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his heart bled within him to find that after so humble, so

respectful, so dutiful an address, her M should return so

unkind an answer, which word unkind he several times repeated in a very tender accent.

Thursday, i^th. — In the House of Commons Sir Ed.Knatch- bull, having made a motion to consider the state of the Nation, and the time being come that he should speak to it, said ; that the reason of his making this motion was that several Gentle- men who had endeavoured to cast an odium upon her Ma- jesty's Administration, by insinuating groundless feares into the minds of the People, might have an opportunity of pro- posing their objections to the House, which was the most proper Judge of those matters. He was seconded by one Mr, Bultoil,* who, having shown it the duty of every member, to endeavour to redress the grievances of their country if they knew any, said he had one Gentleman in his eye (hinting at Mr. Wallpool) who since he was continually complaining, must certainly have something to object against now, but there following a profound silence in the House for a quarter of an hour Sir Ed. Knatchbull rose again, and said he thought convenient that in order to ease the minds of the People both in town and country of their groundless feares, it should be voted by that House whither the succession in the House of Hannover was .... under her Majesty's administration or .... (illegible) on that said that he could not agree to the Question for he thought the Succession in the H. of Hannover was in danger, and among other things he particularly found fault with a passage in the Praeamble to the Treaty of Peace. He was answer'd by Arthur More, who show'd that the very same words were in the Prseamble to the Gartrudenburg Treaty, when Mr. Wallpool was Secretary. Young Craggsf rose up to make his objections, and among other insolent expressions it is reported that he said the Succession in the H. of Hannover could not but be in danger, so long as her present Majesty was alive. Sir Tho. Hanmer made a set speech

t James Craggs, jun., sat for Tregoney.
 * James Bulteel was member for Tavistock,

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