One member spoke of the prevalence of highway robbery; another deplored the quarrel between the Queen and the Princess, and proposed that two or three gentlemen should be deputed to wait on Her Majesty and try to make matters up.

A third described the machinations of the Jacobites in the preceding spring.

It was notorious, he said, that preparations had been made for a rising, and that arms and horses had been collected; yet not a single traitor had been brought to justice.

[348] The events of the war by land and sea furnished matter for several earnest debates.

Many members complained of the preference given to aliens over Englishmen.