CHAPTER III.

Bill against Atheism and Immorality postponed..... Session
closed..... Alliances between Great Britain, France, and
Spain..... Plague at Marseilles..... Debates in the House of
Lords about Mr. Law the Projector..... Sentiments of some
Lords touching the War with Spain..... Petition of the
Quakers..... The Parliament dissolved..... Rumours of a
Conspiracy..... The Bishop of Rochester is committed to the
Tower..... New Parliament..... Declaration of the
Pretender..... Report of the Secret Committee..... Bill of
Pains and Penalties against the Bishop of Rochester..... Who
is deprived and driven into perpetual Exile..... Proceedings
against those concerned in the Lottery at Hamburgh.....
Affairs of the Continent..... Clamour in Ireland on account
of Wood’s Coinage..... Death of the Duke of Orleans..... An
Act for lessening the Public Debts..... Philip King of Spain
abdicates the Throne..... Abuses in Chancery..... Trial of
the Earl of Macclesfield..... Debates about the Debts of the
Civil List..... A Bill in favour of the late Lord
Bolingbroke..... Treaty of Alliance between the Courts of
Vienna and Madrid..... Treaty of Hanover..... Approved in
Parliament..... Riots in Scotland on account of the Malt-
tax..... A small Squadron sent to the Baltic..... Admiral
Hosier’s Expedition to the West Indies..... Disgrace of the
Duke de Ripperda..... Substance of the King’s Speech to
Parliament..... Debate in the House of Lords upon the
approaching Rupture with the Emperor and Spain..... Memorial
of Mr. Palms, the Imperial Resident at London.....
Conventions with Sweden and Hesse-Cassel..... Vote of
Credit..... Siege of Gibraltar by the Spaniards.....
Preliminaries of Peace..... Death and Character of George I.
King of Great Britain.

GEORGE I., 1714-1727