See GERMANY: A. D. 1757 (JULY-DECEMBER), to 1761-1762. HANOVER: A. D. 1763. The Peace of Paris, ending the Seven Years War. See SEVEN YEARS WAR: THE TREATIES. HANOVER: A. D. 1776. Troops hired to Great Britain for service in the American War. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1776 (JANUARY-JUNE). HANOVER: A. D. 1801-1803. Annexation of Osnabruck. See GERMANY: A. D. 1801-1803. HANOVER: A. D. 1803-1806. Seizure by the French. Cession to Prussia. See FRANCE: A. D. 1802-1803; and GERMANY: 1806 (JANUARY-AUGUST). HANOVER: A. D. 1807. Absorbed in the kingdom of Westphalia. See GERMANY: A. D. 1807 (JUNE-JULY). HANOVER: A. D. 1810. Northern part annexed to France. See FRANCE: A. D. 1810 (FEBRUARY-DECEMBER). HANOVER: A. D. 1813. Deliverance from Napoleon. Restoration to the King of England. See GERMANY: A. D. 1813 (OCTOBER-DECEMBER). HANOVER: A. D. 1815. Raised to the rank of a kingdom, with territorial enlargement. See VIENNA, THE CONGRESS OF. HANOVER: A. D. 1837, Separation of the Crown from that of Great Britain. "From the hour that the Crown of these kingdoms [Great Britain and Ireland] devolved upon Queen Victoria, dates a change which was a real blessing in the relations of the Sovereign to the Continent of Europe. Hanover was at that instant wholly separated from Great Britain. By the law of that country a female could not reign except in default of heirs male in the Royal family. But in addition to the great advantage of separating the policy of England wholly from the intrigues and complications of a petty German State, it was an immediate happiness that the most hated and in some respects the most dangerous man in these islands was removed to a sphere where his political system might be worked out with less danger to the good of society than amongst a people where his influence was associated with the grossest follies of Toryism and the darkest designs of Orangeism. On the 24th of June the duke of Cumberland, now become Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, left London. On the 28th he made a solemn entrance into the capital of his states, and at once exhibited to his new subjects his character and disposition by refusing to receive a deputation of the Chambers, who came to offer him their homage and their congratulations. By a proclamation of the 5th of July he announced his intention to abolish the representative constitution, which he had previously refused to recognize by the customary oath. We shall have little further occasion to notice the course of this worst disciple of the old school of intolerance and irresponsible government, and we may therefore at once state that he succeeded in depriving Hanover of the forms of freedom under which she had begun to live; ejected from their offices and banished some of the ablest professors