ngland should be alarmed at the prospect of such
successive burdens, and the complaisance of the commons be in some
future session exhausted. On the whole, this was perhaps the most
extraordinary treaty that ever was concluded; for it contains no
specification of articles, except the payment of the subsidy; every
other article was left to the interpretation of his Prussian majesty.

{1759}

SUPPLIES GRANTED.

The parliament, having performed the ceremony of addresses to the
throne, immediately proceeded to the great work of the supply. The two
committees in the house of commons were immediately established, and
continued by adjournments to the month of May, by the twenty-third day
of which all their resolutions were taken. They voted sixty thousand
men, including fourteen thousand eight hundred and forty-five marines,
for the service of the ensuing year; and for the operations by land,
a body of troops amounting to fifty-two thousand five hundred and
fifty-three effective men, besides the auxiliaries of Hanover, Hesse,
Brunswick, Saxe-Gotha, and Buckebourg, to the number of fifty thousand,
and five battalions on the Irish establishment in actual service in
America and Africa. For the maintenance of the sixty thousand men
employed in the sea-service, they granted three millions one hundred and
twenty thousand pounds; for the land-forces, one million two hundred and
fifty-six thousand one hundred and thirty pounds, fifteen shillings
and two-pence; for the charge of the additional five battalions, forty
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine pounds, thirteen shillings and
nine-pence; for the pay of the general and staff-officers, and hospitals
of the land-forces, fifty-two thousand four hundred and eighty-four
pounds one shilling and eight-pence; for maintaining the garrisons
in the Plantations, Gibraltar, Nova-Scotia, Newfoundland, Providence,
Cape-Breton, and Senegal, the sum of seven hundred and forty-two
thousand five hundred and thirty-one pounds, five shillings and
seven-pence; for the charge of ordnance for land-service, two hundred
and twenty thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine pounds, eleven
shillings and nine-pence; for extraordinary service performed by the
same office, and not provided for by parliament in the course of the
preceding year, three hundred and twenty-three thousand nine hundred
and eighty-seven pounds, thirteen shillings and three-ponce; for the
ordinary of the navy, including half-pa