Prince Eugene of Savoy arrives in England.....

Walpole expelled the House of Commons.....
Votes against the Duke of Marlborough.....

Resolutions against the Barrier-treaty and the Dutch.....

Acts unfavourable to the Presbyterian Discipline in Scotland._ NEGOTIATION FOR PEACE INEFFECTUAL.
The French king was by this time reduced to such a state of humiliation by the losses of the last campaign, and a severe winter, which completed the misery of his subjects, that he resolved to sacrifice all the considerations of pride and ambition, as well as the interest of his grandson, to his desire of peace, which was now become so necessary and indispensable.

He despatched the president Rouille privately to Holland, with general proposals of peace, and the offer of a good barrier to the states-general, still entertaining hopes of being able to detach them from the confederacy.