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After which, the Lord Chancellor, being one of the Lords Juftices, in their Name made the following Speech to both Houses of Parliament.

My Lord's and Gentlemen,

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E cannot but exprefs our greatest Satisfaction, and, in his Majefty's Name, return you Thanks, for the convincing Proofs which you have given, in this Seffion, of your Duty and Affection to his Majefty, and Zeal for his Government;

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We must particularly thank you, Gentlemen of the House of Commons, for the Aids which you have granted to his Majefty, for the better Support of the Honour of the Crown, and for preventing any Difappointment in the Supplies given in the laft Seffion for the Service of this Year. You may be affur'd, that the Unanimity, the Chearfulness, and the Difpatch, with which you have proceeded in granting thefe Aids, will render them yet more acceptable to his Majefty: And you may depend upon our making a faithful Reprefentation thereof to him.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

All neceffary Bufinefs being now happily concluded, it will be proper for us to put a fpeedy End to this Seffion. We think fit, at prefent, in his Majefty's Name, to defire you forthwith refpectively to adjourn your felves until Wednesday next.

Accordingly both Houfes immediately adjourn'd to the 25th of August, when being met again, the Commons order'd, that their Speaker be defir'd to print the Speech by him made on the 21ft. Then Mr. Secretary Bromley acquainted the Houfe, that the Lords Juftices had receiv'd his Majefty's Answer to the humble Addrefs of this House at the Beginning of this Seffion; which he prefented to the House, as was related before.

After this, the Lords Juftices went to the Houfe of Peers, and the Commons being fent for up, and attending, the Lord Chancellor, in the Name of their Excellencies, made the following Speech to both Houses.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

H Majelty, not gracious anfwer, under his Sign

Aving, fince your late Adjournment, receiv'd his

Manual, to your feveral Addreffes; and by his Majesty's

Command,

Command, order'd them to be deliver'd to you refpectively; we do now, in his Majefty's Name, prorogue this prefent Parliament till Thurfday the 23d Day of September next; and this prefent Parliament is accordingly prorogu'd to Thurfday the 23d Day of September

next.

Having concluded the Second and laft Seffion of the Fourth Parliament of Great Britain, and the last of Queen Anne's Reign, let's proceed to other Occurrences.

The fame Day the Queen dy'd, Monfieur d'Iberville, Envoy Extraordinary from his moft Chriftian Majesty, being under fome Apprehenfions of his Houfe being infulted by the rude Populace, in Cafe there happen'd any Disturbance, writ a Letter to the Duke of Ormond, defiring his Grace's Protection. The Duke having communicated the fame to the Lords Justices, their Excellencies order'd a Guard of the Trained Bands to fecure the House of the Envoy; but all was quiet, and no Infult was offer'd to any Body.

On the 3d of Auguft the Lords of the Regency judg'd it neceffary to have a Secretary of their own, and unanimously made Choice of Jofeph Addison, Efq; At the fame Time the Poft-Mafter-General was order'd to fend all the Letters and Packets, directed to the Secretaries of State, directly to the Secretary of the Regency; which was a great Mortification to the former, particularly to the Lord Boli broke, who was now oblig'd to wait with a Bag in his Hand at the Door of the Room where the Regents affembled.

Aug. 4. The Lords Juftices fpent fome Time in perufing a great many Letters which the Poft brought the Night before: And the fame Day, the Lords of the Admiralty, by Command of the Regency, iffu'd out Orders for taking off the Embargo laid on all Shipping.

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On the 5th of August the Lords Juftices in Council, purfuant to the Act 6 Anna, cap. 7. fign'd a Proclamation, Requiring all Perfons, being in any Office of Autho rity or Government, at the Demife of the late Queen, to proceed in the Execution of their refpective Offices, and to take the Oaths mention'd in that Act, and to do all other Acts requifite by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, to qualify themfelves to continue in their refpective Places.

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On the 7th of Auguft, Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth, who had been travelling in Italy and France, arriv'd in England, and the next Day acquainted the Lords of the Regency, that being in France a few Days before, the Moft Chriftian King had affur'd him, That he would inviolably maintain the Treaties of • Peace concluded at Utrecht, particularly with Relation to the Settlement of the British Crown in the House of Hanover." This exactly agreed with the Declaration which Monfieur d' Iberville, Minifter of France, made to the Regency, and to Baron Bothmar, even before he had receiv'd particular Orders for it from the Court of France; being (as he faid to most of the Lords Regents, to whom he made Vifits) already impower'd to do it by his general Inftructions: And, on the other Hand, Mr. Matthew Prior, who was then refiding at the Court of France in Quality of Envoy, having, by Orders of the Regency, notify'd to the French King the Death of the late Queen, and King George's Acceflion to the Throne, his Moft Christian Majefty repeated to him the Declaration he had made to the Earl of Peterborough. Some Days after, Monfieur d'Iberville receiv'd a Letter from the Marquefs de Torcy, approving what he had done; and another from the French King to the British Regency, importing, in Subftance, befides the Declaration before mention'd, That having been inform'd, that Reports had been fpread, as if he defign'd to make Alterations in the late Renunciations, he thought fit to declare, as he had already done to the Earl of Peterborough, that the faid Reports were altogether falfe and groundlefs: That the King of Spain having fent the Cardinal del Giudice as Embaffador to France, which might create fome Sufpicions, his most Christian Majefty had defir'd the King, his Grandfon, to recall him; and that the Elector of Brunswick having fome Time before the Death of the Queen, fignify'd to his • Moft Chriftian Majesty, that whenever his Succeffion to the Crown of Great Britain fhall take Place, he would cultivate a Friendship with his Moft Chriftian Majefty; he (the King of France) on his Part, affur'd the Lords Juftices, that he would do all that lay in his Power, to maintain a good Intelligence and Amity between the two Crowns.

The Aufwer which Mr. Prior receiv'd about another Affair, was not altogether fo agreeable and fati-factory in England: The Lords of the Regency had order'd bim to reprefent to the Court of France, That his Moft Chriftian

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Majefty having promis'd to interpofe his good Offices with the King of Spain, in Favour of the Catalans, they were furpriz'd to find, that, inftead of that, his • Moft Christian Majefty had fent his Troops to affift those of his Grandfon in the Reduction of Barcelona; and that their Excellencies hoped, his most Christian Majefty would make good his Promifes, and confider the ill Confequences of his fuffering his Forces to act against a People, who were under the Protection of the Crown of Great Britain." To this Mr. Prior receiv'd an Anfwer, That the Most Christian King had already made good his Engagements in Behalf of the Catalans; that their Obftinacy was the Caufe of all the Misfortunes that might befall them; and that his Glory would not fuffer him to recall his Troops from before Bar<celona.

Some Days before this Anfwer was tranfmitted to England, the Marquefs d'Almaza, one of the Deputies from the Principality of Catalonia, made Application to the Lords Juftices of Great Britain; and communicated to their Excellencies a Letter he had receiv'd from the Governor of Majorca, with an Account of the Condition of the City of Barcelona. Upon which their Excellencies order'd, that a Copy of the Letter they had written to the Court of France, fhould be communicated to the Marquefs; and he was farther affur'd, that Directions had been fent to Admiral Wishart, not to moleft the Inhabi tants of Barcelona, or hinder any Relief to be brought to them by Sea.

Notwithstanding the repeated Affurances from the Court of France, that they would give no Manner of Difturbance to the Proteftant Succeffor, the Lords Regents continu'd taking all the neceffary Measures for the Security of the Kingdom, and in particular of the Maritime Places; and not judging the Reinforcement they had already fent down to Portsmouth under the Command of Colonel Pocock, fufficient for the Defence of that important Town, their Excellencies order'd another Draught of 500 Out-Penfioners of Chelsea-Hofpital, to march thither, under the Command of Colonel Jones. At the fame Time, their Excellencies order'd the Justices of Peace of London and Westminster, tọ take exact Lifts of the Popish Recufants, and to take away their Arms and Horfes.

Amongst the late Queen's Papers was found a Draught of a Will, but the same was never sign'd, nor executed. On Tuesday, the 3d of August, her Body was open'd; bur,

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according to her Majesty's Orders, the Surgeons did not meddle with her Head. They found her Vitals very found; and only fome Water in the Abdomen. The next Night her Bowels were bury'd in Westminster Abbey; and on the 5th, the Lord Marshal iffu'd out the following Or der for a general Mourning:

IN Purfuance of an Order of their Excellencies the Lords Juftices in Council at St. James's, the 5th Day of Auguft, 1714: Thefe are to give publick Notice, that it is expected that all Perfons upo the prefent Occafion, of the Death of her late Majefiy, of bieffed Memory do put themselves into the deepest Mourning, (long Cloaks exc pred.) The faid Mourning to begin upon Sunday the 15th Inftant; and that as well all Lords, as Privy Counsellors, and Officers of her Majefty's Houfhold, do cover their Coaches, Chariots, and Chairs, and cloath their Livery Servants with Black Cloth, by Sunday the 22d Infant; and that no Perfon whatsoever, for the first fix Months, put any Escutcheons of Arms or Arms painted, on their Coaches, nor use any Varnish'd or Bullion Nails to be feen on their Coaches, Chariots, or Chairs.

SUFFOLK, M.

On the 19th of August, the Lords Juftices receiv'd Let ters from the King, with Directions, that the late Queen's Body fhould be interr'd with all the Decency and Pomp confiftent with a private Burial: Upon which, that Ceremony, which was to have been perform'd on the 22d, was put off to the 24th, and the Lord Marthal iffu' this Order.

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Hereas the Solemnity of the Interment of her late Majefty Queen Anne, is appointed to be perform'd on Tuesday the 24th of this Infant Auguft; this is therefore to give Notice, that all Persons who ought to go in the Proceeding on this Occafion, are (for their greater Conveniency) to enter at Weftminster Hall Door: And that the Lords, the Peereffes, and Lords Sons, the Privy Counsellors, and the Judges, are defir'd to meet in the Houfe of Reers at the Hour of Six in the Evening The Maids of Honcur, and the Bedchamber Women, are defir'd to affemble in the Robing Room adjoining to the Lobby next the Painted Chamber; as all others concern'd, are to do in the faid Painted Chamber, where they will be marshall'd, and put in Order by the Officers of Arms appointed for that Pur pose.

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