No person was appointed to ascend the throne when it should become vacant.

The Jacobite faction alone was eager, vigilant, enterprising and elate.

They despatched Mr.Graham, brother of lord Preston, to the court of St.Germain's, immediately after the death of the duke of Gloucester; they began to bestir themselves all over the kingdom.

A report was spread that the princess Anne had privately sent a message to her father, and that Britain was once more threatened with civil war, confusion, anarchy, and ruin.
A FLEET SENT INTO THE BALTIC.
In the meantime King William was not inactive.

The kings of Denmark and Poland, with the elector of Brandenburgh, had formed a league to crush the young-king of Sweden, by invading his dominions on different sides.
The Poles actually entered Livonia, and undertook the siege of Riga; the king of Denmark, having demolished some forts in Holstein, the duke of which was connected with Sweden, invested Tonninghen.