3dly, Because that, as the Practice of difplacing Officers has grown more frequent in Proportion to the Increase of their Numbers in both Houses of Parliament, the World may entertain (however unjustly) an Opinion that the free Ufe of their Votes has been the real Caufe of their Difgrace; and the more fo, fince most of the Perfons who have been removed have happen'd to be Members of one or other House of Parliament. 4thly, Because Applications of this Nature to the Crown may hereafter protect many of his Majesty's faithful Subjects from the fecret and malicious Reprefentations of fome Minifter in future Times, who though unreftrained by Sense of Truth, regardless of his Prince's real Intereft, and animated only by his own Paffions, may however be checked by the juft Apprehenfions, that the Applications of Parliament may lay open his Calumnies, and bring upon himself the Difgrace he had prepared for others. Wa.and Nottingham, Bruce, Bathurst, Berkshire, Denbigh, Suffolk, Craven, Anglefey, Scarfdale, Marlborough, Bridgewater, Montjoy, Montrofe, Tadcaster, Ker, Chesterfield, Cardigan, Bedford, Boyle, Abingdon, Northampton, Oxford and Mortimer, Mafham, Strafford. Warrington, Foley, Griffin, Bristol, Gower, Weymouth, Marchmont, Because we are not confcious, that any Neglect or Breach of our Duty can be laid to our Charge, much less any Want of Zeal and Attachment for his Majefty's Perfon and Government; we therefore muft teftify our earnest Defire, that this Mo Willoughby de Broke. tion had paffed in the Affirmative, that we might have had an Opportunity given us of knowing our fuppofed Crimes and Accufers, and, we hope, of, juftifying ourselves to his Majefty and the World. Cabbam. Bolton, Die Mercurii 6° Martii, 1733. The Order of the Day being read for the Houfe to take into Confideration Matters relating to the Election of the Peers of that Part of Great Britain called Scotland. Moved to refolve, That no Peer who hath claimed, or fhall claim Right by Succeffion to any Peerage of Scotland, other than a Defcendant of the Body of a Peer or Peeress, who has been in the Poffeffion of the Peerage claimed fince the 25th of April, 1690, fhall be admitted to vote at any Election of a Peer or Peers to fit in Parliament for that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, until his Right and Title be claimed and determined in this House. After Debate, ordered, That on Monday next this Houfe fhall be put into a Committee of the whole House, to take into Confideration Matters relating to the Election of the Peers of that Part of Great Britain called Scotland. Then it was moved to refolve, for the better fecuring the Freedom of the Election of a Peer or Peers to fit in Parliament of Great Britain on the Part of Scotland, That the Election fhall be by way of Ballot. And a Question being ftated thereupon, Contents 4963 Not cont. 752 21 Proxies 15396 After further Debate, The Question was put upon the faid Motion? And It was refolv'd in the Negative. ift, Because this Motion tending only to make a Variation in the Manner of electing the Peers for Scotland, the Peerage of Scotland in Parliament, is an high Infult on the Juftice of the Crown, an Incroachment on the Freedom of Elections, and highly injurious to the Honour of the Peerage. And a Question being stated thereupon, After Debate, it was moved to put the previous Question. Contents 83260 And after further Debate, the previous Queftion was put, whe ther the faid ftated Question shall be now put? And It was refolved in the Negative. Diffentient' ft, Because we apprehend, that this Refolution, being only declaratory of indeniable Truths, ought not to have been avoided by a previous Question, fince, we fear, the leaving it undetermined may tend to encourage Practices dangerous to our Conftitution in general, and to the Honour and Dignity of this House in particular. 2dly, Because we think, this House cannot fhew too strong an Abhorrence of Practices which, whether they have been committed or not in former Elections, are yet of fuch a Nature as may poffibly be attempted hereafter by a Minifter, who may find it neceffary to try all the Methods to fecure a Majority in this Houfe, either to promote his future ambitious Views, or to fcreen his past criminal Conduct. Coventry, Marlborough, Berkshire, Northampton, Grifin, Willoughby de Broke. Die Martis 260 Martii, 1734. The House was moved, That the Select Committee appointed the Seventh Inftant to confider of the Representation of the Commiffioners for Trade and Plantations relating to the Laws made, Manufactures fet up, and Trade carried on in any of his Majefty's Colonies and Plantations in America, which may have affected the Trade, Navigation and Manufactures of this Kingdom, be impower'd to inquire of the proper Methods for the Encouragement and Security of all Trade and Manufactures in the faid Plantations, which no way interfere with the Trade of Great Britain, and for the better Security of the Plantations themselves. And a Question being stated thereupon, It was propofed after the Word [Encouragement] to leave out [and Security]. Which being objected to, and Debate had there upon, Contents 28 Not Cont. 52 The Question was put, whether the Words [and Security] fhall stand Part of the Queftion? It was refolved in the Negative. Then it was propofed, That thefe Words at the latter End of the Motion, viz [and for the better Security of the Plantations themselves] be left out. But the fame being objected to, The Question was put, whether thefe Words fhall ftand Part of the Queftion? And It was refolved in the Negative. Diffentient' Because we apprehend, that if the Safety of the Plantations themselves is not thought a Matter worthy the Confideration of the Parliament, it is of Abingdon, Then the Question was put, whether the faid Committee shall be impowered to inquire of the proper Methods for the Encouragement of all Trade and Manufactures of the Plantations in America, which no Way interferes with the Trade of Great Britain, or which may be of Use to Great Britain? And it was refolved in the Negative. Diffentient ift, Because we apprehend, that the new Powers proposed to be given to the Committee, were not only expedient, but abfolutely neceffary, fince by the Account given by feveral Lords who attended the Committee (and contradicted by none) it appear'd to the House, That from the Informations of Merchants of undoubted Credit, Jamaica, Barbadoes, and the Leeward lands were in fo defencelefs a Condition, that they might be taken in Four and twenty Hours; and we conceive, that fuch imminent Danger of fuch valuable Poffeffions required 'an immediate and minute Examination, in order to discover the Causes and Nature of the Danger, and to apply proper and adequate Remedies. 2dly, Because we conceive, that the chief Reafon urged in the Debate, against this Inquiry, is the ftrongest Argument imaginable for it, viz. That it might discover the Weakness of those Islands in the present |