ce, and a man of remarkable
abilities. His manner was cold, and he made but few friends; but he had
truly loved his queen. When he was dead, a lock of her hair, in a ring,
was found tied with a black ribbon round his left arm.

He was succeeded by the PRINCESS ANNE, a popular Queen, who reigned
twelve years. In her reign, in the month of May, one thousand seven
hundred and seven, the Union between England and Scotland was effected,
and the two countries were incorporated under the name of GREAT BRITAIN.
Then, from the year one thousand seven hundred and fourteen to the year
one thousand, eight hundred and thirty, reigned the four GEORGES.

It was in the reign of George the Second, one thousand seven hundred and
forty-five, that the Pretender did his last mischief, and made his last
appearance. Being an old man by that time, he and the Jacobites--as his
friends were called--put forward his son, CHARLES EDWARD, known as the
young Chevalier. The Highlanders of Scotland, an extremely troublesome
and wrong-headed race on the subject of the Stuarts, espoused his cause,
and he joined them, and there was a Scottish rebellion to make him king,
in which many gallant and devoted gentlemen lost their lives. It was a
hard matter for Charles Edward to escape abroad again, with a high price
on his head; but the Scottish people were extraordinarily faithful to
him, and, after undergoing many romantic adventures, not unlike those of
Charles the Second, he escaped to France. A number of charming stories
and delightful songs arose out of the Jacobite feelings, and belong to
the Jacobite times. Otherwise I think the Stuarts were a public nuisance
altogether.

It was in the reign of George the Third that England lost North America,
by persisting in taxing her without her own consent. That immense
country, made independent under WASHINGTON, and left to itself, became
the United States; one of the greatest nations of the earth. In these
times in which I write, it is honourably remarkable for protecting its
subjects, wherever they may travel, with a dignity and a determination
which is a model for England. Between you and me, England has rather
lost ground in this respect since the days of Oliver Cromwell.

The Union of Great Britain with Ireland--which had been getting on very
ill by itself--took place in the reign of George the Third, on the second
of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.

WILLIAM THE FOURTH succe