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Parliamentary Proceedings.
with the Princess Caroline , daughter of the Duke of Brunswick : the constant proof , of your affection for my person and family , persuade me that you will participate in the sentiments I feel on an occasion so interesting to my domestic happiness , and that you Will enable rae to make provision for such an establishment as you may think suitable to the rank and dignity of the heir apparent to the Crown of these kingdoms . " GENTLEMEN OK TIIE HOUSE OF COMMONS , The considerations winch prove the necessity of a vigorous prosecution of
the war will , I doubt not , induce you to make a timely and ample provision for the several branches of the public service , the estimates for which I have directed to be laid before you . While I regret the necessity of large additional burthens on my subjects , it is a just consolation and satisfaction to me to observe the state of our credit , commerce , and resources , which is the natural result of the continued exertions of industry , under the protection of a free and well regulated Government . " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN
, " A just sense of the blessings now so long enjoyed by this country will , I am persuaded , encourage you to make every effort which can enable you to transmit those blessings unimpaired to your posterity . ' * I entertain a confident hope that , under the protection of Providence , and with constancy and perseverance on our part , the principles of social order , morality , and religion , will ultimately be successful ; and that my faithful people will find their present exertions and sacrifices regarded by the secure and permanent enjoyment of tranquillity at homeand by the deliverance of
, Europe from the greatest danger with which it has been threatened since the establishment of civilized society . " As soon as his Majesty had retired , their Lordships introduced and swore in several newly created peers . They then proceeded to take into consideration his Majesty ' s Speech , which being read , first by the Lord Chancellor , and a second time by the Clerk at the Table , Earl Camden rose to move for an .
Address . His Lordship . prefaced his motion by observing , that he would not obtrude himself on the attention of the House , were it not at a period so momentous and critical , as called upon every public man freely and candidly to state his sentiments of the national affairs . In his mind their situation was such , as required the utmost vigour and activity from all its Members in defence of the State ; and in this view those exertions could not be directed with better effect than in support of the just and war the nation was engaged inand
necessary , which was very properly recommended in the Speech from the Throne . Before he proceeded farther on this head , his Lordship adverted to that part of the Speech , which intimated the approaching nuptials of his Royal Highness the Prince ol Wales ; and on this he was confident there could exist but one opinion amongst their Lordships ; an event which promised such an increase of happiness to the Royal family , and tended to give stability to the succession in the illustrious House of Brunswick to the throne , must excite the most pleasing
sensations in every well-wisher oHiis country . Recurring then to the line of his former observations on the situation of the country , his Lordship avowed himself decidedly of opinion , that the war should be prosecuted with unremitting vigour , and that far from being disheartened at the late ill successes ( which he hoped nould prove only temporary ) they should be a spur and an incentive to us to carry on the contest against the common enemy with redoubled energy ; and in this view , when the , relative situation of the two countries was impartiallconsideredhe saidthat it would be found
y , , that Great hrifain had a decided advantage ; her resources were numerous and flourishing , and her credit perhaps greater than at any former period ; for proof of this he had only tp mention the circumstance of the late loans . Our war establishments were beyond comparison greater than at any former period , and at this moment we had at command ail immense body of land forces ready for the execution of any enterprize that may be determined on . Compare this with the situation of the enemy , distracted by interna ! convulsions , and risking
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Parliamentary Proceedings.
with the Princess Caroline , daughter of the Duke of Brunswick : the constant proof , of your affection for my person and family , persuade me that you will participate in the sentiments I feel on an occasion so interesting to my domestic happiness , and that you Will enable rae to make provision for such an establishment as you may think suitable to the rank and dignity of the heir apparent to the Crown of these kingdoms . " GENTLEMEN OK TIIE HOUSE OF COMMONS , The considerations winch prove the necessity of a vigorous prosecution of
the war will , I doubt not , induce you to make a timely and ample provision for the several branches of the public service , the estimates for which I have directed to be laid before you . While I regret the necessity of large additional burthens on my subjects , it is a just consolation and satisfaction to me to observe the state of our credit , commerce , and resources , which is the natural result of the continued exertions of industry , under the protection of a free and well regulated Government . " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN
, " A just sense of the blessings now so long enjoyed by this country will , I am persuaded , encourage you to make every effort which can enable you to transmit those blessings unimpaired to your posterity . ' * I entertain a confident hope that , under the protection of Providence , and with constancy and perseverance on our part , the principles of social order , morality , and religion , will ultimately be successful ; and that my faithful people will find their present exertions and sacrifices regarded by the secure and permanent enjoyment of tranquillity at homeand by the deliverance of
, Europe from the greatest danger with which it has been threatened since the establishment of civilized society . " As soon as his Majesty had retired , their Lordships introduced and swore in several newly created peers . They then proceeded to take into consideration his Majesty ' s Speech , which being read , first by the Lord Chancellor , and a second time by the Clerk at the Table , Earl Camden rose to move for an .
Address . His Lordship . prefaced his motion by observing , that he would not obtrude himself on the attention of the House , were it not at a period so momentous and critical , as called upon every public man freely and candidly to state his sentiments of the national affairs . In his mind their situation was such , as required the utmost vigour and activity from all its Members in defence of the State ; and in this view those exertions could not be directed with better effect than in support of the just and war the nation was engaged inand
necessary , which was very properly recommended in the Speech from the Throne . Before he proceeded farther on this head , his Lordship adverted to that part of the Speech , which intimated the approaching nuptials of his Royal Highness the Prince ol Wales ; and on this he was confident there could exist but one opinion amongst their Lordships ; an event which promised such an increase of happiness to the Royal family , and tended to give stability to the succession in the illustrious House of Brunswick to the throne , must excite the most pleasing
sensations in every well-wisher oHiis country . Recurring then to the line of his former observations on the situation of the country , his Lordship avowed himself decidedly of opinion , that the war should be prosecuted with unremitting vigour , and that far from being disheartened at the late ill successes ( which he hoped nould prove only temporary ) they should be a spur and an incentive to us to carry on the contest against the common enemy with redoubled energy ; and in this view , when the , relative situation of the two countries was impartiallconsideredhe saidthat it would be found
y , , that Great hrifain had a decided advantage ; her resources were numerous and flourishing , and her credit perhaps greater than at any former period ; for proof of this he had only tp mention the circumstance of the late loans . Our war establishments were beyond comparison greater than at any former period , and at this moment we had at command ail immense body of land forces ready for the execution of any enterprize that may be determined on . Compare this with the situation of the enemy , distracted by interna ! convulsions , and risking