CHAPTER VII.

Reflections on the Peace..... The Prince of Wales’
Adherents join the Opposition..... Character of the
Ministry..... Session opened..... Debate on the Address.....
Supplies granted..... Exorbitant Demand of the Empress-queen
opposed..... Violent Contest concerning the Seamen’s
Bill..... Objections to the Mutiny Bill..... Bill for
limiting the Term of a Soldier’s Service..... Measures taken
with respect to the African Trade..... Scheme for improving
the British Fishery..... Attempt to open the Commerce to
Hudson’s Bay..... Plan for manning the Navy..... Fruitless
Motions made by the Opposition..... Severities exercised
upon some Students at Oxford..... Duke of Newcastle chosen
Chancellor cf the University of Cambridge..... Tumults in
different Parts of the Kingdom..... Scheme for a Settlement
in Nova Scotia..... Town of Halifax founded..... French
Attempts to settle on the Island of Tobago..... Rejoicings
for the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle..... Pretender’s eldest Son
arrested at Paris..... Appearance of a Rupture between
Russia and Sweden..... Interposition of the King of
Prussia..... Measures taken by the French Ministry.....
Conduct of different European Powers..... Insolence of the
Barbary Corsairs..... Disturbances in England..... Session
opened—Subjects of Debate..... Scheme for reducing the
Interest of the National Debt..... Act passed for that
Purpose..... New Mutiny Bill..... Bill for encouraging the
Importation of Iron from America..... Erection of the
British Herring Fishery..... New African Company.....
Westminster   Election..... Earthquakes in London.....
Pestilential Fever at the Session in the Old Bailey.....
Disputes between Russia and Sweden..... Plan for electing
the Arch-duke Joseph King of the Romans..... Opposition of
the King of Prussia..... Disputes with the French about the
Limits of Nova-Scotia..... Treaty with Spain..... Session
opened..... Debate on the Address..... Supplies granted.....
Death and Character of the Prince of Wales..... Settlement
of a Regency, in case of a Minor Sovereign—General
Naturalization Bill..... Censure passed upon a Paper
entitled Constitutional Queries..... Proceedings of the
Commons on the Westminster Election..... Mr. Murray sent
Prisoner to Newgate..... Session closed..... Style altered

1748