An Act to refrain all Waggoners, Carriers and others, from drawing any Carriage with more than five Horfes in Length. And to three private Bills.

On the 3d of Auguft, the Commons, before they went into a Committee of the whole Houfe upon the Bill for enlarging the Fund of the Bank of England, &c. order'd, that it be an Instruction to the faid Committee, that they have Power to receive a Claufe for explaining the Act which, paffed in the twelfth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne (of bleffed Memory) for Payment of Debts and Arrears to her Servants, Tradefmen, and others, fo far as the faid Act did relate, or was intended to relate, to the Debt which was owing by her Majefty for Works performed and Materials delivered for the Building at Blenheim, and was incurred within the time during which the faid Building was carried on at her Majesty's Expence. After this, the Committee went through the faid Bill, and made several Amendments to it, which, the next Day, were reported, agreed to, and the Bill order'd to be ingroffed.

On the 4th of Auguft, Mr. Walpole from the Committee of Secrecy acquainted the Houfe, that the. Committee had in Obedience to the Commands of the Houfe, prepared Ar ticles of Impeachment of High Treafon, and other High Crimes and Mifdemeanours against Henry Viscount Bolingbroke; and that the Committee had commanded him, at the fame Time, to acquaint the Houfe, that they fhall, in a fhort Time, have further Articles to lay before the House against the said Viscount; and that the Committee had directed him to report the Articles already prepared, to the Houfe. Then Mr. Walpole read the faid Articles in his Place, and afterwards deliver'd them at the Table where they were once read, and afterwards a fecond Time, Article by Article, and upon the Question feverally put thereupon, agreed unto by the Houfe; and order'd first, that the faid Articles be ingroffed; 2dly, that a Clause be prepared, for faving Liberty to the Commons to exhibit any further Articles against the faid Henry Viscount Baling. broke; and that he may be fequeftred from Parliament and committed to fafe Cuftody.

On the 5th Mr. Secretary Stanhope acquainted the Commons, that their Addrefs of the 17th of June last relating to the Coining of Halfpence and Farthings, having been prefented to his Majefty, his Majefty was pleafed graci oufly to answer, that when his Majefty shall think proper to give Order for Coining new Halfpence and Farthings, he will

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take Care that it be done in the most advantageous Manner for the Publick.

On the fame Day, Mr. Walpole, from the Committee of Secrecy, acquainted the Houfe, that the Committee had, in Obedience to the Commands of the Houfe, prepared Articles of Impeachment of High Treafon, and other High Crimes and Mifdemeanours, against James Duke of Ormond, which they had directed him to report to the Houfe. Then Mr. Walpole read the faid Articles in his Place, and afterwards deliver'd them in at the Table, where they were once read; and afterwards a fecond Time, Article by Article. A Motion being made, and the Queftion put, that the Houfe agree to the first Article, there arofe a warm Debate, in which feveral remarkable Speeches were made. Among the reft, a Member faid, that the Report of the Committee of Secrecy had begun to open his Eyes; and that the Duke of Ormond's Flight had fully convinc'd him, that the Heads of the Tory Party were a Set of Knaves and Villains, who defign'd to have ruin'd their Country, and made it a Province of France. The Lord Stanhope eldeft Son to the Earl of Chefierfield said, he never wifli'd to spill the Blood of any of his Countrymen, much lefs the Blood of any Nobleman; bug that he was perfuaded, that the Safety of his Country required that Examples fhould be made of those who had betray'd it in fo infamous a Manner. The Lord Finch, elde Son to the Earl of Nottingham, spoke alfo on the fame Side; and after fome other Speeches, the first Article was agreed to by a Majority of 177 Voices against 78; and then the other Articles, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were also agreed unto by the House: After which it was order'd, 1ft, that the faid Articles be ingroffed; 2dly, that a Claufe be prepared for faving Liberty to the Commons to exhibit any further Articles against the faid James, Duke of Ormond, and that he may be fequefter'd from Parliament, and committed to fafe Cuftody.

August 6, the faid ingrossed Articles, against Henry Vifcount Bolingbroke, were read, after which it was order'd, ift, That Mr. Walpole do carry the faid Articles to the Lords; 2dly, That Mr. Walpole be directed (before he exbibits the faid Articles to the Lords) to impeach Henry Viscount Bolingbroke to the Effect following, viz.

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The Commons affembled in Parliament having receiv'd Infor·· mation of divers traiterous Practices and Designs of a great Peer of this Houfe, Henry Viscount Bolingbroke, have commanded me to impeach the faid Henry Viscount Bolingbroke of High Treafon, and other High Crimes and Misdemeanours : And I do here in their Names, and in the Names of all the Commons of Great Britain, impeach the faid Henry Viscount Bolingbroke of High Treafon, and other High Crimes and Misdemeanours. I am further commanded by the House of Commons to pray and demand of your Lordships, that the faid Henry Viscount Bolingbroke may be fequeftred from Parliament, and forthwith committed to safe Cuftody.

Accordingly, the fame Day, Mr. Walpole accompanied by a great many Members of the Commons, at the Bar of the House of Lords, impeached Henry Viscount Boling broke of High Treafon, and other High Crimes and Misdemea nours; and deliver'd in the Articles of Impeachment against him; and did pray and demand that the faid Vifcount might be fequeftred from Parliament; and forthwith committed to fafe Cuftody.

When we first fet about this Work, we proposed to our felves to reduce the Whole into one Volume; but finding our Subject grow upon our Hands, and that the Relation would be imperfect if we confin'd our selves to fo narrow a Compass, we are obliged to make two Volumes of this Hiftory; and therefore will here close the First, and be gin the Second with the Articles abovemention’d.

The End of the Firft Volume.