Parliamentary Register; O R, HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES O F THE HOUSE OF LORDS; CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF The most interefting SPEECHES, MOTIONS, BILLS, PETITIONS to the KING, as relate to the Proceedings Printed for J. ALMON, oppofite BURLINGTON-HOUSE, M,DCC.LXXV. HISTOR OF THE DEBATES and PROCEEDINGS OF THE Y HOUSE of LORDS, During the FIRST SESSION of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great-Britain. HIS feffion was opened by the King, with a speech from debates of the Houfe of Commons of this feffion, it is unneceffary to repeat it November 30, 1774. The Earl of Hillsborough moved, That an humble addrefs Earl of be presented to his Majefty, to return his Majefty the thanks Hillsborough of this Houfe for his moft gracious fpeech from the throne. To declare our abhorrence and deteftation of the daring fpirit of refiftance and difobedience to the laws, which fo ftrongly prevails in the province of the Maffachufets Bay, and of the unwarrantable attempts in that and other provinces of America, to obftruct, by unlawful combinations, the trade of this kingdom. To return his Majefty our humble thanks for having been pleased to communicate to us, that he has taken fuch meafures, and given fuch orders as his Majefty hath judged moft proper and effectual for the protection and fecurity of the commerce of his Majefty's fubjects, and for carrying into execution the laws, which were paffed in the last feffion of the late parliament, relative to the province of the Massachusets Bay. To Express our entire fatisfaction in his Majefty's firm and fteadfast refolution to continue to fupport the fupreme authority of the legiflature over all the dominions of his crown, and to give his Majefty the ftrongeft affurances that we will VOL. II. chearfully B chearfully co-operate in all fuch measures, as fhall be necef- That as this nation cannot be unconcerned in the common intereft of Europe, we have the greatest fatisfaction in being acquainted with the conclufion of the peace between Ruffia and the Porte; that we confide in his Majefty's endeavours to prevent, as far as poffible, the breaking out of fresh diftur- bances; and from the affurances given to his Majesty by other powers, we have the pleafing expectation that nothing is likely to intervene that may interrupt the prefent happy tran- That it is no lefs our duty than our inclination to proceed with temper and unanimity in our deliberations and refolu- tions, and to inculcate, by our example, a due reverence for the laws, and a juft fenfe of the excellency of our conftitu- tion; and impreffed with the deepest gratitude for the many bleffings we have enjoyed during the courfe of his Majesty's reign, to teftify with unaffected zeal at this conjuncture our inviolable fidelity to his Majefty, and our serious attention to This motion was feconded by the Earl of Buckinghamshire. The Duke of Richmond moved, That an amendment be Richmond. made to the faid motion, by inferting, after the word throne, at the end of the first paragraph, thefe words: To defire his Majefty would be graciously pleafed to give direction for an early communication of the accounts which Which being objected to, after fome debate, the question was put, Whether thefe words fhall be inferted in the faid Because we cannot agree to commit ourselves with the care- lefs facility of a common addrefs of compliment, in expref- fions, which may lead to measures in the event fatal to the lives, properties, and liberties of a very great part of our fel- We |