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My Lords and Gentlemen, 
After the experience which I 
have had of your loyalty and attach- 
ment to me, and of your zeal for 
the interefts of my people, I have 
only to recommend to youa per- 
feverance in the fame principles 
which have hitherto aétuated you. 
The events of every day muft im- 
prefs you more and more with a 
fenfe of the bleffings which we de- 
tive from our civil and religious 
eftablifhments, and which have fo 
long diftinguifhed us amongft the 
nations of Europe. Thefe bleffings’ 
can only be preferved by inculcat- 
ing and enforcing a due reverence 
to the laws, by reprefling with 
promptitude every attempt to in- 
terrupt our internal ‘tranquillity, 
and by maintaining inviolate that 
happy conftitution which we in- 
_herit from our anceftors, and on 
which the fecurity and happinefs 
of every clafs of my fubjects effen- 
tially depend. 
His Majefty’s Anfwver to the Addrefs of 
both Houfes of Parliament, on the Sub- 
ject of the Rupture of the late Nego- 
zation. i 
My Lords and Gentlemen, 
OTHING could be more fa- 
tisfactory to me than this 
unanimous declaration of the fenti- 
ments of my two houfes of parlia- 
ment. They are fuch as the con- 
duct and declared intention of the 
enemy could not fail to produce. 
‘We are engaged in a caufe which 
‘js common to us all.; and contend- 
ing for every intereit which a free 
and independent, nation can have 
to maintain. Under the bleflings 
of Providence I look with confi- 
fence to the iffue of this grcat con- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1797. 
teft; but in every event my refor 
lution is taken. It is fuchas I owe 
to God, to my country, and to my- 
felf; and it is confirmed by the 
fentiments which you have this day 
declared to me. I will not be 
wanting to my people, but will 
ftand or fall with them, in the de- 
fence of our religion, and in the 
maintenance of the independence, 
laws, and liberties of thefe king- 
doms. 
Proteft of Earl Fitzcvilliam, on the Rejec- 
tion of his Amendment to the Addre/s 
of their Lordfhifis, November 2d. 
DissENTIENT, 
it ECAUSE the amend- 
: ment, which has been 
reje@ed, appeared to me neceflary 
to fave the honour of this Houfe 
from being implicated in approv- 
ing a negotiation, of which we 
knew little more than that it has 
drawn down new contumelies and 
indignities, new injuries and. out- 
rages, on his Majefty and his peo- 
ple. Of thefe indeed too much 
is already known. His Majefty 
has been advifed to fet forth a de- 
tailed account of them to France, 
to Europe, and to the world, as if 
the late abrupt conclufion of the 
negotiation by the Direétory, and 
the infulting difmiffion of our am- 
baffador, were not the notorious 
and immediate confequence of the 
public voice of France having been 
over-ruled by force and terror; 
and as if all Europe, however in 
great part fubdued alfo by force 
and terror, and America, the only 
part of the world out of Europe 
which is dire€tly connected with 
the fyitem of Europe, were not too 
well acquainted before with the 
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