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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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ne In 1707, whilst Marlborough was pursuing his vic- torious career on the Continent, Queen Anne gave her assent to a measure which (I may say without the slightest hesitation) has been the most beneficial one any English Government ever passed. Well could Queen Anne say on signing the deed, ‘The union with Scotland is the happiness of my reign.’ Instead of a divided kingdom it was hence- forth the United Kingdom. The Queen of England and Scotland became the Queen of Great Britain ; and the English flag and the Scotch flag were merged in the Union Jack. The scheme met with much opposition on the part of the Scotch. They feared that their small nation- ality would be absorbed in the larger one of the neighbouring kingdom. The deep hostility between the Scotch and the English, the difference in religion and in wealth, aggravated the difficulty. Instead of the political amalgamation and even annihilation they feared, the Scotch derived such benefits from the union, that now they may be allowed to claim a greater share of ministerial atten- tion and representation in the Councils of Great
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