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Holland House, May 31st, 1812. My dear lord; I cannot sufficiently thank you for your kind anxiety to procure an accurate statement of the words spoken by me in the house of lords. It is difficult to remember precise expressions so long after they were spoken; but I am sure I cannot be far wrong in stating the substance of what I said, as follows:

I was speaking on the subject of the Irish Catholics, and particularly on the charge of intemperate conduct which had been made against them. I stated, that great allowances were to be made for this, considering their repeated disappointments; and I cited, as instances of these, the recal of Lord Fitzwilliam, and the union. I then said, that the most distinct and authentic pledges had been given to them, of the Prince's wish to relieve them from the disabilities of which they complained; that I spoke in the hearing of persons who would contradict me if what I said was unfounded, and who would, I was sure, support its truth if questioned; that now, when the fulfilment of these pledges was confidently expected, to see an administration continued in power, which stood on the express principle of resisting their claims, was, perhaps, the bitterest disappointment they had yet experienced; and that it was not surprising, if, under such circumstances, they felt, and acted, in a way that all well wishers to the peace of the empire must regret.

This I give as the substance, and

by no means as a correct repetition of the particular expressions used by me; and this statement I can neither retract, nor endeavour to explain away. If, in consequence of it, the Prince feels a strong personal objection to me, I can only repeat what I have already said to you, that I am perfectly ready to stand out of the way; that my friends shall have my full concurrence and approbation in taking office without me, and my most cordial support in the government of the country, if their measures are directed, as I am sure they must always be, by the principles on which we have acted together.

I write this from Lord Holland's in a great hurry, and in the middle of dinner; but I was unwilling to defer, even for a minute, to answer an inquiry, which I feel to be prompted by so friendly a solicitude for me. I have not the means of taking a copy of this letter. I shall therefore be obliged to you to let me have one; and I am sure, if, upon recollection, I shall think it necessary to add any thing to what I have now said, you will allow me an opportunity of doing so. I am, with the sincerest regard, my dear lord, your's very faithfully,

GREY.

Address to the Prince Regent, of the Religious Society of Friends, with his Royal Highness's answer.

To George Augustus, Prince Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. May it please the Prince. Seeing that in consequence of the lament

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ed affliction of our beloved Sove reign thy father, thou art called to the high office of administering the regal government of this country, we, his dutiful subjects, the religious Society of Friends, are desirous of representing to thee a subject in which we believe the welfare of our country is deeply concerned.

It is now many years since war has been spreading its desolation over great part of the civilized world; and as we believe it to be an evil, from which the spirit of the Gospel of Christ would wholly deliver the nations of the earth, we humbly petition thee to use the Royal Prerogative, now placed in thy hands, to take such early measures for the putting a period to this dreadful" state of devastation, as we trust the wisdom of thy councils, as they seek for Divine direction, will be enabled to disco

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Impressed with a grateful sense of the religious privileges we enjoy under the present Government, we submit this highly important cause of suffering humanity, which is peculiarly near to our hearts, to thy most serious consideration.; that thus thou may'st become an honoured instrument in the hand of the Almighty, in promoting his gracious designs respecting the inhabitants of the earth.

Signed in, by order, and on behalf of the yearly Meeting of the said People, held in Lon don, this 29th day of the fifth month, 1812, by

JOHN WILKINSON. Clerk to the Meeting this year.

To which Address his Royal Highness was pleased to return

the following most gracious an swer:

I am deeply sensible of the cala, mities which necessarily attend a state of war.

It would, therefore, be most grateful to my feelings, to observe such a change in the views and conduct of the enemy as would admit of a cessation of hostilities, consistently with a just regard to the important interests which have been committed to my charge, and which it is my indispensable duty to maintain.

I reflect with great satisfaction on the religious privileges secured to you by the wisdom and benevolence of the laws, and you may rest assured of my constant protection.

[Presented by William Allen, London; Morris Birkbeck, Guildford; Joseph Smith, London; George Stacey, Tottenham; Edward Jonson, Tottenham Rich. Philips, London; Anthony Horne, Clapham-Common; Joseph Foster, Bromley; Luke Howard, Plais tow; John Wilkinson, High Wy comb.]

absolutely and unconditionally repealed, then and from thenceforth the Order in Council of the 7th of January, 1807, and the Order in Council of the 26th of April, 1809, shall, without any further order be, and the same are hereby declared from thenceforth to be, wholly and absolutely revoked."

And whereas the Chargé des Affaires of the United States of Ameriea, resident at this Court, did, on the 20th day of May last, transmit to Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, a copy of a certain instrument, then for the first time communicated to this Court, purporting to be a Decree passed by the Government of France, on the 28th day of April, 1811, by which the Decrees of Berlin and Milan are declared to be definitively no longer in force, in regard to American vessels.

And whereas his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, although he cannot consider the tenour of the said instrument as satisfying the conditions set forth in the said Order of the 21st of April last, upon which the said Orders were to cease and determine; is nevertheless disposed on his part to take such measures as may tend to reestablish the intercourse between Neutral and Belligerent Nations, upon its accustomed principles; his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, is therefore pleased, by and with the advice of his Majesty's Privy Council, to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered and declared, that the Order in Council bearing date the 7th day of January, 1807, and the Order in Council bearing date the

26th day of April, 1809, be revoked, so far as may regard American vessels, and their cargoes, being American property, from the 1st day of August next.

But whereas by certain Acts of the Government of the United States of America, all British arm-ed vessels are excluded from the harbours and waters of the said United States, the armed vestels of France being permitted to enter therein; and the commercial intercourse between Great Britain and the said United States is interdicted, the commercial intercourse between France and the said United States having been restored; his Royal Highness the Prince Regent is pleased hereby further to declare, in the name and on the behalf of his "Majesty, that if the Government of the said United States shall not, as soon as may be, after this Order sball have been duly notified by his Majesty's Minister in America to the said Government, revoke, or cause to be revoked, the said Acts, this present Order shall in that case, after due notice signified by his Majesty's Minister in America to the said Government, be thenceforth null and of no effect.

It is further ordered and declared, that all American vessels, and their cargoes, being American property, that shall have been captured subsequently to the 20th day of May last, for a breach of the aforesaid Orders in Council alone, and which shall not have been actually condemned before the date of this Order; and that all ships and cargoes as aforesaid, that shall henceforth be captured under the said Orders, prior to the 1st day of August next, shall not be proceeded against to

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condemnation till further orders,

not becoming null and of no effect, in the case aforesaid, be forthwith liberated and restored, subject to such reasonable expenses on the part of the captors, as shall have been justly incurred.

Provided, that nothing in this Order contained, respecting the Revocation of the Orders hereinmentioned, shall be taken to revive wholly or in part the Orders in Council of the 11th of November, 1807, or any other Order not herein mentioned, or to deprive parties of any legal remedy to which they may be entitled under the Order in Council of the 21st of April, 1812.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent is hereby pleased further to declare, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, that nothing in this present Order contained, shall be understood to preclude his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, if circumstances shall so require, from restoring, after reasonable notice, the Orders of the 7th of January, 1807, and 26th of April, 1809, or any part thereof, to their full effect, or from taking such other measures of retaliation against the enemy, as may appear to his Royal Highness to be just and necessary.

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, and the Judges of the Courts of Vice Admiralty, are to take the necessary measures herein, as to them may respectively appertain.

JAMES BULLER.

tain and Russia.

In the name of the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity I

His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being equally animated with the desire of re-establishing the ancient relations of amity and good understanding between the two Kingdoms respectively, have nominated to this effect, as their Ministers Plenipotentiary; namely, his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the Sieur Peter Suchtelen, Chief of the Department of Engineers, General and Member of the Council of State, &c. and the Sieur Paul Baron de Nicolay, Gentleman of the Bedchamber, &c. and his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name of his Majesty, King of the United Kingdom of England and Ireland, the Sieur Edward Thornton, Esq. Plenipotentiary from bis Britannic Majesty to the King of Sweden.

The said Plenipotentiaries after exchanging their respective full powers, in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:

I. There shall be between his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, their heirs and successors, and between their kingdoms and subjects respectively, a firm, true, and inviolable peace, and a sincere and perfect union and amity; so that, from this moment, all subjects of disagreement that may have subsisted between them shall cease.

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II. The relations of amity and commerce between the two countries shall be re-established on each side, on the footing of the most favoured nations.

III. If, in resentment of the present re-establishment of peace and good understanding between the two countries, any power whatsoever shall make war upon his Imperial Majesty or his Britannic Majesty, the two contracting Sovereigns agree to act in support of each other for the maintenance and security of their respective kingdoms.

IV. The two high contracting parties reserve to themselves to establish a proper understanding and adjustment, as soon as possible, with respect to all matters which may concern their eventual interests, political as well as commercial.

V. The present treaty shall be ratified by the two contracting parties, and the ratification shall be exchanged in six weeks, or sooner, if possible:

And for the due performance of the same, we sign, in virtue of our full powers, and have signed the present treaty of peace, and have thereto affixed our seals.

Done at Orebro, the 6th (18) July, 1812.

SUCHTELEN (L. S.)

PAUL BARON DE NICOLAY.
EDWARD THORNTON (L. S.)

After sufficiently examining the articles of the present treaty of peace, we have approved of the same, which we now confirm, and by these presents most solemnly ratify, in all its tenour; promising on our Imperial part, for us and for

our successors, to observe and ex. ecute, inviolably, every thing that has been mentioned and repeated in the said treaty of peace. In witness whereof we have signed with our hand this Imperial ratification, and have thereto affixed the seal of our empire.

Done at Kamenroi Ostrow, the 1st of August, 1812, and the twelfth year of our reign.

(Signed) ALEXANDER.
(Countersigned)

COUNT ROMANZOW.

Treaty of Peace between his Majesty the King of Sweden, and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

In the name of the most Holy and Indivisible Trinity!

His Majesty the King of Sweden, and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being equally animated with the desire of reestablishing the ancient relations of friendship and good intercourse between the two Crowns, and their respective States, have appointed to that effect, namely, his Majesty the King of Sweden, the Sieur Laurent, Baron D'Engerstrom, &e. and the Sieur Gustavus, Baron de Wetterstedt, &c. and the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Edward Thornton, Esq. which Plenipotentiaries, after exchanging their full powers, drawn up in tull and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:

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