the man who, for honesty, consistency, and disinterestedness, ought to be considered the marvel of a corrupt age, they may, without reproach, forget the Jacobite. He never would have been one had he been fairly treated. He was forced into the service of the Pretender. When he found those patriotic anticipations which first induced him to support the cause were not likely to be realized, he was willing to acknowledge his error; but the injustice that produced his banishment maintained it till his death, and has ever since raised a senseless. clamour against his memory.
We have for more than a century been content to look at the History of England, during the reigns of George I. and II., from the Walpole point of view. That there might be another, comprehensive observers have long been satisfied. Its aspect from the standing point now selected will be found to present some remarkable features. If not quite so picturesque as the familiar one, it possesses the recommendation of being a great deal more true.