The report was sent to the lord-admiral, who answered all the articles separately: then the tories moved for an address, in which the blame of the miscarriages might be laid upon the ministry and cabinet-council; but the motion was overruled: the queen was presented with a bare representation of the facts, and desired that she would take the proper measures for preventing such evils for the future.

The commons made some progress in an inquiry of the same nature, and brought in a bill for the better securing the trade of the kingdom.

They cheerfully granted the supplies for the service of the ensuing year.

They prepared another bill for repealing the Scottish act of security, and that about peace and war, which had excited such jealousy in the English nation.

They resolved that there should be but one privy-council in the kingdom of Great Britain: that the militia of Scotland should be put on the same footing with that of England: that the powers of the justices of the peace should be the same through the whole island: that the lords of justiciary in Scotland should go circuits twice in the year; that the writs for electing Scottish members to serve in the house of commons should be directed, and returns made, in the same manner as practised in England.