432 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



My Lords and Gentlemen, — 

 We are commanded by his majesty 

 to express his hopes that you will 

 resume the consideration of the 

 state of the inferior clergy, and 

 adopt such further measures upon 

 this interesting subject as may 

 appear to you to be proper. — We 

 have it further in command to state 

 to you that the accounts which 

 will be laid before you of the trade 

 and revenue of the country will be 

 found highly satisfactory. — What- 

 ever temporary and partial incon- 

 venience may have resulted from 

 the measures which were directed 

 by France against those great 

 sources of our prosperity and 

 strength, those measures have 

 wholly failed ofproducing any per- 

 manent or general effect. — The in- 

 veterate hostility of our enemy con- 

 tinues to be directed against this 

 country with unabated animosity 

 •and violence. Toguardthe security 

 of his majesty's dominions, and to 

 defeat the designs which are medi- 

 tated against us and our allies, will 

 require the utmost efforts of vigi- 

 lance, fortitude, and perseverance. 

 In every difficulty and danger, liis 

 majesty confidently trusts that he 

 shall derive the most effectual sup- 

 port, under the continued blessing 

 of divine Providence, from thewis- 

 dom of his parliament, the valour 

 of his forces, and the spirit and 

 determination of his people. 



His Majesty s Speech at the con- 

 clusion of the Session. 



My Lordsand Gentlemen, — His 

 majesty has commanded us to ac- 

 quaint you, that, as the public bu- 

 siness is now concluded, he thinks 

 it proper to put an end to the pre- 

 sent session of parliament. 



We are commanded by his ma- 

 jesty to express the satisfaction he 

 derived from the reduction of the 

 island of Guadaloupe by his majes- 

 ty's arms ; an event which for the 

 first time in the history of the wars 

 of Great Britain, has wrested from 

 France all her possessions in that 

 quarter of the world ; and which, 

 together with the subsequent cap- 

 ture of the only colonies in the 

 West Indies which remained in the 

 possession of the Dutch, has de- 

 prived his majesty's enemies of 

 every port in those seas from 

 which tha interests of his majesty, 

 or the commerce of his subjects, 

 can be molested. 

 Gentlemen of the House of Com- 

 mons, — His majesty has command- 

 ed us to thank vou for the liberal 

 and ample supplies which you have 

 granted for the services of the 

 present year. 



His majesty deeply regrets the 

 necessary extent of the demands 

 which those services have created ; 

 but we are commanded to express 

 to youthe consolation which he has 

 derived from observing that the re- 

 sources of thecountry, manifesting 

 themselves by everj' mark of pros- 

 perity, by a revenue increasing in 

 almost all its branches, and by a 

 commerce extending itself in new 

 channels, and with an increased vi- 

 gour in proportion as the enemy 

 has in vain attempted to destroy it, 

 have enabled you to provide forthe 

 expenses of the year without im- 

 posing the burthen of any new tax- 

 ation on Great Britain ; and that, 

 while the taxes which have been 

 necessarily resorted to for Ireland, 

 have been iniposed upon articles 

 which will not interfere with the 

 growing prosperity of that country, 

 you have found it consistent with a 



