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[June I, 
STATE or PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In May, 1805. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
HE feeling of abhorrence againft the 
malverfations difclofed in the Tenth 
Report has, as might naturally be ex- 
pected, been manifefted in every part of 
England, Public meetings have been held, 
and very numeroufly attended, in the cities 
of London, Weftmintter, York, Coventry 
and Southampton, in the borough of 
Southwark, and in the feveral counties of 
Middiefex, Effex, Kent, Bedford, Surrey, 
Hertford; Hampfhire, Nerfolk, &c. &c. 
at each of which a number of very {pirited 
refclutions have been voted, almoft unani- 
moufly ,exprefiive of jult indignation againft 
thofe who have been found guilty of vio- 
Jating the high trufts repefed inthem. At 
moft of thefe meetings petitions were drawn 
up to be prefented to his Majefty, and to 
the Houfe of Commons. 
Another fubjeét, which has caufed, 
during the préfent month, confiderable 
difcuffion, was, the Petition prefented to 
Parliament by the Roman Catholics of 
Jreland. On the 13th of May this Peiition 
was taken into codiideration inthe Houle 
of Peers, and, after two days debate, ona 
Givifion there appesred in ‘fupport of i', 
49 ; and againgt it, 173; majority, 129. 
And on the fame day, after two days de- 
bate in the Houfe of Commons, it was re- 
jected by 336 again& 124.5 majority, 212. 
_ At'the Court of the Queen’s Palace, the 
oth of May, his Majefty in Council having 
ordered the Council Books to be laid be- 
fore him, the name of Henry. Vifcount 
Melville was erafed from the Lift of Privy 
Ceounfellors, 
HOLLAND. 
The Dutch Government having af- 
fembled, agreeably to the new Conftitu- 
tion and arrangements, M. SCHiMMEL- 
PENNINCK, the Grand Penhonary, whom 
we underftand to be a very refpectable and 
amiable man, addreffed to them the fol- 
lowing ‘peech. 
‘¢ H gh and Mighty Lords, 
“‘ For a long time have our country- 
men feit the neceffity of preventing, by 
the introduétion of anew order of things, 
the downfall of the tcttering edifice of 
the ftate, This neceflity was fo generally 
felt, and in fo lively a manner, that i 
deem it fuperfluous and unfit to enlarge 
upon a tiuth’ univerfally acknowledged ; 
but it is this general conviétion which 
holds to us the rule by whieh we are to 
meafurethe hope which the nation has 
again. recovered, and the expectation 
which it grounds upon our exeitions. 
‘© The burden which we take upon our- 
felves, and the molt troublefomeand pain- 
ful part of which is to fall upen me, is 
heavy. The difficulties in which the 
ftate is invo'ved are manifold and great ; 
the firft proof of our courage will be, to 
dare to contemplate thofe difficulries, 
fucn as they actually exit; the fecond, 
not to defpair of conquering them, that is 
to fay, of the falvation of ourcountry. 
* In my opinion, it would be little con- 
fiftent with thet calm impartiality and un- 
fhaken integrity which mutt be efteemed 
ina government, to afcend in any man- 
ner, either to the nearer cr to the more 
remote caufes to which we have to im- 
pute the prefent fituation of our country. 
<“T deem this the more repugnant to 
wifdom and equity, becaufe, whatever 
partial inconveniencies may have arifen 
from individual mifapprehenfions, preju- 
dices, or actions, yet the main fource of 
our difafters is by no means to be looked 
for in our bofom, but in caufs entirely 
without us, and quite independent of ,us. 
‘Our country could not fail, by its 
fituation and relations, deeply. to partake 
of the great events which have changed 
the whole face of Europe; and the pow- 
erful impulfes which have fhaken” the 
great bodies fituated around us, muft na- 
turally caufe a fenfible agitation in our 
contraéted- territory. And ought we, 
then, to continue fearchirg into our en- 
trails, or rendering the wounds of our 
ftate more incurable, by feeking after their 
caufes in our own bofom;-a fearch, the 
refult of which would always be expofed 
to different judgments, always lead to 
dangercus reproaches, and would be al- 
ways molt adverfe to a conciliation? | 
«No, High and Mighty Lords, let us 
leave the caufes, and jet us only view the 
wounds clearly ; folely with intention to 
heal ihem: and permit me, who am now 
placed at the head of the Government, 
to poinc out the means, and, on this fo- 
Jemn occafion, to ftate to your Bigh 
Mightinefles, the principles by which I 
fhall iegulate my adminiftration, and 
which | deem the moft proper for fecur- 
ing our political exiftence abroad, and our 
trenquillity at home. 
s* Among the great acts which I ima- 
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