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 ment; which assembled with the highest opinion of their new Sovereign deeply impressed on their minds, and a unanimity of design to be expeditious in every public business that should come under their consideration: it would be tedious to the reader, and is below the dignity of history, to enter minutely into the debates of the two houses, and to describe the numberless little circumstances that attend the inferior motions of the legislature; these matters are proper for the annals of the times; but it is our business to exhibit only those out-lines, and stronger strokes of colouring, that characterise the manners of the age, and give the boldest ideas of the history of the period.

The first affair of consequence that came before them was the civil list. There was a debt contracted on it of above