, and in extream pain and agony, and on this
occasion every thing about her was much in the same disorder as about
the meanest of her subjects. Her face, which was red and spotted, was
rendered something frightful by her negligent dress, and the foot
affected was tied up with a pultis and some nasty bandages. I was much
affected at this sight, and the more _when she had occasion to mention
her people of Scotland_, which she did frequently to the Duke. What are
you, poor meanlike Mortal, thought I, who talks in the style of a
Soveraign? Nature seems to be inverted when a poor infirm Woman becomes
one of the Rulers of the World, but, as Tacitus observes, it is not the
first time that Women have governed in Britain, and indeed they have
sometimes done this to better purpose than the Men.

But to return to the Treaty of Union, the Articles were at last agreed
to, sign'd, and sealed, by all the Commissioners, the 22 of July 1706.
They were afterwards presented to the Queen at her palace of S^t James,
before a very numerous Assembley.

FOOTNOTES:

[26] Founder of the Bank of England, and originator of the Darien
Scheme.

C. POPULAR HOSTILITY TO THE UNION (1706).

+Source.+--_The History of the Union of Great Britain_, part iv., p.
27, by Daniel De Foe. (Edinburgh: 1709).

The common people now screw'd up to a pitch, and ripe for the mischief
designed, and prompted by the particular agents of a wicked party, began
to be very insolent: It had been whispered about several days, that the
rabble would rise, and come up to the Parliament House; and cry No
Union; that they would take away the Honours, as they call them, viz.
the Crown etc., and carry them to the Castle, and a long variety of
foolish reports of this kind. But the first appearance of anything
mobish was, that every day, when the Duke[27] went up, but principally
as he came down in his chair from the House, the mob follow'd him,
shouting and crying out, GOD bless his Grace, for standing up against
the Union, and appearing for his country, and the like.... On the 22nd
of October, they follow'd the Duke's chair quite thro the city down to
the Abbey Gate; the guards prevented their going further; but all the
way as they came back, they were heard to threaten what they would do
the next day; that then they would be a thousand times as many; that
they would pull the traitors, so they called the treaters of the Union
at London, out of their houses, a