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HOUSE OF LORDS.

Friday August 12.

At half after three o'clock his majesty having
taken his seat on the throne, the gentleman Usher
of the black Rod was desired to require the attendance of the Speaker who attended accordingly,
and read the following address:

"Most Gracious Sovereign,

"Your majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the
Parliament assembled, have at length completed the
supplies granted to your majesty for the service of
the present year--a period memorable for the events which it has produced, and awful for those which may be yet to come.

"In granting those supplies, your majesty's faithful commons have considered that a crisis,
without example, demanded unexampled efforts;
and by resolving to raise, annually, a large proportion of the supplies for the current year, so
long as the war endures, they have given, to all
the world a solemn pledge of their inflexible determination to render the public credit unfailing.

"They have also proceeded to revise the system of your majesty's permanent revenue. By
consolidating the duties in each of its principal
branches; they have simplified its operations, and
at the same time they have endeavored to render
its pressure less burthensome by regulating its
mode of collection.
The commercial interests of this country, to
which our attention was called by your majesty's
gracious commands at the commencement of the
present session, have been maturely considered;
and measures have been taken for affording material accommodations and facilities to mercantile
transactions, by rendering our principal ports free
for all nations to import, deposit, and re-export
their merchandise, without toll or tax, unless voluntarily brought into our own market for home
consumption.
Nor have we forgotten to bestow our earnest and serious thoughts upon the safety and efficacy of our church establishment in every part
of the united kingdom. Upon this subject, as
comprehending all that consecrates our rational
hopes, morals, and policy, we have deliberated
with peculiar care and anxiety; and we presume
to believe, that the important laws which have
been passed in aid of our church establishment,
will materially strengthen and gradually extend
its influence through succeeding ages.
But, sire, these were cares and objects belonging to times of peace. Wise, politic, and
desirable, as they might be, nevertheless, called
upon now by your majesty's commands, we have
without hesitation turned all our thoughts and
efforts to meet the renewal of war, persuaded
that your majesty's paternal care preserved to us
the blessings of peace so long as they retained
with safety and honor, and confident that since
they have been openly attacked, and the justice
of our cause has been made manifest to the world
our appeal to arms will not be in vain.
This war we see and know to be a war of no
ordinary character. We feel that our religion,
laws and liberties, and existence as a nation are
put to the issue, and we have prepared for the
contest accordingly. Besides the supplies of money, we have augmented beyond, all former example, every species of military force known in
this country; we have met rebellion with prompt
and necessary laws; and for the defence of a sovereign endeared to us by long experience of his
royal virtues, and commanding not an allegiance
alone, but our hearts and affections, the whole nation has risen in arms.
May then the God of our fathers go forth
with us to battle, and bless our cause, and establish with victory that throne which we revere as
the bulwark of our liberties; and so shall other
nations at length learn that a free, valiant, and
united people is unconquerable, and able to set
lasting bounds to an empire of violence, perfidy,
and unrelenting ambition.
To the bills which we now humbly present
to your majesty, your commons, with all humility, entreat your majesty's royal assent.
His majesty then, in a firm and audible tone,
addressed the following speech to the lords and
commons assembled:
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I am at length enabled, by the state of public
business, to release you from your long and laborious attendance in parliament.
In closing the session, I have the utmost satisfaction in expressing the strong sense which I entertain of that zealous and unwearied regard for
the welfare and honor of your country, which has
distinguished all your proceedings.
During the continuance of peace, your conduct manifested the just view which you had taken of our actual situation, and of the dangers
against which you were peculiarly called upon to
provide; and since the recurrence of hostilities,
you have displayed an energy and promptitude
which have never been surpassed. in the means
which you have supplied for the defence of the
country, & for the vigorous prosecution of the war.
Your proceedings, in consequence of the late
treasonable and atrocious occurrences in Ireland,
will, I trust, have the effect of preventing any
further interruption of its internal tranquillity
and of convincing my loyal subjects, in that part
of the United Kingdom that they may confidently rely on that protection to which they are so
justly entitled.
In the midst of the deliberations which were
occasioned by the immediate exigency of the times,
you have not been unmindful of other objects, to
which I had directed your attention; and
I have great satisfaction in observing that
you have completed a system for consolidating
the duties, and regulating the collection and management of the several branches of the revenue;
and that you have adopted measures which are
calculated to afford material accommodation to
the mercantile part of the community, and to encourage and extend the navigation and commerce
of my dominions.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
I return you my particular thanks for the liberality and readiness with which you have granted the supplies for the public service.
It is painful for me to reflect, that the means
of necessary exertion cannot be provided without a heavy pressure upon my faithful people: But
I cannot sufficiently applaud that wisdom and
fortitude which have led you to overlook considerations of temporary convenience, for the purpose of preventing a large accumulation of debt during the continuance of the war. You may be
assured that there shall be as strict an attention
to economy on my part as may be consistent with
those preparations and exertions which will be
best calculated to frustrate the designs and to
weaken the power of the enemy, by whose arrogant pretensions and restless ambition alone these
sacrifices have been rendered unavoidable.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I am fully persuaded that during the cessation