A. C. Dr.Sache- Pofitions, lately publish'd. III. The Church and Clergy 4bus'd. IV. The Queen, State, and Miniftry reflected upon : The Second Edition: Which Book was produced and brought up to the Table, where fome Paragraphs (under the Head of Blafphemy, Irreligion, and Here. fy) were read; after which, it was order'd, That the Quations faid Book fhould, the next Day, be burnt by the Hands order'd to of the Common Hangman; and that the Sheriffs of London and Middlefex fhould affift the Serjeant at Arms attending the House, in feeing the said Book burnt. be burnt. March 25. A. C. 1710. Other blaf phemous Books order'd likewife to be burnt. The next t Day, upon a Complaint made to the Houfe, by Dr. Sacheverel's Friends, of a printed Book, entituled, The Rights of the Christian Church afferted, against the Romish, and all other Priests, who claim an independent Power over it; with a Preface concerning the Government of the Church of England, as by Law establish'd. And allo of another printed Book, entituled, A Defence of the Rights of the Chriftian Church, in two Parts. Part firft, against Mr. Wooton's Vifitation-Sermon, preach'd at Newport-Pagnel. Part fecond, occafion'd by two late Indictments against a Bookfeller and his Servant, for felling one of the Said Books; with fome Tracts of Hugo Grotius, and Mr. John Hales of Eaton: The Second Edition, corrected: To which is added, a Letter from a Country Attorney to a Country Parfon, concerning the Rights of the Church, never publifh'd before. And likewife Monfieur le Clerc's Extract and Judgment of the faid Book; tranflated from his Bibliotheque Choifie. London, Printed in the Year M DGC IX. The fame were produced and brought up to the Table, and fome Paragraphs and Paffages therein contain'd, being read, it was refolv'd, That the faid 'Books are Scandalous, Seditious, and Blafphemous 'Libels, highly reflecting upon the Christian Religion, ' and the Church of England, and tend to promote Immorality and Atheism, and to create Divifions, 'Schifms, and Factions, among her Majefty's Subjects; and order'd, That the faid Book be that Day burnt by the Hands of the Common Hangman. A A Complaint being likewife made to the House, of a printed Book, entituled, Tractatus Philofophico Theologicus de Perfona: Or, a Treatife of the Word Perfon, fhewing, I. How it fignifies in respect of Men. II. How it came in Ufe, with respect to the Deity. II. How it hath been used fince by Divines. IV. How it is to be understood, with respect to the Doctrine ef the Trinity, as held by the Church of England, and establish'd by our Law, and particularly by the Act 9 and to of William III. By John Clendon, of the Inner-Temple, Efq; Printed for John Walthoe, in the Middle-Temple Cloysters; the fame was produced and brought up to the ८ A. C. 1710. the Table, and fome Paffages therein contained, being read, it was refolv'd, That the faid Printed Book is a Scandalous, Seditious and Blafphemous Libel; highly reflecting upon the Chriftian Religion and 'Church of England, and tends to promote Atheism, Schifm and Immorality, and to create Factions and 'Divifions among Her Majefty's Subjects; Ordered, That the faid Book be that Day burnt by the Hands of the Common Hangman; And refolv'd, Than an humble Addrefs be prefented to Her Majefty, That the will be graciously pleafed to Direct Her Attorney'General to profecute the Authors of the faid printed Brooks, and the Publifhers thereof, and the Authors ' änd Publishers of all other Scandalous. Seditious and 'Schifmatical, Atheistical and Blafphemous Books. According to the Orders of the Commons, Dr. Sacheverell's Collections, and the Books they had cenfured, March were, that Day burnt in the Palace-Yard, Weftminfier, 25. as were the Monday + following, before the Royal Ex- + March change, the Doctor's Two Sermons; as alfo a Decree made by the University of Oxford, in July, 1683. affer- ral Books, ting the Doctrine of Paffive Obedience and Non-Refift- and Dr.Saance, &c. which the Lords had order'd to be burnt at, cheverel's the fame time. But tho this Bufinefs of Do&tor Sa- Collections cheverell, which made fo much Noife, both at home and Serand abroad, feem'd to terminate with these Small monsburnt: Flames; yet it new-kindled old Animofities, which As also the foon after fhew'd themfelves in many Addreffes, of Decree of very different Stile and Tenor, that were prefented the Univer to the Queen: As fhall be related in its proper fity of Ox Place. While this great Affair, of which we have purpofely given an Uninterrupted View, was depending, feveral other Matters were tranfacted in Parliament, of which we fhall now take Notice. On the 18th of January, the Queen went to the Houfe of Lords, with the ufual State, and the Commons being fent for up, and attending, Her Majefty gave the Royal * 27. Seve ford. Affent to the Lottery-Bill, entituled, An Act for Con- Lotsery Bill tinutng Part of the Duties upon Coals, Culm, and Cynders; pals,Jan. and granting new Duties upon Houfes, having Twenty Win- 18. dows, or more, to raise the Sum of Fifteen Hundred Thousand Pounds, by way of a Lottery, for the Service of the Year 1710. Two Days † after, the Books for receiving † Jan. 20. · Subscriptions to this Lottery, were open'd at Mercer's Hall, and the Crowd was fo great, that above 600000 !. The Lottery were fubfcribed that Day, and the whole Sum of fills epace. 1500000 1. towards the End of March. On 1792. A. C. On the 25th of January, the Commons, taking into Confideration that many of their Members did not, at this Critical Jun&ture, attend the Service of the Houfe, refolv'd, House, refolv'd, That fuch Members as did absent Refolutions themselves without the Leave of the House, were to against ab-be reputed Deferters of their Truft, and Neglectors of that. Sent Mem-Duty they owed to that Houfe, and their Country. bers of the Then upon a Motion, and after fome Debate, it was Houfe of order'd, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for fecuCommons. ring the Freedom of Parliaments, by limiting the Number of Bill for Li- Officers, (either Military or Civil) in the Houfe; and apmiring the pointed a Committee to bring in the fame. Three Number of Days after, the faid Bill was read a fecond Time; Officers in and the Queftion being put, Whether it should be the Houfe of committed to a Committee of the whole Houfe? It Commons. was carried in the Affirmative, by a Majority of 215 *Jan. 28. Voices, against 154 It was obferv'd, That General Stanhope fpoke for the bringing in of this Bill, to +Jan. 31. which the Grand Committee made fome Amend*Febr. 1. ments, which being reported to the House by Mr. Wortley Montague, were agreed to, and the Bill order'd to be engrofs'd. A Bill for Limiting publick * * On the 2d of February, Mr. Medlycott reported from the Committee to whom the Confideration of the Petition or several Mercers in the City of London, and Mournings. Liberty of Westminster, in the Behalf of themfelves and the reft of that Trade, and feveral other Petitions, was referred, the Matter, as it appeared to them, and the Refolutions of the Committee thereupon, which He read in his Place, and afterwards delivered them in at the Table, where. the fame were read, and are as follow: ift. That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That by reafon of the frequent Publick Mournings, many thousands of Families employed in the Silk and Wollen Manufactures of this Kingdom have loft their Trades and Imployments, and are become an infupportable burthen to the Parishes wherein they inhabit; and if a fpeedy Remedy be not applied, it will en danger the Lofs of the Silk-Manufacture fo beneficial to this Kingdom, and at last center in a Foreign Trade. adly, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the Houfe be moved for Leave to bring in a Bill for afcertaining and limiting the time of Publick Mournings: Whereupon it was Ordered, That Leave be be given to bring in a Bill for afcertaining and Hmiting the time of Publick Mournings. A. C. 17. Four Days after, Mr. Farrer reported the Refolutions taken in the Committee of the whole Houfe Feb. 6. about Ways and Means to raife the Supply, the moft Refolutions material of which, were as follows, viz. That New about Ways 'Duties of Excife be laid upon all excifeable Liquors and Means. in Great-Britain, over and above all other Duties to raise the now payable for the fame; That the faid new Du- Supply. 'ties be granted for the Term of Thirty Two Years, to commence from Lady-day, One thoufand feven hundred and ten, That a new Duty of One Shilling and Six Pence per Pound Weight, be laid upon all Pepper imported into Great-B itain, to be paid by the Importers thereof, over and above all other Duties, now payable upon the fame, be granted for the faid Term of Thirty Two Years. That a new Duty of Five Shillings pr Hundred Weight, be laid upon Raifons; and the prefent Duties upon Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace and Nutmegs, doubled, for the like Term of Thirty Two Years, to commence from that Day. That a clear yearly Fund of Ninety Thoufand Pounds be charged upon, and made payable out of the faid New Duties, for the aforefaid Term of Thirty Two Years, from Michaelmas, One thousand feven hundred and ten, for the Service of the Year, One thousand seven hundred and ten. That a New Duty be laid on all Candles, of what kind foever, to be made in Great-Britain, or imported into the fame, to be paid by the Makers or Importers. That a Duty be laid on all Money to be paid or given with Apprentices or Servants to learn any Profeffion, Trades or Employments in Great-Eritain, except fuch Apprentices or Servants as fhall be put or placed out at the Charge of any Parish or Township, or by any publick Charity. That the faid Duty be Six Pence in the Pound for every Sum of Fifty Pounds, or under, and one Shilling in the Pound for every Sum exceeding Fifty Pounds fo given or paid, to be paid by the Mafter or Mistress. ་ เ And that the Duties laft mentioned be granted for the Term of Five Years: Which Refolutions were agreed to, and a Bill or Bills order'd to be brought in thereupon. A. C. 1792. Refolutions about the Trade to Africa, Febr.9. The Commons, in a Grand Committee, having fe veral Times confider'd of the Trade to Africa, and heard both the Royal African Company, and the feparate Traders to Africa, upon their feveral Petitions, came at laft, to thefe Two Refolutions. Firft, That Forts and Settlements are neceffary for carrying on, and preferving the Trade to 'Africa. Secondly, That the Trade to Africa be free and open for all Her Majefty's Subje&s to Trade to Africa, from any part of Great Britain, or the Plantations, under fuch Regulations and Provisions, as may be for the Prefervation of the faid Trade, and maintaining the faid Forts and Settlements: 'Which Resolutions being, on the Ninth of February, reported, were, after fome Debate, agreed to by the Houfe; and the further Confideration of the Trade to Africa put off to the Monday follow⚫ing. The Bill for The Commons having on the 4th of that Month, limiting read the Third time, pafs'd, and fent to the Lords, the the Number Bill for Securing the Freedom of Parliaments, by limiting the of Officers in Number of Officers in the Houfe of Commons; their Lordthe Houfe of fhips appointed the 9th, to take the fame into ConCommons, fideration: And the Queen being come, incognito, to rejected by their House, the Earl of Wharton exerted his manly the Lords. Eloquence, to fhew that the faid Bill was equally derogatory to the Prerogatives of the Crown, and the Liberties of the Subject; and the Lord North and Grey, and the Earl of Scarborough, having already fpoken against the faid Bill, the fame was unanimously rejected, to the great Satisfaction of the Court. + Feb. 10. The next Day, Mr. Farrer reported from the Further Re- Committee of the whole Houfe, the following Refolutions folutions about Ways and Means to raise the Supply, about Wags viz. and Means. 1. That the quantities of Pepper on the Eighth 'Day of February, One thoufand feven hundred and nine, remaining in the Hands of any Merchants, or other Traders or Dealers in Pepper, or of any Perfons in trust for them, or to their ufe, be charged with |