The National Register.
London, England, 1820-05-01 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.
THURSDAY, APRIL
About two o'clock his Majesty came in state to the House of
Peers, and being seated on the Throne, tue Gentleman Usher of
the Black Rod was directed to summon the Commons to attend.
The Speaker and several Members of the House r, C ininions
soon sppeared; but, notwithstanding precaution* had been takkii
to prevent the promiscuous admission of strangers. it Was with
difficulty the Members could opllTUatil the bar. No person was
admitted into the lobbies of the Hou e of I .ords without a Peer's
order; but the desire to see the new throne, and to be present On
thcopening of the new Parliament by his Majesty, caused an
unusually numerous attermance of Members of Parliamelit.
There were also more than the usual proportion of ladies pre-ciit
at the delivey of the Speech. The Speaker and the members of
the Commons having got to the bar, his Majesty delivered from
the Throne the following Speech:
MY LOIID9 AND GENTLEMEN.
I have taken the earliest occasion of assembling you here,
after having recurred to the sethe of my people.
In meeting you personally for the first time since the death of
my beloved Father, I um anxious to asiu re you that I shall always
continue to imitate his great example in uncewing attention to
the public interests, and in paternal solicitude for the welfare and
happiness of all classes of my subjects.
I have received from foreign Powers renewed assurances of
their friendly disposition, and of their earnest desire to cultivate
with me, the relations of peace and amity.

GENTLEMEN OF THE 110 H SE OF Coussoms,
The Estimates for the present year will be laid before you.
They have been framed upon principles of strict economy
but it is to me matter of the deepest regret that the state of the
oountry has not allowed me to dispense with those additions to
our military force which I announced at the commencement of
the last Session of Parliament.

The first object to which your attention will be directed is the
provision to be made for the support of the civil government, and
of the honor and dignity of the Crown.
I leave entirely at your disposal my interest in the hereditary
revenues ; and I cannot deny myself the gratification of declaring
that so far from desiring any arrangement *Mb •tigelt Yead to
the imposition of new burthens upon my people, or even nigh
diminish or. my account, the amount of the reductions incident
to my Accession to the Throne, I can have no wish, under cir-
cumstances like the present, that any addition whatever should
be made to the settlement adopted by Parliament in the year
Itsl6.

MY LORDS, AND GENTLEMEN,
Deeply as I regret that the machinations and designs of the
disaffected should have led, in some parts of the country, to acts
of open violence and insurrection, I cannot but express my satis-
faction at the promptitude with which those attempts have been
Slippressed by the vigilance and activity of the magistrates, and
by the zealous co-operation of all those of my subjects whose
exertions have been called forth to support the authority of the
ass.

The wisdom and firmness manifested by the Lue Parliament,
and the due execution of the laws, have greatly contributed to
restore confidence throughout the kingdom, and to discountenance
those principles of sedition and irreligion which had been dis-
seminated with such malignant perseverance, and poisoned the
minds of the ignorant and unwary.

rely upon the continued support of Parliament in my deter-
mination to maintain, by al! the entrusted to my hands,
the public safety and tranquillity

Dtploring, as we all must, the distress which still tinhar; ily
prevails anion; many of the labouring classes oi the community,
and anxiously looking forward to its removal or mitigation, it is
in the mean time our common duty, effectually to protect the
loyal, the peaceable, and the industrious. agailst Mow practice.
of turbulence and intimidation, by which the period of relief
can only be teferrcd, and by which the pressure of distress has
been incalailahly aggravated.

I troq that an awakened of the dangers which they have
ir carted, and of toe arts widen have been employed to .educe
them, will bring back. by far the greater part of those who have
In en unhappily lel astray, and will revive in them that s:nrit of
loyalty, that due submission to the laws, and that attachment to
the CooAthutitnt, whieh eub,ist unabated in the beans of the
great body tftl:c people, and which, under the blessing of Divine
i'mvidence, have secured to the British nation the enjoy went of
• larger share of practLal freedom, us well as of proverity :11;,1
Lappintss, than Lace fallen to the lot of any maim: in the world.
His Majesty left the !louse at half—past two o'clock, and an
adjournmeat ensued Miring pleasure. We were struck on this
iniporrant toce:!siorr by vie elegance which reigned in eve'', part
of the Chamber._

At five o'clock the 1.011 l) CI I AscELLon atgatin took the
WooLeck. and stianwrs were wimitted Cu the h:a.

T! A DIMESS.

The LOUD CHASCEI.I.OII then real the King's Sr ca•h
from tl,c % wdszck, rod it %lb also read to the House by the
Clerk of l'arthooeht.

1..0re,G1 VI L I.h: rake to more tic Address.

Earl RON V It.:2‘ Ott wws nest, otts, On the first meeting of Par.
liiiiiient, to aost.iin troll going into i.i,sission. which %night in.
torupt the tinsonhity the liouse ought to feel tiptin the Ot:abiciii.
The Miailtiis of LANSDOWNE expru,sed a similar Oesire.
.ord HOLLAND did hot wish to uppoie the Address. but
would not pledgc hinonli by Mb von: to ply any coniplitnent