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I HAVE now arrived at the close of my little history.The events which succeeded the famous Revolution of one thousand six hundred and eighty-eight,would neither be easily related nor easily understood in such a book as this.

William and Mary reigned together,five years.After the death of his good wife,William occupied the throne,alone,for seven years longer.During his reign,on the sixteenth of September,one thousand seven hundred and one,the poor weak creature who had once been James the Second of England,died in France.In the meantime he had done his utmost (which was not much)to cause William to be assassinated,and to regain his lost dominions.James's son was declared,by the French King,the rightful King of England;and was called in France THE CHEVALIER SAINT GEORGE,and in England THE PRETENDER.Some infatuated people in England,and particularly in Scotland,took up the Pretender's cause from time to time-as if the country had not had Stuarts enough!-and many lives were sacrificed,and much misery was occasioned.King William died on Sunday,the seventh of March,one thousand seven hundred and two,of the consequences of an accident occasioned by his horse stumbling with him.He was always a brave,patriotic Prince,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 succeeded George the Fourth,in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty,and reigned seven years.QUEEN VICTORIA,his niece,the only child of the Duke of Kent,the fourth son of George the Third,came to the throne on the twentieth of June,one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.She was married to PRINCE ALBERT of Saxe Gotha on the tenth of February,one thousand eight hundred and forty.She is very good,and much beloved.So I end,like the crier,with GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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