E7Q9% political progre/s of Britai. 2 
‘ancestors had ‘sense enough to see what they were 
about, and where they were driving; but debates. 
were become a mere farce. Corruption had reached 
its zenith, and then, as now, even the deformity of 
public measures. vanifhed in an abyfs of personal in- 
famy. In 1729, an effort was made to rid this coun- 
try of ‘the maintenance of the twelve thousand Eie/- 
“ sians.”? But the ministerial band bore down all op- 
position. Frequent remonstrances were made, but to 
no purpose, against the subsidies continued to Helse 
Cafsel; and Wolfenbyttle. In 1731, lord Bathurst 
moved for an addrefs to his majesty, requesting him 
to discharge the Hefsians. The motion was rejected. 
It is not wonderful to hear that five members were 
at this time expelled the House of Commons fox 
breach of trust, but it is quite inconceivable what 
crime could be considered as base enough to de- 
grade them, beneath a seat in such an afsembly. Du- 
ring the reign of Walpole the history of England 
will not bear areading. There is nothing but a dull, 
uniform, and disgusting scene of treachery. 
© Walpole,” says the-king of Prufsia, ‘* had cap- 
“ tivated his majesty by the savings which he made 
out of the civil list, from which GEORGE filled 
“ his Hanoverian treasury*!” What a beautiful 
system of government! In 1733, Walpole pro- 
‘ceeded to a step worse perhaps than any which he 
hdd attempted before. He broke in upon the send- 
ing fuad,—a resource solemnly appyopriated by par- 
liament to the discharge of the national debt; he 
; , ; * 
® History of my own times chap. ii, 
