1. We defire and expect, that you will en quire by whofe Counsels it was that after God had bleffed the Arms of her late Majefty and her Allies with a Train of unparallel'd Succeffes, she was prevailed upon, contrary to the Grand Alliance, and her repeated Promifes from the Throne to both Houses, to fend to, or receive Managers from France, to treat Separately of a Peace, without the Knowledge or Confent of our Allies.

2. By whofe Advice the Emperor's Minifter, the Count de Gallas, was discharg'd the Court, for refenting and oppofing thofe feparate Negociations, contrary not only to the Grand Alliance, but to the Queen's particular Affurances to his Master.

* 3. By whofe Advice the Whig-Ministry and Parliament,and the Duke of Marlborough, were turned off, contrary to the Affurances which her Majefty had given to her Allies, as well as to fome of the chief Citizens of London, Directors of the Bank of England, &c. who honeftly told her Majefty, that it would fink the Publick Credit, as it actually did.

4. By whofe Advise his Majesty's Memorial, deliver'd by his Minifter the Baron de Bothmer, against those clandeftine and separate Negociations, was difregarded, and the faid Minifter affronted.

* 5. By whofe Advice and Management our Confederates were condemned without a Hearing, and their Memorials on that Account, difregarded.

6. By whofe Advice and Management her Majefty was prevailed upon to come to a CefJation of Arms with our common Enemy, and then fo furprizingly to withdraw our Troops

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Vol. IX. from thofe of the Allies, which was attended with fuch difmal Confequences.

7. By whofe Advice and Management all that we had gained by a Profufion of Blood and Treasure in a glorious and fuccessful War, was thrown up, just as we were feizing the Prize of our Conquest, and a free-born People brought within the view of Slavery.

8. By whofe Advice and Management our Conftitution was ftruck at, by creating 12 new Lords at once, to carry a Vote in the Upper-Houfe.

9. By whofe Advice it was, that the Treaty with the Dutch for fettling our common Barrier in the Netherlands, and making them Guarantees for the Proteftant Succeffion, was enervated, and a new Treaty, which weaken'd both Securities, made in its Place.

10. By whofe Advice and Management we were mocked with Affurances of being free from Danger of the neigbouring Fortress of Dunkirk, and whether the late Miniftry, or any of them, did agree that the French King fhould make a new Harbour at Mardyke, as Part of the Equivalent for demolishing the Fortifications and Harbour of Dunkirk?

11. By whofe Advice and Management the beft Branches of our Trade were exchanged for Chimeras, and the Ruin of the whole endanger'd by a vile Treaty of Commerce with

France.

12. How the Expedition to Canada came to mifcarry; and by whofe Advice her Majefty, countrary to her Proclamations published in New-England, &c. for encouraging that Expedition, came to allow the French to keep their Intereft in Canada, to fell that in Newfoundland, and to fettle on Cape Breton, to

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the great Detriment of our Fishing-Trade, and Vol. IX. to the manifeft Danger of all our Plantations in North-America.

13. By whofe Advice it was that the Confederates were refus'd to be invited to be Guarantees to the Proteftant Succeffion, though her Majefty had promis'd it in her Answer to the Address of both Houses, in 1708.

14. By whofe Advice it was that his now Royal Highness, GEORGE, Prince of Wales, was deny'd the Liberty to come, and take his Place in Parliament, when the prefence of one of the Illuftrious Family of Hanover was fo abfolutely neceffary to quiet the Minds of the People, and to focure us from the juft Apprehenfions we bad of Danger from the Pretender?

15. By whofe Advice it was, that his Majefty's Minifter, Baron Schutz, was discharg'd the Court, becaufe be demanded the Writ?

16. By whofe Advice Sir Patrick Lawless, the Pretender's Agent or Envoy was entertain'd at Court, at the fame Time, and honourably convey'd beyond Sea, foon after it was complain'd of in Parliament ?

17. By whofe Advice and Management our Holy Church was in Danger of being given up to Popery, our Civil Rights to Tyranny, and the Way prepared for the Pretender?

18. By whofe Advice the Jacobite Clans in Scotland, were arm'd aad kept in pay, and that the Levies of Men for the Pretender in Great-Britain and Ireland were fo long conniv'd at?

19. By whofe Mifmanagement it was that the publick Affairs of the Kingdom are brought under the greatest Difficulties, as well in Refpect of our Trade, and the Interruption of Navigation, as of the great Debts of the

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Vol. IX. Nation, which have been much increased fince the last War, as his Majesty has been graciously pleased to inform us, in his Proclamation for calling a New Parliament.

20. We alfo defire and expect that you concur in Demanding an Account, how the Money rais'd by Parliament, has been expended fince the Change of the Miniftry, 1710.

21. That you not only Concur in fuch Enquiries but alfo in a Parliamentary Way to bring fuch to Justice as fhall be found Guilty of thofe Mifmanagements; this being a Duty owing to our felves as well as our Confederates, and indifpenfably necessary for retrieving the Honour of the Nation, and restoring a due Confidence and Harmony amongst all the Allies.

22. * That you concur in making fuch Laws as fhall be thought further Neceffary to fecure his Majefty's Poffeffion, and the Succeffion of his Royal Pofterity a gainst all Pretenders, and fuch Maxims and Doctrines as have been advanc'd by any of our Clergy, or others, for Supporting the pretended Claim or indefeasible Hereditary Right.

23. That you concur in making fuch Laws as shall be thought Neceffary for the further Security of the Churches of England and Scotland, as they are feverally by Lavo Eftablish'd; and for fuppreffing thofe Groundless and Seditious Clamours of the Church of England's being in Danger under his Majesty's Administration.

24. That you concur in giving the King fuch Aids, as fhall be thought Neceffary for enabling his Majesty 10 defend the Nation, to fupport and retrieve our Trade, and to keep the Ballance of Europe, which is threaten'd with a new War, by the Intrigues of the Common Enemy.

25. And lastly, we defire and expect that you concur in fuch Laws as fhall be thought Neceflary for Uniting his Majefty's Proteftant Subjects, and particularly for making the Tolleration allow'd to Proteftant Diffenters inviolable, and to ease them of the Hardfhips they have been brought under by Men of Arbitrary Principles and Reftlefs Paffions, because of their firm Adherence to the Civil Liberties of the Nation, and especially to the Proteftant Succeffion when it was most in Danger.

A

LIST

OF THE

LORDS Spiritual and Temporal,

AS ALSO

Of the Knights, and Commiffioners of Shires, Citizens and Burgeffes of the Laft and Prefent Parliament of GREAT BRITAIN.

Summon'd to meet at Weftminster, on the 17th of this Inftant March, 17.

Being the first Parliament of King George.

With REMARKS.

LONDON:

Printed for E. BERRINGTON, near Effex Street End, in the Strand. MDCCXV.

(Price Three-Pence.)