them do us good service; and it would be
kinder and wiser to look upon even a knight-
errant with more discriminating and merciful
eyes than we do. Let us indeed sedulously
keep his hands out of our pockets, and
close our hearts against his wheedling, but
let us try if we cannot, among the many
places and conditions in the world, find one
that will suit him. Let us cease to attach
suspicion to the name of adventurer openly
worn, and we shall hear no more of Dukes of
Vendôme perambulating the world.

A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
CHAPTER XLV.

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 mean time 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, to its cost, had
Stuarts enough!—and many lives were
sacrificed, and much misery 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,

in the year 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 badly 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!