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Debate granting pay for sixteen thousand Hanoverian troops
HOUSE OF COMMONS, DECEMBER 10, 1742.
[Motion in the committee of supplies, for granting pay for sixteen thousand Hanoverian troops for the four months last past.]
Sir William YONGE opened the debate, and spoke in substance as follows:--Sir, though the general state of the kingdoms of Europe cannot be supposed to be wholly unknown in this assembly, yet since the decision of the question now before us, must depend upon the conceptions which every man has formed with regard to the affairs on the continent, it will be necessary to exhibit them to view in a narrow compass, that nothing which may contribute to our information may be overlooked or forgotten.
The late emperour, for some time before his death, finding that there remained little hopes of male issue, and that his family would be consequently in danger of losing part of the honours and dignities which it had so long enjoyed, turned his thoughts to the security
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