The most Remarkable MOTIONS, SPEE Together with all the PROTESTS during that P AND THE Numbers Pro and Con upon each Divifior WITH An Account of the Promotions of the several PEERS, nd Connected with the Transactions of the COMMONS, AND Illustrated with HISTORICAL NOTES and OBSERVATIONS. Together with the DEBATES in the Parliament of SCOTLAND To each VOLUME are added proper 1 VOLUME the FIFFH, from 1735 0 1759 LONDON: S. Printed for FRENEZER TIMBERLAND, in Ship-Yard, Temple-Bar, 2. II. THE HISTORY and PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS WITH THE DEBATES and PROTESTS therein, From the Accession of King GEORGE the First. The SECOND SESSION of the SECOND PARLIAMENT of A N. 15, 1735-6. was opened with a gracious Anno 9. Geo. II. 7 A Speech to both Houses as usual (which fee in Chand. Hift. Ann. 9. Geo. II. 1735-6. P. 103) and which, as foon as his Majesty was withdrawn, was taken into Confideration by the House of Lords, and the fame being read to the House, it was mov'd as follows, viz. To order that an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, to return the Thanks of this House for his most gracious Speech Address of from the Throne: To express the just Sense this House Thanks. hath of his Majesty's great Concern for the Balance of Europe, his Vigilance to prevent a general War, and to maintain the Security and Commerce of his Kingdoms: To declare their Satisfaction in his Majesty's Perseverance to pursue these great Ends, by endeavouring to bring the Contending Powers to an Accommodation, and the well-grounded Hopes which they always conceived, that the good Offices of his Majesty and the States General would be attended with real and beneficial Effects: To congratulate his Majesty on the pleasing Profpect of approaching Tranquillity, and to express the great Satisfaction of this House 1735-6. 1735-6. Motion for an upon --6. nno 9. Geo. II. upon the gracious Communication made in his Speech touching the Preliminary Articles between the Emperor and France, and the joint Resolution taken thereupon by his Majesty and the States: To acknowledge, with the greatest Gratitude, his Majesty's tender Care of his People, in preserving to them the Bleffings of Peace; and to declare that this House fees with Pleasure, in our prefent Situation, the happy Effects of the extraordinary Supplies of late Years granted by Parliament: To return his Majesty the Thanks of this House, for the Orders given for a Reduction of his Forces; afsuring him, in the strongest Manner, that this House will zealously and chearfully concur in all such Meafures as shall be necessary to secure the Safety of his Majefty's Kingdoms, and to continue the just Influence of his "own among the Powers abroad: To promise his Majesty, that this House will, to the utmost, promote good Harmony and Unanimity at Home, and demonftrate, by all their Actions, how much they have at Heart the effectual Support of his Majesty and his Government, the Preservation of the Proteftant Succession, and the Peace and Prosperity of their Country. Amendment of Motion. To this Motion several Objections were made; and in fered to the faid particular it was proposed to leave out, in the fifth Paragraph, these Words, viz. And to declare, that this House fees with Pleasure, in our present Situation, the happy Effects of the extraordinary Supplies of late Years granted by Parlia ments. The Arguments made use of in Support of this Amendment, were in Substance as follow, viz. Arguments My Lords, by the ancient Usage of this House, no the faid Amind Speech from the Throne was ever taken into Confideration ment. 'the same Day it was made. Our Ancestors were not fo ⚫ complaisant as to make any Compliments even to the • Throne itself, without having first maturely weighed the • Subject upon which they were to make those Compliments; ' and therefore they always appointed a Day for taking his • Majefly's Speech into Confideration; in order that those Lords, who knew nothing of the Speech till they heard ⚫ it from the Throne, might have Time to peruse it, and to ⚫ confider what might properly be said, by way of Return. • This, my Lords, was the ancient Custom, and this, I must ⚫ think, was more consistent with the Honour and Dignity • of this House, than the Method we have lately fallen in ، to, of taking his Majesty's Speech immediately into our • Confideration, and agreeing to such an Address as some • Lords may be pleased to propose, before we can poffibly 1735-6. have Time to confider whether it be proper or not. For Anno 9. Geo. II. this Reason I could wish we would return to our ancient Custom, and, instead of agreeing or disagreeing to the Mo⚫tion now made, appoint a Day for taking his Majesty's • Speech into our Confideration, and order the House to be 'fummoned for that Purpose. ، 'As I knew nothing of the Contents of his Majesty's Speech, till I heard it from the Throne, it cannot, my 'Lords, be presumed that I can state my Objections to the • Address now proposed, in such a regular Manner as I might do, if a Day were appointed for our taking the Speech into Confideration : I believe there are a great many other Lords in the fame Circumstances with me; and although we had, in a private Manner, been fully inform* ed of the Contents of that Speech which was to be made, yet I do not think it regular or consistent with the Dignity of this House, to proceed upon any such private In'formation. As Members of this House, we can have nothing under our Confideration, nor ought we to form an Opinion or a Resolution about any thing, till it has, in a proper and regular Manner, been laid before the House; ' and, in this light, I am of Opinion none of your Lord'ships can fay, that you have fully and maturely confidered 'the Speech now before you, for my own Part, I am fure 'I cannot; but, even from the little Time I have had to ' confider the Speech and the Address now moved for, I am ' sure I cannot pretend to say, that my Hopes have been ' answered by the Peace that has been concluded, or by any ، ، thing else that has happened; for I must say, I could never form any Hopes from the Measures we have taken, or 'from any Account of our late Transactions, that has e 'been laid before this House; and, I believe, there a a 6 many of your Lordships, who have always been of the 'same Opinion with me; therefore, if we resolve to men' tion in our Address, any thing about our Hopes, I think we ought to say, that by various hidden Causes, and extraordinary Incidents, Providence has been pleased, without any Merit in us, to bring about a Peace, far beyond our Hopes, and even contrary to our Expectations. A Peace, my Lords, has, it is true, been brought about, but I am very certain, we cannot say it is a good Peace for this Na'tion; and I am much afraid, it will not be so lafting as * some People may perhaps imagine. 4 ، 'I know, my Lords, it has always been faid that no Expressions in our Address of Thanks, for his Majesty's most gracious Speech from the Throne, can any way tye up or 'controul the future Proceedings or Resolutions of this House; 1735-6. A 2 yet : |