rance of Lieutenant-General Lord Viscount Wellington, and the discipline and determined bravery of the officers and men under his command, have been conspicuously displayed throughout the whole of the campaign. The effect of those distinguished qualities, in inspiring confidence and energy into the troops of his Majesty's allies, has been happily evinced by their general good conduct, and particularly by the brilliant part which they bore in the repulse of the enemy at Buzaco. And his Royal Highness commands us further to state, that he trusts you will enable him to continue the most effectual assistance to the brave nations of the Peninsula, in the support of a contest which they manifest a determination to maintain with unabated perseverance; and his Royal Highness is persuaded, that you will feel, that the best interests of the British Empire must be deeply affected in the issue of this contest, on which the liberties and independence of the Spanish and Portuguese nations entirely depend.

We have it likewise in command to acquaint you, that discussions are now depending between this Country and the United States of America; and that it is the earnest wish of his Royal Highness that he may find himself enabled to bring these discussions to an amicable termination, consistent with the honour of his Majesty's Crown, and the maritime rights and interests of the United Kingdom.

GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

We are directed to acquaint you, that his royal highness the Prince Regent has given his commands that the esti-mates for the expenditure of the current year should be laid before you; and his Royal Highness has great satisfaction in acquainting you, that although the difficulties under which the commerce of this kingdom has laboured, have in some degree affected a part of his Majesty's revenue, particularly in Ireland, yet that the revenue of Great Britain in the

last year, though unaided by any new taxation, is greater than ever was known in any preceding year. And his Royal Highness trusts to your zeal and liberality to afford his Majesty adequate supplies for the support of the great contest in which he is necessarily engaged..

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 Majesty 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 so deeply lamented by the whole nation, and so peculiarly afflicting to his Royal Highness himself.

After a short interval, during which the Lords who were robed retired and unrobed, the Lord Chancellor resumed the woolsack, and again read his Royal Highness's speech to the House.

The Earl of Aberdeen then rose to move an address to his royal highness the Prince Regent, in consequence of the gracious speech which had just been delivered by the Commissioners to their Lordships. He conceived that, on the present occasion, he need not be apprehensive of the want of unanimity among their Lordships in the address he was about to submit. It might not, therefore, be necessary for him to take up their Lordships' time; yet there were some points on which he felt it to be his duty to offer a few observations. Every noble Lord must unite in sentiments of heartfelt regret at the occurrence of the present cala-. mity, and in the ardent and sincere hope of the speedy restoration of the health of his Majesty, and his consequent resumption of his royal functions. He had no doubt, also, that every noble Lord viewed with the greatest satisfaction the wisdom, the judgment, and the moderation which had been displayed by his Royal Highness throughout the whole of this important transaction. Every one must approve the principles on which he had acted in this unfortunate emer, gency; and the merits of his conduct, in the sacrifices he had thought proper to make, contrary to his known opinions and feelings, could not fail to be duly appreciated by that

House, and by the whole nation. (Hear, hear!) Fortu nately for the affairs of the country, the hopes of the resta ration of his Majesty's health were at present high, and were improving from day to day. Should the recovery of his Majesty be yet unhappily retarded; should Providence still be deaf to the wishes and the prayers of the people, and of the Prince; should it prove nulikely that the King could soon resume the exercise of bis Royal authority, (how that au thority had hitherto been exercised, the experienced blessings of a reign of more than fifty years could be appealed to, and could best evince!) then there would be a great consolation to their Lordships and to the nation, arising from the reflec tion, that there was a successor to his Majesty, who had most sincerely at heart the public good, who placed the general benefit above his own personal wishes and feelings, (Hear, hear!) and who regulated his public conduct upon princi ples that must ensure universal public approbation and respect. On such a gratifying topic he might easily expatiate, as it afforded him an ample field of panegyric; but he felt that such an attempt was rendered totally superfluous by the opinions and feeling entertained by all. Here, his Lordship said, he might come to an end; but that it was the general practice on such occasions to take some view of our situa tion, as shewn in the various topics mentioned in the speech. The most prominent of its leading features was that which - related to the affairs of the Peninsula. With regard to the state of affairs in Spain, he admitted that the appearance of matters was chequered; but there were, notwithstanding, in that country, many circumstances that kept alive hope, The high and gallant spirit of the Spanish nation still existed; the determined hatred they bore to their invaders continued in undiminished vigour; the ardent desire of maintaining their liberty remained in unabated force. The sacred flame of liberty and independence had been, it was true, partially obscured, but it still continued to burn; and he hoped and believed, it was never to be extins guished by the oppressions of the enemy. Notwithstanding all the exertions of that enemy, his attempts had hitherto proved unsuccessful against the city of Cadiz, which, as well as that of Ceuta, was garrisoned by a British torce. In this respect, then, there were considerable grounds of satisfaction. With regard to Portugal, the character of the war in that country was of a much greater magnitude, and of a much stronger complexion. It gave us great reason for

congratulating ourselves on the events that had passed, and afforded us many grounds of hope for those which were to come. What had already occurred there had been of the greatest advantage to the common cause, and had done the highest credit to our gallant army, and to its brave and skilful Commander. If he were to be asked, what we had done by our campaign in that country, he would answer, that we had withdrawn a numerous and formidable army from the country of Spain, commanded by one of the most eminent and most fortunate of the generals in the service of France; that we had baffled the first attack of that powerful army so commanded; that we had so preserved from the invaders the capital, and a large portion of the country of Portugal; that we still presented to them the formidable front of defiance, and held them in a state of disgraceful inactivity! (Hear!) If their Lordships recollected the various predictions of ill success which had been delivered, it must be admitted that we had surpassed even the general hopes. What we had still to do, depended on future occurrences. They might expect, on this subject, a repetition of all those melancholy prognostics and forebodings which they had already heard; but he was ready to say, that he should much rather adhere to the hopes derived from the accounts of our brave commander, Lord Wellington himself, and the expectations and high spirits of his whole army. However he might be induced to pay respect to the wisdom, talents, and foresight of others who entertained gloomy opinions on this point, he must be permitted to indulge strong doubts of such opinions after the failure of former predictions, and a fair review of what had already passed. (Hear !) The gallant and successful defence of the Island of Sicily, was a still greater source of satisfaction, inasmuch as we considered the magnitude of the military and naval preparations of the enemy, and the boldness of the menaces with which he preceded his unsuccessful attack. Exactly in proportion to the presumptuousness and arrogance he had displayed, must he measure the shame and disgrace of his failure. If we turned our eyes towards the east, we should find the additional conquest of two Colonial Settlements from the enemy; which were not, perhaps, of peculiar importance to us from their own intrinsic value, but the conquest of which was still of high importance, as tending to the destruction of the enemy's foreign possessions. He might here advert to an enterprise in that quarter, which, certainly, had not proved successful, from some causes

which he could not be expected to explain fully; but in which the perseverance, valour, and spirit of our arms had been evinced in the highest degree. The exhibition of these great qualities on that unfortunate occasion reminded us of the bravery and self-devotion recorded of some of the heroes of ancient times. (Hear!) There was another point adverted to in the speech, to which he should briefly alludethe pending discussions and negociations with the United States of America, and the wishes so strongly expressed by the Prince Regent of their successful issue. Deficient as he must necessarily be of information of the actual state of those discussions, it would be impossible for him to speak of them otherwise than generally; but he must take that opportunity of stating how deep and sincere was his regret that any thing should have occurred to cause them to continue for so long a period, and so far to delay an amicable adjustment-his regret, that two nations, who ought, from so many interesting circumstances, to be united in their friendship, should have spent so much time in discussions on topics which separated their mutual interests and dispositions. At the same time, he did not believe that such an unfortunate delay could be justly attributable to the conduct of the ministers of the Prince Regent; who, he was convinced, never entertained any disinclination to negociate. He was perfectly sure, that the noble Marquis, to whose hands were entrusted that department of the public service, was the last person who needed to be told, that if he brought the discussions between this country and America to a successful termination, and to a state of permanent friendship and amity, he would perform for his country as great a service as his gallant relation could achieve by another glorious conquest in, the field. (Hear!) Their Lordships must have heard with the greatest satisfaction, the statement in his Royal Highness's speech, of the flourishing situation of our revenue; notwithstanding a partial defalcation, which was, he believed, from some deficiencies in the receipt of Customs. But in such an extensive war as the present, in which such unparalelled and gigantic means were employed and set in motion against us by the enemy, the wonder was, not at what he had been able to achieve, but that he had not done much more; not that he had met with some partial successes, but that his efforts had not met with almost entire success. Whatever success of this description he had met with was, nevertheless, abundantly compensated by a view of the gratifying state of the whole of our revenue, against which his efforts were