66 66 "has been able to oppofe to a large Proportion of the "Military Power of the French Government, affifted by its Allies, and by the Tributary States dependent it; and the Sentiments of Admiration which upon it; "have been excited in us by the Magnanimity and "Perfeverance of His Imperial Majefty, by the Gallantry, Firmness, and Intrepidity of His Forces, and "by the Zeal and Difinterestedness of all Ranks of His "Subjects, manifefted by Sacrifices of which there are "few Examples in the History of the World: That we "participate in the confident Hope expreffed by His Royal Highness that the determined Perfeverance of "His Imperial Majefty, will be crowned with ultimate Succefs, and that this Contest in its Refult will "establish upon a Foundation, never to be fhaken, the "Security and Independence of the Ruffian Empire: "That we have derived peculiar Gratification from the "Information of the Meafure adopted by The Emperor "of Ruffia of fending His Fleets to the Ports of this "Country; and that we moft fully approve of His Royal Highness's fixed Determination to afford The Emperor of Ruffia the moft cordial Support in the great Contest in which He is engaged. 66 66 To thank His Royal Highnefs for informing us that "He had concluded a Treaty with His Sicilian Majefty, supplementary to the Treaties of 1808 and 1809; "and that as foon as the Ratifications fhall have been "exchanged, He will direct a Copy of the Treaty to be "laid before us. "To exprefs our fincere Regret, that the Govern"ment of The United States of America have declared "War against this Country, and that although this "Declaration had taken place under Circumftances "which might have afforded a reasonable Expectation "that the amicable Relations between the Two Coun"tries would not long be interrupted, the Condu& and "Pretenfions of the Government of The United States "fhould have hitherto prevented the Conclufion of any "pacific Arrangement: That we have learnt with great "Pleasure, the Proofs of Loyalty and Attachment "which have been manifefted by His Majesty's Subjects " in North America, and the Failure of the Endeavours "which have been made to feduce them from their "Allegiance. "To congratulate His Royal Highness upon the "fuccessful Refistance which has been oppofed to the of the Enemy to invade Upper Canada; "Attempts ❝ and to express our Approbation of the judicious "Arrangements made by the Governor General, and "of the Skill and Decifion difplayed in the Military "Operations, by which the Forces of the Enemy in "one Quarter have been compelled to capitulate, and " in another have been completely defeated. "That we have learnt with great Satisfaction that His "Royal Highness's Efforts are not wanting for the "Restoration of the Relations of Peace and Amity "between the Two Countries; and to affure Him, that "until this Object can be attained, without facrificing "the Maritime Rights of Great Britain, He may rely on our cordial Support in a vigorous Profecution of "the War. 66 "To thank His Royal Highness for calling our early "Attention to the Measures which it may be neceffary "to adopt, for the future Government of the Provinces "of India, in confequence of the approaching Expira"tion of The Eaft India Company's Charter; and to "affure His Royal Highness, that He may depend upon our beft Endeavours to make fuch an Arrangement "as may enfure the Profperity of the British Poffeffions "in that Quarter, and at the fame Time fecure the "greatest Advantages to the Commerce and Revenue "of His Majesty's Dominions. Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet The House was adjourned during Pleafure; and the And The Earl of Long ford reported from the Committee Address rean Address drawn by them, as follows; (videlicet) ported & agreed to. "We His Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects "the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament "affembled, beg Leave to approach Your Royal High"nefs, and to return our humble Thanks for Your Royal Highness's moft gracious Speech. "We affure Your Royal Highness, that we have learnt "with the deepest Concern the Continuance of His Majefty's lamented Indifpofition, and the Diminution "of the Hopes which Your Royal Highnefs had most "anxiously entertained of His Majesty's Recovery. "We beg Leave humbly to exprefs our cordial Par"ticipation, in the Satisfaction which Your Royal Highnefs has derived from the Improvement of our Profpects, during the courfe of the prefent Year. "We 66 "We beg Leave to offer moft particularly our Con"gratulations to Your Royal Highnefs, on the fignal "Succefs of His Majefty's Arms in the glorious and ever-memorable Victory of Salamanca; and to exprefs "our Perfuafion that this great Atchievement of the diftinguished Commander of the Allied Army compelled the Enemy to raise the Siege of Cadiz, and has "had the Effect of delivering the Southern Provinces "of Spain from the Power and Arms of France. 66 "Permit us to congratulate Your Royal Highnefs upon the fuccessful Refiftance which has been op"posed to the Attempts of the Enemy to invade Upper "Canada; and to exprefs our Approbation of the judi"Gious Arrangements made by the Governor General, "and of the Skill and Decifion difplayed in the Military "Operations, by which the Forces of the Enemy in "one Quarter have been compelled to capitulate, and "in another have been completely defeated. "We have learnt with great Satisfaction that Your "Royal Highnefs's Efforts are not wanting for the "Reftoration of the Relations of Peace and Amity "We concur in the Regret expreffed by Your Royal Highness, that the Efforts of the Enemy, combined with a view to one great Operation, fhould have rendered it "neceffary to withdraw from the Siege of Burgos, and "to evacuate Madrid for the Purpose of concentrating "the main Body of the Allied Forces; but we are "fatisfied that these Efforts of the Enemy have been "attended with important Sacrifices on their Part, which "muft materially contribute to extend the Refources "and facilitate the Exertions of the Spanish Nation. "We affure Your Royal Highnefs, that You may rely" between the Two Countries; and we beg Leave to "on our Determination to continue to afford every Aid "in Support of a Contest which has firft given to the "Continent of Europe the Example of perfevering and "fuccefsful Refiftance to the Power of France, and on "which not only the Independence of the Nations of "the Peninfula, but the beft Intercfts of His Majefty's "Dominions effentially depend. "We beg to convey our Acknowledgements to Your "Royal Highnefs, for informing us that the Relations. "of Peace and Friendship have been reftored between "His Majefty and the Courts of St. Petersburgh and "Stockholm. "We affure Your Royal Highnefs, that we have "received this Communication with the greatest Plea"fure; and we return our humble Thanks to Your Royal Highness for having directed that Copies of "the Treaties fhould be laid before us. "It has been with the greateft Satisfaction that we "have obferved the Refiftance which The Emperor of Ruffia has been able to oppofe to a large Proportion "of the Military Power of the French Government, "affifted by its Allies, and by the Tributary States de"pendent upon it; And we cannot too ftrongly exprefs "the Sentiments of Admiration which have been excited "in us, by the Magnanimity and Perfeverance of His Imperial Majefty, by the Gallantry, Firmnefs, and Intrepidity of His Forces, and by the Zeal and Disin"terestedness of all Ranks of His Subjects, manifested "by Sacrifices of which there are few Examples in the "Hiftory of the World. "We are led by thefe Events to participate in the "confident Hope expreffed by Your Royal Highness, "that the determined Perfeverance of His Imperial 66 Majefty will be crowned with ultimate Succefs, and "that this Contest in its Result will establish, upon a "Foundation never to be fhaken, the Security and Independence of the Ruffian Empire. "We have derived peculiar Gratification from the "Information of the Measure adopted by The Emperor "of Ruffia, of fending His Fleets to the Ports of this "Country; and we moft fully approve of Your Royal Highness's fixed Determination to afford The Emperor "of Ruffia the moft cordial Support in the " in which He is engaged. great Contest "We offer our humble Thanks to Your Royal High"nefs, for informing us that Your Royal Highness had "concluded a Treaty with His Sicilian Majefty, fupple 66 mentary to the Treaties of 1808 and 1809; and that "as foon as the Ratifications fhall have been exchanged, "Your Royal Highness will direct a Copy of the Treaty "to be laid before us. "affure You, that until this Object can be attained, "without facrificing the Maritime Rights of Great Bri"tain, Your Royal Highness may rely on our cordial "Support in a vigorous Profecution of the War. "We will not fail to take into our early Confideration "the Meafures which it may be neceffary to adopt for "the future Government of the Provinces of India, in confequence of the approaching Expiration of The "Eaft India Company's Charter; and we beg to affure "Your Royal Highnefs, that You may depend upon our beft Endeavours to make fuch an Arrangement "as may enfure the Profperity of the British Poffeffions "in that Quarter, and at the fame Time fecure the "greatest Advantages to the Commerce and Revenue "of His Majefty's Dominions. "We beg leave humbly to exprefs the Gratification "we have derived from the Succefs of the Meafures "which had been adopted for fupprefling the Spirit of "Outrage and Infubordination which had appeared in "fome Parts of the Country, and from the Difpofition "which had been manifested to take Advantage of the "Indemnity which had been held out to the deluded. "We truft Your Royal Highness will never have "Occafion to lament the Recurrence of Atrocities fo repugnant to the British Character; and that all His Majesty's Subjects will be impreffed with the Con"viction that the Happiness of Individuals, and the "Welfare of the State, equally depend upon a strict "Obedience to the Laws and an Attachment to our "excellent Conftitution. Committee The fame were accordingly read by the Clerk. Refolved, Nemine Diffentiente, That The Lord Walfingham be appointed Chairman of the Committees of this Houfe for this Seffion. Refolved, Nemine Diffentiente, That The Lord Walfingham do take the Chair in all Committees of the Whole House, unlefs where it fhall have been otherwise directed by this House. Refolved, Nemine Diffentiente, That The Lord Walfingham do alfo take the Chair in all Committees upon Private Bills and other Matters, unless where it shall have been otherwise directed by this House. Lords Committees appointed to confider of the Orfor Privileges. ders and Cuftoms of this Houfe, and Privileges of Parliament and of the Peers of Great Britain and Ireland, and Lords of Parliament: L. Bp. London. D. CAMBRIDGE. L. Bp. St. Davids. D. GLOUCESTER, D. Norfolk. M. Winchefter. M. Lanfdowne. M. Headfort. Ld. Steward. E. Pembroke & E. Effex. E. Poulett. E. Home. E. Aberdeen. E. Dartmouth. E. Cowper. VOL. XLIX. L. Bp. Salisbury. L. St. John of L. Rivers. L. Rodney. L. Boringdon. L. L. Grenville. L. Stewart of L. Wellesley. L. Redefdale. E. Harcourt. E. Conyngham. E. Nelson. V. Falmouth. M. Winchester. M. Queensberry. Ld. Steward. E. Bridgewater. E. Sandwich.. L. Ellenborough. E. Home. L. Arden. E. Aberdeen. E. Dartmouth. E. Cowper. E. Pomfret. E. Graham. E. Afhburnham. L. Bp. Briftol. L. Bp. Chefter. E. Harrington. E. Portfmonth. L. St. John of L. Saye & Sele. L. Gray: L. Napier. L. Boyle. L. Ponsonby. L. Dynevor. L. Kenyon. L. Grenville. L. Yarborough. L. Hood of Cather ington. L. Stuart of Castle L. Saltersford. L. Brodrick. L. Wellesley. L. Bolton. L. Northwick. E. Buckshire. Their Lordships, or any Three of them, to meet The Houfe taking Notice, "That there is fuch an Meffire John Heath Chevalier et Justicer. Et ceux qui veulent delivre leur Petitions les bail- Les Recevours des Petitions de Gascoigne et des autres Meffire Archibald Macdonald Chevalier et Chief Meffire Sir Alexander Thomfon Chevalier. Meffire John Campbell Ecuyer. Et ceux qui veulent delivre leur Petitions les baillent dedans Six Jours procheinment ensuivant. Les Triours des Petitions de la Grande Bretagne et d' Ireland: It is thereupon ORDERED by the Lords Spiritual and Le Duc de Beaufort. Meffire Sir John Mansfield Knight, Chief Jufticer de Le Marquis de Winchester. Le Marquis Cornwallis. Le Count de Pembroke & Montgomery. Le Count de Winchilfea & Nottingham. Le Count de Sandwich. Le Count de Shaftesbury. Le Count de Poulett. Le Count Graham. Le Count de Buckinghamshire. Le Viscount Falmouth. Le Baron Napier. Touts eux ensemble ou Quatres des Seigneurs, Terres et Pais de par la Mer et des Ifles: Le Duc de Manchester. Le Count de Harcourt. Touts eux ensemble ou Quatres des Seigneurs eux le Serjeants du Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præfens Parliamen- Adjoură. tum continuandum effe ufque ad et in diem Martis, primum diem Decembris, jam prox. fequen. horâ undecimâ Aurora, Dominis fic decernentibus. " DIE IE Martis, 1° Decembris 1812. "to which, as they have thus feen, they are from Prin- 'The Prince The Lord Chamberlain reported, "That the Lords with Regent to be "White Staves had (according to Order) waited on His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, humbly to know "when He would pleafe to appoint to be attended with "their Lordships Addrefs; and that His Royal Highness Upon reading the Petition of the Chancellor, Mafters, Catholic and Scholars of the Univerfity of Cambridge; fetting forth, "That the Petitioners understand with great (Univerfity of Anxiety that another Bill is foon to be offered to their Cambridge): "Lordfhips for the removal of the Restrictions which "are impofed by Law on those who profefs the Roman "Catholic Religion in thefe Realms: That the Petition- "ers are fully convinced, that the Control of any "Foreign Power, implied in fuch Bill, over the Govern- "ment of this Country either in Church or State, is not only inconfiftent with the Form of our Conftitution as established at the Revolution, but moreover, by deftroying the Independency of our Church and "Nation, is contrary to the first Principles of all Civil "Government: That the Power of the Pope, though for "various Reafons diminished in the Public Estimation, "is notwithstanding more to be dreaded by us now "than ever; being itself brought under the Control, and if Occafion fhould offer, likely to become the dangerous Inftrument of a Foreign and inveterate Enemy: That the Petitioners are the more confirmed "in the Apprehenfions of Foreign Interference, by "obferving, that notwithstanding all the Conceffions "made of late Years by the Legiflature in favour of "the Roman Catholics, yet the Tenets of their Church "have admitted of no Relaxation, but continue the "fame as ever; particularly thofe the most obnoxious " and dangerous, of ftill advancing and maintaining the Supremacy of the Pope in all Spiritual Matters above "the Supremacy of our own Sovereign: That the "Petitioners, as becomes a Proteftant University, have "never been adverse to the Rights of Toleration or Liberty of Confcience, to which they are and have "been moft fincere Wellwifhers, but they are most Upon reading the Petition of the Chancellor, Mafters, University of juft and proper Senfe of the Expreffion, the firm "Advocates of Religious Toleration; but that they "have always contemplated, and ftill continue to con- "template with extreme Anxiety, the Efforts inceffantly made to overturn the Defences of our Civil and "Religious Eftablishments, by the Admiffion of Perfons profeffing the Roman Catholic Religion, not only to "Offices of the highest Truft and Authority, but even "to the Power of framing Laws for the Government of "this Proteftant Church and State: That the Petitioners "do verily believe that the Reftrictions and Difabilities. "to which the Roman Catholics of Ireland are fubject, "are fill indifpenfably requifite for the Maintenance "and Security of the Proteftant Government, and "efpecially of the Proteftant Church, as it is now by "Law eftablished in that Part of the United Kingdom: "That the Petitioners fee alfo much Reafon to appre neceffary Confequence, to a removal of all Restrictions "and Difabilities whatever, on account of Religion, "Petitioners ftill humbly conceive to be effentially Lordships in their Wisdom will be plealed to main- "tain thofe Laws, and preferve inviolate thofe Securities "which long experience has proved to be moft congenial "with the Character, and, under Divine Providence, "most conducive to the Stability of our happy Con- ORDERED, That a Meffage be fent to the Houfe of Meffage to Commons by Mr. Stratford and Mr. Harvey, to request, H. C. for 5th ORDERED, That there be laid before this Houfe, Papers on Alfo, "A Copy of the Letter from Marquis Wellesley, And also, "Annual Reports of the Reporter of |