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To the King’s Moft Excellent Majefty. 
Te humble Addrefs and Petition of the 
Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery 
of London, in common hall affembled, 
on Thurfday the 23d of March, 
1797. 
May it pleafe you Majefty, 
E, your Majefty’s moft faith- 
ful and loyal fubjeéts, the 
Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery 
of the city of London, incommon 
hall affembled, approach the throne 
with deep affliction, and with the 
moft awful apprehenfions from 
your Majefty’s minifters invaria- 
bly perfifting in meafures which 
an accumulation of unprecedented 
calamities has manifeftly proved 
unwife and deftructive, immediate- 
ly tending to pervert and even to 
deftroy the acknowledged prin- 
ciples of our juftly boafted confti- 
tution. 2 
We lament that by, the evil in- 
ftigations of your Majefty’s advifers, 
thefe nations have been plunged 
into a war, unparalleled in mifery 
and deftruétion, which has nearly 
ruined our commerce, impoverifh- 
ed our manufacturers, depopulated 
our country, fapped the public 
credit, and widely extended the 
moft flagitious corruption. ~ 
We moft deeply deplore that 
your Majefty’s minifters, abandon- 
ing the principles they once pro- 
fefiled, have endeavoured to pre- 
vent the remonftrances. of your 
people, attacking the very vitals of 
our conftitution, and depriving 
your fubjeéts of liberties which 
their anceftors with fo much ener- 
sy “claimed, demanded, and in- 
fifted on as their undoubted right 
and inheritance,’? and which it is 
our duty to tranfmit to our pof- 
terity pure and inviolate; and for 
AP PEN DAS: TO 
the defence and prefervation of 
which your Majefty’s royal houfe 
was chofen and placed upon the 
throne of thefe realms. 
We therefore moft humbly be-. 
feech your Majefty to difmifs for 
ever from your Majefty’s prefence 
and councils thofe advifers, both 
public and fecret, of the meafures 
we largent, not doubting that by a 
change of councils fuch meafures 
may be adopted as will fpeedily 
procure the ineftimable bleflings of 
peace, and produce fuch a fyftem 
of ceconomy as fhall reftore the 
public credit and the happinefs of 
your people. But, fhould your 
Majefty any longer confide in fuch 
advifers, we are firmly convinced 
that they will completely undermine 
that bafis of national profperity and 
happinefs, the reciprocal confidence 
of a Sovereign and a free people, 
and inevitably deftroy the boafted 
privileges, the internal peace, and 
the numerous bleffings that Britons 
have heretofore enjoyed. 
‘ 
Watfon Mayor.—ZJn a meeting or af- 
Jembly of the Mayor, Aldermen, and 
Liverymen of the feveral companies of 
the city of London, in common hall af- 
JSembled, at the Guildhall of the faid 
city, on Thurfday the \\th day of 
May, 1797,— 
ESOLVED, That his Majef- 
ty’s minifters have wantonly 
plunged this nation into an unjuft 
and unneceflary waty which has 
produced a feries of calamities ‘un- 
exampled in hiftory, an enormous 
increafe of public debt, an alarm- 
ing diminution of our trade and 
manufactures, an abridgement of 
our rights and privileges, a fhame- 
ful profufion of our national vega 
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