tended. To affure his Majefty, that we shall be actuated by the fame Principles of Duty and Loyalty, by the fame unbiaffed Regard to the Public, which recommended our Conduct in the laft Seffion of Parliament, to the Approbation of the best of Princes; and to declare, that we confider the Continuance of his Majefty's royal Protection as the fure and folid Foundation of our Welfare and Profperity.

Mr B's Motion was feconded by Mr C-C, who expreffed himself to the following Effect:

Mr. S

Although I am confcious that the honourable Gentlemen who moved for the Address, has expreffed the Sentiments of the House in general, in which my own are included, in a masterly and pathetic Manner, which makes it impoffible to speak after him, on the fame Subject, without great Disadvantage, yet the Gratitude that I feel to the best of Sovereigns will not fuffer me to be filent; and upon this Occafion I had rather be diftinguished by the Warmth of my Heart, than by the Force of my Understanding, or the Elegance of my Elocution.

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Elocution. The truly paternal Attention which his Majefty has fhewn to this loyal, brave, and free Nation, ever fince his Acceffion to the Throne, has infpired me with Sentiments too powerful to be fuppreffed; and the Declarations made, on the Behalf of his Majefty, by the Lord Lieutenant from the Throne, cannot fail to fill every Breast in the Kingdom with equal Gratitude and Joy; for who is there that does not only know, but feel his Intereft in that delightful Profpect of Tranquillity and Happiness which these Declarations have thrown open before us? What can be more pleafing to a Nation, that has a lively Sense of the Bleffings it enjoys in the full Poffeffion of its civil and religious Rites, under the aufpicious Government of the illuftrious Family that now fits upon the Throne, than to find that our moft amiable and truly British Prince has taken the first Opportunity of expreffing, in the strongest Manner, his Approbation of the Conduct of its Representatives, his faithful Commons in the laft Seffions, and of affuring them, that the Burden of those Taxes, which a just War made indisputably neceffary, fhall now be fufpended. The Increase of the Family of fuch a Sovereign cannot but be regarded as

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an earnest, that thofe Bleffings, of which he is the Fountain, fhall flow to us, and to our Pofterity, in copious and perpetual Streams, which neither Change, nor Time, shall be able to divert or exhauft.

But there is yet another Inftance of his Majefty's most gracious Attention to this Nation, which, I am fure, I cannot mention with greater Pleasure than it will be heard; he has fent over to us a Nobleman equally diftinguished for his Abilities in Public, as for his amiable Qualities in private Life; a Nobleman, to whom, Nature and Fortune have vied in Liberality, and, to whom Virtue has vouchfafed ftill fuperior Endowments; his Generofity and Benevolence are equal to his Poffeffions, which, in his Hands, are no more than the Power of doing Good, intrusted with him, as the Delegate of Providence, for the Benefit of Mankind; but he does not ftop even here, his Virtue is not only Genuine but Splendid, his Liberality is heightened by a Taste and Magnificence, which have been equalled by few, and excelled by none; by fuch a Difpofition, joined with fuch a Fortune, he not only reflects Honour upon his Country, but gives it the strongest Pledge of

his Superiority to Temptation, and his inviolable Attachment to the Public Good; for what can influence him to betray his Truft, whose supreme Delight is to fulfill it, or wha can feduce him to illicit Gain, who despises illicit Pleasures, and whose Fortune already enables him to poffefs those which his Virtue prompts him to defire. In Governors, indeed, of whatever denomination, a fuperiority of Fortune feems to be a Requifite of great Importance, for, without it, the very defire of doing Good becomes fometimes a Snare to doEvil; the mere wish of impotent Benevolence,though it is a kind, is a painful Senfation, and where there is not Ability to fulfill it, frequently creates a Dependance pernicious in its confequences, however fpecious in its in

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It is happy for me, Sir, and for the Public, that I cannot be accused of making my Court by a fanciful Panegyric. The Truth of what I have advanced is too well known, and too generally acknowledged; and his Excellency has given us an earnest of his Talents for the important Truft, that is devolved upon him, by his Speech from the Throne, which is now the Subject of our Confideration; he

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[DAY I. has felected and recommended to us those Objects of National concern, that are indubitably most interesting to this Kingdom: He has recommended the bringing the deluded and unhappy People in the lower Clafs of Life, who have been drawing Confufion upon the State, and Mifery upon Themselves, at once to a Sense of their Interest, and their Duty, which are eternally and infeperably united; as these Irregularities must arise either from erroneous Principles, or that licentioufnefs which Idlenefs never fails to produce, he has also recommended the Encouragement and Support of the Proteftant Charter Schools, and the Linen Manufactory; and he has promifed, in the warmest and most emphatical Terms, that he will heartily concur in effecting the good and important Purposes he recommends; as fuch are his Majesty's gracious Difpofitions towards us, fuch is his Representative among us, and fuch are the Declarations from the Throne, I moft earnestly fecond the Motion for an Address of Thanks to his Majesty for the fame.

It was then refolved, Nem. Con. that an humble Address be presented to his Majesty to the Effect already mentioned, and ordered

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