have almost an army in each province, 199;
the last remnant of the army surrenders without fighting, 199;
the aim of the Great Alliance, 205;
solves by her own efforts the great question which had kept Europe
so long in arms, 262;
called upon alone to pay the costs of the pacification (Treaty of
Utrecht), 267.

SWIFT, Dean, covers the Duchess of Marlborough with ridicule and
obloquy, 234;
represents her in print as a pickpocket, 243.

TESSE, Marshal de, commands in Spain, 191;
a cunning courtier but mediocre general, 197.

TORCY, Marquis de (Prime Minister of Louis XIV.), favours the
candidature of Madame des Ursins, 145;
his confidence in her, 152;
a copy of Madame des Ursins' annotated letter sent him, 179.

TORIES, the, ousted by the Whigs, 218;
their dismissal demanded by the Queen's favourite, 219;
with Harley and Bolingbroke at their head they work in the dark to
regain power, 219;
set up Mrs. Masham to oppose and undermine the influence of the
favourite, 224;
they foster the Queen's grief at the bloodshed in the Low
Countries, 235;
dwell upon the odious tyranny of the Duchess of Marlborough, and
promise to deliver Anne from it, 236;
the Whigs replaced by Bolingbroke, Harley, Earl of Jersey, and the
Dukes of Ormonde and Shrewsbury, 242.

TURENNE, Marshal de, his error in attacking Conde without his entire
force, 7;
rivals Conde in boldness and obstinacy, 8;
his frigid, reflective, and profoundly dissembling character, 22;
carefully conciliated and caressed by Mazarin, 24;
made Governor of Auvergne, and the Viscounty of Turenne erected into
a principality, 24;
his wager on the subject of Churchill's gallantry, 211.

URSINS (Orsini), Marie Anne de la Tremouille-Noirmoutier, Princess de,
untoward result of the dramatic vicissitudes of a life devoted to
the pursuit of political power, 131;
married to the Prince de Chalais, 132;
joins her husband in Spain, whither he had fled from the consequences
of a duel, 133;
first meeting with Madame Scarron, 133;
left a childless widow on her arrival in Rome, 133;
the attention of Louis XIV. directed to her wit and capacity, 134;
she marries, with a political purpose, the Duke de Bracciano, 134;
her mode of life and career at Rome, 134;
character of the Duke,