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ADDRESS OP CONDOLENCE.

The e Earl of LIVERPOOL.—In rising to propose
that a loyal Address should be voted by their Lord-
ships, to condole with his Majesty on the loss he and
the Country had sustained, he knew he should rather
be counteracting the due expression of those feelings
which their Lordships, in common with all men, en-
tertained, if he were to enter into any details of the
grounds on which he expected them to concur in
such a vote. This, he was sensible, was unneces-
sary, as the character and virtues of his late Majesty
were strongly engraved on their minds and hearts.
With regard to the terms of the Address, it was his
most anxious wish so to propose it that by sacri-
ficing, iF that was necessary, every opinion of his
own, he might render it generally acceptable: but
this he felt assured was an occasion on Which no sen-
timent of party feeling whatever could have any in-
fluence on their Lordships. They would all be ear-
nestly desirous of concurring with him in the wish to
perform this last duty towards a Monarch, who had
reigned during 60 years so happily over the coun-
try, who had furnished so great an example to all
those who shall be his successors, and for whom all
his subjects entertained the deepest respect and ve-
neration. He also felt convinced that their Lord-
ships, in accompanying their sentiments of condo-
lence with expressions of their attachment to his Ma-
jesty's person, .must be disposed, from past experi-
ence, to look with confidence, to the future. Ile felt
convinced that.his Majesty's first wish would always
be the happiness and prosperity of his people. He
had, therefore, no doubt that their Lordships would
unite with one voice in approving those sentiments
in the Address, which were, with respect to his Ma-
jestz, only the expressionof the feeling which he was
conhdent would ever actuate his mind. It could not
be necessary for him to enlarge further on these to-
pics. He should, therefore, conclude by moving,

" That an humble Address be presented to hls Majesty, to
etpress our deep and unfeigned sorrow at the death of the late
King, whose ♦irtues had so justly endeared him to All classes of
his subjects.

" To assure his Majesty, that the many blessings ♦►hich we
have enjoyed under his Royal Father's mild and paternal Go-
vernment, can never be effaced from our minds; and that we
most gratefully acknowledge the signal advantages which the
country has derived during this long and eventful period from
the augmentation of all the great sources of our national pros.
perity, and from the splendid and unparalleled achievements of
his Majesty: fleets and armies.

" That whilst we condole with his Majesty on the loss which
the Nation, in comnion with his Majetty, has sustained, we he;;
leave to offer to him cur moat sincere congratulations upon his
Acceasien to the Throne.

" To testify to his. Majesty, our loyal and affectionate attach=
merit tb his sacred person, and to assure him that the etperience
of the past, as well as our confidence in his character and vir-
tues, eau leave us no doubt that his efibrts will be invariably
directed to promote the welfare of the estuary; and the happi,
acts of his subjects."
The Marquis of LANSDOWN was convinced that
there must be a most anxious desire in their Lord-
ships, on the present occasion, to proceed in the
manner whiCh the Noble Earl had pointed out. The
deep sense which the House entertained of the great
virtues of his late Majesty, left no doubt of their
concurrence in the expressions of condolence con-
tained in the Address, It was his hope that that
good understanding which it was most desirable
should subsist between the Crown and the Parliament
would always continue; and therefore their Lord-;
ships might be expected to join in the confidence ex- I
pressed by the Noble Earle Fat his part, he readily
concurred in the Addrest, hecanse it went no farther
than the occasion required, and pledged the House I

PRICE SEVEN-PENCE.

to nothing but that to which all must be pritpared
agree. lie assured the Noble Earl, that he approved
of the separate consideration of the parts of the Mei...
sage in the way he proposed. It was fit that part
which (whether Constitittional or not, he should not
inquire)-certainly was unprecedented, should he kept
distinct. In deference,•however, to the occasion, he
would have abstained from saying one word on that
subject, had he not thought it right to express his
concurrence in the course adopted by the Noble Earl;
The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM was sensible,
that if all the Noble Lords who were anxious to nraL
nifest their concurrence in the Address should rise to
express that disposition, it could only be voted when -
all had delivered their sentiments. If, however, he
made any claim to' their indulgence while he ex-
pressed sentiments in which all their Lordships par- -
ticipated, he must confess that that claim was one of
a selfish nature; for those with whom he had the
honour to ,be connected, hall been honoured with
great marks of Royal favour by their late lamented
Sover.eign... tie hoped, therefdre, that be would be
excused, if he took this opportunity of giving vent
to the feelings of gratitude with which he was im-
pressed. It had often been said, that the favours
conferred by Sovereigns were soon overlooked. This;
however, had not been the casein the present instance:
Withdi awn, as his late Majesty had been, by Piton=
DE CE, from his subjects, their feelings of affection
and gratitude had followed him, and become stronger
He might have expired amid all the glories or the
late war, surrounded by the tears and the blessings
of his people ; but though he had been long sepa-
rated from them by a mysterious veil, their attach
ment and loyalty remained undiminished. That
great Sovereign had, if the expression might be al-
lowed, forestalled the judgment of posterity : but
though he had been long absent from the world, such
was the state of public feeling, that it appeared asif
his subjects had only yesterday been deprived of his
paternal care. He concurred in all the sentiments
proposed to be addressed to his present Majesty
There was not a man in his dominions who did not
look back with feelings of gratitude to the illustri-
ous example Which had been Set by the late lamented
Monarch.

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The Earl of DARNLEY, after expressing his con-
currence in the Address, intimated his surprise that
no notice should have been taken of the decease'of
an illustrious Duke: but perhaps form required that
the cases should be kept entirely distinct. Ile ap-
proved Of the separation of the subjects to which the
IVressage referred;
The Earl of LIVERPOOL was glad the Noble
Lord had given him an opportunity of explaining;
that when he gave notice of his intention to move
the consideration of part of the Message to-inorro..,v,
he omitted to state that he would also move Ad=
dresses of Condolence on the death of the Duke of
Kent. It was thought proper that the proceedings
should be kept separate; but he could assure the
Noble Lord, that nobody could be more dispored
than he to propose an Address of Condolence on the
illustrious Duke's death ; or, if he were not to pro.'.
pose it, more ready to support it.
The Address was then agreed to.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL then Intimated, that
as, in consequence of the indisposition of his
jetty; It might not be .convenient for him to receive
the Address on the Throne, he would 'move it
be presented by the Lords with the white staves:—
Ordered.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL then 'gave notice for
to-morrow of an Address of Condolence to +is Ma..
jesty, and likewise to her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, on the death of his Royal Highness the
Duke of Kent.—Adjourned.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEBRUARY 17.
The S took the Chair at half-past three o'clock, when
between seventy and eighty hlembers proceeded to take the
oaths ' • among whom were noticed the follo'xing : Mr. Tierncy;
Lord Binning, Mr. B. Bathurst, Mr, J. Macdonald, Mr. Ilus•
kis-un, lord Stanley, Sir J. Knatehhull, Sir J. Graham, Sir
W. Pringle, Lord J. Russell, Lord Thynne, Lord C. Somerset,
Mr. Fazakerlv, Lord Mount-Charles, Lord Clive, Mr. J. P.
Grant, Lord Cecli, Lord G. Cavendish, Sir C. Atkinson, Mr.
Ommaney, Mr. Ulysses Burgh, Mr. Hudson, .1 r. 'Fornline,
Mr. Lawson, Mr. L. White, Mr. J. Percival, Mr. Ivevqk, If r.
R. Clive. Mr. G. 11. Graham, Mr; Ncivrnan, Mr. W. Smith,
Sir C. Forbes, Mr. D. Gilbert, Mr. R. Fitzgibbon Mr. Phillips,
&f ton, Morpeth, Lord Son, Mr. Howard, Mr. York, Mr.
Freemantle; Lord Pollington, Mr. C. Bathurst, and Mr. Fitz-
' gerald.

ROYAL MESSAGE.
At a quarter to five o'clock, Lord CASTLERT:AOII appeared at
the Bar with a Meszagc from his Aiajcsty. It was braught up
and read, and was as follows—,See Lords).

Lord CASTLERtAGH said, lie should move
that it be taken into consideration to-morrow. He
thought it necessary that Members should have a
day to consider one part of it ; but he hoped the
House would feel that there ought to be no delay in
replying to another part—he meant that which re-
ferred to the death of his late Majesty. The House,
he trusted, would concur in offering an immediate
Address of Condolence to his Majesty on that ine=
lancholy event, and also an Address of Congratula-
, tion on his Majesty's Accession to the Throne.—llis.
Lc dship then resumed his seat, but after a pause (
a moment, he again rose, and addressed the Chair.
In rising, for the purpose of moving that the House
should offer to his Majesty the most sincere condo-
lence on that calamitous event, so sensibly fe:t by
the whole Nation,. he was persuaded that it would
not be necessary for him, and, indeed, that it would
not be desirable, that he should enter into any length-
ened detail on the subject; still less that he should
broach any topic calculated to prevent the unanimous
expression of the sentiment which he was persuaded
the whole House entertained of reverence and devo-
tion to the illustrious individual whose loss was the
subject of their lamentation (Hear, hear I) Wha:: •
ever might be the opirlons respecting the events of
the late reign, -and of the adMinistration of Govern-
ment under hit present Majesty, there could, he was
certain, be no difference as to this point, that, under
t:ic illustrious House of Brunswick, this country h4d