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ther attendance in parliament. It 
has afforded me infinite satisfaction 
to observe, since my arrival in this 
kingdom, the temper and wisdom 
with which your proceedings have 
been uniformly condutted, 
Gentlemen of the house of com- 
mons, 
¥ am particularly to express his 
majesty’s acknowledgments for the 
liberal supplies which you have 
contributed for the service of the 
empire and the defence of the king- 
dom, with such unanimity and 
cheerfulness, The extent of your 
grants is a convincing proof how 
warmly you feel yourselves inte- 
rested in the vigorous prosecution 
of a war rendered necessary by the 
wanton and unprovoked attack of 
France, and involving in it the ae 
neral cause of social order, mo- 
rality, and religion, in all civilized 
countries. On my part, you may 
‘be assured they shail be faithfully 
applied to the great purposes for 
which they were granted. 
My lords and gentlemen, 
His majesty observes with the 
highest satisfaction, that during the 
present crisis you have not failed 
to cherish and to maintain the va- 
rious sources of your interagl pros- 
perity. You have also ‘completed 
the intention so benevolently en- 
tertained, of entirely relieving the 
poorer classes from the tax of hearth- 
money. Awisefoundation hasbeen 
laid for educating at home the Ro- 
man Catholic clergy. A satisfac- 
tory arrangement of the treasury 
has been confirmed by law; and 
an alteration of duties has been in- 
troduced, with a view toprevent the 
immoderate use of spirituous li- 
guors, and inthe hope of introducing 
a more general habit of sobriety 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795. 
amongst the lower orders of the 
people. In the execution of these 
measures, you may depend upon 
my sincere and earnest endeavours 
to pursue that .wise and prudent 
policy by which, they were dic- 
tated, e 
ns , . 
On repairing to your respective 
counties, which I cannot too 
strongly and too earnestly re- 
commend, it is specially incum- 
bent upon you to make those ex- 
ertions which the times demand, 
and to inculcate the necessity of 
an exat submission to the laws.—— 
By contrasting the blessings which 
result from a well-regulated liberty 
and peaceable subordination, with 
the mischiefs which necessarily 
spring from licentiousness and 
anarchy, you will increase the at- 
tachment of the people to our free 
and happy constitution. To pre- 
serve the constitution inviolate is 
the great object of his majesty in 
the present contest, and he cannot 
but look to its fortunate issue when 
he refleAs on the loyalty, spirit, 
and power of his people, and on 
their just sense of the invaluable 
inheritance for which they con- 
tend. 
It will be the constant objeét of 
my administration, in which his 
majesty’s commands and my own 
personal wishes are most intimately 
combined, to forward, with unre- 
mitting vigilance, the welfare and 
the happiness of thitscountry. These 
objects I cannot so effectually pro- 
mote, as by attending to, and act- 
ing upon, those established princi. 
ples which form the connexion be- 
tween Great Britain and Ireland, 
on which the security, the free- 
dom, and the prosperity of both 
kingdoms most essentially depend. 
Convention 
