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ona subject so peculiarly interest- 
ing to my people, whose’ welfare 
will ever be the object nearest my 
heart. 
ST EE ER 
Message from the King, Dec. 71795+ 
George Rex. 
HIS majesty thinks proper to 
inform his faithful commons, that 
a considerable sum is likely to arise 
from the sale of prizes taken from 
the united provinces of Holland, 
and that he has ordered the amount 
to be ascertained, and the overplus, 
after the claims of the ¢aptors had 
been discharged, to be applied to 
the public service. 
Message fromthe King, Dec.8,1795. 
George Rex. 
HIS majesty relying on the as- 
surances which he has ‘received 
from his faithful commons, of their 
determination to support his ma- 
jesty in those exertions which are 
necessary under the present circum- 
stances, recommends it to this 
house to consider of making pro. 
vision towards enabling his majesty 
to defray any extraordinery ex- 
pences which may be incurred for 
the service of the ensuing year, 
and to take such measures as the 
exigencies of affairs may require, 
His majesty, on this occasion, 
thinks proper ta acquaint the house, 
that the crisis\which was depend- 
ing at the commencement of the 
present session, has led to such 
an order of things i in France, as will 
induce his majesty, conformably to 
the sentiments which he has al- 
ready declared, to meet any dispo- 
sition for negotiation on the part 
of the enemy, and with an earnest 
desire to give it the fullest and 
speediest effect, and to conclude a 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1795. 
treaty for a general peace, when- 
ever it can be effected on just and 
suitable terms for himself aud his 
allies. 
It is his majesty’s earnest wish, 
that the spirit and determination 
manifested by parliament, added 
to the recent and important suc- 
cesses of the Austrian armies, and 
to the continued and growing em- 
barrassments of the enemy, may 
speedily conduce to the attainment 
of this object, on such grounds as 
the justice of the cause in which 
this country is engaged, and the 
situation of affairs, may entitle his 
mazjesty to expect. 
Message from his Majesty to both 
Houses, Dec. 85 1795+ 
‘George Rex. 
HIS majesty thinks proper to 
acquaint the house of commons, 
that a considerable division of 
ships, having on board foreign 
~ 
troops in the service of Great Bri- | 
tain, having been dispersed and 
damaged while on their passage 
from the rivers Elbe and Weser to 
Spithead, the place of rendezvous 
appointed for the convoy under 
which it was intended they should 
be sent on foreign distant service, 
his majesty has found it unavoid- 
ably necessary to order the said 
troops to be disembarked, and to 
be stationed in barracks near South+ 
ampton, and in the isle of Wight ; 
and at the same time has given di- 
rections, that they shall be re-em- 
barked, and sent to the place of 
their desetnancton, as soon as the 
transports necessary for their ac- 
commodation and conveyance shall 
be in readiness to receive them, 
the necessary orders for that pur- 
pose having, by his majesty’s com- 
mand, been already given. 
Protest 
