rpetually passing up and down the imperial river. But that
part of the plan was never carried into effect; and few of those who
now gaze on the noblest of European hospitals are aware that it is a
memorial of the virtues of the good Queen Mary, of the love and sorrow
of William, and of the great victory of La Hogue.

CHAPTER XXI

Effect of Mary's Death on the Continent--Death of Luxemburg--Distress of
William--Parliamentary Proceedings; Emancipation of the Press--Death
of Halifax--Parliamentary Inquiries into the Corruption of the Public
Offices--Vote of Censure on the Speaker--Foley elected Speaker; Inquiry
into the Accounts of the East India Company--Suspicious Dealings of
Seymour--Bill against Sir Thomas Cook--Inquiry by a joint Committee
of Lords and Commons--Impeachment of Leeds--Disgrace of Leeds--Lords
Justices appointed; Reconciliation between William and the
Princess Anne--Jacobite Plots against William's Person--Charnock;
Porter--Goodman; Parkyns--Fenwick--Session of the Scottish Parliament;
Inquiry into the Slaughter of Glencoe--War in the Netherlands; Marshal
Villeroy--The Duke of Maine--Jacobite Plots against the Government
during William's Absence--Siege of Namur--Surrender of the Town of
Namur--Surrender of the Castle of Namur--Arrest of Boufflers--Effect
of the Emancipation of the English Press--Return of William to England;
Dissolution of the Parliament--William makes a Progress through the
Country--The Elections--Alarming State of the Currency--Meeting of the
Parliament; Loyalty of the House of Commons--Controversy touching the
Currency--Parliamentary Proceedings touching the Currency--Passing
of the Act regulating Trials in Cases of High Treason--Parliamentary
Proceedings touching the Grant of Crown Lands in Wales to Portland--Two
Jacobite Plots formed--Berwick's Plot; the Assassination Plot;
Sir George Barclay--Failure of Berwick's Plot--Detection of the
Assassination Plot--Parliamentary Proceedings touching the
Assassination Plot--State of Public Feeling--Trial of Charnock, King and
Keyes--Execution of Charnock, King and Keyes--Trial of Friend--Trial of
Parkyns--Execution of Friend and Parkyns--Trials of Rookwood, Cranburne
and Lowick--The Association--Bill for the Regulation of Elections--Act
establishing a Land Bank

ON the Continent the news of Mary's death excited various emotions. The
Huguenots, in every part of Europe to which they had wandered, bewailed
t