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London, England, 1801-10-30 00:00:00

LONDON.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:

Couloir 6811!—Ditto, for recount, 641.
Reduced 674 4 4-4 per Cent. 8.0 841-5 per Cent. par—
New Ann. 99—Omniunt 131 f.

PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY :

Bank Btoek :89 Long Ano. tot 3-16
3 per C. it,4. 681 f Short Ann. 5 3-16/
3 pre C. Conf. 68i 69i.i trills 5 per Cent. 98i i
4 per Cert. 86 8311 India Stock 219 217 313
3 per C. Non zoo + Excheq. Bills, par ii. par
5 Per C 1-47.t00i 99ii Cud. for Acc. 691}1i

The Addrefs of Thanks to hisMAJErry, for his
trioß gracious Speech from the Throne, was voted
unanimoufly laft night in both Houfes of Parlia.
went;; but the motives for agreeing in the Ad.
drefs were extremely various. The Speech indeed
was compofed with much caution : nothing is laid
in it refpeEting the nature of the articles of the
Preliminary Treaty, but only that they fhall be
laid before Parliament; and the Addrefs is drawn
up with equal care, and is not, as has ufually been
the cafe, a mere echo of the fpeech.
Peace, in the abßraEl, is fo ohvioufly a good,
that when called on in a general way to re.
juice in its refloration, it is not eafy to find
ground on which a man can place himfelf
who wifhes to deprecate it. It is therefore not
furpi ifing in this view that all Thould concur in
the Addrefs, but the motives fur concurrence may
be as various as the views of the different parties ;
and we believe, had the v hole nation as a body
been affembled to approve or rejal the Addrefs,
as drawn, its vote would have been the fame as
that of the two Houfes, but it would be difficult
to believe that all would have approved on the
fame grounds.
The public feem now pretty generally to under
Rand how much we have been kncfitrdby the war,
By the fituation to which we have been reduced
by a Peace, after nine years of hofillities, let re-
fleeting minds judge what it might have become
if alone, unfuPported by a fingle Ally, we had
carried on hoflilities for only a year or two more !
Our error has been that of delaying too long to
make Peace ; for no perfon doubts, that at any
former period of the war better terms might have
been obtained—it would therefore have been rejed-
ing the evidence of fat, to have expeeted them to be
improved by a Rill greater delay. We ought how-
ever to rejoice, that our affairs were under the ma•
nagemeut of a braves-Loraminter; for if, with the
advantages of fati.s talent:, things have turned
out fo ill, what would they have been under the
guidance of men who can boall no fuclt
and whom the eulogills of the former with high
triumph, (and with much &suh ne doubt) ufed to
brand with the epithets—Jacobins,and Republican
levellers? It would be folly to keep repining at that
fate which has compelled the country, in fpite
of its wife trefterour iraile, and rnimpai)ed
refoureer, to rejoice at a Peace which allows France
to keep and England to give up every thing.—
This is, in fad, the charaeler of the Peace—to
France it was advantageous, it was glorious. It
has guaranteed to the Republic, in ten years more,
than has been gained by the collated ambition of
fourteen centuries of Monarchs. England has got
peace, but has the lowered the pride, or removed
the Influence of her rival ? Is England relatively
as great as the once.was? The kale of the enemy
has rifen, and in this there is much caufe for for-
tow, much room for cenfure, of the mcafures by
which it was produced.
If the fatal policy of the war had not left us
without a genuine objeft, what fbotild have bees
laid of fo unequal a peace, for unequal it is when
one gets all and the other cedes all ! If this be
called an honourable peace, may it not be afked,
where is the proof ? is it in conceding every thing
to the claims and the interefts ofa Republic which
we have fo long laboured ro overthrow ? If it be
raid that an honourable peace has been obtained
by the atchievements of our armies, it may be an-
fwered, our arms have obtained glory, and nothing
more. We may ark, might not the fame peace
have been obtained had our troops been number-
ing or in their barracks ? Might not the Treaty
of El Arifch have given us Egypt? And what
is the advntage of our colonial acquifitions ?
They were given back without equivalents—then
what have they contributed to Peace ?

Their Mali srirs, and the Princeffes Eliza•
)ETU, MARY, SOPHIA, and Atlf LIA, came ID town
)cat rday from Kew to the (teen's-Houfe.

At half pall two his Maiisry, after giving au-
dience to the Cabinet MinitEeis, wcut in Itatc to the
lionfe of Peers. '

The Kota was attended by the Earl of Wits-
cm , as Lord in Waiting, and the Earl of
CMlrgrEtrtiLn, as Muller of the Horfe.
In the Mailer of the Horfe's chariot were the
Marquis of SAL!SIVRY and Vifcount S .
Before twelve o'clock, the Park was crouded
with pcnple, in cxpc&ation offering his Majawry
go to open the United Parliament. This was an
tour fooner ti. nt tti;sal. A report had been circu-
lated on 0:e Am': day, in confecpsence of the
Oats toad: bzing or,: --et) at the Queen's-linufe as
ugly as s s th.,; the (tilts fct of

croud was imutenfe, but no fymptom of diforder
appeared. All ranks of people rejoiced at the
change of fcene from war to peace, The KING
left the Queen's-Houfe precifely at twenty mi-
nutes after two o'clock, and reached Palace-yard
at twenty minutes before three. His MAJESTY,
on alighting, entered into converfation with the
Lord Chancellor ELDON, and Lord Gwyout,
at the door of the Houle of Lords. The KING
looked extremely well, and was in good fpirits,
with an uninterruptet fmile on his countenance.
--It was five minutes after three before his MA-
JESTY came out of the Houfe, which circumftance
is remarkable, from his not having (laid more
than 15 or 16 minutes in the Houle of Lords,
for the lafi feven years. The PRINCE of WALES'
attended his Mai E STY to the door of the coach ;
the Earl of CHESTERFIELD Went into it with the
KING. His MAJESTY was received by the popu-'
lace with repeated huzzas on entering and return-
ing from the Houfe of Lords. The croud was not,
fo great in Palace-yard as at the Houfe-Guards
and in the Park, owing, no doubt, to the number
of peace officers there Rationed. Mr. FORD was
prefent at the head of the Bow-greet patrole, and
was honoured by the notice of his MAJESTY, the
PRINCE of WALES, and the Royal Dukes, who all
appeared in perk& health and good humour.
All the windows in Parliament-greet and Pa-
lace-Yard were crouded with beautiful and ele-
gantly dreffed women, whole fmiles added much
to the pomp and pageantry of the fcene. A fenfe
of due decorum appeared to pervade every rank ;
and, we are happy to add, that the day was not
attended by any ferious accidents.
The KING was attired in his ufual drefs—fcarlet
and gold.
The Qnsr; and PRINCESSES partook of an ele-
gant dejeune at the Countefs of HARRINGTON'S,
where the Royal Party faw the proceffion ; her
MA) EST Y had the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE Of WALES
on her knee the whole time, who appeared highly
pleafed with the fight.
At four o'clock the KING and QUEEN let off in
their chaife from St. James's Palace to Kew, ac-
companied by their little grand-daughter, PRIN•
LESS CHARLOTTE Of WALES.

The Houfe of Lords did not yeflercky proceed
to bulineCs till long after the Houfe of Commons.
This delay was occafioned by the want of the ad-
drefs, which had been fent to Lord BOLTON, and
delivered to one of his fervants, who took it home!

Six of the Princes were yefterday prefent in the
Houfe of Peers to hear his Majefly's Speech, the
five who are Members of the Router and Prince
ADOLPHUS. The fight was very gratifying to
every loyal bolum, and fuch as certainly no other
country in Europe could furnifh, a Sovereign and
Father fupportcd on his Throne by fix Sons, all of
them handfome and elegant men. The benches
were, betides, crowded with beautiful and fafhion
able women of rank, who came to fee the ceremony.

The debate on the Preliminaries is now fixed for
Tnefday. The Addrefs in approbation of them,
it is expeeted, will be moved in the Upper Houfe
by Lord Rote sty, and feconded by the Earl of
Limtsticx. In the Houfe of Commons by Lord
FRANCIS OSBORNE, and feconded by Mr. LEE,
Member for Dungarvan. It is laid that it was in-
tended the latter fhould have feconded the Ad-
drefs yellerday,,but he did not arrive in time.

Mr. GRAY was in his place in the Haufe of
Commons 1311 night. Mr. WHITBRFAD was there
likcwire.

The fcarcity of poll horfes was fo great on the
roads to London yeiterday and the day before, in
confequence of all the Members of Parliament corn-
ing to town at once, that many of them were un-
able to proceed, and could not reach town in time.

The Earl of DERBY travelled to town this week
in the true Rile of an Engin Nobleman. In the
fill carriage were himfelf and Lady DERBY, in
the next the children, and in the laf, attendants ;
engaging, in all, with fervauts on horfeback, four-
teen or fifteen horfes.
Lord Lit FORD, who dillinguiflied himfelf yef-
terday in the Houle of Peers, by his nimated and
well-delivered Speech in fupport of the Addrefs, is
a very young man, and has acceded to his title
on the demife of his father, the late Lord, formerly
TROM•3 Powys, Efq. Member for Northamp-
tonfhire.

The STADTHOLDEt has, we underhand, fent an
official letter to Lord HAWK ESBUILY, to be laid be-
fore his Mei tsr r, previous to the departure of his
Serene Highnefs for the Continent ; whither he is,
no doubt, called by the urgent interefts of his illuf-
trious houfe ; interefls, which, alas ! our guaran-
tee, in 1797, has proved infufficient to protell.
Nothing can exceed the diligence and pains with
which Mr. Secretary Assayr is inveftigating the
details of the feveral offices in his department in
Ireland, with a view of corretcting any abufes
which may be found to have exifted there.
Betides the Peace between France and Ruffia, a
treaty between Spain and the Ruffian Empire was
concluded at Paris on the 4th of Oftober by M.
MAR KOFF and the Chevalier Azimut.

The Emperor of Russia has given orders, that
the penfien which LALANDE, the Aftronomer, had
from the Academy of Peter burgh, not only Gould
be paid in future, but that all the arrears contras.
ed lance the French Revolution (hall be difcharged.
The joy produced in other parts by the Peace,
lively as it is every where, falls far (port of the
cc acy which is felt in the French maritime towns.
Scarcely is there a rattily in any of them that
has not foam individuals belonging to it prifoners
in England. The fubiarb of the-Pollet alone, in
the town of Dieppe, expels to fee no leis than fix
hundred citizens reftored to its bofom. On the
night that intelligence was received of the happy
event which is to be followed by this bleiling, the
friends of thefe poor captives milled into the fireets,
embraced each other, and wept with excels of joy.
A multitude of fires were in an intlant formed in
the ftreets, as on the Feaß of St. John, and crowds
of both fares danced around them, with a gaiety
that even the rain, which fell heavily, could cot
teprcre,