according to her Majefty's Orders, the Surgeons did not meddle with her Head. They found her Vitals very found; and only fome Water in the Abdomen. The next Night her Bowels were bury'd in Westminster Abbey; and on the 5th, the Lord Marshal iffu'd out the following Or der for a general Mourning:

Purfuance of an Order of their Excellencies the Lords Juftices in Council at St. James's, the 5th Day of Auguft, 1714: These are to give publick Notice, that it is expected, that all Perfons upon the prefent Occafion, of the Death of her late Majefty, of bleed Memory, do put themselves into the deepest Mourning, (long Cloaks excepted.) The Said Mourning to begin upon Sunday the 15th Inftant; and that as well all Lords, as Privy Counsellors, and Officers of her Majesty's Houbold, do cover their Coaches, Chariots, and Chairs, and cloath their Livery Servants with Black Cloth, by Sunday the 22d Inftant; and that no Perfon whatsoever, for the first fixe Months, put any Escutcheons of Arms, or Arms painted, on their Coaches, nor use any Varnish'd or Bullion Nails to be feen on their Coaches, Chariots, on Chairs.

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On the 19th of Auguft, the Lords Juftices receiv'd Letters from the King, with Directions, that the late Queen's Body fhould be interr'd with all the Decency and Pomp confiftent with a private Burial: Upon which, that Ceremony, which was to have been perform'd on the 22d, was put off to the 24th, and the Lord Marshal iffu'd this Order.

Hereas the Solemnity of the Interment of her late Majefty Queen Anne, is appointed to be perform d on Tuesday the 24th of this Inftant Auguft; this is therefore to. give Notice, that all Perfons who ought to go in the Proceeding on this Occafion, are (for their greater Conveniency) to enter at Weftminster Hall Door: And that the Lords, the Peereffes, and Lords Sons, the Privy Counfeilors, and the Judges, are defir'd to meet in the House of Peers at the Hour of six in the Evening: The Maids of Honour, and the Bedchamber Women, are defir'd to affemble in the Robing Room,adjoining to the Lobby next the Painted Chamber; as all others concern'd, are to do in, the faid Painted Chamber; where they will be marshall'd, and put in Order by the Officers of Arms appointed for that Pur робе

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And all Persons are requir'd to take Notice, that none can have Admittance into the Prince's Chamber, WestminsterAbbey, or King Henry the Seventh's Chapel, before the Entrance of the folemn Proceffion, except fuch as by Reason of their particular Services must attend there.

Note, That all the Knights of the Moft Noble Order of the Garter, and St. Andrew, are to wear their Collars of the faid Orders at this Solemnity.

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Accordingly on the 24th, was folemniz'd, in the Colle giate Church of Westminster, the private Interment of her late moft excellent Majefty Queen ANNE, of bleffed Memory. The Lords, the Peereffes, the Lords Sons, Privy Counsellors, Judges, and others, who were to attend this Solemnity, met about Seven in the Evening in the House of Peers, the Painted Chamber, and other Rooms adjoining, where being call'd out in Order by the Officers of Arms, they proceeded about Ten of the Clock thro' the Prince's Chamber into the Palace-Yard, and thence to the South-Eaft Door of the Abbey, one of the great Guns at the Tower firing every Minute, until her Majesty was interr'd. The Royal Corps was borne under a Canopy of Purple Velvet, preceded by a great Number of her late Majefty's Servants, the Judges, Privy Counfellors, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the great Officers. The Pall was fupported by fix Dukes. Her Grace Dutchefs of Ormond (in the Abfence of the Dutchess of Somerset, who was indifpos'd) was chief Mourner, fupported by the Dukes of Somerset and Richmond in long Cloaks, wearing their Collars of the Order, her Train borne by two Dutcheffes, aflifted by the King's ViceChamberlain, and follow'd by two other Dutcheffes, at the Head of fourteen Counteffes, as Affiftants, all in long Veils of Black Crape; and after them the Ladies of the Bedchamber, and the Maids of Honour, in like Veils; then the Bedchamber Women, and the Gentlemen Penfioners, clos'd the Proceeding. At the Entrance into the Church, the Dean, Prebends, and Choir receiv'd the Royal Body with an Anthem, and marching before Norroy King of Arms, who carry'd the Crown and Cushion, they proceeded finging into King Henry the Seventh's Chapel, where being arriv'd, the Body was depofited on Treffels, while the Service of the Church was perform'd by the Bishop

Bishop of Rochester, Dean of Westminster, and afterwards interr'd in the fame Vault with their late Majefties King Charles the Second, King William and Queen Mary, and his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark.

On Thursday the 19th of Auguft, fome Merchants trading to Spain, laid before the Lords of the Regency, certain Difficulties they labour'd under: An Account of which was contain'd in the two following Letters from their Correfpondents.

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Cadiz, July 29.

HE King of Spain has demanded a Donative in this Place, and in other Parts of Spain, and particularly of the British Merchants and other Foreigners inhabiting here; and their Proportion of the Donative is fettled by a Note left at each of their Houses, regulating what each Perfon is to pay, which the faid Merchants have refus'd to comply with, as being contrary to Treaties in Force, and have reprefented the fame to the King of Spain; bur inftead of finding Redrefs, they have had Soldiers quarter'd upon them, and expect the Number to be doubled every Day, during the Time they fhall refufe to pay the faid Donative; however, they have refolv'd to let their Effects be feiz'd, rather than comply with a Demand fo unjuft in itself, and fo difhonourable to the British Nation, of which there is no Precedent.

Cadiz, Fuly 29..

UR Factory is infulted the moft that ever was yet

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free Gift) being endeavour'd to be extorted by Violence from us: To which Effect, our Governor has put Guards of Soldiers in our Houses, threatening to double them, at 8 Rs Val. per Diem, which amounts to half a Dollar, üntil we pay the faid Donative, which amounts to 125 Pieces of Eight on fome, on others more or lefs. Thus the Principal of our Articles and Privileges are trampled on : This is the Refpect fhewn to our Queen and Nation, and the honourable Ufage given to her Subjects here: And what can be expected for the future? We hope a fudden and determin'd Refolution will be taken at the Court of England, to get Satisfaction for this arbitrary Dragooning the British Subjects; and that a Stop will be put to their ever pretending here any more to fuch an Extortion and Breach of Publick Faith, otherwise there will be no liv ing, nor can we ever be fecure here.

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Thefe two Letters were made publick on the 20th, and Occafion'd a general Refentment against the laft Min:stry, who had fettled the Spanish Trade on fo precarious a Boctom, and made it fubject to the Will and Pleafure of the King of Spain: But upon the first News of the Queen's Death, the Spanish Court recall'd the Orders they had given for exacting the Donative before-mention'd.

Let us now take Notice of the Occurrences that hap pen'd in foreign Countries on Occafion of the Queen's Demife.

On the 13th of August, N. S. the Meffenger difpatch'd from Kensington the Day before the Queen dy'd Ewhich fee in the 1troduction, Page xix.] with Letters for the Earl of Strafford, arriv'd at the Hague, and immediately proceeded to Utrecht, whither his Excellency was gone to confer with the Plenipotentiaries of Spain and Portugal, upon the Subject of the Peace ftill depending between those two Crowns. The fame Night, Mr. Craggs arriv'd at the Hague, and having made a fhort Vifit to the Great Penfionary Heinfius, purfu'd his Journey with all Speed to Hanover; as did the next Day, Monfieur Godike, Secretary to Baron de Bothmar, who brought firft to the Hague the melancholy News of the Queen's Death, and the joyful Account of King George's aufpicious Inauguration, in the Cities of London and Weftmifter.. The fame Day the Earb of Strafford arriv'd at the Hague from Utrecht, and immediately after his Return, he had a long Conference with the Great Penfionary; and on the 15th of Angust his Excellency had another with the Deputies of the States General, to whom he made the following Speech.

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Ltho' upon my Arrival from Utrecht, I hear that the Queen is dead, and that the Privy Council have unanmoufly caus'd the Elector of Brunswick to be proclaim'd King; and altho' I have Reafon to credit that News, nevertheless, not being inform'd of it myself from Home, I thought it my Duty, and even neçeffary, to hold a Conference with you, Meffieurs, the Deputies of their HighMightineffes, to communicate to you what I receiv'd from my Court, even before the Death of her Majefty, viz. That the fecond Day of her Illness, the Lords, and others of the Privy Council, fign'd, with unanimous Confent, a Letter to the Elector of Brunswick, to affure him of their inviolable Duty, in Cafe the Queen should happen

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to die; and to defire his Electoral Highness to repair to England with all Speed, having order'd a Squadron to come on your Coafts for his Transportation, and to attend his Orders; taking, at the fame Time, all the neceffary Precautions for the Prefervation of the Publick Repofe and Tranquillity, and to oppofe the Defigns of the Enemies of our Conftitution.

The Lords of her Majefty's Council think it proper I fhould inform their High Mightineffes of all this; and that they rely on the Friendship and Affiftance of this Republick in this Conjuncture; hoping, that their High Mightineffes will take ftrict Care to prevent any Attempt that might be made to oppofe or difturb the Proteftant Succeffion in the moft Serene House of Brunswick, in Cafe it pleas'd the Almighty to deprive us of the Queen.

Nothing will more alleviate fo confiderable a Lofs, or more effectually keep up the Spirits of my Countrymen, than if I can give them, on the Part of this Republick, Affurances of a firm, conftant Friendship, and their being ever ready to affift us in maintaining the Proteftant Succeflion, on which depend both the Intereft of our Holy Re ligion, and the Security of our Laws and Constitution. Meffieurs,

Your Alliances and Interefts, and even the Intereft and Tranquillity of all Europe, require, that you should at prefent give a Demonftration of your Union with us: Nor do I in the leaft doubt, that the Anfwer I expect. from their High Might ineffes, will very much contribute to accomplish the Settlement of that happy Succeffion in the Elector's Perfon: By which Means, we shall have nothing to fear, either for our Religion, or for the Repofe of Europe in general, and of our Nations in Par

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What I had the Honour to tell you on the Part of the Queen, in my two laft Conferences, are but too convincing Proofs, that in the Perfon of her Majefty, you lose a good and fincere Friend and Ally, and a true Defender of the Faith: England lofes in her the beft of Queens; and I, in particular, a Princefs who has heap'd Favours upon me; and who vouchfafed to Honour my Family with her Affection,

The only Thing can repair fo confiderable a Lofs, is the Union and Unanimity of Counfels of the two Nations for the Support and Intereft of a Prince, who, befides his acquir'd Right, has, by fo many Proofs of his Bravery, and other eminent perfonal Qualities, fhewn

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