Effect of Mary's Death on the Continent--Death of Luxemburg--Distress of William--Parliamentary Proceedings; Emancipation of the Press--Death of Halifax--Parliamentary Inquiries into the Corruption of the Public Offices--Vote of Censure on the Speaker--Foley elected Speaker; Inquiry into the Accounts of the East India Company--Suspicious Dealings of Seymour--Bill against Sir Thomas Cook--Inquiry by a joint Committee of Lords and Commons--Impeachment of Leeds--Disgrace of Leeds--Lords Justices appointed; Reconciliation between William and the Princess Anne--Jacobite Plots against William's Person--Charnock; Porter--Goodman; Parkyns--Fenwick--Session of the Scottish Parliament; Inquiry into the Slaughter of Glencoe--War in the Netherlands; Marshal Villeroy--The Duke of Maine--Jacobite Plots against the Government during William's Absence--Siege of Namur--Surrender of the Town of Namur--Surrender of the Castle of Namur--Arrest of Boufflers--Effect of the Emancipation of the English Press--Return of William to England; Dissolution of the Parliament--William makes a Progress through the Country--The Elections--Alarming State of the Currency--Meeting of the Parliament; Loyalty of the House of Commons--Controversy touching the Currency--Parliamentary Proceedings touching the Currency--Passing of the Act regulating Trials in Cases of High Treason--Parliamentary Proceedings touching the Grant of Crown Lands in Wales to Portland--Two Jacobite Plots formed--Berwick's Plot; the Assassination Plot; Sir George Barclay--Failure of Berwick's Plot--Detection of the Assassination Plot--Parliamentary Proceedings touching the Assassination Plot--State of Public Feeling--Trial of Charnock, King and Keyes--Execution of Charnock, King and Keyes--Trial of Friend--Trial of Parkyns--Execution of Friend and Parkyns--Trials of Rookwood, Cranburne and Lowick--The Association--Bill for the Regulation of Elections--Act establishing a Land Bank ON the Continent the news of Mary's death excited various emotions.

The Huguenots, in every part of Europe to which they had wandered, bewailed the Elect Lady, who had retrenched from her own royal state in order to furnish bread and shelter to the persecuted people of God.

[557] In the United Provinces, where she was well known and had always been popular, she was tenderly lamented.

Matthew Prior, whose parts and accomplishments had obtained for him the patronage of the magnificent Dorset, and who was now attached to the Embassy at the Hague, wrote that the coldest and most passionless of nations was touched.

The very marble, he said, wept.