708 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



attachment totliose established laws 

 and that happy constitution, which 

 it has ever been his majesty's anxi- 

 ous wish to support, and to main- 

 tain, and upon which, under Provi- 

 dence, depends the welfare and 

 prosperity of this kingdom. 



« Gentlemen of the House of 

 Commons ; 



" We have it in command from 

 his majesty to thank you for the 

 liberal provision which you have 

 made for the services of the pre- 

 sent year ; and to express the satis- 

 faction which his majesty derives 

 from your having been enabled to 

 provide for those services without 

 any great and immediate addition 

 to the burthens upon his people. 



" His majesty particularly com- 

 mands us to acknowledge your 

 prompt attention to his wishes, 

 respecting an increased provision 

 for the poorer clergy ; an object in 

 thehighest degree interesting tohis 

 majesty's feelings, and deserving 

 the favourable consideration of 

 parliament. 



" My Lords and Gentlemen ; 



" The atrocities and unparalleled 

 act of violence and treachery by 

 which the ruler of France attempt- 

 ed to surprise and to enslave the 

 Spanish nation, while it has excited 

 in Spain a determined and uncon- 

 querable resistance against the 

 usurpation and tyranny of the 

 French government, has, at the 

 same time, awakened in other na- 

 tions of Europe a determination to 

 resist, by a new effort, the conti- 

 nued and increasing encroach- 

 ments on their safety and inde- 

 pendence. 



" Although the uncertainty of all 

 human events, and the vicissitudes 



attendant upon war, forbid too con- 

 fidant an expectation of a satisfac- 

 tory issue to the present struggle 

 against the common enemy of Eu- 

 rope, his majesty commands us to 

 congratulate you upon the splen- 

 did and important success which 

 has recently crowned the arms of 

 the emperor of Austria under the 

 able and distinguished conduct of 

 his imperial highness the arch- 

 duke Charles. 



" To the efforts of Europe for 

 its own deliverance, his majesty 

 has directed us to assure you, that 

 he is determined to continue his 

 most strenuous assistance and sup- 

 port, convinced that you will agree 

 with him in considering that every 

 exertion for the re-establishment of 

 the independence and security of 

 other nations, is no less conducive 

 to the true interests than it is be- 

 coming the character and honour 

 of Great Britain." 



Proclamation to the Poles. 



Frederic Augustus, king of Sax- 

 ony, &c. Poles ! — Already has the 

 army, which had invaded our duchy 

 of Warsaw, been forced by the 

 victories of our great regenerator, 

 and the valour of our troops, to 

 abandon the capital, and return t» 

 its own territory. 



After having rendered thanks to 

 Divine Providence for the signal 

 protection it has granted us ; it be- 

 comes our duty to employ the first 

 moments of the re-establishment 

 of our government, in expressing 

 the sentiments which have been 

 raised in us by the patriotism and 

 attachment which the nation has so 

 splendidly displayed in that mo- 

 ment of calamity. 



The 



