ledged his great prudence in bringing the
demands of his subjects for their past losses, which had been so long
depending, to a final adjustment; in procuring an express stipulation
for a speedy payment; and in laying a foundation for accomplishing the
great and desirable ends of obtaining future security, and preserving
the peace between the two nations. They declared their confidence in
his royal wisdom, that in the treaty to be concluded in pursuance of
the convention, proper provisions would be made for the redress of the
grievances of which the nation had so justly complained; they assured
his majesty, that in case his just expectations should not be answered,
the house would heartily and zealously concur in all such measures as
should be necessary to vindicate his majesty's honour, and to preserve
to his subjects the full enjoyment of all those rights to which they
were entitled by treaty and the law of nations. This was a hard won
victory. At the head of those who voted against the address we find the
prince of Wales. His example was followed by six dukes, two-and-twenty
earls, four viscounts, eighteen barons, four bishops, and their party
was reinforced by sixteen proxies. A spirited protest was entered and
subscribed by nine-and-thirty peers, comprehending all the noblemen
of the kingdom who were most eminent for their talents, integrity, and
virtue.

{1739}

A message having been delivered to the house from his majesty,
importing, that he had settled nine-and-thirty thousand pounds per
annum on the younger children of the royal family; and desiring their
lordships would bring in a bill to enable his majesty to make that
provision good out of the hereditary revenues of the crown, some lords
in the opposition observed that the next heir to the crown might look
upon this settlement as a mortgage of his revenue, which a parliament
had no power to make; that formerly no daughter of the royal family was
ever provided for by parliament, except the eldest, and that never was
by way of annuity, but an express provision of a determinate sum of
money paid by way of dowry. These objections were overruled; and the
house complied with his majesty's request. Then the duke of Newcastle
produced a subsidy-treaty, by which his majesty obliged himself to pay
to the king of Denmark seventy thousand pounds per annum, on condition
of the Dane's furnishing to his Britannic majesty a body of six thousand
men, when demanded. At the