the expences of his houfehold were defrayed, and that he died unmarried, whereas the prefent King's Brothers were both married, and had, with very incompetent revenues, feparate families and establishments, which conftituted no part of his Majefty's household arrangements or expences. He added, that we ought not to be prodigal to the Sovereign, and penurious to his Brothers; that the whole illuftrious House of Brunfwick claimed our regard and gratitude; that the wisdom of Parliament

more fatal to England than all the fwords of all our enemies.

It is juftice to the memory of the late King to declare, that he no .lefs endeavoured to make his people free and happy at home, than to carry the glory of the British arms to the highest pitch every where abroad. During his reign the laws were refpected and obeyed. Liberty and juflice fat with him on the throne. The execution of Earl Ferrers impreffed all foreign nations with the greatest idea of the facredness of our laws, and the protection they afford the meanest fubject, under a firm and mild fovereign. It was likewife believed, that if the Court-Martial on Lord George Sackville had pronounced the fentence, which was expected by all Europe, the juftice of his late Majefty would have ordered it to have been carried into execution.

The penfioned Doctors, Shebbeare and Johnson, and all the other minifterial writers of the court, have been indefatigable for many years in vilifying the memory of our late Sovereign, and tearing the laurels from

his

liament fhould carry the Houfe into a view of futurity, and of poffible contingencies, to provide in all events for the public fafety, good order, and tranquillity; that what the honourable + gentleman, who made the motion, had mentioned with due horror, of our keing obliged to fetch from Rome a Sovereign born and educated there, was not fo wild and abfurd an idea as it had been represented by other gentlemen; that purple fevers, and various epidemical difeafes, had fometimes in a very fhort period fwept away whole families;

his tomb. The first address of the House of Lords to the prefent King, on Nov. 18, 1760, is the best confutation of all the volumes of a legion of thefe hirelings.

"The long experience which we had of his royal "virtues, the benignity of his government, and his "uniform care of our laws and liberties, not interrupt"ed in any one infiance, during the courfe of fo many 66 5 years, demand from us the most grateful acknow"ledgements; and will make his memory as dear to "us as the height and fplendor to which be had raised "the greatness of thefe kingdoms will render it glo"rious to all pofterity."

After the demife of the crown, will there be found any Lord prostitute enough, will there be a Sandwich, to move fuch a paragraph in the first Addrefs of the Houfe of Lords to his prefent Majefty's Succeffor?

Sir James Lowther, Baronet, Member for Cumberland.

milies; that towards the beginning of this century feveral Dauphins of France had died within a few months of each other, and the Bourbon line was believed to be in fome danger of being extinct; that the + numerous, immediate pofterity of George II. had been reduced to a very small number; that all families might fuffer these moft cruel loffes, but in cafes of this great national concern, we could not be too provident, too vigilant for the general fafety. Mr. Wilkes farther remarked, that it was impoffible to mifunderstand this bufinefs; that it was, "Will you drive the "King's own Brothers into exile?" or "degrade them to the rank of private noble"men?" or "will you fhew your duty to the "King, whose heart glows with all the ten"derness of true fraternal affection, and testi"fy your regard to the honour of the na"tion, by making a princely and competent "provifion

+ Every true friend of the Houfe of Brunfwick fees with affliction, how rapidly fome of the principal branches of the family have dropped off.

Junius, vol. 2, page 89.

r provifion for your Sovereign's own Brothers, "the two Royal Dukes, the children of Eng"land?" He concluded with expreffing a pleasing hope, that the vote of every gentleman in the Houfe would be governed by that liberality of fentiment, which ought to caracterize the reprefentatives of a great, powerful, and free people.

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