tial inconvenience to my people, and with as little addition as poffible to the permanent burdens of the state. The progrefs made towards fuch a fyftem by the measures adopted in the laft feffion, and the aid given to public credit by the plan for the redemption of the land-tax, have been attended with the most beneficial effect, which you will, I am perfuaded, omit no oppor tunity to confirm and improve.. My Lords and Gentlemen, I rely with confidence on the continuance of your exertions, to enable me ultimately to conduct the great conteft in which we are engaged to a safe and honourable conclufion. We have furmounted many and great difficulties. Our perfe verance in a juft caufe has been rewarded with diftinguished fuccefs; and our prefent fituation, compared with that of other countries, fufficiently proves how much, in a period of general danger and calamity, the fecurity and happiness of the British nation have depended (under the bleffing of Providence) on its own conftancy, its energy, and its virtue. In the Houfe of Commons the following Addrefs was moved by Lord Levifon Gower, feconded by Sir Henry St. John Mildmay, and carried. Moft gracious Sovereign, WE, your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament aflembled, beg leave to return your Majefty the thanks of this House for your moft gracious fpeech from the throne; and to congratulate your Majefty on the fignal fuccefs which, by the bleffing of Providence, has attended your Majesty's arms, particularly on the memorable and decifive action in which a detachment of your Majesty's fleet, under the command of Rear-admiral Lord Nelfon, attacked, and almoft totally deftroyed, a fuperior force of the enemy, frengthened by every advantage of fituation. It is with juft pride and exultation that we obferve, that, by this great and brilliant victory, an enterprife, of which the injuftice, perfidy, and extravagance had fixed the attention of the world, and which was peculiarly directed against some of the most valuable interefts of the British empire, has, in the first inftance, been turned to the confufion of its authors; and we entertain an earnest hope, that the blow thus given to the power and influence of France, the laudable example held out by the Emperor of Ruffia and the Ottoman Porte, and the difpofition manifefted in the different countries ftruggling under the yoke of France, may encourage other powers to adopt that vigorous line of conduct which experience has fhown to be alone confiftent with the fecurity and honour of independent states, and which, if generally adopted, may lead to the deliverance of Europe. We We are fully fenfible of the peculiar advantages derived to this kingdom from the extent of our preparations at home, and from the general demonftrations of zeal and fpirit among all ranks of your Majefty's fubjects; and we have feen, with the greateft fatiffaction, the effect of the meafures adopted in Ireland for repreffing a rebellion inftigated by our inveterate enemy; the furrender of the French troops landed for its fupport; and the fuccessful vigilance and activity of your Majefty's fquadrons in capturing or difperfing the armaments fince deftined for the fame purpose. We are anxious to teftify to your Majefty the abhorrence and indignation with which we have obferved the defperate principles and practices of thofe who have long planned the fubverfion of our conflitution, which have now been fully detected and made manifeft to the world; and we cannot but exprefs our firm perfuafion, that those who had becn mifled or feduced muft now be awakened to their duty, and that a juft sense of the miferies and horrors which thefe traitorous defigns have produced must impress on the minds of all your Majefty's faithful fubjects the neceflity of continuing to repel with firmnefs every attack on the laws and eftablished government of their country. We fhall not fail diligently to apply ourfelves to the confideration of fuch meafures as may provide the neceffary fupplies with as little inconvenience to your people, and as little addition to the permanent burdens of the ftate, as the circumftances will admit; and, under the unavoidable preffure of protracted war, while we join with your Majefty in regretting the indifpenfable neceflity of heavy expenfes, we fhall derive the greatest fatisfaction and confidence from the productive state of the revenue, the maintenanceand improvement of public credit, and the extent and profperity of the commerce and induftry of your Majefty's fubjects; and that we shall eagerly avail ourfelves of every opportunity to cultivate and improve advantages fo important to the public fafety and welfare. We embrace with fatisfaction the opportunity of thus renewing to your Majesty the folemn affurances of our firm and unalterable determination to perfevere in thofe exertions which may enable your Majefty to conduct the great conteft in which we are engaged to a fafe and honourable conclufion. Animated by a like fenfe of the difficulties we have furmounted, and of the diftinguished fuccefs which has rewarded our perfeverance in a juft caufe, we shall uniformly maintain those principles, an adherence to which, in a period of general danger and calamity, has procured to us the advantages of our prefent fituation, and will, we truft, under every viciffitude, continue to prove that the fecurity and happiness of the British nation find the fureft fupport (under the blefling of Providence) in its own conftancy, its energy, and its virtue. To the foregoing Addrefs his Majefty returned the following moft gracious Anfwer. Gentlemen, I RETURN you my particular thanks for this loyal and dutiful addrefs; and receive, with the greatest fatisfaction, your congratulations on the late glorious events, and the declaration of your firm adherence to those wife and honourable principles which have uniformly guided your conduct. The perfeverance and firmness of Parliament, and the zeal and spirit of my people, will give additional weight to my exertions in endeavouring to improve the advantages which this country and Europe have every reason to expect from the happy confequences of the fuccefs of my arms, and from the prefent ftate and difpofition of other powers. In the Houfe of Lords the following Addrefs was moved by the Earl of Darnley, feconded by Lord Craven, and carried unanimously. Moft gracious Sovereign, WE, your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, the Lords fpiritual and temporal, in Parliament affembled, beg leave to approach your Majefty with our humble thanks for your Majefty's most gracious fpeech from the throne. We beg leave to offer to your Majefty our heart-felt congratulations on the glorious and decifive victory obtained by your Majefty's fleet under the command of Rear-admiral Lord Nelfon over an enemy fuperior in force, and in the advantage of fituation; an achievement which has even added fresh fplendour to the unexampled series of your Majesty's naval triumphs. While this memorable fuccefs has, in the firft inftance, turned to the confusion of the enemy an enterprise not more diftinguished by its injustice, perfidy, and extravagance, than by the inveterate hoftility of its authors against every British intereft, we entertain a just hope, that the blow now given to the power and influence of the enemy will be decifive in its effects; that the opening thus afforded will be improved by other powers, to the maintenance of their own independence and fecurity; and that the wife and dignified example of the Emperor of Ruffia, and of the Ottoman Porte, will be followed by fuch effectual and united exertions, as are alonè fuited to the prefent crifis, and as are beft calculated to produce the general deliverance of Europe. Permit us to affure your Majefty, that, while we feel our hearts and hopes thus elated by the brilliant fuccefs which has crowned your Majefty's arms abroad, we congratulate your Majefty no lefs fincerely on the uninterrupted state of fecurity in which this kingdom has been preferved against the vain threats of the enemy, by the extent of your Majefty's military preparations; and ftill : VOL. VII. 4 F more more by the zeal and fpirit which animate all ranks of your Majefty's fubjects in the caufe of their country. Nor have we feen with lefs fatisfaction the entire difappointment of the attempts of our enemies against your Majefty's kingdom of Ireland, the defeat and furrender of the force which they had difembarked for the fupport of a rebellion inftigated by themfelves, and the capture or difperfion of the armaments deftined for the fame object; and we truft, that the rebellion, thus cut off from foreign affiftance, and curbed and repreffed, as it has been, by the vigour of your Majefty's councils, and the gallantry of your Majefty's troops, will, ere long, be finally extinguished. We are anxious to declare to your Majefty, and to the world, our abhorrence of the views and principles of those who, in concert with our inveterate enemy, had planned the fubverfion of the constitution of their country; and we cannot but feel persuaded, that the complete expofure of these treafons must awaken the deInded to a fenfe of their duty, and muft imprefs ftill more strongly on the minds of all your Majefty's fubjects, the neceffity of fupporting, against every attack, the laws and government of their country. Convinced of the extent and value of the bleffings which, under your Majesty's happy and paternal government, we have to defend, and confident in the refources and fpirit of our country, we have encountered with cheerfulness many and great difficulties. Thefe, by the bleffing of Providence on your Majesty's dignified firmnefs and perfeverance in a juft caufe, have happily been furmounted. Animated by this fuccefs, encouraged by the comparative fituation of our country, and, above all, deeply impreffed with a fenfe of that duty which is incumbent on every individual in a period of fuch general danger and calamity, we will not relax our exertions, but will, to the utmost of our power, fupport your Majefty in every measure which may best contribute to deliver unimpaired to pofterity, the fecurity, independence, happiness, and honour of the British empire. The following is his Majesty's most gracious Answer to the above Addrefs. My Lords, I RECEIVE with the higheft fatisfaction this dutiful and loyal addrefs. Your congratulations on the brilliant fucceffes with which it has pleafed Providence to reward our exertions, are particularly agreeable to me; and I trust that the honourable and dignified perfeverance of my Parliament and my people will, both by example and effect, materially contribute to restore the independence of Europe, and to infure to thefe kingdoms the bleflings of fecure and honourable peace. APPEN APPENDIX. HISTORY OF THE WAR. From the LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, Admiralty Office, October 13. IEUTENANT Brodie, of the Rofe cutter, arrived early this of his Majefty's fhips, &c. employed in the North Sea, to Evan Nepean, Efq. of which the following is a copy: Venerable, off the Coaft of Holland, the 12th of October, by Log (11th), three P. M. Camperdown, E.S.E. eight Miles, Wind N. by E. Sir, I HAVE the pleasure to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, that at nine o'clock this morning I got fight of the Dutch fleet; at half paft twelve I paffed through their line, and the action commenced, which has been very fevere. The admiral's fhip is difmafted, and has ftruck, as have feveral others, and one is on fire. I fhall fend Captain Fairfax with particulars the moment I can spare him. I am, Sir, Your moft obedient, humble fervant, VOL. VII. From |