MODERN EUROPE.

WITH AN ACCOUNT OY

THE DECLINE AND FALL

OF THE

ROMAN EMPIRE:

AND

A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY, FROM THE RISL
OF THE MODERN KINGDOMS TO THE PEACE

OF PARIS, IN' 1763.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

OF THE

FIFTH VOLUME

of

THE HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE.

PART II.

FROM THE PEACE OF WESTPHALIA, IN 1648, TO THE

PEACE OF PARIS, IN 1763.

LETTER XXVI.

General view of the affairs of Europe, from the death of Lewi

XIV. in 1715, to the death of the emperor, Charles VI, in 1740.

1. D.

Page

1715 PREAMBLE

State of the courts of France and England

Turbulent regency of the duke of Orleans - ibid.

George I. firmly established on the British throne ibid.
SEPTENNIAL BILL

- ibid.

1716 The emperor declares war against the Turks for infring-

ing the treaty of Carlowitz - ..

1717 Battle of Belgrade

- - - ibid.
The Turks defeated, with great slaughter, by the Impe-

rialists, under prince Eugene - ibid.

1718 Peace of Passarowitz - - - ibid.

Great power of cardinal Alberoni at the court of Spain ib.

His intrigues - - -

He forms a conspiracy for obtaining for Philip V. the

regency of France

ibid.

It is discovered and defeated, by the seizure of the pa-