but miscarried, through the aversion of
the ministry to any project tending to remove or lessen the necessity
of maintaining a standing army. A considerable number of petitions
for different regulations, in respect to commerce and convenience
of traffic, were presented, considered, and left upon the table.
A remonstrance from the prisoners confined in the gaol of the
king's-bench, complaining of their miserable situation, arising from
want of room and other conveniences, being taken into consideration by
a committee, among other evidences, they examined that remarkable
personage who had signalized himself in different parts of Christendom,
under the name of Theodore, king of Corsica. Though formerly
countenanced and even treated as a sovereign prince by the British
ministry, he was now reduced to the forlorn condition of a confined
debtor; and, to the reproach of this kingdom, died in prison, surrounded
with all the misery of indigence, and overwhelmed with the infirmities
of old age. But the most remarkable circumstance of the parliamentary
transactions that distinguished this session, was a motion made in both
houses for an address to the king, beseeching his majesty, that in time
of public tranquillity, he would be graciously pleased to avoid entering
into subsidiary treaties with foreign princes, which are so burdensome
to this nation. This extraordinary proposal was made and strenuously
urged by the duke of B----, and a vehement debate ensued, in which
the earls of G----, S----, and H----, opposed it with an execution
of superior abilities; and the question being put, was carried in the
negative without a division. The same fate attended it in the house of
commons, where it was introduced by lord H----y, and supported by some
distinguished orators. The session ended in the latter end of March,
when his majesty, having given his assent to ninety-five public and
private bills, harangued both houses, and prorogued the parliament.*

* Among the proceedings of this session, it may not be
improper to mention a new act for the prevention of murders,
which had been shockingly frequent of late, importing, that
every criminal convicted of this horrid crime should be
executed in one day after his sentence, and his body
delivered to the surgeons for dissection--an expedient which
had been found productive of very salutary consequences.

THE KING SETS OUT FOR HANOVER.

Immediately af