Produced by MWS, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE This is Volume 2 of 3. The first volume can be found in Project Gutenberg at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57016 The List of Illustrations has been copied from Volume I. This list describes six illustrations, two in each volume. As the Editor notes in his Preface in Volume I, “Some, though very few, coarse expressions, have been suppressed by the Editor, and the vacant spaces filled up by asterisks.” There is one such occurrence in this volume (on page 205). Some omitted text is indicated by * * * (on page 416.) The Editor has also inserted the occasional [word] in brackets, when that makes the passage more sensible. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. A superscript is denoted by ^x or ^{xx}, for example M^R. Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of each chapter. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE SECOND. VOL. II. [Illustration: M^R. FOX. London, Henry Colburn, 1846.] MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE SECOND. BY HORACE WALPOLE, YOUNGEST SON OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD. EDITED, FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS. WITH A PREFACE AND NOTES, BY THE LATE LORD HOLLAND. Second Edition, Revised. _WITH THE ORIGINAL MOTTOES._ VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1847. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. CHAPTER I. A. D. PAGE 1755. Endeavours for Peace with France in vain 2 Duke of Dorset removed; Lord Hartington made Lord-Lieutenant 3 Debate on King Charles’s Martyrdom _ib._ Affair of Sheriffs-Depute in Scotland, and Debates thereon 4 Ireland 10 History of the Mitchel Election 11 Scotch Sheriff-Depute Bill 14 History of Earl Poulet 18 Preparations for War 19 Ireland _ib._ Preparations for War in France 20 King’s Journey to Hanover _ib._ Duke of Cumberland at head of Regency 21 Prospects of War 22 Affairs of Ireland 23