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the end, would devour all. The government has the satisfaction to learn, by means of a respectable house in London, to whom it has confided the management of this affair, that the holders of the bonds have duly appreciated the circumstances of the country, not doubting that the government intends to (as it most certainly will) remit to them, upon the first opportunity, the funds necessary for the fulfil. ment of its engagements. Every day proves the necessity of placing the direct taxes upon a solid foundation, and that the projects of law in that respect, submitted in the preceding session, should receive your sanction as soon as possible; the government on its part is prepared to give a new form to the mode of collection. The system of confiding to particular individuals, in farming it out, might be very well at the commencement, but now that more information has been obtained upon the subject, it will be advisable to administer it by persons permanently employed, with adequate salaries, who can be promoted according to their merits.

The department of engineers, architects, and botanical garden,

have been supressed; as will be also other departments and expenses, not because the government did not recognise their utility, taken in the abstract, but because they were in disproportion with its means to sustain them, and therefore served only as a vain appear. ance. The government, in this respect, despising any ephemeral popularity, will perform its duty. The expenses of the war have been reduced to the lowest possible amount. It can assure you that the charges, in this respect, upon the revenue, is hardly one third of what might be expected.

Finally, gentlemen representa. tives, if a comparative view is taken of the present state of the province, and that in which it was in the month of August last year, it ought to be viewed as very satisfactory. The government confides in your enlightened and cordial co-operation, not only in sustaining the present institutions, but in advan cing them to greater perfection.

MANUEL DOrrego. JOSE MARIA ROXAS. JUAN RAMON BALCARCE. To the very Hon. Junta of Representatives of the province. of Buenos-Ayres.

EUROPE.

GREAT BRITAIN.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

THE session of Parliament was opened Jan. 29th 1828 by commis. sioners, appointed by his majesty, who delivered the following speech:

My Lords and Gentlemen, We are commanded by his majesty to acquaint you, that his majesty continues to receive from all foreign princes and states, assu. rances of their desire to maintain the relations of amity with this country, and that the great powers of Europe participate in the earnest wish of his majesty to cultivate a good understanding upon all points which may conduce to the preservation of peace.

His majesty has viewed for some time past, with great concern, the state of affairs in the east of Eu. rope.

For several years a contest has been carried on, between the Ottoman Porte, and the inhabitants of the Greek provinces and islands, which have been marked on each side by excesses revolting to humanity.

In the progress of that contest, the rights of neutral states, and the laws which regulate the intercourse of civilized nations, have been repeatedly violated, and the peaceful commerce of his majesty's subjects has been exposed to frequent

interruption, and to depredations, too often aggravated by acts of violence and atrocity.

His majesty has felt the deepest anxiety to terminate the calamities and avert the dangers, inseparable from hostilities which constitute the only exception to the general tranquillity of Europe.

Having been earnestly entreated by the Greeks to interpose his good offices, with a view to effect a reconciliation between them and the Ottoman Porte, his majesty concerted measures for that pur. pose, in the first instance, with the Emperor of Russia, and subsequently with his imperial majesty and the king of France.

His majesty has given directions that there should be laid before you copies of a protocol, signed at St. Petersburg by the plenipotentiaries of his majesty, and of his imperial majesty the emperor of Russia, on the 4th of April, 1826, and of the treaty entered into between his majesty and the courts of the Thuilleries, and of St. Petersburg, on the 6th of July, 1827.

In the course of the measures adopted with a view to carry into effect the object of the treaty, a collision, wholly unexpected by his majesty, took place in the port

of Navarin, between the fleets of the contracting powers, and that of the Ottoman Porte.

Notwithstanding the valour displayed by the combined fleet, his majesty deeply laments that this conflict should have occurred with the naval force of an ancient ally; but he still entertains a confident hope, that this untoward event will not be followed by further hostilities, and will not impede that amicable adjustment of the existing differences between the Porte and the Greeks, to which it is so mani. festly their common interest to accede.

In maintaining the national faith, by adhering to the engagements into which his majesty has entered, his majesty will never lose sight of the great objects to which all his efforts have been directed,the termination of the contest between the hostile parties,-the permanent settlement of their fu. ture relations to each other, and the maintenance of the repose of Europe, upon the basis on which it has rested since the last general treaty of peace.

His majesty has the greatest satisfaction in informing you that the purposes for which his majesty, upon the requisition of the court of Lisbon, detached a military force to Portugal, have been accomplished. The obligations of good faith have been fulfilled, and the safety and independence of Portugal secured, his majesty has given orders that the forces now in that country should be immediately withdrawn.

We are commanded by his majesty to acquaint you, that his majesty has concluded treaties of amity and commerce with the em

peror of Brazil, and with the Uni ted States of Mexico. Copies of which will, by his majesty's command, be laid before you.

Gentlemen of the House of

Commons,

His majesty has ordered the estimates for the current year to be laid before you. They have been prepared with every regard to economy consistent with the exigency of the public service. We are commanded by his majesty to recommend to your early attention, an inquiry into a state of the revenue and expenditure of the country.

His majesty is assured that it will be satisfactory to you to learn that, notwithstanding the diminution which has taken place in some branches of the revenue, the total amount of receipt during the last year has not disappointed the expectations which were entertained at the commencement of it.

My Lords and Gentlemen, His majesty has commanded us to inform you, that a considerable increase has taken place in the export of the principal articles of British manufacture.

This improvement of our foreign trade has led to a more gene. ral employment of the population, and affords a satisfactory indication of the continued abatement of those commercial difficulties which recently affected so severely the national industry.

His majesty commands us to assure you, that he places the firmest reliance upon your continued endeavours to improve the condition of all classes of his subjects, and to advance the great object of his majesty's solicitude-the prosperity and happiness of his people.

KING'S SPEECH TO. PARLIAMENT,

1829.

On the 5th of February, 1829, parliament was opened by his majesty's commissioners, the duke of Welling. ton, earl of Shaftsbury, earl Bathurst and lord Ellenborough, the lord chancellor read the following speech:

"My Lords and Gentlemen,

"His majesty commands us to in. form you that he continues to receive from his allies, and generally from all princes and states, the assurance of their unabated desire to cultivate the most friendly relations with his majesty.

"Under the mediation of his majesty, the preliminaries of a treaty of peace between his imperial majesty the emperor of Brazil, and the republic of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata, have been signed and ratified.

"His majesty has concluded a convention with the king of Spain, for the final settlement of the claims of British and Spanish subjects preferred under the treaty signed at Madrid on the 12th March, 1823.

"His Majesty has directed a copy of this convention to be laid before you, and his majesty relies upon your assistance to enable him to execute some of its provisions.

"His majesty laments that his diplomatic relations with Portugal are still necessarily suspended.

"Deeply interested in the pros. perity of the Portuguese monarchy, his majesty has entered into nego. tiations with the head of the house of Braganza, in the hope of terminating a state of affairs which is incompatible with the permanent tranquillity and welfare of Portugal.

"His majesty commands us to assure you that he has laboured unremittingly to fulfil the stipulations of the treaty of the 6th July, 1827,

and to effect, in concert with the allies, the pacification of Greece.

"The Morea has been liberated from the presence of the Egyptian and Turkish forces.

"This important object has been accomplished by the successful exertions of the naval forces of his majesty, and of his allies, which led to a convention with the pacha of Egypt; and finally, by the skilful disposition and exemplary conduct of the French army, acting by the command of his most Christian majesty on the behalf of the alliance.

"The troops of his most Christian majesty having completed the task assigned to them by the allies, have commenced their return to France.

"It is with great satisfaction that his majesty informs you, that during the whole of these operations, the most cordial union has subsisted between the forces of the three pow res by sea and land.

"His majesty deplores the continuance of hostilities between the emperor of Russia, and the Ottoman porte.

"His imperial majesty, in the proscecution of those hostilities, has considered it necessary to resume the exercise of his belligerent rights in the Mediterranean, and has established a blockade of the Dardanelles.

"From the operation of this bloc. kade, those commercial enterprises of his majesty's subjects have been exempted, which were undertaken upon the faith of his majesty's declaration to his parliament respecting the neutrality of the Mediter

ranean sea.

"Although it has become indispensable for his majesty and the king of France to suspend the co. operation of their forces with those of his imperial majesty, in conse

quence of this resumption of the exercise of his belligerent rights, the best understanding prevails between the three powers in their endeavours to accomplish the remaining objects of the treaty of London. "Gentlemen of the House of Commons, "We are commanded by his majesty to acquaint you, that the estimates for the current year will forthwith be laid before you.

"His majesty relies on your readiness to grant the necessary supplies, with a just regard to the exigencies of the public service, and to the economy which his majesty is anxious to enforce in every department of the state.

"His majesty has the satisfaction to announce to you the continued improvement of the revenue. The progressive increase in that branch of it which is derived from articles of internal consumption is peculiarly gratifying to his majesty, as affording a decisive indication of the stability of the national resources, and of the increased com. fort and prosperity of his people.

"My Lords and Gentlemen, "The state of Ireland has been the object of his majesty's continued solicitude.

"His majesty laments that, in that part of the United Kingdom, an association should still exist which is dangerous to the public peace, and inconsistent with the spirit of the constitution; which keeps alive discord and ill-will amongst his majesty's subjects; and which must, if permitted to continue, effectually obstruct every effort permanently to improve the condi. tion of Ireland.

"His majesty confidently relies on the wisdom and on the support of his parliament, and his majesty feels assured that you will commit o him such powers as may enable

his majesty to maintain his just authority.

"His majesty recommends, that when this essential object shall have been accomplished, you should take into your deliberate consideration the whole condition of Ireland; and that you should review the laws which impose civil disabilities on his majesty's Roman Catholic subjects.

"You will consider whether the removal of those disabilities can be effected consistently with the full and permanent security of our establishments in church and state, with the maintenance of the reformed religion established by law, and of the rights and privileges of the bishops and of the clergy of this realm, and of the churches committed to their charge.

"These are institutions which must ever be held sacred in this protestant kingdom, and which it is the duty and the determination of his majesty to preserve inviolate.

His majesty most earnestly recommends to you to enter upon the consideration of a sbject of such paramount importance, deeply interesting to the best feelings of his people, and involving the tranquillity and concord of the United Kingdom, with the temper and the moderation which will best insure the successful issue of your deliberations."

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