"him to print it; and we order that no other per"fon do prefume to print the fame at their peril. "Done as one of our greatest acts, this laft "moment of our administration. GL. B-H." INTRODUCTION. THERE is not any thing fo eagerly read by the publick, as thofe fhining periods of hiftory which are filled up with the important negotiations and fagacious conduct of fome great politician. But the qualities which muft confpire to form an author capable of doing juftice to fo grand a period, are fo rarely to be met with, that it will perhaps be efteemed an unpardonable prefumption in a common writer, to attempt fo arduous a task. Yet invited by the grandeur of the fubject, and fpurred on by the love of glory, who can forbear to enter on fo great a design ? The work will immortalize the workman. In hopes therefore of a glorious immortality, and infpired with the dignity of the subject, I fit down to write the enfuing history with all the candour, truth, and impartiality that becomes an hiftorian, entering on the performance of fo elaborate and magnificent a work. PART FART THE FIRST. ON the tenth day of February one thousand seven hundred and forty-five, his grace the duke of Newcaffle, aud the right honourable the earl of Harrington refigned the feals into his M. -y's hands. And The King was pleafed to appoint the right hon. John earl Granville to be principal fecretary of ftate. And now was to commence fuch a revolution in Our political conduct as was to astonish all Europe. The king of France, the queen of Spain, the pope, the devil, and the pretender, were all to be demolished in the twinkling of an eye. It was prophefied by the London Evening Poft, that feveral dark paffages in our modern annals were to be cleared up; that certain trials, which had been for fome time sufpended, were to go on without a screen; and many other great things were to be accomplished. In order thereto several changes were to be brought about; one in particular is told by a tart historian of the prefent times in the following manner. A certain wag, well known by the name of Will Waddel, played a comical unlucky trick the other day, with a companion of his who is lately come. from Carlisle. Will told this youth, that he could procure him an admirable place in the family of a certain great man of his acquaintance; and accordingly took the youth, who had powdered and beB 6 dreffed "him to print it; and we order that no other per"fon do prefume to print the fame at their peril. "Done as one of our greatest acts, this laft GL. BH. INTRODUCTION. THERE is not any thing fo eagerly read by the publick, as thofe fhining periods of history which are filled up with the important negotiations and fagacious conduct of fome great politician. But the qualities which muft confpire to form an author capable of doing juftice to fo grand a period, are so rarely to be met with, that it will perhaps be esteemed an unpardonable prefumption in a common writer, to attempt fo arduous a task. Yet invited by the grandeur of the subject, and spurred on by the love of glory, who can forbear to enter on fo great a design? The work will immortalize the workman. In hopes therefore of a glorious immortality, and inspired with the dignity of the fubject, I fit down to write the enfuing history with all the candour, truth, and impartiality that becomes an hiftorian, entering on the performance of fo elaborate and magnificent a FART THE FIRST. ON the tenth day of February one thousand feven hundred and forty-five, his grace the duke of Newcastle, aud the right honourable the earl of Harrington refigned the feals into his M- y's hands. And The King was pleafed to appoint the right hon. John earl Granville to be principal fecretary of state. And now was to commence fuch a revolution in Our political conduct as was to aftonish all Europe. The king of France, the queen of Spain, the pope, the devil, and the pretender, were all to be demolished in the twinkling of an eye. It was prophefied by the London Evening Poft, that feveral dark paffages in our modern annals were to be cleared up; that certain trials, which had been for fome time fufpended, were to go on without a screen; and many other great things were to be accomplished. In order thereto several changes were to be brought about ; one in particular is told by a tart historian of the prefent times in the following manner. A certain wag, well known by the name of Will Waddel, played a comical unlucky trick the other day, with a companion of his who is lately come from Carlisle. Will told this youth, that he could procure him an admirable place in the family of a certain great man of his acquaintance; and accordingly took the youth, who had powdered and bedreffed B 6 dreffed himself in a very fmart manner, to the gentleman's house. Will went in to the gentleman, and left his friend without to cool his heels, as the phrase is, in the antechamber, having acquainted him, that he should foon be called in and hired. The Carlisle lad waited a long time expecting the return of Will, who had flipt down a pair of back stairs and departed; at laft the house-maid coming to fweep the rooms, found this young man walking backward and forward, and, instead of getting his place, he narrowly escaped being carried before juftice De Veil, on fufpicion of having a felonious defign on the house. Many other changes and experiments were to have been attempted; but Heaven always tries the virtues of a hero by fome disappointments, which balk his hopes and baffle all his great defigns; as you will fee in the fecond part of our important history. PART THE SECOND, ON the fourteenth day of the fame month of February, in the very fame year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and forty-five, the right hon. earl Granville refigned the feals into his Majefty's hands, which his Majefty was pleased to deliver to his grace the duke of New caftle, and to the right honourable the earl of Harrington. And thus endeth the fecond and laft part of this aftonishing adminiftra |