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 any fears in the minds of people about him, when all agreed his was an expiring interest, and he cou'd have agreed that those words might stand part of the adress, but not his Per- jurd adJicrents, which was a sort of calling names to no purpose. Then Lord Falmouth got up and said he never did fear the Pretender, nor did not now, and believed he never shou'd untill he shou'd see one that had been a minister of his a minister here, and then the Pretender was to be dreaded by everybody ; and then he laugh t to those lords that set by

him, and told them he had nick Bat. for his friend B {sic).

Here was an end of the debate ; the adress was carried as you see without any devition. 'Twas thought in town that all things were agreed upon with Mr. Poultney and the ministry, but he seemed in very good earness when he spoke things he thought reflected by Sir R. Walpoole, who answered him very well with a great deal of diliberation and temper, there had been above four millions paid and a sinking is still going on. The war we had with the Spainards was before his time and none of his advising ; for every thing that happen in his time he cou'd answer when called upon. But as for my friend Horace, he made but sad work, and gave Shippen an opportunity of bantering the great Embassador ; to be sure the Hanover Treaty as he called it cou'd not be made to protect any of his Germain dominions, for the Act of Settle- ment had provided in very strong words that the English shou'd have nothing to do. Lord Finch said it might be called the Hanover Treaty from the place it was dated, but there was done nothing but purely for the interest of England, Hungerford* had an opportunity to crak a joke on the Knights of the Bath. Sir Robert Sutton being the first that

moved for the address, when H had a mind to answer

something Sir R. S had said, without nameing him he

said he had difficulty how to describ him, and, looking about the house, said he spied many adorn'd like him, and at last call'd him the member with the badge. Every thing goes

��* John Hungerford was member for Scarborough. Sir Robert Sutton, a well known diplomatist, was member for Nottinghamshire,

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