Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-10-09
PROPAGATION OF PARLIAMENT.


PROPAGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
The following speech of the regent
proroguing parliament to the Oath o.
August, was delivered on the | 3th July
My lords and gentlemen,
1t is with great regret that am obliged
to announce to you the continuance Of
his majesty's lamented indisposition.
| cannot close this session of parlia-
ment without expressing the satisfaction
| have derived from the zeal and assidui.
ty with which you have applied your.
selves TO the several important objects
which have come under your considers
ton. ...-
Your patient and laborious investiga-
ton of the state and circulation OF the
currency of the kingdom, demands my
warmest acknowledgements, and enter
tain a confident expectation that the mea-
sures adopted as the result of this inqui-
~, WI be productive of the most beneG-
cial consequences.
Gentlemen Qfthe house Qfcommons,
thank you for the supplies which you
have granted for the service of the pre-
sent year.
l sincerely regret that the necessity
should have existed of making any add-
don to the burdens of the people, but /
anticipate the most important permanent
advantages from the effort which you
have thus made for meeting at once ali
the financial difficulties of the country ;
and l have derived much satisfaction
from the belief that the means which you
have devised for this purpose, are calcu-
lated 10 press as lightly on ali classes of
the community, as could be expected,
when SO great an effort was to be made.
14y lords aud Sentlemen,
| continue to receive from foreign
powers the strongest assurances of their
friendly disposition towards this country.
| have observed, with great concern,
the attempts which have recently been
made in some of the manufacturing dis
tricts, to take advantage of circumstances
of local distress, to excite spirit of dis
affection to the institutions and govern
ment OF the country.
No object can be nearer my heart than
to promote the welfare and prosperity
of all classes of his maiesty's subjects,
but this cannot be effected without the
maintenance of public order and tran
guilty.
You may rely, therefore, upon my
firm determination TO employ for this
purpose the powers entrusted to me by
law; and l have 10 doubt that on your
return to your several counties, you will
use your utmost endeavors in co-opera-
ton with the n,aglstracy, to defeat the
Vaccinations of those whose projects, if
successful, could only aggravate the evils
which it is protested to remedy, and who,
under the pretence OF reform, have real
ly no other object but the subversion of
our happy constitution"
Then the lord chancellor by the prince
regents command, said
:" My lords and gentlemen,
cit is the pleasure Of his royal high
ness the prince regent, acting in the
name and on behalf Of his majesty, that
this parliam ent be prorogucd TO Tuesday
the oath day of August next, to be then
here holden; and this parliament is &C.
cordingly prorogaed to Tuesday the
twenty fourth day Of August next"
Petitions from all parts of the country
were pouring into parliament, praying
for reform. The marquis of Tavistock
had presented one signed by 1900 Of the
most respectable inhabitants and manu-
facturers, praying that they might be
permitted to have vote in the councils
Of their country--Sir Francis Bprdett
was also making czertions for the same
object.
Female rcformers.---At meeting Of
the reformers held at Blackburn, de-
putation from the Blackburn Femate re-
form society, mounted the stage to pre-
sent cap Of liberty and an address to
the meeting. The latter was read, and
in it the women composing the society.
"pledged themselves to instil into the
minds Of their children hatred of civil
and religious tyranny"
The Rev. MIR. Harrison was taken up
Just after he had haransucd the people
at S:nitllclas