184 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. [Dec. 



" My Ministers will lay before 

 you the budget of the expenses 

 v/hich the public service re- 

 quires. 



" The protracted effects of 

 events, the consequence of which 

 we have been forced to bear or 

 to accept, have not yet allowed 

 me to propose to you a diminu- 

 tion of the burthens imposed upon 

 mj^ people; but I have the consola- 

 tion to perceive, at no great dis- 

 tance, the moment when I shall 

 be able to satisfy this desire of 

 my heart. From this moment a 

 limit is fixed to the increase of 

 our debt — we have the certainty 

 that it will diminish in a rapid 

 progression. 



" This certainty, and the loy- 

 alty of France in the fulfilment 

 of her engagements, will estab- 

 lish on an immovable foundation 

 the public credit, which some 

 transitory circumstances common 

 to other States had seemed to 

 affect for a moment. 



" The French youth have just 

 given a noble proof of love to 

 their country and their King. 

 The recruiting law has been 

 executed with submission, and 

 often with joy : while the young 

 soldiers enter the ranks of the 

 army, their brothers who are 

 released remain in the bosom of 

 their families, and the veterans, 

 who have fulfilled their engage- 

 ments, return to their homes. 

 They are both living examples of 

 a fidelity henceforth inviolable in 

 executing the laws. 



" After the calamities of a 

 scarcity, the remembi'ance of 

 which still afflicts my soul, Pro- 

 vidence this year, lavish of its 

 benefits, has covered our fields 

 with abundant harvests. They 



will serve to revive commerce, 

 whose vessels visit every sea, and 

 show the French flag to the most 

 remote nations. Industry and 

 the arts also extending their 

 empire, will add to the sweets of 

 general peace. To the independ- 

 ence of the country, to public 

 plenty, is added private hberty, 

 which France has never so en- 

 tirely enjoyed. Let us, there- 

 fore, unite our sentiments and 

 our expressions of gratitude to 

 the author of so many blessings, 

 and let us know how to render 

 them durable. They will be so ; 

 it banishes every sad remem- 

 brance, and stifling' every resent- 

 ment, the French thoroughly 

 persuade themselves that their 

 liberties are inseparable from 

 order, which itself rests upon the 

 throne, their sole palladium. My 

 duty is to defend them against 

 their common enemies. I shall 

 fulfil it, and I shall find in 

 you, gentlemen, that support 

 which I have never yet invoked 

 in vain." 



Murder and Robbery at Hom- 

 sey. — A dreadful murder was 

 committed on Thursday last, on 

 Mr. John Thomas Taylor, a 

 young gentleman about 20 years 

 of age, a surgeon by profession, 

 of a very respectable family, who 

 left his home, 74, Goswell-street, 

 to see some friends at Southgate. 

 In consequence of his not return- 

 ing home at night, according to 

 his usual custom, his friends were 

 very uneasy, and sat up till late 

 on Frida}f morning, the 11th. On 

 his still faihng to return, his 

 friends became very much dis- 

 tressed. They waited in anxious 

 suspense during the whole of 

 Friday, and their fears increased. 

 j Early 



