The reconciliation thus patched up was a hollow one, but it served to hoodwink the public, and it depressed the Jacobites, who had been saying everywhere that even outward harmony was impossible. Neither side was satisfied; the King was indignant at having to receive the Prince at all, and unwilling to make concessions. He would not grant the Prince and Princess the use of any of the royal palaces, and refused to let them come back to live under the same roof with him. He gave them leave to see the three princesses when they liked, but he refused to part with them, and the Ministers conveniently ignored the payment of the Prince’s debts, which indeed were not settled until he came to the throne. All that the Prince and Princess regained were the royal guards and the honours paid officially to the Prince and Princess of Wales, the leave to come to court when they wished, and permission to retain the members of their household, which at one time the King had threatened to discharge _en bloc_. But the great gain to the Government, and to the House of Hanover, was that a formal notification of the reconciliation was sent to foreign courts, and a domestic quarrel, which had become a public scandal, and threatened to become a public danger, was officially at an end. FOOTNOTES TO BOOK II, CHAPTER IX: [100] The Duchess of Orleans to the Raugravine Louise, St. Cloud, 30th June, 1718. [101] _The Criticks: Being papers upon the times_, London, 10th February, 1718. [102] _Weekly Journal_ or _British Gazeteer_, 18th April, 1719. [103] Lady Chesterfield had no children, but Lady Howe became mother of the celebrated admiral, Earl Howe. [104] Pope to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1718. [105] Colley Cibber’s _Apology for My Life_, ed. 1740. [106] Colley Cibber’s _Apology for My Life_, ed. 1740. [107] The Duchess of Orleans to the Raugravine Louise, Paris, 10th March, 1718. [108] Horace Walpole’s _Reminiscences_. [109] Lady Cowper’s Diary. CHAPTER X. THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE. 1720. In June, soon after the reconciliation, the King, attended by Stanhope, set out for Hanover. He had intended to make a longer stay than usual, for everything appeared prosperous and peaceful when he left England. The Ministry was in the plenitude of its power, the Whigs were reconciled, the wound in the Royal Family was healed, or at least skinned over, and the Jacobites were in despair. But this proved to be merely the calm before the storm. In a few months the storm burst with unprecedented violence, and the King’s visit was cut short by an urgent summons from the Government, who, like the nation, were plunged into panic and dismay by the collapse of the South Sea Bubble.