THE 



ANNUAL REGISTER, 

 For the YEAR 1805. 



m^mmimmmaf 



THE 



HISTORY 



OP 



EUROPE. 



CHAP. I. 



Opening of the Session of Parliament — Substance of his Mqfestfs Speech — 

 Address moved for in the House of Lords, by Loid Elliot — Seconded by 

 Lord Gwydir — Debate — Address carried unanimously — Moved in the 

 Commons bj/ the Hon. Mr. Dillon — Debate— Mr. Fox^Mr. Pitt — Mr. 

 Windham. — Agreed to zdlhout further Opposition — Presented to the 

 King — Inquiry into the Causes of the late Mahratta War — Mr. Francis^a 

 Motion agreed to, thereon. — Supplies moved for and granted — Spanish 

 Papers laid before the House — Army Estimates — Debate thereon — Hc- 

 solutiuns put and agreed to. 



THE session of parliament for the 

 present year coBiraenced un- 

 usually late. — It was not till the 

 13th of January that his majesty 

 went in state to the house of peers, 

 where the commons attending, and 

 the usual formalities having been 

 complied with, the king was pleased 

 to deliver a most gracious speech 

 from the throne.* 



Vx>r,. XLII. 



After announcing to his lords and 

 commons, assembled in parliament, 

 the continued and eager cxertioni 

 of the enemy, since the last session, 

 for the invasion of the British do- 

 minions, his majesty congratulated 

 them upon the skill and intrepidity 

 ot his navy, the formidable state of 

 the army and militia, the unabated 

 zeal and improved discipline of a 



vast 

 Vide '< State Papers," p. 603. 



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