Supplies, liberal when compared with the resources of a country devastated by years of predatory war, were voted with eagerness.

But the bill for confirming the Act of Settlement was thought to be too favourable to the native gentry, and, as it could not be amended, was with little ceremony rejected.

A committee of the whole House resolved that the unjustifiable indulgence with which the Irish had been treated since the battle of the Boyne was one of the chief causes of the misery of the kingdom.

A Committee of Grievances sate daily till eleven in the evening; and the proceedings of this inquest greatly alarmed the Castle.

Many instances of gross venality and knavery on the part of men high in office were brought to light, and many instances also of what was then thought a criminal lenity towards the subject nation.