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STATE PAPERS. 



Message from his Majesty to hotli 

 Houses oj Parliament, 2\st Jan. 



George R. 



THE supplies granted in the 

 commencement of the present 

 session having been calculated to 

 provide only for the first months of 

 the year, his majesty now recom- 

 mends it to the house to make such 

 farther provision as they may judge 

 necessary under the present circum- 

 stances, for the several branches of 

 the public service, and for the vi- 

 gorous prosecution of the war ; and 

 "his majesty has given directions that 

 the proper estimates for this pur- 

 pose should be laid before the house. 



His majesty has thought proper 

 on this occasion to direct that there 

 should be laid before this house co- 

 pies of communications recently re- 

 ceived from the enemy, and of the 

 answers which have been returned 

 thereto by his majesty's command. 



His majesty entertains the fullest 

 confidence that those answers will 

 appear to this house to have been 

 confonnable to that line of conduct 

 which was required from his majesty 

 on this occasion, by his regard to 

 all the most important interests of 

 his dominions ; and his majesty 

 having no object more at heart than 

 that of contributing, as soon as the 

 situation of affairs shall render it 

 practicable, to the cfitablishment of 



the general tranquillity of Europe, 

 on a sure and solid foundation, and 

 of providing effectually for the se- 

 curity and permanent prosperity of 

 his faithful people, places a firm 

 reliance on the continued support 

 of his parliament, and on the zeal 

 and perseverance of his subjects, in 

 such measures as may best tend to 

 confirm the signal advantages which 

 have been obtained to the common 

 cause in the course of the last cam- 

 paign, and to conduct the great 

 contest in which his majesty is en- 

 gaged to a safe and honourable con- 

 clusion. 



G. R. 



Message from the Kiiig to the House 

 of Lords, 2d April. 



George R. 



IT is with the most sincere satis- 

 faction th at his majesty finds him- 

 self enabled to communicate to this 

 house the joint address of his lords 

 and commons of Ireland, laying 

 before his majesty certain resolu- 

 tions which contain the terms pro- 

 posed by them for an entire union 

 between the two kingdoms. His 

 majesty is persuaded that this house 

 will participate in the pleasure with 

 which his majesty observes the con- 

 formity of sentiment manifested in 

 the pioceedings of his two parlia- 



