Wales, with the princefs Caroline, daughter of the duke of Brunswick. The conftant proofs of your affection for my perlon and family perfuade me that you will participate in the fentiments I feel on an occafion fo interefting to my domeftic happiness, and that you will enable me to make provifion for fuch an eftablishment as you may think fuitable to the rank and dignity of the heir apparent to the crown of thefe kingdoms. Gentlemen of the houfe of commons, The confiderations which prove the necefiity of a vigorous profecution of the war will, I doubt not, induce you to make a timely and ample provifion for the feveral branches of the public fervice, the eftimates for which I have directed to be laid before you. While I regret the neceflity of large additional burdens on my fubjects, it is a juft confolation and fatisfaction to me, to obferve the fate of our redit, commerce, and refources, which is the natural refult of the continued exertions of induftry under the protection of a free and well-regulated government. My lords and gentlemen, A juft fenfe of the bleflings now fo long enjoyed by this country will, I am perfuaded, encourage you to make every effort which can enable you to tranfmit thofe bleflings unimpaired to your pofterity. I entertain a confident hope that, under the protection of Providence, and with conftancy and perfeve rance on our part, the principles of focial order, morality, and religion, will ultimately be fuccefsful; and that my faithful people will find their prefent exertions and facrifices rewarded by the fecure and permanent enjoyment of tranquillity at home, and by the deliverance of Europe from the greatest danger with which it has been threatened fince the eftablishment of civilized fociety. The Speech of his excellency John, earl of Weftmoreland, lord-lieutenant of Ireland, to both houfes of parliament, Jan. 21. My lords and gentlemen, HAVL his majefty's commands to meet you in parliament. You muft have felt, with the highest satisfaction, that, by the fuccefs of his majefty's arms and those of his allies, the hopes of France, in their unprovoked declaration of war, to impair the ftability or shake the conftitution of Great Britain and Ireland, have been utterly difappointed. The forces of his majesty and his allies are in poffeffion of many important fortreflies which belonged to the French, and many of their oppreffive and unjuft conquefts have been wrefied from them; and whilft the trade of the empire has been generally protected, the refources which our enemies derived from their wealthy fettlements and extentive commerce have been almolt intirely cut off. I have the fatisfaction to acquaint you, that the fpirit of infurrection, which was for fome time prevalent among the lower orders of people, is in general fuppreffed. No exertion fhall be wanting, on my part, to bring them to a due fenfe of order and fubordination, and to prevent and punith the machinations of of those who may aim to feduce them from their accuftomed loyalty into acts of fedition and outrage. The law for rendering a militia in this kingdom effectual has been carried fuccefsfully into execution. I am happy to find that the people are at length fully reconciled to. this inftitution, which has already been attended by the moft beneficial confequences, in producing internal tranquillity, and contributing to the general ftrength and force of the empire. I am commanded to acquaint you, that his majetty has appointed a commiflion under the great feal, to execute the office of lord high treasurer of this kingdom, in order that the payment of the civil lift granted to his majefty, and a reguTar appropriation of the revenue to distinct fervices, may be carried into execution in a manner as con, formable to the practice of Great Britain, as the relative fituation of this kingdom will permit. My lords and gentlemen, The agriculture, the manufactures, and particularly the linen-manufacture of Ireland, the Proteftant charter fchools, and various other inflitutions of public utility, have fo conftantly received the benefit of your care and liberality, that I need not particularly, at this time, inculcate their importance. His majefty has the fulleft reliance upon the loyalty and attachment of his people of Ireland. You are now, by the unjust aggreffion of France, involved in a conteft for your religion, for your conftitution, and for the prefervation of every principle which upholds focial order, or gives fecurity to your perfons or properties. In fuch a caufe, his majefty has no doubt of being cordially fupported by the efforts of all his fubjects, in refifting the defperate defigns of men, who are endeavouring to erect their own power and dominion on the ruins of law and order, and to involve every government of Europe in a Gentlemen of the houfe of general fcene of confufion and anarchy. commons, I have ordered the national accounts to be laid before you, as well as the estimates for the fervice of the enfuing year. It is painful to me to obferve, that the exigencies of the times will require a large fup, ply and additional refources; but when you confider that this is a war of abfolute neceflity, and that you are contending for your liberty, property, and religion, I doubt not that you will cheerfully contribute to fupport the honour of his majesty's crown, and the effential interefts of the kingdom. His majefty's object is peace; and he will exert himfelf, in conjunction with his allies, whenever an occafion fhall prefent itself, for obtaining this defirable end, without furrendering the honour of his crown, or facrificing the prefent or future fecurity of his people and of the rest of Europe. You may depend upon my faithful reprefentations of your fervices to his majefty; and I will zealoufly co-operate with your exertions for the welfare and profperity of Ireland. The My lords and gentlemen, concluded, I am enabled to relieve you from farther attendance in parliament. I have his majefty's commands to exprefs his molt intire fatisfaction in the zeal and unanimity which have governed your proceedings during the prefent feflion, and the cheerfulness with which you have provided for the extraordinary emergencies of the ftate. This conduct, fo honourable to yourselves, must effentially tend to preferve the internal tranquillity of your country, to maintain that free conftitution under which you enjoy fuch ineftimable bleflings, and is highly beneficial to the general interefts of the empire, and to the common caufe of Europe. Gentlemen of the houfe of commons, I am directed by his majefty to return you his thanks for the very Jiberal fupplies you have voted for the public fervice. You may rely on their faithful application to the purposes for which they were grant ed. My lords and gentlemen, His majefty feels, with the moft cordial pleasure, the loyalty of his people of Ireland, and the affectionate determination they have always fhewn to ftand or fall with Great Britain. In the conteft in which we are engaged, by the unprovoked aggreffion of France, meafures of the moft vigorous nature continue to be requifite, and his majefty will perfevere in his exertions, in conjunction with his allies, against the common enemy. Under the Divine Providence, on the juftice of his caufe, on the difciplined valour united efforts of all his fubjects, his majefty relies for a favourable iffue to a war, which, on the part of our enemies, is waged against the envied liberty of thete kingdoms, and the eftablished government of every ftate in Europe. I applaud your wifdom in paffing an act for preferving the property, within this kingdom, of perfons refident in France from becoming the plunder of thofe who have ufurped the government of that unhappy country. It is peculiarly our duty to fupport the fecurity of private property, and to maintain the prin ciples of juftice, when doctrines have been advanced, and attempts endeavoured to be carried into execution, for the deftruction of both. I am forry to inform you, that in fome parts of the county of Cork, the people, deluded by the artifices of wicked and defigning men, have affembled in numerous bodies, and have compelled many to take unlawful oaths. The timely exertions of the magiftrates, aided by the fpirited conduct of his majefty's regular and militia forces, have nearly fuppreffed thofe difturbances. No attention fhall be wanting on my part to the protection of the peaceable and induftrious, and to the punishment of offenders against the law, and efpecially of those who have inftigated the ignorant to the commiflion of fuch dangerous crimes. The The early conclufion of the feffion will enable you, in your refpective counties, to enforce a due obedience to the laws, and to inculcate that fpirit of loyalty to the king, and attachment to our happy conftitution, which has fo eminently distinguished your conduct. I am truly fenfible of the repeated teftimonies I have received of your confidence and fupport, for which I return you my moft fincere thanks, and fhall endeavour to enfure their continuance by employing every power, with which I am invefted, for the maintenance of the public tranquillity, and the advantage of this kingdom, and by faithfully reprefenting to his majefty your unremitting attention to the welfare of Ireland, and your unanimous exertions for the general caufe of the empire. Treaty between his Britannic majefty, the king of Pruffa, and the fates general of the United ProvinSigned at the Hague, April ces. 19. THE HEIR majefties, the kings of Great Britain and of Pruffia, and their high mightineffes the ftates general of the United Provinces, being animated by the fame defire of putting a flop to the progrefs of the fyftem of anarchy and crimes by which civil fociety has been menaced, and being defirous of concerting together to fupport, in the most effectual manner, the common caufe in which they are engaged, in confequence of the unjuft and cruel war, which the perfons, who exercife the powers of government in France, have railed up against feveral of the great powers of Europe, have agreed, in conformity to the bonds of friendfhip and alliance which fo happily unite them, to conclude the prefent treaty; and, for this purpofe, they have named their refpective plenipotentiaries, to wit, his Britannic bury, a peer of the kingdom of majefty, the lord baron of Malmf Great Britain, privy counsellor, knight of the order of the Bath; his Pruffian majefty, the fieur Chrêtien Henry Curce, count de Haugwiz, his minifter of ftate, of war, and of the cabinet, knight of the order of the Red Eagle; and their high mightineffes the ftates general of the United Provinces, the fieurs Laurent Pierre counfellor, penfionary of the provan de Spiegel, land, keeper of the feals, and devince of Holland and Weft Friefputy of the faid provinces at the affembly of the ftates general, and mightineffes: who, after having Henry Fagel, greffier of their high communicated to cach other their refpective full powers, have agreed upon the following articles : Article 1. His majefty the king of Pruffia engages to furnish an army which fhall be compofed of fixtytwo thousand four hundred men, conformably to the establishment which he has caused to be deliver ed to the minifters of the maritime powers; which eftablishment shall be confidered as making part of the. prefent treaty. This army fhall remain united under a Pruflian commander, and fhall act, in the most effectual manner, against the comjointly, with a body of troops, in mon enemy, either feparately or the pay of the maritime powers, or of one of them.. The faid army fhall be and fhall remain as com plete as poffible, and fhall be em ployed, ployed, according to a concert on military points between his Britannic majefty, his Prulian majefty, and their high mightineffes the fates general of the United Provinces, wherever it shall be judged to be most fuitable to the interefts of the maritime powers: this army fhall arrive at the place of its deftination on the twenty-fourth of May, in the year one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-four, or fooner if poffible. It shall be provided with field-pieces with their carriages, and alfo with the tents and all military equipments necellary for acting in the field. Art. 2. It is agreed by the high contracting parties, that the troops which his Pruffian majefty is bound to furnish to his Britannic majefty and to their high mightineffes, by virtue of the respective treaties of alliance between his Pruffian majefty and the maritime powers, fhall be comprited in this army of fixtytwo thoufand four hundred men; and that, by employing the faid army in the manner declared in this prefent treaty, his Pruffian majefty fhall be deemed to have furithed to his high allies the fuccours ftipulated in the faid treaties. Art, 3. In order to facilitate to his Pruffian majetty the means of acting with vigour, and conformably to the fentiments of zeal and concern with which he is animated for the common caufe, his Britannic majetty and their high mightineffes agree to furnish to Lis Pruffian majetty a fubfidy of fifty thoufand pounds fterling per month, until the end of the prefent year, and to be reckoned from the beginning of the month in which the prefent treaty is figned. Art. 4. His Britannic majefi and their high mightineffes will pay to his Pruffian majefty, imme diately, the fum of three hundred thousand pounds fterling, to enable him to defray the charge of completing the above-mentioned army, and the first expences necellary for putting it in a state of action, and for carrying it to the place where it is to act; and, at the period of the return of the faid troops, his Britannic majefty and their high mightineffes will moreover pay to his Pruffian majefty the fum of one hundred thousand pounds fterling for the expences of the return of the army into the territories of his Pruflian majefty. The faid payments, for the expences of completing and putting the troops in motion, fhall be made immediately after the exchange of the ratifica tions, as well as that of the first. fubfidy, to be paid monthly, of fifty thoufand pounds. The following months fhall be discharged in advance, at the beginning of each month. All these payments fhall be made at Berlin by the maritime powers, agreeably to fuch arrangement as they shall agree upon between themselves; and the pound fterling fhall be reckoned at fix crowns in Frederics d'Or. Art. 5. The above-mentioned fabfidy and payments fhall fatisfy all demands which his Pruffian majefty might be entitled to make upon the maritime powers for the expences of the army; all these expences, of what nature foever they may be, being to be defrayed by his Prutian majefty, with the exception only of the expences of bread and forage, which fhall be furnished by the maritime powers, |