STATE PAPERS. 
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His Majefty’s Speech to both Houfes of the public fervice; and while I la« 
Parliament on proroguing the fame, 
20th of July, VI97. - 
My Lords and Gentlemen, 
J CANNOT put an end to this 
feffion of parliament without re- 
turning you my moftfincereand cor- 
dial thanks for the affiduity and zeal 
with which you have applied your- 
felves to the important objects 
which have required your atten- 
tion, and for the wifdom and firm- 
nefs which you have manifefted in 
the new and difficult emergencies 
for which you have had to provide. 
I muft particularly exprefs the 
juft fenfe I entertain of the falutary 
and effeétual provifions which you 
made for ftrengthening the means 
of national defence; and the mea- 
fures adopted for obviating the in- 
conveniences which were to be ap- 
prehended to credit from the tem- 
porary fufpenfion of payments in 
¢eafh by the Bank, as well as of the 
promptitude, vigour, and effect 
with which you afforded me your 
affiftance and fupport in fuppreffing 
the daring and treafonable mutiny 
which broke out ina part of, my 
fleet, and in counteraéting fo dan- 
gerous and pernicious an example. 
I have the fatisfaction to acquaint 
you, that, fince the acceffion of the 
prefent Emperor of Ruffia, the 
commercial engagements between 
the two countries have been re- 
newed in fuch a manner as will, I 
doubt not, materially conduce to 
their mutual interefts. 6 
Gentlemen of the Houfe of 
Commons, 
I MUST return you my parti- 
cular thanks for the liberal and ex- 
tenfive provifion which you have 
made for the various exigercies of 
ment ‘the neceffity which increafed 
them to fo large an amount, it is a 
confolation to me to obferve the 
attention you employed in diftri- 
buting the heavy burthens, which 
they occafioned, in fuch a manner 
as to render their preffure as little 
fevere as poffible to my people. 
My Lords and Gentlemen, 
THE iffue of the important ne- 
gotiation in which Iam engaged is 
yet uncertain; but, whatever may 
be the event, nothing will have 
been wanting on my part to bring 
it to a fuccefsful termination, on 
fuch conditions as may be confift- 
ent with the fecurity, honour, and 
effential interefts of my dominions. 
In the mean time, nothing can fo 
much tend to forward the attain- 
ment of peace, as the continuance 
of that zeal, exertion, and publig 
fpirit, of which my fubjects have 
given fuch confpicuous and ho- 
nourable proofs, and of which the 
a aA Fiona and firmnefs of par- 
iament has afforded them fo ftrik- 
ing an example. 
_—_ ir 
Copy of the whole of the Proceedings relas 
tive to the late Negotiation at Lifléy 
from its firft Opening to its final Rup~ 
ture, which was prefinted by his Ma~ 
jefy on the 3d of November to both 
Houfes of Parliament. The Papers 
thus frefented arc fifty-four in number, 
the eleven firf? of which relate chiefly te 
. the Preliminary Arrangement that took 
flace previous io Lord Malmefbury’s 
departure for Life. 
ki A NOTE from Lord Gren- 
ville to M. Delacroix, dat- 
ed June lit, propofing, in confe. 
quence of the fignature of the pre- 
M 3 liminaries 
