MARRIAGE.

THE LIFE OF A PLANTER War is like the wind, nobody can tell into whose garden it may blow desolation.

The French and Indian War, generally called now the Seven Years' War, beginning as a mere border altercation between the British and French backwoodsmen on the banks of the upper Ohio River, grew into a struggle which, by the year 1758, when Washington retired from his command of the Virginia Forces, spread over the world.

A new statesman, one of the ablest ever born in England, came to control the English Government.

William Pitt, soon created Earl of Chatham, saw that the British Empire had reached a crisis in its development.
Incompetence, inertia, had blurred its prestige, and the little victories which France, its chief enemy, had been winning against it piecemeal, were coming to be regarded as signs that the grandeur of Britain was passing.