Lord Coke spoke with animosity[214] against the measure, as being a Scotch measure; Lord Hilsborough with approbation of it, as resembling what, he said, he had experienced in Ireland, where he had seen mountains of Papists settled at last by Protestants, after two or three colonies had been successively driven off; and he said sensibly, “have we 6000 men who keep all Scotland in order, and will they not be able to protect this little colony?” Northey objected to the economy of a measure which was pretended [to be] calculated to save the expense of an Army, and yet must be put in execution by an Army! and he stated the collusive manner in which the calculation was drawn up, and observed that the claims erected were 270,000_l._; that the estates to be purchased are 16,000_l._ a year; that it is allowed, that there is personal estate sequestered to the amount of 19,000_l._; and yet that that sum was not allotted towards the purchase. The Report was agreed to by 171 to 34. Lord Gower’s sons[215] were in the minority: none of the Duke’s servants were present but Felton Hervey, and he too was against the Bill. 7th.--Prince Edward, the young Prince of Orange, and the Earls of Lincoln, Winchelsea, and Cardigan, were declared Knights of the Garter: the Scotch Earl of Dumfries had the Green Ribband, and Lord Onslow the Red. Some differences happened upon a ship of ours taking sailors out of an Embden vessel; and a Bill was brought in to prevent insuring Embden ships. 9th.--The Scotch Bill was passed in the Commons, on a division of 134 to 39. FOOTNOTES: [204] One of the reasons for reckoning him severe was, his laughing at those who wrote on Phalaris’s bull. [205] This was written before the last war in the reign of George the Second, in which, he really triumphed over both France and Spain, but it was by the Ministry of Mr. Pitt. [206] The Duke of Cumberland’s subsequent patience on his father’s unjust ill-treatment of him after the battle of Hastenbeck, and his Royal Highness’s total indifference to money, fully vindicate him from this suspicion. [207] Particularly by the Author of these Memoirs. [208] Pitt and the Grenvilles. See the preceding year. [209] Lord Halifax. [210] Mr. Murray. [211] Mr. Pelham. [212] Very probable that a King of Denmark should have seen a Preamble to a Mutiny Bill!--but there was no hyperbole too extravagant for Lord Granville to use. [213] Sir Dudley Rider. [214] He was much hated by the Scotch, since his quarrel with and separation from his wife, Lady Mary, youngest daughter of John, Duke of Argyle. [215] Earl Gower stuck to the Pelhams: his sons, Lord Trentham and Richard Leveson, acted with their brother-in-law, the Duke of Bedford. CHAPTER IX.