arge the like sum, raised in pursuance of an act made in the last
session of parliament, and charged upon the first aids or supplies to be
granted in this session of parliament. They gave six hundred and seventy
thousand pounds, for enabling his majesty to make good his engagements
with the king of Prussia, pursuant to a new convention between him and
that monarch, concluded on the ninth day of November in the present
year. Fifteen thousand pounds they allowed upon account, towards
enabling the principal officers of his majesty's ordnance to defray the
necessary charges and expenses of taking down and removing the present
magazine for gunpowder, situated in the neighbourhood of Greenwich, and
of erecting it in some less dangerous situation. Sixty thousand pounds
they gave to enable his majesty to fulfil his engagements With the
landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, pursuant to the separate article of a treaty
between the two powers, renewed in the month of November, the sum to
be paid as his most serene highness should think it most convenient, in
order to facilitate the means by which the landgrave might again fix his
residence in his own dominions, and by his presence give fresh courage
to his faithful subjects. Five hundred thousand pounds they voted upon
account, as a present supply towards defraying the charges of forage,
bread, bread-waggons, train of artillery, wood, straw, provisions,
and contingencies of his majesty's combined army, under the command of
prince Ferdinand. To the Foundling hospital they granted five thousand
pounds; and fifteen thousand for improving, widening, and enlarging the
passage over and through London bridge. To replace divers sums taken
from the sinking fund, they granted two hundred twenty-five thousand two
hundred and eighty-one pounds, nineteen shillings and fourpence. For the
subsistence of reduced officers, including the allowances to the several
officers and private men of the two troops of horse-guards, and regiment
of horse reduced, and to the superannuated gentlemen of the four troops
of horse-guards, they voted thirty-eight thousand five hundred and
ninety-seven pounds, nine shillings. Upon account, for the support
of the colonies of Nova-Scotia and Georgia, they granted twenty-one
thousand six hundred ninety-four pounds, two shillings and twopence.
For enabling the king to give a proper compensation to the provinces
in North America, for the expenses they might incur in levying and
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