. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . authors and printers of newspapers,such as Free Briton, Daily Courant, Persuasive to Candour andImpartiality, Corn-cutters Journal, Gazetteers, and other politicalpapers. Tour Committee leave it to the judgment of the House, whetherthis particular sum was less under the direction of the earl of Orford than ifit had passed through his own hands.* If Walpole ever took the trouble tocompare the thing thus bought vrith the price thus given, he must have felt< hat the f
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . authors and printers of newspapers,such as Free Briton, Daily Courant, Persuasive to Candour andImpartiality, Corn-cutters Journal, Gazetteers, and other politicalpapers. Tour Committee leave it to the judgment of the House, whetherthis particular sum was less under the direction of the earl of Orford than ifit had passed through his own hands.* If Walpole ever took the trouble tocompare the thing thus bought vrith the price thus given, he must have felt< hat the foUy of his agents was quite on a par with the stupidity of his Eeport of the Secret Committee was received with public contempt,according to Tindal. No proceedings were taken upon it. Lord Orford satquietly in the House of Lords, where his great rival, Pulteney, soon afterwardssat, as earl of Bath. When they met in that House, Orford walked up toBath, and thus congratulated him on his elevation: Here we are, my lord;the two most insignificant fellows in England. * Esport Parliamentary History, vol. jdi. coL 814,. lledal to commemorate the IlAttlo of Dettingen. CHAPTER VII. Maria Theresa—Her succession disputed—Claim of Frederick II. upon Silesia—He invadesSilesia—Battle of Molwitz—The French in Bavaria—Maria Theresa in Hungary—?Blector of Bavaria chosen Emperor—Prussia obtains Silesia—Change in the Englishministry—Ascendency of —Hanoverian troops in English pay—The Stuarts—Projected descent on the British coasts—Battle of Dettingen—Administration of thePelhams—Battle of Fontenoy—Statute against the sons of the Pretender—Jacobitism ofEn(;land and Scotland—Charles Edward in France—Note on the Battle of Dettingen—Table of treaties. Mabia. Theeesa, queen of Hungary, is wedded to Francis, grand dukeof Tuscany. The heiress of Charles VI. is twenty-three years of age. Hersubjects cheerfully acknowledge the validity of her ti
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