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From th (Bfo)CENTINEL, of Feb.il.
King of England's' Speech.
LONDON, JAN. 2.
THE following is his Majesty's Speech, de
livered the 30th ult. to both Houses of Par
liament :— < ,
My Lords and Gentlemen,
AFTER the uniform experience
which I have had of your zealous re
gard for the interests of my people, it
is a great fatisfadion to me to recur
to your advice and assistance, at a pe
riod which calls for the full exertion
of your energy and wisdom.
Notwithstanding the difappoiot
ments and reverfei which we have
experienced in the course of the last
ramp,^? I retain a firm convision
of the necessity of persisting in a vig
orous prosecution of the just and nec
essary war in which we are engaged.
You will, I am confident, agree
with me, that it is only from firmnefs
and perseverance that we can hope
for the teftoratiop of peace on fafe
and honorable grounds, and for the
prefetvation and permanent security of
our dearest interests.
In considering the situation of our
enemies, you will not fail to observe,
that the efforts which have led to their
focceffes, and the unexampled means
by which alone those efforts could
have been supported, have produced
among themselves the pernicious ef
fe&s which were to be expeded ; and
that every thing which has passed in'
the interior of the country has shown
the progressive and rapid decay of
their resources, and of the instability
of every part of that violent and un
natural system, which is equally ruin
ous to France, and incompatible with
the tranquility of other nations.
The States General of the United
Provinces have oeverthelefs been led,
by 1 sense of present difficulties, to en
ter into oegociations sot peace with
the party now prevailing in that un
happy country. No established gov
ernment or independent state can, un
der the present circumstances, derive
any real security from such Defolia
tions : On our part, they could pot
be attempted, without ficrificing both
our honour and fatay to an enemy,
whose chief ahimofuy is avowedly di
reded agahft these kingdoms.
I have therefore continued to use
the most effectual means for the fur-'
tyer augmentation of my forces ; and
I fhali omit no opportunity of concert
ing the operations of the next cam
paign with such of the powers ofEu
rope as are impressed with the fame
sense of the necessity ofc vigour and.
[volume III."
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exertion. A place the fulleft reliance
on the valour of my forces, and on
the affection and public spirit of my
people, in whose behalf I am contend
ing, and whose fafety and happiness
are the objeds of my constant solici
tude.
The local importance of Corsica,
add the spirited efforts of its inhabit
ants co deliver themselves from the
yoke of France, determined me not to
withhold the proteaion which they
fought for ; and I have since accept
ed the crown and sovereignty of that
country, according ter an instrument,
a copy of which I have direßed to be
laid before you.
I have great pleasure in informing
you, that I have concluded a treaty of
amity, commerce and navigation with
the United States of America, in
which it has been my object to re
move, as far as possible, all grounds
of jealousy and mifonderftandiog, and
to improve an intercourse beneficial to
both countries.. As soon as the rati
fications shall have been exchanged, I
will dire 6 t a copy of this treaty to be
laid before you, in order that you
may eonfider of the propriety of mak
ing such provision as may appear nec
essary for carrying it into effect.
I have the greatest fatisfadion in
announcing to you the happy event of
the conclusion of a treaty for the mar.
riage of my son the Prince of Wales
•?i:h the Prince's Caroline, daughter
of the Duke of Brunswick. The con
stant proofs of your affedion for my
person and family, persuade me that
you will enable me to make provision
for such an establishment a, you may
think suitable to the rank and dignity
of the heir aparent to the crown of
these kingdoms.•
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
The confederations which prove the
necessity of a vigorous prosecution of
the war, will, I doubt not, induce you
to make a timely and ample provi
sion for the several branches of the
public lervice, the estimates for which
I have directed to be laid before you.
While 1 regret the necessity of large
additional burthens on my fubjefts,
it is a just consolation and fatisfadion
to me to observe the state of our cred
it, commerce and resources, which is
the natural result of the continued ex
ertions of industry, under the protec
tion of a free and well regulated gov
ernment.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
A just sense of the bleffiogs now so
long enjoyed by this country, will, 1
am persuaded, encourage you to make
every effort, which can enable you to
transmit those bleffiogs unimpaired to
your posterity.
I entertain a confident hope that,
under the proteaion of Providence,
and with constancy and perseverance
on our parr, the principles of social
order, morality^ and religion, will ut
timateLy be fuccefifuf; and that my
faithful people wiH find their present
exertions and facrifices rewarded in the
, secure and permanent enjoyment of
tranquility at home, and by the de
liverance of Europe from the greatest
danger with which it has been threat
ened since the establishment of civil
ifed society. '
BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
In the House of Lords, Dec. 30,
F R ID A Y, February 20, 1795.
The motion for an Address, in answer
to 1 he Speech, passed by a large ma
j°rW'.
A Similar morion in the House of
Comma I ', puffed with a proportion
ate majon/y
two am endments favoring a wish
peace, were rejeded by great odds.
^= — ——
French estate Paper.
NATIONAL CON\ MENTION, Dec. 2.
DECREE OF AM'NESTY.
' 1. ALL the perfonrin she precina
of the armies of the Weft, a. 1 ' °f c °e
Northern coast, now under the oC°° m °
ination of Rebels of la Vendee & CbS u
ans, who shall lay down their arms
within the next month from the pub
lication of this decree, shall not after
wards be prosecuted on account of
their revolt. 2. The Aforefaid per
sons ffiall deposit their arms with their
Municipalities. 3. The deputies L'
Gefficial, Menon, Moriffon, Godin,
and De Launy, shall repair to the
different departments, and watch over
the execution of this decree. All the
amendments proposed, to exclude
from this amnesty the chiefs of that
infurredion, have been rejected ; and
the above deputies have been invest
ed with fufficient diferetionary power
to execute the decree, in a manner
most conformable with the principles
contained in the Proclamation, [which
^preceded rtis decree, and ^s puffed
at the fame time with loud applaufe.]
EFFECTS of the ABOVE.
Gen. Duterre announced that the
system of justice and humanity adopt
ed in La Vendee, promised a speedy
end to the war in that quarter ; and
that the Rebels were daily furreoder
ing, faying, " Since you have pulled
down the fcaffold, we abjure fighting
against our brothers."
—iMMaw —-
Conte,ft between the Jacobins and
the Convention.
PARIS, NOV.. 16.
In the fitting of the 9th of Nov.
the Convention learned <he news of
the capture of Maeftricht, and the
fortrefs of Rheinfels, The fittings
which followed were extremely tur
bulent, and far more marked by pas
sion and violence, than utility, ; and
the affair of Carrier, was constantly
the obvious, as well as real motive of
contentions
On the nth inst. the committee of
twenty one was to make its report ;
to prevent this, the Jacobins assem
bled on the evening of the 9th, in
the Thuilleriet, Palais-Royal, and oth
er public places. I hey were accused
of aiming co excite the people in their
power, and a violent contest ensued,
some exclaiming, vive les Jacobins,
others, vive la Convention. The par-^
ties at length came to blows, and it
appeared that the Jacobins, who were
on their own ground, were the ftrong
eff. It is to be observed, that they
had just opened their fitting, when
their hall waa,wrQUnded both by
their adversaries and friends, confid
ing in the influence they bad eftab
liffied over men's minds, they ven
tured to make several forties, and on
these occasions made several prisoners,
whom they, however, treated with
moderation, contenting themselves
with adminifteriog a few blows with
the flick, and (eating them beside
their president, alter having placed a
red bonnet on the head of each. The
populace being soon apprised of what
was tranfoaing, ran to the Jacobins,
where they attacked the members
with clubs, and pelted them with a
Shower of ftoues, by which the win
dows were all broken. The females
in the galleries were treated with
much severity ; and the hall was at
length cleared and shut up by the sov
ereign people. The mob without
now encreafed, and the National Rep
resentatives were obliged to interfere
to restore tranquility ; the people dif
^erfed, exclaiming, " that they were
wearied with those Jacobins, those
men o' blood, who were eternally in
oppofirio. 1 10 'he National Conven
tion." ~
This cnmmt^o° occasioned the tol
lowing day (the ^th) a very to,-
tuous fitting in the convention, where
Dubam complained, " .*at the patri
ots were assassinated, that
ter Revolutionists had revoiu'
evening before against the Jacobi.?''
that the government committees ban
been culpable in flying to their aid."
Reubel, who had presided over the
four committees the preceeding even
ing, afeended the Tribunal. "It can
not be doubted, he said, but that the
very men ^ho had been the mieiftere
of tyranny again wish to revive it.' —
You have overthrown a tyrant, but
tyranny is entrenched in the Jacobins :
And indeed were not Roberfpierre,
Couthon, and St. Just, Jacobins ?—
Were not the ministers of these ty
rants chosen among the Jacobins ?—
Those who at Paris and in the depart
ments are now the most exaggerated
patriots, were they not at the com
mencement of the Revolution, the
most marked Aristocrats, and are they
not at this moment Jacobins ? Who
are they chat have rendered the French
Republic odious to every foreign na
tion ? The Jacobins." He now pro
ceeded to state the measures which
had produced so great a majority in
the four committees, that there were
scarcely two diffenrient voices. Ac-:
cording to these metfures, the fittings
of the Jacobin society were to be sus
pended untibit should be othegwife Qr- .
dered. After some difcuffioo; it was
decreed, on the motion of Gdupilleau,
that a circumftantisl report should be
made on that fubje& by the commit
tee.
The fitting of the 1 ith was extreme
ly tumultuous l and in the midfr of
this tumult, it was announced, that
the committee of 21 had concluded
its labours on the accusation of Car -
rier and the Nantz committee. The
news was received amidst the Joudeft
applauses; and it was decreed that ,|
the report should be immediately
made. This was dpne by Romme,
mpename of the committee, who
dated that he alone of the 21 mem
bers had not voted for the accusation,
because the law for the proteaion ofi
the Rational Reprefentatires did not
appear to be complete ; he was, how +
ever, orazuled, and it was firmly
maintainea Dy nis coneagues 1 ,
[number 122.]