his majefty, and their defire to fupport the honour of his crown, are undiminished.'

It was feconded by Mr. St. John.. Mr. Dundas faid, that the hon. gentleman must have forgotten the whole hiftory of the war, by declaring that no fucceffes had been gained by our armies in the Eaft; for the direct contrary was the fact. It was well known, that, in former wars, the coaft of Malabar was in poffeffion of the enemy, whence he drew the major part of his refources. The whole of that coaft had however been taken from him, and the rajahs and polygars had been rendered independent. We were in poffeffion of their hearty affiftance, and our confederates had each obtained brilliant advantages: the Mahrattas had taken Barwar, and the Nizam had obtained many confiderable advantages on his part. Tippoo was cut off from his refources, and crippled; Bangalore had fallen to our arms, and many of his other forts. Tippoo was now hemmed up in a clofe garrifon, in a narrow district, in which he would not be able long to find provifion for his forces, Alluding to the fear entertained by the hon. gentleman, of danger from the king's recommendation of a reduction of taxes, he observed that it would excite no alarm: he would not, however, fearch for precedents; being well convinced, that if fuch a recommendation from the crown were novel, the novelty would not leffen the agreeable fenfation with which fuch a recommendation would be received.

Major Maitland faid, that the war in India had been far from fuccefsful; that our fucceffes were only fhewn by retreats, and our victories by disgrace.

General Smith contended, that the war had been attended by the most brilliant fucceffes; that it had not been procrafti nated; that it was just and politic; and he fincerely hoped peace might never be permitted, till Tippoo was extirpated.

Mr. Fox declared his fincerity in congratulating his majesty upon every felicity enjoyed by his august family, and acknowledged that many other parts of the fpeech met his unqualified approbation. He felt much fatisfaction in the promised reduction of our establishments. With refpect to the empress and the Porte, he rejoiced, that the exertions of opposition had compelled minifters to recede from meatures impolitically calculated to involve us in a war in which we were in no degree interested. He lamented the mention of a reduction of the taxes in the fpeech, as tending to fetter the minds of gentlemen

whenever they difcuffed the subject, and as breaking through a privilège of that house, in which all bills for taxes ought to originate. He concurred with what had been fo well faid of the conftitution of the country, and could not too often hear repeated the ineftimable bleflings arifing from a combination of liberty and order, if thofe repetitions were not made for invidious purposes. He fully agreed with the hon. baronet, in his opinion upon France, that if the were justifiable in the overthrow of her conftitution, because it was effentially bad, it was our duty to exert ourselves to maintain our conftitution, which was ef fentially good. The difference between the former conftitution of France and our conftitution was as great as the difference between good and evil; as great as between tyranny and freedom. He lamented, however, that his majefty, having ex preffed fo much in favour of order, had not alfo expreffed his regret for the dif turbance of that order in the latt fummer. Mr. Fox here entered into the riots at Birmingham, condemning them as difgraceful to the nation, and as scenes that could not be too much reprobated. He then entered largely into the campaign in India, contending that, prima facie, there were no grounds to fupport that part of the addrefs, expreffive of the able conduct of lord Cornwallis.

The chancellor of the exchequer de fended the conduct of earl Cornwallis, which he confidered not only as able but brilliant Noticing the other parts of Mr. Fox's fpeech, he went into fome argument to prove, that the ftatu quo was obtained for the Porre in the definitive treaty with Auftria. Relative to Ruffia and the Porte he faid but little, as a difcuffion on that topic would come with greater propriety on a future day. He reprobated, with Mr. Fox, in the Itrongest terms, the unfortunate riots at Birmingham, but challenged any man to fhew when, upon any fimilar occafion, meafures equally prompt and effectual had been adop ́ed to fupprefs them, To do away every idea of an improper fuggeftion in the fpeech, relative to the reduction of taxes, he fhewed, that the recommendation was equally general with the requifition of fupplies, and quoted precedents: his majesty neither stated at what advance of the furplus of the revenue it would be proper to divide, or in what manner the divifion should be made: the whole was left to the commons, to confider the proper time, and the proper manner. He confidered it policy, fituated as

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we were, to endeavour to form a partnerfhip between the prefent people and their pofterity, by equally dividing whatever night be above the point of revenue deemed proper: with the one aiding the discharge of the debt, and, with the other reducing the taxes. Having faid thus much, he confidered it his duty to go ftill further; and as a pledge to prove the favourable circumftances held out in the peech, he fhould then shortly state the account of the revenue on the permanent taxes for the last year, excluding totally from his amount the produce of thofe raifed for the expences of the Spanish armament, and taking at the ufual fum the land tax and malt duty.

The produce of the permanent taxes for the lait year, ending Jan. 5, 1792, would f..

then be

16,690,000 Average of the two latt years 16,600,000 Average of three last years 16,400,000 And taking in the fourth, which produced 500,000l. less than the prefent, the average will be on four years

16,200,000 The bulk of this increase of revenue arofe from caufes, which the more they fhould be examined into, the more fully would they be proved to be permanent.

The fituation of the country alfo admitted of a fubftantial reduction of the navy and army. The reduction he fhould propofe, would be to the amount of 200,cool. annually, below the revenue report of last year, the future permanent expence would therefore be 15,800,000

The excefs of the last year, after the payment of the annual million, would be 900,000 Excefs on average of two years 800,000 On three years 600,000 On four years 400,000 Though this ftatement could not but afford abundant of matter for rejoicing, the house ought to look to the plan with great caution, and fo looking to it himself, it was not his wish to propofe the appropriating of more than the fum of 400,000l. admitted as the average of four years, leaving behind 500,000l. to answer any fluctuation, or extraordinary expence, which, however, was not likely to occur.

He fhould propofe to take off taxes to the amount of 200,000l. annually, and add the remaining 200,000l. to the annual increafed diminution of the national debt.

The extraordinary expences that remain to be paid of the lait armament amount to 136,000l. the total of the armament à

mounted to much more, but has already been defrayed out of the extraordinaries.

He would firft propofe to relieve the public from the temporary tax on malt; fecondly, the tax on carts and waggons; thirdly, the tax on female fervants; fourthly, a tax falling wholly on the poor, viz. the three fhilling houfe-tax on houses having less than feven windows; and fifthly, the latt halfpenny duty on candles.

Mr. Fox was afraid, by the notices given by the right hon. gentleman, that the queftion could not, whenever it came on, be freely confidered, as the oppreffive nature of these taxes might give a bias to their appeal.

The chancellor of the exchequer thought it alfo neceffary to ftate what annuities were confidered as redeemable, and alJuded to as fuch by his majesty's speech; viz. the four per cents. These were borrowed for a precife time, and are now clearly redeemable. It will be a matter of confideration to the house how far, or in what way, they fhall be redeemed. He noticed the reports of an intended reduction of the fives, by purchasing at 3, and paying off 25,000,000 of the fours: but fuch a meafure would be directly contrary to the fpirit of the act on which the fives were funded. No such payment, by borrowing, could be deemed a good payment. The fours are now redeemable: the fives will be, when twenty-five millions of the debt are clearly discharged.

The houfe then divided on the queftion of amendment, noes 209, ayes 85, majority 124. The original address was then carried without a divifion.

The two next days were principally occupied, by both houles, in the cuftomary addreffes to the king, including their congratulations on the marriage of the duke of York; and in separate addresses, alfo, to the queen, and to their royal highneffes, on the fame occafion. In the lower house, different gentlemen gave notice, occafionally, of motions and difcuffions which they intended to introduce on a future day: certain arrangements were made with refpect to the days of hearing the election petitionss Mr. Fox introduced again his celebrated Libel and Quo Warranto bills; and Mr. Grey attended to the united interefts of juftice and humanity, by obtaining leave for the appointment of a committee to examine into the laws of arrett, in order to introduce a new law, for the purpofe of difcriminating between the ho nelt and the fraudulent debtor.

In the Name of Almighty God, E it known to all perfons now living and to come, that the Moft High and Moft Puiffant Prince and Lord, George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, D:fender of the Faith, Duke of Brunfwick and Lunenburgh, Aich Treasurer, and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c. and the Moft High and Moft Puiffant Prince and Lord, Frederick William, by the Grace of God, King of Pruffia, Margrave of Brandenburg, ArchChamberlain, and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire; Sovereign Duke of Silefia, Sovereign Prince of Orange, Neufchatel, and Valengin, as alfo of the county of Glatz; Duke of Gueldres, Magdeburgh, Cleves, Julieres, Bergues, Stettin, Pomerania, of the Caffubians and Vandals, of Mecklenburgh, as alfo of Crofnia; Burgrave of Nurenburgh; Prince of Halberitradt, Minden, Camin, Vandalia, Schwerin, Ratzeburgh, Eaft Friezeland, and Meurs; Count of Hohenzollern, Ruppin, Marck, Ravensburgh, Hohenftein, Ticklenburgh, Schwerin, Lingen, Bure, and Leerdam; Lord of Ravenftein, Roftock, Stargard, Lauenbergh, Butau, Arla, Breda, &c. being clofely united by the deareft ties of blood and friendship, consented, with the most lively fatisfaction, to the marriage of their most dear children, their Royal Highneffes the Duke of York and Albany, Prince Bishop of Ofnaburgh, and the Princess Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catharine, of Pruffia; and that this marriage has been duly and legally folemnized at Berlin, and at London, according to the laws of the two countries, and the rites of the reformed churches, there refpectively established. Their Majefties, being defirous to reduce into the requifite forms the engagements contained in a provifional act concluded at Berlin on the 15th of September 1791, by their refpective Minifters, to ferve as the effential bafis of the future contract of marriage of their Royal Highneffes; and defiring alfo to provide for the entire and complete execution of the faid engagements, have named and authorised for that falutary purpofe their respective Commiffaries, viz. his Majefty the King of Great Britain, Sir Mor. ton Eden, Knight of the Order of the Bath,

and his Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Pruffian Majetty; and his Majesty the King of Pruffia, his Minifters of State, of War, and of the Cabinet, Charles William Count de Finckenítein, Frederick William Count de Schtilenburg, Knights of the Order of the Black Eagle, and Philip Charles Baron d'Alvenfleben, Knight of the Order of St. John, who, by virtue of their respective full powers reciprocally communicated and exchanged, after having difcuffed all the neceffary points, have agreed on the fol lowing Articles;

Article I. His Majefty the King of Pruffia gives to the Princefs his daughter a portion of 100,000 crowns in Frederics d'Or, viz. 40,000 crowns, as being the ufual portion of the Princetles of the House of Pruffia, and 60,000 crowns, as paraphernalia. In cafe the Prince's fhould happen to die before her hufhand, without leaving iffue, both the fums, as well for the portion as for the paraphernalia, fhall revert to the King and his fucceffors, fo far as her Royal Highnefs fhall not have difpofed of the latter; but the produce thereof fhall belong to his Royal Highness her husband furviving. His Majefty has befides provided her Royal Highness with a trouffeau fuitable to her birth and rank.

Art. II. Her Royal Highness the Princess renounces, and by the A&t figned the 29th of September 1791 has renounced, conformably to the ufage and family compact of the House of Pruffia and Brandenburgh, in favour of the male fucceffion, all right of inheritance arifing from the faid Houfe, in the fame manner, in the fame terms, with the fame refervations, and the fame validity of engagement, as the Princeffes of Pruffia and Brandenburgh have on their marriages done to this time. And his Majesty the King of Great Britain, in his own name, and in that of hia fon the Duke of York, confirms this renunciation in the most express and folemn manner.

Art. III. His Royal Highness the Duke of York having promiled to give to the Princess his wife, as the gift on the day after the marriage, called by the name of Morgengabe, the fum of 6000l. fterling, the intereft of which was to be paid from the 15th of September 1791, and

FRESH op'ning to the vernal gale,
A Primrofe flourish'd in the vale.
Soft was the tint upon her face,
And fimple was each native
grace:
So unaffuming was her air,
That every flower confefs'd her fair.

Upon a neighbouring garden's border, Where plants were ranged in beauteous order,

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Where variegated Tulips blew,
And where the vain Narciffus grew,
Anemones of graceful mien,
With Hyacinthus crown'd the fcene,
A Daffodil reclin'd his head,
By chance conducted to that bed
For he, a native of the plain,
Was wont to deck the village fwain,
Shine in his hat, or on his breaft,
When Sunday spoke him better dreft;
And on the ruftic's feftive day,
When Flora greets the youthful May,
When her inferior bands combine
To make the motley garland fine,
The Daffodil, above the reft,
Diplay'd his fplendid yellow veft,
The rural troop with charms fupplied,
To aid the infant monarch's pride.
And how he to this garden travell'd,
A mystery was by none unravell'd.
Some goffip flowers, to taint his fame
Declare, he in a barrow came;
That rich manure conceal'd his face,
And hence this emigrant they trace.
Howe'er the plant his ftation gain'd,
His honour'd poft he long maintain'd,
And blooming there, full many a year,
Did with the April group appear;

Till whispers ran through every bower,
That Daffy was à ftale old flower.
The Primrose mark'd him as he

grew,
Attracted by his golden hue;
Ambitions thoughts her bofom fill:
"Could I but charm yon Daffodil,
Could I become his happy bride,
He would tranfplant me by his fide
"He would tranfport me to that earth,
'Where flowers refide of better birth,

Where I in nobler foil fhould blow,
And more genteel by far may grow;
This horrid ditch I fhould forfake,
And other intimates fhould make,
No more with vulgar Daisies bide,
• With Dandelion by my fide;

But I fome gay parterre might gain, 'And blend with Flora's chofen train. Perhaps fome choice protected bed, With cover'd glafs may guard my head;

'Or I may breathe in genial ftoves, And live in aromatic groves.'

She figh'd her wishes to the Breeze, As he pafs'd through the trembling trees;

The faithful Breeze the whisper bears
To Daffodil's enamour'd ears;
He grateful stretch'd his willing arms,
And to his bed convey'd her charms.
With joy the quits the lowly bank,
To dwell with plants of higher rank:
Accefs obtains to fragrant bowers,
And mixes with politeft flowers;
Grows intimate with Pinks and Rofes,
And gains admittance into pofies.
Did Virtue flow from change of station,
To blefs this foil of cultivation ?
Ah no! the garden fofter'd pride,
With many a baneful weed befide.

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