The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-05 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, FEB. 4.
This being the day appointed for the meeting
of Parliament, the Lord Archbishop of CAN-
TERBURY, the LORD HIGII CHANCELLOR, the
Earl of SHAFTESBURY, the Earl of WESTMOR.
LAND, and the Earl of HARROWBY, took their
seats on the Woolsack, as Commissioners under
the Great Seal for opening the Session.

• THE KING'S SPEECH.
The Commons having as usual attended at
the Bar,
The LORD CHANCELLOR, on behalf of the Commis-
sioners, then read his Majesty's most gracious Speech, a cor-
rect outline of which we gave in the tirst impression of Tit E
SUN of yesterday ; and, in a Second Edition, we inserted the
Speech verbatim, which we reprint this day for the informa-
tion of all our Readers. It is as folloys:
" My Lords and Gontlenien,

" We are commanded by his MascaTY to inform You,
that since be last met you in Parliament, Ills MAJEsTy's
Efforts have been unremittingly exerted to preserve the Peace
of Europe.

" Faithful to the principles which His MAJESTY he, pro
mulgated to the world as constituting the rule of his conduct,
HIS MAJESTY declined being party to any proceedings at
Verona which could be deemed an interference' in the Inter-
nal Concerns of Spain on the part of Foreign Powers. And
HIS MAJESTY has since used, and continues to use, His
most anxious endeavours and good offices to allay the irrita-
tion u;ahappily subsisting betwsen" the French and Spanish
Governments; and to avert, if possible, the calamity of War
between France and Spain.
" in the East of Europe his MAJESTY flatters himself
that Peace will be preserved, and hit MAJESTY continues to
receive from his Allies, and generally from other Powers,
assurances of their unalterable disposition to cultivate with his
MAJESTY those friendly relations which it is equally his MA.
JEST r's object on his part to maintain.

" We are further commanded to apprise you, that discus.
sions having long been pending with the Court of Madrid,
respecting depredations committed on the Commerce of HIS
MAJESTY'S Subjects in the West Indian Seas, and other
Grievances of which HIS MAJESTY had been under the
necessity of complaining, those Discussions have terminated in
an Admission by the Spanish Government of the Justice of
HIS MAJESTY'S Complaint, and in an Engagement for satis-
factory Reparation.

" We are commanded to assure you, that his MAJESTY
has not been unmindful of the Addresses presented to him by
the two Houses of Parliament, with respect to the Foreign
Slave Trade.

" Propositiopefor the more effectual suppression of that
evil were brought forward by His AlnizsTY's Plenipoten-
tiary in the conferences at Verona, and there have been
added to the treaties upon this sntject, already concluded
between His MAJESTY and the Governments of %min and,
the Netherlards, rirtieLts which will extend the operation of
those Treaties, and greatly acilitate their execution.
" Gentlemen of the house of Common:,
" HIS MAJESTY has directed the 'Estimates of the current
year to be laid before you. They have beet formed with every
attention to economy. The total expenditure will be found
to bo materially below that of last year.

" The diminution of charge, combined with the Progres-
sive improvement of the Revenue, has produced a surplus
exceeding his MAJESTY'S expectation. }Ls MAJESTY
trusts, therefore; that you will be able, after providing for
the Services of the year, and without affecting Public Credit, to
make a farther considerable Reduction in the Burthens of
People.
" 414 Lords-and Gentlemen,

"IliS MAJESTY has commanded us to state to you, that the
manifestations of Loyalty and Attachment to his Person and
Government, which His MAJESTY received in his late Visit to
Scotland, have made the deepest impression upon his Heart.
" The Provision which you made in the Last Session of Par-
liament for the Relief of the Distresses in considerable Districts
in Ireland, has been productive of the happiest effects, and his
MAJESTY recommends to your con-ideration such measures of
internal Regulation, as may be calculated to promote and se-
cure the tranquillity of that Country, and to improve the habits
and condition of the People.
". Deeply as His MAJESTY regrets the continued depres-
sion of the Agricultural Interest, the satisfaction with which
His MAJESTY contemplates the increasingactivity which per-
vades the manufacturing districts, and the flourishing condition
of our Commerce, in most of its principal branches, is greatly
enhanced by the confident persuasion that the progressive pro.
sperity of so many of the interests of the Country cannot fail to
contribute to the gradual improvement of that great interest,
which is the most important of them all."
At the conclusion the Cm:lmola withdrew, and the Loan
CHANCELLOR adjourned the House during
.pleasure.
The Noble and Learned Lord entered again at five o'clock.

The Earl of TANKERVILLE took the oaths and his seat.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved the first reading of the
Select Vestries Bill, as usual at the commencement of Puha-
merit—The Bill was read the first time.
MARRIAGE ACT.
Lord ELLENBOROUG II gave notice that he should move
to-morrow to amend the Act for preventing Clandestine Mar-
riages.

THE ADDRESS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR again read the Speech from
the Throne to the House. It was Itho read by the Clerk, at
the Table.

Earl MORLEY rose to move the Address. Ile observed,
that their Lordships, during many years, upon solemn occa.
*dons, had been in the habit of hearm words from the Throne,
but on few occasions had the Sovereign of these Realms pre-
sented to the Peers and Commons of Parliament a Speech
more pregnant with topics, bearing on the interests of man.
kind. It vies a reflection dear to the hearts of Englishmen
that his Majesty had been pleased. to allbrd an opportunity of
considering subjects of 'so much import-ince, and their Lord-
ships, no doubt, felt a desire to address the Throne, and to
thank him for his gracious communication. It would, as a
matter ofeourse, be his duty to express the ground on which
the several paragraphs of the Speech were intitled to favourable
attention. The concussion by which Europe had been agitated
during, the last ten years, and the struggles under which she
had laboured, were doubtless deeply rooted in the recollection
of their Lordships. Although it might be true that difference
of opinion existed in that House, and out of the Ilptise, on the
subject of territorial possession, yet the Government bad en-
tertained but one opinion on the question of general paci6ca.
tion, and whenever that question was agitated they had inva-
riably opposed every
.innovation that might tend to disturb the
pacific system. Thor Lordsbips would therefore hear, with
sentiments of deep regret, that the State of affairs had reqitited
Ike Goverment to persist in that line of policy. On thc,