During the Sixth Session of the Fifth Parliament of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, appointed to meet at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh Day of January 1818, in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King GEORGE the Third.
[Sess. 1818.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
amidst his own sufferings, his Royal HighTuesday, January 27, 1818.
ness has not been unmindful of the effect THE PRINCE Regent's Speech On interests and future prospects of the king
which this sad event must have on the
ON Opening The Session.] This day at
dom. three o'clock, the session was opened by commission. The commissioners were,
“ We are commanded to acquaint you, the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of that the Prince Regent continues to reCanterbury, the earl of Harrowby, the ceive from foreign powers the strongest earl of Westmorland, and the duke of Montrose. The Speaker, accompanied
assurances of their friendly disposition by a great number of members of the towards this country, and of their desire House of Commons, being come to the to maintain the general tranquillity. bar, the Prince Regent's Speech was read “ His Royal Highness has the satisfacby the Lord Chancellor as follows: tion of being able to assure you, that the
My Lords and Gentlemen ; confidence which he has invariably felt in “ We are commanded by his royal the stability of the great sources of our highness the Prince Regent to inform national prosperity has not been disapyou, that it is with great concern that he pointed. is obliged to announce to you the conti. “ The improvement which has taken nuance of his Majesty's lamented indis- place in the course of the last year, in position.
almost every branch of our domestic in“ The Prince Regent is persuaded that dustry, and the present state of public you will deeply participate in the afliccredit, afford abundant proof that the diftion with which his Royal Highness has ficulties under which the country was labeen visited, by the calamitous and un bouring were chiefly to be ascribed to timely death of his beloved and only temporary causes. child the Princess Charlotte.
“ So important a change could not fail “ Under this awful dispensation of to withdraw from the disaffected the prinProvidence, it has been a soothing conso- cipal means of which they had availed lation to the Prince Regent's heart, to themselves for the purpose of fomenting a receive from all descriptions of his ma spirit of discontent, which unhappily led jesty's subjects the most cordial assur. to acts of insurrection and treason; and ances both of their just sense of the loss his Royal Highness entertains the most which they have sustained, and of their confident expectation, that the state of sympathy with his parental sorrow : and, peace and tranquillity to which the coun(VOL. XXXVII.)
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