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 to dissuade the House from putting the question, and said that the Ministry ought not to screen itself under the august name of her Majesty. However the House being resolv'd into a Committee, and the question being put, it was voted by 208 that the Succession was in danger, and by 256 that it was not. It is certain that my Lord Treasurer and Lady Masham have fallen out, and Lord Anglesey has quarrelled with them both ; they know not what to make of Lord Anglesey's wavering, for the very next day that he had made such a flaming Speech against the Peace, he was at Lord Treasurer's Levee.

On Friday the 1 6th it was moved in the House of Lords

and carried by the majority of 19 to present her M with

an Address of thanks for the safe, honourable and advanta- geous Peace, but it was very strenously opposed by Lord Hallifax and others, who affirmed that whereas {sic) it had been insinuated this Peace would be very advantageous to our Merchants in the way of trading in Spaine, and that they would be favoured in their customs more than any other nation. The B. of Sarum made a speech in the House and said that there had been examples of ministrys being called to an account for less faults than this had been guilty of, for

this, he said, had persuaded her M to breake her word,

in making a separate Peace without acquainting her allies with it. He was answer'd by my Lord Bolingbrook, who

said, that her M did acquaint her AUyes with it so soon

as she had thoughts of making a Peace, but that they were

too stubborn to condescend to her M 's measures. The

Address was sent down to the H. of Commons on Saturday for their concurrence, which was taken very ill, and some Gentlemen said with a great deal of warmth that the House of Lords endeavoured to thrust them blindly into what methods they thought convenient, without allowing them time to deliberate, or giving them opportunity to peruse such Papers as it was absolutely necessary for them to peruse before they could rightly pass their Judgment on affairs : so that that matter is deferred till Thursday next.

On Saturday too the Place Bill which had passed the House

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