The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Swift: The Earl of Oxford was re-moved on Tuesday ; the queendied on Sunday. What aAvorld this is, and how doesfortune banter us ! It is Henry St. John, Viscount , ?, i v o -jj. t j D /,„^o -,>r^^ true, my lord. Swift replied, BoLiNGBROKE (1678-17ol). J r tlie events of five days lastweek might furnish morals for another volume of quiet succession of George I was indeed almost amiracle. To rule a htiuglity and insular people had come aGerman prince with few personal attractions and ignorantThe Hanoverian ^^^^ ^f the English tongue
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Swift: The Earl of Oxford was re-moved on Tuesday ; the queendied on Sunday. What aAvorld this is, and how doesfortune banter us ! It is Henry St. John, Viscount , ?, i v o -jj. t j D /,„^o -,>r^^ true, my lord. Swift replied, BoLiNGBROKE (1678-17ol). J r tlie events of five days lastweek might furnish morals for another volume of quiet succession of George I was indeed almost amiracle. To rule a htiuglity and insular people had come aGerman prince with few personal attractions and ignorantThe Hanoverian ^^^^ ^f the English tongue. His only hopesuccession, of retaining his new kingdom was in the 171*- Whigs. Though they brouglit on promptly an election, which gave them a great majority, they knewthat public opinion was really against them, and to post-pone as long as possible a second appeal to the people,they passed, in 1716, the Septennial Bill, changing theduration of Parliament from three to seven years. Itwas a higli-handed ]>roceeding for a Parliament chosen. THE REIGN OF GEORGE I 443 for three years thus to jDrolong its own life to seven, andits only justification is in the fact that before the sevenyears had passed the country was reconciled to theWhigs. They were the friends of trade, and had thecommercial class behind them. They were the friends,too, of tolerance, which the spirit of the age now had told the Tories that they must look tothe Stuart Pretender, but the Tory squires, afraid of civilwar, would not act on the advice, and adjusted them-selves to the new line as best they could. Of the divineright of kings we hear henceforth little from them. The Stuart Pretender, James Edward, landed in Scot-land in 1715, and made a fight for the throne. ThoseThe Stuart Pre- ^^^ came in Contact with him found himtender and the stupid, headstrong, too dull to take good1 S of 1715. advice, and fanatically devoted to the EomanCatholic faith. Yet ten thousand men rallied round t
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