Star.
London, England, 1801-01-01 00:00:00

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ed to the extent of our expectations, the objets (Or
which it was created.

" In connation with a navy, ought to be con-
templated the fortification of Come of our princi-
pal fea-ports and barbours. A variety of confe-
derations which will readily fuggeft themfelves,
urge an attention to this meafure of precaution.
To give fecurity to our principal ports, confidera-
ble rums have already been expended ; but the
works rem* incomplete. It is for Congrefs to de-
termine whether additional appropriations !hall be
made in order to render competent to the intended
purpofes the fortifications which have been com-
menced.

" The mannfadure of arms within the United
States Rill invites the attention of the national le.
giflature. At a confiderable expencc to the public,
this manufactory has been brought to fuch a Rate
of maturity, as with continued encouragement,
will fupercede the neceffity of future importations
from foreign countries.
" Gentlemen of the Naafi of Reprefentativa,
" !hall direft the eflimates of the appropria-
tions, necelfary for the enfuing year, together with
an account of the public revenue and expenditures,
to a late period, to be laid before you, I obferve
with much fatisfadion, that the produd of the re-
venue, during the prefent year, has been more con-
fiderable than during any former equal period.
This refult affords conclufive evidence, of the great
refources of this country, and of the wifdom and
efficiency of the meafures which have been adopted
by Congrefs, for the protettion of commerce and
prcfervation of public credit.
" Get:amen off the Senate, and
" Gentlemen of the Houle of Rejorefentativet,
" As one of the grand community of nations,
our attention is irrefillibly drawn to the important
fcenes which furround us. If they have exhibited
an uncommon portion of calamity, it is the pro-
vince of humanity to deplore, and of wifdom to
avoid the caufes which may have produced it. If,
turning our eyes homeward we find reafon to re-
joice at the profped which prefents itfelf; if we
perceive the interior of our country profperous,
free, and happy ; if all enjoy in fafety, under the
protection of laws emanating only from the gene-
ral will, the fruits of their own labour, we ought
to fortify and cling to thofe infiitutionc, which
have been the fource of fuch real felicity, and re•
fift, with unabated perfeverance, the progrefs of
thofe dangerous innovations, which may diminifh
their influence.

6, To your patriotifm, Gentlemen, 1.. s been
confided the honourable duty of guardwg the
public interefts, and while the pall is to your
country a Pure pledge that it will be faithfully dif-
charged, permit 1.. e to allure you, that your
labours to promote the general happiners will re-
ceive from me the moll zealous co-operation.
(Signed) 8, JON! ADAMS."

BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3z.

This day at three o'clock the King came down
in the nfual State to the Houfe of Lords, and being
fcated, in his. Royal Robes, upon the Throne, Sir
Francis Molyncux, Bart. Gentleman Miler of the
Black Rod, was fent to &fire the attendance of the
Commons, who forthwith, to a confid..rable num-
ber, entered the Houfe.
On coming up to the Bar, and prefenting the
Exchequer Bills Bill, the SPEAKER of the Houfe of
Commons addreffed his MAJESTY in the following
words :
" MOOT OILACIOVII lOTEISIGN,

" The Bill now tendered to your Mayfly by your faithful
Commons, completes the Provifion which has been made for
the levet-AI branches of the Public Service, till that period,
when Tour Majefty will receive the advice and afilftance of
your Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland. linpreffect with a well-grounded confidence in the
Strength and refources of the Empire, and partaking, as they
modify do, of that follcitude fur the reftoration of peace, of
which your blajcity has given a rxent, though.unyrailing
'Proof, your Commons arc convinced, that nothing can contri-
bute more effeCtually to the accompliihment of that great ob-

Jed, than to manifelt the ability and determination of this
eountrj, to be fully prepared for the further prolekution of a
conteft, the continuance of which may justly be earthed to the
unwarrantable pratenfions of the enemy.

" Bin, on no °mafiosi has the attention of your Parliament
been moredceply and anxioully engaged, than by dude import+
ant Confiderations, to which it was peculiarly diredted, at the
opening of the pretest Seam, in con!equence of your Me-
jefty's paternal concern for the welfare and comfort of your
people. To alleviate, to the utnuort of their power, the prcf-
fure upon all deferiptions of their fcllow-fuhjedts, and upon
the poorer claffes ill particular, your Commons have deemed
to be the firft, and the moil urgent of their duties. The mea-
lures, adopted for this purpofe, are chore, which they raft, arc
heft calculated to afford fubftantial and extenfive relief, and to
provide for the neceffary demands of the year. Much of their
Macy molt, however, depend upon that temper, good Imre,
and fortitude, which this country has difpbyed under the fe-
vemft trials, and which were never more confpicuous than at
the prefent conjuncture.
" Tilde, Sire, the left Proceedings of your Parliament, pre-
vious to the great ma new on the point of commencing, are
the indication and refute of that common intereft, and fellow-
leaps with the people, by which it has ever been aCtuated, and
which are the belt falqtuard of an that is molt valuable in kicker.
To that ara your Commons took forward, with a confident
emettation, that the confolidated wifdom, and authority of the
Legiftature of Great Britain and Ireland, under the aufpicious
Government of your Majefty, and of your illuftrions Houle.
will diffufe, throughout every pan of the United Kingdom, the
full benefits of that Conflitution, which has been proved to be
favourable, in an unexampled degree, to the enjoyment of
Civil Liberty, and public profperfty, and which cannot there-
fore fall to animate the teal and determination of thole who
may mare its bleffinp to cherifh and maintain it, in their own
times, and to tranfmit it, as the belt inheritance, to their
pofterity."

After his MAJESTY had notified his perfonal af-
fcnt thereto is the ulna/ way, the fame was an-
nounced in the accullomed manner by the Clerk,
to 33 public and private Bills, which waited the
Loyal Approbation. Among tilde were the Ex.

eter Bills Bills—the Population Bill—the An.
trlndemnity—the Grenada and St. Vincent'.
Merchants' Re:aief—the AmOerdam Free Port—
the Bread Regulation—the Well India Army Ac,
counts—the Habeas Corpus Sufpenfion—the Navy
and Army Seduction—the Stale Bread—the
Aliens Regulation—Earl Bathurtt's Elate—and
Weltjie's Naturalization Bills.
His MAJESTY was then pleated to deliver the
following moil gracious Speech from the Throne.
MY LORI'S AND GENTLIMEW
" I cannot fuffkr this &tram to dole without returning Tea
my particular nowledgements for the diftinguiffted Indultry
and zeal with which ) ou have applied yourfelves to the intereit-
ing object which, at the enmmucement of the Sefton, I moft
efpecially recocuneudvi to your attention.
It has been sty carnal wins that nothing fhould be omitted
which could tend to relieve the preffure occalioned by the pre-
fent dearth of provifions, and to infure a fufficient fupply till
the produce of the next barveit can be brought into ufe.
" The diligence with Which your inquiries have bon con-
dudtal has afforded you the bell means of afcertaining the true
circumftances of our prefent fituation ; and the extenfive ma-
tures which you have wifely adolced to confequence, for dimi-
Milting the confumption of grain, and procuring an entreated
fupply, will, I doubt not, be found produCtive of the molt fi-
Mary &ed.
" Much, however, mutt depend on the ditpofition which
will, I am confident, be manifellcd by all thofe who have the
means of carrying into execution my teleran recommendation
aid injunduon, Wiled at your &fire, for the adoption of all
predicable ceconomy in the ufe of thofe articles which are no-
=fiery to the fubfiftence of the poorer claltes of my fubjeds.

0 The time fixed for the commencement of the Union of
Great Britain and Ireland will neceffarily terminate your pro-
ceedings ou this important fubJetl; but I am perfuaded that the
confideration of it will be taunted with the fame :extend tem-
per On the firft meeting of the Parliament of the United Windom
" The early period which I have appointed fur that meeting
will afford a fpecdy opportunity of completing whatever you
may have neceffarily left unfirtilhed, and of coalleleriag what
meafures may tend further to alleviate the preffure on my pm.
ple, or to prevent the danger of its recurring.
" Gratkwfrn et& Haffi Cosmorstr,

" I thank you for the readinefs with which you have gritted
the fupplies neccfrary, wader the prefeat drewaftaacts. for the
public Service.
" My Lai J,,aaJCcntkstn.

" The detention of the property of my fubjeas in the ports
of Ruffia, contrary to the molt iblemn treaties, and the impel-
fonment of 'hula (Aura in that country, have excited in me
fentiments in which you and all my fubjetits will, I am true,
participate. I have already taken filch ffellias this OCCafioo
in-
dirpertfably required; and it will afford me great fatisfadtion if
they prove effedtual; But if It Dian become neceffitty to main-
tain, againft any combination, the honour and independence of
the Britith Empire, and thofe maritime rights and Interefts on
which both ounprofperity and our fecurity mutt always effeo-
aally depend, I entertain no doubt either of tbe forcers of thole
means which, in fuels an event, I %all be enabled to exert, or
of the determination of my Parliament and my people, to af-
ford me a fupport proportioned to the importance of the inte-
rcita which we have to maintain."

Then the LORD CHANCELLOR, by his MAJESTY'S
command, faid ;
" My Lords, and qenderottn,
6',lt It his maiettri command, that tie Proclamation de.
daring his Makfty's.moft Gracious Intention, that the Mem-
bers of Parliament rompofing this Parliament Would be the
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, on the part of Great Britain, and that the
Paid Parliament Would be affenabled on the sad day of January
next, be delivered in full Parliament and now read, which
doles the prefent &Rion."
His MAJESTY then retired in the ufual form....
The Sword of State was borne by Earl SPENCER,
and the Cap of Maintenance by Lord Vifcount
Hoop.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. Ntemosts lamented that he had yefterday
been prevented from making the motion, of which
he had given notice, for an Addrefs to his Ma:
jelly ; he had, however, by no means abandoned
his intention ; on the contrary, he was determined
to move the propofed Addrefs. He wifhed, be-
fore the Houfe feparated, to make one more ap-
peal to its good fenfe, and to put it to its feelings,
whether the diftreffed Rate of the country, and
'the miferies of the people, did not imperioully de-
mand the adoption of fome meafure for the at-
tainment of what alone could afford effedual re-
lief—the relloration of the bleflings of peace ?
Such was the fubjek of the Addrefs he thought
if his duty to move. He fhould, without further
introduCtion, read his motion, leaving it to the
wifdom of the Houfe to fay whether it merited
their concurrence and fuppnrt. It was as follows :
" That an humble Addrefs be frefented to his Majefty,
humbly requefting that he would is gradually pieafcd to take
into contideration the unhappy condition of hie fuhjeas, fal-
tering front famine, the confequenee of thofe *matures which
his Minfiters have adopted in the protecution of the prefent
war; that peace alone can afford immediate and complete
relief from this calamity ; that he would take into canfiduw
don the derivate *IOW gold coitt, and the imminent dangrr of
national bankruptcy, from the iffue of paper money.—That his
faithful Commons fee with much anxiety the preiped of new
conceits with other powers. That they are penetrated with the
deepdt when they behold his MaJeßy's Minthers,
alike mut:ties of the honour and fhfety of the King, and the
welfare of his people, obrtinately perfevering to raft every
offer from the ‘nony to treat for peace. That his faithful
Commons have then:fore thought it their duty to recommend
to hi, Maj.:fly immediately to take matures for opening a
Negotiation for Peace with France."
The motion was feconded, and read from the
Chair, but no Minifterial Member urged any ar-
gument againft it.
The Houfe divided—for the Motion 1, againß
it 4.1; majority 41.
Mr. Menet:in brought up the Report of the
Committee on the Coal Trade.
Mr. Titan v profelTed his unwilliagnets to ca-
ter into any argument on the fubjed of the Report;
but though he lhould not (+prate the motion for
its being printed, he was not difpo(ed to. p5,...1 any
compliment, on the labours of the Committee.—
The Report was then ordered to be printed.
The fupplemenury Report of the Committee
appointed to :itquire into the caufes of the reran
hiierbnice of provifions was alto brought up and
r to be printed.
Mr. Winousayrefented an account of the men