The government was not deceived (indeed, every opportunity was sought by the Jacobites of parading their numbers,) as to the force of its enemies; and precautionary measures were taken to defeat their designs.

On the very day of which we write, namely, the 10th of June 1715, Bolingbroke and Oxford were impeached of high treason.

The Committee of Secrecy--that English Council of Ten--were sitting, with Walpole at their head; and the most extraordinary discoveries were reported to be made.

On the same day, moreover, which, by a curious coincidence, was the birthday of the Chevalier de Saint George, mobs were collected together in the streets, and the health of that prince was publicly drunk under the title of James the Third; while, in many country towns, the bells were rung, and rejoicings held, as if for a reigning monarch:--the cry of the populace almost universally being, "No King George, but a Stuart!" The adherents of the Chevalier de Saint George, we have said, were lavish in promises to their proselytes.

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