Promotions foon after the battle of Dettingen. -Thofe marked are new officers, the others raised according to their feniority. HORSE. Third troop of guards: John Barnard, Brigade Major; Newton Barton, Exempt. Honeywood's: William Lacombe, Captain; Charles Shrimpton Boothby, Captain Lieutenant; James Wharton and William Lightfoot, Lieutenants; Meff.* Rofs, "Colier, and * Hamilton, Cornets. Ligonier's: Ralph Craigh, Adjutant. DRAGOONS. Churchill's: Charles Hambleton, Captain; Edward Goddard, Captain-Lieutenant; Thomas Carver, Lieuenant; Samuel Carte, Cornet. Bland's: Jofeph Child, Lieutenant ; 'James Rowlandfon, Cornet. Hawley's: William Steuart, CaptainLieutenant; James Surtees, Lieutenant. Cope's: James Shipley, Lieutenant ; William Erskine, Cornet. FOOT. Welch fufileers: Alexander ohnfon, Captain; James Dryfdale, Caain-Lieutenant ; William Boston, Lieute28; Roger Lort, Enfign. * Sowle's: Thomas Brown and Jofeph pmbs, Captains; Thomas Ball, Captaineutenant; Thomas Fraser and David rers, Lieutenants; *Benj. Beilby, Enfign. Pulteney's: Daniel Laniel, Enfign. Johnson's: Robert Ecles, Captain; PeDaulhat, Captain Lieutenant; James dley, Alexander Gardiner, Thomas Oty, and Henry Greene, Lieutenants ; VmSampfon and Pet.Daulhat, Enfigns. * Onflow's John Gray, Major; John La affille, Captain; Arthur Loftus, Captainutenant; William Rickfon, Lieutenant; Lichard Creswell and John Trollop, * higns. Ponsonby's: Jofeph Maddox, Enfign. ampbell's: Alexander Sandilands, Ca; John Noble, Captain-Lieutenant; nn Johnston and William Flood, Lieu ints; Charles Colvill and * William sgachan, Enfigns. 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The debate upon the form of an addrefs in anfwer to the King's speech, concluded. The speech of M. Valerius Corvus, the last given of this debate. Mr Prefident, A SI fhall, I believe, give my vote for the addrefs propofed, I think it incumbent upon me to give the reasons which prevail with me to do fo, because they are very different from those that have been infifted on by moft Gentlemen who have spoke in fatour of the motion. It is not, Sir, beaufe I now begin to approve of our mating compliments to our minifters upon eery part of their conduct, before we have xamined, or know any thing about it; t is not because I approve of every step hat has been lately taken, or because I ink the happy change in the face of the ffairs of Europe is owing to the spirit or onduct of our minifters: but it is because f the extreme danger to which I think se liberties of Europe as yet expofed, and se neceffity there is for this nation to act ith the utmost spirit and vigour, in order extricate Europe from that danger. herefore I fhall be against our oppofing is new administration in any thing we in fafely agree to, left it fhould furnish em with a pretence for following the cample of their predeceffor. I wish they ad been a little more modest in the moon they have now made to us: I wifh ey had fhewn a little more regard to hat fome of them have fo often recomended upon the like occafions; because would have been a testimony to the peole, that they have not changed their fenments with their fituation; and that their rmer oppofition to fuch addreffes, proeded from principle, and not from their aving no fhare in drawing them up. Such conduct would have convinced the peoVOL, V. ple without doors, that we within have always acted from motives of a generous or felfish motives either upon one fide or and publick nature, and not from corrupt the other: for, in my opinion, there is very little difference between a Gentleman's voting always with the court, for the fake of a penfion or pecuniary gratuity, and another's voting always against it, for the fake merely of forcing himself into the adminiftration. The latter may have more pride or ambition than the former, but their motives are equally corrupt, and, when discovered, equally tend to overthrow our conftitution, by deftroying that principle of action, I mean a difinterested love for the publick good, upon which alone a free government can fubfift. For this reafon, Sir, I muft deal plainly with our new minifters, by telling them, that, fo far as relates to our domeftick affairs, if they go on as they have begun, they will do more real harm to our conftitution, than our late minifter ever did, with all his fchemes for corruption and arbitrary power; because they will make the people believe, that our contention here never was, nor ever will be, about the prefervation of our conftitution, or the publick good of our country, but about titles, places, penfions and preferments: and if this opinion fhould ever prevail generally among the people, they will give over fupporting any oppofition to the adminiftration for the time being; nay they will rejoice to fee parliaments entirely laid afide. I fhall grant, Sir, that, with regard to foreign affairs, our conduct feems to be a little altered; our new minifters feem to act with more vigour, and to fhew a little more regard to the prefervation of the liberties of Europe, than their predeceffor ever did: but I queftion much if this be owing to their virtue or publick spirit, fo 3 E much much as to their complaifance towards the fuch a gracious condefcenfion in our fo crown. The late haughty and infulting vereign. Nor is it true, that this com behaviour of the French towards a certain plaifance and condefcenfion were at the foreign court, has, I believe, produced an fame time introduced: for, in former alteration in the politicks of that court; times, efpecially in the reigns of K. James and that alteration may probably have had and K. Charles, the fpeeches from the an influence upon our court here at home. throne were much longer and more parThis alteration, I fhall readily admit, is ticular than they are at prefent; and yet lucky for G. Britain as well as Europe; in thofe days the parliament never thought because it obliges our minifters, or at leaft itfelf bound to return a long addrefs, nor leaves them at liberty, to purfue the true did they in their address take notice of a intereft of both but I cannot eafily ad- ny thing mentioned in the fpeech; be mit, that this change in our meatures pro- caufe, tho' it was made by the King, they ceeds from the late change in our admi- looked upon it as the fpeech of the mini niftration; and the extreme complaifance fter, and, very often, the firft notice they our new minifters have fhewn to the crown, took of it was, after due confideration, to with regard to domeftick affairs, convin- remonftrate against several things contain ces me, that they would have fhewn the ed in it. fame complaifance with regard to foreign affairs, and would have been as ready to have facrificed the liberties of Europe, as they now feem ready to facrifice the liberties of their country, to a wrong bias in the crown, had it unhappily taken fuch a bias. But, thank God! it has taken a right bias, at least with regard to foreign affairs; and as fortune feems to favour that bias, I hope our minifters will make the best ufe of it; I am fure I fhall be against our refufing any thing we can with fafety comply with, that may tend to encourage them in the profecution of thofe meafures they now feem refolved to purfue: and as the addrefs propofed is allowed on all fides to be nothing but a matter of mere compliment; as it does not tie us down to approve of any measure that has been concerted, if upon a proper examination we fhould fee good reafon to find fault with it; therefore, fince it has been afked, I fhall be for complying with it. But my compliance in this refpect does not proceed from my approving of our making panegyricks upon every part of our ministers conduct in our addrefs to our fovereign; and if this must be the confequence of his being fo gracious as to communicate to us, from his own mouth, a full ftate of our affairs, and all the particulars of his past conduct, fo far as his miritters may think proper, I wish this piece of condefcenfion were laid alide: but I can fee no reafon why this complaifance in us fhould be a neceffary confequence of Whether we may have occafion to re monftrate against any of the measures mentioned in this fpeech, is what cannot now, nor even in this feffion, I think, be deter mined. If a proper ufe be made of the for ces fent from hence and from Hanover to Flanders, I hope we shall not. It will give foreign powers fome reafon to think, that we are now fincerely refolved to affitt the Queen of Hungary to the utmoft of car power; and this, I think, we ought to do if we give her any affiftance at all. Thi may encourage fome of them to fhake thofe fhackles of fear they seem now have upon them; and, confidering our conduct for many years, I think it was be come neceffary to give fome fpeedy and folid proof of our fincerity in this refpects I fhall not therefore pretend to find fault with our fending a body of our troops Flanders, till I fee what ufe is made them. I hope, thofe who advised putting their country to fuch an expence, w well affured of its being in their power make a proper ufe of the troops we ha fent thither, before they advifed fending them. If it should afterwards appear, th they had no fuch affurance; if it fhoul hereafter appear, that this army has be fent out, as our fquadrons have former been, only as a raree fhew for our neg bours to ftare at, I must now enter proteftation, that my approving of this drefs fhall be no argument with me to prove of the measure. As for the Hanover troops, Sir, we b as yet no reafon to fuppofe that they are to be taken into British pay. The eletorate of Hanover is as much obliged, both in honour and intereft, as we are, to fupport and affift the Queen of Hungary; at leaft we know as yet of no advantage it is to reap by her deftruction: and as no addition has upon this account been made to the armies of that electorate, we muft fuppofe it fufficiently able to maintain thofe troops in Flanders, or any where else, as well as at home. The people there have been lately relieved from fome of their most burdenfome taxes, which is a pleasure and an advantage the people of this country have never yet met with; therefore, if the prefent revenue of Hanover be not fufficient for maintaining thofe troops in a foreign country, that revenue may be increased by a revival of thofe taxes. I therefore hope, his Majefty will not defire to lay upon his British subjects the burden of maintaining his Hanover troops in Flanders. He has expreffed no fuch defire in his fpeech from the throne; and as we are not by this motion defired to promife to take this burden upon ourselves, I can fee no reason for our bringing the affair of the Hanover troops into this debate. If the electorate is to be at the expence of maintaining them in Flanders, I believe every British fubject will approve of his Majehy's fending them there; and if this nation fhould be defired to bear the charge, it will be time enough to confider it when the demand is actually made. I am far from thinking, that our fending our troops to Flanders, or the march of the Hanoverians thither, has as yet been of any service to the common caufe; and I have fome fufpicion, that the King of Sardinia's declaring fo openly against The defigns of the Spaniards in Italy, proteeds rather from a connivance in France, than from any fpirit or vigour we have hitherto fhewn: for as it is not the inteeft of France to increase too much the Spanish power in Italy, and as it is their finefs to defer as long as poffible the acomplishment of the Queen of Spain's degns in that country, or at leaft to conince her that the cannot accomplish them ithout their affiftance; it is highly proable, they have privately intimated to the King of Sardinia, that his oppofition to the Spaniards would rather be a pleafure than an offence to them; efpecially as he was thereby to difburden us of a little of that treasure which, for many years, we have been ready to throw away upon any project, except fuch as might tend immediately to our own advantage. I am likewife not very apt to believe, that the peace between Mufcovy and Sweden is owing to the influence or the dexterity of the minifters we had at either court. But, Sir, as both these events must be allowed to be for the intereft of the common cause, and may in fome measure be owing to the late change in our conduct, I cannot be againft congratulating his Majesty upon them; and as our complimenting the crown upon every extraordinary event that happened in our favour abroad, has of late years been customary, I shall not be for our fhewing ourfelves more cool than ufual at this dangerous and critical conjuncture, left our minifters fhould from thence take a pretence to fay, that our coolness upon this occafion had destroyed their credit at foreign courts, and thereby prevented their being able to form fuch alliances as might have been fufficient for reftoring a balance of power in Europe, and giving effectual affistance to the Queen of Hungary. The fubflance of several speeches in the debate A S we are now in a committee for confidering further of the fupplies granted to his Majefty, and as the feveral eftimates of the expence of the land forces to be kept up for the fervice of the enfuing year, have been referred to us, it is now our bufinefs to confider those estimates, and to grant the proper fupplies, if we think them neceffary for the publick fafety or fervice. By the eftimates you will fee, what number of men his Majesty thinks neceffary for the feveral fervices mentioned; and as the estimates have been exactly calculated to the lowest farthing, every Gentleman, by looking upon the eftimate, will fee, what fum of money will be neceffary for each refpe3 E 2 Etive |