himself. But, if those who attempted to introduce such principles, were to be obstructed in their endeavours by a race for popularity, the public would never derive which have so long afflicted that part of the United Kingdom. "We are commanded to assure you, that you may depend upon the firm and temperate exercise of those powers which you have intrusted to his Majesty, for those advantages from them which might otherwise be attained. Upon the whole, therefore, he thought, as the House of Lords had first investigated the state of the suppression of violence and outrage the silk trade, it was better to leave the in that country, and for the protection of subject for the present where it originated. the lives and properties of his Majesty's The object of the present bill ought to be loyal subjects. to give satisfaction to all those concerned, "It is with the greatest satisfaction but, in its amended state, it would give satisfaction to no one. He trusted how-that his Majesty is enabled to contemplate ever that the Lords, by devising a better the flourishing condition of all branches measure in the next session, would give of our commerce and manufactures, and effect to their own report, and at the same the gradual abatement of those difficultime render those amendments intelligible ties under which the agricultural interest which, in their present form, he for one confessed himself unable to understand. has so long and so severely suffered. Mr. Hudson Gurney greatly lamented that the House could not agree to the Lords Amendments, which appeared to him to go to effecting a fair compromise between the conflicting parties. HOUSE OF LORDS. THE KING'S SPEECH AT THE CLOSE OF THE SESSION.] After the royal assent had been given, by commission, to several public and private bills, a Speech of the Lords Commissioners was delivered to both Houses, by the Lord High Chancellor, as follows: "My Lords and Gentlemen, "We are commanded by his Majesty, in releasing you from your attendance in Parliament, to express to you his Majesty's acknowledgments for the zeal and assiduity wherewith you have applied yourselves to the several objects which his Majesty recommended to your attention at the opening of the Session. "His Majesty entertains a confident expectation that the provisions of internal regulation which you have adopted with respect to Ireland will, when carried into effect, tend to remove some of the evils "Gentlemen of the House of Commons. "We have it in command from his Majesty to thank you for the supplies which you have granted for the service of the year, and to assure you, that he has derived the sincerest pleasure from the relief which you have been enabled to afford to his people, by a large reduction of taxes. "My Lords, and Gentlemen, "His Majesty has commanded us to inform you, that he continues to receive from all foreign powers, the strongest assurances of their friendly disposition towards this country. Deeply as his Majesty still regrets the failure of his earnest endeavours to prevent the interruption of the peace of Europe, it affords him the greatest consolation that the principles upon which he has acted, and the policy which he has determined to pursue, have been marked with your warm and cordial concurrence, as consonant with the interests, and satisfactory to the feelings of his people." After which a Commission was read, for proroguing parliament to the 30th of September next. APPENDIX. constituting the PUBLIC INCOME of the United Kingdom of GREAT BRITAIN and 62,340,454 6 1 5,688,091 17 0153,652,473 16 7 2,999,888 12 5 62,340,454 6 1 7,870 2 8 6 12 0 11,872,155 9 24 11,872,155 9 21 63,104,999 12 5 5,688,091 17 0154,414,650 43,002,257 14 0463,104,999 12 5 11,872,155 9. 2 74,977,155 1 8 5,688,091 17 01 66,286,805 10 7 3,002,257 14 0174,977,155 18 J. C. HERRIES. |