GENERAL HISTORY. 



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" Other important objects will 

 be submitted to you during this 

 Session ; and I hope in the next 

 to be able to present to your 

 High Mightinesses the plan of a 

 code for the Netherlands. 



" Thus, High and Miglity 

 Lords, I open the present session, 

 and 1 express my ardent wish and 

 full confidence that it will exhibit 

 itill more and more the character 



of that conformity of views and 

 intentions between the King and" 

 the States- General, which is best 

 calculated to augment the welfare 

 of the kingdom and the prosperity 

 of its inhabitants." 



His Majesty beingre-conducted 

 with the same ceremonies as on 

 his entrance, the sitting termi- 

 nated, and the Second Chamber 

 adjourned until to-morrow. 



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