The National Register.
London, England, 1816-05-05 00:00:00

and the real happiness of tiattons ate only to be secured I" a
steady adherence to justice and 411./ill'lntion, and to those sa-
cred principles of rational anti. well-regulated lilsertv, to which
Great Britain, under the illatetemss House of itruuswick,
has been indebted for the prosperity and the glory of her em-
pire.
We congratulate your Royal Highness on the conclusion of a
Treaty which I e ds out to heinanity a solemn pledge of the
great Powers of Europe—the pas-pest ofa speedy sed entire
abolition of the ..%fricati Slave Trade —a security, tor the re-
payment of a part of the expenditure occasioned by the late
renewal of hostilities—for tie discharge of the just claims of
British subjects on the Government of France, and provides,
by a series of precautions, instilled by necessity ald dictated
by experience, for the future safety and repose of Europe.
Whilst we feel grateful to trbvine Providouce fir these die-
tieguielied benefits, and for the exalted Tank...which the moral.
political, and military character of our estiotry has attained,
we are not insensible to the iliffictilties • and embarrassments.
which arc, as we trust, the temporary, though ',Maid result of
a return to a state of things interrupted by so lung a period of
exertion and of wart ire.
In the removal of these difficulties, we rely with confidence
upon the wisdom and firmness of yew Royal Highness and of
Parliament, and upon the energy and tesources of the British
Empire; and we trust that such steps will be taken as by a
Speedy and necessary reduction of every branch of the public
expenditure, as far as (after the late glorious successes) the
safety of the nation will admit; and by a steady perseverance
iu the reduction, dosing peaec,of the National Debt, may afford
to your Royal Highness the 111P41111 of strengthening the public
Credit, and the grateful opporteuity of alleviating the but Omits
of a generous and loyal People.
That your Royal Highness may long live in the hearts and
affections of a free, prosperous, and united nation, is the ardent
prayer of his Majesty's failifid subjects, the Citizens of Lon-
don. Signed by ordezaif the Court,
HENRY WOODTHORPE.
To which Address his Royal Ilighness was graciously pleased
to return the following Answer:—
I thank you for this loyal and dutiful Address; I accept with
great satisfaction your congratulations upon the conclusion of
peace. on terms hotiousable and advantageous to this country
and to Europe. It may justly be regarded as the adequate re-
sult of a victory, which, under the favour of Divine Provi-
dence, is chiefly to he ascribed to the unparalleled excl.:time
of British valour; and as the well earned reward of that cha-
racteristic fortitude and public spirit which was so eminently
displayed by all classes of his Majesty's subjects on the recur-
rence of hostilities.
Thursday a court of Common Council ' was held at
Guildhall; when John Wontner and Nevelfßrowne were
elected, from a list of nine candidates, as Marshals for
the City of London, in the room of Holdsworth and
Nalder, resigned.
Friday ut a Court of Common Council, an Address was
votad to lEs Royal Highness the Prince Regent, on the
marriage of the Princess Charlotte of Wales with the
Prince of Cobourg. A similar Address was voted to the
Queen ; compliments of congratulation were likewise
voted to the Princess Charlotte of Wales and the Prince
of Cubourg.
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