Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-08-04

at 74f lOc. and closed a, 73f. Soc thus
Welding tolerable profit to the contractors
for the loan. :,
The marriage of the Duke OF Kent WIN
the Dowager Princess de Leinengen' was
celebrated at Cobourg on the 29th OF May
Six thousand Prtlssian troops were ex-
pected at Frankfort, part OF whom are des-
tined for the garrison Of Aix-la-Chapeile'
during the meeting of the Congress OF So
? HOUSE OF LORDS.
Wednesday, June 10.
pRoRoG ALTON AND DISSOLUTION OF PARLlA-
NENT.
This being the day on which 1t was eX-
pec,ed The Prince Regent would in person
prorogue the Parliament, q prodlgious null
titude of p. rsons, eager TO behold the pro-
cession without, and anxious to be witness
of the &c CEREMONY within doors, crowded the
streets from Charine-cross to the Parliament
House, all the avenues 10 which, before
o'clock, we're rendered hardly accessible,
while the seats appropriated tnihe Peer
esses and their daughters, were so over
tbroneed that many Of the ladies were obi
ged to content themselves with retiring 10
the Painted Chamber.
At few minutes past two O'Clock The
Prince Regent, attended by the great otii-
GERS and Ministers Of state; the foreign Am.
bassadors and various other strangers OF
distinction being also present, entered The
House, and took his seat on the Throne
Sir Thomas Tyrwbitt, Usher OF the Black
Rod, was then sent to the Commons, re-
curing the attendance OF that House forth
with at the Bar.
Soon after the Commons. with the Speaker
at their head, presented themselves .ac-
cordingly, when the Speaker addressed his
Royal Highness in the words following -
May it please your Royal Highness.--
We bis Majesty's faithful Commons of the
United Kingdom OF Great Britain and Ire
land, attend your Royal Higbness with our
last Bill OF Supply
In obedience Sir tn your Royal High
ness's Recommendation, we have not failed
to apply our anxious and continued atten.
ton TO the state of the public income and
expenditure, and heavy as unquestionsbly
the weight and pressure still remain upon
our finances. We have the satisfaction to OBJ
serve, that the revenue in its most impor-
tant branches is gradually and progressively
iu proving: 49,,
Among the various duties, Sir, in which
we have been engaged, there is none per-
haps that could have devolved upon us,
more interesting in itself or more in unison
we are persuaded with the sincere and un-
feigned sentiments oil all classes OF His Ma
iesty's subjects, than the duty Of adopting
the necessary measures for the fulflment Of
those engagements, which Your Royal
Higbness was graclously pleased to COM
municate to US, as having been concluded
with the courts Of Spain and Portugal, on
the subject OF the Slave Trade.
Nor, Sir, have VIC been less attentive to
another subject Of public importance. ear
nestly recommended by your Royal High
ness 10 our early and particular consideIa-
tion-the deficiency which has so long
existed in the number of places of Pub
lie Worship belonging TO the Established
Church. To the remedy OF this deficiency
we nave most eadily afforded large and H.
beral assistance, well convinced that the first
and dearest interest Of This country, its
truest happiness, is soundest prosperity,
its surest independence, its proudest and
most substantial national glory are all in
volved and blended intimately and insepa-
rably in the religious and moral habits OF
its people. &c.
The bill, Sir, which it is now my duty
humbly 10 present your Royal Highness is
instituted, o. An act for applying certain
monies therein mentioned for the services
E t,anca nj o.orl,i h,,n rod nd
eighteen" to which with all humility we
pray His Majesty's Royal assent.
At the close of his speech the Speaker
presented the Appropriation bill, as having
passed the Commons, and in order 10 its
receiving the Royal assent.
The Prince Regent then gave the Royal
assent 10 the appropriation, the Aliens, the
Slave Trade Abolition Amendment, the
Irish Fisheries, the Poor Education. and
several private Bills, and then closed the
Session with the following speech -
My Lords and Gentlemen,
Ii is with the deepest regret that ! am
again under the necessity Of announcing to
you, that no alteration has occurred in the
state Of bis Majes.y's lamented ind.sPosi-
ton.
] continue TO receive from foreign Pow
ers the strongest assurance oil their friendly
dispositions towards this country, and Of
their desire to maintain tie general tram
guilty.
am fully sensible Of the attention which
you have paid 10 the many impor ant objects
which have been brought before you.
! derive peculiar satisfaction from the |
measure which you have adopted, IN pur-
suance to my recommendation, lur aug.
meniing the number OF places of public |
worship belonging to the Established
Church and confidently trust that his
measure will be productive OF ,!Ie most
beneficial effects on the religion and moral !