a compromise on one side or the other, or perhaps on both, of sincerity and truth?

Other topics still remain, to which I might solicit your attention. But it is time to draw to a conclusion. I cannot dismiss you, however, without expressing my satisfaction that I have been enabled to obtain, for a while, a place of residence in my Diocese, where I hope henceforth to pass some considerable portion of the year. This will, I trust, afford me opportunities of more frequent intercourse with my Clergy, and bring me better acquainted with those local and personal concerns to which my attention ought to be directed. I hope it is almost needless to add, that I shall readily avail myself of every such opportunity, as well for my own satisfaction as for yours.

With these assurances, I for the present bid you farewell; earnestly imploring the Divine Blessing upon our mutual endeavours to promote that great purpose for which the Gospel was promulgated to the world and our Great Master lived and died, GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOODWILL TOWARDS MEN."

CONTAINING THE SUBSTANCE OF

HIS MAJESTY'S

MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH

TO BOTH

HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT,

ON THE

OPENING OF THE APPROACHING SESSION;

TOGETHER

WITH A FULL AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE DEBATE WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, ON THE MOTION FOR THE

Printed for T. BECKET, the Corner of the Adelphi, in the Strand, 1778.

Reprinted in the PAMPHLETEER, 1822.

The following Pamphlet was published on the morning of the day on which Parliament met. Many

were taken into the house by Lord North's friends, and dispersed gratis.

ADVERTISEMENT.

SEVERAL reasons concurred to urge the Editor to this publication. The critical situation of public affairs seemed to require an extraordinary diffusion of political knowledge; yet, in the common course, but few of the millions, who are so deeply interested in the result of parliamentary debates, can be admitted to an audience of them. Sometimes the members shut their galleries against the intrusion of any of their constituents; and it is always a standing order, from the opening of the session, to prohibit the publication of their debates. Under these circumstances, an authentic account of the first day's debate, put forth at this date, will clearly avoid any breach of that order, and, without exposing the constituents to crowding in the gallery, to furnish them with their representatives' speeches, taken down with the strictest fidelity, cannot but afford them some amusement, and indeed real use. Besides, the first day's debate is generally a kind of outline of the debates of the whole session; so that a critical observer, by contemplating the buds and seedlings of this early eloquence, may calculate what degree of radical strength they possess, how far they will expand and bloom, and whether they are hardy enough to stand the winter.

The Editor cannot but seize this opportunity to thank those Gentlemen who have furnished him with the most authentic materials for some of the speeches, which, they will immediately see, he has copied verbatim from their manuscripts-and be sincerely hopes, their having appeared in print before they are spoken, will not deter the several Gentlemen from delivering them with their usual appearance of extempore eloquence.

November 23d, 1778,

ANTICIPATION,

&c. &c.

Dom. Comm. Jovis. 26 Nov. die. Anno 19° Georgii III. Regis,

1778.

SIR Francis Molyneux, gentleman usher of the black rod, having, with the usual solemnity, at half past two o'clock, given three admonitory raps at the door of the House of Commons, and being thereupon admitted, and having proceeded towards the table, with three progressive bows, acquainted the Speaker,' that his Majesty commanded their immediate attendance in the House of Lords, where soon after his Majesty delivered his most gracious speech to both Houses; which we should give at length, having an accurate copy now before us, but that many reasons concur to induce us rather to give a general sketch of it. It is scarcely necessary to say, that respect to that great personage is the principal of those motives: it is also universally felt, that the merit of those speeches consists much less in the composition than in the delivery. Besides, as an authentic black letter copy of this speech will infallibly appear, we have too high a respect for our good friends messrs. the hawkers and criers of this great metropolis, to rob them of any part of the fruits of their annual eloquence on this occasion. The speech began by saying,

That the situation of public affairs induced him to call them thus early together, that they might more fully enter into the various and important concerns which would naturally engage their

attention.

It was observed the Speaker was remarkably civil to the new Attorney General, as supposed, upon his succeeding to that great object of his wishes, which leaves Sir Fletcher some chance of a Chief Justiceship and a Peerage.