. . . 22
XLIV. THE "NORTH BRITON" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
XLV. NUMBER FORTY-FIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
XLVI. THE AMERICAN COLONIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
XLVII. EDMUND BURKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
XLVIII. THE STAMP ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
XLIX. WILKES REDIVIVUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
L. THE SPIRIT OF JUNIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
LI. CHARLES JAMES FOX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
LII. ON THE CHARLES RIVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
LIII. THE "VICAR OF WAKEFIELD" . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
LIV. YANKEE DOODLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
LV. THE GORDON RIOTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
LVI. TWO NEW MEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
LVII. FOX AND PITT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
LVIII. WARREN HASTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
LIX. THE GREAT IMPEACHMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
LX. THE CHANGE OF THINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
LXI. "NINETY-EIGHT" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
LXII. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

{1}

A HISTORY

OF

THE FOUR GEORGES.

CHAPTER XLII.

"SUPREME IRONIC PROCESSION."

For six and forty years England had been ruled by German princes. One
Elector of Hanover named George had been succeeded by another Elector
of Hanover named George, and George the First and George the Second,
George the father and George the son, resembled each other in being by
nature German rather than English, and by inclination Electors of
Hanover rather than Kings of England. Against each of them a Stuart
prince had raised a standard and an army. George the First had his
James Francis Edward, who called himself James the Third, and whom his
opponents called the Pretender, by a translation which gave an
injurious signification to the French word "pretendant." George the
Second had his Charles Edward, the Young Pretender who a generation
later led an invading army well into England before he had to turn and
fly for his life. A very different condition of things awaited the
successor of George the Second. George the Second's grandson was an
English prince and an Englishman. He was born in England; his father
was born in England; his native t