732 AN 
Ireland, in the cities of London and Weflminfter, and was 
crowned April 23 following. The molt remarkable events 
in her reign were, War declared again!! France and Spain, 
May 4; prince George made lord high admiral; the earl, 
afterwards duke, of Marlborough, generaliffmio; an un- 
liiccefsful attempt on Cadiz.; Vigo taken by the Englifh 
and Dutch, October 12 ; 1702. Admiral Bcmbow betray¬ 
ed ; the great (form, November; 1703. Order of the 
tliiflle revived ; victory at Schellenbnrgh ; the great battle 
at Hochftet or Blenheim, wherein the French loll 30,000 
men, had 10,000 men taken prifoners, and marftial Tallard 
their general, in Auguft ; the fea-fight off Malaga, An- 
guff 13; 1704. The battle of Ramilies, May 12; the 
union between England and Scotland, figned July 22 ; and 
the battle of Turin; all in 170C. The battle of Alman¬ 
za, April 14, 1707. Sir Cloudelley Shovel wrecked on 
the rocks of Scilly; the battle of Oudenarde, June 30; 
Minorca taken by general Stanhope, September 18; the 
action . of Wynnendale, September 28; the city of Lille 
taken, October i 2 ; 1708. The battle of Malplaquet, 
September 11, 1709. The battle of Saragoffa, Augull 9 ; 
general Stanhope taken prifoner at Briuhega, November 
26; theTattle of Villa Viciola, November 29 ; 1710. The 
duke of Ormond feparates the Britifh forces from the al¬ 
lies, July 5 ; and the aCtion of Denain, July 13 ; 1712. The 
peace of Utrecht figned March 30, 1713. Sunday, at a 
little after feven o’clock in the morning, Auguft 1, 1714, 
the queen died, having lived forty-nine years, five months, 
and fix days ; and reigned tvselve years and five months, 
wanting feven days. There had been a new vault made 
on the fouth fide and towards the ealt end of Henry VIPs 
chapel, to depofit the body of Charles 11 . in which that 
prince, queen Mary, king William Ill. and prince George 
of Denmark, were laid. Here the remains of queen Anne 
were likewife depolited ; and, there being no more room 
left, the vault is clofed with brick-work. She had been 
married to his royal highnefs prince George, brother to 
the then king of Denmark, July 28, 1683, by.whom flte 
had a daughter ftill-bcrn. May r2, 1684; lady Mary, born 
June 2, 1685, died February,” 1690; lady Anne Sophia, 
born May 12, 1686, died February following; William 
duke of Gloucelter, born July 24, 1689, and lived till 
eleven.years of age; Mary, born October, 1690, and lived 
long enough to be baptized; and George, who died foon 
after lie was born. Prince George, her hufband, died 
October 28, 1710. 
Thus died Anne Stuart, queen of Great Britain, and 
one of the belt and greateft monarchs that ever filled that 
throne. In her perfon fine was of the middle fiature, and, 
before flte bore children, well made. Her hair was dark, 
her complexion fanguine, her features ftrong, but not ir¬ 
regular ; her whole countenance was dignified and agreea¬ 
ble. In the accomplifhments of the mind, as a woman, 
flie was not deficient; fhe underltood nniiic, loved paint¬ 
ing, and had fome talte for works of genius. What was 
molt remarkable, was a clear harmonious voice, always 
admired in the graceful delivery of her fpeeches to par¬ 
liament, infomuch that it ufed to be a common faying in the 
mouth of every one, “ that her very fpeech was mufic.” 
Good-nature, the true charaCteriftic of the Stuarts, pre¬ 
dominated in her temper, which was a compound of be¬ 
nevolence, generofity, indolence, and timidity, but not 
without a due fenlibility of any flight which fhe thought 
was offered to her perfon or her dignity; to thefe all her 
actions, both as a monarch and as a woman, may be af- 
cribed ; thefe were the fources both of her virtues and her 
failings ; her greateli bleffing upon earth was that entire 
union of affeCtions and inclinations between her and her 
royal confort, which made them a perfect pattern of con¬ 
jugal love. She was a fond and tender mother, an eafy 
and indulgent miftrefs, and a molt gracious fovereign; 
but (he had more than once reafon to repent her giving up 
her heart, and trulting her fecrets without referve to her 
favourites. She was never expenfive, but faved money 
out of her 50,000!. a-year, which, after flic came to the 
N E. 
crown, was paid to prince George cf Denmark, and-was 
his by right. She retained to the lalt the true principles 
of that religion which flie had early imbibed ; and was cha¬ 
ritable without oftentation. She had a great reverence for 
clergymen eminent for learning and good lives, and was 
particularly beneficent to the poorer fort of them, of which 
The left an evidence which bears her name, and will per¬ 
petuate both that and her bounty to all fucceeding gene¬ 
rations. 
We cannot here omit the character of queen Anne, as 
written by the ducliefs of Marlborough, a lady who had 
fucli an opportunity of thoroughly knowing the queen, and 
who bore Ip great a part in many of the t ran fact ions of 
that glorious i _ eign: 
“ Queen Anne was very graceful and majeflic in her per¬ 
fon : religious without affectation ; fhe always meant well; 
flie had no falfe ambition, which appeared by her never 
complaining at king William’s being preferred to the crown 
before her, when it was taken from the king, her father, 
for following Rich counfels, and purfuing Rich meafures, 
as'rendered the revolution neceffary. It was her greateft 
affliction to aCt againft him, even for fecurity. Her jour¬ 
ney to Nottingham was never concerted, but occafioned by 
the great confiernation (lie was under at the king’s fudden 
return from Salifbury. She always paid the greateft re- 
fpeCt to king William and queen Mary; never infifted up¬ 
on any one eircumftance of grandeur more than what was 
eflabliflied in her family by king Charles II. though, after 
the revolution, fhe was prefumptive heir to the crown, 
and, after the death of her lifter, was in the place of prince 
of Wales. Upon her acceffion to the throne, the civil 
lift was not increafed. The late earl of Godolphin, lord 
high-treafurer of England, has often faid, that front acci¬ 
dents in the cuftoms, and lenity in the collection, it did not 
arife, one year with another, to more than 500,0001. a-year. 
She had no vanity in her expences, nor bought any one 
jewel in the whole time of her reign. She paid out of her 
civil lift many penfions granted in former reigns, which 
have fince been thrown upon the public. When a war 
was neceffary, to fecure Europe againft the power of Franee, 
flie contributed in one year towards the war, out of her 
civil lift, ioojoool. in eafe of her fubjeCts. She granted 
the revenues arifing from the firft-fruits, to augment the 
provifions of the poorer clergy. She never refufed her 
private charity to proper objects. Till a few years before 
her death, fhe never had but 20,000k a-year for her 
privy-purfe; at the latter end of her reign it did not 
exceed twenty-fix thoufand pounds a-year; which was 
much to her honour, becaufe it is fubjeCt to no account: 
and, as to her robes, it will appear by the records in the 
exchequer, that in nine years (lie fpent only 32,050k in¬ 
cluding the coronation expence. She was extremely well- 
bred : treated her chief ladies and fervants as if they had 
been her equals : her behaviour to all that approached her 
was decent and full of dignity, and fliewed condefcenfion, 
without art or meannefs. All this I know to be true, Sa¬ 
rah Marlborough." 
The above character is cut round the peddtal, on which 
ftands a full-length figure of the queen, at Blenheim, the 
feat of the duke of Marlborough. 
Anne of Austria, widow of Lewis XIII. wasinveff- 
ed with the regency of France, on the death of her huf¬ 
band. She foon refigned herfelf entirely to the influence 
of cardinal Mazarine; and it is now generally fuppofed 
that ftie married him, and had by him a foil, afterwards fo 
myfterioufly confined in the Baftillc, under the appellation 
of the man with the iron-malk. Lewis XIV. was about 
five years old at the death of his father. Madame de Ba- 
viere, in her Letters, fays, “ Abbe-- was detected 
in an intrigue : Anne of Auftria however did much worfe; 
flie was not contented with intriguing with cardinal Ma¬ 
zarine, flie married him.” This flie could do, as the car¬ 
dinal had not taken prieft’s orders. Mazarine, however, 
became very foon tired of the queen, and ufed her very 
ill, the ufual confequence of fitch a marriage. Yet, when 
3 Mazarine 
