Alberoni, Julio Abbé (afterwards cardinal), Prime Minister of Spain, deceives Madame des Ursins as to the character of Elizabeth Farnese,270-289;his representation of that most ambitious princess as “a jolly Parmesane fattened upon cheese and butter,”291;concerts with the Princess of Parma the ruin of Madame des Ursins,292;belonged to the intrepid race of political gamesters,294.Amelot, the President, nominated ambassador for Spain by Madame des Ursins,191.AnneofAustria(mother of Louis XIV.), an example among all queens, and almost among all women, of constancy in adversity,17;her reception of Mazarin after his exile,18.Anne, Queen of England, her feeling towards the Whigs purely official, and not a genuine sympathy,206;she secretly leans towards the Tories, as defender of the royal prerogative,206;indolent and taciturn, she yields without resistance to the ascendency of Sarah Jennings,215;her unhappy married life,215;the Queen and Sarah treat each other as equals, writing under assumed names,215;state of parties on her accession,218;chooses a ministry combining both Whigs and Tories,218;entertains the Archduke Charles with truly royal magnificence,218;the Duchess of Marlborough surrounds the Queen with the chiefs of the Whigs against her will,222;an endless succession of jars and piques between the Queen and the Duchess,222;the insolence of the Mistress of the Robes towards the Queen,226;gives her favour and confidence to Mrs. Masham,227;Anne cautiously creeps out of her subjection to the Duchess,230;has some pangs of conscience in ill-treating Marlborough,232;gives up all regard for the Duchess or gratitude to the Duke,233;emancipates herself from obligations regardless of the confusion into which she casts the country,234;intrigues of the bed-chamber,234;a weak woman domineered over by one attendant and wheedled and flattered by another,234;gives herself up entirely to Mrs. Masham,236;dreading the furious violence of the Duchess, Anne leaves London,237;spares the Duke and Duchess not from compassion but fear,242;terrified at the Duchess’s threat to publish her letters,242;exonerates the Duchess from the charge of cheating,243;demands the return of the gold key from the Duchess,244;divides her Court places between Mrs. Masham and the Duchess of Somerset,245;writes with her own hand the dismissal of the Duchess, and gives herself up to her enemies,246;her apathetic remark on hearing that the Duke and Duchess had left England,248;she never sees again her great general or the woman to whom she was once so strongly attached,248;her conduct towards Madame des Ursins in the repudiation of Lexington’s convention,281.Aubigny, Louis d’, equerry of Madame des Ursins,178;his character and familiar relations with the Princess,178;the intercepted letter intimating that they were married,178;becomes a perfectcaballero,260;sent secretly to France by Madame des Ursins to negotiate with Torcy,278;despatched to Utrecht to negotiate the principality,280;obtains only vague hopes on the part of the Dutch,281.Austria, Charles, Archduke of, the reservation, by will of Charles II., to renounce all claim to the empire of Germany,129;competitor of Philip V. for the crown of Spain,169;proclaimed Charles III. of Spain by the Emperor,186;lands at Lisbon and opens the campaign,187;lands in Catalonia,191;enters Barcelona as King of Spain,197;proclaimed in Saragossa and Valentia,197;his chief reliance the support of England,207;entertained with truly royal magnificence at Windsor,208;highly praises the beauty of Englishwomen,218;his gallantry to the Queen and Duchess of Marlborough,219;proclaimed at Madrid amidst a chilling silence,251;awaits in vain the homage and oaths of the grandees,259;is elevated to the imperial throne by the death of Joseph I.,265.Barrillon(the French ambassador), brings about the signature of the treaty of Niméguen by the help of the Duchess of Portsmouth,113;carries the message of the dying king’s (Charles) mistress to the Duke of York,117.Beaufort, Francis de Vendôme, Duke de, commands the troops of Gaston and weakens the army by his dissensions with Nemours, his brother-in-law,3;kills Nemours in a duel,14;satisfied at seeing Madame de Montbazon satisfied, he retires to Anet,21;submits to the royal authority and obtains command of the fleet,67;commands the French men-of-war against England and Holland,67;goes to the aid of the Venetians against the Turks in Candia, and is cut to pieces in a sortie,67;he carries with him to Candia, disguised as a page, Louise Quérouaille,95.Berwick, Duke of (natural son of James II.), does justice to Orry,177;commands the French corps in Spain,179;commands an Anglo-Portuguese army in Estramadura,197;his hatred pursues Louis XIV. on every field of battle,197;completely defeats the allies near Almanza,252.Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, his remark to Voltaire concerning Marlborough,212;his career, character, and abilities,220;possessed the talents and vices which have immortalised as well as disgraced Mirabeau,221.Bouillon, Duke de, advises an immediate attack on Condé at the Faubourg St. Antoine,8;a first-class politician, but with only one thought—the aggrandisement of his house,22;a glance at his antecedents,22;obtains the title of Prince,23;is cut short in his ambitious career by death,24.Boulay, Marquis de la, prevented from crossing swords with his rival, de Choisy, by Madame de Châtillon seizing a hand of each,5.Buckingham, George Villiers, second Duke of, sent to Paris to inquire into the sudden death of Henrietta of England,107;he persuades Louise de Quérouaille to transfer herself to the service of the Queen of England,108;seeks to turn her to his own advantage by raising up a rival to the Duchess of Cleveland in the king’s affections,108;offers to escort her to England, but forgets both the lady and his promise, and leaves her at Dieppe,109.Bussy-Rabutin, Count de, his account of a scene in public between Charles II. and the Duchess of Portsmouth,113.Cambiac, Abbé, enamoured of the Duchess de Châtillon,4;retires on finding Condé is his rival,5.Capres, Bournonville, Baron de, negotiates with the Dutch touching the principality for Madame des Ursins,281;liberally rewarded by Philip V.,281.Carignan, Princess de, her projects for governing her niece the Queen of Spain,155.Charles II.of England, the unbounded power over his mind possessed by his sister Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans,97;falls into the snare laid for him by Louis XIV., and is captivated by Louise Quérouaille,99;the secret negotiation initiated at Dover by the Duchess,99;the key to his will found in La Quérouaille,100;the main features of the secret negotiation,101;he is rendered doubly a traitor by his abandonment of the latter condition,101;indignantly refuses to receive the Duke d’Orleans’ letter acquainting him with his sister’s death,106;he pretends to believe the explanations offered him,106;sends Buckingham to Paris ostensibly to inquire into the catastrophe, but in reality to conclude the treaty,108;France gives three million of livres for Charles’s conversion to Popery, and three for the Dutch war,108;creates Louise QuérouailleDuchess of Portsmouth,110;creates his son by her Duke of Richmond,111;Madame de Sévigne’s amusing account of Charles’s duplicate amours,111;his fatal seizure,115;declares his wish to be admitted into the Church of Rome,117;receives the offices of Father Huddlestone,118;in his last moments commends the Duchess of Portsmouth to the care of his brother James,118;the alleged poisoning of Charles II.,119.Charles II., King ofSpain, secretly consults Pope Innocent XII. on the succession,128;declares Philip d’Anjou absolute heir to his crown,129;consults the mortal remains of his father, mother, and wife upon the sacred obligations of the will, and dies,129.Châtillon, Isabelle Angelique de Montmorency-Bouteville, Duchess de, visits Nemours when wounded under various disguises,4;Condé not the only rival Nemours had to contend with,4;her condescension towards Cambiac, an intriguing, licentious priest,4;procures her an enormous legacy from the Princess-Dowager de Condé,4;Vineuil makes himself very agreeable to her,5;meeting her after the combat of St. Antoine, Condé shows by his countenance how much he despises her,12;is unable longer to counterbalance the counsels and influence of Madame de Chevreuse,14;her shameful league with La Rochefoucauld against Madame de Longueville,38.Chevreuse, Marie de Rohan, Duchess de. She ultimately becomes resigned to Mazarin,19;warmly welcomes the return of the cardinal,20;summary of her political career,49;her elevated position side by side with Richelieu and Mazarin,49;her “marriage of conscience” with the Marquis de Laigues,50;marries her grandson, the Duke de Chevreuse, to Colbert’s daughter,52;survives all whom she had either loved or hated,52;dies in obscurity at Gagny,53.Choisy, Count de, enamoured of Madame de Châtillon, is bent on fighting a duel about her with the Marquis de la Boulay,5.Churchill, Arabella, mistress of the Duke of York, obtains her brother John (afterwards Duke of Marlborough) a pair of colours in the Guards,208.Cleveland, Barbara Palmer, Duchess of, violently enamoured of the handsome John Churchill,209;presents him with 5000l.for his daring escape from the window of her apartment,209;Buckingham raises up a rival to her in the King’s affections in Louise Quérouaille,108.Condé, Louis de Bourbon, Prince de, his small success in pleasing the fair sex,4;almost always badly dressed,4;his party very sensibly weakened by rivalries and gallant intrigues among the political heroines,5;fixes his head-quarters at St. Cloud,6;is distracted by different passions and feelings,6;betrayed on all sides amidst a series of impotent intrigues,7;his error in having preferred the counsels of his fickle mistress, Madame de Châtillon, to those of his courageous and devoted sister,7;his talent and courage in the struggle at the Faubourg St. Antoine,8;is saved from perishing by the noble conduct of Madame de Montpensier,10;his sore distress at the loss of his slain friends,11;his mind disabused with regard to Madame de Châtillon, he shows by his countenance how much he despises her,12;proposes such hard conditions to the Royalists that all accord with him becomes impossible,13;he retires to the Netherlands, and becomesgeneralissimoof the Spanish armies,13;is declared guilty of high treason and a traitor to the State,14;plunges deeper than ever into the Spanish alliance and the war against France,14;restored to his honours and power, the Princess de Condé becomes once more the despised, alienated, humiliated wife,86;he keeps her imprisoned until his death, and recommended that she should be kept so after his decease,88.Condé, Claire Clémence Maillé de Brézé, Princess de (wife of the Great Condé), married at thirteen to the Duke d’Enghien, who yielded only to compulsion,80;the unenviable light in which she was held by her husband and relatives,80;a fair estimate of her qualities,81;her fidelity to her husband during adversity,81;her zeal during the Woman’s War,81;her truly deplorable existence from earliest childhood,82;her hour of fame and distinction,83;her letters to the Queen and Ministers stamped with nobility and firmness,83;she escapes from Chantilly on foot with her son and reaches Montrond,83;she escapes from Montrond under cover of a hunting party,83;escorted to Bordeaux by the Dukes de Bouillon and de la Rochefoucauld,84;becomes an amazon and almost a heroine in the insurrection at Bordeaux,84;scene in the Parliament chamber,84;her particular talent for speaking in public,84;works with her own hands at the fortifications of the city,85;all the conditions by the Princess, save one, conceded,85;Condé’s remark that “whilst he was watering tulips, his wife was making war in the south,”85;her rapturous reception of a tender note from Condé,85;she again becomes the despised and humiliated wife,86;a tragic event adds itself to the train of her tribulations, outrages, and troubles,87;imprisoned by the Prince at Châteauroux until his death,88;Bossuet in his panegyric of the hero gives not one word of praise to the ill-fated Princess,89.Conti, Armand de Bourbon, Prince de, weakens the party of the Princes by his dissensions with his sister, Madame de Longueville,3.Dartmouth, Lord, his version of the affair of the gold keys,244.Estrées, Cardinal d’, directs the ultra-French political system at Madrid,169;a formidable adversary of Madame des Ursins,172;her tool, without knowing it,173;he demands his recall in accents of rage and despair,175.Estrées, the Abbé d’, is laughed at and despised by Madame des Ursins,176;his letter to Louis XIV. scandalising her intercepted by her,176;the letter of Louis XIV. recalling him,180.Farnese, Elizabeth, Princess of Parma, afterwards second consort of Philip V. of Spain, her lineage and true character,294;chosen by Madame des Ursins as consort of Philip V.,289;her outrageous dismissal of thecamerara-mayor,292;her character as sketched by Frederick the Great,294.Ferté-Senneterre, Marshal de la, brings powerful reinforcements to the royal army from Lorraine,7.FiesqueandFrontenac, the Countesses, the adjutant-generals of Madame de Montpensier in “the Women’s War,”69.Force, Duke de la (father-in-law of Turenne), made Marshal of France,24.Fronde, the army of the, discouraged and divided (July, 1652); the fight at the Faubourg St. Antoine an act of despair,7;the defeat of Condé destroys the Fronde,11;approaching its last agony, it treats with Mazarin for an amnesty,13;contrasted with the Great Rebellion in England,29;the revolt of the Fronde belonged especially to high-born Frenchwomen,35.Gwynne, Nell, her rivalry of the Duchess of Portsmouth,111;difference in character of their respective triumphs,112.Guise, Henri, Duke de, rallies to Mazarin after the Fronde,28;his violent passion for Mdlle. de Pons,59;elected by the Neapolitans their leader after Masaniello,59;defeats the Spanish troops and becomes master of the country,59;is betrayed through his gallantries and carried prisoner to Madrid,60;attempts to reconquer Naples but fails,60;is appointed Grand Chamberlain of France,60;his duels, his romantic amours, his profusion, and the varied adventures of his life,60.Hallam, Henry (the historian), his remarks: “that the fortunes of Europe would have been changed by nothing more noble than the insolence of one waiting-woman and the cunning of another,”246;that “the House of Bourbon would probably not have reigned beyond the Pyrenees but for Sarah and Abigail at Queen Anne’s toilette,”246.Harcourt, Duke d’, intercedes for the exiled Princess des Ursins,185.Harley(afterwards Earl of Oxford), his talents and character,219;uses his relation, the bed-chamber woman, as a political tool,222;his plan to overthrow the Whigs by degrees,233.Leganez, Marquis de, conspires in favour of the Archduke Charles,191;arrested and imprisoned at Pampeluna,191.Lexington, Lord, signs a convention which engages to secure to Madame des Ursins “a sovereignty,”277.Longueville, Anne de Bourbon, Duchess de, no longer guided by La Rochefoucauld, she loses herself in aimless projects and compromises herself in intrigues without result,3;the most ill-treated of all the political women of the Fronde,36;a retrospection of her career during the Fronde,36;though no longer the brilliant Bellona of Stenay, she does not dream of separating her fate from that of Condé,38;her conversion to be dated from her sojourn in the convent at Moulins,38;she implores pardon of her husband,39;she is taken from Moulins to Rouen by her husband,39;the fair penitent finds a ghostly guide in M. Singlin,40;who advises her to remain in the outer world,40;her desire to abstain from political intrigue looked upon incredulously for some years,41;still placed by Mazarin (in 1659) among the feminine trio “capable of governing or overturning three great kingdoms,”41;results of her long and rigid penitence,41;protects the Jansenists and earns the designation of “Mother of the Church,”41;acquires great reputation at the Court of Rome,41;the austerities and self-mortification of her widowhood,42;the death of her son, Count de St. Paul, the last blow of her earthly troubles,43;the scene depicted by Madame de Sevigné on the arrival of the fatal tidings,43;her death at the Carmelites,44;the funeral oration by the Bishop of Autun,44;three well-defined periods in her agitated life,45;Mrs. Jameson’s ideas of the mischievous tendencies of political women, as shown in the career of the Duchess,46;Mrs. Jameson’s erroneous estimate of the character of Madame de Longueville,46-47.Louis XIV., King of France; his triumphant entry into Paris with his mother and Turenne,15;his attention drawn to the wit and capacity of Madame des Ursins,134;acts of violence against his Protestant subjects,136;endeavours to bend Spain to his own designs,151;recommends to his grandson an implacable war against Spanish Court etiquette,163;the long train of disasters which brought Louis to the brink of an abyss,168;the succession of Philip V. threatens to endanger the very existence of the French monarchy,168;desires to recall Madame des Ursins, but finds his hand arrested,175;writes to the Abbé d’Estréestouching the complaints against Madame des Ursins,179;his letters to the King and Queen of Spain,183;his insuperable objection to a government of Prime Ministers, and still more of women,187;in his restoration of the Princess des Ursins his sagacity triumphs over his repugnance,188;represented in Spain by his nephew, the Duke of Orleans,254;secretly assists the party in Spain offara da se,261;his displeasure at Madame des Ursins delaying the signature of the Treaty of Utrecht,282;his tart letter to his grandson,283;limits Philip’s choice of a consort to three princesses,287.Louville, Marquis de, the duel with Madame des Ursins,171;his fall: recalled from Madrid,172;accuses Madame des Ursins of being “hair-brained in her conduct,”177.Maintenon, Françoise d’Aubigny, Marquise de, her star rises slowly above the political horizon,114;the secret of Madame des Ursins’ appointment first broached in her cabinet,143;favours that candidature,145;the dazzling aspect of her laurels in Madame des Ursins’ eyes,148;her letters reveal the policy of Louis XIV. with regard to Spain,151;her favourable intervention in behalf of the exiled Madame des Ursins,185,186;her motives for supporting the Princess,186;dwells upon her equanimity,193;changes the tone of her letters to a cold and sometimes ironic vein,257;opposes the design of her old friend for a “sovereignty,”269;she divines the concealed project of Madame des Ursins,277.Mancini, Hortensia, Duchess de Mazarin, cuts to the quick Charles II. of England,114.Marlborough, Sarah Jennings, Lady Churchill, and subsequently Duchess of, her birth and parentage,207;peculiar graces of her mind and person,208;Swift renders homage to her virtue,208;aspirants to her hand,208;altogether portionless, wooed and won by the avaricious John Churchill,208;hard, vindictive, insatiable of wealth and honours,210;united to the pride of a queen the rage of a fury,210;brought up in close intimacy with the Princess Anne, her early assumed absolute ascendency,215;the grounds on which she obtained and held place in Anne’s service,215;intoxicated with her almost unlimited sway,218;no longer deigns to ask, but commands,218;her influence well understood by the Continental powers,218;domination her favourite passion,221;exercised her absolute sway over the Queen with an imprudent audacity,222;endless succession of piques, jeers, and misunderstandings between her and the Queen,222;become a Princess of the Empire, subordinate duties are repugnant to her,223;her benefactions to Abigail Hill’s relatives,224;perceiving the Queen’s confidence in Mrs. Masham, she heaps upon her every species of contempt, sarcasm, and insult,225;her insulting behaviour to the Queen at St. Paul’s,225;another altercation unduly breaks the links of their friendship,226;discovers that her empire over the Queen is gone,228;traces the whole system of deception carried on to her injury,228;curious predicament between sovereign and subject,230;her uprightness and singleness of mind, openness, and honesty,230;long-repressed malice pours forth its vengeance on the disgraced favourite,234;a fresh outbreak of violence precipitates her final disgrace,236;her account of her last interview with the Queen at Kensington,237;terrifies Anne by threatening to publish her letters,242;her economy in dressing the Queen,242;the return of the gold key,244;the resignation accepted with eagerness and joyfulness,245;the Duchess thinks only of some means or other of revenge,246;her directions when about to quit the sphere of her palace triumphs,246;withdraws to her country seat near St. Albans,246;becomes soured by adversity and disgusted with the Court and the world,247;disposed to wrangle and dispute on the slightest provocation,247;a great affliction in the death of a long-tried friend, Lord Godolphin,247;the Duke and Duchess leave England,248;the attitude assumed by the Duke and Duchess throughout the political conflicts which agitated the Court during her residence abroad,307;returns to England shortly after the death of Anne,308;very far from possessing the influence she had enjoyed during Anne’s reign,308;her feverish thirst for political and courtly intrigues return upon her despite the advance of old age,308;her shrewd and sound advice to her husband,308;survives her illustrious husband twenty-two years,309;her reply to the “proud Duke” of Somerset on the offer of his hand,309;the testimony of respect she owed to the memory of a husband who left so great a name,309;the instructive lesson derivable from her extraordinary and signal disgrace, as emphatically given by herself,309,310;her death at eighty-four,310;her singular fate in private life—“that scarcely did she possess a tie which was not severed or embittered by worldly or political considerations,”310.Marlborough, John Churchill, afterwards Duke of, son of a poor cavalier knight, he enters the army at sixteen,208;love, not war, the first-stepping-stone to his high fortunes,208;obtains a pair of colours in the Guards through the interest of his sister Arabella,208;known to the French soldiery as “the handsome Englishman,”208;complimented by Turenne on his gallantry and serene intrepidity,209;Turenne’s wager,209;solicits unsuccessfully the command of a regiment from Louis XIV.,209;declared by Lord Chesterfield “irresistible either by man or woman,”209;rises rapidly at Court,209;his daring adventure with the Duchess of Cleveland,210;presented by her with 5000l., with which he buys an annuity,210;marries Sarah Jennings,210;testifies the greatest affection for his wife,210;climbs fast up the ladder of preferment,211;coldly forsakes his benefactor James II.,211;created Earl and General by William III.,211;Duke and Commander of the British armies by Queen Anne,211;his deceitful and selfish character,211;if his soul was mean and sordid, his genius was vast and powerful,212;his neglected education and consummate oratory,212;the most powerful personage in England,214;rules the household, parliament, ministry, and the army,214;rules the councils of Austria, States-General of Holland, Prussia, and the Princes of the Empire,214;as potent as Cromwell, and more of a king than William III.,214;writes a stern letter to his wife on her dissensions with the Queen,229;detained in England by “the quarrel among the women about the Court,”231;Dean Swift’s unjust insinuations,234;his courage called in question, and he is represented as the lowest of mankind,234;his cold reception on his return from Flanders,242;his ruling passion—love of money—made him stoop to mean and paltry actions,243;his motives for retaining command of the army under a Tory Ministry,245;the mask of envy, hatred, and jealousy,247;the death of Lord Godolphin determines him to reside abroad,247;his request to see the Queen before his departure refused,248;furnished with a passport by his secret friend Lord Bolingbroke,248;his steady correspondence with his friends,307;refuses to approve of the Peace of Utrecht, or abandon his desire for the Hanoverian succession,307;sees the cabals of his native country reflected in the Court of Hanover,307;returns to England shortly after the death of Queen Anne,308;witnesses the triumph of the Whigs on their return to power at the accession of George I.,308;reproached by the Duchess for no longer taking an active part in public affairs,308;attacked with paralysis which deprives him of speech and recollection,308;his death (in 1722),308;his gentleness and devotion towards his wife and children,309;how he governed his imperious consort,309;the testimony of respect shown to his memory by the Duchess refusing offers of marriage from Lord Coningsby and the Duke of Somerset,309.Masham, Mrs. (afterwards Lady), her origin, related to the Duchess of Marlborough and Harley,221;appointed bed-chamber woman to the Queen,221;married to Masham when Abigail Hill,221;her lowly, supple, artful character,222;her servile, humble, gentle and pliant manner towards the Queen,224;coincides with Anne in political and religious opinions,224;strives to sap the power and credit of the Whigs and to displace Marlborough,225;after an altercation with the Duchess, the Queen gives her entire confidence to Mrs. Masham,226;ever on the watch to turn such disagreements to skilful account,227;gradually worms herself into the Queen’s affections and undermines the Mistress of the Robes,227;the petty and ungrateful conduct of the bed-chamber woman,227;mean and paltry instances of treachery to her benefactress,227;the upstart favourite exhibits all the scorn and insolence of her nature,229;an instance of Mrs. Masham’s stinging impertinence towards the Duchess,230;the influence of the favourite,233.Mazarin, Cardinal, his exclamation on hearing that Mademoiselle de Montpensier had fired upon the king’s troops,10;quits France once more to facilitate a reconciliation with the Frondeurs,13;received on his return by the Parisians with demonstrations of delight,15;his triumph over the Fronde, the result of his prudent line of conduct,16;his reception at the Louvre by Anne of Austria and the Court,17;the heads of the two powerful families of Vendôme and Bouillon become the firmest supporters of his greatness,20;his good fortune opens the eyes of every one to his merit,31;his solemn reception by the King and Queen not an idle pageant or empty ceremony,32.Medina-Cœli, Duke de, head of the purely political Spanish system,169;his double character,196;is arrested by Madame des Ursins, and ends his days in prison,256.Meilleraye, Marshal la, advances against the Princess de Condé at Montrond,83.Melgar, Admiral Count de, plots the downfall of Philip V. and the elevation of the Archduke,170;traitorously joins the Portuguese and their allies,170;his death from an insult,171.Mercœur, Duke de (eldest son of Cæsar, Duke de Vendôme), married to the amiable and virtuous Laura Mancini,21;made Governor of Provence,21.Montbazon, Marie d’Avangour, Duchess de, one of those who made most noise at Anne of Austria’s Court,61;summary of her character,61;a list of all her lovers, titled and untitled, not to be attempted,61;very nearly the cause of a duel at the door of the king’s apartments,62;often used as an instrument by Madame de Chevreuse,62;a dangerous rival to Madame de Guéméné,62;instigates the Count de Soissons to add outrage to desertion of Madame de Guéméné,62;her long exercised influence over Beaufort useful to the Court,62;wanting in all the better qualities of a political woman,62;proposes to enter into a treaty of alliance with De Retz,63;very mercenary both in love and politics,64;tricked out of 100,000 crowns by Condé and the Princess Palatine,64;returns to Court after an exile of five years,65;Madame de Motteville’s description of her well-preserved beauty,65;dies of the measles—three hours only accorded to her to prepare for death,66;looked back with horror on her past life,66;little regretted by any one save De Rancé,66;the sight of her sudden death determines De Rancé to withdraw from the world,67;Laroque’s version of the catastrophe,67.Montpensier, Anne Marie Louise d’Orleans, calledLa Grande MademoiselleDuchess de, mingles in all the intrigues of the Fronde,6;adopts unwise means to force herself as a bride upon the young king,6;by her noble conduct in the struggle at the Faubourg St. Antoine, she saves the live of Condé,10;her description of Condé’s most pitiable condition,11;characterises the Bourbons as much addicted to trifles,69;a hint by which, looking at her portrait, her character may readily be read,69;the commencement of her political and military career,69;her companions-in-arms, the Countesses Fiesque and Frontenac,70;she hoped to exchange the helmet of the Fronde for the crown of France,70;she describes the Civil War as being a very amusing thing for her,70;her defence of Orleans against the royal troops,71;thrust through the gap of an old gateway and covered with mud,71;hastens to arrest the massacre at the Hotel de Ville,71;driven out of doors by her father—her wanderings,72;expiates her pranks by four years’ exile at St. Fargeau,72;numerous pretenders to her hand,72;the masquerades of 1657 carry the day over the political aims of 1652,73;is reconciled to her cousin, Louis XIV.,73;conflicts of the heart succeed to political storms,73;destined to extinguish with the wet blanket of vile prose the brilliancy of a long and romantic career,73;history ought not to treat too harshly the Frondeuse of the blood-royal,73;the supreme criterion for the appreciation of certain women is the man whom they have loved,74;Lauzun makes an impression upon her at first sight,74;her own account of the discovery of her love for him,75;asks the king’s permission to marry the Gascon cadet,75;after giving permission, Louis XIV. retracts,75;Mad. de Sevigné’s laughable account of Mademoiselle’s grief,76;probability that a clandestine marriage had been accomplished,76;Anquetil’s account of a putative daughter,76;a secret chamber occupied by Lauzun in the Château d’Eu,76;she obtains Lauzun’s release after ten years’ captivity,77;he shows her neither tenderness nor respect, but beats her,78;they separate and never meet again,78;her death at the Luxembourg,78;her creditable position among French writers and her encouragement of literary men,79Montellano, Duke de, replaces Archbishop Arias in the presidency of Castile,172;counterbalances the authority of Porto-Carrero,172;offended at the attitude of the princess, he resigns,196.Nemours, Charles Amadeus of Savoy, Duke de, wounded in the Fronde war, is visited in various disguises by the Duchess de Châtillon,4;wounded in several places in the combat at the Faubourg St. Antoine,9;is killed in a duel with his brother-in-law, Beaufort,14.Noirmoutier, Duke de, circulates his sister’s annotated letter throughout Paris,179.Orleans, Gaston, Duke d’, but for his daughter, his inaction would have allowed Condé to perish,10;his interview with Condé after the fight,12;exiled to Blois,15;passes there the remainder of his contemptible existence,25.Orleans, Henrietta of England, daughter of Charles I., Duchess d’, admits Louise Quérouaille into her household as maid-of-honour,96;intrusted with the negotiating of detaching England from the interests of Holland,97;her character and personal attributes at five-and-twenty,97;her unbounded power over her brother, Charles II.,97;the secret of Louis XIV.’s progress to Flanders, known only to her,99;embarks from Dunkirk for Dover, with La Quérouaille and initiates the secret negotiation with her brother,99;Charles falls into the snare and Henrietta carries most of the points of that disgraceful treaty,99;takes her maid-of-honour back to France to incite Charles’s desire to retain her in his Court,100;the Duchess thought more of augmenting the greatness of Charles than of benefiting England,100;her motives for undertaking all this shameful bargaining,102;on her return to Paris, a cabal in her household seeks to effect her destruction,102;the motives originating the plot,103;she is seized with a mortal illness at St. Cloud,104;the heartless indifference of all around her, save Madlle. de Montpensier,105;her dying declaration that she was poisoned,105;Bossuet consoles her in her last moments,106;the cause of her death falsely attributed tocholera-morbus,106;St. Simon’s statement of the poison being sent from Italy by the Chevalier de Lorraine,107;the intrigues which led to the murder present a scene of accumulated horrors and iniquity,107;the last political act of the Duchess calculated to secure the subjection of the English nation,107.Orleans, Philip II. (nephew of Louis XIV. and afterwards Regent), Duke d’, represents Louis XIV. in Spain,254;distrusted by, but remains on the best footing with Mad. des Ursins,254;indulged the hope of being put in the place of Philip V.,255;his suspicious negotiations with the Earl of Stanhope,255;Mad. des Ursins demands his recall and obtains it,255;denounced by Mad. des Ursins, and with difficulty escapes a scandalous trial,256.Orry, Jean Louville’s accusations against him,177;Mad. des Ursins’ letter with friendly remembrances to d’Aubigny’s wife,183;recalled to France,187;reinstated by Mad. des Ursins,190.Palatine, Anne de Gonzagua, Princess, if the Fronde could have been saved, her advice would have saved it,18;is associated with Mazarin’s triumph,19;her political importance dates from the imprisonment of the Princess,54;uses the feminine factionists as so many wires by which to move the men whom they governed,54;the opinions of De Retz and Mazarin upon her stability of purpose and capacity to work mischief,54;appointed superintendent of the young Queen’s household,55;retires from Court, and ends her days in seclusion,56;her conversion and penitence,57;Bossuet’s funeral oration,57;her account of her conversion addressed to the celebrated Abbé de Rancé, founder of La Trappe,58;a glance at the singular fortunes of the Duke de Guise, her first lover,59.Peterborough, Lord, tears Barcelona from Philip V.,197.Philip V.(Duke d’ Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV.), King of Spain, grave questions raised by his accession,151;his character,154;Mad. des Ursins governs him through the Queen,154;in disguise, meets his bride at Hostalnovo,157;his mental defects—rather constituted to serve than reign,166;his first entrance into Spain radiant with youth and hope,166;Europe forms a coalition to snatch the two peninsulas from the domination of France,167;compels the recall of Cardinal d’Estrées,174;takes command of the army on the frontiers of Portugal,179;baffled at Barcelona, and takes, in mortal agony, the road to France,198;re-enters Madrid as a liberator,252;is thoroughly defeated by the Austrians at Saragossa,257;Louis XIV. advises him to abandon Spain in order to keep Italy,257;his noble letter in reply,259;his dismissal in mass of his French household,260;after the victory of Villaviciosa, sleeps on a couch of standards,262;in behalf of Mad. des. Ursins, refuses to sign the treaty of Utrecht,281;he signs the treaty unconditionally,284;his choice of a wife limited to three princesses by Louis XIV.,287;secretly lends his hand to acoup d’étatagainst Mad. des Ursins,291;gives authority to his new consort to take everything upon herself,294;succeeds in reducing Spain to obedience only a few days before the fall of Mad. des Ursins,303.Porto-Carrero, Cardinal, exercises a powerful influence on Innocent XI. and Charles II. of Spain,141;is won over by Mad. des Ursins to favour the pretensions of the Duke d’Anjou,142;champion of the ultra-French political system,169;abruptly changes his policy,172;becomes a formidable adversary of the Princess des Ursins,172;refuses to act with Cardinal d’Estrées and resigns,172;the turncoat from every cause, and as a politician is annihilated,173;his intractable and arrogant temper,173;his cabal rakes into the private life of thecamerara-mayorwithout success,173;he quits Madrid with all the French household,174.Portsmouth, Louise Penhouet Quérouaille, Duchess of, the political errors of Charles II. primarily traced to her,93;more than any other of his mistresses odious to the English,93;the acme of splendour and corruption reached by the French court in 1670,93;the householdof hissister-in-law, Henrietta of England, supplies Louis XIV. with a diplomatist in petticoats,93;the royal family used her as an instrument without caring about her origin,94;what Mad. de Sevigné says of her antecedents,94;revelations of theHistoire Secrète,94;the Duke de Beaufort enamoured of her,95;carries her off to Candia disguised as a page,95;on his being cut to pieces, she returns to France,96;this prank of hers proves the foundation of her fortunes,96;Henrietta of England, interested in her romantic tale, admits her as one of her maids-of-honour,96;Louis XIV. finds her an apt and willing instrument in the secret negotiation,98;the pretext of a progress to Flanders resorted to by Louis XIV. to bring La Quérouaille under the notice of Charles II.,98;she embarks with the Duchess at Dunkirk for Dover, where she captivates the king,99;Louise returns to France with the Duchess of Orleans,100;the key to the will of Charles II. found in Louise,100;Louis XIV. promises of handsomely rewarding the compliant maid-of-honour,102;the Duke of Buckingham seeks to turn her to his own advantage as a rival to the Duchess of Cleveland,108;an invitation formally worded sent her from the English Court,109;is left in the lurch at Dieppe by Buckingham,109;Lord Montague has her conveyed to England in a yacht,109;she is appointed maid-of-honour to the queen,109;the intoxication of Charles at “les graces décentes” of Louise,109;the purpose of her receiving an appointment at the Court of St. James’s foretold by Madame de Sevigné,109;St. Evremond’s equivocal advice,110;created Duchess of Portsmouth,110;the domain of d’Aubigny conferred upon her by Louis XIV.,111;Charles Lennox, her son by Charles II., created Duke of Richmond,111;put out of countenance by Nell Gwynne,112;in conjunction with Barillon obtains an order which suddenly changed the face of Europe,113;her triumphant sway in political matters,113:generously sacrifices her politicalrôlein the matter of the “bill of exclusion,”114;her correspondence with Madame de Maintenon,115;Louis XIV. confers upon her the title of Duchess d’Aubigny,115;her creditable behaviour during the fatal seizure of Charles II.,115;magnificence of her apartments,116;Barillon finds her in an agony of grief,116;the message of the mistress to the dying king’s brother,117;her political attitude during the last months of Charles’s life,119;she returns to France with a large treasure of money and jewels,120;is the object of a rigid surveillance,120;Louvois, Courtin, and thelettre de cachet,120;passes in profound obscurity the remainder of her life,121;so reduced as to solicit a pension,121;the power she possessed over the mind of Charles II.,122;her beauty not comparable to that of Madame de Montespan,123.Rancé, Armand, Jean Le Bouthillier (the reformer of La Trappe), the lover who regretted Madame de Montbazon the most sincerely,6;the sight of her sudden death determines him to withdraw from the world,67;the skull of the Duchess said to have been found in his cell at La Trappe,67.Retz, Cardinal de, chills the Duke d’Orleans into inaction during the struggle of Condé with Turenne,10;imprisoned at Vincennes,15;obtains the red hat from Louis XIV.,26;entering upon his old intrigues, he is arrested and imprisoned,26.Rochefoucauld, Francis, Duke de la, blinded by a ball through his face in the fight at the Faubourg St. Antoine,9;retires to his estates, and for a few years buries himself in obscurity,27;is again received into favour, and obtains a thumping pension,28.Saint-Simon, Duke de, his explanation of the ascendency of Madame des Ursins,168;his elaborate portrait of the Princess,304.Savoy, Marie Louise of (daughter of Amadeus II., first wife of Philip V. of Spain), quits Italy with Madame des Ursins for Spain,153;description of her at fourteen,153;thecamerara-mayorbecomes indispensable to her,154;incidents of the journey to Spain,156;her first interview with Philip, who is disguised as a king’s messenger,158;the marriage at Figuieras,158;untoward incident of the supper there,159;SpanishversusFrench cookery,159;her indignation at the conduct of the Spanish ladies,159;attributes the audacity and rudeness of the Spanish dames to the King,159;ends by making theamendeto Philip V.,169;the arrival at Madrid,160;the Queen governs Philip V., and Madame des Ursins governs the Queen,168;her education and mental characteristics,168;a happy conformity of tastes, views, and dispositions attaches the Queen to Madame des Ursins,169;maintains the royal authority by the spell of her gentle and steady virtues,198;her destitution at Burgos,199;forsaken by her Court, seeks an asylum in old Castile,200;in childbirth, appeals touchingly to the attachment and courage of Madame des Ursins,257;dies suddenly at the age of twenty-six,267.Spain, two political systems confront each other at Madrid,169;both reduced to impotence by Madame des Ursins,169;Gibraltar torn away for ever from Spain by a handful of British seamen,187;defenceless state of the country,187;necessary to have almost an army in each province,199;the last remnant of the army surrenders without fighting,199;the aim of the Great Alliance,205;solves by her own efforts the great question which had kept Europe so long in arms,262;called upon alone to pay the costs of the pacification (Treaty of Utrecht),267.Swift, Dean, covers the Duchess of Marlborough with ridicule and obloquy,234;represents her in print as a pickpocket,243.Tessé, Marshal de, commands in Spain,191;a cunning courtier but mediocre general,197.Torcy, Marquis de (Prime Minister of Louis XIV.), favours the candidature of Madame des Ursins,145;his confidence in her,152;a copy of Madame des Ursins’ annotated letter sent him,179.Tories, the, ousted by the Whigs,218;their dismissal demanded by the Queen’s favourite,219;with Harley and Bolingbroke at their head they work in the dark to regain power,219;set up Mrs. Masham to oppose and undermine the influence of the favourite,224;they foster the Queen’s grief at the bloodshed in the Low Countries,235;dwell upon the odious tyranny of the Duchess of Marlborough, and promise to deliver Anne from it,236;the Whigs replaced by Bolingbroke, Harley, Earl of Jersey, and the Dukes of Ormonde and Shrewsbury,242.Turenne, Marshal de, his error in attacking Condé without his entire force,7;rivals Condé in boldness and obstinacy,8;his frigid, reflective, and profoundly dissembling character,22;carefully conciliated and caressed by Mazarin,24;made Governor of Auvergne, and the Viscounty of Turenne erected into a principality,24;his wager on the subject of Churchill’s gallantry,211.Ursins(Orsini), Marie Anne de la Tremouille-Noirmoutier, Princess de, untoward result of the dramatic vicissitudes of a life devoted to the pursuit of political power,131;married to the Prince de Chalais,132;joins her husband in Spain, whither he had fled from the consequences of a duel,133;first meeting with Madame Scarron,133;left a childless widow on her arrival in Rome,133;the attention of Louis XIV. directed to her wit and capacity,134;she marries, with a political purpose, the Duke de Bracciano,134;her mode of life and career at Rome,134;character of the Duke,135;untoward misunderstandings arise through her extravagances,136;the passion for politics and power obtains mastery over her mind,137;the Orsini in some sort a sacerdotal family,137;dogmatic questions prove a stumbling block to conjugal harmony,138;forms a close intimacy with the Maréchale de Noailles,138;her varied resources appreciated by the minister Torcy,138;presented to Madame de Maintenon on visiting Versailles,138;reconciled to her husband, the Duke, on his death-bed,139;is highly esteemed by the cabinet of Versailles,140;wins over Innocent XI. to favour the pretensions of the Duke d’Anjou,141;she aspires to govern Spain,142;manœuvres to secure the post ofcamerara-mayor,142;the art and caution with which she negotiates with the Maréchale de Noailles,143;the astute programme traced by her for de Torcy,145;naïve expression of delight at her success,146;sets forth regally equipped to conduct the Princess of Savoy to her husband,148;enters upon her militant career at an advanced age,148;entirely possessed by her painstaking ambition,149;enters upon her new mission with zeal, ardour, and activity, more than virile,149;truly devoted to Spain, without failing in her devotion to France,152;wages a determined war against the Inquisition,152;seeks to establish her power by masking it,152;first meets Maria Louise, of Savoy, at Villefranche,153;makes herself acceptable to the young Queen,153;her wrath and stupefaction at the French dishes being upset,159;installed definitively ascamerara-mayorat Madrid,160;onerous and incongruous duties of the post, 162;her policy of keeping to herself sole access to the King and Queen,163;sacrifices her dignity to her power and influence,163;by familiarising the Queen with politics, she penetrates every state secret,164;renders the Queen popular among the people of central Spain,164;her wise policy for the regeneration of Spain,165;reduces both the ultra-French and purely Spanish political systems to impotence,169;fathoms the intrigues and baffles the manœuvres of Melgar,170;Louville succumbs to her,171;Porto-Carrero tenders his resignation,172;Cardinal d’Estrées her tool without knowing it,173;the Cardinal’s cabal “rakes into her private life,”173;the Queen defends her with earnest importunity,174;holds the Abbé d’Estrées in contempt,176;the intercepted letter and its marginal note,176;makes a false step in her statecraft,176;the blunder leads to a great imbroglio,177;did she always use her influence over the young Queen in a purely disinterested way?177;at the age of sixty still had lovers,177;her relations with d’Aubigny, her equerry,178;gallantry andl’entêtement de sa personne, St. Simon asserts to be her overwhelming weakness,178;she rashly resents the accusation of her marriage with d’Aubigny,179;nicely balances Louis XIV.’s power in his grandson’s Court,180;her egotistic and impatient ambition,181;the stately haughtiness of her submission to Louis XIV.,181;her adroit flattery of Madame de Maintenon,182;quits Madrid as a state criminal for Italy,184;permitted to take up her abode at Toulouse,184;her artful letters and politic conduct,185;receives permission to appear at Versailles and justify herself,186;the triumph of her restoration suddenly transforms her into “a court divinity,”188;she affects to be in no hurry to return to Spain,189;procures the admission of d’Aubigny into the cabinets of Louis XIV. and Madame de Maintenon,190;authorised to form her ministry,191;her return to Spain prepared by the arrest of Leganez,191;she triumphs at Versailles,192;her lively appreciation of Louis XIV.’s mental qualities,192;the question of the prospect of her replacing Madame de Maintenon,193;Louis XIV. seduced both by her grace and talent,193;turns all things to her advantage through her lucid common sense,194;returns to Spain strengthened by disgrace,194;determines to break up the cabal of the grandees,195;foils the underhanded opposition of the high aristocracy,196;triumphson the very brink of a volcano,197;nothing more honourable to her memory than her letters at this period of disaster,200;by speeches, letters, and overtures, she consolidates the King’s authority in Old Castile,200;one of the most vigorous instruments ever made use of by Providence,201;she flatters Madame de Maintenon about St. Cyr,201;suffering from rheumatism and a painful affection of her sight, acts in the capacity of field-marshal to the Queen,202;her courage allied with good temper, amiability andbeau sang,203;her wretched quarters at Burgos,203;her temperament contrasted with that of Madame de Maintenon,204;her delicate and perilous position,253;overcomes Montellano and the friends of the old system,253;distrusts the Duke of Orleans, but remains on the best footing with him,255;opposes his policy, demands his recall and obtains it,255;has to choose between the French policy of Louis XIV. and the Spanish policy of Philip V.,257;the young Queen appeals touchingly to her attachment and courage,257;resolves to remain upon the theatre of events,258;throws herself headlong into themêlée,258;reproaches Madame de Maintenon for preferring the King’s case to his honour,258;inspires Philip V. with an energy truly worthy of the throne,259;places herself at the head of the national movement,259;flatters alike the democracy and the grandees by throwing Philip into the arms of the Spaniards,260;in deference to popular sensibilities she sacrifices Amelot and Orry,261;implores that Vendôme might be sent to command the Spanish forces,261;the victory of Villaviciosa definitely seats the Bourbons on the throne of Spain,262;sees her steadfast policy crowned by accomplished facts,262;receives the title ofHighness,262;her share in the treaty of Utrecht,264;her perseverance unexampled both in idea and conduct,264;undismayed by reverses, never intoxicated by success,264;her letters to Madame de Maintenon assume a somewhat protective tone,265;at this culminating point of her greatness a humiliating catastrophe is impending,265;the measures taken by her to consolidate the power of Philip V.,266;the question of the erection of a territory into a sovereignty for her,266;she is overwhelmed with reproaches on all sides,267;this check the first of a series of misfortunes which death alone closed,267;Marie Louise, of Savoy, dies suddenly,267;what mysteries did the Medina-Cœli palace witness?268;the loss of her royal mistress the remote signal which heralded her fall,268;she destroys with her own hands the structure of her individual fortunes,268;she imprudently attacks the Spanish inquisition,269;fails in the attempt and creates a host of enemies,269;Louis XIV. has a grudge against her for delaying the signature of the Treaty of Utrecht,269;the storm darkens thickly over her head,270;she consults Alberoni on the choice of Elizabeth Farnese as consort of Philip V.,270;Alberoni deceives her in the representation of the Princess of Parma’s character,270;by Alberoni’s first move Madame de Ursini’s game was lost,271;she finds herself friendless in Spain,272;she neglects to conciliate her enemies,272;suspicious jealousy of domination over Philip V.,273;scandal of the construction of the secret corridor in the palace,273;her error in not renouncing the idea of the principality,275;Lord Lexington signs a convention with her in which Queen Anne “engaged to secure her a sovereignty,”277;Madame de Maintenon divines her concealed project,277;sends d’Aubigny secretly to France to negotiate with Torcy,278;her proud feeling of returning to France as a sovereign princess,278;her towering rage on hearing of the repudiation of the convention by Queen Anne,279;she believes herself tricked by the English,279;despatches d’Aubigny to Utrecht,280;selects a more important personage to continue the negotiations—the Baron de Capres,281;the delay in the conclusion of the general peace imputed to her,282;Madame de Maintenon’s letter to her on that subject,282;hitherto so noble-minded, she is no longer comprehensible throughout this affair,283;nothing left but to give way; and the Treaty is signed unconditionally,284;her mortification at the failure of her pretensions,284;the Court of France is turned against her,284;she is addressed harshly and laconically by Madame de Maintenon,284;the Duke of Berwick proves unfriendly,284;she keeps Philip V. from all private audience, and scandal becomes again busy with her name,285;an anecdote circulated throughout the French world of fashion—the pendant of “Oh! pour mariée, non!”285;Philip grows wearied of the complaints, murmurs, and idle talk,286;his exclamation “Find me a wife! ourtête-à-têtesscandalise the people,”286;her difficulties in the choice of a consort for Philip,287-289;selects Elizabeth Farnese,289;her uneasiness at the contradictory reports of the Princess of Parma’s character,290;she attempts too late to break off the match,291;that unskilful and tardy opposition prepares her ruin,291;her prompt, cruel, and decisive disgrace,291;her meeting with Elizabeth Farnese at Xadraque,292;the Queen outrageously thrusts Madame des Ursins out of her cabinet, orders her to be arrested and instantaneously conveyed to the French frontiers,293;her sufferings during the mid-winter journey,293;her touching relation to Madame de Maintenon,293;in her seventy-second year she sustains the strength and constancy of her character,294;recovers all her strength, sang-froid, and wonted equanimity,295;her just estimate of human instability,295;St. Simon’s impressive narrative of the terrible night of her rude expulsion (December 24th, 1714),295;the hard fate reserved for a woman—the founder of a dynasty and liberator of a great kingdom,295;the active correspondence of her numerous enemies both at Versailles and Madrid,296;her hopes of returning to theSpanishCourt frustrated,296;the Queen leaves her letters unanswered,296;Philip declares himself “unable to refuse the maintenance of the measure taken at the instance of the Queen,”296;Louis XIV. is compelled to be guided by the decision of his grandson,296;Madame de Maintenon replies by evasive compliments,296;she perceives that all is at an end as regarded her resumption of power,296;arrives in Paris and is coldly received by Louis XIV.,296;she quits France and once more fixes her abode in Rome,297;attaches herself to the fortunes of Prince James Stuart,the Pretender, and does the honours of his house,297;her death at fourscore and upwards,297;who were the real authors of the Princess’s disgrace?297;her political life in Spain characterized,301;the difference arising from the respective characters of Madame des Ursins and Madame de Maintenon,301;summary of her life and character,303;St. Simon’s elaborate portrait of the Princess,304;his remark—“She reigned in Spain, and her history deserves to be written,”305;its lesson—the fruitlessness of the devotion of a most gifted woman’s life to the pursuit of politics,306.Vendôme, Cæsar, Duke de, blockades Bordeaux,14;is made High Admiral and State Minister by Mazarin,21;pursues the Spanish fleet and threatens the relics of the Fronde at Bordeaux,21.Vendôme, Louis Joseph, Duke de (son of Cæsar), his victory at Villaviciosa,262;it definitely seats the Bourbons on the throne of Spain,262.Vineuil, M. de, proves a dangerous emissary in Condé’s courtship of “the Queen of Hearts,” Madame de Châtillon,5;Madame de Montbazon, Madame de Mouy, and the Princess of Wurtemberg, successively experience the effects of his seduction,5.War of the Spanish Succession, the more immediate circumstances that brought it about,128;Charles II. consults Innocent XI., and secretly bequeaths his crown to the Duke d’Anjou,142.Whigs, the, Queen Anne’s feeling towards that party purely official,206;they labour to secure the adhesion of Lady Churchill,207;they triumph in the first struggle,218;they eject Mansel, Harley, and Bolingbroke,218;they reckon amongst their ranks Marlborough, Godolphin, Walpole, the army, public opinion, and parliament,218;the fall of the Ministry through disunion in itself,233;Dr. Sacheverel’s affair contributes to ruin the Whigs in the Queen’s favour,234;the disgrace of the Duchess involves the fall of the Whigs,242.