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THE KING'S SPEECH.

On Wednesday evening the following Speech was delivered by the Lords Commissioners to both Houses of Parliament.

"My Lords and Gentlemen,

"We are commanded by his majesty to acquaint you, that his majesty has great satisfaction in being enabled by the state of the public business, to release you from your laborious attendance in Parliament.

"His majesty doubts not, that on your return to your respective counties you will carry with you a disposition to inculcate both by instruction and example a spirit of attachment to those established laws, and that happy constitution, which has been his majesty's wish to support and maintain, and upon which, under Providence, depends the welfare and prosperity of the kingdom.

"Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

"We have it in command from his majesty to thank you for the liberal provision which you have made for the services of the present year; & to express the satisfaction which his majesty derives from your having been enabled to provide for these services, without any great and immediate addition to the burthen upon the people.

"His majesty particularly commands us to acknowledge your prompt attention to his wishes respecting an increased provision for the poorer clergy, an object in the highest degree interesting to his majesty's feelings and deserving the favorable consideration of Parliament.

"My Lords and Gentlemen,

"This atrocious and unparalleled act of violence and treachery by which the ruler of France attempted to surprise and enslave the Spanish nation, while it has excited in Spain a determined and unconquerable resolution against the French, and the usurpation of the French government, has at the same time awakened in the other nations of Europe a determination to resist by a new effort the continued and increasing encroachment on their safety and independence.

"Although the uncertainty of all human events, and the vicissitudes attendant upon war, forbid too confident an expectation of a satisfactory issue to the present struggle against the common enemy of Europe; his majesty commands us to congratulate you upon the splendid and important success which has recently been obtained by the arms of the Emperor of Austria; under the able and distinguished conduct of the archduke Charles.

"To the efforts of Europe for its own deliverance, his majesty has directed us to assure you, that he has determined to continue his most strenuous assistance and support, convinced that you will agree with his majesty in considering that every exertion for the re-establishment of the independence and security of other nations is no less conducive to the true interests, than it becomes the honor and character of Great Britain."