The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-26 00:00:00

THE KING.

Distant shouts, whic7r by degrees boTew louder till they be-
Came mixed with the
.peals of the salute guns, informed the
anxious crowd within teat the KING had arrived, and exactly
at half past two. the door on the right of the Throne was opened,
.and the brilliant-cortege poured- in like a flood, terminated, and
overtopped hyzhis 31A3ETY himself, his temples..wreathed
with the imperial diadem.
When the KYNG had taken his seat on the Throne, the Loup
CHANCELLon. diredted the. Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
to inform the Commons that his MAJESTY was seated on his
Royal Throne, ana prepared to receive his faithful Commons.
In a few minutes the great central doors below the Bar were
thrown open, and the Speaker appeared in- his robes, at
the head of an immense number of Commons. The hurry of
the latter to proceed, as usual, impared a little the dignity of
the advance ; but having at last reached the Bar, with Mr.
Secretary CANNING on his left,
The SPEAKEX made the due obeisances to the Throne, and
having presented the 15,000,0001. Exchequer Bills. Bill for the
Royal Assent, addressed the KING as follows :
" May it please your Majesty,

" We, you:Majesty's faithful Commons of the United King-
dom of Grett Britain and Ireland attend your Majesty with
our concluding Bill of Supply.
" It Ives indeed gratifying to us to learn from your Majesty,
at the commencement of the Session, that the Agricultural
Interest, 4o deeply important as it is to our nstional prosperity,
but to which Parliament could at any time have afforded but
very partial and imperfect relief, was gradually recovering from
the depression under which it had so grievously laboured ; and
we confidently hope that that improvement will be the more
substanial and the more satisfactory, because it has continued
and stil: continues. _ .

" Equally gratifying to us, Sire, was your Majesty's decla-
ration that trade and commerce were extending theMselves both
at home and abroad ;' that increased activity prevailed almost
all branches of manufactures; and that the growth of the re.:
venue had been such as not only to sustain public credit, but
after providing adequately for the services of the year, to leave
such a surplus as miglit be most satisfactorily applied to there-duction of some parts,of our system of taxation.
" Sire, we did not hesitate to make ample provision for the
augmentation of bur establishments by sea and land, rendered.
necessary by the distribution of your Majesty's naval force and
the strengthening of youi Majesty's garrisons in the West
Indies. •

Sire,
the services of the year, it was
most eel aftertall rt1;14"
Imposed fora
upon us to consider in what man-
ner the reduction of such parts of our taxation could be effected
as would he best calculaed to infuse fresh life and vigour into
important branchesiof th national induStry.
" Sire, two courses wee obviously open to our consideration

—the reduCtion of direct taxation, or the disencumbering the
trade of the Country of dose restraints and impediments which
are so utterly inconsistert with every-enlarged and enlightened
principle of trade, and mich nothing but the exigencies of the
state, or the infancy of t:ade, could at any time either recom-
mend or justify. -

"Sire, the latter alternative was adopted by your Majesty's
faithful Commons ; the field, howlver was large before us. and
to our exertions there- were obviously this limit—the extent to
which the revenue WoUld'allcw of the immediate sacrifice, and
the consideration that it would neither be practicable, nor, if
practicable, would it beadvisable, too roughly and too precipi-
tately to break down a system which, however faulty, had been

the growth of ages, and on the-existence of which so immense
a capital had been invested.
" Sire, so far, then,-as our means would admit, and so far
as a due attention to the iifficulty and delicacy of this alteration
of system would allow, we have effected, as we confidently hope,
a vast and permanent advptage to the nation.
" Sire, in considering the state of Ireland, we have felt it,
however painfully and reluctantly, our imperative duty to con-
cur in the enactment for mother year of the Insurrection Act—.
not, Sire, deluding oursel7es with the vain hope and expectation
that such a measure would cure the evils or remedy the griev-
,
ances with which the disturbed districts of that country are so
unfortunately distracted—not,-Sire; concealing from ourselves,
the harshness of the enactment and the severity of the penalties,
or the total inapitiessjof the-law itself to the first and fundamen-
tal principles of the British Constitution--much lessy Sire, con-
tethplating that such a Measure could at any time be proposed
as -a permanent law for Ireland ; but deeply impressed as we
are with the emergency. of the moment, confident that the ex-
istence of such a law has,restrained the excess of outrage, and
believing that it has operated as a protection to the innocent, and
even as mercy to the guilty,: we have felt, Sire,.that the.magni-
tude of the evil,-and the experience of the efficacy of this law
to mitigate in some: deg►ee the-extent-of-that-evil, call for and
justify its temporary re-enactment. •
:" Sire, it would ill become me to enter into detail on the va-
rious other subjects which have engrossed our attention ; but I
may be permitted to express a perfect conviction, that your Ala.
jesty's faithful Commons, by their anxious deliberations to ef-
fect whatever may conduce to the permanent interests of the
nation, have entitled themselves to the gracious approbation
of your Maje Sty; and to the full and entire confidence of the
public." -

. -
The Royal assent Was then given to the -15,000,000 Exche-
quer Bills Bill, which the Speaker presented, and to the Hi-
bernian Minin
Company's Bill, which were-in the House of Lords.
g Company's Bill, and the St. Patrick Assurance
His Zvi AJESTY then with a rlear voioe was graciously pleased
to deliver his Speech to both Houses of Parliament, (for a cor-
rect copy of which, see THE SUN of yesterday.)
Then the LORD CHANCELLOR, by his Majesty's command,
said,

• "My Lords and Gentlemen,
" It is His Majesty's royal will and pleasure that this Par-
liament be prorogued to Tuesday, the 24th day of August next,
to be then here holden
day of
and this Parliament is accordingly pro-
rogued to Tuesday, the
August next."
The Commons then retired, and His Majesty departed.
24th

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at two 0-,clock, and some for-
mal business, of no public interest, was gone through.
At half-past two, the Usher of die Black Rod summoned the
House, in the usual Corm,
to attend at the Bar of the House of
Peers.

The 'SPEAKER, accompanied by Mr. Secretary CAN xrxo,
and a considerable- number of Members, immediately left the
House, in obedienee to the summons. At a few minutes be-
fOre three 'he returned, and read" at the table a copy of the
Speech delivered by his ,MAJESTY, Jim" the Members" then
s,eparated. . .