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Honorable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled.

Die Martis, 27 Novembris, 1781.

Most Gracious Sovereign,

We your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual & Temporal, in parliament assembled beg leave to return your Majesty our humble thanks for your most gracious Speech from the Throne.

It is with equal concern and indignation that we see the war prolonged by that restless ambition which first excited your Majesty's enemies to commence it, and which still continues to disappoint your Majesty's earnest desire and diligent exertions to restore the public tranquility.

We acknowledge with the sincerest and warmest gratitude, your Majesty's wisdom and constant attention to the peace and welfare of your people, equally conspicuous in your earnest desire of peace and in your fixed and unalterable resolution never to sacrifice, either to the desires or to the temporary ease and relief of your subjects, those essential rights and permanent interests, upon the maintenance and preservation of which, the future strength and security of this country must ever principally depend.

We are gratefully sensible of the parental solicitude your Majesty has shewn for the general happiness of your people, in the endeavour your Majesty has used to extinguish that spirit of rebellion which our enemies have found means to foment and maintain in the colonies, and to restore to your deluded subjects in America, that happy and prosperous condition which they formerly derived from a due obedience to the laws;

and we beg leave to assure your Majesty of our firm concurrence and assistance to frustrate the designs of our enemies, equally prejudicial to the real interests of America, and to those of Great Britain.

We will, without loss of time, resume the deliberation upon the state and condition of the British possessions and revenues in the East-Indies; will carry it on with the same spirit and temper in which it was begun, and proceed with the same attention and anxiety to consider how those remote provinces may be held and governed with the greatest security and advantage to this country, and by what means the happiness of the native inhabitants may be best promoted.

Firmly resolved to decline no difficulty or hazard in the defence of our country, and for the preservation of its essential rights and interests, we shall continue to give our most hearty concurrence and support in the prosecution of the great and important contest in which we are engaged.

We rely upon the protection of the Divine Providence in so just a cause, and fully trust, that by the concurrence and support which we shall most cheerfully give, by the valour of your Majesty's fleets and armies, and by the vigorous, animated and united exertions of the faculties and resources of your people, your Majesty will be enabled to disappoint the ambitious designs of your enemies, and to restore the blessings of a safe and honorable peace to all your dominions.