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 was made to defer the conideration of His Majety's meage till an enquiry hould take place repecting the caue of the debt; which was negatived without a diviion, as highly unreaonable. A motion recommending retrenchments met with the ame fate; another then was humbly ubmitted, merely for an account of the penions and increaed alaries from the commencement of the preent reign; which was thought o perfectly reaonable, that a diviion was hazarded upon it; but it failed alo, Mr. Fox, one of the Tellers for the majority .: o little dipoition was there at that lime to gratify uch curioity.

The intance alluded to of confuion in accounts is o late as in 1782. The Committee of the Houe of Commons, then appointed to examine the accounts of the revenue and expenditure during the American war, dated, that they thought it right to call for an