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carrying on before the tribunal of your majefty's paternal attention

called the Ober Ampt, in Breslau.

To the king's most excellent majefy.

The humble addrefs of the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in common council af fembled.

E pleafed, moft gracious fo

to improve the happinefs and fecurity of your people, and to render the fame ftable and permanent to pofterity.

May the fame providence long preferve your majefty, and your royal confort, to enjoy the fruits of this bleffed marriage, in an uninterrupted courfe of conjugal felicity, and in a numerous offspring, refembling their illuftrious parents,

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and refpectful congratulations of your majesty's ever dutiful and loyal fubjects, the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in common council affembled, on the folemnization of your majefty's moft aufpicious nuptials.

Warmly interefted from every motive of gratitude, as well as duty, in whatever can affect your royal mind, we enjoy the highest fatisfaction in the completion of our wifhes, by your majefty's happy union with a princefs of the most exalted merit; a princefs, who, by her defcent from an illuftrious lineage (refpectable for their firm and conftant zeal for the proteftant religion, and dear to us for their particular attachment to your majesty's royal house) and above all, by her own most eminent virtues, and amiable endowments, was moft worthy to engage your majefty's esteem and affection, and to fhare the honours of the British crown.

We adore the divine goodness, that as in all your majefty's other conduct, fo more particularly in a choice of the highest importance to your majesty and your kingdoms, hath fo vifibly guided and infpired your royal breast. A choice, which we thankfully acknowledge the ftrongest and most acceptable proof

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moft happy nuptials with a monarch, whofe early wifdom, fortitude, and piety, add luftre to the diadem he wears, and render him the darling, as well as father, of his people.

We do, with that honeft warmth and fincerity which characterize the British nation, humbly affure your majefty, that as the many virtues and amiable endowments, which your majefty poffeffes in fo eminent a degree, cannot fail to blefs our beloved fovereign with every domeftick happiness; fo will they ever endear your majefty to a people, not more. diftinguished for their love of liberty, and their country, than for their inviolable loyalty and gratitude to thofe princes from whom they derive protection and profperity.

Long may your majelty live to fhare the felicity you are formed to infpire. And may your majefty prove the happy mother of a race of princes, to tranfmit the glories of this diftinguifhed reign to the latelt of our pollerity.

Her majesty's moft gracious anfwer.

I Thank you for your kind congratulations, fo full of duty to the king, and affection to me. My warmeft wishes will ever attend this great city.

cafion, and our fervent wifhes, that the royal nuptials may be bleffed with felicity, as permanent and unmixed, as the joy they produce is

univerfal.

From the evident marks we have feen of thy attention to the happinefs of thy people, guided by an uniform fteadinefs and prudence, we are perfuaded, that in thy illuftrious confort are united thofe amiable qualities, which will alike contribute to the domeftic happiness of our fovereign, and endear her to his fubjects.

Impreffed with fuch fentiments, we already regard the queen with duty and affection, and we truft it will be our conftant endeavour to cultivate the like fentiments in those among whom we converfe; promoting, by example, that dutiful fubmiffion to authority which renders government eafy to the prince, and grateful to the people.

May it pleafe the moft High, by whofe wifdom kings reign, and princes decree juftice, to confirm every virtuous purpose of thy heart, and to replenish it with ftability and fortitude fuperior to every exigency: long may he vouchfafe to continue thee a bleffing to thefe nations, and thy defcendants, the guardians of liberty, civil and religious, to many generations.

Signed on the behalf of the
people in London, the
the tenth month, 176

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A letter from a right hon. perfon, to in the city.

DEAR SIR,

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INDING to my great furprize, that the cause and manner of my refigning the feals, is grofsly mifreprefented in the city, as well as that the moft gracious and Spontaneous marks of his majefty's approbation of my fervices, which marks followed my refignation, have been infamously traduced as a bargain for my forfaking the public, I am under a neceffity of declaring the truth of both these facts, in a manner which I am fure no gentleman will contradict. A difference of opinion, with regard to meafures to be taken against Spain, of the highest importance to the honour of the crown, and to the most effential national interefts, (and this founded on what Spain had already done, not on what that court may farther intend to do) was the caufe of my refigning the feals. Lord Temple and I fubmitting in writing, and figned by us, our most humble fentiments to his majefty; which being over-ruled by the united opinion of all the rest of the king's fervants, I refigned the feals on Monday the 5th of this month *, in order not to remain responsible for meafures, which I was no longer allowed to guide. Moft gracious public marks of his majefty's approbation of my fervices followed my refignation: they are unmerited and unfollicited, and I fhall ever be proud to have received them from the beft of fovereigns.

I will now only add, my dear Sir, that I have explained thefe matters only for the honour of truth, not in any view to court return of

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HE city of London, as long

as they have any memory, cannot forget that you accepted the feals when this nation was in the moft deplorable circumstances, to which any country can be reduced: that our armies were beaten, our navy inactive, our trade expofed to the enemy, our credit, as if we expected to become bankrupts, funk to the lowest pitch; that there was nothing to be found but defpondency at home, and contempt abroad. The city muft alfo for ever remember, that when you refigned the feals, our armies and navies were victorious, our trade fecure, and flourishing more than in a peace, our public credit restored, and people readier to lend than minifters to borrow: that there was nothing but exultation at home, confufion and despair among our enemies, amazement and veneration

* October 1761.

among.

among all neutral nations: that the
French were reduced fo low as to
fue for a peace, which we, from
humanity, were willing to grant;
though their haughtiness was too
great, and our fucceffes too many,
for any terms to be agreed on.
Remembering this, the city cannot
but lament that you have quitted
the helm. But if knaves have taught
fools to call your refignation (when
you can no longer procure the fame
fuccefs, being prevented from pur-
fuing the fame measures) a defer-
tion of the public, and to look upon
you, for accepting a reward, which
can fcarce bear that name, in the
light of
penfioner; the city of
London hope they fhall not be
ranked by you among the one or the
other. They are truly fenfible, that,
though you ceafe to guide the helm,
you have not deserted the veffel;
and that, penfioner as you are,
your inclinations to promote the
public good, is ftill only to be e-
qualled by your ability that you
fincerely wish fuccefs to the new
pilot, and will be ready, not only
to warn him and the crew, of rocks
and quickfands, but to affift in
bringing the fhip through the ftorm
into a fafe harbour.

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Thefe, Sir, I am perfuaded, are the real fentiments of the city of London; I am fure you believe them to be fuch of,

to represent to their members, who ferve for this city in parliament (by way of inftruction) their sense on the prefent critical conjuncture. Alfo another motion, that the thanks of the court be given to the right hon. Mr. Pitt, for the many and important fervices rendered to his king and country; and, a third, that the committee, in their thanks to Mr. Pitt, do lament his refignation, &c. These motions were agreed to unanimoufly, except the laft, which, upon a divifion, paffed in the affirmative; nine aldermen and one hundred commoners, to two aldermen and thirteen commoners.

The reprefentation of the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in common council affembled, to Sir Robert Ladbroke, Knt. Sir Richard Glynn, Knt. and Bart. William Beckford, Efq; and the Hon. Thomas Harley, Efq; this city's reprefentatives in par liament.

TE, the lord mayor, aldermen,

WE

and commons of the city of London in common council affembled, think it at this time our duty, as it is our natural and undoubted right, to lay before you, this city's reprefentatives in the great council of the nation, foon to be affembled in parliament, what we defire and Dear Sir, Your's, &c. expect from you, in difcharge of the great trust and confidence we and our fellow fervants have repofed in you.

The above letters are moft certainly genuine and original.

At a court of common council, held the twenty-second of October, a motion was made for that court

That you entertain juft fentiments of the importance of the conquefts made this war by the British arms, at the expence of fo much blood and treasure; and that you will, to the

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As the prefent happy extinction of parties, the harmony and unanimity of all his majefty's fubjects, their zeal and affection to their native king, and the great increase of commerce, are moft convincing proofs to us of this nation's ability till to carry on, and vigorously profecute the prefent juft and neceffary war; it is our defire that you concur in giving his majefty fuch fupplies, as fhall enable him to purfue all thofe meafures, which may promote the true intereft of his kingdoms, and place him above the menace of any power that may pretend to give laws, or prefcribe limits, to the policy and interefts of this nation: but as it is apparent, that our enemies flatter themselves with the hopes of exhaufting our ftrength, by the immenfe expence in which we are at prefent engaged, we therefore require you in the further profecution of this war, to fupport fuch meafures as may fruftrate thofe expectations, yet to act with the utmolt vigour in the reduction of their remaining colonies, fo as to obtain a fafe and honourable peace.

The thanks were as follows:

court of common council, October 22, 1761.

Refolved, That the thanks of this court be given to the right hon. William Pitt, for the many great and eminent fervices rendered this nation, during the time he fo ably filled the high and important office of one of his majefty's principal fecretaries of ftate, and to perpetuate their grateful fenfe of his merits, who by the vigour of his mind, had not only roufed the ancient fpirit of this nation, from the pufillanimous ftate, to which it had been reduced; but, by his integrity and fleadiness uniting us at home, had carried its reputation in arms and commerce to a height unknown before, by our trade accompanying our conquefts in every part of the globe.

Therefore the city of London, ever ftedfaft in their loyalty to their king, and attentive to the honour and profperity of their country, cannot but lament the national lofs of fo able, fo faithful a minifter, at this critical conjuncture."

At a court of common council held the 29th October, the townclerk reported his having waited on the right hon. William Pitt, with their refolutions of thanks; to which he had been pleased to return the following anfwer:

Mr. Pitt requefts of Sir James Hodges, that he will o good to reprefent him, in fpectful manner, or, aldermen, a 6 cil affembled fenfe of th

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