walpole tried to relievethem by revising the taxes paidby the traders. He found thatthe customs duties were evadedthrough smuggling conductedon a vast scale. Two of thearticles smuggled most extensive-ly were tobacco and wine. In1733, therefore, Walpole proposeda new plan. No duties should becharged on tobacco and , they should come infree, and be stored in when taken out for use inBritain would a tax—called anexcise—be charged. If sent outof the country, they would not be taxed, and this freeimport and export would make London, Walpole believed,
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