4 ANNUAL REGISTER, 
addition to the burdens of my peo- 
ple.” 
“ My Lords and Gentlemen, 
“I contemplate, with the utmost: 
Satisfaction, the great and increas- 
ing benefits produced by that im- 
portant measure which has united 
the interests and consolidated the 
tesources of Great Britain-and Ire- 
and. The improvement and ex- 
tension of these advantages will be 
objects of your unremitting care 
and attention. The trade and com- 
merce of my subjects, so essential 
to the support of public credit, and 
of our*maritime strength, will, I 
am persuaded, receive from you 
every possible encouragement ; and 
you will readily lend your assist- 
-ance in affording to mercantile trans- 
actions, in every part of my United 
Kingdom, all the facility and ac- 
commodation that may be consis- 
tent with the security of the pub- 
lic revenue. 
“To uphold the honour of the 
country, to encourage its industry, 
to improve its resources, and to 
maintain the true principles of the 
constitution in church and state, are 
the great and leading duties which 
vou are called upon to discharge. 
In the performance of them, you 
may be assured of my uniform and 
cordial support; it being my most 
earnest wish to cultivate a perfect 
harmony between me and my par- 
lament, and to promote to the 
utmost, the avelfare of my faithful 
subjects, whose interests and hap- 
piness I shall ever consider as in- 
separable from my own.” 
The same day the address was 
‘moved in the house ef lords by 
lord Arden, and in the commons 
‘by Mr. Trench (of Galway.) 
Lord Arden, after stating that 
1803. 
the prosperity of our commerce and 
manufactures, the abundance of 
the necessaries of life, and the unt- 
versal spirit of loyalty and attach- 
ment to the king and constitution 
which now prevailed, justified com- 
pletely what had fallen from his 
majesty in his most gracious speech, 
took particular notice of that part 
of it which referred to the situation 
of Europe. The order of domi 
nion could not be there indefinitely 
changed, without endangering the 
security of thiscountry. Although 
in the conclusion of the last war 
we had reluctantly abandoned al- 
lies, who had neither the power or 
the will to make a stand for their 
own political existence: yet there 
were limits beyond which this plan 
of conduct could not be extended. 
He therefore thought the house 
must approve of the resolution of 
his majesty, to keep the vigilance of 
the governmentawake to the changes 
in the arrangement of continental 
power; and that they would not 
refuse such supplies, as the neces- 
sary vigor of such preparation 
must require. His lordship con- 
cluded by moving the address, 
which as usual, was an echo of the 
speech from the throne. 
The hero of the Nile (lord 
Nelson) seconded the address, and 
declared his approbation of a plan 
of government, which promised to 
maintain the antient dignity of the 
country, without hastily throwing 
away the blessings of peace. War 
had not exhatisted our resources 5 
our national industry had not been 
slackened, nor had it been frustra- 
ted of its rewards. The condition 
of unexampled prosperity which 
the country enjoys, immediately 
after the late war, is such as would 
reuder 
