there, which broke out in less than a year. The design was conducted more regularly than in England, and was better concealed. It was begun with endeavours for a remonstrance against the union; and the advice of the most famous lawyers were asked upon it, who declared the act of union contained several nullities, and to be very defective. The opposite party, to prevent a remonstrance so disagreeable to the court, were forced to consent there should be no address of congratulation: and that, presented by the Kirk, had suffered great debates about the manner in which king Wil- | liam was mentioned, and had passed with much difficulty. The Highlanders were silent, and decared not themselves. It was only known, that they were making provision of powder and ball.

FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTH PARLIA

MENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. Meeting of the New Parliament.] March 17, 1715. This day the New Parliament met at Westminster. His majesty, being seated on his royal throne, adorned with his crown and regal ornaments, and attended with his officers of state, the prince of Wales sitting in his place, and the lords in their robes, commanded the gentleman usher of the black rod to let the Commons know, "It is his majesty's pleasure, they attend him immediately, in the House of Peers." Who being come, the Lord Chancellor, receiving directions from his majesty, said,

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My lords, and gentlemen; I am commanded by his majesty to acquaint you, that his majesty does not intend to declare the causes of calling this parliament till there be a Speaker of the House of Commons. And therefore you, the gentlemen of the House of Com> mons, are to repair to the place where the Commons usually sit, and there proceed to the election of a fit person to be your Speaker; whom you are to present to his majesty here, for his royal approbation, on Monday next, at twelve of the clock."

List of the House of Peers.] The following is a list of the House of Peers at the opening of the New Parliament.

An exact LIST of the LORDS Spiritual and Temporal, summoned to meet at Westminster, on the 17th of March, 1715, being the First Parliament of King George the First, and the Fifth Parliament of Great Britain.

Those marked thus* were then under age. His royal highness George Augustus, prince of Wales, &c.

William Cowper, lord Cowper, lord high chancellor of Great Britain. Daniel Finch, earl of Nottingham, lord president of the council.

Thomas Wharton, earl of Wharton, lord privy seal.

Charles Lenos, duke of Richmond.
Charles Fitz-Roy, duke of Grafton.
James Butler, duke of Ormond.

Henry Somerset, duke of Beaufort.
George Fitz-Roy, duke of Northumberland.
Charles Beauclair, duke of St. Albans, captain of
the band of gentlemen pensioners.
Meinhardt Schonberg, duke of Schonberg.
Charles Pawlet, duke of Bolton.
Peregrine Osborne, duke of Leeds.
*Wriothesly Russel, duke of Bedford.
J. Churchill, d. of Marlborough, captain general.
John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire and
Normanby.

John Manners, duke of Rutland. John Mountagu, duke of Mountagu. *James Hamilton, d. of Hamilton and Brandon. * Charles Douglas, duke of Queensbury and Dover.

Henry de Grey, duke of Kent.

Henry Clinton, earl of Lincoln.
Henry Howard, earl of Suffolk and Bindon,
deputy earl-marshal.

Lionel Cranfield Sackville, earl of Dorset and
James Cecil, earl of Salisbury.
Middlesex, lord warden of the Cinque Ports.
John Cecil, earl of Exeter.

Scroop Egerton, earl of Bridgwater, chamber-
John Sidney, earl of Leicester.
lain to the prince.

George Compton, earl of Northampton, con

stable of the Tower of London.

* Edward Henry Rich, earl of Warwick and Hollaud.

Basil Fielding, earl of Denbigh.
Thomas Fane, earl of Westmoreland.
Charles Mountagu, earl of Manchester.
Henry Bowes Howard, earl of Berks.
John Savage, earl Rivers.

Charles Mordaunt, earl of Peterborough and
Monmouth.

Thomas Grey, earl of Stamford.
Heneage Finch, earl of Winchelsea.
Philip Stanhope, earl of Chesterfield.

Thomas Tufton, earl of Thanet.

Charles Spencer, earl of Sunderland, Id, lieutenant of Ireland.

Nicholas Leak, earl of Scarsdale.
Edward Mountagu, earl of Sandwich.
Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon.
* Wiliam Capel, earl of Essex.
George Brudenel, earl of Cardigan.
Arthur Annesly, earl of Anglesea.
Charles Howard, earl of Carlisle.
Thomas Bruce, earl of Ailesbury.
Richard Boyle, carl of Burlington.
Anthony-Ashley Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury.
Edward Henry Lee, earl of Lichfield.
Thomas Lennard, earl of Sussex.

Charles-Bodvile Robarts, earl of Radnor, treasurer of the chamber.

William Paston, earl of Yarmouth.
James Berkeley, earl of Berkeley.
Henry Hyde, earl of Rochester.
Montagu-Venables Bertie, earl of Abingdon.
Baptist Noel, earl of Gainsborough.
Robert Darcey, earl of Holderness.
Other Windsor Hickman, earl of Plymouth.
James Ratcliff, earl of Derwentwater.
Henry Stafford Howard, earl of Stafford.
Henry Bentinck, earl of Portland.
Arthur Herbert, earl of Torrington.
Richard Lumley, earl of Scarborough.
George Booth, earl of Warrington.
Richard Newport, earl of Bradford.

Frederick Zulestein de Nassau, e. of Rochford.
Arnold Joost van Kepel, earl of Albemarle,
Gilbert Coventry, earl of Coventry.
Edward Russel, earl of Orford, first commis-
sioner of the admiralty.

William Villiers, earl of Jersey.

Henry D'Auverquerque, earl of Grantham. John Campbell, earl of Greenwich (and d. of Argyle) general of the forces in Scotland. John Poulet, earl Poulet.

Francis Godolphin, earl of Godolphin, cofferer to the king.

Hugh Cholmondeley, earl of Cholmondeley, treasurer of the houshold.·

Robert Harley, earl of Oxford and e. Mortimer.
Robert Shirley, earl Ferrers.

Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford.
William Legg, earl of Dartmouth.
James Brydges, earl of Caernarvon.
Lewis Watson, earl of Rockingham.
Charles Bennet, earl of Tankerville.

Charles Mountagu, earl of Halifax, first commissioner of the treasury.

Heneage Finch, earl of Aylesford, chancellor of
the duchy of Lancaster.
John Hervey, earl of Bristol.
Thomas Pelham, earl of Clare.

Henry Paget, earl of Uxbridge, capt. of the yeomen of the guard.

Viscounts.

Charles Townsend, viscount Townsend, secretary of state.

Price Devereux, visc. Hereford.

Henry Brown, visc. Montacute.

Lawrence Fienes, visc. Say and Sele.

George Nevil, lord Abergavenny.

James Touchet, Id. Audley (earl of Castlehaven in Ireland.)

John West, íd. De la War.
Charles Mildmay, Id. Fitzwalter.
Edward Ward, Id. Dudley and Ward.
Edward Stourton, Id. Stourton.

Dr. George Verney, ld. Willoughby of Broke.
Charles Willoughby, Id. Willoughby of Parham.
Thomas Howard, ld. Howard of Effingham.
William North, Id. North, and ld. Grey of
Rolleston.

William Ferdinand Carey, ld. Hunsdon.
William St. John, Id. St. John of Bletsho.
James Compton, Id. Compton.

* Robert Petre, Id. Petre.

Henry Arundel, ld. Arundel of Wardour.
Richard Lumley, lord Lumley
Charles Dormer, lord Dormer
Henry Roper, lord Tenham
*William Greville, lord Brooke
* Nevil Lovelace, lord Lovelace
Banister Maynard, lord Maynard
Charles Howard, lord Howard of Escrick
Charles Bruce, lord Bruce
Edward Leigh, lord Leigh
William Byron, lord Byron

William Widdrington, lord Widdrington
John Colepeper, Id. Colepeper

Peregrine Bertie, Id. Willoughby of Eresby
Robert Sutton, lord Lexington
Marmaduke Langdale, lord Langdale
William Berkeley, lord Berkeley of Stratton,
first commissioner of trade
Charles Cornwallis, lord Cornwallis
John Arundel, lord Arundel of Trerice
* William Craven, lord Craven

Hugh Clifford, lord Clifford of Chudleigh
Peregrine Hyde Osborne, lord Osborne
John Carteret, lord Carteret
William Stawell, lord Stawell
Francis North, lord Guilford
James Waldgrave, lord Waldgrave
John Ashburnham, lord Ashburnham
Thomas Farmer, lord Leomiister
Charles Butler, lord Butler of Weston, (earl
of Arran in Ireland.)

Henry Herbert, lord Herbert of Cherbury
Maurice Thompson, lord Haversham
John Somers, lord Somers
Christopher Vane, lord Barnard

John Leveson Gower, lord Gower
Francis Seymour Conway, lord Conway.
Simon Harcourt, lord Harcourt

C. Boyle, Id. Boyle, (e. of Orrery in Ireland) George Hay, lord Hay (earl of Kinnoul, i¬ Scotland)

Thomas Windsor, lord Mountjoy (viscount
Windsor in Ireland)
Thomas Mansel, lord Mansel

Thomas Willoughby, lord Middleton
Thomas Trevor, lord Trevor
George Granville, lord Lansdowne
Samuel Masham, lord Masham
Thomas Foley, lord Foley
Allen Bathurst, lord Bathurst

Robert Benson, lord Bingley

James Saunderson, lord Saunderson, (iscount.

Castleton of Ireland.)

Bennet Sherrard, lord Harborough

Gervase Pierepoint, lord Pierepoint
Henry Boyle, lord Carleton

Richard Temple, lord Cobbam

Archbishops and Bishops.

Dr. Thomas Tennison, abp. of Canterbury
Sir William Dawes, bart. abp. of York.
Dr. John Robinson, bishop of London

Dr. Nathaniel Crew, bishop of Durham, and lord Crew

Sir John Trelawney, bart. bp. of Winchester
Dr. William Lloyd, bishop of Worcester
Dr. Gilbert Burnet, bishop of Sarum
Dr. John Hough, bp. of Lichfield and Coventry
Dr. Richard Cumberland, bp. of Peterborough
Dr. William Talbot, bp. of Oxford
Dr. John Evans, bishop of Bangor
Dr. William Nicholson, bp. of Carlisle

Dr. George Hooper, bishop of Bath and Wells
Dr. William Wake, bishop of Lincoln
Dr. John Tyler, bishop of Llandaff

Dr. Offspring Blackall, bishop of Exeter

Dr. Charles Trimnel, bishop of Norwich
Dr. William Fleetwood, bp. of Ely

Dr. Thomas Manningham, bp. of Chichester
Dr. Philip Biss, bishop of Hereford

Dr. Adam Ottley, bp. of St. David's

Dr. Francis Atterbury, bp. of Rochester

List of the House of Commons.] The List of the members of the House of Commons was as follows:

A LIST of the HOUSE OF COMMONS in the Fifth
Parliament of Great Britain, which met
March 17, 1715.
BEDFORDSHIRE,
William Hillersden,
John Cater.
Bedford.
William Farrer,

John Thurloe Brace.
BERKSHIRE.

Sir John Stonehouse,
Robert Packer.

New Windsor.
Sir Henry Ashurst,
Samuel Travers.
Reading.
Hon.Charles Cadogan,
Richard Thompson.
Wallingford.
William Hucks,
Henry Grey Neville.
Abington.
James Jennings.
BUCKS.
John Fleetwood,
Richard Hampden.
Buckingham.
Alexander Denton,
Edmund Halsey.
Chipping-Wicomb.
Sir Thomas Lee,

moner to the king.

Dr. Francis Gastrel, bp. of Chester
Dr. Richard Willis, bp. of Gloucester
Dr. John Wynn, bishop of St. Asaph.

The Sixteen Peers of Scotland.

James Graham, duke of Montrose, sec. of state, p. c.

John Ker, duke of Roxburgh, lord privy seal of Scotland, p. c.

John Hay, marquis of Tweedale
William Ker, marquis of Lothian

Aylesbury.

Sir Nathaniel Mead,
Trevor Hill, visc. Hills-
borough.
Agmondesham.
M. Gerrard Drake,
Hon. Ralph Verney.
Wendover.
Sir Roger Hill,

Richard Grenville.
Great Marlow.
George Bruere,

chancellor of Scotland, p. c.

John Dalrymple, earl of Stair, p. c.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Sir Robert Clark,

of Scotland, p. c.

David Erskine, earl of Buchan

James Stewart, earl of Bute

John Lesley, earl of Rothes, lord admiral of Scotland

John Sutherland, earl of Sutherland

William Ross, lord Ross

Univ. of Cambridge. Hon. Dixe Windsor, Hon. T. Willoughby. Town of Cambridge. Sir John H. Cotton, Samuel Shephard. CHESHIRE.

bedchamber to the prince of Wales

Hon. Langham Booth.

Chester.
Sir Henry Bunbury,
Sir R. Grosvenor.
CORNWALL.

Sir William Carew,
John Trevanion.
Launceston.
John Anstis,

Alexander Pendarves,
Leskard.
Philip Rashleigh,
Sir John Trelawney.
Lestwithiel.
John Newsham,
W. Cavendish, mar-
quis of Hartington.
Truro.
Spencer Cowper,
Thomas Wyndham.
Bodmin.
John Leigh,

C. Beauclair, Earl of
Burford.
Helston.

Sir Gilbert Heathcot,
Sidney Godolphin.
Saltash.
Shilston Calmady,
John Francis Buller.
Camelford.
Richard Coffin,
James Mountague.
West Looe.
Thomas Maynard,
George Delaval.
Grumpound.
Hon. John West,
Richard West.
East Love.
John Smith,
Horatio Walpole.
Penryn.
Samuel Trefusis,
W. Godolphin, Visc.
Rialton.
Tregony.
Charles Talbot,
John Mirril.
Bossiney.
Samuel Molineux,
Henry Cartwright.
St. Ives.
Lord Harry Paulet,
Sir John Hobart.