THE. Parliamentary Register; O R, HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS; CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF The moft interefting SPEECHES and MOTIONS; accurate DURING THE FOURTH SESSION of the FOURTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. VOL. VIII. CLONDON: Printed for J. ALMON, oppofite BURLINGTON-HOUSE, in PICCADILLY. MDCCLXXVIII. THE HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES Of the FOURTH SESSION of the HOUSE of COMMONS OF THE Fourteenth Parliament of Great-Britain; Appointed to be held at Weftminster, on Thurfday the 18th day of AS S foon as the Commons were returned from the Lords, Lord Hyde moved, That an humble addrefs be prefented to Lord Hyde. his Majesty, &c. His Lordship prefaced his motion by a panegyric on the prudence of government, the neceffity of the war, and the good conduct of our commanders, who, notwithstanding fome infinuations thrown out lately in the public prints, deferved our utmoft confidence, and amply juftified that hope which his Majefty as well as his Minifters placed in their future exertions. He faid, that the enfe recidendum was not adopted until the views and actions of the Americans called loudly for the measure, and that he doubted. not but the prudence of government would feize every opportunity to put a stop to the effufion of blood, when the honour, the dignity, or the intereft of the nation would admit of fuch a defirable effort. Sir Gilbe Sir Gilbert Elliot, in feconding the motion, obferved, that though he had not the honour of a feat in the Houfe when Ellior. the grand objects of the prefent unhappy war were under the difcuffion of Parliament, yet he was well aware that they had been already viewed on both fides of the Houfe in every light wherein they were capable of being feen, And, inVOL. VIII, B deed, |