DIGITISED MANUSCRIPTS

Oa Co for ever excluded any other than a Protestant prince from the throne of England; but though the people of England would not brook the yoke of a James the Second, their loyalty to his line remained unshaken. His son might have been chosen to suc- ceed him, but he was considered a pretended child, and his father had carried him off to France. The Revolution handed over the throne to James the Second’s daughters ; first to Mary, whose individ- uality was merged in the authority of her husband William the Third, and then to the Princess Anne. Hatred of the foreigner has been the chief factor in building up the liberties of England. Hatred of foreign interference inspired the people of England, with the ardour which enabled them to resist the ageression of Spain in the days of Elizabeth, and the encroachments of France in the days of Anne. Louis the Fourteenth of France, during the seventy- two years of his reign, devoted the indefatigable in- dustry of his mind, the entire resources of his realm, and the blood of a generous nation, to the satisfaction of his personal greed, and the gratification of a reck- less and insatiable ambition. He turned Europe into a battlefield, he devastated the Netherlands and the German empire, and made of Spain an appanage for his grandson. But when Louis the Fourteenth received at his