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peace and happiness of our faithful 
and loving subjects, to carry the 
laws vigorously into execution 
against such offenders as aforésaid. 
Given at our court at the Queen’s 
House, the 21st day of May, 
1792, in the 32d year of our 
reign. 
GOD SAVE THE KING. 
Joint Address of both Houses of 
Parliament to his Majesty, June 
2d, 1792. 
Most gracious Sovereign, 
E, your Majesty’s most loyal 
and dutiful subjects, the 
Lords spiritual and temporal, and 
Commons of Great Britain, in par- 
liament assembled, have taken into 
our most serious consideration your 
Majesty’s royal proclamation, which 
has, by your Majesty’s command, 
been laid before us: and we beg 
leave to testify to your Majesty our 
warm and grateful sense of this 
fresh proof of your Majesty’s con- 
stant sulicitude for the welfare and 
happiness of your people. We can- 
not see without indignation the at- 
tempts which have been made to 
weaken in the minds of your Ma- 
jesty’s subjects the sentiments of 
obedience to the laws, and of at- 
tachment to the form of govern- 
ment, civil and religious, so happily 
established within this realm. The 
advantages which, under the go- 
vernment of your Majesty and your 
illustrious ancestors, have been de- 
rived from legal and well-regulated 
freedom, and the unexampled bless- 
ings which we actually enjoy, af- 
ford to your Majesty’s subjects 
peculiar motives to reflect with 
gratitude on their present situation, 
and to beware of those delusive 
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theories which are inconsistent with 
the relations and duties of all 
civil society. And we deem it, 
under the present circumstances, 
the peculiar duty of every good 
citizen to discourage and counter- 
act every attempt, direct and in- 
direct, against public order and 
tranquillity. We are confident, 
that the’ sentiments which we now 
express to your Majesty are the 
general sentiments of the nation ; 
they must feel with us, that real 
liberty can only exist under the 
protection of law, and the autho- 
rity of efficient and regular go- 
verhment; and they have seen, 
by happy experience, that the 
mixed form of our legislature 
comprehends and provides for the 
various interests of the community 
through all its several descriptions; 
and maintains and preserves those 
gradations of property and con- 
dition which furnish the great in- 
centives to useful industry, and are 
equally essential to the vigour and 
exertion of every part, and to the 
stability and welfare of the whole. 
They therefore know, that the col- 
lective strength and prosperity of 
the empire, its wealth, its credit, 
and its commerce, as well as the 
only security for the persons, the 
property, and the liberties of each 
individual, are essentially connect- 
ed with the preservation of the 
established constitution. 
Impressed with these opinions, 
we think it our duty to assure your 
Majesty of our firm determination 
to support your Majesty in the re- 
solution which your Majesty has 
adopted ; and we are fully persuad- 
ed, that every exertion which may 
be necessary, will be seconded by 
the zeal and gratitude of a free 
and loyal people. 
His 
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