My Lords, and Gentlemen,

WE are commanded by His Royal Highness to declare to you, that it is the most anxious Wish of His Heart, that He may be enabled to restore unimpaired into the Hands of His Majefty the Government of His Kingdom; and that His Royal Highness earnestly prays, that the Almighty may be pleased in His Mercy to accelerate the Termination of a Calamity fo deeply lamented by the whole Nation, and fo peculiarly afflicting to His Royal Highnefs Himfelf.

THE HUMBLE

ADDRESS

OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

The Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament affembled,

PRESENTED TO

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE PRINCE REGENT,

On Thursday, February 14, 1811.

WITH

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS'S

ANSWER.

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Die Martis, 12 Februarij 1811.

WE, His Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament affembled, beg leave to approach Your Royal Highness, and to return our most humble Thanks for the gracious Speech which Your Royal Highness has commanded to be made to both Houses of Parliament.

WE affure Your Royal Highness that we feel deeply fenfible of the perfonal and filial Affliction with which You lament the great National Calamity which has been the Occafion of impofing upon Your Royal Highnefs the Duty of executing, in His Majesty's Name, the Royal Authority of this Kingdom.

WE entertain the most firm Conviction, that, under the great Difficulties which must attend the important Trust repofed in Your Royal Highness, You may look with the most perfect Confidence to the Zeal and Exertions of Parliament, and to the Attachment of a loyal and affectionate People, for the most effectual Affiftance and Support; and we are fully fenfible that Your Royal Highness will, on Your Part, exert Your utmoft Endeavours to direct the Powers with which You are invefted, to the Advancement of the Profperity, Welfare, and Security of His Majefty's Dominions.

WE beg to be permitted to offer to Your Royal Highness our fincere Condolence for the Lofs which His Majefty, Your Royal Highness, and the Royal Family,

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Family, have fuftained by the Death of Her late Royal Highness the Princefs Amelia.

WE return Your Royal Highness our most fincere Thanks for informing us of the Events which have occurred during the laft Campaign, and which have afforded fresh Opportunities for difplaying the Valour and Skill of His Majefty's Forces both by Sea and Land; that the Capture of the Iflands of Bourbon and of Amboyna had still further reduced the Colonial Dependencies of the Enemy; that the Attack upon the Ifland of Sicily, which was announced to the World with a prefumptuous Anticipation of Succefs, had been repulfed by the perfevering Exertions and Valour of His Majefty's Land and Sea Forces; and that the judicious Arrangements adopted by the Officers commanding on that Station, derived material Support from the Zeal and Ardour which were manifefted during this Contest by the Inhabitants of Sicily, and from the Co-operation of the Naval Means which were directed by His Sicilian Majefty to this Object.

WE have learnt with great Satisfaction, that in Portugal and at Cadiz, the Defence of which conftituted the principal Objects of His Majesty's Exertions during the laft Campaign, the Defigns of the Enemy had been hitherto fruftrated; that the confummate Skill, Prudence, and Perfeverance of Lieutenant General Lord Viscount Wellington, and the Discipline and determined Bravery of the Officers and Men under his Command, had been confpicuously displayed, throughout the Whole of the Campaign; and that the Effect of thofe difftinguished Qualities, in infpiring Confidence and Energy into the Troops of His Majesty's Allies, had been happily evinced by their general good Conduct,

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