REPORT ON THE EVENTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES, WHICH PRODUCED THE UNION OF THE KINGDOMS OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND; ON THE EFFECTS OF THIS GREAT NATIONAL EVENT, ON THE RECIPROCAL INTERESTS OF BOTH KINGDOMS; AND ON THE POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL INFLUENCE OF GREAT-BRITAIN, IN THE BALANCE OF POWER IN EUROPE. CONTENTS Introduction Review of the leading Facts, in the History of England and Scotland, which prepared both Nations, at the Acceffion of the fame Sovereign to the two Crowns, Articles of the Union, propofed by James I, in 1604, with the Reasonings, in England and in Scotland, on the Events and Circumftances, which prevented the Continuation of the Plan of an Union, during the Reign of Charles I, and produced the Semblance of a general Union of the Three Kingdoris, Page IV. Events which again brought for- ward the Plan of an Union, between England and Scotland, foon after the Restoration of Charles II, with the |