Identifier: shorthistoryofen00lars (find matches)
Title: A short history of England and the British Empire
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938
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Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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l-Bohngbroke. )jam pulteney, a brilliant orator whom Walpole hadcompelled to leave the ministry. But the intellectual chief ofthese Patriots, as they called themselves, was Lord Bolingbroke. After the accession of the Hanoverians, Bolingbroke found itunsafe to remain in England, and early in 1715 he fled to theContinent and joined the Pretender, whom he served for afew months as secretary of state.2 Realizing that the cause ofthe Stuarts was not likely to succeed, he lost interest in his newsovereign and made plans to return to England. Soon afterhis flight he had been attainted by parliament; but in 1723, twoyears after the beginning of Walpoles rule, he was pardoned,though not restored to his seat in the house of lords. Two yearsThe later he joined with Pulteney in the publication of Craftsman. y^g Craftsman, a comic newspaper, the purpose ofwhich was to fight Walpole and hold him up to ridicule. 1 Gardiner, 720-722, 728-729. 2 Review sec. 405. OPPOSITION TO WALPOLE. BOLINGBROKE 451
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The House of Commons in 1742Robert Walpole is addressing the house. From a contemporary drawing by Gravelot. 452 THE RULE OF THE WHIGS 419. Walpole and George II. Two years later George Idied (1727). Since any one who enjoyed the confidence of thefather would necessarily incur the hostility of the son, it wasbelieved that Walpoles power had come to a close. Steps hadactually been taken to displace him; but George II soon foundthat Walpole was indispensable and restored him almost imme-diately to his office. At court the most influential person wasQueen Queen Caroline, a woman of great tact and excel-Carolme. )ent sense m practical affairs. Little King George,who expressed the greatest contempt for any man who wasruled by his wife, was completely under the queens control.Queen Caroline was a firm friend and supporter of Walpole.After her death (1737) his position at once became less stable.Two years earlier, the opposition to the prime minister had _. received a notable addition in Wil

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