(512) The debate in the House of Commons on Lord Limerick’s motion for a Secret Committee to inquire into the conduct of the Earl of Orford during the last ten years of his administration.-E.

(513) The motion was carried by a majority of seven, the numbers being 252 against 245.-E.

(514) This was much mentioned in the pamphlets written against the war, which was said to have been determined “by a gentleman’s fumbling in his pocket for a piece of paper at ten o’clock at night,” and the House’s agreeing to the motion without any consideration.

(515) The author of these letters.

(516) There is a fictitious speech printed for this in several Magazines of that time, but which does not contain one sentence of the true one.

(517) The following note of this debate is from the Bishop of Oxford’s diary.-,, March 23.  Motion by Lord Limerick, and seconded by Sir J. St. Aubin, on the 9th instant, for a Secret Committee of twenty-one, to examine into the Earl of Orford’s conduct for the last ten years of his being chancellor of the exchequer and lord of the treasury.  Mr. Pultney said, ministers should always remember the account they must make; that he was against rancour in the inquiry, desired not to be named for the committee, particularly because of a rash word he had used, that he would pursue Sir Robert Walpole to his destruction; that now the minister was destroyed, he had no ill-will to the man; that from his own knowledge and experience of many of the Tories, he believed them to be as sincerely for the King and this family as himself; that he was sensible of the disagreeable situation he was in, and would get out of it as soon as he could.  Mr. Sandys spoke for the motion, and said, he desired his own conduct might always be strictly inquired into.  Lord Orford’s son, and Mr. Ellis spoke well against the motion.  It was carried by 252 against 245.  Three or four were shut out, who would have been against it.  Mr. William -Finch against it.  The Prince’s servants for it.  Then Mr. Pultney moved for an address of duty to the King &e. which he begged might pass without opposition; and accordingly it did so.  But Mr. W. W. wynne and several others, went out of the House; which was by some understood to be disapprobation, by others accident or weariness,” Secker ms.-E.

(518) alexander Ogilvy, sixth Lord Banff, commanded the Hastings man-of war in 1742 and 1743, and captured, during that time, a valuable outward-bound Spanish register-ship, a Spanish privateer of twenty guns, a French polacca with a rich cargo, and other vessels.  He died at Lisbon in November 1746, at the early age of twenty-eight.-D.

(519) George Lord Bury, afterwards third Earl of Albemarle.  His mother was Lady Anne Lennox, sister of the Duke of Richmond.-D.  His lordship served as aide-de-camp) to the Duke of Cumberland at the battle of Fontenoy and at Culloden, and commanded in chief at the reduction of the Havannah.  He died in 1772.)