instead of Hedges, and other Whig Lords were admitted to the Privy Council. It is true that the unanimity was by no means perfect. The Tories were still strong in the House. There was still some fear of the ultimate return of the Stuarts. But the Government was strong enough to pass a Bill for attainting the pretended Prince of Wales, and a still more important Bill abjuring the house of Stuart, and pledging those who took the oath to uphold in turn each successor named in the Act of Settlement. The acceptance of this oath was made requisite for every employment either in Church or State. [Sidenote: Death of William.] It was thus in the full flush of a new victory, with hopes high, and with a well-grounded belief that his life's work of opposition to the encroachments of the French would not after all be wasted, that William, broken down by disease and suffering, died. He had long been so ill that his life had been despaired of, but he was still able to ride. On the 20th of February, his horse, stepping upon a molehill, fell with him, and his collar-bone was broken. This accident rendered his recovery hopeless. He lived just long enough to express his strong desire for a Union with Scotland, and to appoint the Commission which gave the royal assent to the Abjuration Act. On the 8th of March, surrounded by his faithful friends, he breathed his last. ANNE. 1702-1714. Born 1665 = George of Denmark. CONTEMPORARY PRINCES. _France._ | _Austria._ | _Spain._ | _Russia._ Louis XIV., 1643. | Leopold I., 1658. | Philip V., 1700.| Peter the | Joseph I., 1705. | | Great, | Charles VI., 1711. | | 1689. _Prussia._ | _Sweden._ | _Denmark and Norway._ Frederick I., 1701. | Charles XII., 1697. | Frederick IV., 1699. POPE.--Clement XI, 1700. _Lord Chancellors._ _Archbishop._ Sir Nathan Wright, 1700. | Thomas Tenison, 1694. William Cowper, 1705. | Sir Simon Harcourt, 1710. |