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1720. Review of Stanhope's administration........

Accession of Walpole and Townshend........

The South Sea Company......................

Competition with the Bank............................

Passing of the South Sea Bill...........................................

Rage for speculation at this period........

Mr. Law and his system, at Paris.....

Quarrel between him and Lord Stair.........

Lord Stair recalled...........

General delusion in England...................................

Various bubble companies......

The re-action begins.........

It becomes a crash............

The public resentment...............

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17

18

19

20

1721. A secret Committee of Enquiry.

Violence against the South Sea Directors......

25

26

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1722. Dissolution of Parliament.......

Death of Lord Sunderland..............................

And of the Duke of Marlborough............

Walpole left undisputed Prime Minister..................

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39

ib.

40

43

1723. Charge against Earl Cowper.

His death and character.....................................

Layer, Plunkett, and others, taken into custody...... 54

The dog Harlequin ......................

Arrest of Bishop Atterbury.........

His harsh treatment in the Tower......

Meeting of Parliament............................................................................................................................

Vote against the Pretender's Declaration...........

Tax on Roman Catholics.........

Compulsory oaths of allegiance........

58

59

60

61

62

....... 65

66

ib.

Intrigues of Bolingbroke...........................................

1724. Carteret is dismissed from his office..........

But appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland............... 89

85

86

The Government is compelled to yield.................................................. 100

The Malt Tax in Scotland............

Tumult at Glasgow.............

..... 101

...... 103

Combination of Brewers at Edinburgh................................................ 104

1725. Prudent measures of Walpole and Lord Isla ..... 105

Tranquillity restored among the Scots..........

ib.

Lord Chancellor Macclesfield impeached............... 106

Partial restoration of Lord Bolingbroke...........

Opposed by the ardent Whigs.........................

And also by the ardent Jacobites...

108

109

110

Resentment of the King and Queen of Spain ........

Conclusion of the Treaty of Vienna......................

Counter-Alliance at Hanover.......

Clamours of the Opposition......

First rivalry of Walpole and Townshend........................ 125

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120

123

24.

Influence of Colonel Hay (Lord Inverness)............ 133

Quarrel between James and his Consort....

134