THE

Parliamentary Register;

OR

HISTORY

OF THE

PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES

OF THE

HOUSE OF LORDS.

CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF

The most interefting SPEECHES and MOTIONS; accurate Copies of the most remarkable LETTERS and PAPERS; of the moft material EVIDENCE, PETITIONS, &c. laid before and offered to the HOUSE,

Printed for J. DEBRETT, (Succeffor to Mr. ALMON) oppofite

BURLINGTON-HOUSE, PICCADILLY.

M.DCC.LXXXIII.

Appointed to be held at WESTMINSTER,

On Thursday, the 5th Day of December, 1782*.

TH

HE King came to the Houfe of Lords, and having fent for the Members of the Houfe of Commons, opened the feffion with the following speech;

"My Lords and Gentlemen,

"SINCE the clofe of the laft feffions, I have employed my whole time in the care and attention which the important and critical conjuncture of public affairs required of me.

"I loft no time in giving the neceffary orders to prohibit the further profecution of offenfive war upon the Continent VOL. XI

B

of

* This feffion was intended to have been opened on the 25th of November laft; and the proclamation ordering Parliament to meet for the difpatch of business, was published as ufual: but on the 21ft, a refolution was taken by the King's Servants, on account of the critical ftate of the pending negociations for peace, to advise a farther prorogation of ten days, notwithstanding the proclamation. The circumstance is not without precedent. Mr. Pitt, did the fame thing in 1757. Parlia ent had been ordered by proclamation to mect on the 15th of Novem; but intelligence coming of the King of Pruffia's victory at Rofbach, the meeting of Parliament was put off to the first of December, to give the Minifter opportunity to form a new fyftem of operation, See Journals of the Houfe of Commons, volume 27, page 927.

ber