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Chronology — Home Marriages. 



[July, 



jesty's ship Volage, commanded by Lord 

 Colchester, bavins' on board the Ex- 

 Emperor of Brazil, with his consort, 

 and a numerous train. In consequence 

 of a revolution, and the soldiers laying 

 down their arms, instead of supporting 

 their emperor, he had abdicated the 

 crown. 



14. Meeting of the New Parliament. 

 Right Hon. C ]\I. Sutton chosen Speaker 

 of the House of Commons. 



16. Advice received at Lloyd's, that 

 the Urania, Portuguese corvette, was 

 taken, June 1, off Terceira, by the IVIel- 

 pomene, French frigate, with a brig in 

 company, and sent for France. 



J>me 10. The Lords of the Admiralty 

 paid a visit to the Thames Tunnel ; 

 thej' were conducted over the works by 

 Mr. Brunei, who explained the mode in 

 which the tunnel had been proceeded in. 



— The King granted the dignity of 

 a Baron, to Arthur James, Earl of Fin- 

 gall, and his heirs — also the same dignity 

 to William Philip, Earl of Sefton, and 

 his heirs — to Lord Kinnaird, and his 

 heirs, the same dignit)*, under the title 

 of Baron Rossie -and the same dignity 

 also to G. J. W. Agar Ellis, and his lieirs, 

 under the title of Baron Dover. 



21. His Majesty went in state to the 

 House of Peers, and delivered the fol- 

 lowing speech to \}oth. Elouses of Parlia- 

 ment — 



My Lords and Gentlemen — I Uave availed my- 

 self of the eailii'st opportunity of resorting to your 

 advice and assistance, after the dissolutinn ni the 

 late Parliament. — Having had recourse to that 

 measure f"r the piirp -se of ascertaining the sense 

 of my people of the expediency of a Reform in 

 the Representation, I have now to rieommend 

 that important qnestion to your earliest and most 

 attentive consideration ; confident that in any 

 measures which you may prepare for its adjust- 

 ment, you will carefully adhere to the aikiiow- 

 ledj,'ed principles of the couFtitution, by which the 

 prerogatives of the Crown, the authority of both 

 Houses of Parliament, and the rights and liberties 

 of ttie people are equally s, 'cured. — The assu- 

 rances of a friendly disposition, which I continue 

 to receive from all foreign powers, encourage the 

 hope that, notwithstanding the civil commo- 

 tions which have disturbed some parts of Europe, 

 and the contests now existing in Pi>laiid, the 

 general peace will be maintained. — To the pre- 

 s.rvation of this blessing my mnst anxious care 

 will be constantly direcied. — The iliscussions 

 which have tal<en place on the affairs of f^elginm 

 have not yet been brought to a conclu'ion ; hut 

 the most conipl'te agreement continues to subsist 

 between the pcnver? whose plenipotenUarios have 

 been engaged in the conferences of Londiui. Tlie 

 pi'inciple on which these conferences have Iteen 

 conducted has been, that of not interfering with 

 the riglit of the people of Belgium 1o regnlale 

 their internal afTairs, and to establish their gu- 

 Ternment accoidiiig to their own views of what 

 may be n^ost conducive to their future welfare 

 and independence; under the s>le conditicn, sanc- 

 tioned by the practice of nations, and founded on 

 the principles of public law, that, in the exercise 

 of that undoubted ri^'ht, the security of neigh- 

 bouring states should not bo endangered. — .\ 

 series of injirries ai u insults, for which, notwith- 

 standin:^ repeated remonstrances, all rcparalion 

 was withhelil, compelled me at last to order a 

 sqtiadron of my fleet to appear before Lisbon, 

 with a peremptory demaTul of satisfaction ; a 

 prumpt cumidiance with that demand picvented 



the necessity of further measures, but I hare to 

 regret that I have not yet beeji enabled to esta- 

 blish my diplomatic relations with the Portuguese 

 government. 



Gentlemen of the House of Commons — ^I bav* 

 ordered estimates of the expenses of the current 

 year to be laid before you, and I rely with con- 

 fidence on your loyalty and zeal to make adequate 

 provision for the public service, as well as for the 

 further appl cation of the sums granted bylhelast 

 Parliament, always Keeping In view the necessity 

 of a wise and wholesome economy in eveiy branch 

 of the public expenditure. 



.My Lords and Gentlemen — Tt gives me great 

 satisfaction to state to \ou that the large reduc- 

 tion of taxes which took place in the last and 

 in the present year, with a view to the relief of 

 the I,Tboortng classes of the communitv, has not 

 liecn attended with a proportionate diminution of 

 the public income. I trust that sncli additional 

 means as may be required to supply a part of the 

 deficiency occasioned by these reductions, may be 

 found without any matei'ial abridgment of the 

 comforts of nty peoide. —To assist tlie industry, to 

 improve the resources, and to maintain the credit 

 o! tlie country on sounii princiides, and on a safe 

 and lasting fimndation, will be at all times the 

 object of niy solicitude, in the promotion of which 

 I look with coniiderice to your zealous co-oitera- 

 tion. — It is with deep concern that I have to an- 

 nounce to you the continued progress of a formi- 

 dable disease, to which my attention had been 

 e.nily directed, in the eastern parts of Europe. In- 

 forni:iliou having been niore recently received that 

 it hnd extended its ravages to the ports in the 

 Baltic, from whence there is a great commercial 

 intercourse with my dominions, I have directed 

 that all the precautions should be taken which 

 experience has recommended as most efTectual 

 for guardina against the introduction of so dan- 

 gerous a malady into the country. — Great distress 

 has unhappily prevailed in some districts, and 

 more particularly in a part of the western coun- 

 ties of Ireland, to relieve which, in the most press- 

 ing oases, I have not hesitated to authorise the 

 application of such means as were immediately 

 available for that purpose. But assistance of this 

 nature is nece>sarily limited in its amount, and 

 can only be temporary in its effect. Tlie possi- 

 bilitv. tlierefore, of introducing any measuren 

 whi h, by assisting the improvement of the natu- 

 ral resources of the country, may tend to iirevent 

 the recurrence of such evils, must be a subject of 

 the most anxious interest to me, and to you of 

 the most grave and cautious consideration. — 

 Local disturbar;ces, unconnected with political 

 causes, have taken place both in this part of the 

 United Kingdom, and in Ireland. In tlie county 

 of Clare, and in the adjoinintr parts of Roscom- 

 mon and Galway, a system of violence and out- 

 rage had for some time been carried on to an 

 alarming extent, for the j-epression of which the 

 constitutional authority of the law has been vi- 

 gorously and successfully exerted. By these 

 means, the necessity of eiiacting new laws to 

 streu'ithen the executive government with fur- 

 ther powers will, I trust, be prevented. To avert 

 sucli a necis-lty has been, and ever will be, my 

 most earnest desire ; but it it should unfc-tu- 

 nately arise, I doubt not your firm resolution to 

 maintain the I'eace and order of society, by the 

 adoption of such measures as may be requisite 

 for their most eifectual protection.'' 



HOME MARRIAGES. 

 Rev. T. P. Bridges, to Sophia Louisa, 

 eldest daughter o'f Sir AV. L. Young, 

 Bart. — Hon. AV. S. Bernard, brother to 

 Earl of Bandon, to Eliza, daughter of 

 Lieutenant-Colonel Gillman. ■ — N. J. 

 Knatchbull, Esq., eldest son of Sir E. 

 Knatchbull, Bart., to ]Mary, eldest 

 daughter of J. Watts Russell, Esq — At 

 Cheltenham, Rev. T. G. Leit^h. to Hen- 

 riana ^Matilda, youngest ttaughter of 



