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these be any thing new to your Lordship, I shall only mention two points that were insisted on to prove the Non- execution of the treaty, that Dunkirk was not demolish'd, and that Placentia was not in our Hands. Your Lordship can judge how easily those points cou'd be answered. My Lord Bolingbrook concluded with the matter relating to the removal of the Pretender from Lorain, in which he sett forth what had been already done, and that he was ready to agree to any thing that cou'd be further propos'd, but hop'd that groundless assertions wou'd not be thrown upon those who had the Honour to serve her Mat^. After the Debate had held some time, without tending to any particular Point Lord Ferrers said he thought itt was time to propose a question that they might come to some conclusion, so he mov'd that the Succession in the House of Hannover was not in danger. When Lord Chancellour read itt he had added the words (under her Maty^ government) ; they said that was not the Question, for my Lord Ferrers had mov'd itt without those words, but My Lord said he want itt so. They said that as to her Maty no body cou'd have a thought that itt was in any danger from her, but for her Ministers that was another case.

Lord Anglesey oppos'd itt violently and fell a railing against all the proceedings of the Peace, he said he had been one of those who was for indicating the Suspension of Arms, not for any reasons he had heard within doors but for some he was told without, viz. that there was a peace concluded advantagious to this Nation and secure to all the Allies, that the Protestant succession was effectually secur'd by itt, and that we shou'd have such a trade as wou'd bring in 2 millions per annum ; What there was of all this that prov'd true their Lordships cou'd now judge. He said a good deal more with a great deal of Warmth and concluded that if the Succession was not in danger before, this Vote wou'd make itt so.

They divided att last upon the additional words and itt was carried that those words (under her Mat^^ government) shou'd be added. Contents 66, Prox. ii ; Non. 53, Prox. 10. Lord Windsor has left his Prox. with Lord Orrery who was not content. Itt was near 9 when this was over, and then the

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