History of England From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles 4
History of England From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles 4
Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope
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p. 116. Digitized by VnOOQ IC 92 HISTORY OP ENGLAND. CHAP. XXXm amounted to 8,300,000/^ the National Fonded Debt being at the outset of the war about 72,000,000/., and having decrea> sed but 6,000,000/. in the seven years of peace since the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.* It was also at this period that Pitt commenced his bold, yet, as it proved , most safe and wise policy, of raising High- land regiments from the lately disaffected cjans. I have al- ready alluded to this measure by anticipation**;... let me now add only the glowing words which Chatham himself applied to it in retrospect " My Lords , we should not want men in '' a good cause. I remember how I employed the very rebels "in the service and defence of their country. They were "reclaimed by this me^ns; they fought our battles; they "cheerfully bled in defence of those liberties which they had "attempted to overthrow but a few years before I " *** Another measure of public defence was the new mo- delling of a national Militia. A Bill for this object, which Pitt proposed, had passed the Commons' House in a former Session , but was rejected in the Lords , mainly by the inter- position of Lord Hard wicl^e.
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