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Other objects, no less interesting 
to your Majesty’s mind, constantly 
directed as it is to the welfare of 
your subjects, have also engaged 
the attention of your Commans. 
The prosperous. and improving 
condition of the public reyenue, 
and the reductions which have been 
found practicable in the naval and 
military establishments, afforded the 
means of which your Commons 
thought it their duty to avail them- 
selves of making a large addition to 
the fund, to be applied in the course 
of the present year, to the reduc-~ 
tion of the public debt... Their con- 
duct upon this, as upon other occa- 
sions, was governed by the convic- 
tion that the efficiency and success 
of the plan which has been esta- 
blished by parliament for this im- 
portant purpose, must essentially 
tend to the future ease and perma- 
nent security of these kingdoms. 
In the adoption of these measures, 
your Commons have felt peculiar 
satisfaction, by finding themselves 
enabled, ‘at the same time, to give 
some immediate relief to your Ma- 
jesty’s subjects, whose firmness in 
sustaining the burdens rendered ne- 
cessary by a due regard to the main- 
tenance of public credit, and whose 
spirit of enterprise and useful in- 
dustry have so effectually contribut- 
ed to advance to the pre-eminence 
they have attained, the general in- 
terests and prosperity of the empire. 
Your Commons, Sire, contem- 
plate with just satisfaction the con- 
tinued and progressive improve- 
ment in the internal situation of 
the country; to preserve, augment, 
and diffuse the blessings of which 
we are in possession, they consider 
as the most important of their du- 
ties; and actuated by this principle, 
which comprehends a zealous and 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1792. 
firm attachment to the form of go+ 
vernment under which we live, and 
a faithful attention to the interests 
and happiness of all classes of their 
fellow-subjects, they are persuaded 
that those measures which are the 
result of it, cannot fail to receive 
your Majesty’s most gracious ap- 
probation. bee 
The bills which J have in my 
hand are severally intituled, “ An 
act to enable his Majesty to make 
provision for the ‘establishment of 
their Royal Highnesses the Duke 
and Duchess of York and Albany; 
and also to settle an annuity on her 
Royal Highness during the term of 
her natural life, to commence from 
the decease of his said Royal High- 
ness, in case her said Royal High- 
ness shall survive him”? 
- * An act for granting to his Ma- 
jesty the sum of four hundred thou- 
sand pounds, to be issued and paid 
to the governor and company of 
the Bank of England, to be bythem 
placed to the account of the com- 
missioners for the reduction of the 
national debt.”? rat and} 
To which your Commons, with 
all humility, entreat your Majesty’s 
royal assent. 
His Majesty’s Proclamation for pre- 
venting Seditious Meetings and 
Writings, May 21,1792, 
By the King,—A PROCLAMATION, 
Grorer Rex. 
HEREAS divers wicked 
- and seditious writings have 
been printed, published, and indus- 
triously dispersed, tending to excite 
tumult and disorder, by endeavour- 
ing to raise groundlessjealousies and 
discontents in the minds of our 
faithful and loving subjects, respect- 
ing 
