CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII. VII

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Jacobite libels: William Anderton.229

Writings and artifices of the Jacobites 233

Conduct of Caermarthen.236

New charter granted to the East India Company .... 238

Return of William to England: military successes of France . . 240

Distress of France.* 241

A ministry necessary to parliamentary government .... 246

The first ministry gradually formed.249

Sunderland.250

Sunderland advises the King to give the preference to the Whigs . 255

Reasons for preferring the Whigs ..256

Chiefs of the Whig party.258

Russell. ib-

Somers.259

Montague.263

Wharton ..267

Chiefs of the Tory party.272

Harley.273

Foley 277

Howe.278

Meeting of Parliament.^ • • 279

Debates about the naval miscarriages.280

Russell First Lord of the Admiralty.282

Retirement of Nottingham .. ib.

Shrewsbury refuses office ..283

Debates about the trade with India.234

Bill for the Regulation of Trials in cases of Treason .... 288

Triennial Bill.289

Place Bill.291

Bill for the Naturalisation of Foreign Protestants .... 295

Supply ............. 298

Ways and Means: lottery loan.299

The Bank of England.301

Prorogation of Parliament: ministerial arrangements . . . 315

Shrewsbury Secretary of State. ib.

New titles bestowed.318

French plan of war. 319

English plan of war. ib.

Expedition against Brest.321

Naval operations in the Mediterranean.325

War by land.327

Complaints of Trenchard’s administration.328

The Lancashire prosecutions.330

Meeting of Parliament.335

Death ofTillotson. ib.

Tenison Archbishop of Canterbury.337