STATE 
vide for the important objects there- 
in mentioned, should be drawn out 
and embodied: and whereas, in 
pursuance of the said recited act, 
we have thought fit on this day to 
- issue our royal proclamation, notify- 
ing the causes and occasions so de- 
elared in council as aforesaid: and 
whereas our parliament now stands 
ptorogued to Thursday the third 
day of January next, we therefore, 
by the advice of our privy council, 
do hereby publish and declare our 
royal will and pleasure, that our 
said parliament shall, on Thursday 
the thirteenth day of this instant 
December, be held for the dispatch 
of divers weighty and important 
affairs. And the Lords spiritual 
and temporal, and the knights, citi- 
zens, and burgesses, and the com- 
‘missioners for shires and burghs of 
the House ef Commons, are here- 
by required to give attendance at 
‘Westminster on the said thirteenth 
day of December. 
Given at our court at Windsor, 
the Ist day of December, 
1792, and in the 33d year of 
our reign. 
GOD SAVE THE KING. 
_ His Majesty's Speech to both Houses 
of Parliament, December 13th, 
1792. 
_ My Lords and Gentlemen, 
, 1 5 ipa judged it necessary 
_- to embody a part of the mili- 
_ tia of this kingdom, I have, in pur- 
~suance of the provisions of the law, 
called you together within the time 
limited for that purpose ; and it is 
on every account a great satisfac- 
‘ tion to me to meet you in parlia- 
* ment at this conjuncture. 
‘I should have been happy if I 
‘ 
PA PERS. 
could have announced to you the 
secure and undisturbed continuance 
of all the blessings which my sub- 
jects have derived from a state of 
tranquillity ; but events have re- 
cently occurred, which require our 
united vigilance and exertion, in 
order to preserve the advantages 
which we have hitherto enjoyed. 
The seditious practices which 
had been ina great measure checked 
by your firm and explicit declara- 
tion in the last session, and by the 
general concurrence of my people 
in the same sentiments, have of late 
been more openly renewed, and 
with increased activity. 
A spirit of tumult and disorder 
(the natural consequence of such 
practices) has shewn itself in acts 
of riot and insurrection, which re- 
quired the interposition of a military 
force in support of the civil magi- 
strate. The industry employed to 
excite discentent on various pre- 
texts, and in different parts of the 
kingdom, has appeared to proceed 
from a design to attempt the de- 
struction of our happy constitution, 
and the subversion of all order and 
government; and this design has 
evidently been pursued in connec- 
tion apd concert with persons in 
foreign countries. 
I have carefully observed a strict 
neutrality in the present war on the 
continent, and have uniformly ab- 
stained from any interference with 
respect to the internal affairs in 
France ; but it is impossible for me 
to see, without the most serious 
uneasiness, the strong and increas- 
ing indications which have appeared 
there of an intention to excite dis-~ 
turbances in other countries, to 
disregard the rights of neutral na- 
tions, and to pursue views.of con- 
quest and aggrandizement, as well 
as 
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