The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-11 00:00:00

PRICE sd.

we shall communicate to our loyal States about to be called
together.

" 2. To obviate the annual meetings of the States Ge-
neral, which by the length of their duration weaken the
Government, we shall propose that they be convoked only
once in three years, and that their sessions do not extend
beyond three months. It will, however, remain in our
power, even during this interval of three years, to command
an extraordinary convocation of the States General.
" 3. Suitable matters shall, according to our determi-
nation in each individual case, be laid before the Provincial
States, in a greater measure thnu has hitherto been done.
Laws relating to taxes or impositions, however, or to such
matters as, in virtue of our determination, require a gene-
ral
legal enactment, and cannot be deferred to the proving-'t
Legislature, belong to the range of the General Asiembly
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of States. This will materially contribute to 'aorten the
sessions of the States-General, and therefrj, promote the
welfare of our faithful subjects.
" We resign ourselves to o.'ie hope Caftt our faithful sub-
jects will already have discovered, In these few leading
features of the future Constitution, our earnest endeavour
to remove as far as possible all impediments which have
arisen, and could not fail to arise, for the Government and
Administration, from the fundamental law of 1833. If by
the new Constitution the rights of the King and of the
States are consolidated in a suitable manner, and if by that
means the foundation of a genuine German Monarchical
Constitution is strengthened, such a result must neces-
sarily promote the welfare or our-faithful subjects.
" As nothing is so gratifying to our paternal heart as to
diminish to the greatest possible extent the burthens of our
beloved subjects, we rejoice to find that the finances of the
kingdom will allow us, already in the ensuing year, to con-
sent to a diminution of taxation. We therefore make
known to our faithful subjects, that we have resolved :
" ' From the Ist of July, 1838, to dispense yearly with the
sum of a hundred thousand dollars from the personal and
trade tax.'

" The further points we shall communicate to our faithful
States.

" As we attach a high value to the affection, confidence,
and devotion of our beloved subjects—the many proofs
thereof which we have received since our accession, have
filled us with the liveliest joy ; and we gladly testify our
thanks to our faithful people for the same. In every part
of our kingdom which we have hitherto had occasion to visit
we have received proofs of that loyalty and attachment
which from time immemorial the lianoverians have pre-
served towards their Sovereigns, and which they demon-
strated in so striking a manner during the period of the
French occupation. - This has made a deep impression
upon our mind, which never can be obliterated ; and our
faithful subjects may rest assured that our feelings towards
them a-e those of a father for his children, and that we
have adopted the irrevocable resolution to do everything
that can establish the Constitution in such a manner as
shall confirm and strengthen the original confidence be-
tween the Sovereign and his people, which evil-disposed
persons have of late years sought to annihilate ; but, thanks
to the Almighty, we have been convinced, by the sentimet ti
manifested since our accession, that we do possess the cor.fi-
dence of our subjects, whom to make happy it shall ever be
our most zealous endeavour. We hope that no evil-disposed
persons, in pursuance of selfish objects, and regardless of
the real welfare of the people, will by their acts reduce us to
the melancholy necessity of putting the full severity of the
laws into execution against them.
" Given in our capital, llanover, on the I ,t day of No-
vember of the one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-seventh year, and in the first of our reign."