most produced fresh instances of perjury, forgery, fraud, and
circumvention; and the kingdom exhibited a most amazing jumble of virtue
and vice, honour and infamy, compassion and obduracy, sentiment and
brutality.

CHAPTER VIII.

_Death of the Queen of Denmark and the Prince of Orange.....
Misunderstanding between the Czarina and King of
Prussia..... Measures for electing a King of the Romans.....
Death of the King of Sweden..... Session opened.....
Animosity of the Commons towards Mr. Murray..... Proceedings
upon a Pamphlet, entitled the Case of Mr. Murray.....
Supplies granted..... Civil Regulations..... Law relating to
the forfeited Estates in Scotland..... New Consolidation of
Funds..... Two Ports opened for the Importation of Irish
Wool..... The King sets out for Hanover..... Affairs of the
Continent..... Dispute between Hanover and Prussia,
Concerning East Friezeland..... Misunderstanding between the
Courts of London and Berlin..... Improvement of
Pomerania..... Treaty with the Elector Palatine..... Session
opened..... Supplies granted..... Game Act..... Act for
performing Quarantine..... and for preventing the Plundering
of shipwrecked Vessels..... Bill relating to the Bounty on
Corn exported..... Turkey Trade laid open.....
Naturalization of the Jews..... Marriage Act.....
Deliberations concerning the Sugar Colonies...... Fate of
the Register Bill..... Sir Hans Sloane's Museum purchased by
Parliament..... Story of Elizabeth Canning..... Execution of
Dr. Cameron..... Tumults in different Parts of the
Kingdom..... Disturbances in France..... Proceedings in the
Diet relative to East Friezeland..... Treaty between the
Court of Vienna and the Duke of Marlborough--Conferences
with respect to Nova Scotia broke up..... Description of
Nova Scotia..... Disputes concerning its Limits_

DEATH OF THE QUEEN OF DENMARK AND PRINCE OF ORANGE.

The royal family of England had sustained three severe shocks in the
compass of a few months. Besides the loss of the prince of Wales, which
the nation lamented as irreparable, his majesty was deeply afflicted by
the untimely death of his youngest daughter, the queen of Denmark, who
died at Copenhagen on the nineteenth day of December, in the prime of
youth. She was one of the most amiable princesses of the age in
which she lived, wh