corn, and that in the port of London the price of wheat has been, for two fucceffive market days, above 48 s. the quarter, Winchester meafure; and it is upon the ftrong eft grounds to be prefumed to be fill rifing-His Majesty doth therefore, by and with the advice of his privy council, (purfuant to the powers vefted in his Majefty for that purpose, by an act paffed in the 33d year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second), hereby prohibit the making, extracting, or diftilling of any kind of low wines, or fpirits, from any wheat, wheat-meal, wheat-flour, or wheat-bran, any mixture therewith, from the date hereof until the 14th day of November next: whereof all perfons concerned are to take notice, and yield due obedience to his Majefty's commands hereby figni

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extended, and that his Majesty would be pleased to order an additional embargo to be forthwith laid upon all ships laden or to be laden with barley or malt, to be exported to foreign parts: And whereas the houfe of Commons have likewife this day prefented an humble addrefs to his Majefty for the like purpofes:-His Majefty in council, taking both the faid addreffes into confideration, is thereupon pleased to order, that the embargo, laid by order in council of the 26th day of September laft, upon all fhips and veffels laden or to be laden in the ports of Great Britain with wheat or wheat flour, to exported to foreign parts, be continued from the expiration of the time limited by the faid order. And his Majesty is hereby further pleafed to order, that an additional embargo be forthwith laid upon ail fhips and veffels, laden, or to be laden in the ports of Great Britain, with barley or malt to be exported to foreign parts. And the

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fioners of his Majesty's Treafury, the Lords Commiffioners of the

Admiralty, the Lord Warden of the cinque-ports, and his Majesty's Secretary at war, are to give the neceffary directions herein, as to them may respectively appertain. W. SHARPE.

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Moft gracious Sovereign, E your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Commons of the city of London, in common council affembled, with the moft zealous ardour and affection embrace the earliest opportunity of approaching the throne of the best of princes, with our joyful congratulations on every event pleafing to your Majefty and falutary to your kingdoms.

The fafe delivery of the Queen, a princefs endeared to your Majefty and the whole nation by every royal and virtuous accomplishment, fills our hearts with the utmoft thankfulness to divine Providence.

An increase of your Majefty's auguft family by the birth of a Princefs royal, cannot fail of diffufing univerfal joy amongst all your faithful fubjects, as it farther fecures to them and their pofterity, a long continuance of those ineftimable bleflings, which they have hitherto enjoyed under the protection of your Majesty's illuftrious house.

The aufpicious marriage of your Majefty's royal fifter, the Princess Caroline Matilda, with that great

(on which we beg leave to felicitate your Majefty), muft afford the moft interefting fatisfaction, not only to us and all your Majesty's loyal fubjects, but also to every Proteftant power in Europe.

Permit us, Royal Sir! to affure you, that your faithful citizens of London are ever ready to evince to all the world, that their hearts and affections are fincere oblations of gratitude to your Majefty, for

your conftant paternal care, and efpecially for the recent inftance of your tender attention to the neceffities of your people.

His Majefty's most gracious anfwer.

"Your loyal and affectionate profeffions upon the happy events of my Queen's fafe delivery, and the marriage of my fifter to my very good ally the King of Denmark, cannot but be moit acceptable to me.

It is with pleasure that I fee the juft fenfe which the city of London entertains of those measures, which the neceffity of the occafion obliged me to take for the relief of my people; and I hope they will have the defired effect of quieting men's minds, and removing the diftreffes which feemed daily to increase."

Lords.

His Majefty's most gracious answer.

GEORGE R.

His Majesty has received the addrefs of the house of commons on the fubject of a bill, fome time fince tranfmitted, for limiting the duration of parliaments.

The fentiments of his faithful commons were already known to his Majesty, by their paffing the heads of that bill; nor can any solicitation add weight to that ancient and conftitutional way of fignifying their defires on the like occafions.

His Majefty will always have the highest fatisfaction in complying with the wishes of his faithful commons; but no confideration can prevail with his Majefty to fwerve from that indifpenfable duty, which the conftitution prefcribes to him, of concurring in fuch provifions only, as, on mature deliberation, and advice of his council, appear to him, at the time, calculated to promote the true intereft and happiness of his people.

G. R.

The addrefjes of both houses of parliament, to his Excellency, Francis Seymour, Eart of Hertford, Lord Lieutenant-General, and General Governor of the kingdom of Ireland; at Dublin, on Friday the 6th of June, 1766; with his Excellency's anfwers.

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May it please your Excellency, 7E his Majefty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the lords fpiritual and temporal in parliament affembled, beg leave to congratulate with your Excellency on the approaching conclufion of this feffion of parliament, diftinguished by the many ufeful bills returned from Great Britain, which will be lafting benefits to this kingdom, and will remain as the most honourable monuments of the wisdom and fuccefs of your Excellency's adminiftration.

We had long, my Lord, wifhed to fee your Excellency fill that high ftation, to which his Majefty's goodnefs to his people of Ireland has called you.

The beft-founded hopes were univerfally entertained of the justice, honour, and humanity of the chief governor, as thofe qualities were known to have eminently adorned the manners, and diftinguished character of the private man.-But our moit fanguine expectations of an adminitration honourable and agreeable to his Majefty, and fatisfactory and beneficial to his people, were raifed from your Excellency's conftant exertion of your power to promote the infeparable intereft of Great Britain and Ireland, and your unwearied endeavours, by public and private protection, and by the powerful influence of your own example, to encourage the trade, manufactures, and agriculture of this kingdom.

The feveral wife provifions made this feffion in favour of our trade and manufactures, for the preserva

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tion of peace and order, for the encouragement of tillage, and above all, that important bill for granting a bounty on the exportation of corn, long withed for, and often attempted, and now by his Majefty's peculiar favour returned under your Excellency's adminiftration, will fatisfy our fellow fubject, and mult convince pofterity, that our expectations have been answered; and that our most flattering hopes have been crowned with succefs.

Thefe confiderations, my Lord, added to the midnefs, prudence, and impartiality of your adminiftration in the high office of reprefentative of the best of fovereigns, muft naturally excite our warmest wifhes, that his Majefty may be graciously pleated, according to his ufual paternal goodnels, to continue a governor to prefide over us, who has given fuch a prospect of happinefs, and rendered himfelt fo justly dear to his Majesty's dutiful and loyal fubjects of Ireland.

His Excellency's answer.

My Lords,

Your favourable acceptance of my endeavours for the public fervice, and this peculiarly affectionate mark of your approbation and efteem, are extremely agreeable and highly honourable to me. I must be happy in the perfuafion, that an adminiftration, which has received the fanction of your good opinion, and in which your Lordships have expreffed fo much content and fatisfaction, muft have been, in fome refpects, uteful to this kingdom. It is the greatest honour to you, and the highest pleasure to me, that my perfeverance in my duty to his Majelly, and in my regards to the true

interefts of this kingdom, will be the only means of infuring the continuance of your confidence and regards.

The humble address of the house of Commons.

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E his Majelly's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the commons of Ireland in parliament affembled, return your Excellency our moft fincere thanks for your prudent, jult, and wife adminiftration, and for the many good laws, fo highly beneficial to the peace and tranquillity, and to the trade, manufactures, and tillage of this kingdom, the return of which was obtained by your Excellency's interpofition, during this feflion of parliament; particularly for the acts for the establishment of county-infirmarics, and the prefervation of corn, which will prove the means of preserving the health, and providing for the fupport of the people; and alfo for the act for the encouragement of our fisheries; and more especially for that useful and important law for the encouragement of tillage, fo long wifhed for by the people of this kingdom.

We think ourselves indifpenfibly obliged to teftify our sense of your Excellency's ftrict attention to the execution of justice, by the vigorous profecutions fo effectually carried on against the difturbers of the public peace; and to lay before your Excellency the strongest affurances of our affection and gratitude for the faithful discharge of your Excellency's high truft, with equal regard to the conftitutional rights of the crown, and the liberties of the people; and of our well-grounded con

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fidence in your Excellency's known attachment to the true intereit of this kingdom.

And we can have no doubt that your Excellency will, upon your return into the royal prefence, reprefent, in the most favourable manner, to the best of princes, the duty, zeal, and loyalty of his faithful and affectionate fubjects of this kingdom; their entire reliance on his Majefty's goodness; their conftant and invariable refolution to maintain the rights, and to fupport the honour and dignity of the crown, with the fame zeal and attention with which our great and amiable fovereign has ever preferved the liberties of all his fubjects.

His Excellency's answer.

Receive, with the greateft fatisfaction, those repeated and affectionate declarations of the approbation and esteem of the house of commons: I am highly pleased to find, that my administration has been agreeable to you; and I am extremely happy to hear, that you think it has been useful to the public; no one of my predeceffors ever wifhed more ardently to promote the profperity of Ireland; and if I could poffibly want any inducement to continue my best endeavours for that purpofe, my gratitude to your regards, and for the confidence you have placed in me, would be an additional incitement.

I fhall continue to reprefent to his Majelly, in the ftrongest manner, your duty and loyalty, your fidelity and affection to his perfon, family, and government; and that your zeal for his fervice can only be equalled by what must be altogether as agreeable to the best of

princes, your zealous attachment to the intereft of your country.

His Excellency the Earl of Hertford's Speech, to both houses of parliament, at Dublin, June the 7th, 1766.

My Lords, and Gentlemen,
OUR ardent zeal and unwea-

YOUR

ried pains for the fervice of your country, have neceffarily drawn this feffion into an unusual length: It is now time you should reft from your labours, to relieve you with repose and relaxation, and that you should return to your respective counties, to receive the thanks of your fellowfubjects, for your great and fucceffful attention to the public good.

Your long and affiduous deliberations have been fully recompenfed, by the many useful and important laws, which have now received the royal affent, and which will remain as lafting monuments of the great goodness of his Majefty, and of the wisdom and vigilance of his parliament. The provifion made to preferve the health, and relieve the infirmities of his Majefty's fubjects in this kingdom, by the establishment of county infirmaries; the wife and humane defign of encouraging tillage, by the act for the prefervation of corn, for which falutary purposes confiderable fums are to be annually paid out of the treasury; the king's confenting, during this feffion, in feveral inftances, to a diminution of his hereditary revenue for the improvement of your trade, manufactures, and tillage, but especially the ufeful and important law, for the encouragement of tillage, cannot fail to make the deepest and most laft