STATE PAPERS. 



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the functions with which he had 

 been invested. — The investigations 

 of the commissioners of naval in- 

 quiry have excited the interest, and 

 inspired the country with gratitude 

 towards those commissioners, and 

 we are persuaded that your majesty 

 participates in the general anxiety 

 which pervades all ranks lor the 

 prolongation, and, if necessary, for 

 the enlargement of their authority. 



Conliding in your majesty's 



paternal solicitude, that whatever is 

 cheerfully contributed by a loyal 

 people shall be faithfully adminis- 

 tered, we entertain the fullest assu- 

 rance that to yonr majesty it will be 

 a source of the profoundest satisfac- 

 tion, that all necessary measures 

 shall be adopted and persevered in, 

 towards the correction and punish- 

 ment of proved malversation, and that 

 nothing Avill be omitted which shall 

 have a tendency to promote the 

 public confidence in government, 

 and to invigorate and confirm the 

 spirit, energy, and union, of your 

 majesty's empire at this important 

 crisis. 



His Majestij^s Anszcer. 



I am fully sensible of your loy- 

 •Alty and attachment to my person 

 and government : you may rely on 

 my concurrence in every measure 

 whfch is calculated to maintain Ihe 

 credit of the ceuntry, and to re- 

 nedy any abuses which may be 

 found to exist iu the public expen- 

 diture. 



Address of (he (Jilij of London to his 

 Alajesh/, on the Victory of the lata 

 Lord Nclstm over the Combined 

 Fleets of Fiance and Sp<iin, off 

 Cape Trafali^ur. Presented Nov. 

 21, 1*0.5. 



To the king's most excellent ma- 

 jesty : The humble, loyal, and du- 

 tiful address of the lord-mayor, al- 

 dermen, and commons of the city of 

 London, in common council assem- 

 bled. — Most gracious sovereign, — 

 We, the lord-mayor, aldermen, and 

 commons of the city of London, in 

 common council assembled, im- 

 pressed with the most solemn sense 

 of gratitute to the Almighty Dis- 

 poser of events, for his late tran- 

 scendant goodness to this highly-fa- 

 voured nation, approach the ihrone^ 

 to ofler our warmest congratula- 

 tions to your majesty, on the re- 

 cent most glorious and decisive vic- 

 tory obtained over the combined 

 naval force of France and Spain, off 

 Cape Trafalgar, by your majesty's 

 fleet, under the command of the 

 illustrious and ever-to-be lamented 

 hero, lord viscount Nelson. A vic- 

 tory, wliich, while it adds to the 

 British archives, in immortal cha- 

 racters, the proudest conflict that 

 ever graced them, mournfully re- 

 cords the fall of the chief, who had, 

 in that moment, attained the sum- 

 mit of splendid achievements. — Far 

 be it, however, from the minds of 

 your majesty's grateful subjects, to 

 repine at the severe blow which 

 Providence has inflicted ; or, whilef 

 they deplore the loss of distinguish- 

 ed worth, oflend the spirit and cha- 

 racter of the British name, by for- 

 getting the many obligations they 

 owe to the surviving brave men, 

 whose valour and public spirit wilt 

 lead them successfully to emulate 

 such heroic deeds, inspired by their 

 loyalty to their beloved king, and 

 their attachment to their native 

 country. 



Signed, by order of court, 



Henry Woodthorpe. 

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