Excerpt from The Continuation of Mr. Rapin's History of England, Vol. 21: From the Revolution to the Present Times The late government of Rama being in the hands of Ger afl'aimof mans, had been in a great meafure overturned by the in Km trigues of Le Chetardie, the F rench ambafl'ador, on account of its attachment to the houfe of Aufiria. The queen of Hungary, flacrefore, could not help interefting herfelf in the fate of the princefs Anne, late regent of Ruflia, the prince of Brnnfwick her huiband, and their children, then confined in F on Dundamond by order of the court of Peterfburgh. She gave orders to the marquis de Botta, her minifler there, to do all he could with the emprel's to obtain their liberty. The French agents about the perfon of the emprefs had addrefs enough to infinuate to her, that de Botta wanted not only the deliverance, but the refioration, of the prifoners. This ih finuation received fome colour from a plot that was difcover cd, or pretended to be difcovered, at the fame time, in favour of the exiled family and fame women ahd other perfons who had been punilhed for the fame, had named the mar. Quis de Botta as the fomenter of it. De Botta, who appears to have been innocent, denied the charge, and infified up on his being recalled, that he might be put upon his trial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.