Stutgard.-Sitting of the States.-Their Dissolution.-The King takes upon himself the Regulation of the Finances.-Duchy of Saxe-Weimar : Its admission to the Germanic Confederation.-Session of the States-General of the United Provinces.-King's Speech.-Dutch Tea-Trade.-Piedmontese America, North and South.-Message to the Senate and House of Repre sentatives from President Madison.-Votes taken for President and Vice- President.-Monroe chosen for the former Office, and his Speech.-Second Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between his Britannic Majesty The King v. William Hone.-Ditto 161 Oram v. Fromont and Others.-Non-Liability of Carriers Passed in the Fifth Session of the Fifth Parliament of the United Treaty between his Majesty the King of France and Navarre and his Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Narrative of a Journey from Chamouni to Mount Blanc Notes of a Mineralogical Excursion to the Giant's Causeway 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. of the honour of the country against the government of Algiers, N January 28th, his Royal have been attended with the most O`Highness the Prince Regent complete success. 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 occurred in the state of his Majesty's lamented indisposition. "I continue to receive from foreign powers the strongest assurances of their friendly disposition towards this country, and of their earnest desire to maintain the general tranquillity. "The hostilities to which I was compelled to resort, in vindication VOL. LIX. 66 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. 66 'I am persuaded that you will be duly sensible of the importance of an arrangement so interesting to humanity, and reflecting, from accomplished, the manner in which it has been [B] |