I. Three clauses in the Quarentine [sic] Act, VII. Georgii; II. The petition of the City of London to the House of Lords; III. Their Lordships protest on rejecting the said petition; IV. Another protest of their Lordships: And; V Another protest of their Lordships, on Sir George Bing's attacking the Spanish fleet.
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- [1721]
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Credit: I. Three clauses in the Quarentine [sic] Act, VII. Georgii; II. The petition of the City of London to the House of Lords; III. Their Lordships protest on rejecting the said petition; IV. Another protest of their Lordships: And; V Another protest of their Lordships, on Sir George Bing's attacking the Spanish fleet. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![dude itfelf fecure from any Holtiie Attack during the centime ance of fuch Negotiations. III. Becaufe til] We have a Sight of thole Inftruftions? and are able to Judge of the Reafons on which they are founded, the War with Spain, in which that, A&ion of our Fleet involved Us, does not appear to Us fo juftifiable as We c6uld ^wilh • And yet it was plainly prejudicial to the Nation in fundry Re* fpefts, for it occalioned an entire Interniption of Our molt valuable Commerce with Spain, at a Time when Great Britain needed all the Advantages of Peace- to extricate itfelf, from that heavy National Debt it lay under, and as it deprived Us of the Friendfhip of Spain, (not eafily to be Retrieved) fo it gave Our Rivals in Trade, an Opportunity to inlinuate them- filves in:o their Affe&ions; And We conceive, that to that War alone is owing the ftri& Union there is at prelent be¬ twixt the Crowns of France and Spain, which it was the In- terell of Great Britain to have always divided; an Union which in its Conlequences may prove fatal to thefe Kingdoms. Nor does it appear, that Great Britain has had any Fruits from this War, beyond its being reftored to the lame Trade, We had with Spain before we began it* Wo Ebor. Aberdeen, I North and Grey, Fr. Ce/brienfis, Brtjld, J Boyle, Strafford, Guilford,, Aylesfcrd% Trevor% Gower, St. Jphn Bktjo, Weft on, Baihurjt, f Sc or [dale * 1 Gowpen FeUyf Vxbridgt Csmpton,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30377195_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
