A critical history of the administration of Sr Robert Walpole, now Earl of Orford : collected chiefly from the debates in Parliament, and the political writings on both sides : and digested under the following heads : first, with regard to domestic affairs, the bank contract, and other measures in consequence of the South-sea project : grants to the civil list, votes of credit, and annual provisions for the current service : the excise and other schemes reputed destructive of the people's liberty, and subversive of the Constitution : undue influence in elections and on the elected, with other suspected branches of corruption : discouragement of commerce, industry, arts, capacity, and literature : vast expences incur'd, without any visible advantage to Great-Britain : secondly, with regard to foreign affairs : negotiations and treaties with foreign nations, exclusive of those with Spain that regard the present quarrel : transactions between Spain and us, from the first Treaty of Vienna to the last Convention : conduct of the war : and thirdly, as consequential of both : the history of the opposition within doors and without : the secession, the motion, the defeat, and resignation : to the whole are prefix'd, some particulars of Mr. Walpole's public life, before the year 1721 /