Debate on an address to the king.

Debate granting pay for sixteen thousand Hanoverian troops.

Debate on the army.

Debate on spirituous liquors.

REFERENCES TO THE SPEAKERS

  Argyle, Duke of,
  Aylesford, Lord,
  Bath, Lord,
  Bathurst, Lord,
  Bedford, Duke of,
  Bladen, Mr.
  Carteret, Lord,
  Chesterfield, Lord,
  Cholmondeley, Lord,
  Cholmondeley, Col. 
  Cornwall, Mr.
  Delaware, Lord,
  Fowkes, Mr.
  Fox, Mr.
  Grenville, Mr.
  Gybbon, Mr.
  Hardwicke, Lord,
  Herbert, Mr. H.A. 
  Hervey, Lord,
  Islay, Lord,
  Limerick, Lord,
  Littleton, Mr.
  Lonsdale, Lord,
  Montfort, Lord,
  Mordaunt, Col. 
  Newcastle, Duke of,
  Nugent, Mr.
  Orford, Earl of,
  Orford, Bishop of,
  Pelham, Mr.
  Percival, Lord,
  Phillips, Mr.
  Pitt, Mr.
  Powlett, Lord,
  Pulteney, Mr.
  Quarendon, Lord,
  Raymond, Lord,
  Sandwich, Lord,
  Sarum, Bishop of,
  St. Aubin, Sir John,
  Shippen, Mr.
  Somerset, Lord Noel,
  Speaker, the,
  Stanhope, Earl of,
  Talbot, Lord,
  Trevor, Mr.
  Tweedale, Marquis of,
  Walpole, Sir Robert,
  Walpole, Mr.
  Westmoreland, Lord,
  Winchelsea, Earl of,
  Yonge, Sir Wm.

IN PARLIAMENT.

House of commons, December 8, 1741.

Debate on the address.

The commons who attended in the house of lords, having heard his majesty’s speech to both houses, returned to their own house, where a copy of it being this day read to them by the speaker, Mr. H.A.  Herbert moved for an address, in words to this effect: 

Sir, to address the throne on the present occasion, is a custom which, as it is founded on reason and decency, has always been observed by the commons of Britain; nor do I suspect this house of any intention to omit those forms of respect to his majesty, which our ancestors always preserved even under princes whose conduct and designs gave them no claim to reverence or gratitude.

To continue, therefore, sir, a practice which the nature of government itself makes necessary, and which cannot but be acknowledged to be, in a peculiar degree, proper under a prince whose personal virtues are so generally known, I hope for the indulgence of this house in the liberty which I shall take of proposing an address to this effect: