The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

His MAJESTY's most gracious Speech to both houses of Parliament, on Wednesday, July 16, 1783.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

The advanced season of the year requires some remission from your long and laborious attention to the public service: The exigencies of that service may oblige me to call you together again at an early period; and I persuade myself, from my uniform experience of your affection to me, and your zeal for the public good, that you will cheerfully submit to a temporary inconvenience for the advantage of your country.

The consideration of the affairs in the East Indies will require to be resumed as early as possible, and to be pursued with a serious and unremitting attention.

I expected to have had the satisfaction of acquainting you, before the end of the session, that the terms of pacification were definitively settled: But the complicated state of the business in discussion has unavoidably protracted the negotiation. I have however, every reason to believe, from the disposition shewn by the several powers concerned, that they are perfectly well inclined to such a conclusion, as may procure the blessing of peace, so much and so equally to be desired by all parties.

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Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

I thank you for the supplies you have so liberally granted for the public service: For facilitating my arrangements towards a separate establishment for the Prince of Wales, and for enabling me, without any new burden on my people, to discharge the debt which remained on my civil list.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

I earnestly recommend to you an attention towards promoting among my people, in your several counties, that spirit of order, regularity, and industry, which is the true source of revenue and power in this nation, and without which, all regulations for the improvement of the one, or the increase of the other, will have no effect.