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HOUSE OF LORDS, THI:RSDAY, JANUARY RI..

This day, at half an hour after two o'clock,. the
LoaD CHANCELLOR entered the House, and pro-
ceeding directly to the table, received the 'laths as
a Peer of Parliament. Soen after the Noble bard
retired for the pitrpote of putting on his robe+, and
returned to the ilmse, accompanied by the Arch-
biNhop of (7ANTEtthURY, the Duke of WELLISO-
Ton, the Earl of HARROWBY, and the Earl of
WESTMoRLAND, who, with the Noble and Learned
Lord, acted as the Royal Commi,sinners.
The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod f.`ratas

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then commanded to require the attendance of the
House of Commons at the Dar to hear the Prince
Regent's Speech reed.
The Commons soon after appeared at the bar,
preceded by their Speaker, when the Loan CHAN-
ceLLoR, o►► the part of the Cun►missiouers, read
the following Speech :

" My lord: and Gentlemen,
" We are commanded by his Royal Highness the Prince
Regent to express to you the deep regret which he feels in
the eontinuencc of his Majesty's lamented indisposition.
" In announcing to you the severe calamity with wht`ch

it has please 4 Divine Providence to visit the Prince Regent,
the Royal Family, and the nation, by the death of her
Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom, his Royal High-
ness has commanded us to direct your attention to the Com
aideration of such measures as this melancholy event has
tendered necessary and expedient with respect to the care of
his !‘tajesty's sacred person.
" We are directed to inform you, that the negociatinns
which have taken place at Aix-la-Chapelle have led to the
evacuation of the French territory by the Allied Armies.
" The Prince Regent has Riven orders, that the Conven-
tion concluded fur this purpose, as well as the other dorii•
meats connected with this arrangement, shall be laid before
you and he is persuaded, that you will view with peculiar
satisfaction the intimate union which so happily subsists
amongst the Powers who were parties to thew IrautiCtionp,
and the unvaried dispoaition which has been manifested in
all their proceedings for the preservation of the peace and
tranquillity of Europe.

" The Prince Regent has commanded us further to ac

quaint you, that a Treaty has liven concluded between his
Royal Highness and the Government of the United States of
America, for the renewal, for a further term of year•, of the
Cowin trial Convention now subsisting between the two
nations, and for the amicable adjustment of several points

of mutual importance to the interests of both countries ;
awl, as soon as the ratifications shall have been exchanged,
his Royal Highness will ;rive directions that • copy of this
Treaty shall be laid before you.
" Gentlemen of Ike House of Commons,
" The Prince Regent has directed that the Estimates fur
the current year shall be laid before you.
" His Royal Highness feels a,sured, that you will kern
with satisfaction the exteid of reduction which the present
situation of Europe, and the ciicuasslances of the British
Empire, have enabled his Royal Highness to effect iu the
Naval and Military Establishments of the country.
" His Royal Highness has also the gratification of an-
nouncing to you, a considerable and progressive improve-
ment of the Revenue in its most important branches.
" 4I Lords and Gentlemen,

"The Prince Regent has directed to hr laid before you
such papers as are uecessary to skew the origin and result of
the war in the East ladies.

" His Royal Highness commands us to inform yon, that
the operations undertaken by the Governor.(SeUera in (bun-
eli
against the Pindieries were dictated by the strict( st profi-
t:44es of aeit'•drfrnre ; and that in the extended hostilities
which followed upon those operations, the Mob' attab
Princes were in ',rely tostattce the aggressors. Under the
provident and skilful an prt,otrisitrtice of the Nisi quilt or
Hastings, the campaign Mss marked 111 ever) wont by bril-
liant arhirtem. tits and surceases ; rod his 51+1,jesty'b forces,
and those of the East India Company (Native as well as