Your ROYAL HIGHNESS, imboldens Me to offer to Your Royal Patronage the following Account of the Proceedings and Debates of the Prefent Parliament.

I am, with the most dutiful Regard,

THE

BOOKSELLER

TO THE

READER.

Tly all fuch Speeches as have appear

HE following Sheets contain not on

ed in Print, and upon Examination are found to be Genuine, (in which the Opinion of fome Gentlemen of the greatest Abilities in Parliamentary Knowledge have been consulted) but also a regular Account of all the moft material Tranfactions of the House, with the feveral Divifions thereupon, compared by the Journals; likewife a Progreffive Hiftory of the Contefted Elections, from the Numbers on the Poll, to the final Determination; and the last Resolutions of the House relating to the Right of Electiwith an Account of the Conftitution of feveral of the Boroughs. For this laft Particular, I am chiefly obliged to that learned Antiquary, Mr Willis, in his Notitia Parliamentaria.

on;

The

The Reader, it is prefum'd, will not be

difpleased to find fome Notice taken of the

moft remarkable Domestic Incidents, during

fo Long and Important a Seffion, in which

the Numbers Pro and Con upon every

Queftion, were greater than ever known in

the Memory of the oldeft Member of the

House.

It may not be amifs to obferve farther,

That all Proceedings on Private Bills, and

even fome, tho' paffed as Publick, fuch as

Turnpikes, Navigation-Bills, &c. are pur-

pofely omitted; fince it is apprehended, the

inferting them would only fwell the Work,

without affording any Entertainment to the

Publick.

In the Courfe of the former Part of this

Work, in twelve Volumes, from the Re-
ftoration to the Diffolution of the laft Par-
liament, all the Particulars omitted in
the Irish Collection, fervilely copied by
one Torbuck, are supplyed; a small Speci-
men of which I have already taken No-
tice of in the Contents of the firft Five
Volumes: And having carried the Number
of Omiffions to upwards of 1200, I pre-
fume That alone will be fufficient to fhew
what may be expected from their whole
Performance; and therefore I doubt not
the Continuance of the Approbation of the
Publick in favour of my Edition.

R. G.

THE

CONTENTS

OF THE

Thirteenth VOLUME.

THE

"HE Eighth Parliament Diffolved

Preferments conferr'd on fome late Members

The King goes Abroad.

Names of the Regency during his Majesty's Abfence

Lift of the New Parliament, with the Numbers on
the Poll at each contested Election

A Summary of the whole House of Commons of Great

Britain.

Account of the Weftminster Election

Prefentment of the Grand Jury of Middlefex relat-

ing thereto

Inftructions from the City of London to their new

Members

The King returns, and appoints a Faft

The Parliament meet

Mr Pelham proposes Mr Onflow for Speaker

Mr Clutterbuck feconds Mr Pelham

Mr Onflow excufes himself

He is elected Speaker, and prefented to his Majefty

The King's Speech at opening the First Seffion of the

Ninth Parliament of Great Britain.

A Bill read, and the Grand Committees appointed

Mr Henry Arthur Herbert's Motion for an Address

of Thanks.

Debate thereon

VOL. XIII.

An Address agreed on

A Day appointed to confider the State of the Nation
Admiral Vernon's Answer to the Thanks of the House
for his Services in the Weft Indies.

The Commons Addrefs of Thanks for the King's
Speech

Petition for an Undue Election for Westminster
Petition for Boffiney, with an Account of the Confti-
tution of that Borough

The King's Anfwer to the Commons Address
Petitions for the Burghs of Anstruther, &c. for the
Shire of Berwick, for the Boroughs of Hedon and
Chippenham, and the City of Carlifle
Proceedings on the Election for Boffiney
Petitions for Denbighshire, for Haverford-West,
for Tamworth, for Peebles, &c. for Hadding-
ton, &c. and for Milborn-Port, &c. with the
laft Refolutions of the Houfe relating to Haverford-
Weft and Tamworth

Petitions for the Shire of Kinross, for Colchester, for
Newcastle upon Tyne, for Pembroke, for Dor-
nock, &c. and for Cardiganfhire; with the laft
Refolutions of the Houfe relating to Milborne-Port,
Colchester, and Pembroke

Refolutions on the Supply

Proceedings on the Westminster Election

Petitions for the Shires of Air, of Cromarty, of
Caithness, and for the Boroughs of Flint, &c. with
the last Refolutions of the House relating to the Bo-
roughs of Flint, &c.

Petition for the Shire of Sutherland, with the laft
Refolution of the Houfe relating thereto
Likewife Petitions for Grimsby, and Penryn; with
an Account of the Conftitution of Penryn
Alo Petitions for the Boroughs of Aberdeen, &c. for
Cricklade, for Pembrokethire, for Caermarthen,
for Radnorshire, for Denbigh, &c. for the Shire
of Dumfries, and for Grampound; with the last
Refolutions of the House relating to Cricklade,
Caermarthen, and the Shire of Dumfries
An Account of the Confti ution of the Borough of
Grampound