The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-30 00:00:00

N0.7-3,237.—V0L. XIII.]

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE

HOUSE OF LORDS.
THURSDAY, APRIL 27.
About two o'clock his Majesty, came in butte to the House of
Peers, and being seated on the Throne. the Gentleman Usher of
the Black Rod was directed to summon Cie Common, to attend.
The Speaker and several Members of the House of Commons
goon appeared; but, notwithstanding precautions had been taken
to prevent the promiscuous admission of strangers. it was with
difficulty the Members could approach the bar. No person was
admitted into the lobbies of the House of Lords without a Peet's
order; but the desire to see the new throne, and to be present on
the opening of the new Parliament by his Majesty, caused an
unusually numerous atteir ;nice of Members of Parliament.
There were also more than the usual proportion of ladies present
at the delivery 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 LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
I have taken the earliest occasion of assembling you here,
after having recurred to the sense of my people.
In meeting you personally for the first time since the death of
my.beloved Father, I on anxious to assure you that I shall always
continue to imitate his great example in unceasing attention to
the public interests, and in paternal solicitude for the welfare and
happiness of all cla,ses 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 relation; of peace and amity.

GENTLEMEN OF TIIE 110USEOF COMMONS,

The Estint.ttTs for toe present jear;ilibetlitiiiiieforeyou.

They have been framed upon principles of strict economy ;
but it is to me matter of the derpse regret that the state of the
country has not alloyed me to dirpefise 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 which might lead to
the imposition of new burt hens upon my people, or even migh
diminish on 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
ItslG. _ _ _

MY LORDS, AND GENTLEMEN.
Deeply as I regret that the machinations and designs of the
disaffected should have lcd, in sonic 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
suppressed 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
AA's.

The wisdom and firmness manifested by the late 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.
I rely upon the continued support of Parliament in my deter-
mination to maintain, by td! the Imams entruqed to my hands,
the public safety and trangmliity
Deploring, as we all must, the distress which qtill unhappily
prevails among many of the labourint!classes of the community,
and anxiously looking forward to its removal or mitigation, it is
in the mean thne our common duty, edixtnally to protect the
loyal. the peaceable, and the industrious, agai•ist those practices
of turbulence and intimidation, by which tile period of relief
car. only be deferred, and by which the pressure of distress has
been incalculably a4gravated.
I trust that an awakened sense of the dangers which they have
incurred, and of the arts which have been employed to seduce
them, will bring back by far the greater patt of those who have
been unhappily led astray, and will revive in them that spirit of
loyalty, that due subinis:Mn to the laws, and that attachment to
the Constitution, which subsist unabated in the hams of the
great body of the people, and which, miller the bless.. 4 of Divine
Providence, have secured to the British nation the enjoyment of
a larger share of practical freedom, as well as of prosperity and
happiness, tlnm have fallen to the lot of any nation in the world.
ilia Majesty left the House at half—past two o'cli:.-k, and an
adjoumnittit ensued during plewure. We were struck on this
important occasion by the elegance which reigned in every part
of the Cliamber.

At five o'clock the I.OIW CHANCELLOR again took the
Woolsack, and strangerg were admitted to the bar.
THE AI/ DRESS.
The LORD CH A NCELLOR then read the Ying':: Speech
from the Wools.'eli, and it was also read to the House by the
Clerk of Parliament.

Lord tiI.AN VILLE ro-e to more t. c Addre3s.
EarIGf.WSV E Olt in 3, on tne firt iticctitig of Par-
I;17;;;. re;ilW'r:iiiiiel6ing rolled up; and tied round with strini
I understood (bent to be band-grenades. I raw an it
rot belonging to Brunt. My waster cam iu about clev