Aberdeen, Aberbrothock, Montrose, Bre- James Farquhar. Clare, County of Hon. F. N. Burton. Sir E. O'Brien, bart. Perth, Dundee, St. Andrew's, Forfar II. Viscount Boyle. R. Uniacke Fitzgerald. and Cupar. David Scott, of Dunninald. Anstruther, East and West, Pitten- General John Campbell. Dysart, Kirkcaldy, Burntisland, and William Bagwell. Kinghorn. Sir James St. Clair Erskine, bart. Stirling, Inverkeithing, Dunfermline, Hon. C. Alexander Forrester Cochrane. Glasgow, Dumbarton, Renfrew, and Alexander Houstoun. Cashell, City of Right hon. William Wickham. Donnegal, County of Viscount Sudley. Sir James Stewart, bart. Viscount Castlereagh. Francis Savage. Jedburgh, Haddington, Dunbar, North Charles Stewart Hawthorn. Hon. Colonel Thomas Maitland. Dungannon, Borough of Berwick, and Lauder. Hon. George Kncx. Linlithgow, Peebles, Lanark, and Dublin, County of Selkirk. Lieut.-Col. William Dickson. Annan, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries, Sun- Hans Hamilton. Frederick John Falkiner. Lisburne, Borough of The Earl of Yarmouth. Leitrim, County of Viscount Clements. Peter La Touche, jun. Limerick, County of William Odell. Charles Silver Oliver. Limerick, City of Charles Vereker. Londonderry, County of Lord G. T. Beresford. Hon. C. Stewart. Londonderry, City of Sir George Fitzgerald Hill, bart. Longford, County of Sir Thos. Featherstone, bt. Louth, County of SIXTEEN PEARS OF SCOTLAND. George Hay, marquis of Tweedale. Hugh Montgomery, earl of Eglinton. Archibald Kennedy, earl of Cassilis. John Lyon Bowes, earl of Strathmore. Patrick Crichton, earl of Dumfries. Thomas Bruce, carl of Elgin and Kincardino George Ramsay, earl of Dalhousie. William Carnegie, earl of Northesk. Alex. Lindsay, earl of Balcarras. George Gordon, earl of Aboyne. John Campbell, earl of Bredalbane. Right Hon. John Foster. Wm. C. Fortescue. John Dalrymple, earl of Stair. George Boyle, earl of Glasgow. The King's Speech on Opening the Ses-, sion.] Nov. 23. His Majesty opened" the Session with the following Speech to both Houses: "My Lords and Gentlemen; "It is highly gratifying to me to resort to your advice and assistance, after the opportunity which has been recently afforded, of collecting the sense of my people. "The internal prosperity of the country has realized our most sanguine hopes." We have experienced the bounty of Divine Providence in the produce of an abundant harvest. "The state of the manufactures, commerce, and revenue of my United Kingdom, is flourishing beyond example; and the loyalty and attachment which are manifested to my person and government, afford the strongest indications of the just sense that is entertained of the numerous blessings enjoyed under the protection of our happy Constitution. "In my intercourse with foreign powers I have been actuated by a sincere disposition for the maintenance of peace. It is nevertheless impossible for. me to lose sight of that established and wise system of policy, by which the interest of other States are connected with our own; and I cannot therefore be indifferent to any material change in their relative condition and strength. My conduct will be invariably regulated by a due consideration of the actual situation of Europe, and by a watchful solicitude for the permanent welfare of my people. "You will, I am persuaded, agree with me in thinking, that it is incumbent upon us to adopt those means of security which are best calculated to afford the prospect of preserving to my subjects the blessings of peace. "Gentlemen of the House of Commons: "I have ordered the estimates for the ensuing year to be laid before you; and I rely on your zeal and liberality in providing for the various branches of the public service; which, it is a great satisfaction to me to think, may be fully accomplished without any considerable addition to the burdens of my people. "My Lords and Gentlemen; "I contemplate, with the utmost satisfaction, the great and increasing benefits produced by that important measure, which has united the interest and consolidated the resources of Great Britain and Ireland. The improvement and extension of these advantages will be objects of your unremitting care and attention. The trade and commerce of my subjects, so essential to the support of public credit and of our maritime strength, will, I am persuaded, receive from you every possible encouragement; and you will readily lend your assistance in affording to mercantile transactions in every part of my United kingdom all the facility and accommodation that may be consistent with the security of the public revenue, "To uphold the honour of the country, to encourage its industry, to improve its resources, and to maintain the true prineiples of the Constitution in Church and State, are the great and leading duties which you are called upon to discharge. In the performance of them you may be assured of my uniform and cordial sup. port; it being my most earnest wish to cultivate a perfect harmony and confidence between me and my parliament, and to promote to the utmost the welfare of my faithful subjects, whose interests and happiness I shall ever consider as inseparable from my own." Debate in the Lords on the Address of Thanks.] His Majesty having retired the King's Speech was read by the Lord Chancellor, and again by the clerk at the table. After which, Lord Arden said;-My lords, the pleasure with which I have heard his majesty's most gracious speech, excites me to rise for the purpose of moving your lordships to answer it in a suitable address. We know, my lords, by personal feeling and observation, that the prosperity of our manufactures, and commerce, the abundance of the necessaries of life, the heartfelt felicity of the people, the ardour of their loyalty to his majesty's person, and their attachment to the constitution, are fully equal to that encouraging representation of them which has been given in the speech from the throne. Of the present condition of Europe, it is difficult to think without deep anxiety. There is not a power on the continent between whose interests and ours certain relations do not subsist. The order of dominion cannot be there in. definitely changed, without endangering the security of Britain. However much, then, may have been conceded to imperious necessity; whatever of the mere pride of arrogant pretension we may have been induced to wave for the sake of peace; though we may have reluct antly abandoned allies, who had no longer the power nor the will to make a stand for their own political existence; yet there are limits, beyond which it is forbidden by just policy to extend this plan of conduct. We cannot, therefore, but approve his majesty's resolution to keep the vigilance of his government awake to the changes in the arrangement of continental power. Such vigour of preparations as may be requisite to give due authority to that vigilance will be neither disagreeable to the nation at large, nor inconsistent with the warmest wishes of the members of this House. We can cordially sympathise in the sense of the happy effects which have already ensued from a union that has concentrated the energies, and usefully simplified the administration of these kingdoms. The supplies which, in such a state of affairs, to a government so beneficent, from a country so flourishing, may be wanted, a people so loyal will not be easily persuaded to deny. His lordship then moved an address, which was an echo of the speech from the throne. Viscount Nelson said :-I will not deny myself the pleasure of seconding an address with the purport of which my wishes zealously coincide; nor am I willing to omit this opportunity of expressing my satisfaction at the prosperity of these kingdoms, and my approbation of a plan of government, which proposes to main tain the ancient dignity of the country, I gency of the times may require. My in the system of Europe, though without professional education will plead my exany hot-headed sacrifice of the benefits cuse for the imperfect manner in which I of peace. War has not exhausted our deliver my sentiments; but I should not resources: our national industry has not have done my duty if I had not, even in been slackened; nor has it been fustrated this plain seaman-like manner, seconded of its rewards. The prosperity which the the present address. country enjoys, is such as would render us inexcuscable were we to sacrifice its honour. Unsuccessful, so far as we were directly engaged, in the war of valour, of martial force, of military ta lents, France may, perhaps, hope to gain more by that of artifice, of circumvention, of equivocal faith but British strength of understanding and rectitude of intention, ever have been, and I hope in God will ever be, more than an equal match for every less candid and ingenuous art. I, my lords, bave, in different countries, seen much of the miseries of war. I am therefore in my inmost soul, a man of peace. Yet would I not, for the sake of any peace, however fortunate, consent to sacrifice one jot of England's honour. Our honour is inseparably combined with our genuine interest. Hitherto there has been nothing greater known on the continent than the faith, the untarnished honour, the generous public sympathies, the high diplomatic influence, the commerce, the grandeur, the resistless power, the unconquerable valour of the British nation. Wherever I have served in foreign countries, I have witnessed these to be the sentiments with which Britons were regarded. The advantages of such a reputation are not to be lightly brought into hazard. I, for one, rejoice that his majesty has signified his intention to pay due regard to the connection between the interests of this country and the preservation of the liberties of Europe. It is satisfactory to know, that the preparations to maintain our dignity in peace are not to be neglected. Those supplies which his majesty shall for such purposes demand, his people will most earnestly grant. The nation is satisfied that the government seeks in peace or war no interest separate from that of the people at large; and as the nation was pleased with that sincere spirit of peace with which the late treaty was negotiated, so, now that a restless and unjust ambition in those with whom we desired sincere amity has given a new alarm, the country will rather prompt the government to assert its honour, than need to be roused to such measures of vigorous defence as the exi The Marquis of Abercorn said, it was common to declare in that House, at all times, and under every circumstance, that the present was the most tremendous crisis in which the country had ever been placed; but if ever such a declaration could be made, otherwise than as a mere figure of speech, the moment in which he was speaking might correctly be so described. Our national character, our fame, our credit with the rest of Europe, and, above all, our future security, depended altogether upon the firmness and spirit of the government. His lordship adverted to the extraordinary aggrandizement of our ambitious and inveterate enemy, and the danger that might befall this country, if a vigilant eye was not kept upon our rival, and such measures pursued as were best calculated to turn aside every mischievous attempt to undermine our power and lessen our greatness. He declared his readiness to support, as far as he was able, those ministers, be they who they might, who would adopt that spirited system which the exigency of the times rendered indispensably necessary. After an elaborate eulogium on the merits, virtues, and integrity of Mr. Pitt, the marquis begged their lordships to reflect, that it was not the views of ambition, the acquirements of territory, or the increase of national power, that he was desirous of recommending to their attention; but a more rational and a more moderate object, the preservation of the united empire such as it then was. We still remained a great and a free people, the happy subjects of a beloved sovereign. He did not wish to be considered as the advocate for war; he spoke rather as the friend of peace when he urged the necessity of being able to repel insult or aggression. Much had, in former sessions, been said of our being left at a certain period of the war without allies; for his part, he thought that the happiest circumstance of the war; but, in fact, if a renewal of hostilities should be unavoidable, it would be found that we had allies more powerful than France could hope for. The chance of events was our ally; scarcely any change could take place in |