HISTORY O F ENGLAND, FROM THE DESCENT of JULIUS CESAR, TO THE TREATY of AIX LA CHAPELLE, 1748. Containing the TRANSACTIONS of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three Years. By T. SMOLLETT, M. D. THE THIRD EDITION. VOLUME THE NINTH. Non tamen pigebit vel incondita ac rudi voce memoriam prioris fervitutis, ac TACIT. Agricola. AN LONDON: Printed for JAMES RIVINGTON and JAMES FLETCHER, at the MDCCLIX. From the REVOLUTION to the Death of T' ****************** WILLIAM III. bill, and HE old Whig principle was not yet wholly A. C. 1692. expelled from the lower house. The un- An account due influence of the court was exerted in of the place. fuch an open fcandalous manner, as gave offence to that for trithe majority of the commons. In the midst of all enn al partheir condefcenfion, Sir Edward Huffey, member liaments. for Lincoln, brought in a bill touching free and impartial proceedings in parliament. It was intended to disable all members of parliament from enjoying places of trust and profit, and particularly levelled against the officers of the army and navy, who had infinuated themselves into the house in fuch numbers, that this was commonly called the officers parliament. The bill paffed the house of commons, and was fent up to the lords, by whom |