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 King: But let what will be their Reaons, it was carried againt them by a Majority of 37, the Affirmatives being 185, and the Negatives 148. I will not here take Notice of what ome People have aid, ''viz. That of the 148 who were for recommitting the Vote, 116 had Places'', becaue I doubt the fact; nor do I believe their Places would bias them.

This was a thorow Victory, and required great Skill and addres to retrieve. The fears of France were again multiplied; 'twas aid there was a private Article that King James was the leave France, which the French refued to perform; that Boufflers and the Earl of Portland had given one another the Life; that ome of the latter's Retinue had been killed; that the French Ambaador was topped, the King of Spain dead, and abundance more to this purpoe. The Club was et up at the R&mdash;&mdash;, great Applications made, the Commiion of the Excie was declared to be broke (by which nine Commiioners Places were to be dipoed of, and above 40 Perons named for them) and many of the Country Gentlemen were gone home. Thus recruited, they were ready for a new Encounter: and ince by the Rules of the Houe they could not et aide the former Vote directly, they would try to do it by a ide Wind; which was by moving, that directions might be given to the Committee of Ways and Means to conider of a upply for Guards and Garions: But the other ide, to obviate this, offered thee Words as an Amendmeut, ''viz. According to the Vote of the 11th of December''. This matter was much laboured, and the Gentlemen that were againt the Army explained themelves, and declared they were not for obliging the King to the Regiments in 80, but that they inited only on the Number, and he might chooe what Regiments he pleaed. By this Means they carried it, but not without great oppoition, (tho' I preume from none of thoe Gentlemen who declared in all Places they were for recommitting the former Vote only for the Reaons before giving) beides, they were forced to explain themelves out of a coniderable part of it, for they allowed the King the Dutch Regiments, and the Tangeriners; which in my Opinion could not be well undertood by the former Vote, the meaning of which eems to be that the