OF MODERN EUROPE. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: AND A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY, FROM THE RISE OF PARIS, IN 1763. IN A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM A NOBLEMAN TO HIS SON. W. Russell A NEW EDITION, CAREFULLY CORRECTED. VOL. V. PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY H. MAXWELL, COLUMBIA-HOUSE, FOR WILLIAM YOUNG BIRCH AND ABRAHAM SMALL. 1801. A CHRONOLOGICAL State of the courts of France and England Turbulent regency of the duke of Orleans Destruction and capture of the Spanish fleet by sir George ibid. 1719 Recovery of the island of Sicily, and the conquest of Sardinia Progress of the French arms on the frontiers of Spain Philip V. accedes to the terms prescribed by the quadruple Particulars of John Law, author of the famous Missisippi scheme ibid. ibid. Sir John Blount proposes, under pretence of lowering the ibid. 1720 Act of parliament procured for that purport, and books of sub- ibid. A committee of the house of commons appointed to enquire The discontents occasioned by the South-Sea scheme, encou- 1723 Death and character of the duke of Orleans, regent of France ibid. Death of George I. and accession of his son George II. Violent opposition in parliament on the integrity and independency of parliament 22 1731 The contracting powers, in the treaty of Seville, guarantee the PRAGMATIC SANCTION, or domestic law, by which the succession to the hereditary dominions of the house of Aus- tria were secured to the heirs female of the emperor Charles 1733 Death of Augustus II. king of Poland, gives rise to a new con- The kings of France, Spain, and Sardinia, league against the The duke of Berwick passes the Rhine, at the head of a French 1734 He is killed by a cannon ball at the siege of Philipsburg ibid. Rapid progress of the French arms in Italy ibid. 1735 The emperor sues for peace, and obtains it through the media- ibid. ibid. 1737 The Russians ravage the Crimea, enter the Ukraine, and make |