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affecting the Sovereign's dignity & comfort had unquestionably much excited-- [[underline]] among the middling [[/underline]] Ranks, many who had with sourness imbibed the political Eagerness of the times, for extensive reductions, took frequent opportunity of observing, that heavily as the nation felt the overpowering load of Taxes, [[underline]] Still it was not yet so depressed as to grudge to their Venerable King all possible comforts in his Afflicted day-- Neither did these harsh measures, maintain general approbation in The Houses of Parliament-- [[/underline]] [[underline]] In the House of Lords [[/underline]] The [[underline]] Earl of Lauderdale [[/underline]] on the Report of the Reductions in the King's Windsor Establishment, observed that there were Faithful Servants included who had served His Majesty above Forty years--all for a long time, yet these had been deprived of their Situations and He then pointedly remarked, [[underline]] that Their Lordship's would not act thus to Old Servants, [[/underline]] & He added, that when a new Civil List should be formed difficulty might be experienced, because some might be unwilling to accept Situations from which in their Old Age they could hope for no support--He would ask was the Dignity of the Court supported by such conduct?
