The Queen and Walpole govern the kingdom--The bishops reproved by the Queen--Good wishes for the bishops entertained by the King--Anecdote of Bishop Hare--Riots--An infernal machine--Wilson the smuggler and the Porteous mob--General Moyle--Coldness of the Queen for the King--Walpole advises her Majesty--Unworthy conduct of Caroline and vice of her worthless husband--Questionable fidelity of Madame Walmoden--Conduct of the Princess at the Chapel Royal--The Princess and her doll--Pasquinades, &c. on the King--Farewell royal supper at Hanover--Dangerous voyage of the King--Anxiety of the Court about him--Unjust blame thrown on Admiral Wager--The Queen congratulates the King on his escape--The King’s warm reply--Discussions about the Prince’s revenue--Investigation into the affairs of the Porteous mob--The Queen and the Bill for reduction of the National Debt--Vice in high life universal--Represented on the stage, occasions the censorship--Animosity of the Queen and Princesses towards Prince Frederick. Though the King delegated all royal power to the Queen, as regent during his absence, he exercised his kingly office when in Hanover by signing commissions for officers. The Queen would not consent that objection should be taken to this course followed by her husband, or that any representation should be made to him on the subject. Such acts, indeed, did not interfere with her great power as regent--a power which she wielded in union with Walpole. These two persons governed the kingdom according to their own councils; but the minister, nevertheless, placed every conclusion at which he and the Queen had arrived before the cabinet council, by the obsequious members of which the conclusions, whatever they were, were sanctioned, and the necessary documents signed. Thus Walpole, by the side of the Queen, acted as independently as if he had been King; but of his acts he managed to make the cabinet share with him the responsibility. The office exercised by the Queen was far from being a sinecure or exempt from great anxieties; but it was hardly more onerous than that which she exercised during the King’s residence in England. Her chief troubles, she was wont to say, were derived from the bishops.