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    of Orange , in 1688 , the King- went down to Salisbury to his army , and the Prince of Denmark with him ; but the news quickly came from thence that the Prince of Denmark

    had left the King and was gone over to the Prince of Orange , and that the King was coming back to London . This put the Princess into a great fright . She sent for me , told me her distress , and declared , that rather than see her Jather she would jump out at window . This was her very

    expression . " A little before , a note had been left with me to inform me where I might find the Bishop of London ( who in that critical time absconded ) , if her Royal Highness should have occasion for a friend .

    The Princess , on this alarm , immediately sent me to the Bishop . I acquainted him with her resolution to leave the court , and to put herself under his care . It was hereupon agreed that , when he had advised with his friends in the city , he should come about _midnight in

    a hackney-coach to the neighbourhood of the Cockpit , in order to convey the Princess to some place where she might be private and safe " . The Princess went to bed at

    the usual time , to prevent suspicion . I came to her soon after ; and by the back-stairs which went down from her closet , her Royal Highness , my Lady Fitzharding , and I , with one servant , walked to the coach , where we found the Bishop

    and the Earl of Dorset . They conducted us that night to the Bishop ' s house in the city , and the next day to my Lord Dorset ' s , at Copt hall . From thence we went to the Earl of Northampton ' s , and from thence to Nottingham , where the country gathered about the

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    Princess ; nor did she think herself safe till she saw that she was surrounded by the Prince of Orange ' s friends . "

    The Duchess of Marlborough's influence over Anne , beginning thus in childhood , lasted perhaps for upwards of thirty years , terminating only in the year 1707 , which was the forty-third year of the

    Queen ' s age . Doubtless the course of years , and the shifting interests of policy , conspired to render the Queen more uneasy under her dictation . Royalty naturally loves what inclines most to royalty ,

    when its apprehensions of clanger from the Tory principle are gone by ; and Anne did not live in times , when to side with the propensity was perilous as it would be now ; nor if it

    had been , did she possess brain enough to discern it . Accordingly , in proportion as the Whigs and the Duke of Marlborough ceased to be necessary to her , the Duchess ' s long domination became less

    endurable , and we have seen how it terminated . But still the main cause lay in the favourite ' s imperious inability to make those concessions to circumstances _, while she exacted of everybody else . Anne ' s tone of fondness continued almost

    till the moment of rupture ; nor is it easy to pronounce , though it is impossible to help concluding , that the fear of discontinuing it was mixed up with its apparent sincerity . The following are specimens

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/10/