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THE

ANNUAL REGISTER,

For the Year 1817.

GENERAL HISTORY.

CHAPTER I.

The Prince Regent's Speech.-Insults offered him.-His Message to both
Houses of Parliament.-Taken into Consideration by the Houses of
Lords and Commons, and a Secret Committee appointed in each.—
Report from the Committee in each House.

PRINCE REGENT'S SPEECH.

ON

N January 28th, his Royal
Highness the Prince Regent
opened the Parliament with the
following Speech.

"My Lords and Gentlemen,
"It is with deep regret that I
am again obliged to announce to
you, that no alteration has occur-
red in the state of his Majesty's
lamented indisposition.

"I continue to receive from
foreign powers the strongest as-
surances of their friendly dispo-
sition towards this country, and of
their earnest desire to maintain
the general tranquillity.

"The hostilities to which I was
compelled to resort, in vindication
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of the honour of the country
against the government of Algiers,
have been attended with the most
complete success.

"The splendid achievement of
his Majesty's fleet, in conjunction
with a squadron of the king of the
Netherlands, under the gallant
and able conduct of Adm. Viscount
Exmouth, led to the immediate
and unconditional liberation of all
Christian captives then within the
territory of Algiers, and to the
renunciation by its government of
the practice of Christian slavery.

"I am persuaded that you will
be duly sensible of the importance
of an arrangement so interesting
to humanity, and reflecting, from
the manner in which it has been
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accomplished,

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