CHAPTER XXIII

Standing Armies

Sunderland

Lord Spencer

Controversy touching Standing Armies

Meeting of Parliament

The King's Speech well received; Debate on a Peace Establishment

Sunderland attacked

The Nation averse to a Standing Army

Mutiny Act; the Navy Acts concerning High Treason

Earl of Clancarty

Ways and Means; Rights of the Sovereign in reference to Crown Lands

Proceedings in Parliament on Grants of Crown Lands

Montague accused of Peculation

Bill of Pains and Penalties against Duncombe

Dissension between the houses

Commercial Questions

Irish Manufactures

East India Companies

Fire at Whitehall

Visit of the Czar

Portland's Embassy to France

The Spanish Succession

The Count of Tallard's Embassy

Newmarket Meeting: the insecure State of the Roads

Further Negotiations relating to the Spanish Succession

The King goes to Holland

Portland returns from his Embassy

William is reconciled to Marlborough

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