acknowledgments; and my particular thanks are due for the liberality which you have shown in exonerating my civil government and household from the debts with which they were unavoidably burdened. Whilst I regret the amount of the supplies which circumstances have. rendered necessary, it is a relief to me to contemplate the state of our manufactures, commerce, and revenue, which afford the most decisive and gratifying proofs of the abundar ce of our internal resources, and of the growing prosperity of the country. My lords and gentlemen, As I think it expedient that the election of a new parliament should take place without delay, it is my intention forthwith to give directions for dissolving the present, and for calling a new parliament. In communicating to you this intention, I cannot suppress those sentiments of entire approbation, with which I reflect upon every part of your conduct, since I first met you in this place. The unexampled difficulties of our situation required the utmost efforts of that wisdom and fortitude, which you so eminently displayed in contending with them, and by which they have been o happily surmounted. From your judicious and salutary measures during the last year, my people derived all the relief which could be afforded under one of the severest dispensations of Providence. And it was by the spirit and determination which uniformly animated your councils, aided by the unprecedented exertions of my fleets and armies, and the zealous and cordial cooperation of my people, that I was enabled to prosecute with success, and terminate with honour, the long and ar duous contest in which we have been engaged. The same sense, of public duty, the same solicitude for the welfare of your country, will, now, in your individual characters, induce you to encourage, by all the means in your power, the cultivation and improvement of the advantages of peace. My endeavours will never be wanting to preserve the blessings, by which we are so eminently distinguished, and to prove that the prosperity and happiness of all classes of may faithful subjects are the objects which are always the nearest to my heart. Lords Protest against the passing of the Malt Bill. (Vide Debates.)' Dissentient, BECAUSE the constitutional ar gument which was urged for suspending the grant of any supply, until the accustomed communication had been made from the crown to parliament, rests on two propositions drawn from the law and usage of parliament, and from the very essence of the British constitution. First, that no grant of supply can in any case be made to the crown, except in consequence of a previous demand for aid; and, secondly, that such demand must not only describe the general services for which the aid is asked, but must also specity whether those services are calculated on an expectation of peace, or of war, or of preparation for war. These two propositions have been invariably adopted in the practice of our constitution. No in tance has yet been alleged in which they have ever been violated, except in the present case, and their maintenance is essential to the the discharge of all our most import- ration which is to apply to some acant duties. If parliament can alone tual pressure, or to support some decide upon the amount of the sup- depending negotiation; or, lastly, ply to be granted, it is obvious that whether it be intended to meet the parliament must be informed of the imminent danger of immediate war, extent and nature of the services and to resist the continued growth which that supply is to defray; a of that power which hourly threatens question which must always essen- our own destruction: In this situatially depend on the probability or tion, yielding to no men in duty, loycertainty of peace or war. For the alty, and attachment to the crown, solution of this question we are now and feeling more anxious for the imreferred to public notoriety alone. mediate adoption of all practicable We answer, that the constitution of means of defence, in proportion as our country entitles us to more au- our sense of the impending danger thentic information; that such is the is greater, we are still desirous that course which the law and usage of some short interval and pause should parliament have established, and take place before the final grant of that, unless the uniform practice of any supply; though we desire that our ancestors be adhered to in this such interval should be no more respect, we can neither satisfactorily than will be sufficient to enable his regulate our own conduct, nor judge majesty to show to us the same graas we ought of the measures of go- cious confidence which his majesty vernment. But we deny that any and his royal ancestors have reposed notoriety as to the point in question in all preceding parliaments, and to does in fact exist. The dangers of place us in a situation in which we the country are indeed sufficiently may, without violating the constinotorious, but parliament is yet to tution of our country, cheerfully learn by what system of conduct the concur in granting to his majesty all king's government proposes to avert such aids as the present exigency of or to encounter those dangers. The affairs does, in our opinion, peculideterminations of the ministers, as arly demand. far as we know them, have been uncertain and fluctuating, their councils undecided, their measures inconsistent, and their language contradictory. We are called upon to provide for an establishment large beyond all former example; but we have not yet been distinctly told, not even in debate, much less in the constitutional way of communication from the throne, what is the purpose for which it is intended to provide; whether this be a peace establishment calculated to last until the power of France be reduced or her ambition satiated; or whether it be a measure of temporary prepa Spencer. Carysfort. Message from his Majesty to the G. R. IS majesty having taken into consideration the eminent services performed by lieut. general lord Hutchinson, during the late glorious and successful campaign in Egypt, and being desirous of be stowing stowing upon the said lord Hutchinson a signal mark of his royal favour and approbation, and for this purpose to give and grant unto the said liutenant-general lord Hutchinson, and the two next succeeding heirs male of his body, to whom the title of baron Hutchinson, of Alexandria, and of Knocklofty, in the county of Tipperary, shall descend, a net annuity of 2000/.; recommends it to his faithful commons to consider of a proper method of enabling his majesty to grant the same, and of extending, securing, and settling, such annuity upon the said lieut. gen. lord Hutchinson, and the two next succeeding heirs on whom the title of baron Hutchinson, of Alexandria, and of Knocklofty, in the County of Tipperary, shall descend, in such manner as shall he thought more effectual for the benefit of the said lord Hutchinson and his family. ment which are manifested to my person and government afford the strongest indications of the just sense that is entertained of the numerous blessings enjoyed under the protection of our happy constitution. In my intercourse with foreign powers I have been actuated by a sincere disposition for the maintenance of peace; it is nevertheless impossible for me to lose sight of that established and wise system of f policy by which the interests of other states are connected with our own; and I cannot therefore be indifferent to any material change in their relative condition and strength. My conduct will be invariably regulated by a due consideration of the actual situation of Europe, and by a watchful solicitude for the permanent welfare of my people. You will, I am persuaded, agree with me in thinking that it is incumbent upon us to adopt those means of security which are best calculated to afford the prospect of preserving to my subjects the blessings of peace. Gentlemen of the house of commons, I have ordered the estimates for the ensuing year to be laid before you; and rely on your zeal and li berality in providing for the various branches of the public service, which, it is a great satisfaction to me to think, may be fully accomplished without any considerable addition to the burdens of my people. My lords and gentlemen, I contemplate, with the utmost satisfaction, the great and increasing benefits produced by that important measure which has united the interests and consolidated the resources of Great Britain and Ireland. The improvement and extension of these advantages advantages will be objects of your unremitting care and attention. The trade and commerce of my subjects, so essential to the support of public credit, and of our maritime strength, will, I am persuaded, receive from you every possible encouragement; and you will readily lend your assistance in affording to mercantile transactions, in every part of my united kingdom, all the facility and accommodation that may be consistent with the security of the public revenue. To uphold the honour of the country, to encourage its industry, to improve its resources, and maintain the true principles of the constitution in church and state, are the great and leading duties which you are called upon to discharge. In the performance of them, you may be assured of my uniform and cordial support; it being my most earnest wish to cultivate a perfect harmony and confidence between me and my parliament, and to promote to the utmost the welfare of my faithful subjects, whose interests and happiness I shall ever consider as inseparable from my own. Definitive Treaty of Peace between the French Republic, his Majesty the King of Spain and the Indies, and the Batavian Republic (on the one Part); and his Majesty, the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (on the other Part). HE first consul of the French Trepublic, in the name republic, in the name of the French people, and his majesty the king of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being equally animated with a desire to put an end to the calamities of war, have laid the foundation of peace, by the preliminary articles, which were signed in London the 9th Vendémiaire, (or the 1st of October 1801). And as by the 15th article of the preliminaries it has been agreed on, "that plenipotentaries should be named on the part of each government, who should repair to Amiens, and there proceed to arrange a definitive treaty, in concert with the allies of the contracting powers," The first consul of the French republic, in the name of the French people, has named as plenipotentiary the citizen Joseph Buonaparté, counsellor of state: His majesty the king of th united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, has named the marquis Cornwallis, knight of the most noble order of the garter, one of his majesty's privy council, general in his majesty's army, &c. &c.: His majesty the king of Spain and the Indies, and the government of the Batavian republic, have appointed the following plenipotentiaries, to wit, his catholic majesty has named Don Joseph Nicolas d'Azara, his counsellor of state, grand cross of the order of Charles III. ambassador extraordinary of his majesty to the French republic, &c. &c.: And the government of the Batavian republic, has named Roger Jean Schimmelpenninck its ambassador extraordinary to the French republic, &c.: Which said plenipotentiaries hating duly communicated to each other their respective powers, which are transcribed at the conc.usion of the present treaty, have agreed upon the following articles: Article be rticle I. There shall be peace, dship, and good understanding een the French republic, his sty the king of Spain, his heirs successors, and the Batavian reic, on the one part, and his mathe king of the united kingof Great Britain and Ireland, Dheirs and successors, on the. r part. time and the place shall likewise be fixed, by mutual consent, for the meeting of the commissioners, who shall be entrusted with the execution of this article, and who shall take into account, not only the expenses incurred on account of the prisoners of the repective nations, but likewise on account of the foreign troops, who, before being taken, were in the pay, and at the disposal of one of the contracting parties. he contracting parties shall use utmost efforts to preserve a ct harmony between their reive countries, without permit-III. His Britannic majesty reany act of hostility whatever by stores to the French republic and ǝr by land, for any cause, or its allies, viz. his Catholic majesty r any pretext. and the Batavian republic, all the hey shall carefully avoid every possessions and colonies which rewhich might for the future spectively belonged to them, and rb the happy union now reesta- which have been either occupied or ed between them, and shall not conquered by the British forces, any succour or protection, di- during the course of the present war, y or indirectly, to those who with the exception of the island of d wish to injure any of them. Trinidad, and of the Dutch possessions on the island of Ceylon. . All the prisoners made on one and the other, as well by land sea, and the hostages carried ›r delivered up during the war, up to the present day, shall be red without ransom in six weeks e latest, to be reckoned from the when the ratifications of the ent treaty are exchanged, and paying the debts which they have contracted during their vity. Each of the contracting es shall respectively discharge advances which shall have been by any of the contracting parfor the support and maintee of prisoners in the countrics e they have been detained. e shall be appointed by mutual ent for this purpose a comon, especially empowered to ain and determine the comtion which may be due to any f the contracting parties. The 1. XLIV. His Catholic majesty cedes and guara tees, in full property and sovereignty, the island of Trinidad to his Britannic majesty. V. The Batavian republic cedes and guaranties, in full property and sovereignty, to his Britannic majesty, all the possessions and establishments in the island of Ceylon, which previous to the war belonged to the republic of the united provinces, or to the Dutch East India company. VI. The port of the Cape of Good Hope remains to the Batavian republic in full sovereignty, in the same manner as it did previous to the war. The ships of every kind belonging to the other contracting parties, shall be allowed to enter the said ports, and there to purchase what provisions they may stand in need of as heretofore; without being lin Rr ble |