THE 



ANNUAL REGISTER, 



For the Year 1816. 



GENERAL HISTORY. 



CHAPTER I. 



Parliamentary proceedings. — Speech of the Prince Regent.-— Dthute on 

 the address in the House of Commons. — Motion for naval monument. — 

 Mr. Brougham's motion relative to the Christian treaty, and the treaty 

 of Vienna, Jan. 1815. — Financial exposition of the Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer, and debates. — Mr. Greenfell's motion concerning transac- 

 tions between the public and the Bank of England. — Loi'd Grenville's 

 motion on the peace establishment of the army. — Debates on the same in 

 the House of Commons. — Navy estimates, and debates. 



ON Feb. 1 the speech of the 

 Prince Regent on opening 

 the session of parliament was tle- 

 livercd by conuiiission. It began 

 with adverting to the rc-establish- 

 nicnt of his Most Christian Ma- 

 jesty's authority in the capital of 

 his dominions, in conse([uence of 

 the successes of tlie allied arms, 

 and the subsequent arrangements 

 to provide for tlie Lasting repose 

 and security of Euiope ; express- 

 ing his Royal IJighne^s's convic- 

 tion that Parliament will be sen- 

 sible of the great importance of 

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maintaining that alliance between 

 the confederate powers from 

 which so many advantages had 

 been derived. It was then men- 

 tioned that co))ies of the treaties 

 and conventions concluded, had 

 been ordered to be laid before 

 both houses — that the extraordi- 

 nary situation in which the powers 

 of Euiope had been placed by the 

 circumstances of the FVench rcvo- 

 Ivition, had induced the allies to 

 adopt precautionary measures, in 

 which his Royal Highness had 

 concurred^ and that he relied on 

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