Savings from the army in 1785 and 1786 By lottery of 50,000 tickets, at 151. 2s. 9d. each, 500,0col. in prizes, charged on the fupplies for this year, to be paid at the Bank 1ft December 1788 NEW TAXES in 1787. Additional duty on geneva imported. Ditto on licences to deal in fpirituous liquors. And STATE STATE PAPERS. His Majefty's most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, on the opening of the fourth Seffion of the fixteenth Parliament of Great Britain, on Tuesday the 23d of January, 1787. "I My Lords and Gentlemen, HAVE particular fatisfaction in acquainting you, that fince I laft met you in parliament, the tranquillity of Europe has remained uninterrupted, and that all foreign powers continue to express their friendly difpofition to this country. "I have concluded a treaty of navigation and commerce with the Moft Chriftian king, a copy of which fhall be laid before you. I must recommend it to you to take fuch meatures as you thall judge proper for carrying it into effect; and I truft you will find that the provifions contained in it are calculated for the encouragement of induftry and the extention of lawful commerce in both countries, and by promoting a beneficial intercourfe between our refpective fubjects, appear likely to give an additional permanence to the bleflings of peace. I fhall keep the fame falutary objects in view in the commercial arrangements which I am negociating with other powers. "I have alfo given directions for laying before you a copy of a con 4 vention agreed upon between me and the Catholic king, for carrying into effect the fixth article of the laft treaty of peace. Gentlemen of the Houfe of Com mons, "I have ordered the estimates for the prefent year to be laid before you; and I have the fulleft reliance on your readiness to make due provifion for the feveral branches of the public fervice. "The fate of the revenue will, I am perfuaded, continue to engage your confiant attention, as being effentially connected with the national credit, and the profperity and fafety of my dominions.” My Lords and Gentlemen, "A plan has been formed, by my direction, for tranfporting a number of convicts, in order to remove the inconvenience which arose from the crowded state of the gaols in different parts of the kingdom; and you will, I doubt not, take fuch farther measures as may be neceffary for this purpose. "I trust you will be able this feffion to carry into effect regulations for the ease of the merchants, and for fimplifying the public ac counts in the various branches of the revenue; and rely upon the uniform continuance of your exertions in purfuit of fuch objects as may may tend ftill farther to improve the national refources, and to promote and confirm the welfare and happiness of my people." The humble Addrefs of the Right " Die Martis 23° Januarii 1787. Moft Gracious Sovereign, E, your majesty's moft tained by the unfortunate death of that illuftrious and excellent princefs, your majefty's aunt,her royal highnefs the Princess Amelia. The prefent appearances of the prefervation of the public tranquillity, as well as the affurances given to your majefty by foreign powers of their friendly difpofition to this country, give us the greateft fatiffaction. "We return your majesty our hearty thanks for your goodness in directing the treaty of navigation and commerce with the Moft Chriftian king, and the convention with W dutiful and loyal fubjects, his Catholic majefty, to be laid be the lords fpiritual and temporal in parliament affembled, beg leave to return your majefty our humble thanks for your gracious (peech from the throne. "Permit us to exprefs to your majefty the eagerness with which we take the earliest opportunity offered to us of joining the unanimous voice of our fellow fubjects, in congratulating your majefty on the late providential interpofition of the Almighty in the prefervation of a life fo valuable to your people. We acknowledge, with reverence and gratitude, the divine goodness, in averting the calamity with which we were threatened. We join in the general admiration of those virtues which compofe your majefty's character; and humbly beg leave to affure your majefty, that we are happy in teftifying the fhare we take in the loyal and affectionate attachment to your facred perfon, which pervades the breafts of your majefty's fubjects in every part of your dominions. "It is with moft fincere concern that we condole with your majefty ppon the lofs which you have fuf fore us; and we beg leave to affure your majefty, that, in confidering meafures of fo important and interefting a nature, we thall be happy to find in them a tendency to give an additional permanency to the bleflings of peace, the encouragement of induftry, and the extenfion of lawful commerce between your majefty's fubjects and thofe of the Moft Chriftian king, and that we fhall with pleasure concur in any regulations calculated to infure thofe falutary purposes, "We learn, with great fatisfaction, that your majetty has taken measures for the transportation of a number of convicts, and for removing the inconveniences which arise from the crowded ftate of the gaols; and we beg your majesty will be affured that we fhall be ready to concur in fuch farther provifions as may be found neceflary for this purpose. We fhall with the fame readinefs co-operate in whatever regulations may appear to be proper for the ease of the merchants, and for the fimplifying the public accounts, in the various branches of the the revenue; and your majefty may depend upon our beft and steadieft exertions in pursuit of fuch measures as may tend ftill farther to improve the national refources, and to promote and confirm what has ever been the first object of the parental care and attention of your majefty, the welfare and happiness of your people." and affectionate attachment to your facred perfon, which are deeply rooted in the hearts of all your majefty's fubjects. "We condole with your majefty on the unfortunate death of that moft illuftrious and excellent princefs, your majesty's aunt, the Princefs Amelia. "It is with great fatisfaction we learn that the tranquillity of Europe His Majefty's moft gracious Answer. remains uninterrupted; and that My Lords, "Your expreffions of affectionate attachment to my perfon and government, as well as your affurances of proceeding to the confideration of the important objects which I have recommended to you, give me the greatest fatisfaction." The bumble Addrefs of the Houfe of Commons to the King, for the foregoing Speech from the Throne, January 25, 1787. Moft Gracious Sovereign, your majefty continues to receive affurances from all foreign powers of their friendly difpofition towards this country. "We are fenfible of your majefty's goodness in having directed the treaty of commerce and navigation with the Moft Christian king, and the convention agreed upon with the Catholic king, to be laid before us. Both thefe events, particularly a measure fo important and extenfive as a commercial arrangement between this country and France, muft be highly interefting to us and our conftituents; and it will afford us the trucft fatisfaction to concur in WE, your majefiy's most any measure calculated for the en dutiful and loyal fubjects, the commons of Great Britain in parliament affembled, beg leave to return your majesty our humble thanks for your most gracious fpeech from the throne; and to take the earliest opportunity of offering to your majefty, in our own name, and in that of all the commons of Great Britain, our moft hearty congratulations on the prefervation of a life fo justly dear to your people. We entertain a juft fenfe of the peculiar favour of Providence, in averting the danger to which we were expofed, and rendering it only the occafion of manifefting, in the fullest manner, thofe fentiments of duty couragement of industry, and the extenfion of lawful commerce, and which, by promoting a beneficial intercourfe between the two countries, fhall appear likely to give additional permanence to the bleffings of peace. "Your majefty may at all times rely on our readiness to make due provifion for the feveral branches of the public fervice; and the state of the revenue, fo nearly connected with the national credit and the fafety and profperity of your majefty's dominions, will continue to engage our unremitting attention. "We thall not fail to take fuch measures as may be neceflary for 4 the the tranfportation of convicts, in order to remedy the inconvenience which has arifen from the crowded ftate of the gaols in different parts of the kingdom. "We shall diligently apply our felves to the confideration of any regulations which can be adopted for the ease of the merchants, and for fimplifying the public accounts in the various branches of the revenue and it will be equally our duty and inclination to use our ut moft exertions in purfuit of fuch objects as may tend still farther to improve the national refources, and to fecond your majefty's gracious and parental wishes for the welfare and happiness of your people." His Majesty's most gracious Anfwer, points which had been referved; their Britannick and Moft Chriftian majefties, always difpofed more particularly to confirm the good underftanding in which they are happily united, have named, for that purpofe, their refpective plenipotentiaries, to wit, on the part of his Britannick majefty, William Eden, Efq. privy counfellor in Great Britain and Ireland, member of the British parliament, and his envoy extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary to his Moft Chriftian majefty; and on the part of his Moit Chriftian Majefty, the Count de Vergennes, minifter and fecretary of ftate for the department of foreign affairs, and chief of the royal council of finances; who, after having communicated to each other their refpective full powers, have agreed upon the following articles: ARTICLE I. "Their majefties having ftipulated in the 6th article of the faid treaty, that the duties on hardware, cutlery, cabinet-ware, and turnery, and on all works both heavy and light, of iron, fteel, copper, and brafs, fhall be claffed; and that the bigheft duty fhall not exceed ten per cent. ad valorem," it is agreed, that cabinet that is included under thofe denomiware and turnery, and every thing nations, as alfo mufical inftruments, fhall pay ten per cent. ad valorem. All articles made of iron or steel, pure or mixed,orworked and mounted with other fubftances, not exceeding in value fixty Livres Tournois, or fifty fhillings per quintal, fhall pay only five per cent. ad valorem; and all othe wares, as buttons, buckles, See this treaty, page 266 of the State Papers, in the Annual Register for 1786. all |