The constant success of his schemes raised Pitt to the highest eminence of power. His ministry was unopposed. Year by year he was enabled, without difficulty, to carry through the House a subsidy of £670,000 to the Prussian King, and to set his estimates at from twelve to twenty millions, a sum before this unheard of. His power over the House was absolute; members were actually afraid of replying to him, and the only difficulty which met him was the temper of his relative Temple, who insisted upon receiving the Garter, and almost shipwrecked the ministry by his selfish claims. It was at this moment of prosperity that the King suddenly died, and, as had long been expected, a change took place in the counsels of the Sovereign. GEORGE III. 1760-1820. Born 1738=Sophia-Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. | -------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | George Frederick, William Edward = Victoria Ernest Augustus, Adolphus,| IV. Duke of IV. Duke of |of Saxe- King of Duke of Duke of | York. (Duke of Kent. |Coburg. Hanover. Sussex. Cambridge.| d. 1827. Clarence.) d. 1820.| d. 1851. d. 1843. d. 1850. | Victoria. | | --------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | Charlotte=King Augusta. Elizabeth=Frederick Mary=Duke Sophia. Amelia. of Wurtemberg. of of Hesse-Homburg. Gloucester. CONTEMPORARY PRINCES. _France._ | _Germany._ | _Spain._ Louis XV., 1715. | Francis I., }1745. | Charles III., 1759. Louis XVI., 1774. | Maria Theresa, } | Charles IV., 1788. Republic, 1793. | Joseph II., 1765. | Ferdinand VII., 1808. Napoleon, 1804. | Leopold II., 1790. | Louis XVIII., 1814. | Francis II., 1792. | | _Prussia._ | Frederick II., 1740. | Frederick William II., 1786. | Frederick William III., 1797. _Russia._ | _Denmark._ | _Sweden._ Elizabeth, 1741. | Frederick V., 1746. | Adolphus, 1751. Peter III., 1762. | Christian VII., 1765. | Gustavus III., 1771. Catherine II., 1762. | Frederick VI., 1808. | Gustavus IV., 1792. Paul I., 1796. | | Charles XIII., 1809. Alexander, 1801. | | Charles XIV., 1818. POPES.--Clement XIII., 1758. Clement XIV., 1769. Pius VI., 1775. Pius VII., 1800.