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inquiry concerning the conduct of the War--& it was found that there were not above half the troops in Spain that the parliament had made provision for; and that in a manner the whole expence of the war in that country was Thrown enterely on the English-- About this time the Jacobite party in-- Scotland were encessant in their solicitations with the court of France to afford a small supply of Men and arms, for the purpose of possessing themselves of the Government of Scotland and thence in conjunction with the French auxeliaries to distress London, by the emmediate seizure of Newcastle and by stopping the Coal trade--It was in consequence of a strong representation of the practicability of this plan that the French court in their present distress of Men and money suffered themselves to be prevailed on to prepare a squadron of Men of War consisting of five Ships equipped for action and two fitted for transports, and it was not till the pretended King of Scotland or the Chevalier St George
