If she does so, there is an end of trouble; but, should she mount the throne, she would be a usurper, as Mary was up to her death in '94.
As Anne has been on good terms with William, since her sister's death, I fear she will act as unnatural a part as Mary did, and, in that case, assuredly we shall not recognize her as our queen." "You have heard the news, I suppose, of the action of the parliament last month ?" "No, sir, we have heard nothing for some weeks of what is doing in England." "They have been making an Act of Settlement of the succession.

Anne is to succeed William, and, as she has no children by George of Denmark, the succession is to pass from her to the Elector of Hanover, in right of his wife Sophia, as the rest of the children of the Elector of the Palatinate have abjured Protestantism, and are therefore excluded.

How will that meet the views of the English and Scotch Jacobites ?" "It is some distance to look forward to, sire.

If Anne comes to the throne at William's death, it will, I think, postpone our hopes, for Anne is a Stuart, and is a favourite with the nation, in spite of her undutiful conduct to her father.

Still, it will be felt that for Stuart to fight against Stuart, brother against sister, would be contrary to nature.