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vare set out in Mr. Peach’s “ Historic Houses of Bath” (p 75) 
‘they are sufficiently germane to my subject, to tempt me to refer 
to them. 
The war with Spain, which was declared in January 1762, was 
determined in the early part of the following year, by treaty of 
peace. This treaty was much canvassed, and Pitt, who had 
throughout strenuously advocated hostility against Spain, 
denounced the peace as inadequate and unworthy of a great 
nation. 
Ralph Allen took a different view, and at a meeting of the 
Citizens in June 1763 he caused an Address to be framed for 
presentation to the King, of which the following is a copy :— 
To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty. 
We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the ancient and 
Joyal city of Bath, do beg leave to congratulate, and most humbly to 
thank your Majesty for an adequate aud advantageous peace, which 
you have graciously procured for your people, after a long and very 
expensive, though necessary and glorious war, which your Majesty, 
upon your accession to the throne, found your kingdoms engaged in. 
And we take the liberty to assure your Majesty, that upon all 
occasions we shall be ready to give the most evident proofs of the 
truest zeal and duty, which the most dutiful subjects can testify to 
the most gracious and best of princes. 
_ Intestimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our Common Seal, 
the 28th day of May 1763. 
The citizens, very probably, passed the address without any 
particular idea that they were taking a strong line. At all events 
the resolution was unanimous. At this time the members for 
the City were Sir John Sebright, and Pitt. Ligonier had been 
raised from an Irish Title to an Earldom in the Peerage of 
Great Britain, and in April, 1763, Sebright was elected by 22 
“votes against 5 recorded for Walter Long. The address was 
ent to the two City members for presentation, and a courteous 
