Dispute between the Courts of Spain and Portugal... 277 1736. Correspondence of Walpole with Cardinal Fleury 279 His marriage 303 Useful impulse given by the Methodists.................. 372 ...... His journeys throughout England ...... Popular violence and insults to the preachers ...... LITERATURE. English Writers under Charles the Under Charles the Second....... Superior correctness of the latter or Townshend than CHAP. while Methuen was e Royal Household. * , was by no means warm reated as inferiors, and, of contents; but at all events isarmed, and their connection en. Another great advantage ssion was, healing the breach in Walpole, who had lately ingra h the Prince of Wales, induced submissive letter to the King; .ced His Majesty to receive it favour ing ensued, and a reconciliation was This union, both of Statesmen and of dashed the best hopes of Jacobitism. Atterbury writes to James, that, though conciliation is far from sincere, it will by ces become so, or that at least the appearances consequences of it will be the same as if it cally were. "I think myself obliged," he adds, "to represent this melancholy truth, that there may be no expectation of any thing from hence, "which will certainly not happen.” † Such, then, was the prosperous aspect of affairs, The vacancies were made by the Duke of Kent, the Earl of Lincoln, and Mr. Boscawen. The latter was rewarded with the title of Viscount Falmouth. Lord Lincoln was a personal friend of Stanhope, had taken office only at his solicitation, and readily relinquished it. + Bishop Atterbury to James, May 6. 1720, Appendix. See also the Marchmont Papers, vol. ii. p. 4.09. XI. 1720. |