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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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On November 10, the Prince and Princess of Wales visited Bristol. The city's Recorder, Mr. Serjeant Foster, delivered a speech expressing gratitude and loyalty, presenting the Freedom of the City. The Prince responded, thanking them and expressing wishes for Bristol's prosperity.
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May it please your Royal Highnesses.
THE Mayor, Aldermen, Common-Council, and Citizens of Bristol, beg Leave Most Humbly to acknowledge the great Condescension of Your ROYAL HIGHNESS and Her ROYAL HIGHNESS the Princess, in vouchsafing to Honour this City with Your Presence; and permitting us to pay Our Humble Duty to Your Royal Highnesses, on an Occasion of so much Joy. An Honour we should be utterly unworthy of, did we not receive it with Hearts full of the warmest Impressions of Duty and Gratitude, and ambitious of recommending Ourselves to the Approbation of Your Royal Highnesses, by a most dutiful and affectionate Zeal for the Honour of His Majesty's Government, and the Stability of His Royal HOUSE.
Permit Us, therefore, SIR, Most Humbly to assure your Royal Highness, that as we enjoy the Blessings of a Free Government, and extensive Commerce, thro' His Majesty's Wisdom, Equity, and Royal Goodness; so while we contemplate the same Principles of true Greatness adorning the Character of Your Royal Highness, we rejoice in the Prospect which lies before Us.
All that we have further to hope or wish for, is, That when His MAJESTY and Your Royal Highness shall be removed from the View and Admiration of Mankind, and Posterity shall mention Your Royal Names together, with Veneration, Love, and Gratitude, may a Line of Princes, descended from Your Royal Highness and Her Royal Highness the Princess, be, to latest Ages, the Glory and Ornament of Their Times, Guardians of the British Constitution, and Advocates for the Rights of Mankind.
These, SIR, are the Sentiments and unfeigned Wishes of His MAJESTY's Loyal Subjects the Citizens of Bristol, who beg your Royal Highnesses' Permission to presume yet farther on your Goodness; and Most-Humbly intreat your Gracious Acceptance of the Freedom of this City; which Mr. Mayor has the Honour to present to your Royal Highness, in the Name of all the Freemen of Bristol.
His ROYAL HIGHNESS's ANSWER.
Gentlemen,
I return you my thanks, and the Princess's, for this instance of your regard; which is the more pleasing to me, because it is at the same time a proof of your duty and affection to the King. This great city may always depend upon my particular wishes for its prosperity, and the advancement of its trade; which is so valuable an effect of liberty, and so strong a support to the honour and happiness of this nation. I shall inculcate these sentiments into my children; who, I hope, will one day deserve the concern you express for them now.
The kind reception their royal highnesses met with in that opulent city, and the great joy of the people on this occasion, are almost inexpressible: However, we shall, in the next Gazette, present our readers with the account at large, as it was published there.
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Bristol
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Nov. 10
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The Prince and Princess of Wales visit Bristol, receiving a loyal speech from the Recorder expressing duty, gratitude, and hopes for the royal lineage; the Prince responds with thanks and wishes for the city's prosperity; the Freedom of the City is presented.