xxii PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE; 



who pelted his guards, and even wounded fomc of 

 his friends who attended him in the coach. 



Againft all this national fury, the dnke of 

 Queenibcrry, and other noblemen, attached to the 

 union and the proteftant fuccefiion, acted with 

 equal addrefs and refolution. They magnified the 

 advantages that would accrue to the kingdom from 

 the union, and argued ftrenuoufly againft all the 

 objections that were ftarted to the meafure. They 

 difarmed the refentment of the clergy, by promot- 

 ing an act to be inferted in the treaty, declaring the 

 prefbyterian difcipline to be the only government of 

 the church of Scotland, unalterable in all fucceeding 

 times, and a fundamental article of the treaty. They 

 employed emilTaries to allay the ferment among the 

 Cameronians, and difunitethem from the cavaliers, by 

 demonftrating the abfurdity, finfulnefs, and danger of 

 fuch a coalition. They foothed the India company 

 with the profpedt of being indemnified for the lofles 

 they had fuftained. They amufed individuals with 

 the hope of* fharing the reft of the equivalent *$ 

 and finally they brought over the Squadrone Vo- 

 lante^ a party in the Scots parliament fo denomi- 

 nated from their fluctuating between the miniftry 

 and oppofition, through the whole progrefs of the 



treaty, 



* It was Stipulated in the treaty, that . 398,085, fhould be 

 paid to the Scots, as an equivalent for the cuftoms, taxes, and 

 excifes, to be levied upon that kingdom in coniequence of the 

 Inglifti debt, which then amounted to more than . 20,000,000, 

 though eftimated at 17,000,000. 



This equivalent, if it may be fo called, was applied in the fol- 

 lowing manner : 



Firft, to pay off the capital of the Scottifh India company, 

 which was to be abolilhed in favour of the Englilh company, 

 trading to the Eaft Indies. 



Secondly, to indemnify private perfons for any lofles they might 



fuftain, by reducing the coin of Scotland to the ftandard and^ 



value of the coin of England ; and as generally, reported, 



Thirdly, in bribing a majority of the Scottifh parliament, when 



matters came to the lafl pufli. 



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