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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
It is with great Pleasure I meet you at this Time: A Time! Gentlemen, in which every honest Man, every True Englishman, ought to rejoice with great Pleasure, and Joy, and Satisfaction.
This Nation, Gentlemen, never flourish'd more than at this Time; and I dare venture to affirm, Gentlemen, on my own Knowledge, that England never was so happy, both at Home and Abroad, as it is now. [4]
It was but lately, Gentlemen, very lately! but a little while ago; ‘tis within all your Memories, Gentlemen, that Europe was over-clouded; our neighbouring Princes engag'd in a bloody and dreadful War; and had it not been for our Wise King Gentlemen, we might have been in the same Condition.
page 278 note 1 Anne, Princess Royal, b. 1709, m. William IV of Orange, 1734.
page 278 note 2 The Prince of Wales was Frederick, 1707–51; married Augusta, daughter of Frederick II of Saxe-Gotha.
page 279 note 1 A sneaker = a small bowl, 18th century language; Arrack, any spirituous liquor of native manufacture, in Eastern countries.
page 280 note 1 O.E.D.: a burial-place; a place where refuse or dung is laid.