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«© In Portugal, and at Cadiz, the defence 
©f which constituted the principal object of 
“his Majesty’s exertions in the last campaign, 
the designs of the enemy have been hitherto 
Frustrated. The consummate skill, prudence, 
* and perseverance, of Lieutenant-general Lord 
Viscount Weilinzton, and the discipline and 
determined bravery of. the officers and mien 
under his commana, have been conspicuously 
displayed throughouc the whole of the cam- 
paign. The eifect of those distinguished 
qualities, in inspiring confidence and energy 
Into the troops of his Majesty*s allies, has 
been happily evinced by their general good 
conduct, and particularly by the brilliant part 
which they bore in the repulse of the enemy 
at Busaco, And his Royal Highness com- 
‘mands us further to state, that he trusts you 
will enable him to continue the most effectual 
‘assistance to the brave nations of the penin- 
sula, in the support of a contest My they 
manifest a determination to maintain with 
unabated perseverance; and his Royal High- 
ness is persuaded, that you will feel that the 
est interests of the British empire must be 
deeply affected in the issue of this contest, 
fon which the liberties and independence of 
the Spanish and Portuguese nations entirely 
depend. - 
2 © We have it likewise in command to ac- 
‘quaint you, that discuss‘ons are now depending 
‘between this country and the Unires States 
‘of America, and that it is the earnest wish 
sof his Royal Highness, that» he may find 
himself enabled to bring these discussions to 
an amicable termination, consistent with the 
shonour of his Majesty’s crown, 2nd the ma- 
ritime rights and interests of the United 
Kingdom. 
© 4 Gentlemen of the Heuse of Commons, 
€* We are cirected to acquaint you, that 
"his Royal Highness the. Prince Regent’ has 
given his commands, that the estimates for 
othe expenditure of the current year should 
“be laid before you 3 and his Royal Highness 
has’ great satisfaction in acguainting you, that 
-although: the difficulties under which the com- 
emerce of this kingdom has laboured, have in 
*some'degree affected a purt of his Majesty’s 
“revenue, particularily in Ireland, yet that tive 
‘revenue of Great Britain in the last year, 
though unaided by any'new taxation, is greater 
than was ever known in any preceding year. 
»And his Royal Highness trusts to your zeal 
- Sand liberality to aftord his Majesty adequate 
_ Supplies for the support, of the great contest 
ip which he is necessarily engaged, 
J 6 My Lords and Gentkmen, 
iy We are commanded by his Royal High- 
“ness ‘to declare to’ you, that it is the mest 
anxious wish of Mee Hieare, that lie may be 
enabled to :estore unimpaired into the hands 
wot his Majesty the government of his king- 
-dom; and that his Royal Highness earnestly 
prays, that the Almighty may be’ pleased in 
his mescy-to accelerate the termination of a 
“m@alamity so deeply lamented by the whole 
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nation, and so peculfarly afflicting to his 
Royal Highness himself ”* ' 
On the [4th the Corporation of Lone 
don presented the following address te 
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 
Regent of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and treland. 
The dutiful and loyal Addressof the Lord Mayor, 
Alderman, ard Commons, of the City of London, 
in Common Council assembled, 
May it piease your Royal Highness —We, 
the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, 
of the City of London, in Common Council 
assembled, most humbly approach your Royal 
Hizhness, with the’ warmest assurances of 
affectionate attachment to your royal person, 
and uashaken adherence to those sacred prin- 
ciples which seated your family upon the 
throne of this realm, fully convinced that 
those principles afford .the best security to 
the honourvand dignity of the sovereign, and 
the rights and interests of the people, 
Whilst we offer to your Royal Highness our 
Sincere condolence upon the severe visitation 
with which it has pleased Divine Providence 
to afflict our most gracious Sovereign, which 
has occasioned a suspension of the royal func- 
tions, it is with heartfelt consolation that, im. 
common with aliranks of our fellow subjects, 
we behold in the person of your Royal High- 
ness, a prince highly endowed, and eminently 
qualified to exercise the regal duties—a prince, 
who has so greatly endeared himself to the 
people. by his moder.tion and forbearance, 
on various trying occasions, and the attach~ 
ment he has so uniformly shewn to their- 
rights and liberties. 
Had isdeed the desire and expectation of 
the United Kingdom been realized, by vesting 
in your Royal Highness the full powers of 
the executive aathority, we should have had 
just cause for congratulation 5 confident as we 
feel, that those powers would have bdcea 
wirely and beneficially exercised, to enable’ 
us to meet the extraordinary exigencies of so. 
perilous a crisis. 
Deeply impressed with a sense of the many 
and great difliculties which, with powers so 
limited, your Royal Highness, must have to 
encounter in the discharge of dutics so are 
duous, and feeling towards your Royal High- 
ness the fullness. of that loyal affectiong 
which in deeds, as: well as in words, we have 
so long demonstrated towards your royal fa~ 
ther and family, we would fain haye forborne 
to cloud the dawn of our intercourse with 
your Royal Highness, by even a glance at 
our grievances, manifold and weighty as they 
ares but duty to our sovereign, duty to our 
country, the example of our forefathers, jus- 
tice to posterity, the fame and the safety of 
the kingdom, all, with voice imperious, for- 
bid us to disguise our thoughts, or to smother 
our feelings. 
Far be it from us, insulted as the Corpora- 
"tion of this ancient, and at all former times re- 
Specteds 
