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March 22, 1783
The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On December 21, 1782, the House of Lords in London responds to the King's speech, thanking him for laying foundations for peace with America via agreed articles pending French settlement, naval protections of colonies, Gibraltar's defense, progress in general peace talks, Irish commerce measures, and East Indian governance reforms.
Merged-components note: Continuation of the foreign news article on proceedings in the House of Lords, including the address and the King's response.
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LONDON. December
Proceedings of the House of Lords. Friday Dec. 6.
The humble address of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled.
Die vicesimo primo Decembris 1782.
Most Gracious Sovereign,
WE your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to return your Majesty our humble thanks for your most gracious speech from the throne. It is with the sincerest gratitude we acknowledge the service which your Majesty has been graciously and affectionately pleased to make to the rights and opinions of your people, fully convinced that your Majesty's own conduct has always been actuated by a similar disposition; we acknowledge likewise your Majesty's constant care and attention to the true interests of your people, and the critical state of public affairs since the last session of Parliament; and in a particular manner for your Majesty having been graciously pleased to direct your measures towards promoting a cordial reconciliation between Great-Britain and America.
Permit us, Sir, to express our great satisfaction that your Majesty, in the exercise of the powers which were vested in you, has laid the foundation of a peace with that country, and that you have actually agreed upon articles, to take effect when the terms with the Court of France shall be finally settled; thereby affording to your people a reasonable expectation of being delivered from the burdens of a most expensive war, as well as to unite our hopes with your Majesty's, that religion, language, interests, and affection, may yet be the means of effecting a permanent union between the two countries; to obtain which purpose, so highly laudable, our earnest endeavours shall not be wanting.
Your Majesty may be assured we are sensible of the important advantages resulting from the successful exertions of your Majesty's fleet; owing to the skill and bravery of your officers, and those serving under them, in protecting your distant Colonies and dominions, as well as the great branches of our trade; and that we are impressed with a due sense of what we owe to the spirit and good conduct of your Majesty's Governor and garrison of Gibraltar.
We set a just value on the continuance of our domestic tranquility, and shall always reflect with peculiar satisfaction on the signal instances of public spirit called forth by this occasion.
We learn with great joy that a considerable progress is made in the negociations for a general peace at a moment so honorable to your Majesty's dignity: and we cannot omit to acknowledge the paternal regard your Majesty has shown for the lives and fortunes of your brave and gallant subjects.
We return your Majesty our hearty thanks for your gracious promise, to communicate to us the terms with the belligerent powers as soon as they are concluded; and we give your Majesty the strongest assurances that
if any unforeseen change to the dispositions of those powers should disappoint your Majesty's confident expectations of peace, we will most cheerfully exert our utmost endeavours to assist your Majesty in a vigorous prosecution of the war.
We will not omit, on our part, to apply ourselves with the most unremitting attention to the several important points which your Majesty has been pleased to mention, and to consider of the most effectual means for remedying the evils which may be apprehended from the present scarcity of corn; and for preventing, as far as possible, the crimes of theft and robbery, which have prevailed to a very alarming height.
We beg leave to express our satisfaction at the measures which have been adopted with respect to Ireland, for securing its rights and commerce, which, we trust, will have the effect of ensuring that harmony which ought always to subsist between the two kingdoms; and we do assure your Majesty we shall be ready to direct our attention to a revision of our whole revenue system, guided by the same liberal principles which your Majesty has been graciously pleased to recommend.
We are deeply impressed with a sense of the important subject which the late act of our national Congress in the East Indies offers for our most serious deliberation; and your Majesty may be persuaded, we have a due impression of your Royal goodness in thus extending your anxious regard to the good government of the distant territories in Asia, and to the welfare and happiness of the people there: We will, in return, show ourselves zealous to answer your Majesty's gracious expectations, by aiming to frame some fundamental laws which may make their connection with Great-Britain a blessing to India, and may give to the other nations, in matters of foreign commerce, an entire confidence, in the probity, justice, and good order of the British government.
Allow us to express, in the most fervent and grateful manner, our warmest gratitude for your Majesty's gracious assurances that you will make the general good, and the true spirit of the constitution, the invariable rule of your Majesty's conduct, and that you will on all occasions, advance and reward merit in every profession.
Your Majesty may rely with the utmost confidence, that every measure will be adopted on our part, to secure the full advantages of a government conducted on such principles.
His Majesty's Most Gracious Answer.
Mr. Speaker,
I His Majesty's most affectionate and loyal address affords me the highest satisfaction. It breathes a proper approbation of the foundation I have laid for peace between Great-Britain and America, and of the measures I have taken towards a liberal pacification, as well as the early zeal which you have so unanimously expressed for carrying on the war with vigor, if the negociations should unexpectedly break off, must be attended with the best effects both at home and abroad.
Your affectionate acknowledgment of my constant disposition to make my own conduct conformable to the wishes and opinions of my people, touches me most sensibly.
Upon that principle I can never regret the sacrifice I make of every consideration of my own.
I accept, with pleasure, your assurances of support in a government conducted on principles equally agreeable to my own honor, and the public good.
Proceedings of the House of Lords. Friday Dec. 6.
The humble address of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled.
Die vicesimo primo Decembris 1782.
Most Gracious Sovereign,
WE your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to return your Majesty our humble thanks for your most gracious speech from the throne. It is with the sincerest gratitude we acknowledge the service which your Majesty has been graciously and affectionately pleased to make to the rights and opinions of your people, fully convinced that your Majesty's own conduct has always been actuated by a similar disposition; we acknowledge likewise your Majesty's constant care and attention to the true interests of your people, and the critical state of public affairs since the last session of Parliament; and in a particular manner for your Majesty having been graciously pleased to direct your measures towards promoting a cordial reconciliation between Great-Britain and America.
Permit us, Sir, to express our great satisfaction that your Majesty, in the exercise of the powers which were vested in you, has laid the foundation of a peace with that country, and that you have actually agreed upon articles, to take effect when the terms with the Court of France shall be finally settled; thereby affording to your people a reasonable expectation of being delivered from the burdens of a most expensive war, as well as to unite our hopes with your Majesty's, that religion, language, interests, and affection, may yet be the means of effecting a permanent union between the two countries; to obtain which purpose, so highly laudable, our earnest endeavours shall not be wanting.
Your Majesty may be assured we are sensible of the important advantages resulting from the successful exertions of your Majesty's fleet; owing to the skill and bravery of your officers, and those serving under them, in protecting your distant Colonies and dominions, as well as the great branches of our trade; and that we are impressed with a due sense of what we owe to the spirit and good conduct of your Majesty's Governor and garrison of Gibraltar.
We set a just value on the continuance of our domestic tranquility, and shall always reflect with peculiar satisfaction on the signal instances of public spirit called forth by this occasion.
We learn with great joy that a considerable progress is made in the negociations for a general peace at a moment so honorable to your Majesty's dignity: and we cannot omit to acknowledge the paternal regard your Majesty has shown for the lives and fortunes of your brave and gallant subjects.
We return your Majesty our hearty thanks for your gracious promise, to communicate to us the terms with the belligerent powers as soon as they are concluded; and we give your Majesty the strongest assurances that
if any unforeseen change to the dispositions of those powers should disappoint your Majesty's confident expectations of peace, we will most cheerfully exert our utmost endeavours to assist your Majesty in a vigorous prosecution of the war.
We will not omit, on our part, to apply ourselves with the most unremitting attention to the several important points which your Majesty has been pleased to mention, and to consider of the most effectual means for remedying the evils which may be apprehended from the present scarcity of corn; and for preventing, as far as possible, the crimes of theft and robbery, which have prevailed to a very alarming height.
We beg leave to express our satisfaction at the measures which have been adopted with respect to Ireland, for securing its rights and commerce, which, we trust, will have the effect of ensuring that harmony which ought always to subsist between the two kingdoms; and we do assure your Majesty we shall be ready to direct our attention to a revision of our whole revenue system, guided by the same liberal principles which your Majesty has been graciously pleased to recommend.
We are deeply impressed with a sense of the important subject which the late act of our national Congress in the East Indies offers for our most serious deliberation; and your Majesty may be persuaded, we have a due impression of your Royal goodness in thus extending your anxious regard to the good government of the distant territories in Asia, and to the welfare and happiness of the people there: We will, in return, show ourselves zealous to answer your Majesty's gracious expectations, by aiming to frame some fundamental laws which may make their connection with Great-Britain a blessing to India, and may give to the other nations, in matters of foreign commerce, an entire confidence, in the probity, justice, and good order of the British government.
Allow us to express, in the most fervent and grateful manner, our warmest gratitude for your Majesty's gracious assurances that you will make the general good, and the true spirit of the constitution, the invariable rule of your Majesty's conduct, and that you will on all occasions, advance and reward merit in every profession.
Your Majesty may rely with the utmost confidence, that every measure will be adopted on our part, to secure the full advantages of a government conducted on such principles.
His Majesty's Most Gracious Answer.
Mr. Speaker,
I His Majesty's most affectionate and loyal address affords me the highest satisfaction. It breathes a proper approbation of the foundation I have laid for peace between Great-Britain and America, and of the measures I have taken towards a liberal pacification, as well as the early zeal which you have so unanimously expressed for carrying on the war with vigor, if the negociations should unexpectedly break off, must be attended with the best effects both at home and abroad.
Your affectionate acknowledgment of my constant disposition to make my own conduct conformable to the wishes and opinions of my people, touches me most sensibly.
Upon that principle I can never regret the sacrifice I make of every consideration of my own.
I accept, with pleasure, your assurances of support in a government conducted on principles equally agreeable to my own honor, and the public good.
What sub-type of article is it?
Diplomatic
War Report
Colonial Affairs
What keywords are associated?
Peace Negotiations America
Preliminary Articles
Naval Exertions Colonies
Gibraltar Defense
General Peace Talks
Ireland Commerce
East Indies Governance
Foreign News Details
Event Date
Die Vicesimo Primo Decembris 1782
Outcome
foundation of peace with america laid; articles agreed to take effect upon french terms; expectation of relief from war burdens; progress in general peace negotiations; assurances of support for war if needed.
Event Details
The Lords thank the King for directing measures towards reconciliation with America, agreeing preliminary articles pending France, acknowledging naval successes protecting colonies and trade, Gibraltar's garrison conduct, domestic tranquility, general peace progress, Irish rights and commerce measures, and East Indian governance deliberations for better connection with Great Britain.