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Title: A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
Author: Justin McCarthy

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A HISTORY OF THE FOUR GEORGES,
VOLUME II (OF 4)***
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A HISTORY OF THE FOUR GEORGES
by
JUSTIN MCCARTHY, M.P.
Author of "A History of Our Own Times" Etc.
In Four Volumes
VOL. II.

New York
Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square
1901

NOTE.

While this volume was passing through the press, _The English
Historical Review_ published an interesting article by Prof. J. K.
Laughton on the subject of Jenkins's Ear. Professor Laughton, while
lately making some researches in the Admiralty records, came on certain
correspondence which appears to have escaped notice up to that time,
and he regards it as incidentally confirming the story of Jenkins's
Ear, "which for certainly more than a hundred years has generally been
believed to be a fable." The correspondence, in my opinion, leaves the
story exactly as it found it. We only learn from it that Jenkins made
a complaint about his ear to the English naval commander at Port Royal,
who received the tale with a certain incredulity, but nevertheless sent
formal report of it to the Admiralty, and addressed a remonstrance to
the Spanish authorities. But as Jenkins told his story to every one he
met, it is not very surprising that he should have told it to the
English admiral. No one doubts that a part of one of Jenkins's ears
was cut off; it will be seen in this volume that he actually at one
time exhibited the severed part; but the question is, How did it come
to be severed? It might have been cut off in the ordinary course of a
scuffle with the Spanish revenue-officers who tried to search his
vessel. The point of the story is that Jenkins said the ear was
deliberately severed, and that the severed part was flung in his face,
with the insulting injunction to take that home to his king. Whether
Jenkins told the simple truth or indulged in a little fable is a
question which the recently published correspondence does not in any
way help us to settle.

J. McC.
CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
CHAP.
PAGE
XXI. BOLINGBROKE ROUTED AGAIN.. ..........
1
XXII. THE "FAMILY COMPACT". . . . . . . . . . . . . .
22
XXIII. ROYAL FAMILY AFFAIRS. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
38
XXIV. THE PORTEOUS RIOTS.. .............
56
XXV. FAMILY JARS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
69
XXVI. A PERILOUS VICTORY.. .............
82
XXVII. "ROGUES AND VAGABONDS". . . . . . . . . . . . .

93
XXVIII. THE BANISHED PRINCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
XXIX. THE QUEEN'S DEATH-BED. . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
XXX. THE WESLEYAN MOVEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
XXXI. ENGLAND'S HONOR AND JENKINS'S EAR. . . . . . . 147
XXXII. WALPOLE YIELDS TO WAR. . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
XXXIII. "AND WHEN HE FALLS----". . . . . . . . . . . . 185
XXXIV. "THE FORTY-FIVE". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
XXXV. THE MARCH SOUTH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
XXXVI. CULLODEN--AND AFTER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
XXXVII. CHESTERFIELD IN DUBLIN CASTLE. . . . . . . . . 289
XXXVIII. PRIMUS IN INDIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
XXXIX. CHANGES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
XL. CANADA.. ................... 282
XLI. THE CLOSE OF THE REIGN. . .. . .. . .. . .. 292
INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

{1}
A HISTORY
OF
THE FOUR GEORGES.

CHAPTER XXI.
BOLINGBROKE ROUTED AGAIN.

While "the King's friends" and the Patriots, otherwise the Court party
and the country party, were speech-making and pamphleteering, one of
the greatest English pamphleteers, who was also one of the masters of
English fiction, passed quietly out of existence. On April 24, 1731,
Daniel Defoe died. It does not belong to the business of this history
to narrate the life or describe the works of Defoe. The book on which
his fame will chiefly rest was published just twenty years before his
death. "Robinson Crusoe" first thrilled the world in 1719. "Robinson
Crusoe" has a place in literature as unassailable as "Gulliver's
Travels" or as "Don Quixote." Rousseau in his " mile" declares that

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"Robinson Crusoe" should for a long time be his pupil's sole library,
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