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Gentlemen of the House of

Commons,

I have ordered the proper eftimates for the current year to be laid before you; and rely on your readinefs to grant me fuch fupplies as fhall be found requifite in the prefent fituation of affairs.

My Lords and Gentlemen, The experience I have had of your paft conduct leaves me no room to doubt, either of your zeal or prudence, in your endeavours to promote the welfare of your country. You will not fuffer any parts of the public fervice to escape your attention; but, various and extenfive as thofe are, you will be careful to felect, for your immediate deliberation, fuch of them as fhall appear to be most important: And you can propofe no measures, that will ferve either to fecure or advance the happiness and profperity of my people, in which you may not always depend on my moft hearty concurrence.

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We cannot but express our concern, that the peace, fo long expected, and fo very defirable, is not yet concluded between Ruffia and the Porte. It gives us, however, great fatisfaction to hear of the continuance of the pacifick difpofitions of other foreign powers; and we humbly beg leave to return your majefty our fincerest thanks for your majesty's most gracious declaration, that no endeavours fhall be wanting on your part, confiftent with the honour of your crown, and the interests of your people, towards the establishment and fubfequent preservation of the public tranquillity.

Your majefty may be affured, that we entertain the jufteft sense of your majefty's paternal care, in recommending to your parliament to make use of this feafon of tranquillity for improving the commerce and revenue of the kingdom, and in pointing out to us particularly the neceffity and great national advantage of putting the gold coin on fuch a footing, as may completely remove the prefent grievance, and fecure the credit and commerce of the kingdom from being again expofed to the like danger: The wifdom and goodness of your majefty, on this occafion, appear in fo confpicuous a light as cannot fail to fill our minds with the deepest gratitude, and raife in us the strongest defire of employing our utmost efforts for fuch falutary purposes.

Animated with every fentiment of duty to your majefty, and zeal for the publick welfare, we will take under our most serious confideration the important objects to whieh your majesty has directed

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your generous concern for the happiness of mankind.

We are truly fenfible that it is our duty, as it fhall be our care, to employ the leifure which the ftate of foreign affairs allows us, in attending to our internal and domeftic fituation: And we cannot but acknowledge your majesty's great wisdom, in recommending and pointing out to our ferious confideration the ftate of the gold 'coin of this kingdom, as well on account of its very extenfive impor

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Moft gracious Sovereign,

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E, your majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, the commons of Great-Britain in parliament affembled, return your majefty our most humble thanks, for your majesty's most gracious fpeech from the throne.

Permit us, Sir, to affure your majefty, that we fincerely regret that the peace fo long expected, and fo much defired, is not yet effected between Ruffia and the Porte; but, at the fame time, we beg leave to express the fatisfaction we feel, in learning that other foreign powers continue ftill to have the fame pacifick difpofitions with your majefty: We acknowledge, with the utmost gratitude, the affurance which your majesty has been pleased to repeat to us, that you have no other wish than to fee the general tranquillity reftored and preferved, confiftently with the ho-, nour of your crown, and the interefts of your people; and we confider this gracious declaration of your majefty as a fresh inftance of your majefty's paternal care for the welfare of your fubjects, and of

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which the prefent time affords, for conducting and executing with fuccefs any measures touching this great national object: we saw, with the deepest concern, the difficulties and diftrefs in which the nation was on the point of being involved, by the very alarming degree of diminution which this coin had actually fuffered, before the evil was checked by the regulations made in the laft feffion of parliament`; and we beg leave to affure your majefty, that, impreffed with a juft fenfe of our duty to our country and our fellow-fubjects, we will exert our beft endeavours to accomplish the great work of putting the gold coin on fuch a footing, as may not only completely remove the prefent grievance, but, as far as the nature of the cafe will admit, render the credit and commerce of the kingdom fecure from being again expofed to the like danger.

Your faithful commons will, with the utmost chearfulnefs, grant to your majesty fuch fupplies as fhall be found neceffary in the prefent fituation of affairs: And your majefty may be affured, that, animated by your recommendation, [R] 3.

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Gentlemen of the Houfe of

Commons,

I have ordered the proper eftimates for the current year to be laid before you; and rely on your readinefs to grant me fuch fupplies as fhall be found requifite in the prefent fituation of affairs.

My Lords and Gentlemen, The experience I have had of your paft conduct leaves me no room to doubt, either of your zeal or prudence, in your endeavours to promote the welfare of your country. You will not fuffer any parts of the public fervice to efcape your attention; but, various and extenfive as those are, you will be careful to felect, for your immediate deliberation, fuch of them as fhall appear to be most important: And you can propofe no measures, that will ferve either to fecure or advance the happiness and profperity of my people, in which you may not always depend on my moft hearty concurrence.

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We cannot but exprefs our con cern, that the peace, fo long expected, and fo very defirable, is not yet concluded between Ruffia and the Porte. It gives us, however, great fatisfaction to hear of the continuance of the pacifick difpofitions of other foreign powers; and we humbly beg leave to return your majefty our fincereft thanks for your majefty's most gracious declaration, that no endeavours shall be wanting on your part, confiftent with the honour of your crown, and the interefts of your people, towards the establishment and fubfequent prefervation of the public tranquillity.

Your majefty may be affured, that we entertain the jufteft sense of your majefty's paternal care, in recommending to your parliament to make use of this feafon of tranquillity for improving the commerce and revenue of the kingdom, and in pointing out to us particularly the neceffity and great national advantage of putting the gold coin on fuch a footing, as may completely remove the prefent grievance, and fecure the credit and commerce of the kingdom from being again expofed to the like danger: The wifdom and goodness of your majefty, on this occafion, appear in fo confpicuous a light as cannot fail to

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titude, and raife in us the strongest defire of employing our utmost efforts for fuch falutary purposes.

Animated with every fentiment of duty to your majefty, and zeal for the publick welfare, we will take under our moft ferious confideration the important objects to whieh your majefty has directed

our attention.

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your generous concern for the happinefs of mankind.

We are truly fenfible that it is our duty, as it fhall be our care, to employ the leifure which the ftate of foreign affairs allows us, in attending to our internal and domeftic fituation: And we cannot but acknowledge your majesty's great wifdom, in recommending and pointing out to our ferious confideration the ftate of the gold 'coin of this kingdom, as well on account of its very extenfive impor

The humble Addrefs of the House of tance, as of the peculiar advantages Commons to the King. Moft gracious Sovereign, 7E, your majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, the commons of Great-Britain in parliament affembled, return your majefty our most humble thanks, for your majefty's moft gracious fpeech from the throne.

Permit us, Sir, to affure your majefty, that we fincerely regret that the peace fo long expected, and fo much defired, is not yet effected between Ruffia and the Porte; but, at the fame time, we beg leave to exprefs the fatisfaction we feel, in learning that other foreign powers continue ftill to have the fame pacifick difpofitions with your majefty: We acknowledge, with the utmost gratitude, the affurance which your majesty has been pleased to repeat to us, that you have no other with than to fee the general tranquillity reftored and preferved, confiftently with the ho-, nour of your crown, and the interefts of your people; and we confider this gracious declaration of your majefty as a fresh inftance of your majefty's paternal care for the welfare of your subjects, and of

which the prefent time affords, for conducting and executing with fuccefs any measures touching this great national object: we faw, with the deepest concern, the difficulties and diftrefs in which the nation was on the point of being involved, by the very alarming degree of diminution which this coin had actually fuffered, before the evil was checked by the regulations made in the last feffion of parliament; and we beg leave to affure your majefty, that, impreffed with a juft fenfe of our duty to our country and our fellow-fubjects, we will exert our beft endeavours to accomplish the great work of putting the gold coin on fuch a footing, as may not only completely remove the prefent grievance, but, as far as the nature of the cafe will admit, render the credit and commerce of the kingdom fecure from being again expofed to the like danger.

Your faithful commons will, with the utmost chearfulness, grant to your majefty fuch fupplies as fhall be found neceffary in the prefent fituation of affairs: And your majefty may be affured, that, animated by your recommendation, [R] 3

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and excited by your example, we will apply ourselves with the utmoft zeal and diligence to promote the welfare of our country; and that we will not fail to direct our attention to such parts of the publick fervice as appear to us moft important; having a perfect confidence that, whatever measures we may propofe, that will ferve either to fecure or advance the happinefs and profperity of your people, will always meet with your majefty's gracious approbation and

concurrence.

His Majesty's most gracious Speech to
both Houses of Parliament, on
Wednesday, June 22, 1774.
My Lords and Gentlemen,

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HAVE obferved, with the utmost fatisfaction, the many eminent proofs you have given of your zealous and prudent attention to the publick fervice, during the courfe of this very interesting feffion of parliament.

The neceffity of providing fome effectual remedy for the great and manifold mifchiefs, both publick and private, arifing from the impaired fate of the gold coin, induced me, at the opening of the feffion, to recommend that important object to your confideration: in the feveral measures you have taken for the redress of those evils, you have fufficiently manifefted, as well your regard to the general credit, and commercial interefts, of the kingdom, as to the immediate eafe and accommodation of my people.

The very peculiar circumftances

of embarraffment in which the province of Quebec was involved, had rendered the proper adjustment and regulation of the government thereof, a matter of no small diffieulty. The bill which you prepared for that purpose, and to which I have now given my affent, is founded on the cleareft principles of justice and humanity; and will, I doubt not, have the best effects in quieting the minds, and promoting the happiness of my Canadian fubjects.

I have long feen, with concern, a dangerous fpirit of refiftance to my government, and to the execuprovince of Maffachufet's Bay, in tion of the laws, prevailing in the New England. It proceeded, at length, to fuch an extremity, as to render your immediate interpofition indifpenfably neceffary; and you have, accordingly, made provifion as well for the fuppreffion of the prefent diforders, as for the prevention of the like in future. The temper and firmnefs with which you have conducted yourfelves in this important bufinefs, and the general concurrence with which the refolution of maintaining the authority of the laws, in every part of my dominions, hath been adopted and fupported, cannot fail of giving the greatest weight to the meatures which have been the refult of your deliberations, Nothing that depends on me shall be wanting to render them effectual. It is my moft anxious defire to see my deluded fubjects, in that part of the world, returning to a fenfe of their duty, acquiefcing in that juft fubordination to the authority, and maintaining that due regard to the commercial interefts of this coun

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