STATE PAPERS. 



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Huded, and the necessity of 

 maintaining for a time a body of 

 troops in British pay upon the 

 continent, have rendered a conti- 

 nuation of our foreign expenditure 

 unavoidable. You may rely, how- 

 ever, upon my determination to 

 reduce the expenses of the country 

 as rapidly as the nature of our 

 situation will permit, 



" My Lords and Gentlemen, 



" It is a peculiar gratification to 

 me to be enabled to assure you, 

 that fu 11 j ustice is rendered through- 

 out Europe to that manly persever- 

 ance which, amidst the convul- 

 sions on the continent, has pre- 

 served this country against all the 

 designs of its enemies, has aug- 

 mented the resources and extended 

 the dominions of the British em- 

 pire, and has proved in its result 

 as beneticial to other nations as to 

 our own. 



" His Majesty's subjects cannot 

 fail to be deeply sensible of the 

 distinguished advantages which 

 they have possessed ; and I am 

 persuaded that they vrill ascribe 

 them, under Providence, to that 

 Constitution which it has now for 

 a century been the object of my 

 family to maintain unimpaired, 

 and under which the people of this 

 realm have enjoyed more of real 

 liberty at home, and of true glory 

 abroad, than has ever fallen to the 

 lot of any nation." 



Speech of the Prince Regent, 

 November 8. 



It is with deep regret that I am 

 again obliged to announce the 

 continuance of his Majesty's la- 

 mented indisposition. 



It would have given me great 



Vor,. LVI. 



satisfaction to have been enabled 

 to communicate to you the termi- 

 nation of the war between this- 

 country and the United States of 

 America. 



Although this war originated in 

 the most unprovoked aggression on 

 the part of the Government of 

 the United States, and was calcu- 

 lated to promote the designs of 

 the common enemy of Europe 

 aaiast the rights and independ- 

 ence of all other nations, 1 never 

 have ceased to entertain a sincere 

 desire to bring it to a conclusion 

 on just and honourable terms. 



1 am still engaged in negocia- 

 tions for this purpose : the success 

 of them must, however, depend 

 on my disposition being met with 

 corresponding sentiments on the 

 part of the enemy. 



The operations of his Majesty's 

 forces by sea and land in the Che- 

 sapeake, in the course of the pre- 

 sent year, have been attended with 

 the most brilliant and successful 

 results. 



The flotilla of the enemy in the 

 Patuxent has been destroyed. The 

 signal defeat of their land forces 

 enabled a detachment of his Ma- 

 jest3'^'s army to take possession of 

 the city of Washington, and the 

 spirit of enterprize which has cha- 

 racterized all the movements in that 

 quarter has produced on the inha- 

 bitants a deep and sensible impres- 

 sion of the calamities of a war in 

 which they have been so wantonly 

 involved. 



The expedition directed from 

 Halifax to the northern coast of 

 the United States has terminated 

 in a manner not less satisfactory. 

 The successful course of this ope- 

 ration has . been followed by the 

 immediate submission of the ex- 



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