His majesty's most gracious anfiver. IT T is highly acceptable to me to receive these your warm congratulations on the re-establishment of the public tranquility: an event fo interefting to humanity, fo peculiarly connected with the advancement of religion, and the improve ment of letters. Your zealous and unwearied attention to thefe great and important objects of your care and duty, juftly intitle you to my countenance and conftant protection. To the king's most excellent majefty, TE bridge on the peace. May it please your majefty, WE your majefty's most datiful and loyal fubjects, the chancellor,mafters, and scholars, of your univerfity of Cambridge, beg leave to approach your majefty's throne, and to exprefs the warmeft fentiments of our duty and gratitude to your majefty for your tender regard to the true happiness of your people, in concluding an expenfive, though fuccefsful war, by a fafe and honourable peace. An event which, we trust, will be attended with the greatest bleffings and advantages to us, and our lateft pofterity. We have had frequent occafions, in the continuance of the late juft and neceffary war, to admire the fortitude and greatnefs of mind, with which your majefty pursued every measure that could contribute either to the glory, or the fecurity of your kingdoms. Permit us to declare our moit affectionate fenfe of that goodness of heart, which has difpofed your majefty, even in the midit of your triumphs, to put a happy perjod to the manifold cala mities of war, and to complete your amiable character, the friend of mankind, and the father of your people. It is with a peculiar fatisfaction that your univerfity of Cambridge embraces every opportunity of prefenting themselves before your majefty, the heir and defcendent of princes, who ftand enrolled with our moft munificent patrons and benefactors. And we shall always gratefully acknowledge that our invariable attachment to your majefty's illuftrious house has been diftinguished by many eminent and repeated marks of royal favour. We thall humbly hope, that our perfeverance in the fame good principles and practices will always recommend us to the fame gracious favour and protection. It fhall be our particular attention, as it is our most bounden duty, to inftil into thofe, who are committed to our care, the highest regard for our holy religion, every fentiment of loyalty and affection to their king, and every principle of obedience to the laws and conftitution of their country. May your majefty, who are formed to be the delight and happinefs of any people, be ever poffeffed of the hearts of all your fubjects! May that purity of manners, that undiffembled piety, of which your majesty is fo illuftrious an example, effectually promote and recommend the caufe of virtue and true religion! May it check the progrefs of all open vice and profanenefs! And may that God, whom you fo faithfully ferve, long, very long, preferve your majesty the most beloved fovereign of united, a dutiful, and an affectionate people! an His majefty's most gracious anfwer. THE just fentiments which you exprefs, in this dutiful addrefs, of the peace, which the Providence of God has enabled me to conclude, give me particular fatisfaction. By continuing to educate the youth committed to you, in the principles of loyalty, virtue, and piety, you will perform a moft acceptable fervice to me: And as it is my carneft defire to contribute to the advancement of true religion, and ufeful learning, the univerfity of Cambridge cannot doubt of my conftant favour and protection. Copy of a letter written by a noble duke to the vice-chancellor of Cambridge, on occafion of the foregoing address. Ct, April 6, 1763. Rev. Sir, Received here yesterday the favour of your letter of the 4th, tranfmitting to me the addrefs, which the univerfity have thought proper to make to his majefty, on occafion of the peace. I am extremely forry, that any thing fhould prevent my attending the univerfity with their addrefs to the king. Nobody can be more ready, and defirous, to fhew his duty, and loyalty, to his majefty, upon all occafions, than myfelf; or, as far as in me lies, to promote and encourage, in the university, thofe principles of fteadincfs and affection to the proteftant fucceffion, happily established in his majefty, and his royal family, which now, for many years, I have had the pleafure to fee fo uniformly purfued, and fo warmly exerted there. I apprehend, from feveral expreffions in the addrefs, which I own I cannot approve, and which I fhould have objected to, if I had been previously confulted, that my attendance, upon this occafion, will not be confiftent with the part, which I, and other lords, thought ourfelves obliged to take, when the confideration of the preliminaries was before the parliament. I therefore hope, that it will not be thought want of duty to the king, or of respect to the univerfity (in neither of which will I ever be guilty of the leaft failure) if I defire you, Sir, (as has been very frequently done in our late chancellor's time) to acquaint the fecretary of state, that the univerfity had agreed upon an address to his majeity; and that you defire to know from his lordship, when you, and the univerfity, may attend his majefty with it. This, I believe, has been the method most frequently followed by the university of Oxford, and in feveral inftances, as I mentioned before, in the duke of Somerfet's time. If you write to the secretary of ftate, as foon as you receive this, you may have his lordship's anfwer, time enough for you to come to town on the Monday, if his majefty fhould think proper to appoint (as you fuppofe) Wednesday, this day fe'nnight, for receiving the university. I am, &c. don, defire to be permitted to pay their humble duty to your majesty, and to exprefs their grateful fenfe of your majesty's gracious and benevolent attention to the welfare of your people, in relieving them from the increasing burthens of a long and expenfive, though glo rious and fuccessful war. They enter not into a particular confideration of the national advantages refulting from the treaty of peace, which your majefty has been pleafed to conclude;--- thefe have been fubmitted to a conftitutional examination; but they beg leave thus publicly to declare to your majesty their entire acquiefcence in a meafure which your majefty's councils, and the great council of the nation, have feen reafon to approve. And this they have thought it their duty to do at this time when they have with concern obferved a spirit of faction unhappily arifing, and are apprehenfive their filence might be interpreted as an encouragement of practices which their dutiful attachment to your majefty's person and government leads them to deteft and abhor. They further beg leave to affure your majefty, that as magiftrates to whom the executive power of the government of the city of London is intrufted, it fhall be their conftant endeavour to maintain and preferve their domeftic tranquility, order, and good government, and that true and perfect liberty which has its foundation in obedience to the laws, and of which licentiouf. nefs, though it often affumes the name, is, in this country, the only enemy. By a conduct fo conformable to your royal example, they prefume to hope they shall entitle themfelves to the continuance of your majesty's protection and favour. His majesty's most gracious anfer. Return you my fincere thanks for this addrefs, and for the fatisfaction you exprefs in the fuçcefs of my endeavours to restore the public peace. affurances you give me, of your I receive with great pleasure the abhorrence and deteftation of thofe which, alone, can endanger our factious and licentious practices, prefent happy fettlement, after the conclufion of peace with all our foreign enemies. Your refolution to fupport, in oppofition thereto, the true conftitutional liberty of thefe kingdoms, is highly acceptable to me. The city of London may depend upon my conftant favour and protection. Address of the proteftant diffenting minifters in and about the cities of London and Westminster, on the peace, Moft gracious fovereign, YOUR majesty's ever loyal and faithful fubjects, the proteftant diffenting minifters in and about the cities of London and Weftminfter, humbly beg leave to congratulate your majefty on the reftoration of peace to your own dominions, and to the world in general: an event truly interefting to all who are influenced by fentiments of humanity, and peculiarly pleafing to the minifters of the gofpel of peace. The unparalleled fuccefs and glory, which crowned your majefty's arms, whilft they excited our gratitude to the Almighty, could could not fupprefs our concern for the numberlefs calamities and diforders infeparable from war. As thefe are happily brought to a period, we can now indulge the delightful expectation, that the advancement of piety and virtue, of civil and religious liberty, and of thofe arts which improve and embellish human life, will be the refult of public tranquility, and the juft praife of your majefty's reign. The large acceffions made to your majefty's empire in America, not only promife an increase of commerce, with its attendants, wealth, and power, but likewife opens a way for diffufing freedom and fcience, political order and chriftian knowledge, through thofe extenfive regions, which are now funk in fuperftition and barbarifm, and for imparting even to the most uncultivated of our fpccies, the happiness of Britons. GREAT SIR, The proteftant diffenters have been ever ftrongly attached to those excellent princes your royal progenitors; having always confidered the revolution as the glorious æra of liberty in these kingdoms, and the fucceflion in your auguft houfe, as, under God, its firmeft establishment and the goodness of your majefty's heart, your high fenfe of domeftic virtue, and your avowed regard to religion, concur to heighten our zeal for the dignity of your crown, and the prof perity of your government. It fhall be our conftant care to approve our loyalty and fidelity to your majefly, by promoting concord, and by recommending to thofe with whom we are connected, fuch principles, as are calculated to render them, at once, good fubjects, and good men. The humble addrefs of the merchants and traders of the city of London, on the peace. Moft gracious fovereign, WE your majesty's faithful fub jects, the merchants and traders of the city of London, inviolably attached by every tie of duty and gratitude to your majefty's perfon and government, beg leave to return your majesty our humble thanks for the conftant and effectual fupport and protection we enjoyed during the late war; and, at the fame time, moft fincerely to congratulate your majesty on the fuccefs of your truly paternal and humane endeavours to restore to your people, and to Europe in general, the bleffings of peace. Through the care and attention of government, the national com4 merce, merce, amidft the tumults and dangers of the most extended war this country was ever engaged in, has been carried on with a degree of fecurity and fuccefs beyond example: this, however, did not lead us to forget the adverfe accidents to which the nature of war continually expofed us, nor to coafe wishing for that ftability and permanency, which peace alone could give. the fecurity of the flourishing and extenfive commerce of my kingdoms, have ever been, and ever will be, the invariable objects of my care and attention: these invaluable bleflings, I truft, will be rendered ftable and permanent by the peace which I have concluded; whereby vast countries are added to the British empire, the improvement of which muft produce folid and lafting advantages to all my subjects. We have now the fatisfaction to see a war, founded in justice and. The merchants, and traders, of neceffity, profecuted with vigour the city of London may firmly and glory, a length concluded on rely on my conftant protection and terms of real and folid advantage, favour; and on my steady refoluby a treaty of peace, every where tion ever to fupport them, in the marked with that moderation and full and free enjoyment of their equity which afford the fairest rights, liberties, and privileges. profpect of its continuance. With hearts, therefore, full of the highest sense of your majefty's attention to the general welfare of your fubjects, as well as to their commercial interefts, and animated with equal zeal for your perfon, and abhorrence of all difrefpect to your dignity, we affure your ma jefty, that nothing in our power fhall ever be wanting, that may, in any degree, contribute to render your majefty's reign eafy and happy over a loyal and grateful people. I Signed by 922 merchants and His majesty's moft gracious anfer. Receive, with very particular fatisfaction, from fo numerous and deferving a body of my fubjects, thefe dutiful affurances of their zeal for my perfon and government; these cordial expreffions of their abhorrence of all difrefpect to my crown and dignity. The welfare of my people, and To George the Third, king of Great Britain, and the dominions thereunto belonging. The humble address of his proteftant fubjects, the people called Quakers. May it please the king, BEING met in this our annual affembly, from various parts of Great Britain and Ireland, for the worship of Almighty God, and the promotion of piety and virtue, we embrace the opportunity which the restoration of peace affords us, to testify our affection to thy royal perfon, and family; and our dutiful fubmiffion to thy government. To a people profeffing that the ufe of arms is to them unlawful; a people who reverence the glorious gofpel declaration of good will to men, and fervently with for the univerfal eftablishment of peace, its return must be highly acceptable: To top the effufion of blood, to ease the burthens of the people, and |