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An Authentic Collection of the SPEECHES and DEBATES in the British House of Commons from the Year 1742, to the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. In the Debates of this Period, are many important Motions arising from a Variety of interesting Events, both Domestic and Foreign. Several material Changes in the Administration, were the Consequence of those Debates. As the Attention of Parliament was occasionally employed upon a long and expensive War with both France and Spain, and the Suppression of an unnatural and intestine Rebellion; a Moment's Reflection will shew this to have been one of the most important Periods in our History. It is therefore to be regretted, that these Debates have not been collated and digested before, and that so necessary a Work has been so long neglected; a Work so essentially useful to every Member of Parliament, and every Lover of Constitutional History. These Debates which are principally compiled from authentic Notes taken in the House, are arranged partly upon the same Plan with Chandler's Collection, which is brought down to the Year 1742; but with such Improvements from the Journals, and other authentic Papers, as, it is presumed, will render them worthy the Notice of every British Legislator.

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