5792. political peogrefs of Britain. a 
*¢ ger to make good the deficiences of the civil list, 
since they and their friends enjoyed such a fbare of 
“ that revenue ; and he desired to know, whether 
*¢ this was all that was due, or whether they /oould 
** expect anether reckoning 2?” * Leave was granted 
to raise any sum not excceeding a million. In 1726, his 
majesty entered into an agreement with the king of 
Sweden. He was to pay that monarch fifty thousand 
pounds per annum for three years, and ‘the Swede 
was to keep in readinefs ten thousand men for the 
service of England... The landgrave of Hefse Cal. 
sel was engaged to provide twelve thousand men. He 
received seventy-four thousand pounds in hand, and 
-was to have fifty thousand pounds more if his troops 
were wanted. In 1727 his majesty obtained an un- 
limited vote of credit for such sums as he fhould 
think necefsary to employ in securing the trade of 
England, and restoring the peace of Europe. He died 
‘soon after, and we must agree with Dr Smollet “ that 
“ at the accefsion of George 1, the nation had 
** great reason to wilh for an alteration of measures ;’” 
but unhappily, as-he soon after observes, ‘‘ the system. 
** of polities which the late king had estab/ifbed, under- 
** went no sort of alteration.” Anhundred thousand 
pounds were immediately added to the civil list. 
Mr Shippen opposed this measure in anableharangue, 
and the money was voted by Walpole’s amercenaries 
without areply. Ona mefsage from the king they 
settled an hundred thousand pounds a-year as a pro- 
vision for the queen, in case fhe survived her hus- 
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* Smollet’s histexy» 
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