STATE PAPERS. 



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which may be expected to lesult 

 from the salutary system of mak- 

 ing provision for them in a way 

 calculated to uphold public credit. 



" The arranffements which vou 

 have adopted for discharging the 

 incumbrances of the civil list, 

 and for rendering its future in- 

 come adequate to its expenditure, 

 by relieving it from a part of the 

 charge to which it was subject, 

 are in the highest degree gratify- 

 ing and satisfactory to me ; and 

 you may be assured that nothing 

 shall be wanting on my part to 

 give full effect to those arrange- 

 ments. 



" The provision you have made 

 for consolidating the revenues of 

 Great Britain and Ireland, will, 

 I doubt not, be productive of the 

 happiest consequences, in ce- 

 menting and advancing the in- 

 terests of the United Kingdom ; 

 and must afford an additional 

 proof of the constant disposition 

 of Parliament to relieve the diffi- 

 culties and promote the welfare 

 of Ireland. 



" My Lords and Gentlemen, 



" The measures to which I 

 have been under the necessity of 

 resorting, for the suppression of 

 those tumults and disorders which 

 had unfortunately occurred in 

 some parts of the kingdom, have 

 been productive of the most salu- 

 tary effects. 



" I deeply lament the contirm- 

 ar.ce of that pressure and distress 

 which the circumstances of the 

 country, at the close of so long a 

 war, have unavoidably entailed 

 on many claases of his Majesty's 

 ■ubjects. 



" I feel fully persuaded, how- 

 ever, that after the many severe 



trials which they have imdergone, 

 in the course of the arduous con- 

 test in which we have been en- 

 gaged, and the ultimate success 

 which has attended their glorious 

 and persevering exertions, I may 

 rely with perfect confidence on 

 their public spirit and fortitude in 

 sustaining those difficulties, which 

 will, I trust, be found to have 

 arisen from causes of a temporary 

 nature, and which cannot fail to 

 be materially relieved by the pro- 

 gressive improvement of public 

 credit, and by the reduction which 

 lias already taken place in the 

 burdens of the people." 



Treaty between the King of Spain 

 and the King of the Netherlands. 



In the name of the Most Holy 

 and Indivisible Trinity. 

 His Majesty the King of the 

 Netherlands, and hi^ Majesty the 

 King of Spain and the Indies, 

 animated with an equal desire to 

 put a check upon the piracies of 

 the Barbary Regencies, and to 

 procure to the trade and naviga- 

 tion of the Meditenanean all {)os- 

 sible security, desiring to cement 

 their alliance by a solemn treaty, 

 and to fix the extent and the 

 means thereof, have given their 

 full powers for this purpose, viz. 

 his Majesty the King of the Ne- 

 therlands, to Mr. Hugues Zuylen 

 de Nyevelt, Knight of the order 

 of the Belgic Lion, and his Envoy 

 Extraordinary and Minister Ple- 

 nipotentiary to his Catholic Ma- 

 jesty, and his Majesty the King 

 of Sj)ain and the Indies, to Sieur 

 Pedro Cevallos y Guerra, Coun- 

 sellor of State, Knight of the 

 order of the Golden Fleece, &c. 



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