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268 P. Mantonx mention of their speaking for or against the bill. They were : for the bill, Sir Robert Walpole, Horace Walpole, and Oglethorpe ; against, Sir John Barnard, Sir William Wyndham, Pulteney, Sir Joseph Jekyll, and one Willimot, member for the city of London.^ The records of the French Foreign Office give us a report of the same debate.- It is impossible to print it here on account of its length : it fills seventeen folios of the Correspondance. But in that report there are no more speeches of the collective type, summing up the opinions of a whole party. Each member speaks in his turn, and thus we are enabled to know the origin of the ideas and sen- tences put together, according to his fancy, by the writer who arranged the debate for the magazines. If we compare the two texts, we shall be struck at first by their general likeness. The list of the members who spoke is the same in both documents; for Sir Joseph Jekyll (whose name is mentioned in the magazines) and the Master of the Rolls (who is represented, in the French report, to have spoken after Sir Robert Walpole) are the same person. Any passage taken out of one of the texts will almost infallibly be found in the other one, sometimes in a more or less abridged form, but very often in sentences of the same shape, and even in the same terms. ^ But the arrangement of matters is widely different : in the first and third speeches of the magazines we can recognize Horace and Robert Walpole's speeches of the French report, but much altered, as if they had been cut up and the pieces mixed afterward; the beginning of the first speech has been bor- rowed from Robert Walpole's utterance, the second column from Horace's, and so on. However, each version contains passages which are wanting in the other one: for instance, in the magazines' report, enlargements upon the subject of the afifront which the government inflicts upon Parliament by requesting it to load the country with new burdens without allowing it to form a well- ^ The Parliamentary History includes many reports of this type, taken from the magazines. Before 1732 they were hardly ever done otherwise. ' Correspondance Politique, vol. 390, ff. 205-222. ^ Pari. Hist., IX. column 691, and Correspondance Politique, vol. 390, f. 216; col. 694 and f. 219; col. 696-697 and iT. 209-210: col. 700 and f. 206; col. 702 and f. 214; col. 703 and f. 215, etc. The most striking words are textually the same : " that trading protestant city ", with regard to Dantzig, col. 700 and f. 218 ; " the two blundering brothers ", " les deux brouillons de freres ", when Horace Walpole speaks of the blame that will be cast upon him and his brother, if they allow themselves to be taken unawares by an emergency, col. 714 and f. 207 ; " a show at Spithead or in the Downs ", when an opponent asks what will be the use of an increased navy, col. 700 and f. 205 ; " as able a minister, and as good a negociator as any we ever had in any part of Europe ", when speaking of the British envoy at the Hague, col. 707.