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terable sense of the repeated 
wix 
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principal speakers® for the ad- 
proofs which I have received of |drefy were Mr Wyndham, M* 
your cordial and affectionate 
attachment to me; and I place 
an entire*reliance on the con- 
tinuance of those sentiments, as 
Well'as on your firm determi- 
nation to defend and maintain’ 
that constitution which has so 
Tong protected the liberties, and 
promoted’ the happinefs of eve- 
ry clals of my subjects. 
“ In endeavouring to pre- 
serve, and to transmit to poste- 
tity, the inestimable blefsings, 
which, under the favour of pro- 
vidence, you have yourselves 
éxperienced, you may be atsu- 
' ted of my zealous and cordial 
co-operation; and our joint 
efforts will, I doubt not, be 
rendered completely effectual 
by the decided suppott of a 
free and loyal people.” 
After the king’s speech the 
addrefs was mov. in the house 
6f peers by lord Hardwicke and 
and seconded by ‘ord Walsi‘i¢ 
ham. Lord Grenville for, and 
and the marquis of Lansdowne 
against the addrefs, were the 
principal speakers; lord Stor- 
mont and lord Rawdon concur. 
red with the addrefs, 
In the house of commons the 
addrefs was moved by the lord 
mayor of London, and seconded 
by Mr Wallace. Mr Fox op- 
posed it with great energy, and 
moved an amendment. Mr 
Grey, Mr Sheridan, and Mi 
Erskine spoke in favour of it 3): 
Dundas ; against it Mr Fox, Mr 
Sheridan, Mr Grey. For the 
amendment 50, against it 290 3° 
majority 240. | bite 
‘The other businefs in parlia- 
ment has been of lefs impor- 
tance; unlefs that on Dec. 20th, 
when areport from the com- 
mittee of supply was brought 
up, by which 28,c00 seamen 
were voted, Mr Burke, Mr 
Fox, and Mr Sheridan agreed 
in thinking the navy was of so 
much conseq:nce in the pre- 
sent situation ot affairs that they 
all declared if 40,000 men_ had: 
been thought necefsary they 
would have readily agreed to it,’ 
Mr Fox seems to be so much’ 
affected with the perilous state 
in which the king of France 
now is citcumstanced, and so 
anxious to save the people of 
France from being guilty of an 
atrocity of conduct, that would 
do much injury to the cause in 
which they have engaged, 
that he suggested to the mi- 
nister the propriety of bringing 
forward some motion that might 
convince the’ French, by the 
perfect unanimity of that house, 
that this nation would not look 
on with indifference. 
Dec. 20th, The chancellor of 
the exchecquer, in conformity 
with what had recently pafsed 
on this subject, moved, “ Vhat 
an addrefs be presented ‘to his 
ajesty, Ted@estine Copies and 
but lefs warmly than usual in extracts of the instructiogs trant. 
